Longyear Lecture: Dr. Theodore Levin
Friday, October 7, 2011, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Dr. Levin (Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College) will speak on "Music and the Spirit World in Central Asia and Siberia."

Lecture: Dr. Diana Hallman, University of Kentucky School of Music
Friday, October 14, 2011, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

"Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and the Théâtre-Lyrique: New Paths in French Opera."

'Romeo and Juliet' as Opera and Play: A Round Table
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

Tedrin Lindsay (UK Opera Theatre), moderator. Stephanie Sundine, Director; Richard Kagey, Set Designer/Artist-in-Residence; and members of UKOT’s production staff for 'Roméo et Juliette:' Andrew Kimbrough (Theatre), director, Tony Hardin (Theatre), set designer.

Lecture: Dr. Anna Bryski, University of Kentucky Dept. of Art
Friday, November 4, 2011, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

"Staging Modernity: the Paris Opera and French Modern Art." Dr. Bryski is an Associate Professor of Art at UK.

Longyear Lecture: Greg Sandow
Friday, November 11, 2011, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music critic and author Greg Sandow will speak on "The Critic's Role in the Rebirth of Classical Music." Greg Sandow (B.A. Harvard University; M.M. Yale University) is a composer and music critic, who has written for The Village Voice, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and Entertainment Weekly. He is teaching at the Juilliard School and has taught at Eastman School of Music.

Musicology Lecture: Professor Richard Underwood. University of Kentucky
Friday, December 2, 2011, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

"Murdered Girls." Professor Underwood is Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at UK.

Lecture: Dr. Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky Dept. of History
Thursday, December 8, 2011, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

'Revolution and Modernity in 19th-Century Paris.'

Musicology/Theory Lecture: Dr. Allen Cadwallader, Oberlin Conservatory
Friday, December 9, 2011, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

"Heinrich Schenker." Dr. Cadwallader is Professor of Music Theory at Oberlin. A joint Music Theory/Composition Division and Musicology-Ethnomusicology Guest Lecturer.

Lecture: César Leal, University of Kentucky School of Music
Friday, January 20, 2012, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

"Re-centering the Arts and Re-defining Audiences: The Théatre des Champs-Élysées as Cultural Experience." Mr. Leal is a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology at UK.

Lecture: Dr. Ben Arnold, University of Kentucky School of Music
Friday, February 3, 2012, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

"The French Liszt." Dr. Arnold is Director of the UK School of Music.

Lecture and Performance: "The Paris Conservatoire and the Prix de Rome"
Friday, February 17, 2012, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

Juan Pablo Carreño (Conservatoire graduate and recent winner of the Prix de Rome). Introduction by Dr. Diana Hallman (Musicology faculty, UK).

A Concert of Prix de Rome Winners
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 7:30 PM
Singletary Center for the Arts - Recital Hall
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

A performance of works by Carreño, Debussy-Lavandier, Debussy-Lévinas, and Hurel. Ensemble EnVaGe (César Leal, conductor), with Cynthia Lawrence, Scott Wright, Nancy Clauter; Joanne Filkins; Andrew Bliss, Yoonie Choi, and UK students.

Lecture: Dr. Rob Jensen, University of Kentucky Dept. of Art
Friday, February 24, 2012, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

"Why the School of Paris is Not French." Dr. Jensen is Associate Professor of Art at UK.

Lecture: Dr. Monica Visoná, University of Kentucky Dept. of Art
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 7:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

"Displaying Africa in Paris: The Trocadero to the Quai Branly." Dr. Visoná is Associate Professor of Art at UK.

Longyear Lecture: Dr. Kay Norton, Arizona State University
Friday, March 2, 2012, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

"They Believed, Belonged, and Bloomed through American Sacred Song." Dr. Norton is a professor of Music at ASU.

The French Mezzo-Soprano
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Featuring Jennifer Lane, with Ellen Graham, Jondra Harmon, John Greer, and Diana Hallman. Jennifer Lane, internationally known mezzo-soprano, is professor of voice at the University of North Texas. John Greer is Head Vocal Coach at UK. Ellen Graham and Jondra Harmon, mezzo-sopranos, are DMA candidates in Voice.

Longyear Lecture: Dr. Jann Pasler, University of California at San Diego
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Music, Arts & Culture in Paris Series

"The Dynamics of Identity in fin de siècle French Music." [N.B. This is a Tuesday (not Friday) event.] Jann Pasler, professor at UC San Diego, musicologist, pianist, and documentary filmmaker, has published widely on French cultural and concert life in the 19th and 20th centuries, interdisciplinarity, race, gender, colonial/post-colonial history, and contemporary American and French music.

Chinese Musical Instruments: Then and Now, a lecture and demonstration
Friday, March 30, 2012, 3:30 PM
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Free and open to the public

Kuo-Huang Han talks about Chinese musical instruments as part of the College of Arts & Sciences Year of China event and also in connection with a Chinese musical instruments exhibit at the Niles Gallery (from his collection). Ms. Dandan Zhang, on staff at the UK Confucius Institute, will perform on the zheng (guzheng) zither. Dr. Han is Emeritus Professor of Music, Northern Illinois University, and Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Kentucky. Sponsored by: UK Libraries, UK School of Music: Musicology and Ethnomusicology Division, UK College of Fine Arts.