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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Russia, composers, musicologists, interviews

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

As a music/Honors Russian major, I had hoped to write an honors thesis that would combine both of these interests. I also wanted to spend some time living and studying in Russia to augment the year and a half that I spent in the Ukraine on a mission. I was able to line up living arrangements in St. Petersburg and also to arrange for some studies and private organ lessons at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. In September 1995, I left to spend a year in Russia. An additional goal was to do research for my thesis. I selected the topic “How Perestroika has influenced the musical atmosphere of St. Petersburg, as seen through the eyes of her composers.” I sent in my application to the ORCA office from St. Petersburg, and was notified by e-mail in February 1996 that I had been chosen as a recipient. However, the office was unable to award me the grant at that time, as I was not a full-time BYU student. Upon my return in August 1996, and subsequent full-time enrollment that fall, I was given the grant. As I had already paid tuition, I used the grant to pay for my fall housing. This lightened some of the financial load that I had incurred during my stay abroad (which the grant would have covered had it been available in February).

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