Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Louise Talma Concert to celebrate the UNCG Linda Arnold Carlisle Grant

Sarah B. Dorsey, Head of the UNCG Harold Schiffman Music Library, is the recipient of the 2014-15 Women’s and Gender Studies Linda Arnold Carlisle Research Grant Award. Dorsey’s award supports her work on a biography of composer, pianist and pedagogue, Louise Talma (1906-1996), which she will complete while on Research Assignment during the spring semester of 2016.

Talma was a pioneering American composer of the twentieth century. The second female composer to receive a Guggeheim fellowship, she was the first to win two consecutively (in 1946 and ‘47). She was the first American to teach with famed French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau. Thirteen years after receiving an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters for her three act grand opera (The Alcestiad, written on a libretto by Thornton Wilder), Talma was finally 1nvited to join the august institution in 1974, the first female composer so honored.

The concert will take place on Friday evening, October 2^nd at 5:30 in the Organ Recital Hall at the UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Performers include UNCG faculty and students. Following the performance, there will be a reception in the Harold Schiffman Music Library.

Please contact the Women’s & Gender Studies Program at wgs@uncg.edu (e-mail is preferred method) or 336-334-4323 at least one week prior to the event to request disability accommodations. In all situations, a good faith effort (up until the time of the event) will be made to provide accommodations.

When: Oct 02, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Location: Organ Recital Hall, UNCG Music Building