2007-08 Lectures
January 10-14, 2007, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.

• Mendelssohn, Bruch, Richard Strauss

February 21-23, 2007, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.

• Liszt, Dvorak, William Schuman

2002-06 Lectures
(click here for 1987-2001 or upcoming)

January 14, 2002, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays

• Haydn String Quartet, op. 74, no. 3

February 6, 8-9, 2002, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting, Thomas Hampson, baritone

• Gustav Mahler Das Lied vion der Erde
• Arnold Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra

February 25, 2002, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays

• Dan Welcher Mill Songs

April 1 , 2002, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays

• Claude Debussy String Quartet No. 1

April 29 , 2002, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays.

• Igor Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat

May 1 - 4 , 2002, San Francisco Symphony

• Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1
• Frank Martin Petite symphonie concertante
• Kurt Weill Suite from Threepenny Opera

May 16 - 20, 2002, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Stuart Canin, violin and leader

• Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
• William Byrd Music for Viols

May 29 - June 1, 2002, San Francisco Symphony

• Piotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
• William Schuman George Washington Bridge
• William Schuman Concerto on Old Rounds

June 13 - July 5, 2002, San Francisco Opera

• Puccini's Madama Butterfly

September 19-22, 2002, New Century Chamber Orchestra

• Works by Mendelssohn, Schuber, Janacek, Herbert

October 16 - November 1, 2002, San Francisco Opera

• Verdi's Otello

December 4-7, 2002, San Francisco Symphony, Geraldine Walther, viola

• Works by Butterworth, Holloway, Mendelssohn

December 11-14, 2002, San Francisco Symphony, Midori, violin

• Rautavaara Adagio celeste (US premiere)
• Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
• Sibelius Four Legends of the Kalevala, op. 22 (First SFS performance)

December 19-22, 2002, New Century Chamber Orchestra

• Baroque Christmas Music for StringsJanuary 29-February 1, 2003, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
• Messiaen Couleurs de la cité céleste
• Ravel (arr. Mark Volkert) Duo for Violin and Cello (SFS Commission, World Premiere)
• Pierre Boulez Messagesquisse
• Debussy La Mer

May 1-4, 2003, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Berkeley, San Rafael, Palo Alto, and San Francisco, CA

• Works by Schulman, Mahler, Mendelssohn

July 2003, Middlesex School Summer Arts, Concord, MA

• Lunchtime Chamber Music Series

October 30-November 1, 2003, Horacio Gutiérrez plays Chopin with San Francisco Symphony in Cupertino and San Francisco, CA, Alan Gilbert, dir.

• Frederic Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1
• Anders Hillborg (Sweden) Exquisite Corpse
• Aleksandr Skriabin Poem of Ecstasy
• Bedrich Smetana Overture to the Bartered Bride

January 29-February 1, 2004, San Francisco Symphony with Peter Serkin, piano and Hugh Wolff, conductor

• Wolfgang A. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17
• Wolfgang A. Mozart Serenade No. 9, "Posthorn"
• Wolfgang A. Mozart Symphony No. 27

June 17-26, 2004, San Francisco Symphony & SFS Chorus with Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

• Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"

July and August, 2004, Berkshire Choral Festival
Bernstein's Chichester Psalms & Copland Old American Songs, Duain Wolfe, conducting

• 2 Chorister Lectures (Beethoven & Duruflé)
• 2 Pre-concert lectures (Duruflé Requiem and American Hymnody)
• Taught courses on Shaker Music and Renaissance/Baroque Dance
• 5 lecture-recitals at the Hancock Shaker Village Museum

November 26-28, 2004, San Francisco Symphony & SFS Chorus with Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

• Claude Debussy
• Respighi Pines of Rome
• Camille Saint-Saens

February 24-26, 2005, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.

• All-Bartok Program The Wooden Prince

April 14-17, 2005, San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt conducting.

• Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8
• Camille Saint-Saens Cello Concerto

July and August, 2005, Berkshire Choral Festival

• Chorister Lecture & Pre-concert lecture
• Taught courses on Shaker Music, Gregorian Chant, Renaissance/Baroque Dance, and Shape Note Singing
• 5 lecture-recitals at the Norman Rockwell Museum (Music of Massachusetts Composers and Poets, from Billings to Thompson)

November 23-27, 2005, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.

• Handel Messiah

March 22-25, 2006, San Francisco Symphony, Rostropovich conducting.

• All-Shostakovich Program

July and August, 2006, Berkshire Choral Festival
Mozart's Requiem & Brahms Schicksalslied & Alto Rhapsody, Jane Glover, conducting

• Chorister Lecture (Choral Music of Brahms)
• Taught courses on Shaker Music in the 20th Century, Requiems, Renaissance/Baroque Dance, and 19th-century Dances of German-speaking Europe
• 5 lecture-recitals at the Norman Rockwell Museum's special exhibit of the works of Frederic Remington and Civil War Photography (Music of the American Civil War)

Conference Papers

April, 1992, National Meeting, American Musical Instrument Society, Nashville, TN
"Lacunae in Harmonica Research and Collections of Note"

February 22, 1993, National Meeting, Music Library Association, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA
"Plenary Session on Choral Music: Nineteenth-Century Californian Composers and Choral Images of the West" (part of a choral music reading session)

March 4, 1994, National Meeting, Music Library Association, Kansas City, MO
"Plenary Session on Dance: Bibliography of Dance-Related Materials relevant to Music Libraries" and
"The Harmonica Wizard: J. P. Sousa's most unusual commission" Bands Roudtable

May, 1995, National Meeting, American Musical Instrument Society, Salt Lake City and Provo, UT
"Max Mathews and the Radio Baton: Electronic Musical Instruments as Teaching Tool"

February, 1997 National Meeting, Sonneck Society for American Music, Seattle, WA
"Fanfares in Time of War: American Musical Nationalism in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor"

March 1, 1997 Pacific Central Chapter, College Music Society, Ira Brilliant Beethoven Center, San Jose, CA
"Caprice a deux: Musical Notation in the Vocal Works of Betsy Jolas "

March 6, 1998 Pacific Central Chapter, College Music Society,California State University - Stanislaus, Modesto, CA
"Lecture/Recital: Vocal Premieres by California Composers"

September, 2000 Professional Development Seminar: Introduction to Archives, National Meeting, American Association of Archivists, Denver, CO
"Website Design for Arts & Humanities Archives"

February 22, 2001 Archives Roundtable and Conservatories Roundtable, National Meeting, Music Library Association, New York, NY
"New Archival Resources for Music Research"

May 18, 2001 Northern California Chapter Meeting, Music Library Association, UC-Berkeley Music Library, Berkeley, CA
"Building Virtual Reference Desks"

May 30, 2001 National Meeting, Society for American Music and the Center for Black Music Research, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
"Latin American Music Courses: A Bibliography of Resources"

1987-2001 Lectures

December 1987 & 1988, New Haven Ballet

• Piotr Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Ballet

November 10-19, 1993, Chicago Lyric Opera

• Richard Strauss Elektra

October 1997, San Francisco Opera

• Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice

November 17-December 13, 1998, San Francisco Opera

• Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes

January, 2000, San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players

• Works by Roger Sessions

May 2000, San Francisco Opera Center

• Benjamin Britten Albert Herring

June 10-29, 2000, San Francisco Opera

• Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

September 14-29, 2000, San Francisco Opera

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride

November 4-22, 2000, San Francisco Opera

• George Frideric Handel: Semele

January 18-21, 2001, San Francisco Symphony, David Robertson conducting, Viktoria Mullova, violin.

• Wolfgang Mozart: Symphony No. 31, Paris
• Igor Stravinsky: Violin Concerto
• George Benjamin: Palimpsest
• Claude Debussy: La Mer

February 7-9, 2001, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.

• Igor Stravinsky Agon
• Igor Stravinsky Les Noces
• Igor Stravinsky Perséphone

May 16-19, 2001, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting, Hélène Grimaud, piano.

• Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
• Benjamin Britten: Prince of the Pagodas Suite

September 8, 2001, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.

• George Gershwin: Overture to Girl Crazy
• Duke Ellington: Orchestral Songs
• Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

September 12-15, 2001, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.

• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6

October 15, 2001, San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Mondays.

• Mozart Flute Quartet

October 18-20, 2001, San Francisco Symphony, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducting, James Galway, flute.

• Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Music at Night
• Carl Nielsen Flute Concerto

November 9-12, 2001, San Francisco Symphony, Roberto Abbado conducting, Susan Graham, soprano.

• Maurice Ravel: Un barque sur l'ocean
• Ernest Chausson: Deux chansons
• Arnold Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande
  

Pre-concert lecturer*, special event speaker^ and program notes contributor+

• San Francisco Symphony, 1997-present, *^+
  New Century Chamber Orchestra, 2001-present, *+
  Berkshire Choral Festival, 2004-present, *^+
  San Francisco Opera, 1996-2003, *^
  Baroque Arts Ensemble, 1997-2003, *+
  Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, 1996-2003, *+
  Berkeley Symphony, 2001- 2002, *^