Musicology at LSU

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Join us for our MUSIC FORUM season opener with Vanessa Tonelli from the University of Southern Mississippi.

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Curriculum Reform and The Musician in Society In our own School of Music at Louisiana State University, a large-scale reform of the undergraduate curriculum led us to ponder what, exactly, we hoped first-year music majors would learn from an i…

Congratulations to LSU Musicology alum Timothy Love (PhD, 2015), on an award-winning publication! Dr. Love is one of the contributors to Opera and British Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Liverpool University Press, 2023), which just won the H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Prize from the American Musicological Society.

The _Deutschlandfunk_ (a public-broadcasting radio station in Germany) has just published a podcast on Pietro Mascagni's _Cavalleria rusticana_. The impetus for the broadcast was a recent performance of Mascagni's opera by the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock. The podcast draws on research by LSU Professor of Musicology Andreas Giger, especially his critical edition of the opera (forthcoming from Bärenreiter) and an article that appeared in the _Journal of Musicology_ in 2022.

Ehre wem Ehre gebührt? Die Cavalleria rusticana von Pietro Mascagni

A little of a year ago, LSU Professor of Musicology Andreas Giger received from his colleague Anselm Gerhard (University of Berne) an edition (by Gerhard) of an early version of Verdi's String Quartet. The LSU Faculty String Quartet will perform the American Premiere of this early version followed with the definitive one. Professor Giger will give a fifteen-minute introduction to this special performance, explaining how Gerhard discovered the version and why Verdi revised it.

Travel back in time to New Orleans in 1805, in a unique concert event that brings together classical musical performance, innovative humanities scholarship and cutting-edge technology! Presented by the LSU Center for French and Francophone Studies, the 1805 Concert is a unique recital of arias from the French comic operas popular in Louisiana at the turn of the nineteenth century, performed live in a digitally-enabled acoustical environment that restitutes the soundscape of a massive theatre proposed for the New Orleans waterfront in 1805.

Congratulations to Jackie Ancelet, who graduated this summer with a master's in musicology from LSU. She wrote an excellent thesis titled "A Friendship of Two Prima Donnas: The Letters of Adelina Patti to Giulia Valda," a significant contribution to our understanding of the enigmatic private life of Patti and an introduction to the soprano Valda.