Anne C. Shreffler
Harvard University, Music, Faculty Member
- Twentieth and Twenty first century Music, Music and Politics, Experimental Music, 20th century Avant-Garde, Historiography of Music, Emigration Research, and 29 moreCultural Diplomacy, Marxism, Western Marxism, Atonal Music, Twelve-Tone Technique, Serial Music, Second Viennese School, American music, History of Musicology, Music, Performance Studies, Performance Theory, Socialist Realism, GDR History, Stravinsky, Music and Technology, Edgard Varese, Sketch studies (Music), Canonization Processes, Musical Canon, International Relations, Critical Theory, Hanns Eisler, Expressionism Debate, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Opera, and Luigi Nonoedit
- -teaching at Harvard since 2003 -lived in Switzerland from 1994-2003, where I was professor at the University of Base... more-teaching at Harvard since 2003
-lived in Switzerland from 1994-2003, where I was professor at the University of Basel
-on the advisory boards of the Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel, the Musikhochschule, Basel, and the editorial board of Archiv für Musikwissenschaft.
-Co-organizer of Utopian Listening: the Late Electroacoustic Music of Luigi Nono—Technologies, Aesthetics, Histories, Futures (23.-26. March 2016 at Tufts University). http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/nono.html
- Executive Board, Harvard Pierian Foundation (an independent organization dedicated to supporting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra), 2016-current.
- training for a half marathon and recently adopted two kittens.edit
Review of Chaya Czernowin, Heart Chamber: An Inquiry About Love, world premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on Nov. 15, 2019
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This is the original English version of "Vom kreativen Hinterfragen der Tradition" (John Cage 100th anniversary).
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An article I wrote for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth, translated by Peter Hagmann
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John Corigliano and William Hoffman's The Ghosts of Versailles is a prime example of a work that explores that region where operatic convention overrides traditional strategies of narrative to create fluid connections between history... more
John Corigliano and William Hoffman's The Ghosts of Versailles is a prime example of a work that explores that region where operatic convention overrides traditional strategies of narrative to create fluid connections between history and fiction. The opera is an example of the “simulacrum,” a perfect reproduction of a work that does not in fact exist. This article explores the
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University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1993 by The Regents of the University of California First Paperback Printing 1997 Library of Congress... more
University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1993 by The Regents of the University of California First Paperback Printing 1997 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frisch, Walter. The ...
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An International Conference/Workshop, co-sponsored by Tufts and Harvard Universities
Deadline: August 15, 2015
Conference dates: March 23-26, 2016
Venue: Tufts University, Medford, MA
Deadline: August 15, 2015
Conference dates: March 23-26, 2016
Venue: Tufts University, Medford, MA
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Part of a colloquy on the German musicologist H.H. Eggebrecht's war record, with contributions by Christopher Browning, Boris von Haken, and myself.
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A collection of texts by and essays about the Austrian-American violinist Rudolf Kolisch, member of the Schoenberg circle and founder of the Kolisch Quartet, in a themed journal issue of MusikTheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft... more
A collection of texts by and essays about the Austrian-American violinist Rudolf Kolisch, member of the Schoenberg circle and founder of the Kolisch Quartet, in a themed journal issue of MusikTheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 24/3 (2009). Authors include (in addition to Kolisch) T.W. Adorno, Simon Obert, Anne C. Shreffler, Jan Philipp Sprick, and David Trippett.
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Kolisch and the New School of Social Research
Das Beethoven-Projekt
Kolisch and Adorno
Kolisch and Contemporary Music in the United States
Kolisch and Schoenberg
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In this study* we shall explore some analytical issues raised by Anton Webern's early versions and subsequent revisions of his music written before 1923, including all the opus-numbered works up to Op.15.' We focus on... more
In this study* we shall explore some analytical issues raised by Anton Webern's early versions and subsequent revisions of his music written before 1923, including all the opus-numbered works up to Op.15.' We focus on two works, first evaluating the early and later versions of ...
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* An early version of this essay was presented at the Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Oakland, November I99o. I am grateful to the Paul Sacher Stiftung and the American Philosophical Society for research... more
* An early version of this essay was presented at the Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Oakland, November I99o. I am grateful to the Paul Sacher Stiftung and the American Philosophical Society for research support during the summer of i99o. I ...
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In a memorable scene in the movie The Wizard of Ox, the little dog Toto pulls a curtain aside, revealing the supposedly mighty wizard as an unpre-posessing old man who had accomplished his impressive deeds purely through theatrical... more
In a memorable scene in the movie The Wizard of Ox, the little dog Toto pulls a curtain aside, revealing the supposedly mighty wizard as an unpre-posessing old man who had accomplished his impressive deeds purely through theatrical illusion. In his article "The Myth of Serial ' ...
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Información del artículo Webern and Trakl: Evolution of a Style.
Información del artículo Rewriting History: Webern's Revisions of his Early Works.
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I've given this course several times over the years, usually as a graduate seminar, and have always enjoyed it and learned a lot.
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Utopian Listening: the Late Electroacoustic Music of Luigi Nono Technologies, Aesthetics, Histories, Futures An International Conference/Workshop, co-sponsored by Tufts and Harvard Universities March 23-26, 2016 Tufts University,... more
Utopian Listening: the Late Electroacoustic Music of Luigi Nono
Technologies, Aesthetics, Histories, Futures
An International Conference/Workshop, co-sponsored by Tufts and Harvard Universities
March 23-26, 2016
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Conference website: http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/nonoconcert.html
Technologies, Aesthetics, Histories, Futures
An International Conference/Workshop, co-sponsored by Tufts and Harvard Universities
March 23-26, 2016
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Conference website: http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/nonoconcert.html
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Festival/conference at Tufts University, March 23-26, 2016, in collaboration with Harvard University
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Slides from my keynote lecture at the conference “What We Talk About When We Talk About New Music,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Sept. 17-18, 2016
Keynote lecture at the conference “What We Talk About When We Talk About New Music,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Sept. 17-18, 2016
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Blog post on Not Another Music History Cliché!, edited by Linda Shaver-Gleason, Dec. 27, 2017 “Feminists are often accused of ‘reducing’ everything to gender. But we as a society have been judging music on the basis of gender all along,... more
Blog post on Not Another Music History Cliché!, edited by Linda Shaver-Gleason, Dec. 27, 2017
“Feminists are often accused of ‘reducing’ everything to gender. But we as a society have been judging music on the basis of gender all along, by privileging specific cultural notions of masculinity in the guise of gender neutrality.”
“Feminists are often accused of ‘reducing’ everything to gender. But we as a society have been judging music on the basis of gender all along, by privileging specific cultural notions of masculinity in the guise of gender neutrality.”
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Slides for the talk "Einflussreiche Auftragskompositionen des Boston Symphony Orchestra", delivered at the Leipzig Gewandhaus on June 24, 2018.
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Talk given at the Leipzig Gewandhaus as part of the collaboration between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus-Orchester on June 24, 2018, on influential BSO commissions of new works.
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Slides for "Stellung nehmen"! paper
On aesthetic and political debates in the German-language exile press, 1933-39