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March 12, 2002

MUSIC SCHOLAR TO SPEAK AT UNM ARTS OF AMERICAS INSTITUTE

Known as the world scholar in Latin American music with a career that spans half a century, Robert Stevenson, Ph.D., will give two talks this month sponsored by the University of New Mexico Arts of Americas Institute (AAI).

On Thursday, March 21, he will give a lecture on composer John Cage at 4 p.m. at AAI, 1923 Las Lomas.

On Friday, March 22, he will give a lecture on Mexican baroque music from 11 a.m. to noon at the Willard Reading Room in Zimmerman Library.

A native of Melrose, N.M., Stevenson is a musicologist, educator, composer and pianist. Since 1949, he has been teaching musicology at the University of California at Los Angeles where he is a professor emeritus.

A master of European languages, he has concentrated mainly on Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese music, both sacred and secular. He has contributed more than 400 articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as well as numerous articles to Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.

Stevenson was a contributor to the Handbook of Latin American Studies at the Library of Congress and has been editor and principal contributor to the Inter-American Music Review.

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