Dr. Anthony LaLena teaches courses on western classical music, jazz, and rock and pop. He also teaches upper-level seminars on musical modernism and critical theory, musicological approaches to aesthetic theory and historiography, and collaborations of music and dance in the 20th century.
His musicological research is focused on music and politics, and specifically the musical construction of identity and race in twentieth-century Spain. More broadly, his research interests include the aesthetics of fragmentation, failure, humor, and puppetry in modernist theatrical music. His most recent work concerning the guitar focuses on distance and longing in the music of composers of the Spanish diaspora following the Spanish Civil War.
Currently, he is completing a recording project of new solo guitar music by Gulli Björnsson and Mark Delpriora. A second recording project underway features historically-informed performances of music from the 1920s and 30s by Spanish exiles and Latin American composers.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
DMA, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
MM, Manhattan School of Music
BM, SUNY Fredonia