2020
Welcome to the all-digital release of Words of Note 2020.
The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin publishes Words of Note for its community of scholars, alumni and friends.
CONTENTS
Features
Letter from the Director
Opening Movement: Profiles of First-Generation Students at the Butler School
Interview with Professor Chelsea Burns
The 2019-2020 Innovation Rainwater Grants
New Faculty
Faculty Retirements
Updates
Faculty
Alumni
Facility Improvements
CREDITS
DIRECTOR
Mary Ellen Poole
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Jeff Hellmer
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jenny Catchings
CONTRIBUTORS
Joanna Kaminski
Sonja Larson
Russell Podgorsek
Page Stephens
Andrew Stoltz
Travis Weller
DESIGN
Nathan Russell