Dr. James Parsons, professor of Music History, presented his paper “Defying Misinformation with Song: Hanns Eisler’s ‘Rat Men’” at the International Conference “Music and Musicology in the Age of Post-Truth” at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland on September 7, 2018. In his paper, Parsons brought together a number of mid-twentieth-century flashpoints. With World … [Read more...] about Professor presented at University College Dublin
Fall was a busy semester for music history professor Dr. James Parsons. His review of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s completed works was published in “Early Music,” and he presented his paper “Hanns Eisler’s ‘Nightmare’” at the International Tyranny and Music Conference. ‘Small things can also enchant us’ In November 2015, the music history journal “Early Music,” published … [Read more...] about Music professor offers commentary on notable German composers
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’