Whatever Will We Do about the Old Hispanic Chant and Liturgy?
Don Randel (University of Chicago) Chair: Emma Hornby
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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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