Whatever Will We Do about the Old Hispanic Chant and Liturgy?

17 November 2020, 4.30 PM - 17 November 2020, 6.00 PM

Don Randel (University of Chicago) Chair: Emma Hornby

Online

Abstract

Professor Randel pioneered scholarship on Old Hispanic chant and liturgy in the 1960s, and has continued to be at the forefront of developments in the field since then. In this seminar he talks about some of the challenges and opportunities that have been afforded by working on a topic that most people think of as peripheral (both geographically and conceptually), and he lays out his vision for where scholarship in this field might go next.

Speaker Biography

Don Michael Randel is President Emeritus of The University of Chicago and of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and was Chairman of the Board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He was trained as a music historian at Princeton, where he earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He was a faculty member in the Department of Music and held various administrative posts, including Dean of Arts and Sciences and Provost, at Cornell University from 1968 until 2000, when he became president of the University of Chicago.

He became president of the Mellon Foundation in 2006, retiring in 2013. His scholarly interests include music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France as well as Latin American popular music, Arabic music theory, and the songs of Robert Schumann and of Cole Porter and his contemporaries, and he is the editor of The Harvard Dictionary of Music, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, and The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He is or has been a member of the boards of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Hall, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and CNA Financial. He has also served on the boards of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Argonne National Laboratory, and The Rockefeller University

 

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For further information, please email sarah.hibberd@bristol.ac.uk

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