Liane Curtis

Areas of Expertise

Music History; Women Composers; Gender and Music

Email: lcurtis@brandeis.edu

Current Project

I am launching Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy to promote performances of music by historic women composers.  I continue my biographical research on composer Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), and to work with the Rebecca Clark Society to promote Ruth Lomon’s orchestration of Clarke’s 1919 Sonata (which was premiered in 2007).

Biography

Liane Curtis is a musicologist, music critic, and the founder and President of The Rebecca Clarke Society, Inc. (based at the WSRC).  A former Fulbright Scholar, Liane has taught at wide range of colleges and universities, including Wellesley, Ohio State, and (in Spring 2007) at Brandeis University.  She has written for The Gay and Lesbian Review, the San Francisco Examiner, Bay Windows, The Musical Times, The New Grove Dictionary of Music, the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Women’s Enews and other publications.  In October 2006, Liane was a Fellow in the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera (at Columbia University).  Her writings have been translated into French, German, Korean and Flemish.

In 2000, she collaborated with the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail to have the name of composer Amy Beach added to the 87 names of male composers that adorn the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade.  The unveiling of Beach’s name took place with a performance by the Boston Pops Orchestra that included music by Beach.
    
From January 2000 through August 2001 she served as coordinator of the Women’s Studies Scholars Program at Brandeis.  Liane’s blog, therewasnolump.blogspot.com documents her 2004 experience with inflammatory breast cancer.

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina; Musicology

M.A., Univ. of North Carolina; Music History

B.A., University of California; Music

Representative Publications

Curtis, Liane, ed.  A Rebecca Clarke Reader.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.  Reprinted by The Rebecca Clarke Society, 2005.

Curtis, Liane.  “Classical Music Sounds Like Women Silenced.”  Women’s Enews, June 6, 2007.  Available online.

Links

Curriculum Vitae

Rebecca Clarke Society 

Boston Women’s Heritage Trail 

International Association for Women in Music 

Women's Philharmonic Advocacy