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Dr. Mark A. Pottinger
Assistant Professor of Music
Chairperson of the Department |
Education:
- Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 2005
- M.Mus, University of Leeds, UK, 1996
- B.A., cum laude, Washington University in St. Louis, 1995
Research and Scholarly Interests:
Opera Studies, Hermeneutics, 19th-Century Musical Aesthetics, French grand opéra, and Hector Berlioz
Publications, Conference Papers, and Special Lectures:
Summer 2009
Book Review for Nineteenth-Century Music Review, vol. 6 (July 2009), no. 1, pp. 97-100, of Mark Everist, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).
Spring 2009
“American Music in Paris: The Jazz Years, 1917-1930,” Special Lecture (Department of Modern Languages), Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York
Spring 2009
The Staging of History in France: The Characterization of Historical Figures in French Grand Opéra during the reign of Louis-Philippe (Berlin: VDM Verlag, 2009).
Fall 2008
Book Review for Music & Letters, vol. lxxxix, no. 3 (2008), pp. 434-435, of Jean de Nivelle: Dossier de presse parisenne (1880). Ed. By Pauline Girard and Bérengère de l’Epine, ‘Critiques de l’opéra français du XIXème siècle,’ vol. xviii (Weinsberg: Musik-Edition Lucie Galland, 2006).
Summer 2008
“Music History, Study Abroad, and the Connections They Create for the Classroom,” presented at the College Music Society Conference on Music History and Pedagogy, The Juilliard School, New York, New York
Fall 2007
Book Review for Music & Letters, vol. lxxxviii, no. 4 (November 2007), pp. 680-682, of La Reine de Chypre: Dossier de presse parisenne (1841). Ed. By Anne-Sophie Métérie, ‘Critiques de l’opéra français du XIXème siècle’, vol. xvi (Weinsberg: Musik-Edition Lucie Galland, 2007).
Spring 2007
“The Breslau Concert Tour of 1846: Provincial German Insights into Berlioz’s Music and Aesthetic,” The Musical Voyager: Berlioz in Europe, eds. David Charlton and Katherine Ellis (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 80-94.
Spring 2007
“Diversity, the Academy, and the AMS: One Scholar’s Journey,” presented at the Diversity Committee of the Music Programs at CUNY, Spring Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York
Spring 2007
Program Notes for Organ Concert honoring St. Jean Baptiste De LaSalle
(15 May 2007), Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York. Program
notes for the organ music of Bach, Zipoli, Rota, Castelnuovo-Tedesco,
Duprè, Scarlatti, and Alain.
Spring 2007
Program Notes for Good Friday Service (6 April 2007), Marble Collegiate
Church, New York, New York. Program notes for the choral music of Bach,
Mozart, Rutter, and Durufle.
Fall 2006
Textbook Review Editor for
A Creative Approach to Music Fundamental, 9th edition by William Duckworth (Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher Education, 2007)
Spring 2006
“French Grand Opera and the Art of History,” Special Lecture (Som
Graduate Colloquium Lecture), University of Kentucky, School of
Music,Lexington, Kentucky
S
pring 2006
“Music and the Nature of Aesthetics,” Special Lecture (Honors
Enrichment Program Seminar), Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York
Spring 2006
“The Academic Road Ahead,” Special Lecture (Mellon-Mays
Undergraduate Fellowship Honors Seminar), Washington University, St.
Louis, Missouri
Fall 2005
“The Theory and Practice of Musicology,” Special Lecture
(Department of History: “Introduction to History”), Manhattan College,
Riverdale, New York
Aug. 2005
“The Revolution of History in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France:
Daniel Auber’s
Gustave III (1833),” presented at the Third
International Symposium on the Humanities, Cambridge University,
Cambridge, England
Spring 2005
“Berlioz and the Gothic Sublime in the Incomplete Opera
La nonne
sanglante,” Special Faculty Lecture (The Dante Seminar), Manhattan
College, Riverdale, New York
March 2005
“The Gothic in Berlioz’s
La nonne sanglante and the
Grand
traité d’instrumenation,”
Hector Berlioz.
Miscellaneous Studies, eds. Fulvia Morabito and Michela Niccolai
(Bologna: Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2005), pp. 121-161
Fall 2004
“The Theory and Practice of Musicology,” Special Lecture
(Department of History: “Introduction to History”), Manhattan College,
Riverdale, New York
July 2004
“The Staging of History in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France: Auber’s Gustave III (1833),” presented at an international music
symposium, “Music in France,
1830-1945,” University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Spring 2004
“Black Essentialism and African-American Spirituals in James
H. Cone’s The Spirituals and the Blues,” Special
Lecture (Department of Religious Studies: “God and Evil”), Manhattan
College, Riverdale, New York
Nov. 2003
“French Grand Opéra Scholarship—Past and Present,” presented at
a music symposium, “La Juive, or, French Grand Opéra
Revisited,” theCUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York
June 2003
Response to Dr. Robert Kroes (University of Amsterdam), “Rap
in Europe,” presented at the SSRC-National Mellon Minority
Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov. 2002
“The Breslau Concert Tour of 1846: Local Insights into Berlioz’s Music
and Aesthetic,” presented at the Comité International Hector
Berlioz
2002 Conference, “Interpreting Berlioz,” The Royal College of Music,
London, England
Nov. 2002
“The Musical Language of Rigoletto,”presented at an
interdisciplinary faculty symposium on Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Rigoletto,
Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York
Oct. 2002
"The Musical Language of Salome,”presented at an
interdisciplinary faculty symposium on Richard Strauss’s opera Salome,
Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York
June 2001
“Finding
Common Ground: Musicology and Ethnomusicology in the Academy,”
presented at the SSRC-National Mellon Minority Conference, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina
Other Activities:
Dr. Pottinger is a member of the College Music Society of America, the College Art Association, and the American Musicological Society. Dr. Pottinger is also a Board Member of Underworld Productions, a non-for-profit opera company based in Northern Manhattan. Dr. Pottinger is currently serving as chairperson of the department.
Courses Taught/Teaching:
- ART 220: The Fundamentals of Music Theory
- ART 305: Music, History, and Culture in France: Paris and the Surrounding Environs
- ART 400: Opera as Text: Perspectives on
Music and Drama
- ART 400: Modern Music and the Avant-Garde
- ART 400: Music and Romanticism
- ART 410: Bach and the Art of Composition: The
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
- LLRN 207: Roots of the Modern Age: Music
Contact Information:
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