Davee Media Library
Lectures and Interviews
Sylvia Wang, associate professor of piano, explores the fusion of East and West in Western classical music through stories and performances tracing her experience as a solo and collaborative pianist and educator.
The Bienen School of Music welcomed Dr. Louise Toppin and Dr. Willis Patterson from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance for a virtual discussion on Black art songs.
This presentation situates Anne Boleyn's reputed musicality within five centuries of endless fascination with the doomed second wife of Henry VIII.
Bienen School lecturer, soprano, and composer Patrice Michaels immortalized and humanized her mother-in-law, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in the song cycle The Long View: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs. Pritzker Sc
Jesse Rosenberg, associate professor of musicology, discusses opera in the time of lockdown. His lecture explores historical perspectives in the current crisis affecting the field of live opera.
Bienen School of Music faculty members Stephen Alltop and Joachim Schamberger discuss the extraordinary challenge and opportunity of creating an entirely remote recording and filming of Monteverdi’s Orfeo.
A Zoom discussion of Claudio Monteverdi's opera "L'Orfeo," now a Northwestern University Opera Theater project in progress entitled "Orfeo Remote." This event was presented as part of the Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival.
Bienen student Kitra Razin discusses her experience writing for, and collaborating with, the Zafa Collective.