Class of 1960 Lecture: Ralph Locke

Evocations of the Middle East in Western Music from Mozart to Today

BA, Harvard; MA, PhD, Chicago. Piano study with Kate Friskin, Longy School. Editorial Board member, Journal of Musicological Research, Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music; senior editor, Eastman Studies in Music; music editor, Encyclopedia of New York State. Faculty associate, University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies. Author, Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians. Co-editor, Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860. Music criticism, musicological articles, and reviews on American musical life and on Berlioz, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Loeffler, Copland, Virgil Thomson, Bernstein, and other composers in Cambridge Opera Journal; Fontes artis musicae; Revue française de musicologie; 19th-Century Music; Journal of the American Musicological Society; Opera Quarterly; MLA Notes; Pendragon Review; Journal of the American Liszt Society; Mendelssohn and Schumann Essays; Music in Paris in the 1830s; Music and Society: The Early Romantic Era; Les Saint-Simoniens et L’Orient; En travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera; The Work of Opera; The Nineteenth-Century Symphony; Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power; Liber Amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux; International Musicological Society (IMS) Conference Proceedings (1982, 1992, 1997); New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; New Grove Dictionary of American Music; New Grove Dictionary of Opera; New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers; New Harvard Dictionary of Music; American National Biography; Encyclopedia of New England Culture; Dictionnaire Berlioz (Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts); Dictionnaire de la musique en France au xixe siècle (MLA Vincent H. Duckles Award); and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Scholarly adviser to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Bard SummerScape. Recipient, Galler Prize (1980), MLA Prize for bibliography (1981), ACLS Fellowship (1983), National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1988), American Musicological Society and Society for American Music Society Publication Subventions (1986, 1997), Bridging Fellowship (1990), Music and Letters Award (2002), ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (1992, 1996, 1999, 2003). Faculty member, Eastman (1975-).