Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues

Anyone up for some free music lectures? The aspect that is appealing to me is that they are framed as dialogues, not lectures.

Each Spring, the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations organizes a set of
symposia called the Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues, which, through the study of the
interaction of words and music, propose to shed light on timely aspects of
historical, literary and musicological research. This year's series was
inspired by Professor Susan Suleiman's recent book "Crises of Memory and the
Second World War".

The Lyrica Society is pleased to announce its forthcoming Harvard-Lyrica
Dialogues, 2008, themed:

Music and Memory – Music as Memory

Fridays: February 15, March 14, April 18 and May 9, 2008
4 – 6 PM · Dudley House · Lehman Hall · Harvard Yard

Friday, February 15, 2008

Schubert, Schumann, Literary Notions, and Song: "Fragment" and "Apostrophe"
German Lieder

- Deborah Stein, New England Conservatory of Music
- Rufus Hallmark, Rutgers University

Friday, March 14, 2008

Death, Concentrated: Viktor Ullmann's "Der Kaiser von Atlantis"
- Rachel Bergman, George Mason University
- Peter Laki, Bard College
- Richard Beaudoin, Brandeis University

Friday, April 18, 2008

In Memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) and Robert F. Kennedy
1925-1968)

World Première: "And Music Will Not End" – Songs by Lori Laitman
- D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano
– Lori Laitman, piano

Friday, May 9, 2008

Revolution and Its Discontents: Bernanos, Poulenc and their "Dialogues of
the Carmelites"

- Jann Pasler, University of California, San Diego
- Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston University
- Paul-André Bempéchat, Harvard University
- Mark DeVoto, Tufts University

Free admission