Judith Weir her appointment as the Master of the Queen's Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced; this was officially confirmed on 21 July. In May 2015, Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. Weir is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In 2018 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Weir's musical language is fairly conservative, with a "knack of making simple musical ideas appear freshly mysterious." Her first stage work, "The Black Spider", was a one-act opera which
Judith McCulloh Judith McCulloh Judith McCulloh (August 16, 1935 – July 13, 2014) was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. McCulloh was born in Spring Valley, Illinois, on August 16, 1935. She grew up at Northmoor Orchard, not far from Peoria, where her parents owned and apple orchard and sold apples and cider. She first became interested in folk music in 1954 while attending the National Folk Festival in St. Louis. She studied at Cottey College, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Ohio State University. She earned her Ph.D in folklore at Indiana University. McCulloh worked as an editor at the University of Illinois Press