The Clyde Duncan Prize

This award commemorates the life and career of Clyde Duncan, professor of music at Lawrence from 1947-84. An accomplished performing artist and musicologist, Professor Duncan played a major role in creating bridges between the college and the conservatory of music. The award goes to an upperclass student with broad interests and abilities that combine music with literature, aesthetics, and culture. Kai Frueh receives the Duncan Award because of his consistently thoughtful engagement, attention to detail, and creative thinking in ethno/musicology courses, and in recognition of his exceptional interdisciplinary ethnographic research he conducted on living composers who incorporate bird sounds into their works in surprisingly varied ways. Kai's work raises questions as to the boundaries between sound and song, and human and non-human composition.