On Friday, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I will give a lecture entitled "'Big Ballads of the Modern Heart': Sidney Lanier and Early American Wagnerism." This talk is related to the third chapter of my book-in-progress, Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music. The following Monday, I'll be in Macon, Georgia — coincidentally, Lanier's hometown — to join a panel on classical-music criticism at the Macon Arts Alliance.
