Music Forum is open to all members of the University community and the public. Admission is free.
| 2011 Trimester 2: Scheduled Music Forums |
| July 29 |
Music Forum 13: Dr Martin Lodge, Associate Professor, University of Waikato: Anthony Watson: New Zealand Composer |
| August 5 |
Music Forum 14: Emeritus Professor Peter Walls, Chief Executive, NZSO: Opus 1, Take 2: Mozart's Mannheim and Paris Sonatas for Piano and Violin |
| August 12 |
Music Forum 15: Dr Robbie Shilliam, Senior Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, VUW:
Caribbean Connections: The Impact of Reggae and Rastafari on New Zealand Society
NB: Venue is Lecture Room 306, 77 Fairlie Terrace |
| September 9 |
Music Forum 16: Dr Geoff Stahl, Lecturer, School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, VUW:
Making Sense of Music Scenes: Thinking Through Frameworks for Analysis |
| September 16 |
Music Forum 17: Dr Greer Garden, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Deputy Director, NZSM: Short Score and Other Short Cuts: Issues in Editing Jean-Baptiste De Bousset's Motets |
| September 23 |
[Postponed: due to illness]
Music Forum 18: Dr David Cosper, Lecturer in Contemporary Music, NZSM: Backing Vocals: The Minor Characters of Musical Narrative |
| September 30 |
Music Forum 19: Dr Inge van Rij, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Associate Director, NZSM: Beyond Metaphysics? – The Ghosts in Berlioz's Orchestral Machine |
| October 7 |
Music Forum 18: Dr David Cosper, Lecturer in Contemporary Music, NZSM: Backing Vocals: The Minor Characters of Musical Narrative |
| October 14 |
Music Forum 21: Professor Elizabeth Hudson, Director, NZSM:
Verdi's Il trovatore: Trauma, Memory, Song |
2011 Trimester 1: Music Forums that have already been held |
| March 11 |
Music Forum 2: Dr David Larkin:
'One of the Past': Strauss's Self-Image and the Dynamics of History |
| March 18 |
Music Forum 3: Dr Dugal McKinnon:
Awkward Ecologies: the interpretation of sound-based music |
| March 25 |
Music Forum 4: Dr Philip Norman: 'A long tail and a large shadow' |
| April 1 |
Music Forum 5: Dr Anja Lindelof: Dispersing Space |
| April 8 |
Music Forum 6: Associate Professor Eric Hung:
Sounds of Asian American Trauma: Musical Reflections on the
Japanese Internment during World War II |
| April 15 |
Music Forum 7: Geoffrey Coker: Harmony in Conflict |
| May 6 |
Music Forum 8: Associate Professor Richard Moyle:
Songs for a Dead Ariki |
| May 13 |
Music Forum 9: Norman Meehan: The Why of Jazz
NB: Venue is Room 1D16, NZSM Mount Cook
campus |
| May 20 |
Music Forum 10: Associate Professor Martin Lodge:
Anthony Watson: New Zealand composer |
| May 27 |
Music Forum 11: Aleisha Ward
"Any rags, any jazz, any boppers today?":
Jazz in New Zealand from the Jazz Age to the Rock 'n' Roll Era
NB: Venue is Room 1D16, NZSM Mount Cook
campus |
| June 3 |
Music Forum 12: Dr Keith Chapin
Musical Lightning Bolts: Longinus's Examples, Boileau's Simplicity, and the Eighteenth-Century Sublime |
