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Music prof receives grant

Staff Reporter and Copy Editor
Published Wednesday, January 31, 2007

When Department of Music professor Ellen Rosand recently received a letter-sized package over Express Mail, she had no idea it would contain a $1.5 million Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — an award for which she did not know she had been nominated.

Professor Rosand, a scholar of 17th-century music, said she will use the grant to start an undergraduate Baroque opera group and to host three conferences in Whitney Humanities Center over the next three years. Rosand’s goal is to make music and performance at Yale more intertwined, she...

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