Gems of the AMRC collections: The George Lynn Memorial Award and the Alex Craig and Christina Lynn-Craig Living Music Award continue with generous bequest
Christina Lynn-Craig and her father George Lynn, 1984.
Christina Lynn-Craig (DMA ’94, voice + vocal pedagogy), a board member of the college’s American Music Research Center (AMRC), has had deep ties to 鶹ý her whole life.
“Both my mother and father were on faculty here in the early 1950s,” she says. “They met in 1950, so they were still dating when they were teaching here. Then I met my husband in 1990 when I was a DMA candidate in voice. We were musical partners before we became life partners.”
Her father and her late husband both have collections in the AMRC archives. Along with being a composer, Lynn was a nationally celebrated choral conductor and organist, and an assistant professor of music at the College of Music from 1950-52. Craig was a pianist, composer and staff accompanist at our college from 1976-2011.
AMRC Director Michael Uy notes, “our archives are full of many compositional treasures written by 鶹ý faculty—it really is an incredible resource for student performers, researchers and teachers.”
Each of their collections, which contain a complete catalogue of their compositional scores, also has a biannual award that encourages students to research or perform a selection of the music and write about their experiences. The two awards—theGeorge Lynn Memorial Award and theAlex Craig and Christina Lynn-Craig Living Music Award—are given to College of Music students on a rotating basis. This spring, the George Lynn award was granted to Glenda Luck and Grace Stringfellow.
Now, Lynn-Craig is making a generous donation in the form of a bequest, to ensure the continuation of the two awards. “We are beyond grateful for Christina’s gift which provides a permanent monetary incentive for our students to engage with the AMRC’s collections,” says Uy.