Cafe Arts with Walter Frisch

Professor Walter Frisch elaborates on the complicated task of a music historian: How does one reconcile the aesthetic and intrinsic qualities of music with the broader cultural and historical contexts in which it was composed and heard?

November 2nd, 6 - 7 pm
PicNic Cafe 2665 Broadway
$10 cover

Walter Frisch is the H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1982.  A specialist in the music of composers from the Austro-German sphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Schubert to Schoenberg, he has written numerous articles and books on Brahms and Schoenberg, many of which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.  His most recent book, German Modernism: Music and the Arts, investigates the relationships between music and its cultural context in Austria and Germany during the period 1880-1915.  He is currently serving as general editor of a new series from Norton, Music in Western Culture, for which he is writing the volume on nineteenth-century music.  The recipient of multiple fellowships, Professor Frisch has lectured on music throughout the world and twice won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for his writings.  For more info see:  http://music.columbia.edu/faculty_page

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