| 1 | Name: | Dr. Don Michael Randel | |
| Institution: | University of Chicago | ||
| Year Elected: | 2002 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1940 | ||
Don Michael Randel received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1967. He joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1968 and served as chair of the department of music (1971-76), vice-provost (1978-79), associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1989-91), the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1991-2000) Given Foundation Professor of Music (1990-2000) and provost (1995-2000). He became the president of the University of Chicago in 2000, serving until 2006. In July 2006 he became president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and he retired in May 2013. A musical scholar of major stature, Dr. Randel has a record of original contributions on matters as diverse as Mozarabic plainchant, Arabic music theory, the polyphony of early modern Europe, and the popular music of contemporary Central America in its encounter with the African- and Anglo-American musical scenes. At home in ethnomusicology, traditional musicology, modern literary theory, and medieval liturgy, Dr. Randel has long been a preeminent figure among musicologists and a favored mentor at Cornell. He has earned further esteem for his gentle, genial effectiveness as a high-level university administrator, bringing his powerful commitment to scholarship, to liberal education, and to realizing the ideals of an academic community to the service of the University of Chicago and now to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Randel is the author of The Responsorial Psalm Tones for the Mozarabic Office (1969); An Index to the Chant of the Mozarabic Rite (1973); Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music (1978); and The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (1986). He is a member of the American Musicological Society, where he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and served as its vice president (1977-78). In 2007 he was named a member of the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Randel was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |||