For the last three or four years, I’ve dreamed of presenting a scholarly paper at an interdisciplinary music conference, and my focus was to talk with other scholars about the influence of Broadway on the music of composer Morten Lauridsen. Last summer a renowned scholar of the American musical theater, Dr. Geoffrey Block, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music History at the University of Puget Sound, encouraged me to submit a proposal to the Society for American Music, and I was thrilled when I got the news a few months later that my proposed paper had been accepted. Below is the abstract of the paper I completed for the March 2023 conference in Minneapolis, and at the very bottom is the recorded video presentation.
