Music Professor Brooks Kuykendall, currently in the second year of a Waple Professorship, has seen some of the fruits of his research emerging in the last few weeks: his article on fandom in the 1920s and 30s in the Gilbert & Sullivan Society (a preliminary version of which was presented for UMW’s Social Research Colloquium) […]
In the summer of 2003, five American graduate students leaned against a stone wall during a tea break at a conference at the University of Leeds and asked “Why do we always have to come to the UK to talk about British music?” They decided to plan a conference but ended up founding a society: […]
On Friday, Oct. 21, Music Department Professor and Chair Brooks Kuykendall will present “The Idea of Italy in Music History” at St. George’s Church in downtown Fredericksburg. Read more about the event in The Free Lance-Star and on Fredericksburg Today.
Brooks Kuykendall, professor and chair of the Music Department, spoke at the fourth biennial conference The London Stage and the Nineteenth Century World, hosted by New College Oxford (April 6-8, 2022). As at the previous three conferences, he was on a panel of specialists of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas. For 2022, his presentation was entitled “‘The […]
