Visiting Committee Colloquium Series

Colloquia are the means by which graduate students integrate themselves into the broader scholarly community. There is really no substitute for this kind of real-time interaction in which we learn how to best communicate our research interests, goals, and methods.

-August Sheehy, Graduate Student in Music History and Theory

The Department of Music Visiting Committee Colloquium Series brings leaders from across the fields of music theory, history, composition, and ethnomusicology to present their work to faculty and graduate students. There are typically four meetings of the colloquium series each quarter.

Sponsored by the Visiting Committee, the Department’s primary group of donors, our colloquium series provides students with access to scholars working at the forefront of their fields. It is an all-departmental dialogue, which graduate students organize alongside faculty in response to the Department’s intellectual and musical interests.

Recent and upcoming guests include musicologists Margot Fassler and Richard Taruskin, ethnomusicologists Svanibor Pettan and Ingrid Monson, music theorists Arnie Cox and Judy Lochhead, and composers Zhou Long and Paul Patterson. 
 

2012 Spring Quarter Series
 

FRIDAY, March 30 | 3:30 PM | Fulton Recital Hall

Richard Taruskin

University of California at Berkeley
Liszt and Bad Taste

FRIDAY, April 13 | 3:30 PM | Fulton Recital Hall

Zhou Long

University of Missouri, Kansas City
Imagination Between Ancient and Modern - Composing a New Opera on a Legend

FRIDAY, April 27 | 3:30 PM | Fulton Recital Hall

Arnie Cox

Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Theorizing Music Affect

FRIDAY, May 18 | 3:30 PM | Classics, Room 110

Martin Eybl

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
The Concept of a Musical Public in the Eighteenth Century