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Guest Speakers in Musicology

Each year the Department of Musicology brings in a number of distinguished guest speakers. This page lists speakers from recent years. For the current year, please see the Musicology Lectures and Colloquia calendar.

Guest Speakers for the 2010-2011 Academic Year

October 8, 2010
Guest Lecture: Lori Gooding, University of Kentucky
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Dr. Lori Gooding is the newly appointed Assistant Professor of Music Therapy at the University of Kentucky.

October 22, 2010
Longyear Lecture: Judith Tick, Northeastern University
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Life Lessons through Biography: My Teacher, Ruth Crawford Seeger." Dr. Judith Tick, Professor, Northeastern University.

November 19, 2010
Longyear Lecture: Anthony Seeger, University of California, Los Angeles
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Applying Ethnomusicology Outside the University: Opportunities and Challenges." Anthony Seeger is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Ethnomusicology Archive at the University of California, Los Angeles.

February 4, 2011
Symposium on Gershwin’s PORGY & BESS
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
The John Jacob Niles Center for American Music and the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division in the School of Music present a symposium relating to the current production by UK Opera Theatre. Participants included:

February 18, 2011
Guest Lecture: Anat Rubenstein, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Anat Rubenstein will speak on "The Modern Israeli Experience of Memory And Bereavement: October Sun by Mark Kopytman and Dear Son of Mine by Haim Permont as Case Studies." Rubenstein is a graduate student in Musicology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She will be delivering the paper this March in London, England, at the conference Art Musics of Israel: Identities, Ideologies, Influences, organized by the University of London and JMI-Jewish Music Institute.

March 4, 2011
Guest Lecture: Richard Domek and Philip Greasley, University of Kentucky
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Dr. Domek (U.K. School of Music, Division of Music Theory) will present "The Late Duke: Ellington and Strayhorn’s Anatomy of Murder Considered." Dr. Greasley (U.K. Department of English) will present "Irony, Comedy, and Ethical Ambiguity in Anatomy of a Murder."

March 22, 2011
Guest Lecture: Piergabriele Mancuso, Venice, Italy
Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Fiore d’eterno: The Music Tradition of the Jews of Sannicandro Garganico." Mancuso has degrees in music and a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from University College London. He is a Lecturer for Boston University’s International Programs in Padua, Italy.

March 23, 2011
Informal Guest Lecture: Piergabriele Mancuso, Venice, Italy
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"The Venetian minhag: Sacred Music of the Venetian Ghetto"

March 30, 2011
Informal Guest Lecture: Philip Bohlman, University of Chicago
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Postmodern Diaspora: Jewish Music beyond Israel." Philip Bohlman is Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College at the University of Chicago.

March 31, 2011
Guest Lecture and Performance: Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago) with Christine Wilkie Bohlman, piano
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Viktor Ullmann’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke," a melodrama for speaker and piano composed and performed in 1944 at Theresienstadt concentration camp.

April 1, 2011
Longyear Lecture: Philip Bohlman, University of Chicago
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Jewish noir –– Utopia and Dystopia in Jewish Film Music, before and after the Holocaust." Philip Bohlman is Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College at the University of Chicago.

April 15, 2011
Longyear Lecture: Richard Taruskin. University of California, Berkeley
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Did Someone Say Censorship?" Taruskin holds the endowed Professorship of Music of the Class of 1995 at Berkeley.

Guest Speakers for the 2009-2010 Academic Year

October 16, 2009
Longyear Lecture: Daniel Goldmark and Neil Lerner
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
Daniel Goldmark of Case Western Reserve University will present: "Gruesome Misterioso: Conventions for Scary Music", followed by Neil Lerner of Davidson College on “Transformations of a Transformation Scene: Music in Film Versions of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.” There will be an associated screening of the 1931version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Saturday at 2:00PM. in the Niles Gallery.

November 6, 2009
Longyear Lecture: Alexander Silbiger, Duke University
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"The Promises and Pitfalls of Online Scholarly Music Publishing." Alexander Silbiger is Professor Emeritus, Duke University, and editor, Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music.

February 5, 2010
Musicology Guest Lecture: Enrico Santí, University of Kentucky
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Confessions of a Melomaniac: Music from a Literary Approach." Enrico Santí is William T. Bryan Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky. This lecture is jointly sponsored by FOCUS (the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Graduate Students' Association) and HIGSA (the Hispanic Graduate Students' Association).

February 19, 2010
Longyear Lecture: Peter Burkholder, Indiana University
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"Musical Borrowing, or Curious Coincidence?: Testing the Evidence." Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor of Music at Indiana University, and author of A History of Western Music.

February 26, 2010
Guest Lecture: Robert Fry, Vanderbilt University
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"We Are the Blues: Individual and Communal Performances of the King Biscuit Tradition" Robert Fry is Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature at the Blair School of Music of Vanderbilt University. This lecture is sponsored by FOCUS (the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Graduate Students' Association).

April 9, 2010
Longyear Lecture: Bonnie Wade, University of California, Berkeley
Niles Gallery, Lucille Little Fine Arts Library
"The Performer-Composer in Traditional and Contemporary Japan." Bonnie Wade is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a specialist in the music of India and Japan.

Guest Speakers for the 2008-2009 Academic Year

October 31, 2008
Robert Winter (UCLA)
Operas, Symphonies, Concertos: Mozart Piano Concertos in Context

December 05, 2008
Mary Ann Smart (University of California - Berkeley)
The music and culture of the Parisian salon c. 1835

March 06, 2009
Dale Cockrell (Vanderbilt University)
This is My Story, This is My Song

April 03, 2009
Francesco Izzo (University of Southhampton and University of Chicago)
Of Texts and Other Demons: An Opéra Comique Goes to Italy
Valeria Luca (Princeton University)
The Story of a Seventeenth-Century Libretto: Giovanni Filippo Apolloni’s Alcasta between Rome, Vienna and Venice

April 17, 2009
Jessie Ann Owens (University of California - Davis)
You Can Tell a Book by its Cover: Reflections on Format in Early Modern Music Treatises

Guest Speakers for the 2007-2008 Academic Year

Friday, October 19, 2007
Margaret Murata (University of California, Irvine)

Friday, January 25, 2008
Tom Riis (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Behind the Scenes with Frank Loesser:  The Business of Broadway in the Golden Age

Friday, February 8, 2008
Kyle Gann (Bard College)
Updating Burney: Charting Post-mainstream Music

Friday, March 28, 2008
Steven Huebner (McGill University)
Ravel's Politics

Guest Speakers for the 2006-2007 Academic Year

September 22, 2006
Dr. Diana Hallman (University of Kentucky)
Nationalism, Franco-British Politics, and Halévy’s Charles VI (1843)

September 29, 2006
Chan E. Park (Ohio State University)
Korean Traditional Music Today: P’ansori. (Co-sponsored by the Korea Society and the U.K. Asia Center).

October 13, 2006
Ron Pen (Niles Center for American Music)
Song of the Rails

October 20, 2006
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University, St. Louis)
Monteverdi as Dramatic Psychologist: The Psychic and Musical Disintegration of Orfeo.

November 17, 2006
K.H. Han (UK Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology)
Morning of the World: The Life and Arts in Bali.
Sponsored by the Asia Center and the School of Music Division of Musicology.

February 09, 2007
Dale Olsen (Florida State University)
Music and Shamanistic Healing among the Warao Indians of the Venezuelan Rainforest.

March 23, 2007
Terry Miller (Kent State University)
Ballroom Dance and the Development of Popular Music in Southeast Asia. Sponsored jointly by the Musicology Division and the Asia Center.

March 30, 2007
Deane Root (University of Pittsburgh)
Deane Root is director of the Stephen Foster Memorial in Pittsburgh. This is a complement to the Musicology Seminar in Spring 2007 on Stephen Foster.

April 27, 2007
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University)
Becoming Significant Others: Thoughts on Collaboration Across Music Disciplines, in the Field, and in the Community.

Guest Speakers for the 2005-2006 Academic Year

September 30, 2005
Stephen M. Wrinn (University Press of Kentucky)

October 14, 2005
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Wye J. (Wendy) Allanbrook (University of California - Berkeley)
Flux and Felicity: 'Classic' Instrumental Music Reconsidered.

November 18, 2005
Kathryn Lowerre (Michigan State University)
Stalking Fabulous Beasts: English Dramatick Opera and Musical Tragedies c. 1700.

January 27, 2006
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: William Prizer (University of California - Santa Barbara)
Cardinals and Courtesans: Secular Music in Rome, 1500-1520.

February 24, 2006
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Thomas Brothers (Duke University)
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans.

March 24, 2006
Alan Thrasher (University of British Columbia)
The Organology of Chinese Musical Instruments.

March 31, 2006
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Alan Jabbour (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Dancing and Marching: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

April 21, 2006
Mark Pottinger (Manhattan College)
French Grand Opera and the Art of History.

Guest Speakers for the 2004-2005 Academic Year

October 15, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet (Duke University)
Rossini’s Parisian Debut at the Opéra

November 9, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Juan Pablo Gonzalez (Universidad Católica de Chile)
The Making of a Social History of Popular Music in Chile (1890-1950)

November 19, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Sheila Kay Adams (Mars Hill, North Carolina),
Come Go Home with Me

February 25, 2005
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening Foundation; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Lecture - Performance

March 4, 2005
Mike Seeger
Lecture/Performance

March 7, 2005
Anne Prescott (Indiana University),
Japanese Koto and its Music

Guest Speakers for the 2003-2004 Academic Year

October 10, 2003
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Ellen Rosand (Yale University),
The Author of Monteverdi’s Late Operas

October 31, 2003
Neil Lerner (Davidson College),
The Horrors of the Left Hand: Music and Other Disabilities in The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)

November 21, 2003
Wendy Heller (Princeton University),
Poppea’s Legacy: The Julio-Claudians on the Venetian Stage

February 13, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Susan Cook (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Watch Your Step!: The Music, Movement and Mores of Ragtime Culture

April 2, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
Music and Meaning in Poppea: A New Approach

April 23, 2004
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Vivian Perlis (Yale University),
Preserving the Voices of History: Ives and Copland

Guest Speakers for the 2002-2003 Academic Year

September 20, 2002
A Visit with New York Times Critic Anthony Tommasini

October 16, 2002
Jürgen Schebera
Kurt Weill’s Concept of ‘Musical Theatre’ from Germany to the U.S.

November 15, 2002
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Richard Crawford (University of Michigan):
A Foggy Day: Problems in Gershwin Biography

December 6, 2002
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Martin Marks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
Classical Music in Films of the Forties: The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of

January 24, 2003
Louise Stein (University of Michigan):
Powerful Patrons, Seductive Songs: The Political Work of Opera in Two Worlds

April 9, 2003
Jeff Todd Titon (Brown University):
Imagined  Musical Communities: Ole Bull Meets Old-Time Kentucky Fiddlers in 1868

April 11, 2003
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley):
Singing Chant

April 25, 2003
Rey M. Longyear Lecture: Philip Gossett (University of Chicago):
Mare or Monti: Two Summer Festivals