Felix Mendelssohn’s Paths to Assimilation

Thu 17 Feb, 7 pm. 105 Walker Hall PO Box 118020, Gainesville, 32611-8020. Professor Gwynn Kessler, 352-378-0363. Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida - [email][events]

Felix Mendelssohn’s Paths to Assimilation”, a talk by Jeff Sposato Thursday, February 17, 7:00 pm at Hillel. Jeffrey S. Sposato is associate professor of musicology at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. His most recent book, The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2006), was named a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 and a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award finalist. He is currently working on a new book entitled Leipzig After Bach: Musical Life in a German City, 1750–1850.