EVENTS
I have given over 150 international guest lectures and keynote addresses (in German and in English) in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Nederlands, Russia, Scotland, USA, UK. For a comprehensive guide, including my scholarly articles and essays in edited works, please see my CV. Here, though, is a list of my keynote and major public lectures.
7 March 2009
Invited Lecture, ‘Reality and Justice: On translating Goethe’s Correspondence with Zelter’, ‘Translation: Right or Wrong?’ Conference, School of Languages, Trinity College Dublin
30 October 2008
Invited Lecture, ‘Late Style and the Paradoxical Poetics of the Schubert-Berio Renderings’, St Patrick’s College, Dublin
26 June 2008
Paper read, ‘A Veil of Silence: 200 Years of Myth-Making belied by the Goethe-Zelter Letters’, 15th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, School of Music, University College Dublin.
10 May 2008
Lecture-Recital with Sylvia O’Brien (soprano) and Seóirse Bodley (piano), ‘A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley’s Songs on the Poems of Micheal O’Siadhail’, Waterford Institute of Technology.
20 April 2008
Launch of Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s critical edition of A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seóirse Bodley’s Songs on the Poems of Micheal O’Siadhail, at a composer’s 75th birthday concert of the song cycles performed by Sylvia O’Brien (soprano) and Seóirse Bodley (piano) in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin in association with the Contemporary Music Centre Dublin
21 May 2008
Pre-Performance Lecture, ‘The Vexations of Music Theatre: Anna Amalia’s Setting of Goethe’s Erwin und Elmire’, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
30 November 2007
Public Lecture and Orchestral Premiere of Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s edition of Proserpina: Goethe’s Melodrama with Music by Carl Eberwein, given by the National Symphony Orchestra and the RTE Philharmonic Choir conducted by Gerhard Markson, with German Actress, Elfi Hoppe as Proserpina in the National Concert Hall, Dublin
7 November 2007
Invited Lecture, ‘Late Style and the Paradoxical Poetics of the Schubert-Berio Renderings’, School of Music, University College Dublin
1 November 2007
Guest Lecture, ‘Schubert’s Other Unfinished Symphonies’, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin
31 March 2007
Invited Guest Lecture, ‘Die Ärgernisse des Musiktheaters: Anna Amalias Vertonung von Goethes Erwin und Elmire’, 1. Interdiziplinäres Anna Amalia and Goethe Konferenz (Unter der Schirmherrschaft von SD Prinz Michael von Sachsen-Weimar und Eisenach), Goethe Gesellschaft Weimar
11 November 2006
Invited Guest Lecture at Anna Amalia and Goethe Symposium: ‘Inspiration und Innovation in Goethe’s Erwin und Elmire’. Goethe Gesellschaft Weimar
16 July 2005
Paper Read, ‘Mendelssohn in the Goethe-Zelter Letters’, at the Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century International Conference, Trinity College Dublin
22 March 2005
Launch of Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s critical edition of Seóirse Bodley: Three Congregational Masses (Dublin: Carysfort Press, March 2005) and performance of Seóirse Bodley’s Mass of Glory and Liszt’s Via Crucis, conducted by Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Clonliffe Church, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin.
5 December 2004
Invited Public Lecture: ‘Goethe’s and Schubert’s Claudine von Villa Bella: Conflict and Reconciliation’, Pre-Performance Lecture to the North American Premiere of Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s Edition of Schubert’s Opera Claudine von Villa Bella, Regina Symphony Orchestra
4 December 2004
Keynote Address, ‘Schubert and Goethe: Musicological Misconceptions’, The Unknown Schubert Conference, University of Regina, Canada
25 November 2004
Public launch of Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst, Abbey Theatre, Dublin