Keynote Lecture: “Chopin’s Time,” by Jeffrey Kallberg

• Friday, September 17, 2010
• Old Cabell Hall 107
• 3:30 p.m.
• Free

Jeffrey Kallberg, Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk about “Chopin’s Time,” with “time” explored in its various musical, biographical, and historical senses.

A reception will be held in the Front Parlor of the Colonnade Club following the lecture at 5:00 p.m.

Professor Jeffrey Kallberg is Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and specializes in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, editorial theory, critical theory, and gender studies. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, including the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society (1984), the Richard S. Hill award of the Music Library Association (1984), a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1985), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1992). He publishes widely on the music and cultural contexts of Chopin, most notably in his book, Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex History, and Musical Genre (Harvard University Press, 1996). His recent reconstruction of Chopin's first sketch for a Prelude in E-flat minor for the eventual set of Preludes, op. 28, attracted world-wide coverage in the press. Kallberg prepared a critical edition of Luisa Miller for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, and also wrote the articles on "Gender" and "Sex, Sexuality" for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed. He is general editor of New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Cambridge University Press) and is currently finishing a book on Chopin's nocturnes.

This event is part of the Chopin Bicentennial Celebration at the University of Virginia (September 16-19, 2010), which is sponsored by the Page-Barbour Fund, the Mcintire Department of Music, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the American Institute of Polish Culture, the Chopin Foundation of the United States, the Slavic Literatures and Languages Department, the Media Studies Department, and by an Arts Enhancement Grant from the Vice Provost for the Arts to increase access and engagement with the Arts. For a listing of all festival events please visit: http://www.virginia.edu/music/chopin.