Join us for pre-concert talks by Raymond Knapp at 6:30 pm before each concert
Raymond Knapp, Professor in Musicology at UCLA, earned a B.A. cum laude in music at Harvard University, an M.A. in composition at Radford University, and a Ph.D. in musicology at Duke University, with a dissertation on Brahms. His principal research interests are in music from the 18th through 20th centuries, and he has published and given talks on Landini, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Dvorák, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Bartók, and various topics relating to the American musical and film music. His articles appear in Nineteenth-Century Music, The Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Journal of Musicological Research, Acta musicologica, American Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, and Brahms Studies, among others. His books, Brahms and the Challenge of the Symphony; Symphonic Metamorposes: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs; and The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity were published in 1997, 2003, and 2004, respectively, and he has just completed a second book on the American musical. While at UCLA, he has been active in faculty governance, serving as chair of Undergraduate Council from 2001-2003, chair of General Education Governance from 2004-, and as Co-Chair of the Curriculum Committee (1999-2001), an ad hoc committee to reconsider UCLA's academic calendar (2002), a task force to study undergraduate education in a research context (2003), and the steering committee for UCLA accreditation (2004-). He also composes (mostly tonal) music whenever he has an extra moment or two, and plays second violin in the Santa Monica Symphony with some skill and great enthusiasm.
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