| Area of Instruction: |
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Musicology |
| Faculty Since: |
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1992 |
| Credentials: |
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BM, New England Conservatory; MM, MA, Eastman School of Music; PhD, University of Rochester; American Musicological Society Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellow (1991-92) |
| Biography: |
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bruce d. mcclung taught music history and theory at Eastman
(Teaching Award) and the University of Rochester (finalist, Teacher of
the Year). He is the author of the book Lady in the Dark: Biography of a
Musical (Oxford U. Press, 2007), which won the 2006 Special
Jury Prize-George Freedly Award, the 2007 Kurt Weill Prize,
and a 2008 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.
mcclung has presented papers at regional and national meetings of the American Musicological Society,
International Musicological Society, International Kurt Weill
Symposium, International Colloquium on the American and
British Musical, Song, Stage and Screen Conferences, Society for
American Music, and invited lectures. He has had reviews published in American Music,
The Opera Quarterly, and Kurt Weill Newsletter; articles in
Biblion: The Boundless Library, Playbill, Kurt Weill Newsletter,
Theater; and pieces in the collections A Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill
Studien (Georg Olms Verlag, 1993) and The Cambridge Companion
to the Musical (Cambridge U. Press, 2008).
Furthermore, mcclung has served as a Kurt Weill Edition
Advisory Board Member and volume editor for Lady in the Dark
(in preparation) and has contributed articles on “Cincinnati,” “Ira Gershwin,” “Gertrude
Lawrence,” “Lotte Lenya,” and “Kurt Weill” in The New Grove
Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press,
in press); Lady in the Dark for Enzyklopädie des Musiktheater
(R. Piper, 1997); and “Kurt Weill” in A Reader’s Guide to Music
(Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999). He also served as co-editor of Lady in the Dark: A
Sourcebook (Kurt Weill Foundation, 1997) as well as a music
and text consultant for Royal National Theatre (London) production of the musical
the musical supervisor for the London cast recording, and a music consultant
for Encores!’s production.
bruce mcclung has received the Fellow of UC Academy of Fellows for
Teaching and Learning, the 2009 UC Excellence in
Doctoral Mentoring Award, and an NEH Summer
Stipend Award in 2010. |
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