Professor Mary Hunter
Fri, February 27th, 2015
4:15 pm
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Why does the Juilliard Gift Shop sell Plastic Composer Busts?
Professor Mary Hunter of Bowdoin College gives a lecture titled “Why does the Juilliard Gift Shop sell Plastic Composer Busts” on Friday, Feb. 27, at 4:15 p.m. in Bernhard Music Center Room 30 on the Williams College campus. This lecture is sponsored by the Class of 1960 Scholars Fund and is free and open to the public.
Classical music culture continues to include busts of composers — often strikingly cheap and cheesy objects — while other elite arts do not. There are many possible reasons for this, but among them is the way these objects are analogous to the ideological complications of playing classical music.
Mary Hunter’s teaching interests include music theory, Classical period music, gender and music, Arabic music, and the history of performance. She is an active violinist, coaching chamber music at Bowdoin and playing in the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra as well as in several chamber groups.
Mary Hunter is an A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Music at Bowdoin.
The Class of 1960 Scholars Fund, established at their 25th Reunion, brings eminent researchers from other colleges and universities to campus to give colloquia and work with students in the classroom.