Notables

For the seventh time since their arrival as Cornell music faculty members, Karlton E. Hester and Roberto Sierra each have garnered an award from the American Society of Composers, Publishers and Authors (ASCAP). ASCAP, based in New York, represents 35,000 members in numerous countries and distributes royalties to its writer-members. It presents annual awards to artists who demonstrate exceptional work. The amount of this year's cash award was not announced. Hester is an assistant professor of music and the Herbert Gussman Director of Jazz Studies. He has performed on flute and saxophone throughout the United States and abroad. Included in his repertoire are such works as Symphonic Balledrama and Symphony Number One, for which he won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1991. Sierra, who joined the faculty in 1992, is considered one of Puerto Rico's most prolific composers, and his works are currently in the repertoire of several major orchestras here and abroad. This year, his Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra premiered both in Los Angeles and Scotland.

Zivah L. Perel '99 and Brett C. Paice '00 received prizes recently in the James Joyce essay contest sponsored by the Syracuse James Joyce Club and the James Joyce Scholarship Fund. Perel won second prize of $300 for her essay titled "The Use of Food as a Metaphor for the Sexual in James Joyce's Ulysses." She will pursue a Ph.D. in English this fall at the University of Delaware. Paice's essay, "Paternity in James Joyce's Ulysses," won third prize of $100. Both Perel and Paice originally wrote their essays for English 470, Studies in the Novel: Reading Joyce's Ulysses, with English Professor Dan Schwarz.