"Learning to Read"
Lecture by Kate Van Orden, Harvard University
Oct. 7 at 1:30 p.m.
Voxman 2, VOX

Kate van Orden, the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University, will present a lecture entitled “Learning to Read” on Oct. 7 at 1:30 p.m. in Voxman 2 of the Voxman Music Building. One of the many alumni coming home to speak and perform in the new Voxman Music Building during the 2016-2017 academic year, Professor van Orden earned the B.A. in English at the University of Iowa in 1983 and the Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 1996.

She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 2008 to 2010, and is the author of Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2005, and the recipient of the 2006 Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society), Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print (University of California Press, 2013), and Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford University Press, 2015). Professor van Orden further is a gifted performer of the historical bassoon, and has been featured on recordings produced by Glossa, Harmonia Mundi, Sony, Teldec, and Virgin Classics.

While an English major at Iowa, Professor van Orden participated in courses with the Writer’s Workshop, was a member of the bassoon studio of Ron Tyree and played in the UI Symphony under the baton of James Dixon. Her recent book, Materialities, is dedicated to in part to her childhood music teachers in Iowa City and the staff at Eble Music, and her presentation will feature readings from it.

The School of Music is part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.