Upcoming Conferences and Visiting Lecturers

New lectures and conferences coming in 2008-9! Check here for announcements.

Past Conferences and Visiting Lecturers

Simon Morrison and Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

"Unstaged Prokofiev 1937"
Friday, 28 March 2008, 2:00 P.M., Sweeney Hall

Renata Suchowiejko, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

"Devil or Angel? The Image of a Violin Virtuoso in the Nineteenth Century"
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 5:00 P.M., Ford-Crawford Hall
          and
Documentary film: Henryk Wieniawski: The Last Virtuoso of the Romantic Era
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 6:15-7:00 P.M., Ford-Crawford Hall

Elaine Sisman, Columbia University

"Under Construction: Process, Product, and the Opus-Concept"
Friday, 26 October 2007, 2:30 P.M., Ford-Crawford Hall

Lewis Lockwood, Harvard University, and Robert Hatten, Indiana University; David Michael Hertz, Indiana University, Respondent

"Beethoven and Biography: A Symposium and Concert"
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 3:00 and 8:30 P.M., Ford-Crawford Hall

Celia Applegate, University of Rochester

"The Meaning of Borders: Nationalism and Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century Musical Germany"
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 5:00-6:00 P.M., Ford-Crawford Hall

Music and the Written Word

A Symposium of Research in Music Theory and Musicology,
23-24 February 2007, Ford-Crawford Hall

Presented by the Graduate Theory Association
click here to see the program.

Joshua Rifkin

"What Is the Work? Some Thoughts on Historical Performance"
Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 5:00-6:00 P.M., Ford-Crawford Hall

Ayana Smith, Indiana University

"Blues, Quilts, and the Underground Railroad"
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 7:00 P.M.,
Monroe County History Center, 202 E. Sixth Street, Bloomington

in honor of Black History Month

Mozart's Choral Music: Composition, Contexts, Performance

Meeting of the Mozart Society of America, 10-12 February 2006

Writing the History of the Eighteenth-Century Symphony:
A Scholarly Meeting Held in Memory of A. Peter Brown, 4-6 November 2005

click here to see the program.

Walter Frisch, Columbia University

"Dancing in Chains: Modernist German Music and Its Pasts"
Friday, 1 April 2005, 4:00 P.M., Ballantine Hall 013

Beverly Stein

"The Triumph of Jephthah's Daughter: Musical Exegesis and Gender and Role Exchange in Giacomo Carissimi's Oratorio Jephte"
Monday, 7 March 2005, 3:30-4:30 P.M., Music Library, M267

Professor Stein's lecture is made possible in part through generous grants from the Barr Koon Grant Fund of the Department of French and Italian and from the School of Music.

Leon Plantinga, Yale University

Lecture-Recital, "Schumann and the Piano: Childhood and Fantasy"
Friday, 11 February 2005, 4:00 P.M., Ford Hall

Jewish Music and Jewish Identity: Papers in Honor of Professor Hans Tischler on His 90th Birthday
Keynote address by Professor Philip Bohlman (Mary Werkman Professor of the Humanities and Music, Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Chicago), with papers by Katherine Baber, Kunio Hara, Bethany Kissell, Phillip Kurasz, and Travis Yeager. The session will close with a panel discussion involving the participants and Indiana University faculty.   click here for a PDF file (183K) of the program.
Sunday, 23 January 2005, 1:00-5:00 P.M. Sweeney Hall, Simon Music Center

Gottfried Wagner

"Wagner's Music and Ideology in the Political Climate of the Twenty-First Century"
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 7:30 P.M., Jordan Hall 124

"Weill and Brecht: Two Worlds in Collaboration"
Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 7:00 P.M., Faculty Club, Indiana Memorial Union

click here for further information about the speaker and abstracts of his lectures.

A Celebration of Scholarship in Honor of the 75th Birthdays of
Professor Malcolm H. Brown and Professor George J. Buelow, 16 October 2004

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James Webster, Goldwin Smith Professor of Music, Cornell University

"The Sublime and the Pastoral in Haydn's The Creation"
Saturday, 28 February 2004, 1:30 P.M., Sweeney Hall

This lecture and the two performances of Haydn's Creation on 29 February and 3 March were offered in memory of Professor A. Peter Brown.

Eros and Euterpe, 7 February 2004

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Berlioz over Two Centuries, 24-26 April 2003

Music in the Mirror, 11-14 May 2000

click here for a PDF file (115K) of the program.

The proceedings of this conference, sponsored by the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, were published in 2002. Click here for further information on the publication.

The Age of Chopin: The Chopin Sesquicentennial Symposium
17-19 September 1999

click here to see the program.