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Wheaton College Artist Series, the oldest performing arts series in DuPage County, is welcoming renowned American organist Chelsea Chen for a Nov. 12 concert in Edman Chapel.
Janette Fishell was awarded a 2021 Indiana University Presidential Research, Creative Activity, Scholarship of Teaching grant in support of her multi-year performance and pedagogical project, “Music that Came in from the Cold: Petr Eben’s Velvet Revolution.” Working with colleague Jamie Tagg, associate professor of Music, audio engineering, and sound production, she is mid-way through a six-CD project that will document all of the Czech composer’s solo organ works, including some late works not previously recorded on similar media.
On Tuesday the Czech Centre in New York presented the Gratias Agit Award to leading musicologist Prof. Michael Beckerman for promoting Czech music abroad.