Department of Fine Arts Saint Michael's College One Winooski Park, Box 377 Colchester VT 05439 (802) 654-2284 fax (802) 543-2679 nlew[at]smcvt[dot]edu

 

 

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Click here for choral arrangements and compositions

 

 

Campus Information

 

Office: McCarthy Arts Center 201

 

Prof. Lew is on sabbatical for the 2011-2012 academic year.

 

 

Courses Taught

 

Music 101: Understanding Music Music 202/204: Sight-Singing and Ear-Training Lab Music 209: Reading and Writing about Music Music 301/303: Music Theory III-IV Music 316: Instrumentation and Orchestration Music 322: History of Western Music to 1600 Music 335: Opera Music 491: Senior Seminar and Project Humanities 102: Modern Civilization

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D. in the History and Literature of Music. University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

M.A. in the History and Literature of Music. University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

B.A. in Music. Cambridge University, England (Gonville and Caius College), 1992.

B.A. with distinction in Music, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Yale University, New Haven, Conn. (Trumbull College), 1989.

The Juilliard School, Pre-College Division, New York, 1979-85.

 

 

Scholarly Activities

 

Publications

 

The Mayor of Casterbridge, a radio play by Desmond Hawkins adapted from the novel by Thomas Hardy with incidental music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (editing and introduction). Promethean Music, in progress.

Scenes Adapted from Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress, a play by Evelyn Ouless with incidental music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (editing and introduction). Promethean Music, 2009.

“Haitian Noel,” by Joseph Augustin and Félix A. Baptiste (editing, arrangement for a cappella SATB and SSAA choruses, and translation). Hal Leonard Music, 2007.

“Becoming Benjamin Britten.” Crescendo: The Opera North Newsletter (Lebanon, N.H.), March 2006.

Liner notes for “Shalom: Songs and Dances of a Young Nation.” Albany Records TROY823: Counterpoint, Robert DeCormier, 2006.

Liner notes for “Misa Criolla and More Music from the South American Folk Tradition.” Albany Records TROY746: Counterpoint, Robert DeCormier, 2005.

“‘Very tragical mirth’: Benjamin Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Crescendo: The Opera North Newsletter (Lebanon, N.H.), January 2004.

“‘Words and music that are forever England’: The Pilgrim’s Progress and the Pitfalls of Nostalgia,” in Ralph Vaughan Williams Essays, ed. Byron Adams and Robin Wells, Ashgate Press, 2003.

Review of Covent Garden, the Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945-2000, by Norman Lebrecht (Northeastern University Press, 2000). Notes: The Journal of the Music Library Association, September 2002.

 

Academic Presentations

 

“‘No dull academic jamboree … but a rich and exciting experience’: Performing the canon of English music in the 1951 London Season of the Arts." Fourth Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, Des Moines Iowa, August 2010.

"I Got Algorithm: Thoughts on the Philosophy of the Science of Art." Address for the Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vt., April 2010.

“‘This Mendelssohn is sick!’: Experimenting with a Stylistic Immersion Music Theory Course.” College Music Society Regional Conference, Burlington, Vt., March 2010.

Session Chair, “New Music, Living Voices.” Third Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, August 2008.

Session Chair, “Alan Bush’s Dilemmas,” Second Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, Colchester, Vt., August 2006.

“Das Land mit Musik: Defining British Music in the 1951 Festival of Britain.” Saint Michael’s College Humanities Colloquium, Colchester, Vt., March 2006.

Chair, “Careful the Tale You Tell,” a symposium on Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Vt., April 2005.

“Christian Conversion and Salvation in Vaughan Williams’s Early Bunyan Settings.” Fifth Biennial Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference, Nottingham, England, July 2005.

“Through the Iron Looking Glass: Alan Bush and Socialist Realism in England.” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Wash., November 2004.

“The Death of Christian in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s settings of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.” Saint Michael’s College Social Sciences Research Center, Colchester, Vt., March 2004.

“Socialist Realism in England: The Case of Alan Bush’s Wat Tyler.” “Re(-)sounding Britain,” the inaugural conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, Oberlin, Oh., June, 2004. Also delivered at the Third Biennial Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, Nottingham, England, June 2003.

“A Tonic to the Nation: The 1951 Festival of Britain Opera Competition.” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Ga., November 2001.

“Personal and National Nostalgia in Vaughan Williams’s Pilgrim’s Progress.” International Musicological Society Intercongressional Symposium, Budapest, August 2000.

“‘Oh! By what tongue or pen can their glorious joy be expressed?’: Vaughan Williams’s Heavenly Choruses after John Bunyan.” Invited lecture at the Ralph Vaughan Williams 2000 Symposium, Godalming, England, July 2000.