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Music and Humanities Department
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Information Dr. Kay Lipton received her Ph.D. in Musicology from UCLA in 1995. Dr. Lipton is new to the San Antonio area, and she is thrilled to join the extraordinarily illustrious Faculty in the Music/Humanities Department at San Antonio College, whose long-standing tradition of excellence is well known among community colleges and universities throughout Texas. For the past several years Dr. Lipton has taught a variety of historical and performance related courses (Music Appreciation, History of Music and Literature, History of Opera, History of Latin American Music, Performance Practice seminars, among others) to both undergraduate and graduate students at a number of universities and colleges in the greater Los Angeles area, among them USC, UCLA and Pasadena City College. During Summer 2004 Dr. Lipton led a premiere Music Study Abroad Program in Vienna, Austria, this in conjunction with Journeys of Discovery. This uniquely intensive program included daily lectures in opera, symphonic and chamber music, which took place at the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Conservatory of Music; as well as in locations in Prague, Salzburg, Munich and environs. Dr. Lipton remains active as a scholar and lecturer. As a music historian her primary area of research is mid-to-late, eighteenth-century Italian comic opera in Vienna and Italy. Dr. Lipton has numerous articles published in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , most on opera composers, singers and librettists from the mid-to-late eighteenth century. Other articles appear in journals and books; several include reviews of scholarly editions of operas and books about opera. Dr. Lipton has previously taken on numerous editorships of scholarly editions and academic publications, including that of the illustrious Mozart Society of America publication. Dr. Lipton has also been in demand as a guest and pre-concert lecturer, including those for the well known Mozart Akademie of the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, as for the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts ( CentreStage ). During Fall 2004 Dr. Lipton was awarded the highly coveted Faculty Trustee's Lecture/Performance Award [Pasadena City College] for excellence in innovative teaching. Dr. Lipton's double life as a teacher and a scholar brings a unique perspective to her teaching, which she characterizes as contagiously enthusiastic. She is firmly committed to the idea that music history and performance operate within the same domain, that students (performers, composers and teachers) will become engaged with material when it is presented to them in a way that is meaningful. When students understand that works were created as a response to a set of ideals in a particular society at a particular time, e.g., that the pieces under consideration were used as vehicles for some kind of artistic, personal, societal, political or religious expression, listeners are immediately engaged. Dr. Lipton's passion for teaching students at all levels is manifest in her mastery of and in her enthusiasm for her subject matter, as well as in her concern that students successfully accomplish the goals for their particular class. Dr. Lipton's students are evaluated and rewarded for both their efforts and for the end result. San Antonio College Alamo Community College District
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