Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations - Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues

The Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues are interdisciplinary symposia and lecture-recitals intended to complement the broad, interdisciplinary nature of critical inquiry across the Harvard campus. Held each Spring term, the Dialogues exploit inter-related yet independent facets of a common theme. The 2008 Dialogues, Music and Memory - Music as Memory, honor the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, Professor Susan Suleiman's recent book Crises of Memory and the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2006):

February 15, 2008
Music as Text: “Fragment” and “Apostrophe” in the Lieder of Schubert and Schumann
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, Respondent

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, Emeritus

Admission is free, and debates are welcome!