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R. Larry Todd

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

Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions


Fanny Hensel, the Other Mendelssohn · June 1, 2013 Lecture Croasdaile Village, Durham
R. Larry Todd: Chamber Music Performances, 2011 · November 2, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Nelson Hall Brahms Violin Sonata, Op. 78, with Katharina Uhde. Duke Faculty Concert
Bach and the Mendelssohns · October 29, 2011 Lecture Philadelphia, Curtis Institute of Music
Radio interview with WRTI, Philadelphia · October 25, 2011 Lecture
R. Larry Todd: Chamber Music Performances, 2011 · October 12, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Carol Woods, Chapel Hill Brahms Violin Sonatas, Op. 78, 100, and 108, with Katharina Uhde
R. Larry Todd: Chamber Music Performances, 2011 · July 27, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Gardens Brahms, Violin Sonatas Op. 78 and 108, with Eric Pritchard
R. Larry Todd: Chamber Music Performances, 2011 · April 22, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Forest at Duke Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas, Op. 45 and 58, with Nancy Green
R. Larry Todd: Chamber Music Performances, 2011 · April 20, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Carol Woods, Chapel Hill Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas, Op. 45 and 58, with Nancy Green,
R. Larry Todd: Chamber Music Performances, 2011 · April 17, 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Carolina Meadows Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas, Op. 45 and 58, with Nancy Green
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
R. Larry Todd: Performances, 2000 - 2007 - Mendelssohn-Fanny Hensel Liederabend · October 21, 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Appalachian State A concert of solo Lieder, duets, and piano music of Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel, with Penny Jensen and Mary Gayle Greene (Appalachian State University). The concert was given at Appalachian State on October 21 and at Duke on October 28.
R. Larry Todd: Performances, 2000 - 2007 - Mendelssohn-Fanny Hensel Liederabend · October 21, 2007 - October 28, 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Appalachian State, Duke A concert of solo Lieder, duets, and piano music of Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel, with Penny Jensen and Mary Gayle Greene (Appalachian State University). The concert was given at Appalachian State on October 21 and at Duke on October 28.
R. Larry Todd: Performances, 2000 - 2007 · February 3, 2006 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Baldwin Auditorium Performance of Mendelssohn's Allegro brillant Op. 92 and selected pieces from the Midsummer Night's Dream Incidental Music Op. 61 with Jane Hawkins on a two-piano concert
R. Larry Todd: Performances, 2000 - 2007 - Brahms Viola Sonatas, with Jonathan Bagg, · January 2000 - February 2000 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University and Pinehurst, North Carolina
R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1982 - 1989 - Mendelssohn, Cello Sonata No. 2 (with Jenny Kallick), and Lieder ohne Worte of Fanny Hensel · December 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Amherst College
R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1982 - 1989 - Mendeslssohn, Piano Concerto in E minor, performed with the Duke Symphony Orchestra · April 1982 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University Reconstructed from the autograph sketches
R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1972 - 1979 - Unnamed event · December 1979 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Schumann, Konzerstuck in G major. Duke Symphony Orchestra
R. Larry Todd: Performances, 1972 - 1979 - Unnamed event · October 1972 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor. Yale Symphony Orchestra

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