Dr. Nicholas Mathew (University of California, Berkeley) presents - Haydn, Sympathetic Commerce, Resonant Ethics.
Room 130, 80 Queen's Park
Free and open to the public. Presentation will be followed by a casual reception.
Nicholas Mathew is a professor in the music department at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Political Beethoven and co-editor, with Ben Walton, of the volume The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini. His most recent work includes an essay on melodrama, urban space, and public memory in the volume The Melodramatic Moment, an article on Glenn Gould and Liberace in the forthcoming collection Musical Performance and Interpretation, the "Quirk Historicism" colloquy in the journal Representations (co-written with Mary Ann Smart), and an essay in the next, Fall issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society entitled "Interesting Haydn: On Attention's Materials." He is finishing a book on Haydn and the "aesthetic economies" of late eighteenth-century music.