A discussion on the relationship between illness and art, featuring Massachusetts General Hospital Writer in Residence and Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor Dr. Suzanne Koven, in conversation with Dr. Alexander Rehding of the Harvard University Department of Music and Song of a Convalescent… creators Michael Yates Crowley and Michael Rau.
Thursday, Oct. 22, following the 7:30 performance.
Participants:
Suzanne Koven, M.D., was born and raised in New York City. She received her B.A. in English literature from Yale and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She also holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. After her residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has practiced primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for over 20 years. In 2015 she was appointed Writer in Residence for the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mass General. Her essays, articles, blogs, and reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New Yorker.com, Psychology Today, The L.A. Review of Books, and other publications.
Alexander Rehding, Ph.D., is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, an Affiliate of the German Department, and Associate of Harvard’s Center for the Environment (HUCE). Rehding’s work is located at the crossroads of theory and history from Ancient Greece to the present, with a focus on nineteenth-century Germany. His publications include Music and Monumentality (2009) and Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003). Before coming to Harvard in 2003, Rehding held fellowships at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University. He has served as editor of Acta Musicologica (2006–2010), editor-in-chief of the Oxford Online Handbook series (since 2011), Convener of the Hearing Modernity Seminars (2013/14), and Chair of the Music Department at Harvard (2011-14). His awards include the Dent Medal and a Guggenheim fellowship.