Pre-Performance Lecture Archives
Below is a sampling of past pre-performance lectures (you can click on the links to go to the archived event page):
March 1, 2020: Pre-performance Lecture: Birdie Sawyer on “Flex Ave” by FLEXN
February 16, 2020: Pre-performace lecture by Jack Burt on Septura Brass
February 9, 2020: Pre-Performance Lecture by Dick Brucher on Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons”
February 3, 2020: Pre-performance lecture by William Yellow Robe on The Color Purple
November 21, 2019: Pre-Performance Lecture by King Chair Caroline Bicks,”Midsummer Night Queens”
November 8, 2019: Pre-Performance Lecture: Jupiter String Quartet
February 20, 2019: Spamalot pre-performance lecture: Sarah Harlan-Haughey
October 30, 2018: “The Nature of Forgetting” Pre-Show Panel Discussion on Memory Issues
October 25, 2018: “Portland Cello Project” Pre-Performance Lecture by Noreen Silver
March 2, 2018: Pre-performance lecture of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead with Dr. Richard Brucher – NT Live Broadcast.
January 18, 2018: Pre-performance lecture of Yamato Drummers with Stuart Marrs* & Sake and Sushi reception.
November 5, 2017: Pre-performance lecture of King’s Singers with Francis John Vogt.
October 12, 2017: Pre-performance lecture of Hamlet with Caroline Bicks.
January 29, 2017: Anatole Wieck with Marisa Soloman on The Danish String Quartet.
January 15, 2017: Dan Barrett on Pat Metheny.
February 29, 2016: Laura Artesani, Associate Prof. of Music, on Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with the Del McCoury Band.
February 25, 2016: Panel discussion led by Carla Billiteri on “Urinetown: The Musical as Political Satire”.
October 10, 2015: Elizabeth Neiman (English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) on “Literary Monsters: Bram Stocker’s Dracula and the Fiction of the 1890s” before Dracula.
March 29, 2015: Phillip Silver, Professor of Music, prior to the performance by the Amernet String Quartet, focused on music by Jewish composers forced into exile or murdered in concentration camps.
February 8, 2015: Laura Artesani, Associate Professor of Music, on the British ensemble Voice.
September 30, 2014: Naomi Jacobs, Professor of English, on the Aquila Theatre Company’s performance of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.