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	Past Annual Lectures 2006 - Phillip Gossett 2004 - Phil Hayward 2003 - Linda Barwick 2002 - Gordon Spearritt Philip Gossett *Verdi and Shakespeare* Wednesday 19 July 2006 Throughout his life, Verdi dreamed of basing operas on plays by Shakespeare, and three times he actually realized his dreams ( Macbeth of 1847/1865, Otello of 1888, and Falstaff of 1893). While he always took the Shakespearean challenge seriously, his mutating musical language allowed him to do some things toward the end of his life that he could not do earlier. This talk will compare his three Shakespearian settings, look at his efforts to develop a libretto for King Lear, and to achieve a coordination of the comic and the tragic in La forza del destino. Philip Gossett is one of the world's foremost experts on Italian opera. He currently holds the position of Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago . In addition to 19th-century Italian opera, he has special interests in sketch studies, aesthetics, textual criticism, and performance practice. Author of two books on Donizetti and of Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (forthcoming, Chicago), he serves as General Editor of The Works of Verdi and of The Critical Edition of the Works of Rossini. His edition of Rossini's Semiramide was published in 2001. Professor Gossett is the first musicologist to be awarded the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award; he also holds the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, the Italian government's highest civilian honour. He has served as President of the American Musicological Society and of the Society for Textual Scholarship, as Dean of Humanities at Chicago , and as lecturer and consultant at opera houses and festivals in America and Italy . He was the musicological consultant to the Verdi Festival in Parma during the Verdi centennial year (2001). To top Phil Hayward Facilitating Heritage: Agendas for active research in local music cultures Wednesday 19 May 2004 Over the last decade the speaker has been involved in research projects with communities in Pacific locations such as Lord Howe, Norfolk and Pitcairn islands, East New Britain, Ogasawara and the Whitsundays. Influenced by recent developments in community development, heritage studies, anthropology and ethnomusicology, he has attempted to establish 'active research' projects in these locations which involve external researchers responding to and facilitating aspects of local music cultures as part of the research process. This paper will explain the advantages, implications and potential pitfalls for such initiatives with reference to specific case studies. Professor Philip Hayward is head of the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. He founded and edited Perfect Beat - The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture from 1994-2003 and has written and edited several books including From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism (1994), Music at the Borders (1998), Tide Lines (2001), Hearing the Call (2002), Outback and Urban (2003) and Off The Planet (2004). To top Linda Barwick Friday 3 October 2003 To top Gordon Spearritt Ramblings of an Ethnomusicologist Thursday 26 September 2002 Highly distinguished musicologist and founding member of MSAQ Dr. Gordon D. Spearritt was invited to present this lecture entitled "Ramblings of an Ethnomusicologist". Through a combination of anecdotes, visual and audio examples, Gordon took his audience on a musicological journey from his days as a Master of Arts student at Harvard University, to fieldwork for his doctoral research in ethnomusicology on the instrumental music of the Iatmul people, Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. These were punctuated by his reflections of the state of play in music education and musicology through his involvement as National Vice-President of the Australian Society for Music Education, National President of MSA, and his experience as an academic at the University of Queensland. His outstanding achievements as scholar, musician and teacher were highlighted and provided much food for thought for all in attendance about what it means to be truly musicological. (Liz Mackinlay) To top
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Philip Gossett

Verdi and Shakespeare
Wednesday 19 July 2006

Throughout his life, Verdi dreamed of basing operas on plays by Shakespeare, and three times he actually realized his dreams ( Macbeth of 1847/1865, Otello of 1888, and Falstaff of 1893). While he always took the Shakespearean challenge seriously, his mutating musical language allowed him to do some things toward the end of his life that he could not do earlier. This talk will compare his three Shakespearian settings, look at his efforts to develop a libretto for King Lear, and to achieve a coordination of the comic and the tragic in La forza del destino.

Philip Gossett is one of the world's foremost experts on Italian opera. He currently holds the position of Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago . In addition to 19th-century Italian opera, he has special interests in sketch studies, aesthetics, textual criticism, and performance practice. Author of two books on Donizetti and of Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (forthcoming, Chicago), he serves as General Editor of The Works of Verdi and of The Critical Edition of the Works of Rossini. His edition of Rossini's Semiramide was published in 2001. Professor Gossett is the first musicologist to be awarded the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award; he also holds the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, the Italian government's highest civilian honour. He has served as President of the American Musicological Society and of the Society for Textual Scholarship, as Dean of Humanities at Chicago , and as lecturer and consultant at opera houses and festivals in America and Italy . He was the musicological consultant to the Verdi Festival in Parma during the Verdi centennial year (2001).

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Phil Hayward

Facilitating Heritage: Agendas for active research in local music cultures
Wednesday 19 May 2004

Over the last decade the speaker has been involved in research projects with communities in Pacific locations such as Lord Howe, Norfolk and Pitcairn islands, East New Britain, Ogasawara and the Whitsundays. Influenced by recent developments in community development, heritage studies, anthropology and ethnomusicology, he has attempted to establish 'active research' projects in these locations which involve external researchers responding to and facilitating aspects of local music cultures as part of the research process. This paper will explain the advantages, implications and potential pitfalls for such initiatives with reference to specific case studies.

Professor Philip Hayward is head of the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. He founded and edited Perfect Beat - The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture from 1994-2003 and has written and edited several books including From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism (1994), Music at the Borders (1998), Tide Lines (2001), Hearing the Call (2002), Outback and Urban (2003) and Off The Planet (2004).

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Linda Barwick

Friday 3 October 2003

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Gordon Spearritt

Ramblings of an Ethnomusicologist
Thursday 26 September 2002

Highly distinguished musicologist and founding member of MSAQ Dr. Gordon D. Spearritt was invited to present this lecture entitled "Ramblings of an Ethnomusicologist". Through a combination of anecdotes, visual and audio examples, Gordon took his audience on a musicological journey from his days as a Master of Arts student at Harvard University, to fieldwork for his doctoral research in ethnomusicology on the instrumental music of the Iatmul people, Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. These were punctuated by his reflections of the state of play in music education and musicology through his involvement as National Vice-President of the Australian Society for Music Education, National President of MSA, and his experience as an academic at the University of Queensland. His outstanding achievements as scholar, musician and teacher were highlighted and provided much food for thought for all in attendance about what it means to be truly musicological. (Liz Mackinlay)