George Crumb, D.M.A., Annenberg
Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, won a Grammy in February for Best
Classical Contemporary Composition for his piece Star Child,
on his 70th Birthday Album (Bridge Records). Crumb won the
Pulitzer Prize for music in 1968, and his piece was recorded under the
baton of Thomas Conlin by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Warsaw
Philharmonic Chorus with soloists including Joseph Alessi on trombone
and Susan Narucki, soprano.
This years crop of 700 Fulbright Award recipients includes four members of the Penn faculty. The Fulbright grants fund study and research abroad. The winners from Penn are:
David Espey, Ph.D., director, English
writing program, who will do research in Japan;
Kirsten Allegra Foot, research fellow
and adjunct professor of public policy, who is going to Finland;
Sharon Ash, associate director, linguistics
lab, who will do research in Poland; and
Janet Marie Roberts, lecturer, University
of Pennsylvania Museum, who is going to Uzbekistan.
Originally published on March 22, 2001