Date: Friday, November 8, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Harkness Chapel, Classroom
Free – open to the public
Our weekly Friday afternoon colloquia feature current research presentations by distinguished visiting scholars, as well as by our own faculty and graduate students in musicology, historical performance practice, and music education.
Following each session, receptions offer a valuable opportunity for social interaction, helping to foster a strong sense of community, camaraderie, and mutual support within the department.
About the Talk
"Unseen Alliances: William Schuman, Gerard Schwarz, David Diamond, Edward Stringham, Jeremy Mikecz, and Me"
Sponsored by the Center for Popular Music Studies
In his presentation, Steve Swayne, the Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and a former president of the American Musicological Society, will explore three things. First, he will take us along the path that led him from writing his award-winning book on American composer and administrator William Schuman (1910–1992) to working on a study of the life and music of American composer David Diamond (1915–2005). Then he will take us through the digital tools he is developing with others to process the more than 50,000 images of letters, diary entries, and notebooks he has amassed from the David Diamond Collection at the Library of Congress. Lastly, he will take us into a corner of these materials by looking at the correspondence between Diamond and Edward Stringham (1918–1994), a collator for the New Yorker, and showing how their exchanges illuminate the cultural, literary, musical, and gay milieux these two men inhabited.
About the Speaker
Steve Swayne teaches courses in art music from 1700 to the present day, opera, American musical theater, Russian music, and American music. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His articles have appeared in The Sondheim Review, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, American Music, Studies in Musical Theatre, the Indiana Theory Review, and The Musical Quarterly. He has written two books— (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and (Oxford University Press, 2011; )—and is at work on three projects: 1) the development of the chamber musical, with a focus on composer/lyricist William Finn; 2) intersections between music, neuroscience, and ethics; and 3) American composer David Diamond. He was , given to faculty for their exceptional educational outreach to alumni. In addition to his work at Dartmouth, he has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; the University of California, Berkeley; and Quest University, and he served as president (2020–22) of the American Musicological Society, the premier organization for musicologists in the English-speaking world. He is also an accomplished concert pianist.
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