Elisabeth Le Guin, a professor, receives the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Elisabeth Le Guin, a renowned performer and musicologist, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 168 fellowships this year, marking the 95th year of the program.
Le Guin, a professor of musicology at UCLA, is known for her scholarly work on Latin American oral traditions and ballads. Her Guggenheim Fellowship is for a community-project called El Cancionero de Santa Ana, based in Santa Ana, California.
El Cancionero de Santa Ana aims to reflect, translate, and enhance the complex cultural life of the largely Mexican immigrant community in Santa Ana. Le Guin will be working in coordination with the community of local musicians and activists at El Centro Cultural de México.
However, concrete details about this Guggenheim project and the working partnership with El Centro Cultural de México are not available from the provided search data. For precise and up-to-date information, consulting the official Guggenheim Foundation announcements, Elisabeth Le Guin’s academic profiles, or direct publications from El Centro Cultural de México would be necessary.
Le Guin is not the only UCLA professor to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship this year. Catherine Opie, a professor of photography, and Sylvan Oswald, a professor of drama, were also awarded fellowships. Lothar von Falkenhausen, a professor of Chinese archaeology and art history, also received a fellowship.
The age range of the fellows in this year's class is from 29 to 85, reflecting the Guggenheim Fellowships' commitment to supporting a broad range of individuals. The fellowships are given to scholars, writers, and artists based on prior achievement and exceptional promise.
Le Guin's second book, "The Tonadilla in Performance," won the 2015 Kinkeldey Prize from the American Musicological Society. She is also the chair of the musicology department in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and a 2016 recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.
In addition to her academic achievements, Le Guin helped found Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the Artaria String Quartet. Her work involves dialogues between theory and practice, making her an invaluable asset to the UCLA community and beyond.
- Elisabeth Le Guin's community-project, El Cancionero de Santa Ana, which is funded by her Guggenheim Fellowship, not only aims to reflect the rich cultural life of the Mexican immigrant community in Santa Ana but also intends to engage with local musicians and activists from El Centro Cultural de México, bridging entertainment and education-and-self-development.
- While Le Guin is primarily recognized for her work in musicology and her scholarly contributions to Latin American oral traditions and ballads, her diverse interests extend to other creative pursuits, such as music, which she showcases through her founding of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the Artaria String Quartet, thereby combining her love for education-and-self-development with entertainment.
