Jonathan Lee

JONATHAN RHODES LEE University of Nevada, Las Vegas | School of Music |- ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2015–Present: Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas-: Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Liberal Arts, University of Chicago. EDUCATION 2013: PhD., University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation: “Virtue Rewarded: Handel’s Oratorios and the Culture of Sentiment” 2007: M.A., University of California, Berkeley 2002: M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music 2000: B.A., Colgate University PUBLICATIONS Books 2020: Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research Guide. New York: Routledge. Articles and book chapters 2020: “Music, Morality, and Sympathy in the Eighteenth-Century Music Sermon.” Eighteenth-century Music 17, no. 1 (2020):-: “Borrowing in Joseph and his Brethren.” Händel-Jahrbuch. Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik. 2016: “Music in the Baroque Era.” A-R Online Music Anthology, ed. James Zychowicz et al, http://www.armusicanthology.com/anthology/ARMA-Baroque-Lee.pdf 2015: “From Amelia to Calista and Beyond: Sentimental Heroines, ‘Fallen’ Women, and Handel’s Oratorio Revisions for Susanna Cibber.” Cambridge Opera Journal 27, no. 1 (2015): 1–34. Critical Editions 2020 (forthcoming): George Frideric Handel, Joseph and His Brethren. Leipzig: Bärenreiter/Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. 2016: Pierre Nicolas La Font, Pièces de clavecin. Recent Researches in Music of the Classical Era 105. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions. Recordings 2017: Handel Trio Sonatas, with Nancy Ambrose King, Andrew Parker, and Kristin Wolfe Jensen. Equilibrium Records. 2011: Les grâces françoises, with Les grâces baroque ensemble. MSR Classics. Publications as editor and co-author 2017: Editor for “Significant Composers,” A-R Online Music Anthology, http://www.armusicanthology.com. 2003: Laurette Goldberg with Jonathan Rhodes Lee. The Goldberg Variations Reader. Berkeley: MusicSources Press Manuscripts in preparation Music and Moral Sentiment in Handel’s England (monograph). Film Music and the American South (monograph). Film Music: An Introduction to the Repertoire (monograph). “Giulia Frasi: Singer of Sentiment” (article under review) “Music, Morality, and Sentiment in the Eighteenth-Century English Sermon” (article under review) Jonathan Rhodes Lee, C.V. 2 Other publications and creative activity-: Co-director (with Jennifer Grim), Las Vegas Baroque Festival. http://www.lasvegasbaroquefestival.com. 2016: “They Wished They were in Dixie.” UNLV News Center Blog, http://www.unlv.edu/news/article/they-wished-they-were-dixie-birth-hollywood-southern. 2016: “Haydn and His Students VIII: Spech and Beethoven.” Program notes for New Esterházy Quartet, http://www.academia.edu/-/Students_of_Haydn_VIII_Spech_and_Beethoven. 2015: “Report on the 2015 Meeting of the American Handel Society.” Newsletter of the American Handel Society 30, vol. 1 (Spring 2015)-: Les grâces baroque ensemble. Founding member and continuo player-: Regular reviews and feature articles for San Francisco Classical Voice. For a full list, see http://tinyurl.com/leejournalism-: Early music critic, San Francisco Classical Voice-: Freelance harpsichordist. Recent activity includes engagements with Mercury Baroque (Houston), New Century Chamber Orchestra (San Francisco), Utopia Early Music Ensemble (Salt Lake City), San Antonio Symphony. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS 2017: “(Alex) North and the South: Contrast Conceptions and the Southern Film Score.” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York. 2017: “Borrowing in Joseph and His Brethren.” Händel-Festpiele, Halle, Germany (invited talk). 2017: “Reassessing the Sentimentalism of Joseph and His Brethren.” American Handel Society Conference, Princeton, New Jersey. 2017: “What is ‘Baroque’ about Baroque Music?” University Forum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2016: “‘Contrast Conceptions’: Alex North and Southern Film.” Society for American Music, Boston, Massachusetts. 2016: “‘Sex on Wax: Alex North’s Music for Hollywood Southerns.” University Forum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2015: “Giulia Frasi: Singer of Sentiment.” Handel Institute Conference, London, England. 2015: “Handelian Heroics.” American Handel Society Meeting, Iowa City, Iowa. 2015: “Handel’s Singers and the Authority of Identity.” Actress as Author Conference, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chawton, England. 2013: “Sentimentalism, Latitudinarianism, and the Man of Feeling in Handel’s Joseph and His Brethren. American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2012: “‘Feminine Virtues’: The Sentimental Heroine and Handel’s Oratorios of the 1740s.” Conference: Das Heroische in der Musik, University of Leipzig. 2012: “Mrs. Cibber and Sentimental Opera in the 1730s.” American Musicological Society Joint Meeting, NorCal and Pacific Northwest chapters, Berkeley, California. 2011: “Must She Her Acis Still Bemoan? Handel’s Acis and Galatea and the Sentimental Heroine.” American Handel Society Conference, Seattle, Washington. SELECT GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND PRIZES 2016: Publication subvention, James R. Anthony Endowment, funded by the American Musicological Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Awarded for the completion of Pierre Nicolas La Font, Pièces de clavecin. 2013: New Scholars Prize, Society for Theatre Research (UK). Awarded for best essay by a new scholar “concerned with the history and technique of the British theatre.”-: Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship. Scholarship for “students with outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in their chosen fields of study-: Fulbright Fellowship, with dual funding by the US Department of State and the NetherlandsAmerica Foundation for independent research at Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, Netherlands in harpsichord and period performance practice.