Sleuthing rare manuscript’s history leads to prestigious award (University of California - Berkeley)

(Source: University of California - Berkeley) Carla Shapreau, winner of 2015 Claude V. Palisca Award. (Photo by Judy Lapire) Carla Shapreau, a faculty member at Berkeley Law whose research involves the Nazi-era plunder of musical cultural property and the restitution of those possessions, is the recipient with two co-authors of this year's Claude V. Palisca Award, the American Musicological Society announced this week. The award honors an outstanding scholarly edition or transcript in the field of musicology published during the previous year. Shapreau also is a senior fellow in the Institute of European Studies and a curator at the...