Concert Honors the Beloved Philip
Brett
By Ferda Mehmet, student intern of CHASS College Computing
 A special concert in memory of the great musicologist Philip Brett
was presented Saturday March 1st at 8 PM in the St. Andrew's Newman
Center Chapel. Nearly six months after his death from cancer, the
UCR Department of Music honored Philip Brett with a musical offering
in both his memory and extraordinary achievement. The concert was
centered upon three main facets of his musicological research: the
Tudor composer William Byrd, the Romantic Franz Schubert, and the
twentieth-century English Master Benjamin Britten. The first part
of the concert was performed by the acclaimed early music vocal
ensemble Vox Profundis, while the second part consisted of the Quartetsatz
of Schubert and the Third String Quartet of Britten performed by
the brilliant young performers of the Denali String Quartet. Philip Brett was a beloved and highly valued member of the Music Department from 1991-2001. He acted as both chair of the department and as associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences during his time at UC Riverside. Brett enriched and transformed the department and college in the process and made the campus a more humane place to work. An anomaly in the often severe world of musicology, he was a consummate scholar as well as an inspired performer and profoundly influential teacher. The Department of Music was honored to organize a concert in recognition of such a positively influential man as Philip Brett. |