Wednesday,
November 30, 2011
A conversation with former dean and Stanford professor of Music Stephen
Hinton
about Friedrich Nietzsche's love/hate relationship with Richard Wagner.
Outro Music: The Doors, "Alabama Song"
| STEPHEN
HINTON is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Stanford
University. Professor of Music and, by courtesy, German, he also serves
as the Denning Family Director of the Arts Initiative and the Stanford
Institute for Creative and the Arts (SiCa). From 2006-2010 he was
Senior Associate Dean for Humanities & Arts in the School of
Humanities and Sciences, and from 1997-2004 chairman of the Department
of Music. He studied at the University of Birmingham (U.K.), where he
took a double major in Music and German and a Ph.D. in Musicology.
Before moving to Stanford, he taught at Yale University and, before
that, at the Technische Universität Berlin, first as research
assistant to the late Carl Dahlhaus and then as a
“wissenschaftlicher Assistent.” His publications
include The Idea of Gebrauchsmusik, Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera
for the series Cambridge Opera Handbooks, the critical edition of Die
Dreigroschenoper for the Kurt Weill Edition (edited with Edward Harsh),
Kurt Weill: Gesammelte Schriften (edited with Jürgen Schebera,
and issued in 2000 in an expanded second edition), and the edition of
the Symphony Mathis der Maler for Paul Hindemith's Collected Works. He
has published widely on many aspects of modern German music history,
with contributions to publications such as Handwörterbuch der
musikalischen Terminologie, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove
Dictionary of Music, Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and Funkkolleg
Musikgeschichte. Recent articles include “The Emancipation of
Dissonance: Schoenberg’s Two Practices of
Composition” (Music & Letters, 2010); “Back
to Bach: The Conscience of History" and
“Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre: Psychology and
Comprehensibility” (forthcoming). His book Weill's Musical
Theater: Stages of Reform, the first musicological study of Kurt
Weill's complete stage works, is being published by the University of
California Press in spring 2012. |