Oral Papers and Addresses:
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Interviewed at length on WRVR-FM (New York) on the
Shostakovich 14th Symphony. Broadcast 1 January 1970.
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Participated (in French) in the panel discussion "Plein
feu sur New York," broadcast in France on France Culture (O.R.T.F.), 20
April 1974.
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"Alexander Scriabin as a Symbolist Poet." 10 April
1979, "Celebration of Russian Symbolism," C.U.N.Y. Graduate School, New
York, NY.
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"Music and Vivre sa vie." 22 March 1980, Society
for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
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Four lectures on the films of Claude Chabrol. 27 October,
3, 10, 17 November, New School, New York, NY.
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"The Musical Structure of Robbe-Grillet's La Maison
de rendez-vous." 9 April 1981, N.E.M.L.A. Convention, "Music and Literature"
section, Québec City, Canada.
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"The Professorial Type in Modern French Theater."
3 April 1982, N.E.M.L.A. Convention, "Modern French Drama" section, Hunter
College, New York, NY.
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"The Beast Must Die: Narrative Versus Genre
Deception in the Nicholas Blake Novel and the Claude Chabrol Film." 24
September 1982, "Seventh Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature: Deceit
and Deception in Modern Literature and Film," sponsored by the Department
of Foreign Languages, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, W. VA.
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Talks on Federico Fellini's films, Satyricon
and Juliet of the Spirits; a talk on "How to Read a Film." 16-18
February 1983, Oregon Institute of Technology, sponsored by the Klamath
Falls, Oregon, Arts Council.
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"Vertigo as Orphic Tragedy." 4 March 1983,
University of Rochester under the sponsorship of the Department of Foreign
Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, the Film Studies Program, and the
Student Activities Office.
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Presented a program on film music and was interviewed,
"IBM's Salute to the Arts: Moving Image," WQXR-FM, 2 November 1984.
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"Music Structure in Pierrot le fou: Jean-Luc
Godard and Antoine Duhamel." 7 June 1985, Salisbury Conference on Literature
and Film, Salisbury State College, Salisbury, MD.
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"Robbe-Grillet's l'Eden et après (1971):
Narrative vs. Musical Structure." 6 February 1986, F.L.L.L. and Film Studies
Spring Lecture Series, "Contemporary European Film and Film Criticism,"
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
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"The Found Chord: Music for the Lost Hitchcock Films."
14 June 1986, Conference on Alfred Hitchcock's Re-released films, Pace
University, New York, New York.
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"Thématique de Jean Tardieu." 4 April 1986,
N.E.M.L.A. Conference, Rutgers Universtiy, New Brunswick, NJ.
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"Cinema Then/Cinema Now: The Man Who Knew Too Much."
Panelist with Janet Cutler on the CUNY TV program, originally broadcast
10, 12 October 1986.
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"Serialism in Robbe-Grillet's l'Eden et après:
Authorial Structure Versus Spectatorial Structuration." 23 May 1987, Society
for Cinema Studies Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
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"Cinema Then/Cinema Now: Breathless." Panelist
with Ellen Lampert on the CUNY TV program, originally broadcast 25-26 February
1989.
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"Claude Chabrol's Que la bête meure,
1970." 18 April 1989; lecture/discussion sponsored by the C.U.N.Y. Graduate
School and University Center and the French Students' Forum, C.U.N.Y. Graduate
Center, New York.
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"Robbe-Grillet: Sexist or Feminist?" 28 April 1989,
"Robbe-Grillet, Cinéaste, A symposium of the Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet,"
New York University.
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"Objects, Events, and Time: Towards a Theory of Film
Based on the Interaction Between Myth and History." 1 February 1990, "Literature
and Film in the Historical Dimension, 15th Annual Conference on Literature
and Film," Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
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"Cinema Then/Cinema Now: Blackmail." Panelist
with Elisabeth Weis on the CUNY TV program; originally broadcast on 23-24
February 1991.
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"Classic Scores from the Films of Errol Flynn": Guest
speaker for this segment in the Music of the Cinema radio series. Fed on
3 December 1991 from WNYC to the National Public Radio network.
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"Robbe-Grillet Mythomane: Le Mensonge Vrai de l'Homme
qui ment." Given on 10 October 1992 in the colloquium "Robbe-Grillet
à Soixante-Dix Ans/Robbe-Grillet at Seventy," Washington University,
St. Louis, MO.
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"Music as Image as Music: The Overtones and Undertones
of the Film Score." Opening address given at the Society for the Preservation
of Film Music's Second Annual International Film Music Conference, 5 March
1993, American Film Institute, Hollywood, CA.
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"From Marienbad to La Belle captive:
Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Politics of Narrative." Hour-long talk given
29 April 1993 to graduate students from the Romance Languages and Communications
Departments at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
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"Images as Mummies, or The Hyperpatriarchal Versus
the Postpatriarchal in a Battle for the New Flesh." Paper given at the
annual Screen Studies Conference sponsored by the journal Screen and the
University of Glasgow, 26 June 1993, Glasgow, Scotland.
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"Ennio Morricone, An Appreciation." Talk given at
the Third Annual International Film Music Conference," sponsored by the
Society for the Preservation of Film Music, Glendale, CA, 19 March 1994.
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"The Art of Writing Film Music Criticism." Talk given
at the Third Annual International Film Music Conference," sponsored by
the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, Glendale, CA, 17 March
1994.
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"La Maison de rendez-vous: Music and the Remythified
Narrative." Paper given at the Conference "The New Novel and Its Extensions:
Literary and Visual," sponsored by the New Novel Association, Elmira College,
Elmira, NY, 16 October 1994.
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"One Hundred Years of French Film: My Life to Live":
half-hour-long discussion of Godard's Vivre sa vie in the series 100 Years
of French Film, CUNY TV. Originally broadcast in December 1994.
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One-and-a-half-hour illustrated lecture on Bernard
Herrmann and his successors for the course at The New School for Social
Research entitled "Revisiting the Film Music Project" (Barry Salman), Graduate
Media Studies Program, School of Communications, New York City, 1 March
1995.
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"Recasting the Shape of Music: Bernard Herrmann and
the Hollywood Film Score." Hour-long talk given in the symposium "Film
und Musik" in the "Internationale Filmfestwochen Wien" sponsored by Synema,
Vienna, Austria, 30 April 1995.
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"The Mirror of Meta-fiction: Robbe-Grillet as the
Writerly Reader of Trans-Europ-Express." Forty-five-minute paper
presented in the conference "Au Temple des Rêves: L'Écrivain
à l'Écran" sponsored by Living Time Films, Ltd., and the
Maison Française, Oxford University, at Oxford, England, 25 September
1996.
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Participated, with Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dimitri DeClercq,
Roch Smith, and Raylene Ramsay, in panel discussion following the London
premiere of Robbe-Grillet and Dimitri DeClercq's film, Un Bruit qui
rend fou (The Blue Villa) at the French Institute, London, 27 September
1996.
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"Film on Video as Popular Archives." Paper given in
the panel "Film and TV Studies in the Archive: History, Theory, and Practice,"
Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, 28 December
1996.
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"City Cinemathèque: The British Tradition of
Quality: The Lady Vanishes." Half-hour-long discussion of Alfred
Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes for the CUNY-TV program, first broadcast
1, 2, and 7 March 1997.
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Presentation of Hitchcock's two World-War-II films, Bon
Voyage and Aventure malgache, presented by New York Film Buffs.
New York City, Alliance Française, 22 May 1997.
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"Sound Music in the Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet":
hour-long paper presented in Cinesonic: The World of Sound in Film:
1st Annual Conference on Film Scores & Sound Design sponsored by
the Media Arts/Department of Visual Communication in the Faculty of Art,
Design & Communication of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Melbourne, Australia, 31 July 1998.
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"Mythe et musique chez Robbe-Grillet": 45-minute paper
presented in A Celebration of Alain Robbe-Grillet in Honor of his 25
Years as Visiting Professor at NYU. New York, New York University,
9 October 1998.
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Presentation and discussion of Leonard Bernstein's
music for On the Waterfront as a part of the Philadelphia Orchestra's
"American Originals" Festival. Philadelphia, PA, Gershman Y, 2 November
1998.
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A two-hour talk, "Bernard Herrmann compositor," a
second two-hour talk, "Bernard Herrmann, un compositor para el cine," and
a 2½-hour workshop, "Análisis filmico-musical de films con
música de Herrmann" in the 12th International Conference on Música
Cinematográfica y escénica: La atracción del abismo:
Herrmann, Welles, Hitchcock: Autores en el Hollywood de los estudios.
Seville, Spain, 11 November 1998.
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Appeared on the National Public Radio program Performance
Today presenting the second installment of NPR's two-year "Milestones
of the Millennium" series: The History of Music in Film. Initially
broadcast on 6 January 1999.
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Appeared on the National Public Radio program Performance
Today: "Royal Brown on the Academy Awards." Initially broadcast on
19 March 1999.
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"Alfred Hitchcock's Legacy": Hour-and-a-half presentation
given during National Library Week. Queens College, 14 April 1999.
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Appeared on the National Public Radio program Performance
Today: "Royal Brown on The Red Violin." Initially broadcast
on 18 June 1999.
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Appeared on The Bill Ayers Show (WPNJ-FM, New
York, New Jersey): live, hour-and-a-half call-in show (12:00 midnight to
1:30 a.m.) on the topic of the cinema. Broadcast on 12 July 1999.
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Appeared on the National Public Radio program Performance
Today discussing music used within the narratives of Alfred Hitchcock
films. Initially broadcast on 13 August 1999.
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Appeared on the WNYC-FM (New York) program Spinning
on Air discussing Alfred Hitchcock. Broadcast on 13 August 1999.
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"Cinétexte and French Culture: Interactions":
Talk given in the seminar series "Globalization and French Studies: Strategies
for Developing Civilization and Cultural Studies," sponsored by the PhD
Program in French (CUNY Graduate School), the Department of Modern Languages
(Baruch College, CUNY), and the Department of Romance Languages (HunterCollege,
CUNY). Baruch College, 9 December 1999.
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Appeared on the National Public Radio program Performance
Today with a live review of Fantasia 2000. Initially broadcast
on 20 December 1999.
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Appeared on the National Public Radio program Performance
Today discussing major film scores of 1939. Initially broadcast on
27 December 1999.
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Original photographs:
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Of Alain Robbe-Grillet, used as the frontispiece for
Anthony N. Fragola and Roch C. Smith, The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews
with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films (Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1992).
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Two of Alain Robbe-Grillet, front cover and p. 74, Literature/Film
Quarterly 17, 2 (1989).
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Of Alain Robbe-Grillet, inside cover, Alain Robbe-Grillet
Film Retrospective. New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1989.
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Of Miklós Rózsa. Fanfare,
11, 6 (July/August 1988): 408.
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Of Bernard Herrmann. Accompanies my review "North
by Northwest by Hitchcock by Herrmann." Fanfare 3, 6 (July/August
1980): 12.
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Of Henri Dutilleux. Accompanies "A Conversation with
Henri Dutilleux." Musical America (see articles).
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Of Georges Auric. Accompanies "Auric Speaks of Then
and Now." The New York Times (see articles).
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Of Leon Kirchner. Used on cover of Musical America
featuring my "Musician of the Month: Leon Kirchner" (see articles).
Recording:
- "Interview with Royal Brown," in Dmitri Shostakovich
Speaks. Interview also appears in program notes. 4 Melodiya discs 33M40-41705-12
(Moscow: 1979).
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