Live Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big
Tent - Live Events! Music Week Part of the Humanities Cultural
Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A.
Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Thursday 7th May marks the
180th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, Russia's
most famous nineteenth-century composer, and one of the most
popular classical composers of all time. Together, Leah Broad and
Philip Ross Bullock will trace how Tchaikovsky became such a
revered figure, ask what it means to talk about nationalism in
music, and explore the challenges of writing musical biography.
Biographies Dr Leah Broad Leah is a Junior Research Fellow at
Christ Church, University of Oxford, and a BBC/AHRC New Generation
Thinker. She specialises in Nordic and British twentieth century
music, and has publications in Music & Letters, Journal of the
Royal Musical Association, TEMPO, Music and the Moving Image and
Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Professor Philip Bullock, TORCH
Director Philip Ross Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and
Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian
at Wadham College. His publications include Rosa Newmarch and
Russian Music in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century
England (2009), The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa
Newmarch, 1906-1939 (2011) and, most recently, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
(2016). Philip is also the current Director of TORCH.