Lenox — Jeremy Yudkin is serious about Beethoven. He’s serious about Bach and Mozart too, but there’s something so different about Beethoven that Yudkin places the composer into a category all his own. He will explain why at 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 3 at the Lenox Library in “Beethoven at Work,” the library’s sixth offering of the 2015-16 Distinguished Lecture Series.
Yudkin, a College of Fine Arts professor of music at Boston University and co-director of BU’s Center for Beethoven Research, will show us why the 18th-century German is arguably the greatest composer of all time and why he deserves to have his own research center. “Beethoven’s work,” the professor explains, “is of such a stature that it warrants constant reviewing and research.” “We’re dealing here with a genius of the highest purpose, someone on a par with William Shakespeare.”
Dr. Yudkin received his BA and MA in Classics and Modern Languages from Cambridge University in England and his PhD in Historical Musicology from Stanford University. He is the author of eight books and has written articles for the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Musica Disciplina, Speculum, Notes, The Musical Quarterly, Early Music, American Music, and Music and Letters, as well as The Salisbury Review, Berkshire Living, The Stanford Italian Review, and The American Journal of Philology.
Admission to the Distinguished Lecture Series is free, but the library will be grateful for your donation. Contact the Lenox Library for more information at (413) 637-0197.
