The Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology
The Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology, founded in 1991 in memory of Ronald James Alexander (1961-1990), have included a wide range of lecturers from universities around the world speaking on a variety of musicological topics. Each quarter a new series is offered, and lectures are free and open to the public.
Join us for in-depth discussions of music and history. Lectures take place on Mondays at 4:30 PM in Braun Music Center, Room 103. (Note the new time for these lectures, as of Fall 2015.)
Winter 2016
January 11th
Kay Shelemay
Harvard University / Stanford Humanities Center
“The Sensory World of the Ethiopian Musician”
February 1st
Alexandra Kieffer
Rice University
“Pelléas contra Ariane: Wagnerism, Debussyism, and the Ontology of Sentiment”
February 29th
Karen Desmond
McGil University
“Circles, Dots, and Lines: Punctuating Sound in Time, ca. 1300–1350”
March 7th
Gabriela Cruz
University of Michigan
“Dissembling Song: Opera Parody in Lisbon ca. 1850”
For more information on these presentations, please contact Charles Kronengold.
