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13 Jan 11 - 15 Jan 11
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1st Annual Conference of the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group - Opera and Philosophy
1 Jul 11 - 2 Jul 11
University of London
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Jerome Roche
Jerome Roche prize awarded to Arman Schwartz
1 Oct 09
The Jerome Roche Prize was inaugurated in 2001 in memory of the British scholar Jerome Roche. The prize is awarded annually by the RMA for a distinguished article by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career.
For 2009, the Roche Prize has been awarded to ARMAN SCHWARTZ for his article 'Rough Music: Tosca and Verismo Reconsidered' in 19th-Century Music, 31/3, pp.228-44.
The panel found that this article presented a well-expressed, well-structured argument which linked text and context with great aplomb, and included detailed and insightful discussion of the music as well as sophisticated discussion of the opera's ambivalent appeal and the links to wider twentieth-century issues. Altogether this is an enjoyably readable and accomplished piece.
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