Dr. James Parsons will present his paper “Once more Beethoven and Schiller: the Choral Fantasy’s Philosophical Program” at the two-day conference “New Beethoven Research.” Held in Pittsburgh, the conference takes place in conjunction with the national meeting of the American Musicological Society. … [Read more...] about Music history professor explores the relationship between Beethoven and Schiller
Dr. James Parsons, professor of music history, presented his paper, “Beethoven’s Ninth and the Hard Work of the Enlightenment,” at the Seventeenth Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music at the University of Edinburgh. In his paper, Dr. Parsons approached the work of Beethoven as part of a larger cultural tradition beginning in the 18th century and … [Read more...] about Paper presents new perspective on Beethoven’s ‘Ninth’