"TEACHING OLD MUSIC AT THE NEW HARVARD: BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY THEN AND NOW"featuring Thomas Kelly
Harvard's Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music
and author of "First Nights: Five Musical Premieres" & "First Nights at the Opera"
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 7pm
at France-Amériques
9 avenue Franklin Roosevelt - 75008 Paris
Prof. Thomas Kelly teaches the popular Core Curriculum course, "First Nights", which is the inspiration for this event. The course seeks to situate musical works in their historical context and thus see them in a new light. Prof. Kelly received his B.A. from Chapel Hill, and spent two years on a Fulbright in France studying musicology, chant, and organ. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught at Wellesley, Smith, Amherst, and Oberlin, where he directed the Historical Performance Program and served as acting Dean of the Conservatory. He was named a Harvard College Professor in 2000 and the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music in 2001. Prof. Kelly's main fields of interest are medieval music and original performance practice. He won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for The Beneventan Chant (Cambridge University Press, 1989). His most recent books include First Nights: Five Musical Premieres (Yale University Press, 2000) and First Nights at the Opera (Yale, 2004). He likewise lectures at the Smithsonian and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
For more information about Prof. Kelly's work, please consult the following links :http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/11/02/overture_no_1/
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/11.18/first_night.html
