Paul Laird
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Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas
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Paul Laird's Degrees
- PhD Musicology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul Robert Laird is an American musicologist at the University of Kansas born in Louisville, Kentucky. Education Raised in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, Laird graduated in 1976 from Bridgewater-Raritan High School East, where he participated in the New Jersey All-State Orchestra.
Paul Laird's Published Works
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Published Works
- Musical Styles and Song Conventions (2011) (25)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (2017) (17)
- From Hair to Rent: is ‘rock’ a four-letter word on Broadway? (2001) (13)
- Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico (1997) (12)
- Wicked: A Musical Biography (2011) (8)
- Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research (2001) (6)
- Musical sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein (2008) (5)
- A critical companion to the American stage musical (2020) (5)
- The creation of a Broadway musical: Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman, and Wicked (2008) (4)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Musical: Choreographers, directors and the fully integrated musical (2008) (4)
- ‘It Couldn’t Happen Here in Oz’: Wicked and the creation of a ‘critic-proof’ musical (2011) (3)
- Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical (2007) (3)
- Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain: 1880–1930 by Clinton D. Young (review) (2018) (2)
- ‘We said we wouldn't look back’: British musical theatre, 1935–1960 (2001) (2)
- XVIII Century Spanish Music Villancicos of Juan Frances de Iribarren (1988) (2)
- Catholic church music in Italy, and the Spanish and Portuguese Empires (2009) (2)
- The American musical theatre in 1957 (2009) (1)
- “The Wizard of Oz and Wicked” (2019) (1)
- Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater . By Larry Stempel. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010. (2014) (1)
- The Chichester Psalms of Leonard Bernstein (2009) (1)
- The Coming of the Sacred Villancico: a musical consideration (1992) (1)
- The Dissemination of the Spanish Baroque Villancico (1993) (1)
- ‘Something borrowed, something blue’: the marriage of the musical and Europe (2008) (1)
- Candide Suite, etc. (2002) (0)
- The influence of Aaron Copland on Leonard Bernstein (1982) (0)
- Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician. By Barry Seldes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story. By Nigel Simeone. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2009.Working with Bernstein. By Jack Gottlieb. New York: Amadeus Press, 2010. (2012) (0)
- An Annotated List of Bernstein’s Major Compositions (2015) (0)
- Hal Prince: Artistry in Producing (2017) (0)
- Leonard Bernstein: Eclecticism and Vernacular Elements in Chichester Psalms (1999) (0)
- Introduction to the ‘Bruce Kirle Panel for Emerging Scholars’ at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Orlando, Florida, August 2019 (2019) (0)
- West Side Story, Teatro Calderón, Madrid, Spain, 4‐5 January 2019 (2019) (0)
- How to Create a Musical: The Case of Wicked (2017) (0)
- Delights & Dances: Works for String Quartet and Orchestra Including West Side Story Concerto. Harlem Quartet and Chicago Sinfonietta, Mei-Ann Chen, conductor. Cedille Recordings CDR 90000 141, 2013, CD. (2014) (0)
- Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450–1800: The Villancico and Related Genres. Ed. by Tess Knighton and Álvaro Torrente. (2009) (0)
- Richard Rodgers (review) (2004) (0)
- Sources on Bernstein’s Compositions (2015) (0)
- "Dulcísimo Sueño" by Sebastián Durón: a "poster child" for the Baroque villancico (2002) (0)
- Kiss Me, Kate: A Musical Play by Cole Porter (review) (2016) (0)
- West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration (2021) (0)
- Songfest: Bernstein's Monument to American Diversity (2020) (0)
- OF THE SPANISH BAROQUE VILLANCICO (2016) (0)
- Ghost the Musical and La Jaula de las Locas (La Cage aux Folles), Madrid, Spain, October 2019 (2020) (0)
- The Fascinating Moment of Godspell (2019) (0)
- Sonata for Solo Cello@@@Rhapsody for Solo Cello (1982)@@@Secret Thoughts for Solo Cello (1990) (0)
- South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten (review) (2012) (0)
- Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450–1800: The Villancico and Related Genres (review) (2009) (0)
- The Leonard Bernstein Letters ed. by Nigel Simeone (review) (2015) (0)
- Conclusion: Revelation in Hamilton (2021) (0)
- Watermarks in selected seventeenth-century Spanish religious music manuscripts (1996) (0)
- Sources on Bernstein’s Allied Pursuits (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews (2018) (0)
- PREGHIERA SCENES IN ITALIAN BEL CANTO OPERA (2014) (0)
- Parent/Child Relationships in the Musicals of Stephen Schwartz (2019) (0)
- The Life and Work of Leonard Bernstein (2015) (0)
- A White House Cantata: Scenes from "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" (2002) (0)
- Music at Burgos Cathedral (1999) (0)
- More than a Producer: ‘George Abbott Presents’ (2017) (0)
- Review: Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840–1940 by John Koegel (2011) (0)
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