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October 2009: Allen Forte was the honored guest theorist at the “First National Symposium of Musical Analytics” at the Shanghai Conservatory, October 26-29, 2009. He lectured on Schoenberg and on pitch-class-set theory and offered workshops on advanced XXth century theories.
Daqun Jia, Madeleine Forte, Allen forte, Lei Jiang
Spring 2008: Visiting Music Professor, Harvard University
September 20-23, 2007: Lectures, teaching, lecture-recital with Madeleine Forte at the University of Western Ontario, Canada
April 3-8, 2007: Lectures, teaching at the University of North Texas
November 15-30, 2005: Performances, lectures, and masterclasses in Seoul, South Korea, at Hanyang University and Seoul Conservatories (with Madeleine Forte)
Summer 2005: Professor, Yale Summer Program, Salzburg Seminar at the Schloss Leoplodskron; Piano Ensemble Concerts with Madeleine Forte.
 
Piano Ensemble Concert with Madeleine Forte at the Chateau de Goulaine, Nantes, France.
February 6-11, 2005: Residency at the University of North Texas, Denton
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 “It has been a real pleasure to host the two of you this week during a University of North Texas residency. Allen presented in three classes, Madeleine performed an all-Chopin recital and gave a following masterclass, and together you gave two lecture-recitals, one on Messiaen, the other on Liszt's Petrarch settings for piano. In all respects we were thrilled with the quality and interest of your presentations. Allen, your quiet eloquence was captivating, and Madeleine, your artistry was rich and communicative, and the authority both of you brought to the presentation was matchless. Your stay at UNT will be long remembered as a highlight of our academic year.”
Lester Brothers, Chair
Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology
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Winter 2004: Recorded "Songs of Yesterday for Today" CD with Martha Bennett Oneppo, vocalist, for Roméo Records. Click the photo below for reviews of this recording.
November 2004: Orpheus Seminar, Ghent, Belgium
Fall 2004: “The Structure of Atonal Music” is included in the Yale Music Library exhibit, "Theorica musicae", Selected Treasures from the Music Theory Collections.
October 23, 2004: Johns Hopkins University: lecture-recital with Madeleine Forte on Liszt and Petrarch at the conference “Petrarch and the Arts”
June 2004: Lectures at Toho Gakuen School of Music, Tokyo University and Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music
May, 2004: Senior Marshall at Yale Commencement (Photo shows me placing honorary doctoral hood on baseball legend Willie Mays).
April 20, 2004: Lecture on Olivier Messiaen at Columbia University, New York
March 1, 2004: Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
 February 24-29, 2004: Visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle
October 2003: Lecture on ‘classic’ set theory at Ircam, Paris, as part of symposium entitled ‘Around Set Theory’
April 2003: International Conference, Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn, Estonia; lecture-concert with Madeleine Forte
 March 2003: Akademia Muzyczna, Wroclaw, Poland; Messiaen lecture-recital and masterclass
October 19-26, 2002: Visiting Trotter Professorship, University of Oregon, Eugene
 August, 2002: Lecture-recital with Madeleine Forte at the Oslo, Norway, Conservatory of Music.
 Summer, 2002: Second time for the Schönberg course in Mödling, this time with fourteen very fine students, all Americans. [Click photo for enlargement.] Immediately after the last class, on July Fourth, Yale Summer Programs sponsored a big reception to which Austrian and other friends came, including faculty of the Universität für Musik, the Bürgermeister of Mödling, and Schoenberg’s first grandson, Arnold Greissle Schoenberg! I conducted the class in a performance of the Austrian National Anthem and the Star Spangled Banner, prior to which Christian Meyer, Director of the Arnold Schoenberg Center, spoke warmly of the cooperative effort with Yale.
During the stay in Mödling, Madeleine and I flew to England to attend Messiaen 2002, the special conference at University of Sheffield, where Madeleine played a concert and I read a paper, entitled “Messiaen’s Chords.” It was a wonderful experience.
In separate activities in Vienna, Madeleine and I did a lecture-recital at the Universität für Musik entitled “Harmonic Fields in the Piano Music of Claude Debussy,” and I lectured there on the topic “Alban Berg’s First Atonal Composition.”
 On June 28 Andrew Ford of The Music Show, Australian Broadcasting Company, interviewed me at the Oesterreicher Rundfunk studio in Vienna via a high-tech communications link that enabled immediate, no-delay, give and take between Sydney and Vienna. I spoke seated at a Bösendorfer concert grand, which enabled me to play parts of classic American popular songs, the topic of the interview, based upon my book, Listening to Classic American Popular Songs (Yale University Press 2001).
Here are a few more pictures from Mödling (click to enlarge):
June 20-23, 2002: Messiaen 2002 International Conference, Sheffield, U.K., Keynote Speaker
March 20, 2002: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
March 18, 2002: University of Texas, lecture
Feb 7, 2002: University of Connecticut, lectures
June 2001: Lecture-concert, music by Messiaen, at the Vienna conservatory (Universität für Musik).
Summer, 2001: In cooperation with the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, I gave a five-week Yale Summer Programs course in the Arnold Schönberg House in Mödling (just outside Vienna), entitled, “The Music of Schönberg’s Middle Period, 1908-1923: From Romanticism to dodecaphony.” Excellent students from the United States, Canada, and Holland participated. This proved to be an extraordinary experience for many reasons, not least of which was the location of the classroom adjacent to the composer’s former study. Photographs taken in the Schönberg House and in front of the Arnold Schönberg Center building on Schwarzenberg Platz feature members of the class and important individuals connected with the class in various ways.
(Click on the images below to see a larger version with caption.)
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