Academic year 2020-21

This is a Q & A style session with William Cheng, based on the final chapter of his book, Loving Music Till It Hurts, which discusses the murder of Black teenager Jordan Russell Davis in 2012.

Erin Johnson-Wlliams discusses the role of music in Boer War concentration camps.

Beverley Diamond discusses audio recording and citizenship in Canadian communities.

Youn Kim discusses a theoretical framework, building on historical research, for the idea of resonance in piano fingering, and shares the results of an empirical study testing this.

Benedict Taylor discusses how 'Der Rosenkavalier' can be viewed as an opera about time.

Matthew Shlomowitz discusses the creation of his piece 'Graveyard Slot (with guest appearance)'

Paul Watt discusses how professional singers benefited from advances in medical science in the nineteenth century.

Sio Pan Leong discusses dream metaphors and their applicability to Franz Schubert's instrumental music