Thursday lecture: "Io conobbi la voce ch'adoro: Ventriloquizing Susanna in the Act IV Finale of Le nozze di Figaro"

Friday lecture: Grooves of Empire: Internationalism, Imperialism, and Interwar Musicology

Musicologist Annegret Fauser of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won two major awards for her book, Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II. Fauser is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music and an adjunct professor of women’s and gender studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular that of France and the United States. Tim Carter, the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has written prolifically about music in early modern Italy; Mozart’s Italian operas; and American musical theatre. He is particularly interested in honing historical, analytical, and critical tools to elucidate problematic works that forge new musical languages; the careful gathering and analysis of sources and documentary evidence; the elucidation of text–music relationships, with particular reference to the influence of poetic structures on musical form and process; and the embedding of contemporary performances (and performers) within surviving scores and the intertextual and performative issues that arise.