A heads-up that our next, and final, public OSWG event this semester will take place on Dec. 4 at 1:30, in person in Stoeckel Hall 211 (with holiday cookies and all) or on Zoom (password. ZoomOpera). Wayne Heisler will present parts of his book-in-progress called Choreographing Song in the Twentieth Century.
Wayne Heisler Jr. is Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies in Music at The College of New Jersey. His research interests include interrelationships between music and dance, including historiography; opera; and recent popular musics. Heisler is author of The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss (University of Rochester Press, 2009). His work on music and dance has appeared in the Dance Chronicle and Journal of the American Musicological Society, among other places. Recent publications include “Choreographing Mahler Songs at the Centenary,” in Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and “Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal’s Dance Me and the Posthumous Theater of Leonard Cohen,” in Naxos Musicology International (2021). Heisler serves on the board of Opera Quarterly, and his work in popular music studies includes a chapter in Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing (Oxford University Press, 2023).