At Southbank's Rest Is Noise Festival, 2013.
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.
