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Acoustical Society of America Honorary Fellowship: Saunders and Hutchins
In the spring of 1954, Saunders received news that he had been selected to receive an Honorary Fellowship, the highest award given by the ASA. When he learned of winning the ASA honor, Saunders was suddenly reluctant to include Hutchins, saying:
“You don’t need to come to the meeting — you probably wouldn’t understand most of it.”21
In 1998, Carleen Hutchins was awarded the same honor as her mentor, the first and only woman to receive it.
Violin Parts
In a park in Martigny, Switzerland, a sculpture by Arman enti- tled Contrepoint Pour Violoncelles (see bit.ly/2Zfdtbj) looks like atotempoleofviolinparts,avisualmetaphorsynecdochefor the life and work of Carleen Hutchins, a catalyst who changed nearly every aspect of the violin world.
21 Interview, Fall 1997.
To meet some members of the Hutchins Consort and hear some of their music, see the following links.
Meet the Hutchins Consort: youtu.be/Iev1DNVeBcM.
Excerpt from Hungarian Rhapsody: youtu.be/vRydzJUra1I. “Summertime” (Gershwin): youtu.be/YpfhBB9b2Aw.
BioSketch
Quincy Whitney was the primary arts writer for the Boston Globe New Hampshire Weekly for 14 years. Whitney is a Eugene O’Neill Critic Fellow, a Salzburg Seminar Fellow, and a Metropolitan Museum of Art Research Fellow. Her award-winning biography, American Luthier: Carleen
Hutchins—the Art and Science of the Violin, selected by PEN America as one of the 10 best biographies of 2017, was recently awarded the 2019 Science Communication Award by the
Acoustical Society of America. The Hutchins Consort, now cel- ebrating its 20th anniversary, is the only professional ensemble in the world that performs on the Hutchins violin octet.
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