This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and the
Department of Music at Reed College.
Mr. Lubin is Distinguished Professor at the College at Purchase, State
University of New York. He studied philosophy at Harvard, piano at
the Juilliard School, and earned a Ph.D. in musicology at New York
University, writing a dissertation on Beethoven's music. In addition
to his wide-ranging career as a performer on the modern piano, he has
been one of the pioneers of performance on today's reproductions of
the fortepiano, the instrument on which Mozart, Beethoven, and
Schubert played. in 1987 he was chosen as soloist by the Decca label
to record all the Beethoven piano concertos with Christopher Hogwood
and the Academy of Ancient Music; among the praise lavished by critics
on the series of recordings was the judgment of a German music
journal--"phenomenal."
Mr. Lubin describes his lecture as tracing certain perennial themes
involving music and mathematics down through Western history.
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