This issue of the SHAW journal is dedicated to the late professor Christopher D. Innes, who was a Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto, and Research Professor at Copenhagen University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of Arts (UK) and a Killam Fellow, he held a Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture. He was the author of sixteen books—translated into eight different languages—and over 130 articles on various aspects of modern drama. He was also General Editor of the Cambridge “Directors in Perspective” series as well as Co-Editor of the quarterly journal Modern Drama. He held a senior Canada Research Chair and at the time of his death was the incumbent of a York Research Chair. Having given papers at over 150 conferences, he developed a new form of public presentation together with his wife, singer Brigitte Bogar. They performed...
Introduction: Shaw and Music
BRIGITTE BOGAR recently completed her PhD, “Hidden in Plain Sight—Musical Subtext in Drama,” at York University. She has worked as conference organizer for MAPACA and served on their board (2013–18) and as area-chair for Body Art and Musical Theatre. She has lectured/performed/presented widely alone and with her late husband Christopher Innes, at invited public lectures/concerts in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, and Denmark (including NEMLA Keynote 2015). Together they edited Carnival: Theory and Practice (2012) and Shaw Criticism: Music (2016). She is the guest editor of SHAW 39.1: Shaw and Music and is currently working on (her last book with Innes) Art and Myth: The Operas of R. Murray Schafer. In 2014 she recorded a CD featuring music by GBS. Her recent stage appearances include Senta in Der fliegende Holländer and Lenora in Beethoven's Fidelio, as well as Elvira in Don Giovanni, Agathe in Der Freischütz, and Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung.
Brigitte Bogar; Introduction: Shaw and Music. Shaw 1 June 2019; 39 (1): 1–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.39.1.0001
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