Dr. Ralph P. Locke: Social Responsibility of the Musicologist, and his new translation of an essay by Franz Liszt

August 4, 2008
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Introduction – 0:00

Agenda items – 0:26

Locke’s research on Liszt – 1:10

Translating Liszt’s essay – 1:17

Doubts about Liszt’s authorship – 1:52

Composers that received help with their writing: Stravinsky – 2:03

The autograph – 2:37

The Bard festival – 3:10

Liszt’s 8 recommendations – 4:09

Competition – 4:19

Music education in the schools – 4:32

Reform of church music – 4:49

State sponsored festivals – 4:57

Encouragement of opera recitals and chamber music – 5:09

A new and different music school – 5:28

Inexpensive editions of past musical works – 5:51

Scholarly works and dissertations – 6:03

Comments on Liszt’s recommendations – 6:16

Sandow on Liszt’s reasons – 6:25

Locke on Liszt’s reasons – 7:05

Competition – 9:20

Music education in the schools – 12:10

Reform of church music – 13:54

State-sponsored festivals – 14:20

Many pieces we know very well were not performed that much at the time – 14:39

Beethoven’s music – 14:57

The level of orchestral performance and musicians – 15:54

Opera recitals and chamber music – 17:05

How different/similar the musical experience was back then – 18:49

The music connection – 19:52

The turning point – 22:16

Applauding – 23:14

Tempi in Brahms’ 4th symphony – 24:44

Liszt’s performance of “Moonlight Sonata” – 25:50

Musicology and its social responsibility: a relevant tool for today’s music environment – 26:58

The single biggest problem in the arts is isolation – 27:19

The social responsibility of musicology – 30:04

Transparency in the musicologist’s motivations – 30:56

The musical experience, audiences and education – 32:03

Women in Music Festival – 35:52

The outside view of classical music – 37:25

19th-century music that is not performed – 38:49

What can a musicologist do to help classical music? – 39:37

Use of pedal in Debussy’s piano music – 41:23

Staging of Verdi’s “Alda”: the trumpets – 42:30

New ideas that enrich the concert-going experience – 43:27

Closing – 46:34

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