SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Virtual Talk: “L’enfance du Christ, Berlioz’s last Choral-Orchestral Work” for Handel Choir of Baltimore, November 30, 2020.
Lecture: “Mélodies Fantastiques! — Mystique and Narrative in Berlioz’s Vocal Music” for Opera Prelude, Cadogan Hall, London, United Kingdom. November 26, 2019.
Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener’s Companion. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Forward author and advisor, A History of the Handel Choir of Baltimore (1935-2013) by Carl B. Schmidt. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2015.
Lecture: “Assertiveness, Stamina, Confidence” for Women in Western Music class, Towson University, April 23, 2014.
Pre-concert lecture, “Music for a Royal Occasion” for Washington Cathedral Society, Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C., May 12, 2013.
Lecture, “Reminiscence and Culmination: Brahms’s late a cappella music (Op. 93a, 104, 109 and 110)” at Gather by the River, a conference sponsored by American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division, Dartmouth College, August 10, 2013.
Essay for hand-print folio, “Handel’s Compassion and Messiah: An Oratorio,” Hill Press, 2012.
Guest artist interview and discussion, “Conductor Choices in Performing Handel’s Messiah” for Introduction to Music class. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, February 21, 2011.
Lecture and reading session, Library of Congress choral music project: “American Music 1870-1923” with focus on Edward MacDowell. For Eastern Division of the American Choral Conductors Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 12, 2010.
Conference lecture, “Preparing and Performing Berlioz’s Choral Music—Individual Works and Excerpts,” Berlioz Society. London, UK, 2009.
“Passion and Authenticity: A Conversation with Marin Alsop” in Wisdom, Wit and Will: Women Choral Conductors on Their Art, edited by Joan Catoni Conlon. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2009.
New Music Project presentations at Conductors Guild conferences: Jonathan Leshnoff’s Requiem for the Fallen (Baltimore, 2008); Berlioz’s Orchestral Songs and Choruses (Boston, 2005); Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum (New York, 2003); and John Adams’ Harmonium (Houston, 2001).
Guest lecture, “Berlioz’s Vocal Solo Repertoire” for Vocal Literature class. Towson University Center for the Arts, Towson, MD, March 14, 2007.
Advisor, History of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, 1807-2007 by J. Heywood Alexander with David Robinson. Forward by Jere Daniell; with accompanying compact disc of historical and modern recordings, 2006.
Guest lecture, “A Conductor’s Viewpoint—A Mozart Celebration,” University Music Class, Towson University Center for the Arts, Towson, MD, March 1, 2006.
Co-organizer and featured speaker on three-person panel, “Vocal vs. Instrumental: Is the Divide So Very Wide?” Conductors Guild Conference, Boston, MA, January 7, 2005.
New Music Project presentation, “Berlioz’s Orchestral Songs and Choruses: Repertoire suggestions for orchestra conductors.” Conductors Guild conference, Boston, MA, January 9, 2005.
“Orchestral Songs and Choruses by Hector Berlioz” in Podium Notes. Conductor’s Guild Journal, 2005.
Guest lecture on Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium and Handel Messiah, Brown Memorial Woodbrook Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, December 11, 2005.
Guest lecture, “Hector Berlioz: Chanson (ou Mélodie) et Aria.” Vocal Repertoire class, Towson University Center for the Arts, Towson, MD, October 6, 2004.
Presentation and working session for conductors, “Berlioz’s Individual Choral Works and Songs —Programming and Conducting” during symposium “Berlioz Over Two Centuries: Interpretations, Evaluations, Reconstructions.” Indiana University-Bloomington, featuring Leon Plantinga, Julian Rushton and Hugh Macdonald. Consultant for rehearsals of La damnation de Faust conducted by Jan Harrington, April 24-27, 2003.
“Berlioz’s Vocal Music–Some Programming Ideas,” Choral Journal, November 2002. Reprinted by permission for the Hector Berlioz webpage, 2003: http://www.hberlioz.com/Special/moneal.htm.
“Coming to Terms with Historical Performance Practices,” in Up Front!: Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor, ed. Guy Webb. Boston: ECS Publications, 1994. Revised for Journal of the Conductors Guild, January 2000.
“An Introduction to Performance Practice Considerations for the Mozart Requiem,” ACDA Choral Journal, April 1991. Revised for Journal of the Conductors Guild, February 1999.
Guest Speaker, “Expectation–Reality; Tradition–Change.” Dartmouth Class of 1956 Annual Dinner, New York City, 1998.
Presenter, “Separating the Conductor from the Composer,” for Preparation of Tomorrow’s Conductors, Conductor’s Guild Conference, SUNY-Buffalo, 1991.