We’re pleased to announce the fall calendar of events for the Music History and Theory Workshop. We hope you’ll join us as we kick off the year with a special presentation from our very own Professor Lawrence Zbikowski next Wednesday, Oct. 8.

Oct. 8              Lawrence Zbikowski 
                        “Words and Music,” from Toward a Cognitive Grammar of Music

Oct. 22            Peter Gillette (University of Iowa)
                        “Columnated Ruins Domino, Summer 1966:
                        Reading The Beach Boys’ Surf’s Up as Critique of Lincoln Center”

Oct. 29            AMS 2014 Dry Runs

                        Ted Gordon
                        “Sound is God: La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath in New York”

                        Miriam Tripaldi
                        “Dispelling the Western Myth: Opera, Mobility, Experimentation,
                        and the Emergence of the Russian Nation in Saint Petersburg”

Nov. 12           Tommaso Sabbatini
                        “Intimate Space and Popular Spectacle: Revue, Magic Lantern, and War
                        in Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges”

Dec. 3              James Symons (Northwestern University)
                        “A Cognitivitely Inspired Musical Concordance”

Each session will be held in Logan Terrace Room 801 on a Wednesday afternoon, 4:30-6:00. Refreshments will be served; spirited colloquy will ensue. You can join our Listserv here. We look forward to seeing you at upcoming workshops!