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If Music Could Talk, the Athenaeum’s new series of musical performances also includes brief demonstrations, conversations about music, and audience interaction.
Professor Kelly is the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, former chair of Harvard’s Music Department, and an expert in Medieval music. Renowned as a speaker who can make his subject come alive, he was selected from among the entire faculty for one of the pilot projects of EdX, Harvard’s online learning program. Kelly’s book Capturing Music: The Story of Notation was published in 2014 by Norton to wide acclaim. This presentation will feature slides (including illuminated manuscripts and architecture) and many recorded musical examples.