ANNA HARWELL CELENZA
558 West University Parkway
Baltimore, MD 21210
ahc27@georgetown.edu ((443) 765-5336
UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS:
- Chair of Department of Performing Arts – Georgetown University. July 2007-present.
- Thomas E. Caestecker Associate Professor of Music – Georgetown University. June 2006-present.
- Visiting Associate Professor – Johns Hopkins University. July 2005-June 2006.
- Faculty – Peabody Conservatory (Musicology). August 2005- June 2006.
- Chair of Musicology/Ethnomusicology Area – Michigan State University. 2004/2005.
- Associate Professor in Musicology – Michigan State University. 2003-2005.
- Assistant Professor in Musicology – Michigan State University. 1999-2003.
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Musicology – Michigan State University. 1997-1999.
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History – Alma College. Alma, Michigan. Fall 1997.
PUBLIC RADIO APPOINTMENTS:
- Staff writer; guest commentator – Performance Today on NPR. January 2005-January 2007.
- Music Reporter/Commentator – WKAR East Lansing, Michigan. 2004/2005.
EDUCATION:
- Ph.D. in musicology – Duke University. May 1996
Dissertation title: “Unsre Kunst Heißt Poesie:” Niels W. Gade’s Early Compositions and Their Programmatic Origins.
- M.A. in musicology – Duke University. May 1992.
- First Licentiate in art history – Rijksuniversiteit-Gent. Ghent, Belgium. June 1990.
- B.A. in art history and music history – University of North Carolina at Greensboro. May 1989.
Thesis title: Musical Symbolism in the Art of Hieronymus Bosch.
PUBLICATIONS – BOOKS:
- Hans Christian Andersen and Music: The Nightingale Revealed – Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
- The Early Works of Niels W. Gade: In Search of the Poetic – Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
- A Scholarly Edition of the St. Hans’s Evening Play Overture by Niels W. Gade - Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS – CHILDREN’S TRADE BOOKS:
- Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, forthcoming August 2009.
- Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2006.
- Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2005.
- The Heroic Symphony. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2004. (Silver Medal, Parents Choice Award)
- Pictures at an Exhibition. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing, 2003.
- The Farewell Symphony. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing, 2000. (Best Picture Book 2001,
Independent Publishers Association)
PUBLICATIONS – ARTICLES:
-“Niels W. Gade: The Cosmopolitan Dane." Organists’ Review (forthcoming 2/2008).
-“Liszt, Italy, and the Republic of the Imagination,” Liszt and His World, edited by Dana Gooley
and Christopher Gibbs. Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 3-38.
-“Building a Bulwark of the Arts: Edvard Grieg, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Euterpe Orchestra in
Copenhagen,” Griegforum http://griegforum.no/griegsociety/default.asp?kat=848&id=3457&sp=1
-“The Concerti: A Lost Tradition,” The Cambridge Companion to Liszt, edited by Kenneth Hamilton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 152-70.
-“Hans Christian Andersen: un desconocido historiador de la ópera,” Temporada de opera de la ABAO 54
(2005/6): 44-45.
-“Imagined Communities Made Real: The Impact of Robert Schumann’s Neue Zeitschrift für Musik on the Formation of Music Communities in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Journal of
Musicological Research XXIV/1 (2005): 1-26.
-“Music and the Vienna Secession, 1897-1902,” Music in Art XXIX/1-2 (2004): 203-212.
-“The Poet, The Pianist and the Patron: Hans Christian Andersen and Franz Liszt in Carl Alexander’s Weimar,” Nineteenth-Century Music XXVI (Fall 2002): 130-154.
-“Death Transfigured: The Origins and Evolution of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz,” Nineteenth-Century Music: Selected Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 125-54.
-“The Nightingale Revealed: Hans Christian Andersen as Music Critic,” Histori?ni Seminar 3 (December 2000): 77-95.
-“Efterklange af Ossian: The Reception of James McPherson’s Poems of Ossian in Danish Literature, Art, and Music,” Scandinavian Studies LXX (1998): 359-396.
-“The Origins and Evolution of Niels W. Gade’s Agnete og Havmanden”- (Part One: The Overture) Dansk Årbog for Musikforskning XXI (1993): 45-47. (Part Two: Realizing opus 3, from overture to symphony and dramatic poem)” - Dansk Årbog for Musikforskning XXII (1994): 57-68.
REVIEWS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
-Chasin’ the Bird by Brian Priestly. Notes (Journal of the Music Library Association) 63.3 (2007):
637-38.
-Edvard Grieg. Peer Gynt, op. 23: Vollständige Bühnenmusik, edited by Finn Benested. Notes. Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 64 (June 2002): 946-949.
-Mein edler, theurer Großherzog! Briefwechsel zwischen Hans Christian Andersen und Grosherzog Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, edited by Ivy York Möller-Christensen und Ernst Möller-Christensen. Liszt Journal 49 (Spring 2001): 55-57.
-Franz Berwald. Profane Vokalwerke, edited by Owen Ander, Karen Halgren; and Niels W. Gade. Symphony No. 2, edited by Niels Bo Foltmann. Notes. Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 59 (March 2001): 746-748.
-Franz Berwald. Töngemalde I, edited by Lennart Hedwall; and Choralbuch (unvollendet), edited by Kolke Bohlin. Notes. Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 57 (June 2000): 1036-1039.
-Niels W. Gade. Symphony No. 8, op. 47, edited by Jan Maegaard. Notes. Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 56 (December 1999): 494-496.
-“Carl Dahlhaus,” Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
-“Edvard Grieg,” Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn,
1999.
-“Iconography,” Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
-“Music Publishing and Printing since 1750,” Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
-“Romanticism,” Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
-“Scandinavia,” Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED GUEST LECTURES:
-“Popular Darwinism and Music Aesthetics in Fin de siècle Vienna,” National Meeting of the American
Musicological Society. Los Angeles, CA November 2006.
-“Kampf ums Dasein”: Popular Darwinism in fin-de-siècle Vienna,” College-Conservatory, University of
Cincinnati, February 2006; and UNC-Greensboro March 2006.
-“Building a Bulwark of the Arts: Edvard Grieg, H.C. Andersen, and the Euterpe Orchestra in
Copenhagen.” Grieg Symposium at the Library of Congress. Washington, DC. November 2005
-“Integrating Art and Literature,” Panel Session: "Managing the Masses: Creative Approaches to Large
Lecture Sessions" National Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Washington, DC October 2005
-“Kampf ums Dasein”: Popular Darwinism in fin-de-siècle Vienna,” Capital Chapter Meeting of the
American Musicological Society. Washington, DC. October 2005
-“Hans Christian Andersen as Music Historiographer,” Creighton University Lecture Series 2005.
Omaha, Nebraska. April 23, 2005.
-“Hans Christian Andersen as a Window on Music History,” Music’s Intellectual History: Founders,
Followers & Fads. 1st Conference of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale. City
University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. March 2005.
-“Musical Imagery in the 1902 Klinger-Beethoven Exhibition,” Music in Art: Iconography as a Source
for Music History – 9th Research Center for Music Iconography Conference. CUNY &
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. November 2003.
-“Battling Beethoven: A Struggle for Cultural Authority in fin-de-siècle Vienna,” Midwest Chapter
Meeting of American Musicological Society. Chicago, Illinois. September 2003.
-“Beethoven’s Bathhouse: The Cultural Implications of the Vienna Secession’s 1902 Klinger-Beethoven
Exhibition” – Guest Lecturer, Southampton University, UK. May 2003
-“Appropriating Beethoven: The Vienna Secession’s 1902 Klinger-Beethoven Exhibition” –
12th International Conference on 19th-Century Music. University of Leeds, UK. July 2002.
-“The Poet, The Pianist and The Patron: Hans Christian Andersen and Franz Liszt in Carl
Alexander’s Weimar.” Worchester College, Oxford University, UK. June 2002.
-“Musical Improvisation as a Narrative Model in the Works of Hoffmann, Heine and Andersen.”
International Conference on Narrative Studies. Michigan State University. April 2002.
-“The Power of the Printed Word in Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism” - Legacies: 500 Years of Printed Music, University of North Texas. October 2001.
-“Benedetto Marcello’s Teatro alla Moda and the Public’s Perception of Opera in Venice in the Early Eighteenth Century” - 31st Annual Meeting of the Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Michigan State University. November 2000.
-“The Nightingale Revealed: Hans Christian Andersen as Music Critic” - The Historical Seminar, The Scientific Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. May 2000.
-“Imagined Communities made Real: The Copenhagen Davidsbund” - South Central meeting of the American Musicological Society, University of Kentucky. March 1999.
-“Death Transfigured: The Origins and Evolution of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz” - 10th International Conference on 19th-Century Music. University of Bristol, UK. July 1998.
-“Forholdet mellem Kunst og Musik i Romantikken” - Mölmlycke AS Kunstforeningen. Copenhagen, Denmark. April 1994.
-“The Evolution of Niels W. Gade’s Piano Sonata in E Minor, Op. 28" - Dansk Selskab for Musikforskning. Copenhagen University, Denmark. February 1994.
-“Schubert's Ossian Gesänge: A Case-study of Ossian Reception in Germany” - A Celtic Celebration. Cleveland State University. April 1993.
-“New Biographical Insights Concerning Johannes Susay (14th-century Franco-Flemish composer)” - Southeast Chapter Meeting of AMS. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. February 1993.
AWARDS:
- Teacher-Scholar Award, Michigan State University. 2002
- IRGP Research Grant for Summer Research in Vienna, Michigan State University. 2002
- Dean’s Travel Grant Award, Michigan State University. 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004
- International Studies Travel Grant, Michigan State University. 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004
- Post-doctoral Research Grant from the Idella Foundation - Liechtenstein. 1996.
- Research Fellowship from The Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik Foundation - Denmark. 1995.
- Fulbright Fellowship to Denmark. 1993-1994.
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies Fellowship - Duke University. 1990-1993.
- ITT Research Fellowship to Belgium. 1989-1990.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING (Georgetown University)
MUSC 100: Chamber Music Ensembles
A studio performance course for sting players and pianists
MUSC 114: Sex, Drugs and Symphonies: European Concert Music
A required musicology lecture course for American Musical Culture majors and music minors
MUSC 161: Writing about the Performing Arts
A required writing seminar for American Musical Culture majors
MUSC 328: Special Topics: Intersections of Music and Literature
An interdisciplinary seminar for upper-level undergraduates
UNIVERSITY TEACHING (Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory)
090.350: In Search of the Absolute
A seminar in aesthetics for undergraduate German majors at JHU
260.211: Fin-de-siècle Vienna
A required seminar/lecture course for undergraduate music students at Peabody
376.340: Intersections of Music and Literature
An interdisciplinary seminar for undergraduate creative writing majors and music minors at JHU
610.639: Liszt
A seminar for graduate music students at Peabody Conservatory
610.660: Mahler
A seminar for graduate music students at Peabody Conservatory
UNIVERSITY TEACHING (Michigan State University and Alma College)
MUS 211: A Survey of Western European Music Before 1750
A required musicology lecture course for sophomore music students
MUS 212: A Survey of Western European Music Since 1750
A required musicology lecture course for sophomore music students
MUS 420: Music in the Eighteenth Century
A seminar/lecture course for advanced undergraduate music students
MUS 421: Music in the Nineteenth Century
A seminar/lecture course for advanced undergraduate music students
MUS 422: Music in the Twentieth Century
A seminar/lecture course for advanced undergraduate music students
MUS 491: Special Topics: Women and Music
A seminar/lecture course for advanced undergraduate music students
MUS 491: Special Topics: Intersection of Music and Literature in the 19th Century
A seminar/lecture course for advanced undergraduate music students
MUS 830: Research Methods and Writing in Musicology
A seminar/writing workshop for DMA students.
MUS 892a: Special Topics in Musicology: Explorations in Gender and Music
A seminar for graduate music students
MUS 892a: Special Topics in Musicology: Musical Genres of the Late-Baroque and Classic Eras
A seminar for graduate music students
MUS 892a: Special topics in Musicology: Music Criticism
A seminar/writing workshop for graduate music students
MUS 935: Special Topics in Musicology: Music Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century
A seminar for graduate music students
MUS 936: Special Topics in Musicology: Music Aesthetics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
A seminar for graduate music students
MUS 936: Special Topics in Musicology: Vienna in the Long Nineteenth Century: from Romanticism to Modernism. A seminar for graduate music students
MUS 937: Special Topics in Musicology: Twentieth-Century Music in Performance
A seminar for graduate music students
ART 420: The History of Printing as an Art Form
A lecture course for advanced undergraduate art students
IAH 241: The Emergence of the Heroic Self in 19th-Century Music
A general humanities course for students outside the School of Music.
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE WORK AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
-College Executive Faculty Committee, 2008
-Chair, Performing Arts Tenure Review Committee, 2007/2008
-Chair, Musicology Search Committee, 2007
-Theater and Performance Studies Committee, 2006/2007
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE WORK AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY:
- University Committee: Committee on College Reorganization (CCR), 2004-2005
- School of Music: Faculty Coordinator for Study Abroad, 2001-2005
- School of Music: Search Committee: Music Theory 2001; Musicology 2002, Music Ed. 2003
- College of Arts and Letters: Advisory Committee, 2001/2002, chair: 2002/2003
- School of Music: Advisory Committee, chair: 2001/2002, chair: 2002/2003
- School of Music: Graduate Studies Committee, chair: 1999/2000, 2000/2001
- School of Music: Faculty Travel Grant Committee, 2000/2001, 2001/2002, chair: 2002/2003
- University Committee for Study Abroad Issues, 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002
- University Committee for Residential Options in Arts and Letters, 1999/2000, 2000/2001
EDITORIAL WORK:
- Book Review Editor, Nineteenth-Century Music Review (formerly Music Review). Ashgate Publishing.
2002-present.
- Translator - Es Dur Productions. Hamburg, Germany. 1996.
- Translator - Dansk Årbog for Musikforskning and The Complete Edition of Niels W. Gade's Works. Copenhagen, Denmark. 1993-1996.
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES:
-The Life and Times of Louis Armstrong (14-part syndicated series) commissioned by the North Carolina Press Foundation for distribution in newspapers across the US in Fall 2006.
-Scriptwriter for Boombox Classroom (a public radio program for use in elementary schools), since
December 2004.
-Program Notes, American Symphony Orchestra, New York, NY. March 2005.
-The Devil in Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat, Michigan State University, February 17, 2005
-Script and Study Guide Author, Jazz Kats (Jazz Education Concert Series for Middle Grade Students),
Wharton Center for the Performing Arts, Michigan State University:
Young Satchmo, Blow Your Horn, April 2005
Let Freedom Ring, January 2005
Swingin’, Stompin’, and Rockin’, October 2004
-Narrator, Pictures at an Exhibition Algonquin Arts Festival, Manasquan, NJ. January 9, 2004
-Program Notes, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco, CA. October 2004, November 2003.
-Keynote Speaker, Georgia Reading Association Conference: “Integrating Literacy and the Arts,” Atlanta GA, March 2004.
-Featured Speaker, International Reading Association Conference: “Using Music as a Window on History,” Orlando FL, April 2003.
-Narrator, Play Me a Story Family Concert Series, Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, 2001/2002,
2002/2003.
-Author Visits to U.S. Public Schools: 19 in 2001; 15 in 2002, 10 in 2003, 12 in 2004, 10 in 2005.
-Pre-Concert Lecturer for the Greater Lansing Symphony, 1997-2003; and for the Wharton Center
Concert Series, East Lansing, MI 1998-2002
-Instructor for Michigan State University’s Evening College Program:
Introduction to Children’s Publishing. Fall 2001
Art and Music Through the Ages. Fall 1999
Music in the Romantic Era. Spring 1999
The Reception of Beethoven in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Fall 1998.
-Instructor for Michigan State University’s Community Music School: Masterworks of Music (An
Introduction to Music History for children ages 7 - 10). Spring 1997 & 1998, Summer 1999 & 2001.
SPECIAL MEDIA APPEARANCES (outside of my work for NPR and WKAR):
-“Proms Broadcast 2005,” BBC Radio. 30-minute interview concerning H.C. Andersen and music.
July 2005.
-“Music Matters,” BBC Radio. 20-minute interview concerning Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze. July 2002
-“Book TV,” C-Span. 40-minute presentation. November 2001
-“The Todd Mundt Show,” National Public Radio. 30-minute interview concerning my children’s books.
March 2001
-“Morning Edition,” Michigan Public Radio. 10-minute interview. October 2000.