Public Musicology Zoom Class
Book presentation: “Understanding the Women of Mozart’s Operas”
ZoomThe Barrington Area Library invited me to speak about my book, Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas (Univ. of Calif. Press, 2007, 2021), a critical re-evaluating source materials as well as Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Seong-Jin Cho
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesMy preperformance talk will introduce the recital program of pianist Seong-Jin Cho, an artist who is wowing crowds over the globe. This particular musical journey includes a delightful Haydn Sonata, Find out more »
Osher Lecture, Bach’s Goldberg Variations: A Musical and Cinematic Exploration
OSHER UC San Diego Campus Extension Complex UC San Diego Campus Extension Complex 9600 North Torrey Pines Rd., Building D, La Jolla, CA, United StatesI'm delighted to be an Invited Speaker at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC San Diego! And I'm revisiting one of my favorite topics: Bach's "Goldberg" Variations. When Bach Find out more »
Free LAO Zoom Class / How to Build an Opera
ZoomThis Week's Topic - How to Build an Opera: from Overture to Scene For this final session, we will look at the how Rossini and Wagner put their operas together—their Find out more »
Free LAO Zoom Class / Bel Canto Dramedy
ZoomThis Week's Topic - Bel Canto “Dramedy”: Mixed Musical Styles in Cenerentola By the time he wrote Cenerentola, Rossini had already mastered a wildly successful comic style and had proven Find out more »
Free LAO Zoom Class / Musical Artist as Hero
ZoomThis Week's Topic - The Musical Artist as German Hero: Romanticism, Myth, and Wagner’s Tannhäuser This week we will delve into the two medieval stories that Wagner combined for his Find out more »
Free LAO Zoom Class / Rossini & Wagner
ZoomThis Week's Topic - A Tale of Two Opera Composers We will explore the careers of Rossini and Wagner up to 1850 in the context of European opera cultures—French, German, Find out more »
Zoom Course / Interwar Period Musical Culture
ZoomDr. Kristi Brown-Montesano will guide LA Opera Board members through an exploration of music from the interwar period (1919—1939), an era that witnessed an astonishing variety of aesthetic and stylistic Find out more »
Zoom Course / Exploring Beethoven’s Ninth
ZoomBeethoven's Ninth is iconic. But why does it persist as a cultural touchstone, well into the 21st century? This is my inaugural Zoom course for the Colburn Community School. So Find out more »
Zoom Class / Violin Bootcamp + Music History
Thayer Hall, The Colburn School 200 Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAs many of you know, Colburn has a Community School whose mission is training the next generation of musicians and patrons. This summer I have the pleasure of teaching in Find out more »