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R. Larry Todd

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Music
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
081 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Fanny Hensel, the Other Mendelssohn · June 1, 2013 Lecture Croasdaile Village, Durham
Bach and the Mendelssohns · October 29, 2011 Lecture Philadelphia, Curtis Institute of Music
Radio interview with WRTI, Philadelphia · October 25, 2011 Lecture
Symposium about Mendelssohn's St. Paul, with Dean Richard Hays, Siegwart Reichwald (Converse College) and Jeremie Begbie · March 28, 2011 Lecture Duke Divinity School
Wechselseitige Ähnlichkeiten im Werk von Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy · March 5, 2011 Lecture Mendelssohn Studientag, Mendelssohn Gesellschaft, Berlin
Brief discussion of Fany Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn for In-Print · January 27, 2011 Lecture Women's Studies, Duke University
The Young Felix Mendelssohn: The Making of a Musical Genius · November 22, 2010 Lecture Phoenix Symphony, Phoenix, AZ
Public conversation about Robert Schumann and Mendelssohn with András Schiff · October 21, 2010 Lecture
Invited talk about Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn for the Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center · October 3, 2010 Lecture Greenwhich, Connecticut
Robert Schumann and the Art of Musical Composition · September 29, 2010 Lecture Leadership through the Arts Forum, Butler University, Indianapolis
Das Land ohne Musik: The Quest for English Musical Identity · July 24, 2010 Lecture Music @ Menlo, California
2 invited lectures on Robert Schumann and Mendelssohn for the 2010 Focus on Piano Literature · June 4, 2010 Lecture UNC-Greensboro, School of Music
Introduction to and discussion of Sheila Hayman's documentary, "Mendelssohn, the Nazis & Me," followed by a screening of the film · April 18, 2010 Lecture White Lecture Hall, film series
Meet the Mendelssohns (London Mendelssohn Society) · March 23, 2010 Lecture Royal Academy of Music, London
Eddy Musical Instrument Collection lecture series · March 19, 2010 Lecture Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Discussion of my biography Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, and book signing · February 21, 2010 Lecture National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
Invited lecture about Fanny Hensel for the Lyceum Lecture Series · January 25, 2010 Lecture Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Seeking Mendelssohn: Lost Works and Found Treasures · January 23, 2010 Lecture Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 56th Concert Season
Chair, Schuman-Mendelssohn Session, national meeting, American Musicological Society, Philadelphia · November 14, 2009 Lecture
Juilliard School of Music, NY · November 10, 2009 Lecture
Pre-concert talk, Mallarmé Concert Series · November 1, 2009 Lecture Chapel Hill, NC
Mendelssohn and the Contrapuntal Tradition · October 30, 2009 Lecture EROI, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY · October 28, 2009 Lecture
Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte and the Limits of Musical Expression and "Mendelssohn's E-minor Piano Concerto, a Tale of Two Concerti" · October 1, 2009 Lecture Musashino Academia Musicae, Tokyo
Mendelssohn: Der verkannte Komponist (The Hidden Composer) · September 14, 2009 Lecture Usedom, Germany
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Kompositorisches Werk und Künstlerisches Wirken · August 27, 2009 Lecture Gewandhaus, Leipzig
Bard Music Festival · August 15, 2009 Lecture Bard College, Anandale on Hudson, NY
Music@Menlo · July 25, 2009 Lecture Menlo Park, California
New England Conservatory · July 11, 2009 Lecture
Pre-concert talk, Lyric Chamber Music Society, New York, American premiere of Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto No. 3 · May 20, 2009 Lecture
Viewing Mendelssohn, Viewing Elijah · April 30, 2009 Lecture Arizona State University
A Mendelssohn/Hensel Symposium · April 11, 2009 Lecture Willson Center for the Humanities, University of Georgia, Athens
Hauser Lecture, Montana State University · March 26, 2009 Lecture
Pre-concert talk, Lyric Chamber Music Society, New York, American premiere of Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto No. 3 · March 18, 2009 Lecture
Catholic University, Washington, D. C. · March 16, 2009 Lecture
Mendelssohn and Us: Reflections on the Bicentenary · February 19, 2009 Lecture Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
pre-concert talk, Trio con Brio · February 18, 2009 Lecture Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Pre-concert talk, Lyric Chamber Music Society, New York · February 3, 2009 Lecture
New York Philharmonic Insight Series, with Kurt Masur and James Keller · February 2, 2009 Lecture New York
Georgetown Music Festival · June 6, 2008 Lecture
Pre-concert talk, Lyric Chamber Music Society, New York · February 6, 2008 Lecture

Service to the Profession


Jury member for Alan Walker book award, American Liszt Society : Peer review · December 4, 2010 Editorial Activities
Score review editor, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Cambridge University Press · 2009 Editorial Activities