Worcester Academy Open Gates Lecture: Dr. Rebecca (Schaefer) Cypess, musicologist

Music / Singing - Lecture/Discussion

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
7:30 PM-8:30 PM

Warner Theater
Ross Auditorium
81 Providence St.
Worcester, MA 01604
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Worcester Academy Open Gates Lecture: Author, musicologist Dr. Rebecca (Schaefer) Cypess

Dr. Rebecca (Schaefer) Cypess, author and musicologist, will address Worcester Academy students, faculty, and others in a lecture in Ross Auditorium, Warner Theater at 7 p.m. on April 3. Mrs. Cypess is the last of three speakers for the schools 2011-12 Open Gates Lecture Series.

This years lecture series, Steal This Podium: Worcester Academy Alumni Authors, is sponsored by Worcester Academys Open Gates Program.

DR. REBECCA CYPESS

Dr. Rebecca Cypess, a member of the Worcester Academy Class of 1996, is a former adjunct faculty member of the Yale Department of Music and Yale School of Music, and lecturer at Southern Connecticut State University. She joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory in the Fall of 2008 upon completing her doctorate in musicology at Yale.

Dr. Cypess regularly publishes in scholarly journals with articles and reviews in Early Music, the Journal of Musicology, the Galpin Society Journal, the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Early Music America, and Encyclopedia Britannica.

She has presented papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Renaissance Society of America, the American Musical Instrument Society, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

Although her primary area of research is 17th-century music, she has also written and lectured on ethnomusicological issues in the American Jewish community, and she has an essay due to be published soon on John Adamss opera Doctor Atomic. She is currently writing her first book, which deals with the negotiation of time and the preservation of memory in Italian instrumental music between 1615 and 1630.

Dr. Cypess has a B.A. in music history and performance from Cornell University, as well as an M. Mus. in harpsichord performance from the Royal College of Music, and an M.A. in Bible from Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. She received her M.A. in M.Phil., and her Ph.D. in music history from Yale University.

OPEN GATES LECTURE SERIES

The 2011-2012 Open Gates Lecture Series celebrates the many scholarly contributions of Worcester Academy graduates (and their engagement in the world at large) including Abbie Hoffman, Worcester Academy Class of 1955, author of Steal This Book and the best-known work by an alumnus  thus the title of this series.

Additional speakers this school year included Naomi Schaefer Riley, Worcester Academy Class of 1994, an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, and Rebecca Vaudreuil, Worcester Academy Class of 2000, author and international music therapist.

ABOUT WORCESTER ACADEMY

Worcester Academy is a co-ed day and boarding school for grades 6 to 12 and postgraduates. Our urban setting, diverse community, and challenging curriculum provide students with a solid, real-world education. Information at www.worcesteracademy.org.

For information, contact Neil Isakson, director of external communications, at 508-754-5302 x135, or at neil.isakson@worcesteracadaemy.org

Cost: Free and open to the public

Suggested Audiences: Elders, Adult, College, High School, Middle School

Website: http://www.worcesteracademy.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=637547
E-mail: john.murnane@worcesteracademy.org
Phone: 508-754-5302

Last Modified: April 2, 2012 at 3:27 PM

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