Current Project: American Orchestral Culture/Arts Funding/The Ford Foundation Arts and Humanities Program 1957-1977
Other Scholarly Interests: Orchestral Performance Practice/Politics of Reception/Religious Identity
Archival Research Related to Dissertation:
Minnesota Orchestra Archive (MN)
Rockefeller Archive Center (NY)
Museum of Performance and Design (SF)
Archive of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (LA)
W. McNeil Lowry Archive (IL)
TA and Guest Conductor for UCSC Wind Ensemble/Conductor and Arranger for UCSC Trombone Choir/Trombonist on Campus and Around Town
Formal Brass Studies with J. Sam Pilafian, Gail Wilson and Josh Bledsoe
Masterclasses with Michael Mulcahy, Michael Becker, Kelly Thomas
Articles:
"The Ford Foundation Symphony Orchestra Program" - Journal of Musicological Research, May 2017
"'To Stabilize the Financial Position of the Leading American Orchestras': The Impact of the Ford Foundation's $80 Million Program for Symphony Orchestras" - Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, October 2016; http://rockarch.org/publications/resrep/negley.pdf
Reviews:
Book Review, The Society for American Music Bulletin, Fall 2015; http://www.american-music.org/publications/bulletin/2015/VolXLI3-Fall201...
Other:
Recent work on the Ford Foundation cited in a November 2016 New York Times article: "It's Official: Many Orchestras are Now Charities."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/its-official-many-orchestr...
Letter to the Editor, New Yorker, January 2016:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/the-mail-from-the-january-2...
Work Related to Ford Foundation:
Spring Meeting of the Combined Northern/Southern California AMS Chapters, UC Riverside, Spring 2019
Winter Meeting of the Northern California AMS Chapter, SF Conservatory, February 2017
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music, Boston, Winter/Spring 2016
Spring Meeting of Mountain Region AMS Chapter, Colorado State University, Spring 2015
Spring Meeting of the Combined Northern/Southern California AMS Chapters, UC Davis, Spring 2014
Symposium on the Past and Future of the Orchestra, in honor of D. Kern Holoman, UC Davis, Spring 2014
Other Presentations:
"Tempo and Variability in Mahler's Second Symphony"
Stony Brook Graduate Musicology Conference, Spring 2015
CUNY Graduate Center, Fall 2013
"Felix Mendelssohn and the Politics of Religious Identity"
Cal State Long Beach, Spring 2012
Rockefeller Archive Center 'Grant-in-Aid' (Summer 2016)
UCSC:
Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence Travel Grant (Spring 2015)
Music Department Travel Grant (Fall 2013)
Graduate Student Association Travel Grant (Spring 2012)
Regent's Fellowship (Fall 2011)
Arizona State University:
Herberger College of the Arts 'Special Talent' Award (Fall 2008 - Spring 2011)
Provost's Scholarship (Fall 2007 - Spring 2011)
ASU Marching Band 'Most Valuable Musician' Award (Fall 2010)
Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism & the Arts (Spring 2009)