Free public lectures at King's College London, Sept 2007 to March 2008
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Colloquia are held on Wednesdays from 4.45pm in
the St Davids Room, opposite the chapel, in the main
building of King's College on Strand (at Aldwych).
Admission and refreshments are free. All are welcome.
Wednesday 26 September 2007
'Music with words. Why?'
Judith Weir
Wednesday 3 October 2007
'Research into gendered singing voice development'
Graham Welch (Institute of Education)
Wednesday 10 October 2007
'Contexts and musical outcomes in Bizet's 'Carmen''
Richard Langham Smith (Open University)
Wednesday 17 October 2007
'Listening and the Gothic Imagination: a theory
of associative perception for Mozart's D Minor Fantasia, K. 397'
Matthew Head (King's College London)
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Robin Holloway (Cambridge) will speak about his Fourth Concerto for Orchestra
Wednesday 31 October 2007
'Amusia: why do all the songs sound the same?'
Lauren Stewart (Goldsmiths)
Wednesday 14 November 2007
'‘Sweet singing in the choir’: Newer Musicology
steals into the Cathedral Close'
Timothy Day (King’s College London)
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Alexander Goehr in conversation with George Benjamin (King’s College London)
Wednesday 28 November 2007
'The glib, the bland & the corny: an aesthetic of Socialist Realism'
Marina Frolova-Walker (Cambridge)
Wednesday 5 December 2007
‘Music, mind and brain’ – mapping cognition, emotion & performance'
Paul Robertson
Wednesday 12 December 2007
Frederic Rzewski in conversation with Annette Moreau (King’s College London)
Spring Semester 2008
Wednesday 16 January 2008
'Inventing the problem of coherence: Chopin’s mazurkas on record'
Nicholas Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Wednesday 23 January 2008
'Information dynamics of music'
Geraint Wiggins (Goldsmiths)
Wednesday 30 January 2008
'Manon Lescaut: Milan 1930'
Roger Parker (King’s College London)
Wednesday 6 February 2008
'Evaluating evaluation: the science of musical performance assessment'
Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music)
Wednesday 20 February 2008
'Remembrance of jazz past: Sidney Bechet in France'
Andy Fry (King’s College London)
Wednesday 27 February 2008
'From singer to impresario; 18th century examples'
Pierluigi Petrobelli (Rome)
Wednesday 5 March 2008
'The shock of the positive: Messiaen, St Francis
& redemption through modernity'
Robert Sholl (Thames Valley University)
Wednesday 12 March 2008
'Music, social display & the evolution of the brain'
Charles Whitehead (University College London)
Wednesday 19 March 2008
'Berlioz, Hoffmann & the invention of the Genre fantastique in Romantic Paris'
Francesca Brittan (Cambridge)
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