John Bird Lectures Archive
Spring Semester 2011
15 February ‘Teresa Schieroni and the Idea of Global Opera’
Benjamin Walton (Cambridge)
22 February ‘The Vicissitudes of a Musical Sign: How the Yodel Became a Joke’
Timothy Wise (Salford)
15 March ‘Don’t Sing It On a Feast Day: The Performance of Western Sacred Music in Soviet Russia’
Pauline Fairclough (Bristol)
29 March ‘Gaslight in the “Glorious Old Cathedrals”: The Church Times and Theological Objections to Nineteenth-Century Musical Festivals’
Charles McGuire (Oberlin)
Autumn Semester 2010
5 October ‘Musical Missionaries in Ramallah? Understanding Europe’s Latest Dispatches’
Rachel Beckles-Willson (Royal Holloway)
26 October ‘Experimentalism Meets (Iggy) Pop’
Benjamin Piekut (Southampton)
16 November ‘Strategies and Models for Composers: Puzzles, Menus, Maps, Memory’
Elliott Schwartz
7 December [CANCELLED] ‘Rethinking Neapolitan Song’
Goffredo Plastino (Newcastle)