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Dr. Laura Dolp presents the Sacher Distinguished Lecture
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven: Art-making in America and the Music of Arvo Pärt, a lecture by Dr. Laura Dolp.
Dr. Dolp's interdisciplinary research explores the historical agency of music as a site of human transformation, including music and spirituality, the interrelation of music and social spaces, mapping and musical practices, and the poetics of the natural world. Currently she is working on two book projects; one that examines the historical relationship between cartography and the musical score, Maps and Music: Stories of the Cartographic Score, and another that considers the creative use and reception of Arvo Pärt's music, entitled Arvo Pärt and Visual Culture. Dolp is editor of Arvo Pärt's White Light: Media, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and co-contributor to Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt (CUP, 2012) and Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis (Oxford University Press, 2016). Her research is featured in 19th-Century Music and the Journal of Musicological Research.
The Sacher Distinguished Lecture in Music is an annual event at the John J. Cali School of Music that features innovative scholarship about music as a cultural form. The lecture takes place in Leshowitz Recital Hall every January and is free and open to the public.