Liane Curtis

Areas of Expertise

Women and Music; Gender and Music; Music Criticism; Musicology

Email: lcurtis@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Liane continues her work with the Rebecca Clarke Society, writing about Clarke’s music and promoting performances, in particular of Ruth Lomon’s orchestration of Clarke’s 1919 Sonata.   Liane promotes performances of orchestral music by women, and celebrates the legacy of the Women’s Philharmonic. Liane is producing a CD of music by women composers performed by the Lydian String Quartet at the WSRC.

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    

Women and Music Project