Director of the Division of Musicology, Laird has taught at the University
of Kansas since 1994 after previous experience at Binghamton University and
University of Denver. He holds a Ph.D. in music from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include the Spanish and Latin
American villancico, Leonard Bernstein, the Broadway musical, and early string
instruments. He is the author of Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico
(Harmonie Park Press, 1997), Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research (Routledge,
2002), The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History (Scarecrow Press, 2004),
and is co-editor of Res musicae: Essays in Honor of James W. Pruett (Harmonie
Park Press, 2001) and The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge University
Press, 2002). Laird's articles and reviews have appeared in The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), Anuario musical , Nassarre , Revista de Musicología
, Early Music , Australian Journal of Musicology , CMS Symposium , MLA Notes
, Historical Performance , American Music , American Record Guide , Continuo
Magazine , and other journals, conference proceedings, and Festschrifts. Laird
has presented papers and lectures at many conferences and universities in the
United States and Spain. Laird directs the Instrumental Collegium Musicum and
is active as a Baroque cellist, performing with the Spencer Consort. In August
2002, he won a University of Kansas W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.
His current projects include a book on Bernstein's Chichester Psalms for the
College Music Society Sourcebooks on American Music series and an historical
dictionary of the Broadway musical, which he is writing with William A. Everett.
International Inventory of Villancico Texts
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