An afternoon to celebrate the academic legacy of the late Arnold Whittall, with two roundtables, a piano recital and a reception funded by King’s College London, the Society for Music Analysis and the Hinrichsen Foundation.

Spaces are limited so please book each session separately, using the details provided next. There is no limit to online attendance.

Full details

2.00 – 4.00. Roundtable 1: Celebrating Arnold’s influence and contribution as teacher, mentor, and colleague.

Julie Brown (Royal Holloway), Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford), Nicola LeFanu (York University), Malcolm Miller (Open University) and Ruth Tatlow (University of Gothenburg), Chaired by Esther Cavett (King's College London)

Piano Recital in celebration of Arnold’s musical tastes, Ian Pace (City St.George’s)

4.00 – 4.30. Piano recital, Ian Pace

Arnold Schoenberg, Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, op. 19 (1911)

Harrison Birtwistle, Ostinato with Melody (2000)

James Clarke, Landschaft mit Glockenturm (2003)

Richard Wagner – Ferruccio Busoni, Siegfrieds Trauermarsch aus Götterdämmerung (1883)

4.30 – 6.00. Roundtable 2: Celebrating Arnold’s academic legacy.

Kate Brett (Cambridge University Press): Arnold as Editor

Jonathan Dunsby (Eastman School of Music): Whittall's Sense of the Theorist's Sense of History.

Paul Harper-Scott (Emeritus Professor, Royal Holloway): Whittall and Wagner: Studies in Themes and Techniques

Rajan Lal (Trinity College, Cambridge): Arnold[’s] Schoenberg: Tonal oder atonal? Redux

Howard Skempton (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire): Composing and Analysis: some reflections on Arnold's later writings on British contemporary music'

Chaired by Jonathan Cross

The afternoon will conclude with a reception kindly funded jointly by King’s College London, the Society for Music Analysis and the Hinrichsen Foundation.

If you would like to attend the event in person:

PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Please email awmemorial2026@gmail.com for any further questions.

Unfortunately, in person places are limited and will be allocated in order of application. If you have not received confirmation by 1 November from the above email that we can accommodate you in person, we hope very much you will be able to attend online, using the link given next.

To attend online:

If you wish to attend by Teams, please use this link.