Department of Music Lectures: Darren LaCour and Karen Olson, Washington University in St. Louis

Darren LaCour

Ph.D. Candidate in Music Theory, Washington University in St. Louis

“Telling Jazz’s Story: Duke Ellington, ‘Ko-Ko,’ and Congo Square”

 

Karen Olson, Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology

Washington University in St. Louis

“Farewell, Stromness – Hello, Will and Kate!: Nostalgia, Environmentalism, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Yellow Cake Revue