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"Beethoven and the Radio"
Daniel K. L. Chua earned his doctorate in musicology from the University of Cambridge and is currently professor of music at the University of Hong Kong, where he heads the School of Humanities. He was previously a fellow and the director of studies at St John’s College, Cambridge, and professor of music theory and analysis at King’s College, London. Professor Chua was a Henry Fellow at Harvard and is the recipient of the 2004 Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal. He has written widely on music, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky; his publications include The “Galitzin” Quartets of Beethoven (Princeton, 1995), Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge, 1999), “Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring” (in Musical Analysis, 2007), “Beethoven’s Other Humanism” (in Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2009), and “Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music” (in 19th-Century Music, 2011). He is currently working on a monograph entitled “Beethoven and Freedom.”
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Location: N217, Edith C. Blum Music Institute