At Southbank's Rest Is Noise Festival, 2013.
The following Wagnerism events in fall 2020 will all take place online, unless otherwise noted.
Sept. 14, 7pm ET: Conversation with A. O. Scott, presented by Powerhouse Arena and the Wagner Society of New York.
Sept. 15, 8pm ET: Conversation with Judah Adashi, presented by Evolution Contemporary Music Series and The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore MD.
Sept. 16, 7pm ET: Conversation with James Wood, presented by Harvard Book Store, Cambridge MA.
Sept. 17, 6pm ET: Conversation with Anne Midgette, presented by Politics & Prose and the Wagner Society of Washington DC.
Sept. 29, 6pm GMT: Conversation with Stephen Fry, presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London.
Sept. 29, 730pm PT: Conversation with Ann Powers, presented by Town Hall Seattle and Elliott Bay Book Company.
Sept. 30, 6pm PT: Conversation with Daniel Zalewski, presented by Powell's Books, Portland OR.
Oct. 1, 630pm PT: Conversation with Rian Johnson, presented by Skylight Books, Los Angeles CA.
Oct. 6, 7pm PT: Conversation with John Adams, presented by Cal Performances, Berkeley CA.
Oct. 8, 8pm ET: Conversation and music with Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, New Yorker Festival.
Oct. 19, 7pm CT: Conversation with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Chicago Humanities Festival.
Oct. 27, 5pm ET: Conversation with Eric Grode at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University.
Oct. 30, 1pm PT: Talk at USC Thornton School of Music, co-presented with the Max Kade Institute at USC Dornsife.
Nov. 14, 11:30am ET: Conversation with Simon Callow at the Philadelphia Free Library.
Nov. 15, 2pm ET: Conversation with Bob Chapman at Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh NC.
Nov. 22, 11am PT: Conversation with Hans Rudolf Vaget at the Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles.
Dec. 3, 5pm PT: Wagner in Hollywood, UC Regents’ Lecture at UCLA, co-presented with the Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology and the Hammer Museum.
PREVIOUS:
Feb. 18, 2019: "A Rough Guide to 21st-Century Music," talk at Illinois State University, Normal IL.
April 29: "Lords of the Ring: Wagner and Fantasy Culture," talk at the University of Oregon, Eugene OR.
Feb. 1-3, 2018: "Intimate Revolution," lecture on 20th- and 21st-century quartet music at String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam.
Feb. 21: "Wagnerian Modernism," talk at Claremont College, Athenaeum series, 530pm.
Feb. 26: Talk on Leonard Bernstein at Stanford Live, Palo Alto CA, 6pm.
March 21: Talk on Wagner in America, Arts Club of Chicago.
April 19: “Wagner, Hitler, and the Cult of Art," Louis C. Elson Lecture at Harvard University.
April 23, 25: Talks at Colburn School on émigré composers in Hollywood.
May 16-20: Appearances at Auckland Writers Festival, New Zealand; tour with Bianca Andrew and the STROMA ensemble.
Jan. 21, 2017: Appearance at Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, India.
Feb. 6: Discussion with Fred Bronstein at Peabody Institute, Baltimore MD.
April 25: "The Politics of Music in the Age of Reagan," a talk on political dimensions of the work of John Adams, at the Barbican, London, 530pm.
Nov. 29: "Wagner’s Shadow: Music, Literature, and the Birth of the Modern," talk at Johns Hopkins University.
March 11, 2016: "Brünnhilde's Rock: Wagnerism, Gender, and Sexuality," lecture at Williams College, Presser Hall, 415pm.
May 9-11: Appearances at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich.
May 16: Interview with Peter Sellars at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills.
Sept. 8: "Cather's First Encounters with Wagner and Wagnerism in Nebraska," lecture at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Oct. 9: "Habt acht! The Difficult of Staging Die Meistersinger after Nazism," lecture at the Recovered Voices Symposium at the Colburn School, Los Angeles.
Nov. 5: Lecture at the Barbican, London, on the West Coast origins of minimalism.
Dec. 8: "Gay Wagner: Wagnerism and Homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany," lecture at the Deutsches Haus, Columbia.
Feb. 4-6, 2015: Appearances at the Winnipeg New Music Festival.
May 1: Lecture in conjunction with a Third Angle concert, Portland, Oregon.
June 5: Lecture at the National Meeting of Orchestras Canada, Vancouver.
Oct. 8: Conversation with Paul Wells, National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
April 4, 2014: "'Big Ballads of the Modern Heart': Sidney Lanier and Early American Wagnerism," lecture at Carolina Symposia in Music and Culture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, 4:15pm.
April 7: Panel discussion on classical-music criticism at the Macon Arts Alliance, Macon GA.
May 14: Event hosted by the Winnipeg Arts Council, Winnipeg, Canada.
Oct. 9: "Phonograph Music: Composers and the Early Era of Reproduction," lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, McConomy Auditorium, 7pm.
Oct. 12: Interview with Laurie Anderson at the New Yorker Festival, 5pm.
Nov. 5-10: Appearances at the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Jan. 19, 2013: "The Big Bang": first of four lectures in conjunction with the Rest Is Noise Festival at Southbank Centre.
Jan. 31: "Black Wagner: The Question of Race Revisited," WagnerWorldWide Conference, University of South Carolina, School of Music Recital, 7:30pm.
March 2: "Into the Abyss": second lecture for the Rest Is Noise Festival, on the collision of music and politics in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
Sept. 28: "Age of Extremes": third lecture for the Rest Is Noise Festival, on musical revolutions from 1945 to 1976.
Oct. 18: "Siegfried Dionysus: Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Adoration of the Earth," lecture at the University of Oklahoma, Norman OK.
Nov. 23: "Black Wagner," lecture at the Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, 2pm.
Dec. 7: Final lecture for the Rest Is Noise Festival, on music of recent decades and the early twenty-first-century situation.
Dec. 8: Conversation with Colin Greenwood at the Rest Is Noise Festival.
Jan. 10, 2012: Event for Best Music Writing 2011, Politics and Prose, Washington DC, 7PM.
Jan. 18: "The Prospects of Music Writing in a Post-Critical Age," keynote address at the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, Oberlin College.
Jan. 26: Appearance to accept the Belmont Prize, Munich, Germany.
Feb. 10: “A Brief History of Pop-Classical Fusion in New York Concert Life," presentation at "After the End of Music History," a conference honoring Richard Taruskin, Princeton University.
March 16: Panel discussion at SXSW Music, Austin TX.
April 17: "The Sublime and the Sacred in Twentieth-Century Music," lecture at Trinity Church, Boston.
May 12: Commencement address, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia.
July 28: "Pale Vampire: Wagner's Influence on Joyce," talk at the Galway Arts Festival, Ireland.
Oct. 7: "The Wagner Vortex," New Yorker Festival, SVA Theater 2, 333 West 23rd St., 1pm.
Nov. 15: Lecture at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Second lecture at 12pm on Nov. 16.
Feb. 13, 2011: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," lecture at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada, 1:30PM.
Feb. 23: Discussion with Wesley Stace, author of Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College. 7:30PM.
March 5-19: Various events in Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
April 9: Panelist in the symposium The Paris Cultural Scene, 1910-1920, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 10:30AM-3PM.
April 17: Panelist in a symposium on the Hollywood blacklist, Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota Opera House, 3PM.
April 30: Panelist in a symposium on the writing of Ellen Willis, NYU Tishman Auditorium, 40 Washington Square, 2:30PM.
May 2: Panelist in a symposium on writing for The New Yorker, Farleigh Dickinson University, 2PM.
June 5: "Lamento Eterno," lecture at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, 6PM.
Oct. 27: "Listen to This," 92nd Street Y Tribeca, 12PM.
Nov. 2: "The Lamento Connection," Lawrence University, Appleton WI, 11AM.
Nov. 8: Reading at powerHouse Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn, 7PM.
Nov. 16: "Listen to This," Lowell Humanities Series, Boston College, 7PM.
Dec. 6: Reading for contributors to Best Music Writing 2011, powerHouse Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn, 7PM.
Dec. 8: Reading for contributors to Best Music Writing 2011, Housing Works, 126 Crosby St., 7PM.
Feb. 24, 2010: "Music and the Iraq War," panel discussion, CUNY Graduate Center, 7PM.
March 7: Appearance with Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound Forever, at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, St. George's Hotel, 6:30PM.
March 8: "Inventing and Reinventing the Classical Concert," lecture at the Royal Philharmonic Society, Wigmore Hall, London, 7:30PM.
April 12: Lecture at Rhodes College, Bryan Campus Life Center, Memphis, TN, 7:30PM.
April 22: "Wind from Another Planet," lecture at the Chicago Art Institute, Fullerton Hall, 6PM.
April 24: "The Rest Is Noise in Performance," with pianist Ethan Iverson, San Francisco Performances, Herbst Theatre, 10AM.
April 25: "The Rest Is Noise in Performance," with Ethan Iverson, University Music Society, Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI, 4PM.
April 26: "The Rest Is Noise in Performance," with Ethan Iverson, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Dalton Center Recital Hall, Kalamazoo, MI, 8PM.
May 23: Commencement address at the New England Conservatory.
Oct. 2: Interview with Yo-Yo Ma at the New Yorker Festival, Acura at Sir Stage37, 508 West 37th St., 7PM.
Oct. 3: Book signing at McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince St, 2PM.
Oct. 3: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," audio lecture at the New Yorker Festival, SVA Theatre 2, 333 West 23rd St., 4PM.
Oct. 5: Reading at Labyrinth Books, Princeton NJ, 6PM.
Oct. 7: Reading at 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 7PM.
Oct. 12: Lecture at Town Hall Seattle, 7:30PM.
Oct. 13: Reading at Powell's Books, Portland OR, 7:30PM.
Oct. 14: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," Cal Performances, Berkeley CA, Wheeler Auditorium, 8PM.
Oct. 15: Meet-and-Greet Signing at Kepler's Books, Menlo Park CA, 2:30PM.
Oct. 18: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," California Lectures, Crest Theatre, Sacramento CA, 7:30PM.
Oct. 19: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," Los Angeles Public Library, 7PM.
Oct. 20: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," UCSB Arts & Lectures, Campbell Hall, Santa Barbara CA, 8PM.
Oct. 22: Reading at Book Court, 163 Court St., Brooklyn, 7PM.
Oct. 25: Reading at Westport Public Library, Westport CT.
Oct. 26: Lecture at the Free Library of Philadelphia, 7:30PM.
Oct. 27: Conversation with Andrew Patner at the STOP SMILING Storefront, 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave., 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 28: Interview with John Luther Adams at Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, 4PM.
Oct. 29: Lecture and conversation at Cleveland Museum of Art, 7PM.
Nov. 1: Reading at Politics and Prose, Washington DC.
Nov. 2: Appearance in the Evolution Contemporary Music Series at An Die Musik, Baltimore MD, 8PM.
Nov. 5-6: Appearances for Premio Napoli, Naples, Italy.
Nov. 1o: Reading at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge MA, 7PM. DJing Afternoon Concert on WHRB, 95.3FM, 1-6PM.
Nov. 15: Appearance at the Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with Sasha Frere-Jones, pop critic of The New Yorker, 7:30PM.
Nov. 18: Reading at the Juilliard Store, 144 West 66th St, 5PM.
Nov. 20: Appearance at the Miami Book Fair with Greil Marcus, 1230PM, Chapman Conference Center, Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210. Free ticket required for admission.
Nov. 22: Reading for Best Music Writing 2010, with Ann Powers, Robert Christgau, Jody Rosen, Sasha Frere-Jones, Greg Tate, and others, Housing Works Café, 126 Crosby St., 7PM.
Nov. 30: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," British Library Conference Centre, London, 1PM.
Nov. 30: Reading at Foyle's, London, 6:30PM.
Dec. 7: Reading at Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh NC, 7:30PM.
