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NEW SERIES: Arts Critics in Residence

Anthony Tommasini
Chief Classical Music Critic, The New York Times

Lecture: "The Art of Judging Music": An Update

About the Speaker

Anthony Tommasini is the chief classical music critic of the New York Times, a pianist, and the author of a biography, Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), which won a 1998 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University and a doctorate in music from Boston University. In 2004 Times Books/Henry Holt released his latest book, The New York Times Essential Library: Opera, A Critic’s Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings. He lives in New York City.

About the Series

This series engages with one of the most essential and currently imperiled arenas of arts criticism: journalistic daily and weekly writing for the public. It brings one leading arts critic to campus per quarter to enter into public conversations with art practitioners, humanistic scholars, and students interested in the arts.

Program

Lecture
"The Art of Judging Music": An Update
Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 12:00 noon
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University

Student Workshop (participation limited)
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 12:00 noon
Stanford Humanities Center
(to apply: contact Matthew Tiews: mtiews@stanford.edu)

Discussion
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
Stanford Humanities Center
Readings and video review for the discussion are listed below (log in may be required):

March 9, 2008: “Cold War, Hot Pianist, Now Add 50 Years” (A Sunday piece on Van Cliburn)

March 1, 2008: Review of Met’s new production of “Peter Grimes”

April 6, 2008: “The Elusive Allure of Messiaen,” a Sunday essay

Video: 12-Tone Music

This series is sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Creativity in the Arts, the Stanford Humanities Center, the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Drama Department, and the Film Studies program.