Professor of Music Benjamin Korstvedt will present Music Worcester’s Music Guild Lecture, The Long Life of Beethoven’s Ninth, on Oct. 21 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lee Room of the First Baptist Church, 111 Park Ave. General admission tickets are $10 and will be available at the door. We often consider the story of the origin…
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Korstvedt’s edition of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 to air on PBS
On April 4, 2014, the 1888 version of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, edited by professor of music Benjamin Korstvedt ’87, will be broadcast in a performance by the Cleveland Orchestra on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings). Korstvedt, a leading scholar of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96), has explored the complex text-critical issues surrounding Bruckner’s…
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Prof. Korstvedt publishes work examining musical thought of philosopher Bloch
Benjamin Korstvedt, assistant professor of Music, has published Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch’s Musical Philosophy, which explores the musical thought of the German philosopher and theorist Ernst Bloch (1885-1977). The book will be available from Cambridge University Press in August. The first half of the book is a detailed study of Bloch’s musical philosophy…
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Prof. Korstvedt embarks on musical fellowship in June
Benjamin M. Korstvedt, George N. and Selma U. Jeppson Professor of Music in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, will be a fellow at the tenth annual Institute For Advanced Studies in Music Scholarship at the University of Chicago, June 24-27. The Institute is an “an exclusive musical think tank dedicated to communal exploration…
