Two Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Scheduled March 26-30, 2007
The husband-wife team of Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot, both composers and faculty members at the New England Conservatory, will be the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows at Rider University, Monday-Friday, March 26-30.
Their visit, which is in conjunction with International Week activities, will take them to the University’s Princeton and Lawrenceville campuses for a series of classroom visits and meetings with faculty, staff and students leaders.
They will deliver the International Week keynote address, “American and Global Music,” on Wednesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in Bristol Chapel. A book signing and reception will follow in the chapel. The week’s complete schedule follows their biographical sketches.
Robert Cogan
Robert Cogan has successfully followed a triple career as composer, music theorist and teacher. For over thirty years, he has served as chair of graduate theoretical studies and professor of composition at the New England Conservatory. His book, New Images of Musical Sound, won the Society for Music Theory's Distinguished Publication Award in 1987. More recently, he has published Music Seen, Music Heard and The Sounds of Song, and has written articles for various scholarly music journals.
His compositions have been featured in performances by the Cleveland Orchestra, the North and West German Radios, and the RIAS Orchestra of Berlin, as well as at festivals including Avignon and Tanglewood.
Pozzi Escot
Pozzi Escot is Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the New England Conservatory and holds a professorship at Wheaton College. She is Editor in Chief of the internationally acclaimed journal Sonus, President of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies, and Director of Tufts University's Tallories International Composers' Conference in France. She is widely regarded as a pioneer in the study of the relationship between music and mathematics, and has published articles exploring this area of inquiry. In 1975, Ms. Escot was chosen as one of the five most remarkable women composers of the 20th century, and during the same year, the New York Philharmonic premiered her Fifth Symphony to critical acclaim.
With Mr. Cogan, Ms. Escot co-wrote Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music and Sonic Design: Practice and Problems. She has recently completed two books, The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music and Oh How Wondrous--Hildegard von Bingen, Ten Essays.
Woodrow Wilson Fellows’ Schedule
Monday, March 26 (Lawrenceville Campus)
10:20 a.m.-11:20 a.m., Classroom visit (MATH 410, Complex Analysis, Topic -- Math & Music), Memorial Hall, Room 210
Noon-12:45 p.m., Lunch with the Science Learning Community Program Students (Topic – The Art & Science of Music), Teaching & Learning Center
1-3:30 p.m., Classroom visit -- Princeton Campus (MH248: Music Historiography II), Talbott Library, Room #1
6:45 p.m.-7:45p.m., Classroom visit (Calculus III – Mathematics & Music), Memorial Hall 217
Tuesday, March 27 (Princeton Campus/Westminster Choir College)
9:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m., Classroom visit (Composers Instruction), Talbott Library
1-2 p.m., Classroom visit (Keyboard Harmony), Cottage, Room #7
6:30 p.m.-8 p.m., Meeting with Princeton campus SGA Senate (Topic - Careers in Music), Martin Room (Student Center)
Wednesday, March 28 (Lawrenceville Campus)
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Classroom visit (Introduction to German Literature, Topic - Culture, Language, and Music), Fine Ars, Room 309
12:45 p.m.-2 p.m., Lunch with Rider University International Student Club (Topic – “Learning Language Through Music”), Teaching and Learning Center
7 p.m.-8 p.m., International Week Keynote Address, Bristol Chapel – Princeton Campus (Topic – Across Mountains and Oceans: Science and Art and Us)
8 p.m.-9 p.m., Book signing and reception, Bristol Chapel – Princeton Campus
Thursday, March 29 (Princeton Campus/Westminster Choir College)
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Open Forum -- (Topic - Careers in Music), Cottage, Room #8
12:30- 2 p.m., Lunch with Princeton Campus SGA Executive Board, Associate Dean of Students Office (Student Center)
Friday, March 30 (Lawrenceville Campus)
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch with the Baccaulaureate Honors Program Students (Topic - The Art & Science of Music), Teaching and Learning Center
