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- The Glenn Miller Collection now has a dedicated archivist in the University Libraries whose job will be to review and catalog over 1,400 boxes of artifacts from the legendary big band era musician who once attended Boulder.In 1923, Alton Glen “
- Michael Sy Uy has been recently appointed the director of the American Music Research Center (AMRC) at the Boulder College of Music, and the newest member of our musicology faculty. A quick glance at the impressive
- Boulder’s vast and historically valuable Glenn Miller collection is set to take the spotlight, thanks to a philanthropy-funded archiving project.In 1923, Alton Glen “Glenn” Miller attended Boulder for three semesters before becoming one of the
- Materials from renowned Boulder-based blues musician Otis Taylor are now part of Boulder’s American Music Research Center archival collections. "...housing his work at the AMRC is the best way to give him the visibility,
- The American Music Research Center’s interim director, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Austin Okigbo, shares the center’s fall semester highlights—including free performances of “Song of Pueblo” on campus and in Pueblo, Colorado.
- The Susan L. Porter Memorial Fellowship is an award that provides scholarship support for a student doing exceptional research that supports the mission of Boulder's American Music Research Center (AMRC). The 2023-24
- For most music students in the 21st century, the idea of silent films seems strangely far-away. One new Boulder class seeks to change that. The class, a DMA seminar titled Scoring Silent Film, explores the history of silent
- The AMRC invites Boulder student musicians, both undergraduate and graduate, to apply for the new bi-annual Alex Craig and Christina Lynn-Craig Living Music Award. This award celebrates the works of late composer Alex Craig, and is set to be granted for the first time this spring.
- Two Boulder PhD students work on the Pueblo "Soundscapes of the People" project alongside AMRC Director Dr. Susan Thomas, Dr. Austin Okigbo and Dr. Xóchitl Chávez from the University of California, Riverside. Both of these students are studying ethnomusicology and have been working on the project since summer 2021.
- The AMRC collections are housed in Rare and Distinctive Collections in Norlin Library. Two graduate students, Johnette Martin and Jessica Quah, work in these collections, helping archivist Jessie de la Cruz organize and inventory them. As of now, the AMRC has 297 collections in the library.