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Robert Oldani Area: Music Category: Faculty Title: Professor Office: MUSIC- W204 Phone: 480-965-4207 Fax: 480-965-2659 Specialty: Music History Email: Robert.W.Oldani@asu.edu WebPage: http://music.asu.edu |
| Bio: Robert W. Oldani holds a doctorate in musicology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His work reflects his primary interest in 19th-century music and opera. He is co-author of a book on Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov (Cambridge University Press), characterized in Music and Letters as “an invaluable study of genesis, transformation and reception, and of musical, social and historical contexts.” He wrote the articles on Modest Musorgsky, Alexander Borodin, several other Russian composers and singers, and Russian conservatories for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. He has written more than 40 other articles (including essays and translations on Verdi, Beethoven, the Russians) for many different publishers, including Stanford University Press, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and Edizioni Unicopli (Milan), as well as such journals as 19th Century Music, The Opera Quarterly, Slavic and East European Arts, and History of European Ideas (Oxford). He has presented scholarly papers in such venues as La Scala’s Convegno Internazionale Musorgskij, the Sixth International Verdi Congress, the Second ISSEI Congress (Leuven, Belgium) and remains active as a lecturer (Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Indianapolis Art Museum). He has contributed seventeen reviews to various journals, served as a consultant on Musorgsky’s music for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, served as a referee for various publishers and the NEH, and is the recipient of research grants from the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Illinois’ Russian and East European Center, and Arizona State University. |
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