At Southbank's Rest Is Noise Festival, 2013.
May 8, 2025: "Exiled in Los Angeles: Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg at 150," panel discussion hosted by the Thomas Mann House, with Doris Berger, Hans Rudolf Vaget, and Lily E. Hirsch, UCLA Faculty Center.
Jan. 9, 2024: "American Classical Music Criticism: A Premature Autopsy," talk at Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Jan. 20: "Opera and Democracy," panel discussion at the Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles.
Jan. 26: "Listen to This," reading/concert with 45th Parallel Universe, Portland, Oregon.
April 26: Pre-concert talk on Wagner with the Bamberg Symphony, Blacksburg, VA.
April 27: Pre-concert talk on Wagner with the Bamberg Symphony, Fairfax, VA.
Aug. 5: "Wir sind alle Richard Wagner," Gespräch mit Patrick Hahn und Kai Hinrich Müller, Diskurs Bayreuth 2024 (remote).
Sept. 13: Keynote talk at the annual conference of the Royal Musical Association, London.
Oct. 6: Conversation with Yuval Sharon for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles's ALOUD series, UCLA Nimoy Theatre.
March 22, 2023: "Classical Music Criticism: An American Perspective," talk at the symposium "Music Criticism Yesterday and Today," Ljubljana Festival, Slovenia (remote).
May 26: "Thinking Beyond the Canon," talk at the Bergen International Festival.
June 2: "Thomas Mann, Wagner, and the Inescapability of the Political," talk at the conference "The Political Thought of Thomas Mann" at the Thomas-Mann-Archiv, Zurich, and the Universität St. Gallen.
July 6: Critics Roundtable at the Music Academy, Santa Barbara, with Carolina Miranda and Joshua Kosman.
Aug. 4: "Exploring the Music of Thomas Adès," talk at La Jolla Music Society Summerfest.
Sept. 8: "Sibelius in America: Reactionary versus Modernist," talk at the Sibelius Festival, Lahti Symphony, Finland.
Sept. 14: Conversation with Will Robin about his and Kerry O'Brien's anthology On Minimalism, People's Book, Takoma Park MD.
Sept. 28: Conversation with Grischa Meyer and Andrea Simon in connection with the exhibition "Bertolt Brecht's Paper War: Exile in America, 1941-1947," Doheny Memorial Library, USC.
Nov. 29: Talk at the conference "The Future of the Classical Concert," Zeppelin-Universität, Friedrichshafen.
May 21, 2o22: "Baudelaire and the Origins of French Wagnerism," talk at the Wagner-Kosmos III conference at the Dortmund Opera.
May 30: Pre-concert talk at the Bamberg Symphony, before a presentation of Lorin Maazel's Ring ohne Worte arrangement, with interstitial Wagnerian texts recited by Jens Harzer.
Aug. 11: "The Wagner Effect," talk at the La Jolla Music Society.
Sept. 8: "Schindler, Neutra, and Émigré Modernism in Los Angeles," talk at the Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles.
Feb. 26, 2021: Talk on Wagnerism at the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities (remote).
Feb. 28: Conversation about Wagnerism with Katherine Butler Schofield, presented by the Jaipur Literature Festival (remote).
March 8: “Wagnerian Double Consciousness: Black and Jewish Wagnerites at the Fin de Siècle," Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures, Stanford University (remote).
March 9: Conversation about Wagnerism with Tony Kushner, presented by San Francisco Opera (remote).
April 19: "Wagner and His Aftermath: Mythic Culture in Germany and America," talk at the American Academy in Berlin (remote).
April 28: "The Unforgiven: Wagner, Jews, and Antisemitism," talk for the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, Whitney Humanities Center at Yale (remote).
May 11: Panel on Wagnerism with Adrian Daub, Kira Thurman, and Corrinne Chong, hosted virtually by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (remote).
July 22: Lecture on film music at the La Jolla Music Society.
Oct. 1: "Wagner and His Others: Jewish, Black, Feminist, and Gay Wagnerians at the Fin-de-Siècle," keynote address at the Edward W. Said Days, Barenboim-Said Academy, Berlin (remote).
Oct. 16: "The Return of Thomas Mann's Piano," discussion with Igor Levit, Frido Mann, and Michelle Müntefering, Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles.
Nov. 2: Talk on Wagnerism for the How to Academy (remote).
Jan. 23, 2020: Appearance on the Dave Chang Show (podcast).
Jan. 31: Talk at the String Quartet Biennale, Amsterdam.
May 20: Address on receiving the George Peabody Medal, Peabody Institute, Baltimore MD (remote).
Sept. 14: Conversation with A. O. Scott, presented by Powerhouse Arena and the Wagner Society of New York (remote).
Sept. 15: Conversation with Judah Adashi, presented by Evolution Contemporary Music Series and The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore MD (remote).
Sept. 16: Conversation with James Wood, presented by Harvard Book Store, Cambridge MA (remote).
Sept. 17: Conversation with Anne Midgette, presented by Politics & Prose and the Wagner Society of Washington DC (remote).
Sept. 23: Appearance on Tyler Cowen's podcast Conversations with Tyler.
Sept. 29: Conversation with Stephen Fry, presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London (remote).
Sept. 29: Conversation with Ann Powers, presented by Town Hall Seattle and Elliott Bay Book Company (remote).
Sept. 30: Conversation with Daniel Zalewski, presented by Powell's Books, Portland OR (remote).
Oct. 1: Conversation with Rian Johnson, presented by Skylight Books, Los Angeles CA (remote).
Oct. 6: Conversation with John Adams, presented by Cal Performances, Berkeley CA (remote).
Oct. 8: Conversation and music with Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, New Yorker Festival (remote).
Oct. 19: Conversation with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Chicago Humanities Festival (remote).
Oct. 27,: Conversation with Eric Grode at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University (remote).
Oct. 30: Talk at USC Thornton School of Music, co-presented with the Max Kade Institute at USC Dornsife (remote).
Nov. 14: Conversation with Simon Callow at the Philadelphia Free Library (remote).
Nov. 15: Conversation with Bob Chapman at Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh NC (remote).
Nov. 22: Conversation with Hans Rudolf Vaget at the Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles.
Dec. 3: "Wagner in Hollywood," UC Regents’ Lecture at UCLA, co-presented with the Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology and the Hammer Museum (remote).
Feb. 18, 2019: "A Rough Guide to 21st-Century Music," lecture at Illinois State University, Normal IL.
April 29: "Lords of the Ring: Wagner and Fantasy Culture," lecture 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," lecture at Claremont College, Athenaeum series.
Feb. 26: Talk on Leonard Bernstein at Stanford Live, Palo Alto CA.
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.
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.
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: "The Schindelmeisser Factor: 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.
Nov. 26: Appearance at Wesley Stace's Cabinet of Wonders, at the City Winery in NYC
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.
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.
Oct. 12: Interview with Laurie Anderson at the New Yorker Festival.
Oct. 14: Talk on criticism at the Festival Internacional Cervantino, Mexico.
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.
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.
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.
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 at the Curtis Institute of Music.
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.
Nov. 15: Lecture at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Second lecture on Nov. 16.
Feb. 13, 2011: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," lecture at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada.
Feb. 23: Discussion with Wesley Stace, author of Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College.
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.
April 17: Panelist in a symposium on the Hollywood blacklist, Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota Opera House.
April 30: Panelist in a symposium on the writing of Ellen Willis, NYU Tishman Auditorium, 40 Washington Square.
May 2: Panelist in a symposium on writing for The New Yorker, Farleigh Dickinson University.
June 5: "Lamento Eterno," lecture at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome.
Oct. 27: "Listen to This," 92nd Street Y Tribeca.
Nov. 2: "The Lamento Connection," Lawrence University, Appleton WI.
Nov. 8: Reading at powerHouse Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Nov. 16: "Listen to This," Lowell Humanities Series, Boston College.
Dec. 6: Reading for contributors to Best Music Writing 2011, powerHouse Arena, DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Dec. 8: Reading for contributors to Best Music Writing 2011, Housing Works, 126 Crosby St.
Feb. 24, 2010: "Music and the Iraq War," panel discussion, CUNY Graduate Center.
March 7: Appearance with Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound Forever, at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, St. George's Hotel.
March 8: "Inventing and Reinventing the Classical Concert," lecture at the Royal Philharmonic Society, Wigmore Hall, London,.
April 12: Lecture at Rhodes College, Bryan Campus Life Center, Memphis, TN.
April 22: "Wind from Another Planet," lecture at the Chicago Art Institute, Fullerton Hall.
April 24: "The Rest Is Noise in Performance," with pianist Ethan Iverson, San Francisco Performances, Herbst Theatre.
April 25: "The Rest Is Noise in Performance," with Ethan Iverson, University Music Society, Rackham Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI.
April 26: "The Rest Is Noise in Performance," with Ethan Iverson, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Dalton Center Recital Hall, Kalamazoo, MI.
May 2: DJ appearance at "The Rites of Spring," with Björk, Tyondai Braxton, David Longstreth, Brandon Stosuy, at the Auto Parts Store, Brooklyn.
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.
Oct. 3: Book signing at McNally Jackson Books.
Oct. 3: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," audio lecture at the New Yorker Festival, SVA Theatre 2.
Oct. 5: Reading at Labyrinth Books, Princeton NJ.
Oct. 7: Reading at 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NYC.
Oct. 12: Lecture at Town Hall Seattle.
Oct. 13: Reading at Powell's Books, Portland OR.
Oct. 14: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," Cal Performances, Berkeley CA, Wheeler Auditorium.
Oct. 15: Meet-and-Greet Signing at Kepler's Books, Menlo Park CA.
Oct. 18: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," California Lectures, Crest Theatre, Sacramento CA.
Oct. 19: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," Los Angeles Public Library.
Oct. 20: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," UCSB Arts & Lectures, Campbell Hall, Santa Barbara CA.
Oct. 22: Reading at Book Court, 163 Court St., Brooklyn.
Oct. 25: Reading at Westport Public Library, Westport CT.
Oct. 26: Lecture at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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.
Oct. 29: Lecture and conversation at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Nov. 1: Reading at Politics and Prose, Washington DC.
Nov. 2: Appearance in the Evolution Contemporary Music Series at An Die Musik, Baltimore MD.
Nov. 5-6: Appearances for Premio Napoli, Naples, Italy.
Nov. 1o: Reading at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge MA. DJing Afternoon Concert on WHRB, 95.3FM.
Nov. 15: Appearance at the Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with Sasha Frere-Jones, pop critic of The New Yorker.
Nov. 18: Reading at the Juilliard Store, 144 West 66th St.
Nov. 20: Appearance at the Miami Book Fair with Greil Marcus, 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.
Nov. 30: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," British Library Conference Centre, London.
Nov. 30: Reading at Foyle's, London.
Dec. 7: Reading at Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh NC.
Jan 29, 2009: Artists & Critics panel with Terence Blanchard and Dwight Andrews, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, Emory University.
Feb. 10: Talk on twentieth-century music at the Dallas Museum of Art.
April 28: "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History," talk in Princeton Unviersity Public Lectures series.
May 11; Appearance with Frank Gehry and Barbara Isenberg at Live from the NYPL, New York Public Library.
May 15: Commencement address at the Manhattan School of Music.
May 21: Talk on twentieth-century music at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Australia.
June 28: Appearance at the Malpensante Festival, Bogota, Colombia.
July 4: Appearance at the Paraty International Literary Festival, Brazil.
Sept. 29: "The Art of Fear," talk at the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich.
Sept. 30: Talk about The Rest Is Noise at Music Information Center Austria, Vienna.
Oct. 1: Talk about The Rest Is Noise at the American Academy in Berlin.
Oct. 18: Panel on Radical Opera with Peter Sellars, Lisa Bielawa, Nico Muhly, and Rufus Wainwright, The New York Festival.
Jan. 10, 2008: Appearance at the Strand Book Store in NYC, interview by Jeff Spurgeon of WQXR.
Jan. 20: Appearance on The Colbert Report.
Jan. 25: Pre- and post-concert talks as part of the Seattle Chamber Players’ Icebreaker IV Festival, On the Boards, Seattle, Washington.
March 5: Talk at Wesleyan University, as Jacob Julien Visiting Writer in Arts Criticism.
May 26: Appearance at the LA Times Festival of Books.
Oct. 4: Interview with Dawn Upshaw at The New Yorker Festival.
Oct. 30: Talk with Joshua Kosman at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco.
Nov. 1: Talk on twentieth-century music at the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Nov. 10: Talk on Messiaen at the ASU Herberger College School of Music, Tempe, AZ.
Nov. 24: Talk at the 92nd Street Y.
Feb. 20, 2007: Conversation with New Yorker dance critic Joan Acocella about her essay collection Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, Housing Works Used Book Café.
March 24: Panel on the Toscanini Legacy, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
March 24: Panel with young composers at the MATA Festival in Brooklyn.
April 1: Lecture on Debussy and Schoenberg’s reactions to poetry, 92nd Street Y.
May 20: Commencement address at the Longy School of Music.
Oct. 6: Interview with Peter Sellars at The New Yorker Festival.
Oct. 7: Multimedia tour of twentieth-century music at The New Yorker Festival.
Oct. 14: ”Modern Music: The Bold and the Beautiful,” lecture at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Rose Studio.
Oct. 17: Discussion with John Rockwell and Linda Ronstadt at City Arts in San Francisco, Herbst Theatre.
Oct. 18: Appearance at University of California, Berkeley, Wheeler Auditorium, presented by the UCB Graduate School of Journalism and Cal Performances.
Oct. 21: Reading at Book Passage, Corte Madera CA.
Oct. 22: Reading at Powell’s Books, Portland OR.
Oct. 23: Reading at University Bookstore, Seattle WA.
Oct. 25: Multimedia tour of twentieth-century music, Los Angeles Public Library.
Oct. 26: Talk at Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, USC.
Oct. 29: The Blue Notebooks interview series, Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn 501.
Oct. 30: An Evening of Spooky Modern Music, with Ethan Iverson, pianist of The Bad Plus, Paris Bar, National Arts Club.
Nov. 2: Pre-concert talk at Da Camera of Houston, Houston TX.
Nov. 3: Panel at Texas Book Festival, Austin TX.
Nov. 5: Talk at Fulton Recital in Goodspeed Hall at the University of Chicago (co-sponsored by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore and the Music Department of the university).
Nov. 6: Conversation with Andrew Patner at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nov. 7: Minnesota Public Radio event, with the Turtle Island String Quartet and Fred Child, host of Performance Today, Fitzgerald Theater.
Nov. 10: Appearance at Miami Book Fair.
Nov. 11: Reading at Sound Fix, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Nov. 19: Reading at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge MA.
Nov. 20: Reading at Politics and Prose bookstore, Washington DC.
Nov. 27: “The Art of Fear,” lecture on mid-century music and politics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nov. 30: Talk at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Recital Hall.
Dec. 3: Talk at Hilbert Circle Theatre, Indianapolis. Presented by WFYI.
Dec. 4: Appearance at Evolution Contemporary Music Series, An Die Musik Live, Baltimore MD.
Dec. 5: Reading at 192 Books, New York.
March 19, 2006: “Weaponizing Music: Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony in Wartime and After”: lecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as part of the Shostakovich Centennial Festival.
March 22: Interview with Mark Morris at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
April 20: “Stalin and Hitler as ‘Music-Lovers," lecture at Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Cohen-Davison Theatre.
April 28: “My Twentieth Century,” an audio tour of twentieth-century music, at On the Boards, Seattle.
April 29: “Black Beethoven: The African-American Classical Composer,” talk at the EMP Pop Conference, Seattle.
May 5: "Music Criticism: History and Current Practice," lecture at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
June 17: Convocation Address at the Northwestern University School of Music.
Aug. 30: Bob Dylan Night, discussion with David Remnick, Robert Polito, Mary Lee Kortes, Bob Levinson, and Ben Hedin, KGB Bar.
Sept. 19: Critics and the Arts, panel with Greil Marcus, Joan Acocella, Mark Stevens, and Wendy Lesser, Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College.
Oct. 7: Composers on the Edge: Music and conversation with Mason Bates, Corey Dargel, Nico Muhly, and Joanna Newsom, at The New Yorker Festival.
Oct. 25: Reading for Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006, with Robert Christgau, Anne Midgette, and various others, Housing Works Used Book Café.
Oct. 15, 2005: Keynote speech at the conference Music Reception: Actions, Reactions, Interactions, Harvard Graduate Forum.
Oct. 19: Panel discussion with New Yorker critics Sasha Frere-Jones and Nancy Franklin at the University of Iowa, part of the magazine’s College Tour.
Dec. 17: Bob Dylan reading with Ben Hedin, David Gates, Mitch Blank, and Robert Polito at KGB Bar.
March 30. 2004: "'...Schubert leaving me...': Morton Feldman as Modernist and Minimalist," talk at Columbia University Music Department.
May 13: Panel discussion with Leon Botstein, Michael Steinberg, and Lawrence Weschler, in connection with the exhibition "Vienna: Jews and the City of Music, 1870-1938" at the Jewish Museum, co-hosted by the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Oct. 6: Reading with Rick Moody, Gary Giddins, Robert Christgau, and Sean Wilentz, in connection with Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, edited by Benjamin Hedin, Barnes and Noble, 82nd and Broadway, NYC.
Oct. 17: “The Critic of the Future,” discussion with Justin Davidson as part of a symposium sponsored by the Music Critics Association of North America and the National Arts Journalism Program.
Oct. 28: “Reorientation: The US Army’s Role in the Reshaping of German Music, 1945-1949," lecture at the Humanities Center, Barker Center, Harvard University.
Nov. 20: Interview with Sonic Youth for The New Yorker College Tour, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Sept. 20, 2003: Interview with Renee Fleming for The New Yorker Festival
Oct. 16: "Theodor Adorno and the Politics of Music," discussion with Lydia Goehr, Goethe Institute, Boston.
Sept. 28. 2002: Interview with John Adams for The New Yorker Festival.
Oct. 8: "Rationality and Spirituality: Olivier Messiaen's Musical Thinking," discussion with Kent Nagano at the American Academy in Berlin.
Nov. 7: "Tonal oder Atonal: Modernist Politics and the Broken Friendship of Richard Strauss and Arnold Schoenberg," lecture at the American Academy in Berlin.
Oct. 22, 2001: “Sunken Cathedrals: Tonal Music in the Twentieth Century," Music and Sound Studies Colloquium at Cornell University.
Oct. 24: “Alluringly Alien: Schoenberg Exposed," discussion with Esa-Pekka Salonen, LACMA, Los Angeles.
Nov. 20: “What Was Schoenberg Thinking?," lecture at Harvard University, Center for the Humanities, Music and Its Public series.
Nov. 6, 2000: "The Man Without a Shadow: Richard Strauss and the Canon of Modern Music," Music Department Annual Lecture, Smith College.
