Please check the weekly music department calendar or contact Ryan Minor at Ryan.Minor[at]stonybrook.edu.


HTE Colloquium
An exciting series of colloquia in the History and Theory of Music and in Ethnomusicology for the 2009-2010 academic year. All talks will be held in the Music Library Seminar Room on the dates listed below. All are warmly encouraged to attend.


Friday, Oct. 9, at 2:15 Philip Gossett (University of Chicago): "Sources for La forza del destino at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg"

Thursday, Oct. 22, at 4:15 Brian Kane (Yale University): "Excavating Lewin's 'Phenomenology'"

Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 4:15 Elizabeth Keenan (Columbia University): "If Liz Phair Made You a Feminist, What Kind of Feminist Are You?: Sex and Popular Music in Third Wave Feminism"

Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 4:15 Giuseppe Gerbino (Columbia University): "The Musical Language of Desire: Emotion and Cognition in Renaissance Italy"

Thursday, Feb. 11, at 4:15 Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University): TBA

Tuesday, Mar. 2, at 4:15 Anne Stone (CUNY Graduate Center): TBA





Current Guest Speaker
Philip Gossett:

Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music, is a music historian with special interests in 19th-century Italian opera, sketch studies, aesthetics, textual criticism, and performance practice. He is author of two books on Donizetti and of Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (2006, Chicago), which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society as the best book on music of the year. He serves as General Editor of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (The University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi of Milan) and of Works of Gioachino Rossini (Baerenreiter-Verlag, Kassel). One of the world's foremost experts on Italian opera, Gossett is the first musicologist to be awarded the Mellon Distingushed Achievement Award; he also holds the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, the Italian government's highest civilian honor. Professor Gossett has served as President of the American Musicological Society and of the Society for Textual Scholarship, as Dean of Humanities at Chicago, and as lecturer and consultant at opera houses and festivals in America and Italy. He was the musicological consultant to the Verdi Festival in Parma during the Verdi centennial year (2001). At Chicago since 1968.