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Roger Hill is Professor of Physics at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where he has been on the faculty since 1970. One of the interests which he pursues in his spare time (?) is writing web pages, and besides his own web site, he maintains web sites for the SIUE Physics Department, the International Folk Dance Association of University City, and of course the St. Louis Chamber Chorus.
Many people in science have been attracted to music in some form or other, and Roger is no exception. As a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, he became interested in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, and learned to play the recorder, krummhorn, and other reproductions of period instruments. He continued these activities while doing postdoctoral work at Northwestern University, and was in a number of performances in connection with the Music Department there. At Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville he revived the long-dormant Collegium Musicum, which gave regular performances of early music, and was co-director of the group while it existed in the 1970's. Secular Medieval/Renaissance music has quite a few aspects in common with folk music, and in 1979 Roger became involved in Eastern European folk music, singing, and dancing. He is currently Secretary of the Board of Directors of the International Folk Dance Association of University City, and sometimes helps to supply live music for dancing there, playing among other things the Bulgarian dvoyanka (double pipe) and gaida (bagpipe).