Join Wesleyan University Professor of Music Roger Grant for a talk on the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Richard Strauss’s Arabella, which will be broadcast live in theaters on Saturday, November 22.
Roger Mathew Grant is the Deputy Provost and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Wesleyan University. A music theorist and cultural historian, his research concerns eighteenth-century music, affect theory, and the history of music theory. He is the author of two award-winning books, Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical and Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era.  He is currently completing a new book on mission music in eighteenth-century Bolivia. He has held fellowships from the University of Michigan Society of Fellows, the Stanford Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Among other things, he is a lifelong opera fan!
Co-sponsored by the Shoreline Opera Club and Shoreline Village.
This program is free and open to all.
Please register.