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 Graydon Beeks
Director of Music Programming and Facilities,
Professor of Music
Thatcher 106, (909) 607-3568, graydon.beeks@pomona.edu
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Graydon Beeks
received his B.A. from Pomona College and his M.A. and
Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. After
conducting research in England and teaching at Vassar
College and Kenyon College, he returned to Pomona in 1983.
Beeks has taught courses in "The Development of Western
Music to Beethoven," "Advanced Topics in Music History,"
and "Musical Theater in America," in addition to
conducting the Pomona College Band and the Fighting
Sagehen Band. He also supervises the scheduling and
operation of the concert halls and serves as departmental
librarian. A specialist in the music of George Frideric
Handel, Beeks has received grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of
Learned Societies, and has published extensively on the
music of Handel and his contemporaries, especially William
Croft, Attilio Ariosti, and Johann Christoph Pepusch. He
has also contributed articles to The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians and the New Dictionary of National
Biography. Beeks is a member of the Editorial Board of the
Hallische Handel Ausgabe, the Board of Directors and of
The American Handel Society, and the Vorstand of the Georg
Friedrich Handel Gesellschaft. He is also a Friend of the
Handel Institute in London, England, and an active member
of the College Band Directors National Association, the
American Musicological Society, and the Society for
Seventeenth-Century Music. |
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