Music Lecture: "The Sounds of Broadway's Mean Streets"

Raymond Knapp (UCLA) holds degrees from Harvard (BA cum laude in music), Radford (MA in composition), and Duke (PhD in musicology). He has authored "Brahms and the Challenge of the Symphony" (1997), "Symphonic Metamorphoses: Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler's Re-Cycled Songs" (2003), "The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity" (2005; winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism), "The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity" (2006), and "Musicological Identities" Essays in Honor of Susan McClary" (2008, with UCLA alumni Steven Baur and Jacqueline Warwick). His published essays address a wide range of additional interests, including Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, nationalism, musical allusion, music and identity, and film music.