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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Oakwood student wins strings competition

By Terry Morris | Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 10:17 AM

Oakwood High School junior Josh Halpern didn’t have time to rest on his laurels after capturing top honors at the 2011 Music Teachers National Association Senior String Competition, held in Milwaukee.

He was off to Salzburg, Austria, with the Polaris String Quartet, one of several ensembles he’s a member of, to give a concert April 10. Next stop, in May, is the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Ind.

Halpern has performed as a principal cellist with the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Oakwood High School Symphony Orchestra and the Muse Machine. He is a founding member of the Blackbird String Quartet in Dayton and of Duo Dolce. He studies with Alan Rafferty, cellist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

This summer, he will attend the Meadowmount School of Music in Westmont, N.Y, where he will study with Northwestern University professor Hans Jorgen Jensen.

The MTNA competition had state, divisional and national levels. Halpern’s first-place finish included a $2,000 award.

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Miami prof co-edits black music tome

By Terry Morris | Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 09:58 AM

Miami University musicology professor Tammy Kernodle is co-editor of the newly released “Encyclopedia of African American Music.”

Published by Greenwood Press and ABC-CLIO, the first publication of its kind is a 600,000-word, three-volume set with more than 500 entries by more than 100 music scholars.

Kernodle authored segments on black musical life in Detroit, Los Angeles and the west coast, and black musical publishing houses.

The encyclopedia is available online in hard-copy and digital formats. Go to www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=52374.

Kernodle, who has served as the Scholar in Residence for the Women in Jazz Initiative at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City and lectured extensively on the operas of William Grant Still, is also the author of the biography “Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams,” (Northeastern University Press).

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