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Bryan Gilliam

Curriculum Vitae

073 Mary Duke Biddle
Durham, NC 27708 		+1 919 660 3340 (office)
(email)
Education:
  • PhD Harvard University, 1984
  • Honors in Music History University of Cincinnati, 1975
Areas of Research
  • German Opera, Vienna, Wagner, Strauss, Film Music, and 19th & 20th Century
Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities, 2004 - present
Professor, 1999 - present
Associate Professor, 1993 - 1999
Assistant Professor, 1986 - 1993
Colby College
Assistant Professor, Music, 1983 - 1986
Harvard University
Teaching Fellow, 1977 - 1981
Professional Work

  Books

  1. B. Gilliam. Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera.  Cambridge University Press, 2008 . (Under contract)
  2. B. Gilliam et al.. Music, Image, Gesture.  edited by B. Gilliam Duke University Press, 2005 (1-176 pp.). (Essays on ballet, film music, melodrama, modern dance, and opera)
  3. B. Gilliam. The Life of Richard Strauss, Cambridge Musical Lives.  Cambridge University Press, 1999 . (Chinese edition, 2001; Spanish edition, 2003)
  4. B. Gilliam et al.. Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic.  edited by B. Gilliam Cambridge University Press, 1994 . (Paperback edition, 2005)
  5. B. Gilliam et al.. Richard Strauss and His World.  edited by B. Gilliam Princeton University Press, 1992 .
  6. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work.  edited by B. Gilliam Duke University Press, 1992 . (Paperback edition, 1997)
  7. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Elektra.  Oxford University Press, 1991 . (Paperback edition, 1996)
  8. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss’s 'Daphne': Opera and Symphonic Continuity.  Harvard Ph.D. Dissertation, 1984 .

  Articles
  1. B. Gilliam. ""Night and Day, Moon and Stars: Now Voyager and its Music"." untitled book  (2008). In progress; book on Hollywood film music
  2. B. Gilliam. ""Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss"." Late Thoughts  (2006): pp. 167-80.
  3. B. Gilliam. "" 'Ich bin ein anderer als ich war': Ariadne auf Naxos - das Konzept der Verwandlung und die Ablehnung der griechischen Tragödie"." Richard Strauss: Der griechischer Germane Edition Text+Kritik (2005): 69-80.
  4. B. Gilliam. "" 'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the mid-1930s"." JAMS  (2005): 563-95.
  5. B. Gilliam. "Introductory Essay." The Richard Strauss Companion  (2003).
  6. B. Gilliam. ""Ariadne, Daphne, and the Problem of Transformation"." Cambridge Opera Journal 15.1 (2003): 67-81.
  7. B. Gilliam. ""From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater." Americanism/Amerikanismus/Weill: Die Suche nach kultureller Indentität in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts  (2003): 147-59.
  8. B. Gilliam. ""Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils"." Gottfried von Einem Kongress  (2003): 303-13.
  9. B. Gilliam. ""Biography (19,000 words) on Richard Strauss"." Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 24 (2001).
  10. B. Gilliam. ""Biography for Stephen Jaffe"." New Grove  (2001).
  11. B. Gilliam. "" 'Friede im Innern': Aussenwelt und Innenwelt von Richard Strauss um 1935"." Richard Strauss und die Moderne  (2001): 93-111. Published conference paper
  12. B. Gilliam. ""Elektras Tanz and Auflösung"." Festschrift Reinhold Schlotterer  (1999).
  13. B. Gilliam. "Prefatory essay in honor of Günter Brosche." Fetstschrift Günter Brosche  (1999).
  14. B. Gilliam. ""A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Double Exile in America"." Driven from Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States  (1999): 334-57.
  15. B. Gilliam. ""The Tone Poems of Richard Strauss"." The 19th-Century Symphony  (1997): 345-68.
  16. B. Gilliam. ""The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and the Politics of Appropriation"." The Musical Quarterly 78 (Fall, 1994): 558-83.
  17. B. Gilliam. ""Stage and Screen: Kurt Weill and Operatic Reform in the 1920s"." Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic  (1994).
  18. B. Gilliam. ""The Two Versions of Bruckner’s Symphony no. 8" ("Rehearings")." 19th-Century Music 15 (Summer, 1992): 59-69.
  19. B. Gilliam. ""Daphne's Transformation"." Richard Strauss and His World  (1992): 33-66.
  20. B. Gilliam. ""Richard Strauss’s Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition"." Richard Strauss: New Perspectives  (1992): 259-83.
  21. B. Gilliam. ""Richard Strauss's Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity"." 19th Century Music 9 (Spring, 1986): 176-88.

  Articles in Books
  1. B. Gilliam. "Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion." The Richard Strauss Companion 2007.

  Papers
  1. B. Gilliam. " 'Ich bin ein anderer als ich war': Ariadne auf Naxos and the Rejection of Greek Tragedy. 2006 . (Stanford University Alexander Lecture (2006))
  2. B. Gilliam. "Music during the Holocaust: Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis". July 2005 . (Temple Shalom, panel presentation with James Conlon and Wels Kaufman, Chicago)
  3. B. Gilliam. "Don Quixote and the Cinematic Strauss". June 2005 . (Ravinia Music Festival, Chicago)
  4. B. Gilliam. "Richard Strauss and the National Socialist Regime". November 2004 . (American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia)
  5. B. Gilliam. "Body and Spirit in the Slow Movement of Beethoven's Op. 130". March 2004 . (Lincoln Center Chamber Players, New York)
  6. B. Gilliam. "Ariadne, Daphne, und das Problem der Verwandlung". October 2002 . (University of Würzburg)
  7. B. Gilliam. "Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss". May 2002 . (Ojai Music Festival Symposium of the Concept of the "Late Style")
  8. B. Gilliam. "Strauss's 'Crazy Jewish Girl': Salome and fin-de-siècle Modernism". January 2002 . (University of Toronto Symposium on Salome)
  9. B. Gilliam. Utopia und Katastrophe: Richard Strauss während des dritten Reiches. November 2000 . (Katastrophen und Utopien: Exil und innere Emigration, 1933-45, Berlin, Freie Universität)
  10. B. Gilliam. Politics and the Spirit: Richard Strauss and the 1930s. October 2000 . (Eastman Distinguished Lecture Series)
  11. B. Gilliam. "The String Quartet and Its Changing Audiences in the 19th Century". October 2000 . ("Rediscovering the String Quartet," Johns Hopkins University)
  12. B. Gilliam. Sound, Image, Music: Hollywood Film Music. May 2000 . (Lecture to the Board of Trustees, Duke University graduation weekend)
  13. B. Gilliam. From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater. February 2000 . (Berlin, Humboldt Universität)
  14. B. Gilliam. 'Friede im Innern': Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the 1930s. October 1999 . (York University International Symposium on Music and Nazism)
  15. B. Gilliam. 'Friede im Innern': Die innere und äußere Persönlichkeit des Richard Strauss um die Mitte der dreißiger Jahre. July 1999 . (University of Munich Symposium: "Richard Strauss und die Moderne")
  16. B. Gilliam. Elektras Tanz und Auflösung. April 1999 . (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musik Symposium on Strauss, Vienna)
  17. B. Gilliam. Variations on an Enigma: Richard Strauss Fifty Years after his Death. January 1999 . (Inaugural Erich Leinsdorf Memorial Lecture, New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall)
  18. B. Gilliam. Die Rezeption der von Einem Opern in Amerika und die Ideologien des Stils. June 1998 . (Gottfried von Einem-Congress, Vienna)
  19. B. Gilliam. Kurt Weill, Weimar Theater, and Operatic Reform. April 1998 . (University of North Carolina Symposium on Brecht, Weimar Germany, and Cabaret Culture)
  20. B. Gilliam. Tragedy and Epic in Siegfried’s Funeral Music. March 1998 . (Duke University Symposium in Honor of Peter Williams)
  21. B. Gilliam. Sibelius and Modernism. December, 1997 . (Northern Lights Sibelius Festival and Symposium, Lincoln Center, New York City)
  22. B. Gilliam. Five colloquia on the theme: 'Music, Image, Gesture'. May 1996 . (European Mozart Academy Krakow)
  23. B. Gilliam. Bruckner’s 8th Symphony. April 1996 . (British International Bruckner Conference, University of Manchester. Panel participant. John Deathridge, chair)
  24. B. Gilliam. A Viennese Opera Composer in Hollywood: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Double Exile in America. 1996-1995-1994 . (Conference on "The Musical Migration: Germany-Austria, ca. 1930-1950" Harvard University, May 1994; Yale, 1995; Dartmouth, 1996)
  25. B. Gilliam. The Annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi Revisionism and Misappropriation. 1994 . (International Bruckner Symposium, Connecticut College; AMS)
  26. B. Gilliam. The Influence of Film on German Opera of the 1920s. November 1991 . (American Musicological Society, Chicago)
  27. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Intermezzo: Innovation and Tradition. April 1990 . (International Conference on Richard Strauss , Duke University)
  28. B. Gilliam. Intermezzo und die Zeitoper in den Zwanziger Jahren. October 1989 . (Leipzig Gewandhaus Conference on Richard Strauss, Leipzig, former GDR)
  29. B. Gilliam. Die Elektra Premiere: Hintergründe und Rezeption. June 1989 . (International Conference: "Höhepunkte der Dresdner Operngeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert." Dresden, former GDR)
  30. B. Gilliam. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, and the Legacy of Wagner. March 1988 . (T. S. Eliot Centenary Lecture Series, Duke University, Department of English)
  31. B. Gilliam. Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, and the Evolution of Elektra. 1988 . (British 19th-Century Music Conference, Oxford; AMS)
  32. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Preliminary Opera Sketches: Thematic Fragments and Symphonic Continuity. November 1982 . (American Musicological Society, Ann Arbor)
  33. B. Gilliam. Stefan Zweig's Contribution to Strauss Opera after Die schweigsame Frau. April 1981 . (International Stefan Zweig Symposium, SUNY, Fredonia)
  34. B. Gilliam. Richard Strauss's Symphonic-Operatic Concept: What Do the Sources Show?. July 1980 . (British 19th-Century Music Conference, Cambridge University)
  35. B. Gilliam. Ein Skizzenbuch von Richard Strauss an der Harvard University. December 1978 . (University of Munich)

  Reviews
  1. B. Gilliam, various.  Reviews (1992 to 2005). (Written for JAMS, 19th-Century Music, Musical Times, and Kurt Weill Newsletter)

  Program Notes
  1. B. Gilliam. "La música surt de mi!" La dansa i la dissolució d'Elektra. Fall 2007 .
  2. B. Gilliam. Elektra. Fall 2007 .

  Others

    Reviews by Others

      Performance Reviews


    • My Strauss biography has received positive reviews in various journals including JAMS, Music and Letters, The New Yorker, Journal of Musicological Research, and Opera Quarterly. it was cited with praise by Richard Taruskin in the NYT and has been translated into two other languages.

    Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

    • Invited to give Keynote Address at Oxford University, June, 2007.
    • Stanford University Alexander Lecture, January, 2006.
    • American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 2006-2007.
    • Bass Society of Fellows Award, September 2005.
    • Frances Hill Fox Professorship in Humanities, September 2005.
    • Kurt Weill Foundation Research Grant, 1992.
    • Goethe Institut (Atlanta) Foundation Grant, March, 1990.
    • Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Grant, September, 1990.
    • Josiah Charles Trent Foundation Grant, February, 1990.
    • National Endowment for the Humanities Conference Grant, September 1989.
    • International Research Exchange (IREX) Travel Grant, 1989.
    • Duke University Research Council Travel Grant, 1988.
    • Duke University Research Council Grant, July 1987.
    • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Music, 1987-1988.
    • Colby College Humanites Research Award, December 1983.
    • Wesley Wyman Research Award, 1982.
    • Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Research Grant, January 1981.
    • Wesley Wyman Research Award, May 1980.
    • Harvard GSAS Scholarship, 1976 - 1981.
    Invited Lectures, Talks, and Conferences

      Invited Lectures:

    • "Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion," U.C. Davis, March 2007.
    • "Same," U. of Southern California, March 2007.
    • "Dirty Dancing: Strauss, 'Redemption,' and the Affirmation of the Body," Oxford University, June 2007. This was a keynote address for "Strauss and the Scholars: An International Forum" at Magdalen College
    • "Participated on an AMS panel (2003) on "The Search for Academic Employment"," AMS, Houston, 15 November 2003.
    • "Strauss's "Crazy Jewish Girl:" Salome and fin-de-siècle Modernism," University of Toronto, 2002.
    • "Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss," Ojai Music Festival Symposium on "The Idea of Late Style", 2002.
    • "'Ariadne auf Naxos,' 'Daphne,' und das Problem der Verwandlung," Universität Würzburg, Institut für Musikwissenschat, 2002.
    • "Sound, Image, Music: Hollywood Film Music," Lecture to the Duke University Board of Trsutees, 2000.
    • "Politics and the Spirit: R. Strauss and the National Socislist Problem," Eastman School of Music, 2000.
    • "The String Quartet and its Changing Audience," Johns Hopkins University ("Rediscovering the String Quartet), 2000.
    • "Elektras Tanz und Auflösung," Autrian Society for Music, Vienna, 1999.
    • "Variations on an Enigma: R. Strauss 50 Years after his Death," Inaugural Erich Leinsdorf Memorial Lecture (NY Phil.), 1999.
    • ""Fiede im Innern:" Die innere und äussere Persönlichkeit des R. Strauss um die Mitte der dreissiger Jahre," University of Munich ("Richard Strauss und die Moderne"), 1999.
    • "Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the 1930s," York University, Toronto ("Music and Naziism"), 1999.
    • "From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater," Humboldt Unversity, Berlin ("Kurt Weill und Amerikanismus"), 1999.
    • "Lectures for the Salzburg Festival," Salzburg, Austria, 2001-2002.
    Professional Service

      Service as Departmental Officer
    • Music Department, Chair, Spring 2008
    • Music Department, Chair, 2003 - 2004
    • Music Department, Chair, 2000 - 2001
    • Music Department, DGS, 1997 - 1998
    • Music Department, DGS, 1993 - 1995

      Departmental Committees/Service

    • Policy Committee, 2007-2008
    • Chair of Tom Brothers Promotion Review, 2007-2008
    • Chair of Scott Lindroth Promotion Review, 2007/12/07-2007/12/07
    • Susan Dunn Review, Chair, 2005 - 2006
    • Fred Raimi Review, Chair, 2004 - 2005
    • Review Committee, Meintjes, Paley, 2003/09/01-2003/12/01
    • Review Committees, Davidson, Dunn, Paley, 1999/07/01-2003/07/01
    • Theory Search, Chair, 2004 - 2005

      University Committees/Service

    • Appointments Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2003 - 2006
    • A&S Executive Committee, 2001 - 2003

      Service to the Profession

    • Kurt Weill Edition Advisory Board, 1993-
    • Directed a dissertation defense, 2005/12/01-2005/12/01
    • AMS Board Nominating Committee, Chair, Fall 2005
    • Associate Editor of Muscial Quarterly, 1999-

    Doctoral Theses Directed

    • Lily Hirsch, Imagining "Jewish Music" in Nazi Germany: The Berlin Jüdischer Kulturbund and Musical Politics, 1933-41, (2006)
    • Christina Gier, Intertextuality in Music and Gender Ideology in Alban Berg's Modernist Aesthetic, (2003)
    • Graham Hunt, Ever New Formal Structure; Wagner's Lohengrin, (2001)
    • Joy Calico, The Politics of Opera in the GDR, (1999)
    • Neil Lerner, The Classical Documentary Score in American Films of Persuasion: Contexts and Case Studies, (1997)
    • Camille Crittenden, Viennese Musical Life and the Operettas of Johann Strauss, (1997)
    • Charles Youmans, (1992)

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