News & Stories
On any given day, School of Music, Theatre & Dance students, faculty, and alumni are performing and directing, designing and producing. They are winning awards and distinguishing themselves in competitions. They are releasing new recordings and publications. They are engaging in innovative research, scholarship, and collaborations. Read about the latest SMTD happenings and get to know members of the SMTD community.
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[Campus News] SMTD Faculty Among 14 Teams Awarded Arts Research Grants
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Wrapping Up the Fall 2023 Festival of Asian Music
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Hannaford Recognized with Emerging Scholar Award for Music Theory Article
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René Rusch Authors New Book on Schubert’s Instrumental Music
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Nancy Murphy Publishes Research in Music Theory Online
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Kevin E. Korsyn Receives a Festschrift Honoring Decades of Scholarship
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Nancy Murphy Authors New Book on Flexible Meter in Singer-Songwriter Music
!["Journal of the American Musicological Society" cover excerpt, Spring 2023](https://smtd.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/JAMS-cover.png)
Diane Oliva Publishes Research in Journal of the American Musicological Society
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Scoring a Musical Hit: Logan Skelton’s Two-Piano Arrangement of “An American in Paris” Marks a Milestone for the U-M Gershwin Initiative
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Marc Hannaford Publishes Research in Journal of the Society for American Music
![Performers in the interactive performance Ancestral Haiku.](https://smtd.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Ancestral_Haiku-_DSC3478_Photo-by-Kirk-Donaldson-1024x683.jpg)
SMTD Commits Support to the Center for World Performance Studies
![NAfME President Scott R. Sheehan (left) and Carlos R. Abril, chair of the NAfME Society for Research in Music Education, present McCarthy with the Senior Researcher Award.](https://smtd.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SMTD_NAfMEConference_McCarthy_20221104_SELECT_10-scaled-e1669226871343-1024x767.jpg)