Selected Presentations

  • "Down and Out in the T.O.B.A.,"  Paper read at the National Meeting of the Society for American Music, Chicago, IL, March 19, 2006.
  • "The Origin of Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens," Paper read at the National Meeting of the College Music Society, Kansas City, KS, September 26-29, 2002.
  • “Complexity Made Simple in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods," Paper read at the International Musical Congress and Festival, “Broadway on the Ruhr, The Musical Comedy in the New Millennium,” June 22-25,
    2000, Dortmund, Germany
  • “Content Versus Structure in Vincent Persichetti’s Divertimento for Band,” Lecture presented at the ODU Conducting Clinic, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, January 29, 2000
  • "Peter Mennin's Canzona Revisited," lecture-analysis, ODU Conducting Clinic, Norfolk, VA, January 23, 1999
  • "Ralph Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite," lecture-analysis, ODU Conducting Clinic, Norfolk, VA, January 17, 1998
  • "The Emergence of the Saxophone as the Quintessential Jazz Instrument," UR Faculty Forum, Richmond, VA, October 3, 1997
  • "Holst's First Suite for Military Band in E-Flat," lecture-analysis, ODU Conducting Clinic, Norfolk, VA, January 18, 1997
  • "Overcoming Saxophobia," International CMS Conference, Berlin, Germany, June 16, 1995
  • "Peter Mennin's Canzona for Band," lecture-analysis, VCU Conducting Workshop, Richmond, VA, February 18, 1995
  • "The Origin of the World's Greatest Jazz Band," UR Faculty Forum, Richmond, VA, April 8, 1994
  • "The Triumph of Timelessness Over Time in Hindemith's Turandot Scherzo from the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber," a paper presented at the Southern Division Meeting of the College Band Directors National Association, Williamsburg, Virginia, February 10, 1994
  • "Musical Metamorphoses in Hindemith's March from the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, a paper presented at the Spring Meeting of the College Music Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, West Virginia University, March 26, 1993
  • "Wagner's Trauersinfonie for Band," a lecture-analysis, ODU Conducting Conducting Workshop, Norfolk, VA, January 23,1993
  • "Have the Music in General Studies Institutes Run Their Course? Possibilities for the Future," panel presentation, National Meeting of the College Music Society, San Diego, CA, October 30, 1992
  • "The Genesis of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band," Southern Chapter Meeting of the College Music Society, Munich, Germany, June 25, 1992
  • "New Orleans Jazz," State Meeting of the Torch Club, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, June 4, 1991
  • "Ralph Vaughn Williams' Rosymedre for Band," lecture-analysis, VCU Conducting Workshop, Richmond, VA, February 9, 1991
  • "Mozart Pythagorized," Paper presented at the National Meeting of the College Music Society, Washington, D. C., October 26, 1990
  • "Johnny Dodds with Kid Ory in New Orleans," National Meeting of the Sonneck Society, Toronto, Canada, April 20, 1990
  • "Ancient Greek Music," a paper presented at the Southeastern Theater Society Meeting, Atlanta GA, March, 1988
  • "Johnny Dodds Meets Mr. Jelly Lord," National Meeting of the Sonneck Society, Pittsburgh, PA, April, 1987
  • "Form in Music," National Convention of the American Theater Association, Minneapolis, MN, August, 1983