Public Papers — Scholarly
Scholarly Papers
16 April 1974 — “Fragments of Berlioz’s ‘Lost’ Opera, Les Francs-Juges.” North-South California meeting, American Musicological Society, meeting at Stanford University.
29 October 1974 — “Sketches for Works of Hector Berlioz.” Annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, D.C., and at UCLA.
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3 October 1975 — “Fragments de l’opéra ‘perdu’ de Berlioz, Les Francs-Juges.” Colloque International Hector Berlioz, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
See also DKH review of the conference in Musical Times 1976.
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22 January 1977 — “New Biographical Notes on Berlioz’s First Paris Years.” American Musicological Society, Northern California Chapter winter meeting, Stanford University. English version of “Berlioz au Conservatoire,” Revue de musicologie 1976.
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14 November 1978 — Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; 15 November 1978, Cornell University — “The Genesis of Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette. "
17 May 1979 — “Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette.” Paper delivered to national meeting of Music Critics Association, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. In conjunction with a festival, Paris: The Romantic Epoch, involving the Orchestre de Paris, Stuttgart Ballet, and Comédie Française. Principal lecturer with Edward T. Cone and David Cairns. Also chaired round-table discussions and spoke over National Public Radio on the present state of Berlioz research. The 1978 and 1979 papers formed the basis for the introduction of the critical edition, q.v.
6 July 1980 — “New Sketches for Berlioz’s Te Deum.” Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Cambridge, England.
20 February 1981 — “Berlioz’s Compositional Process and Roméo et Juliette.” School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
8 April 1981 — “Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette.” Paper for Distinguished Visiting Lecturers program, School of Music, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
14 November 1981 — “Publishing and/or Perishing.” American Musicology Society Annual Meeting, Boston. Published 1982 in Musicology in the 1980s, q. v.
16 April 1982 — “The Emergence of the Orchestral Conductor in Paris in the 1830s.” Smith College International Conference on Paris in the 1830s.
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31 August 1982 — “Orchestral Material from the Library of the Société des Concerts.” International Congress of Musicological Societies, Strasbourg.
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29 October 1983 — “Berlioz and the Professional Conductor.” Department of Music, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
27 April 1985 — “Berlioz, Rouget de Lisle, and the Chant du 9 Thermidor.” American Musicological Society, Joint North-South Meeting of the Pacific chapters, Santa Barbara.
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6 September 1985 — “Berlioz and the Profession of Conducting.” Musicology Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley.
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23 May 1986 — “Of Railroads and Clarinets.” Paper on principles of nineteenth-century performance practice for UC-Davis musicology colloquium. Published as “The Nineteenth Century: Introduction,” in Performance Practice: Music after 1600 (The New Grove Handbooks in Music), q. v.
8 December 1986 — “Berlioz, Rouget de Lisle, and the Chant du 9 Thermidor.” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
11 April 1987 — “Music of State and Ceremony in Napoleon’s France.” Lecture for Napoleon’s Paris, a presentation of Humanities West, Trustees Auditorium, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
5 March 1988 — “Like Stalactites in Humid Caves”: The Genesis of Berlioz’s Les Troyens.” Concluding paper for international symposium, Romantic Revolutions, held at Indiana University. [Updated for Wagner Society, 2015.]
24 March 1988 — “Berlioz in the Golden Decade.” University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
6 June 1989 — “The Berlioz Thematic Catalogue.” University of New South Wales, Sydney.
14 March 1991 — “The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828–1967.” Graduate colloquium, Stanford University.
17 April 1991 — “Berlioz Chef d’Orchestre.” Closing lecture for the Berlioz exhibition, Joinville-le-Pont (Paris).
4 October 1991 — “The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1918–1967: Decline and Fall?” Department of Music Visiting Speakers series, Duke University.
22 October 1991 — “The Berlioz Thematic Catalogue: History, Structure, Problems, Lessons.” Address to congress “The Thematic Catalogue of F. Liszt’s Musical Works, International Conference,” organized by the Budapest Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Centre, sponsored by the Soros Foundation, Cultural Institute of Austria, Goethe Instititute. 21–23 October 1991, Liszt Ferenc Zenemüvészeti Föiskola (Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music), Budapest.
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8 February 1992 — “The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1918–1967: Decline and Fall?” Northern California Chapter, American Musicological Society, Mills College, Oakland, California.
7 March 1992 — “Of Quadrille and Promenade: Music at the Paris World’s Fairs.” Address to the conference Manet’s Paris: The First Modern City, a presentation of Humanities West.
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24 September 1992 — “Berlioz and the Société des Concerts.” International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Exeter, England.
7 November 1992 — “The Voyage of the Société des Concerts to the USA, September 1918– January 1919.” American Musicological Society National Meeting, Pittsburgh.
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24 April 1993 — “The Versions of Berlioz’s Songs and Where to Find Them.“ Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies. The Maltings at Snape (near Aldeburgh), England. In conjunction with the master classes of Suzanne Danco and Hugues Cuénod.
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6 January 1995 — “Berlioz and Wagner.” For Wagner Society of Northern California. San Francisco Ballet Building.
22 September 1995 — “Problems and Lessons of the Berlioz Thematic Catalogue.” Rita Benton Commemorative Lecture, School of Music and University Libraries, University of Iowa at Iowa City.
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23 October 1995 — “Propagande à l’américaine: The Paris Conservatory Orchestra during World War I.” For the Oxford University series Music and Power, convened by Margaret Bent, All Souls College.
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22 May 1997 — “Music and Technology,” lecture-demonstration on technology for Masterworks, University of Richmond (VA).
16 November 1999 — “Berlioz as Conductor.” Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel: Symposium Direktion und Dirigieren, 15–18 November 1999, Neuer Saal der Musik Akademie.
18 August 2001 — “Berlioz and Wagner as Conductors.” Address for second Berlioz international colloquium, in Bayreuth, of the Berlioz 2003 commission, “Wagner und die Deutsche.” Under the auspices of the Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater der Universität Bayreuth. 17–19 August 2001.
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18 January 2002 — “Berlioz, Liszt, and Wagner as Conductors.” Washington University in St. Louis.
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12 November 2003 — “Berlioz, Lately.” Keynote address for Berlioz bicentennial conference: Hector Berlioz in the Age of French Romanticism, 11–12 November 2003. University of North Texas (Denton, Texas).
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5 April 2004 — “Death and Transfiguration: Landowski, Boulez, Malraux and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra in 1956.” Hommage à Michel Debost on his 70th birthday. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
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20 September 2007 — “Charles Munch and the Occupation.” Boston: St. Botolph Club.
6 February 2010 — “Charles Munch, André Cluytens, and Questions of Sympathy, Resistance, and Post-War Purification.” AMS Northern California Chapter, Brun Music Center, Stanford University.
6 November 2011 — “Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts.” Ninth Annual Berlioz Society Weekend, Art Worker’s Guild, London.
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13 May 2013 — “Controverses à la Libération autour de l’attitude de Charles Münch.” Colloquium: La Musique pendant L’Occupation. Paris Conservatoire.
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10 November 2015 — “Berlioz, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Charles Munch,” Montpelier Room, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Part of series France à la Bibliothèque. (Davis version presented to musicology colloquium, 3 November 2015.)
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11 May 2017 — Keynote address: “‘L’enceinte ou l’on faissait de si belle choses’: Students of the Conservatoire at the Louvre de a musique,” Conference Enseignement de la musique et vie musicale en France et en Europe au XIXe siècle (1795–1914), sponsored by HEMEF: Histoire de l’enseignement public de la musique en France au XIXe siecle (1795– 1914).
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