Music & Discourse Colloquium

This colloquium is intended to provide a friendly forum for faculty and interested graduate students to present lecture-recitals, conference papers, and for scholarly discussions on topics of general musical interest. By sharing our research interests among ourselves and our students, we will learn more about each other and our various disciplines.

For more information on the colloquium, contact Dr. Terry Klefstad

Spring 2012 Series:

January 30, 2012:  Joan Titus, Visiting MAD Scholar
“Listening to Schostakovich as Film Composer
Massey Concert Hall, 10 a.m.

February 13, 2012: Patrick McCreless, guest lecturer
“You are the Music, While the Music Lasts”
Massey Concert Hall, 10 a.m.

March 28, 2012: Clare Eng
“Motif and Closure in the Endings of Benjamin Britten”
Massey Concert Hall, 10 a.m.

Past MAD Lectures have included:

Richard Shadinger: “The Way We Were – Events that Shaped Music at Belmont”

John Harrod: “In Search of the Lost Hornpipe”

Music and Discourse Lecture Series/Colloquium 2010/2011

Sandra Dudley:  "To Ella With Love"

Bruce Dudley:  The Music of Gil Evans: Cool and Hot 

Dr. Cynthia Cyrus:  The Importance of Research

Dr. Terry Klefstad:  Shostakovich, Propagandist?

Sounak Chattopadhyay: “India – A Land of Myriad Colours”

Kristian Klefstad: “An Introduction to the Music of Luis Humberto Selgado (Ecuador)”

Kristin Taylor: “Music of Scandanavian Composers:  Icelandic Piano Music of the Twentieth Century”

Will Fleeson, Serge Gainsbourg: “French pop and post-modernism”

Dr. Ken McLeod: “We are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Music”

Dr. Terry Klefstad: “Soviet Film and Shostakovich's Music”