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JOHN PLATOFF Department
of Music--AAC University
of Pennsylvania, 1978-84. Ph.D. 1984 University of Pennsylvania, 1970-73. B.A. in Music summa cum laude, 1973 Williams College, 1969-70
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS "Operatic Ensembles and the Problem of the Don Giovanni Sextet." Opera buffa in Mozart’s Vienna, ed. by Mary Hunter and James Webster (Cambridge, 1997), 378-405 "Myths and Realities about Tonal Planning in Mozart’s Operas." CambridgeOpera Journal 8 (1996), 3-15 "Catalogue Arias and the 'Catalogue' Aria." Wolfgang Amadè Mozart: Essays on His Life and Music, ed. by Stanley Sadie (Oxford, 1996), 296-311 "A New History for Martín's Una cosa rara." The Journal of Musicology 12 (1994), 85-115 "Mozart and his Rivals: Opera in Vienna in Mozart's Time." Current Musicology, no. 51 (1993), 105-11 Five articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), 4 vols.: S.v. “Bertati, Giovanni”; “Casti, Giovanni Battista”; “Fra i due litiganti”; “Il re Teodoro in Venezia”; “Il convitato di pietra” "How Original was Mozart? Evidence from the opera buffa." Early Music 20 (1992), 105-17 "
'Non tardar amato bene' completed--but not by Mozart."
Musical Times 132 (1991), 557-60 "Mozart und die Zeitgenossen: Oper in Wien zu Mozarts Zeit." Oper 1991 (Jahrbuch der Zeitschrift Opernwelt), 27-30 "The buffa Aria in Mozart's Vienna." Cambridge Opera Journal 2 (1990), 99-120 "Musical and Dramatic Structure in the Opera Buffa Finale." The Journal ofMusicology 7 (1989), 191-230 "Writing about Influences: Idomeneo, a Case Study," in Explorations in Music,the Arts, and Ideas: Essays in Honor of Leonard B. Meyer, ed. by Eugene Narmour and Ruth Solie (New York, 1988), 43-65 Review of Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart's Librettist, by Sheila Hodges (New York, 1985). The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, new series, 11 (1990), 295-96 Review of Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro"and "Don Giovanni", by Wye Jamison Allanbrook (Chicago, 1983). The Journal of Musicology 4 (1985-86), 535-38 "Dissociation and Integration: The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 130" (with David L. Brodbeck). Nineteenth Century Music 7 (1983-84), 149-62 Review of Kapellmeister Hummel in England and France, by Joel Sachs (Detroit, 1977). Nineteenth Century Music 3 (1979-80), 271-74 "Why Two 'Revolution's?" Beatles 2000 International Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, June 17, 2000 "A Context for Mozart’s Da Ponte Operas: Salieri’s La grotta di Trofonio and Paisiello’s Il Re Teodoro in Venezia," 29th Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 2, 1998; Faculty Research Lecture, Trinity College, October 7, 1998; University of Pittsburgh, February 26, 1999; New England Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, Yale University, April 10, 1999 Respondent, Session on "Mozart and Representation," 29th Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 1, 1998 "Mozart and His Rivals in Vienna's Operatic World," Mozart Akademie, 25th Mozart Festival, San Luis Obispo, Calif., July 24, 1995 "Myths and Realities about Tonal Planning in Mozart’s Operas," New England Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, Mass. Institute of Technology, October 1, 1994; National Meeting, American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, October 28, 1994 "Operatic
Ensembles and the Problem of the Don Giovanni Sextet,"
International Conference, "Opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna,"
Cornell University,
September 8-11, 1994 "Catalogue Arias and the 'Catalogue' Aria," Mozart Bicentenary Conference, Royal Musical Association, London, August 26, 1991; New York Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, New York University, New York, October 12, 1991; University of Connecticut, Storrs, April 15, 1992 "Opera in Mozart's Vienna," Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, October 23, 1991 "Mozart
and his Rivals: Opera in Vienna," Mozart's Nature, Mozart's World,
Boston, February 28, 1991; Houston, April 21, 1991; St. Paul, Minn.,
December 6, 1991
"The Buffo Aria in Late 18th-Century Opera, or Mozart was Less
Original than You Think," Hartt School of Music, University of
Hartford, April 19, 1989 "Writing about Influences: Idomeneo, a Case Study," New England Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., September 26, 1987; New York Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, Baruch College, New York, March 11, 1989 "Lorenzo Da Ponte and Don Giovanni," Symposium, "Don Giovanni: Then and Now," Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, February 28, 1987 Respondent, Session on "Mozart and Beethoven," National Meeting, American Musicological Society, Cleveland, Ohio, November 9, 1986 "Music and Drama in the Opera Buffa Finale: Mozart and his Contemporaries," National Meeting, American Musicological Society, Louisville, Ky., October 29, 1983
"Dramatic Action and Emotional Expression in Da Ponte's Opera
Librettos," Symposium on Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart on the Square
Festival, Philadelphia, May 17, 1983 WORK IN PROGRESS "Mozart and the opera buffa in Vienna" (book; to be published by Oxford University Press) "Giuseppe Sarti's I due litiganti: The Strange History of an Operatic Success" (article) “Francesco
Benucci and the Buffa Aria” (article) Professor
of Music,Trinity College, 1996-
Orchestral performance: Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces, conducted by
Gerald Moshell, Trinity College, 1985
Violin and piano recital (with Susan Freier), Sarah Lawrence College, 1977 Studies in piano: Aspen Music Festival, 1976-78 (with Claude Frank and Aube Tzerko); with Claude Frank and Piero Weiss, New York, 1976-80; with Vera Tisheff, Englewood, N.J., 1960-76 |