The Department of Musicology inaugurated its annual Robert Stevenson
Lecture in 2002, with Professor Gary Tomlinson's lecture “Inca
Singing at Cuzco, April 1535.” This lecture series honors
the career of UCLA Professor Emeriti Robert Stevenson, a leading
scholar of Hispanic music.
Since then, the Stevenson Lecture Series has welcomed talks by:
2006: Professor Joseph Kerman,"William Byrd: Catholic and Careerist"
2005: Professor Maynard Solomon,“‘In the Beginning’: Creation Scenarios from Mozart to Schubert”
2004: Professor Rose Rosengard Subotnik,“Did Tin Pan Alley Sell Faulty ‘Equipment
for Living’?”
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Each year, the graduate students in UCLA's Department of Musicology
invite a number of outstanding scholars from this country and abroad
to participate in the Distinguished Lectures Series. Co-sponsored
by the Musicology Graduate Student Association and the Department
of Musicology, the content of lectures reflects the interests of
visitors, faculty, and students, and has embraced such diverse subjects
as film music, performance art, Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
and repertories, African American music, Baroque opera and arias,
performance practices, and musical narratology. Recent scholars
include Carolyn Abbate, Michael P. Steinberg, Steve Waksman, Ronald
Radano, Richard Leppert, Elizabeth Randell Upton, George Lewis,
Lawrence Kramer, H. Wiley Hitchcock and Richard Crawford.
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