The University of Oregon School of Music and Dance will welcome Stephen Kelly, the Dye Family Professor of Music, emeritus, at Carleton College in Minnesota, during the week of May 6 to 11. The UO school has named Kelly a 2013 Robert M. Trotter Visiting Professor – a mark of distinction reserved for honored guest artists and scholars.

While on campus, Kelly will make three public appearances, lecturing on three distinct and musically significant eras.

Kelly’s first lecture, “Lipstick's' Traces: A Jazz-age Chronicle,” will be at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, in the Collier House Salon, 1170 E. 13th Ave. Kelly examines The New Yorker columns written by Lois Long under the pen name, "Lipstick." Long produced more than 100 richly textured descriptions of the entertainment and social worlds of the Roaring Twenties. In his presentation, Kelly discusses the columns in the context of Jazz Age culture.

Kelly’s next lecture, "Joan Baez at Spring Hill: A Study of Intersecting Histories," will be presented at 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, in Room 178 of the Frohnmayer Music Building. Fifty years ago, folk singer Joan Baez gave a concert at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., the day after she attended civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham. Kelly will demonstrate the concert’s extraordinary significance when viewed from the intersection of multiple histories, including social, musical, institutional and personal, using eyewitness accounts, photographs and an unreleased, live recording that includes the singer’s comments on the racial climate.

The final lecture of Kelly’s residency includes a screening of the film, "The Medieval Monastery: Teaching and Learning," at 3:15 p.m. on Friday, May 10, in Room 103 of the Collier House. Kelly helped produce the 22-minute film that is a visual representation of how medieval architecture reflected the social construct of medieval monasticism.

Kelly received his bachelor's degree from Spring Hill College, his master’s from Rutgers University and his doctorate from Ohio State University. He is a Fulbright Scholar and has published editions of the music of Niccolo da Perugia. When not researching, Kelly plays the saxophone and clarinet with the Carleton College Jazz Orchestra.

- from the UO School of Music and Dance