Percussionist Robert Phillips presents his Masters of Music graduating recital.

Vocalist Eve Richardson presents her first year graduate recital.

To complement the performances by the Lafayette String Quartet and the Molinari String Quartet of the music for string quartet by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern (February 14-16, 2013), the School of Music has invited music theorists Michael Cherlin (University of Minnesota), Richard Kurth (UBC), Don McLean (University of Toronto) and Severine Neff (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) to present guest lectures and pre-concert talks on these works.

In this lecture, Severine Neff presents “‘The Air of Another Planet’: Kandinsky, Schoenberg, and Stefan George’s ‘Entrückung’”

Severine Neff is past editor of Music Theory Spectrum, the author of the Norton Critical Score of Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2, and of numerous other writings on Arnold Schoenberg.

To complement the performances by the Lafayette String Quartet and the Molinari String Quartet of the music for string quartet by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern (February 14-16, 2013), the School of Music has invited music theorists Michael Cherlin (University of Minnesota), Richard Kurth (UBC), Don McLean (University of Toronto) and Severine Neff (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) to present guest lectures and pre-concert talks on these works.

In this lecture, Severine Neff presents “A Piano Piece and a Painting: Schoenberg’s Tribute to Mahler,” a talk within an interdisciplinary panel (organized by Helga Thorson, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies), in connection with the exhibit “The Life and Art of Gustav Klimt: Celebrating 150 Years” (housed in the University Library, Room 025, February 10-14, 2013. The exhibit is sponsored by the Austrian Embassy in Ottawa and the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria).

Severine Neff is past editor of Music Theory Spectrum, the author of the Norton Critical Score of Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2, and of numerous other writings on Arnold Schoenberg.