Upcoming Events

  • "‘with music loud and long’: S.T. Coleridge’s Liberalism, the Cambridge Apostles, and Gladstone’s Essay Society.” Learn more here.

    Queen's College hosts two public lectures, one given by an Indigenous public figure, and the other by the Sugden Fellow in residence. Each lecture exemplifies the College’s mission to engage with public debate and encourage our students to consider the global challenges of our time. These events are run under the auspices of Queen’s Sugden Institute.

  • "Musico-Literary Methods: The Case of Tennyson". Details to follow.

    This symposium is funded by the Macgeorge Bequest, which Norman and May Macgeorge gave to promote the arts at the University of Melbourne.

  • "Percy Grainger and Interlochen's National Music Camp". Learn more here.

  • “‘the life-and-death interest people throw into music’: Musical Liberalism, Literature, and late Victorian Slum Settlement Movements”. Learn more here.

    This lecture is funded by the Macgeorge Bequest, which Norman and May Macgeorge gave to promote the arts at the University of Melbourne.

Media (select)

Interviewee, The Birth of British Music: Mendelssohn – The Prophet, BBC Two Television Series. Interviewed on camera. Presented by Charles Hazlewood. Produced by Francesca Kemp. Aired 5/09, 7/10, 5/17, UK in prime viewing slots on BBC Two, BBC HD, BBC Two Wales and BBC Four. View it here.

Writer and presenter, The Essay, “Unsung Heroines of Classical Music: Mary Gladstone,” BBC Radio 3. Produced by Simon Richardson. Broadcast 10:45-11:00 pm, 5 March 2015.

Writer and presenter, “Tennyson’s In Memoriam A.H.H.: The Manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge.” Cambridge University Library, YouTube. Released 30 October 2018.

Discussant, Hubert Parry Centenary. Royal College of Music, YouTube. Live streamed 28 October 2018.

Interviewee, Michigan Writers on Air, Interlochen Public Radio (IPR). Hosted by Aaron Stander. Broadcast 1 pm, 19 November 2021. Listen as Phyllis Weliver discusses and reads from The Arrow Tree: Healing from Long COVID.

Interviewee, CRAFT TALKS, a Saint Louis University podcast series presented by the ST. LOUIS LITERARY AWARD. Hosted by Edward S. Ibur. Broadcast Fri, 17 Dec 2021. Phyllis Weliver discusses The Arrow Tree: Healing from Long COVID, the differences between writing creative nonfiction and traditional scholarship, the relationship between form and subject, music, and the role played by nature in healing. Watch the podcast: YouTube. Listen: Spotify, Audible, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Ivy.fm, Listen Notes.

Interviewee, ‘Women of the Academy,’ Episode 1 of Short Stories: 200 years of the Royal Academy of Music. Podcast series presented by Anna Picard. Produced by Natalie Steed. Broadcast 8 July 2022. Listen: Royal Academy of Music website, Royal Academy of Music YouTube, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, Listen Notes, SoundCloud.

Public invited lectures (selected)

The British Academy. "Gladstone, Music and Liberalism." Part of the month-long exploration of, “With great power: political leaders, popular legacies." Lecture followed by discussion with Stefan Collini. The British Academy, London. 16 June 2016.

The Annual Gladstone Lecture. “Coals of Fire and The Lover’s Tale: The Gladstones and the Tennysons.” Gladstone's Library, Hawarden, Wales. 5/11.

Lecture/recital at the Royal Academy of Music. “The ‘paradise of pedants’: The English Musical Renaissance and Progressive Composers in Fin-de-Siècle Fiction.” Music and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Britain endowed series. Royal Academy of Music, London. 11/04.

Queen’s Sugden Institute Oration

Grainger Museum, Melbourne | Presented with the Musicological Society of Australia

Macgeorge Fellowship Lecture, Louise Hanson-Dyer Colloquium series | Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

BBC Two Television | The Birth of British Music: Mendelssohn

BBC Radio 3 | The Essay

Cambridge University Library YouTube

 

'SHORT STORIES' EPISODE 1: WOMEN OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC