Lesley Wright
Professor of Musicology
Education
| 1981 Ph.D. | Princeton University |
| 1974 M.F.A. | Princeton University |
| 1972 B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) | Smith College |
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Professional experience
| 2001 to present | Professor of Musicology, UHM |
| 1990-2001 | Associate Professor of Musicology, UHM |
| 1986-1990 | Assistant Professor of Musicology,UHM |
| 1984-1986 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, UHM |
| 1982-83 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University(Bloomington) |
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Administrative experience
| 2003-2007, 2008 to present | Graduate Chair |
| 1997-2003 (sabb. Spring 2001) | Chair |
| Spring 1995, Fall 1996 | Acting Chair |
| 1995-1997 | Associate Chair |
| Spring 1994 and Spring 2000 thru Fall 2001 | Acting Graduate Chair |
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Professional Awards and Positions
| 1974-75 | French Government Grant |
| 1988 | Gold medal of honor, Stiftelsen Musikkulturens främjande, Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Fall 1991 | Fellowship, UHM Center for Arts and Humanities. |
| 1993 | Arts and Humanities/SHAPS finalist for U.H. Excellence in Teaching Award. |
| 1990-1993, 2011-2012 | Comité scientifique, Festival Massenet, Saint-Étienne, France. |
| 2006-present | Editorial board, L'Opéra français, with Bärenreiter, Kassel, Germany. |
| 2007-present | Member, French Music Criticism, 1789-1914. Study group affiliated with Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Institute of Musical Research, University of London. |
| 2009- [2015] | Comité scientifique, Opéra français du XXe siècle. Directed by Cécile Auzolle, Université de Poitiers. |
| 2010-present | Associate editor, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Music. |
| 2010-present | Editorial board, Saint-Saëns: A Comprehensive Edition, with Bärenreiter, Kassel, Germany. |
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Research Interests and current activities
Bizet and his generation; the music, institutions and press in nineteenth-century France; the posthumous reception history of Berlioz; the Exposition of 1900; opera history. Current projects: Oxford Bibliographies Online (entry for "Opera"), Bärenreiter (critical edition of Massenet's Werther) and Ashgate (Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music, Co-editor Scott McCarrey).
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Publications
| Books and Editions: | |
| 2001 | Critical edition of L'Arlésienne (Suite No. 2), by Georges Bizet. Foreword and textual notes iii-xxx, 85 pp. London: Schott/Eulenburg. |
| 2001 | Dossier de presse: Carmen (1875). Heilbronn, Germany: Musik-Edition Lucie Galland, (198 pp.). |
| 1999 | Critical edition of L'Arlésienne (Suite No. 1), by Georges Bizet. Foreword and textual notes iii-xxv, 74 pp. London: Schott/Eulenburg. |
| 1988 | Georges Bizet: Letters in the Nydahl Collection. Critical edition. Publication 66. Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music. |
| Scholarly publications (chapters in books and articles): | |
| 2012 | "The Choral Music of Camille Saint-Saëns." In 19th Century Choral Music, 274-283. Edited by Donna M.Di Grazia. Routledge: New York. |
| 2011 | "The Directors of the Opéra-Comique (1870-1900): Responsibility and Opportunity." In The Opéra-comique in the XVIII- and XIX-Centuries, 353-377. Speculum musicae, 13. Edited by Lorenzo Frassà. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. |
| 2011 | "Bizet et le Prix de Rome: de l'initiation à l'accomplissement." In Le Concours du Prix de Rome de Musique (1803-1901), 529-548. Edited by Julia Lu and Alexandre Dratwicki. Lyon: Éditions Symétrie. |
| 2009 | "Carvalho at the Opéra-Comique (1876-1887): L'art de se hâter lentement." In Stage Music and Cultural Transfer, 99-126. Edited by Mark Everist and Annegret Fauser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Ruth Solie award for best volume of essays in 2009, American Musicological Society, November 2010.) |
| 2009 | "Rewriting a Reception: Thoughts on Carmen in Paris, 1883." Journal for Musiciological Research 28/4 (2009): 282-294. (See Liber amicorum for Joel-Marie Fauquet, below.) |
| 2008 | "L ‘Aphrodite’ (1906) de Camille Erlanger: antiquité, imagination et volupté." In Figures de l'antiquité dans l'Opéra français (Actes du colloque, 2007, Festival Massenet), 259-294. Edited by Jean-Christophe Branger and Vincent Giroud. Saint-Étienne: Publications de L'Université de Saint-Étienne. |
| 2007 | "Une critique revisitée: l'accueil de Carmen à Paris en 1883." In Musique, esthétique et société en France au XIXe siècle (Liber amicorum for Joel-Marie Fauquet), 187-198. Edited by Damien Colas, Florence Gétreau, and Malou Haine. Mardaga: Wavre, Belgium. |
| 2005 | "Berlioz in 1903: The Centennial in France." In Hector Berlioz: Miscellaneous Studies (Ad Parnassum Studies vol. 1), 229-262. Edited by Michela Nicolai and Fulvia Morabito. Bologna, Italy: Ut Orpheus Edizioni. |
| 2004 | "Bizet's Ivan IV: Formed but Not Finished." In Das Fragment im (Musik)theater: Zufall und/oder Notwendigkeit? (Wort und Musik. Salzburger Akademische Beiträge, vol. 55), 407-422. Edited by Ulrich Müller and Ursula Müller-Speiser. Salzburg: Verlag Müller-Speiser. |
| 2003 | "Berlioz, Wagner and the Concept of French Genius." In Berlioz, Wagner und die Deutschen, 79-90. Edited by Sieghart Döhring, Arnold Jacobshagen and Gunther Braam. Köln-Rheinland: Verlag Dohr Köln. |
| 2002 | "Views of Berlioz at the fin de siècle." In Berlioz: Past, Present, Future, 158-172. Edited by Peter Bloom. Eastman Studies in Music: Rochester, N.Y. |
| 2001 | "Looking at the Sources and Editions of Carmen." In Carmen: a Performance Guide, Mary Dibbern, Introduction ix-xxi. New York: Pendragon Press. |
| 2001 | "Music Criticism as a Mirror of National Concerns at the Exposition universelle nationale de 1900." Context: A Journal of Music Research No. 22 (Spring 2001): 19-30. |
| 2000 | "Berlioz's Impact in France." In The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz, 253-268. Edited by Peter Bloom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| 2000 | "Carmen and the Critics." In Tan-yin-lun-yue, Conference Proceedings of "Musical Research and Music Practice, 1999," 47-67; Chinese translation, "Carmen yu yue ping," 189-208. Taipei: Gao-Tan. (Invited keynote address.) |
| 1999 | "Bizet et Massenet, amis et rivaux." In Actes du Colloque Massenet 1992, Saint-Étienne, France, 16-35. Edited by Gérard Condé. Saint-Étienne, France: Association du Festival Massenet/L'Esplanade Saint-Étienne Opéra. |
| 1998 | Chinese translation of "Profiles in Courage: Two French Operatic Heroines" (see below). In Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Religion and Theatre: Feminine Spirituality in Theatre, Opera and Dance, 1997, 93-104. Edited by Kii-Ming Lo. Taipei, Taiwan: Fu Jen Catholic University and The China Times. |
| 1998 | "Leoncavallo, La Bohème and the Parisian Press." In Nazionalismo e Cosmopolitanismo nell'Opera tra '800 e '900 (Atti del terzo convegno internazionale di studi su Ruggero Leoncavallo), 165-180. Edited by Lorenza Guiot and Jürgen Maehder. Milano: Sonzogno. |
| 1997 | "Profiles in Courage: Two French Operatic Heroines." Fu Jen Studies 30 (1997): 58-70. |
| 1992 | "Bias, Influence and Bizet's Prix de Rome." Nineteenth-Century Music 15 (Spring 1992): 215-228. |
| 1986 | "Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles: Before the Première." Studies in Music n. 20 (1986): 27-45. |
| 1978 | "A New Source for Carmen." Nineteenth-Century Music 2 (July 1978): 61-71. |
| 1973 | "Roger Huntington Sessions: A Bibliography and Listing of His Works." Current Musicology n.15 (1973): 107-126. |
| Dictionary entries (selected): | |
| 2003 | Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle. Edited by Joël-Marie Fauquet. Paris: Arthème Fayard. Articles (13) on Georges Bizet and his works, librettists and the Prix de Rome. |
| 2000 | Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory and Criticism. Edited by Murray Steib. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. s.v., "Georges Bizet," "Opera: Nineteenth-Century France." |
| 2000 | New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Grove 7). London: Macmillan, 2000. Articles on Bizet's contemporaries (3). |
| 1998-1999 | Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ser. 2/ vol. 2 Personenteil. Kassel: Bärenreiter. s.v., "Georges Bizet," 1701-1730; ser.1/ vol. 7 Sachteil. Kassel: Bärenreiter. s.v., "Prix de Rome," 1815-1820. |
| 1993, 2000 | Penguin / VikingDictionary of Opera. Edited by Amanda Holden. London: Penguin / Viking. Second (revised) edition. Articles (9) on Georges Bizet and his operas. [Articles were reprinted in The Penguin Opera Guide. Edited by Amanda Holden. London: Viking, 1995, 2nd ed. 2001. And in another compilation of selected articles, 2004.] |
| 1992 | The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1992. Articles (10) on Bizet's contemporaries (librettists, composers, artists). |
| Other articles (selected) and reviews: | |
| 2012 | "The Developments in French Orchestral Music after 1870." In National Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), Program book for 2012-2013 Season, pp. 38-41. |
| 2010 | "Massenet's Werther and the Three Tenors." San Francisco Opera Magazine, 88/1, September 2010: 39-47. |
| 2008 | "L'Arlésienne et Carmen." In Georges Bizet, Suites de Carmen et L'Arlésienne. [CD booklet, pp. 20-26]. Paris: Naïve Classique. |
| 2004 | "Dialogues des Carmélites." In program book for production at National Theatre, Taipei. |
| 1993 | "The First Annual Gounod Symposium: Conference Report." The Journal of Musicology 11 (1993): 133-137. |
| 1982, 1990 | "Carmen: A Musical Commentary." In Carmen, English National Opera Guide 13, edited by Nicholas John, 19-36. London: Calder, 1982. Second edition, 1990. (Reviewed.) |
| Reviews for Biography (1), Choice (5), MLA Notes (2), Music and Letters (2), Nineteenth-Century French Studies (1), Nineteenth-Century Prose (1), Opera Quarterly (2). | |
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Courses taught at universities
| Music 106 | Introduction to Music Literature |
| Music 265 | History of Music to 1750 |
| Music 266 | History of Music since 1750 |
| Music 461E | Music in the Classic Era |
| Music 461F | Music in the Romantic Era |
| Music 463D | Chamber Music |
| Music 464 | Opera |
| Music 600D/E | Seminar in Music: Schubert and Beethoven, Berlioz's Influence, Opera in Nineteenth Century France, Context and Meaning of the Mélodie, etc. |
| Music 601 | Special Topics: Music in 19th Century Italy, From Theatre Music to Musical Theatre: Text to Music, Music Criticism, etc. |
| Music 659 | Seminar in College Teaching |
| Music 660D | Baroque Music |
| Music 660E | Classic Music |
| Music 660F | Romantic Music |
| Music 701D | Research Methods in Musicology |
| Music 702 | Seminar for Doctoral Students |