from Gregory W. Bloch
first Wolf awardee

University of California, Berkeley
on his Eugene K. Wolf Award

In the end, the most memorable part of the trip made possible by my Wolf award was simply the sensation, familiar to most musicologists who work with manuscript sources, that the subjects of my research really were living, breathing people. Of course, transcriptions, facsimiles, and microfilm convey most of the useful information, but nothing can compare to the feeling of touching the paper that these men scrawled on. Inasmuch as I began to think about my long-dead authors as real people with real human concerns, my trip to Paris was a particular success.

from Sarah Eyerly
first Wolf awardee

University of California, Davis
on her Eugene K. Wolf Award

In the summer of 2004, I traveled to the small town of Herrnhut, in southeastern Germany, to investigate a written archival record of a tradition of group improvisation that had flourished in Herrnhut during the mid-eighteenth century. The Wolf Travel Fund provided the support necessary to meet the costs associated with an extended research stay, enabling me to conduct a thorough examination of the archival record of the Herrnhut community. The primary sources I discovered will further our understanding of the role of improvisation in an eighteenth-century literate culture and the effects of literacy on improvisational techniques. Without the support provided to me by the Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund for European Research, I would not have been able to conduct the archival research necessary to complete my dissertation. It has made a big difference.

from ELAINE SISMAN
from JAMES LADEWIG | RICH CRAWFORD
from LOIS ROSOW & ANDREW DELL'ANTONIO | DAVID GRAMIT
from GREG BLOCH | SARAH EYERLY
from our student co-chairs:
ANA ALONSO-MINUTTI, ERICKA HONISCH, ROB PEARSON