The School of Music and Dance is deeply saddened and shocked by the recent, tragic loss of former Dean and Professor of Music Emerita Anne Dhu McLucas.
As previously announced in late August, plans are moving forward to present a two-part symposium on the "Oral Traditions Old and New in Music" this fall. The events will honor, remember and celebrate the work and life of McLucas with presentations scheduled for Sept. 29, Oct. 19 and Oct. 20. Musicians and schlars from across the U.S. and abroad will come together to present their work in Anne's memory. The theme of the symposium was chosen to honor Anne's 2010 monograph, the "Musical Ear: Oral Tradition in the USA."
A memorial service has been added to the schedule of events for Saturday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall at the MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building on campus. The service is open to the public.
McLucas was a professor of music, specializing in ethnomusicology and musicology. She also served as dean of the UO School of Music and Dance from 1992–2002.
While her performance career led in the direction of Baroque and Classic period chamber music, her musicological studies began to focus on the traditional folk music of Britain, Ireland, and America. After completing a master’s thesis on Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, she wrote her doctoral thesis on “The Concept of the Tune Family in British American Folk Song,” a topic she has returned to in an article for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and other publications.
She was finishing her teaching appointment at the University of Oregon, where she taught seminars in oral tradition, American folk music, music and gender, as well as single-topic seminars on such topics as "The Magic Flute" and Stravinsky's "Les Noces".
The official university press release can be found here in its entireity.
Boston College Obituary
More information regarding the circumstances of her passing can be found here on the Register Guard's website.
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