Guided Listening Lectures

Theme: Guided Listening Lectures 2023-2024: Cultural Storytelling and Crossovers (Levine Music)

Lecture 1: Hip-Hop and Orchestra

Lecture 2: Danial Sheibani’s Freedom Uncanny

Lecture 3: Florence Price Ethiopia’s Shadow in America

Lecture 4: Reena Esmail Vishwas

Theme: Guided Listening Lectures 2022-2023: American Landscape: Wonders of the Wild West (Levine Music)

Lecture 1: Copland Billy the Kid Suite & Thomson The Plow that Broke the Plains

Lecture 2: Grofé Grand Canyon Suite and Death Valley Suite

Lecture 3: Grant Still Old California and The American Scene

Lecture 4: David Wendell Nelson Little Bighorn

Previous Individual Guided Listening Lectures through Levine Music:

2021 - 2022:

Claude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Philip Glass Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, & Orchestra

Ottorino Respighi Pines of Rome

Igor Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks

Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (May 2021)

Other Lectures/Presentations

2021 - 2022:

Philip Glass Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, & Orchestra (OLLI [Osher Lifelong Learning Institute] in Northern Virginia/George Mason University; NEO Academy)

Music Mapping Presentation and Workshop (Levine Music)

2019 - 2020:

Skill-Building Workshop for Adult String Players (Levine Music, VA)

Studying and Interpreting Your Repertoire (Levine Music, MD)

Introduction to Conducting (twice, Levine Music, MD)

Previous Individual Lectures

Two-Part Presentation: Part I: The Loss of Music and Other Connections to Ourselves; Part II: Priority Pyramid (Mukwonago String Academy, 2013

Puzzle Pieces (Mukwonago String Academy, 2013)

Seminar: Variations on a Theme of Score Study Methods (Coe College, 2013)

Doctoral Thesis (2024)

"The Sound of Struggle: A Study and Comparison of Expressive Musical Features from Works by "Dweller" Composers (1933-1956)" (Published by ProQuest and to be available for access June 2025)

Masters Thesis (2010)

“From Score Selection to the Performance: Teaching from the Podium – Discussion and Analysis of Works by Copland, Schubert, Kimber, Vivaldi, Vaughan-Williams, and Kilar”

Articles

"A Woman Leading An Orchestra," Women in Higher Education, Vol 24, Issue 2, Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company.   Copyright © February 2015. 

"The Dilemma of (and Solutions for) Trying to Be Creative." Stringing Along, Newsletter of the Nebraska Chapter of American String Teachers Association, 10-12. Print. Spring 2015.

"Clinic Ideas for Your Ensemble or Organization." The Bridge, Newsletter of the New York Chapter of American String Teachers Association. Featured Article. Print. Annual, 2015. 

"Priority Pyramid." Stringing Along, Newsletter of the Nebraska Chapter of American String Teachers Association, 18-21. Print. Spring 2014.