Institute Fellows present evening of music and poetry

September 11, 2007
Chapel Hill, N.C. — Allen Anderson, associate professor of music, and Alan Shapiro, W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, delighted a packed Hyde Hall audience with an evening of music and poetry Sept. 11.

The presentation and reception with Anderson and Shapiro was hosted by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities for the UNC community as part an ongoing effort to showcase and support the work of its faculty Fellows. 

Anderson joined the UNC faculty in 1996. He has composed works for Speculum Musicae, the Empyrean Ensemble, the UNC Chamber Singers, Aleck Karis and Daniel Stepner among others. His work has been acknowledged with awards or commissions from the Guggenheim, Fromm and Koussevitsky foundations, Chamber Music America, BMI and League of Composers/ISCM (both the National and Boston chapters). His music is published by C. F. Peters, Margun Music and APNM, and is available on recordings from the CRI label.

Shapiro joined the UNC faculty in 1995. He is the author of eight acclaimed books of poetry. He has received the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles Times prize for poetry, among other honors. His memoir, The Last Happy Occasion, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences, offers programs and activities that support UNC faculty at every stage of their careers. The Institute funds individual and collaborative research projects, showcases faculty work, develops faculty leaders and teachers, and facilitates the formation of collaborative, interdisciplinary communities that promote intellectual exchange. For more information, contact the Institute at (919) 962-0249 or visit www.iah.unc.edu.