Artistry and Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
Following the American Revolution, French authors often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, in affinity with France’s own Revolutionary ideals but in competition with lingering anti-American depictions of an inferior, untamed New World.
“Sponsoring and Constructing Modernism: Jewish Patronage, Entrepreneurs, and Cultural Mediation in Paris during Fin-de-siècle,” in Jewishness, Jewish Identity, and Music Culture in 19th-Century Europe, edited by Luca Lévi Sala. Bologna: Ut Orpheus Editzioni, 2020.
“Whither the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées?” Musicology Now, 2013.
Pierné, Gabriel. Pantomime, op. 24, for Orchestra. Preface by César Leal. Repertoire Explorer Series. Munich: Musikproduktion Hoeflich, 2019.
Saint-Saëns, Camille. Violin Concerto No. 3, op. 61. Preface by César Leal. Repertoire Explorer Series. Munich: Musikproduktion Hoeflich, 2020.
Écouter le Scandale et la Transgression
“Écouter le Scandale et la Transgression: Les Modèles Révisionnistes
De l’Histriographie Musicale Basés sur l’Étude Du Paysage Sonore.” In L’écoute Du Monde, 223-34. Nîmes: Lucie Éditions, 2015.
Artifacts and Instruments of the Music Industry
Artifacts and Instruments of the Music Industry,” in Financing Music in Europe from the 18th to the Early 20th Century, edited by Etienne Jardin. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepol (under review).
Présentation de l’ouvrage : Les journées ont réuni une soixantaine de contributeurs venant des cinq continents et représentant une vingtaine de disciplines réunissant chercheurs, philosophes, universitaires, artistes, compositeurs, musiciens, architectes, paysagistes, théoriciens et praticiens de différents horizons portant en commun leur attention sur une recherche de qualité sonore à donner à l’environnement. Au-delà de la protection contre le trop de bruits et de la préservation phonique des milieux de vie, il a été question de la prise en compte de la dimension sonore dans l’aménagement des territoires et la création des nouveaux habitats, dans le temps de la quotidienneté. Un état de l’expérimentation, de la réflexion et des réalisations conduites dans ce domaine depuis une quinzaine d’années, l’expérience s’est poursuivie avec l’Exercice de l’écoute mettant en jeu les modes de représentation du monde sonore comparée à l’écoute in situ. Concerts et performances en tant que moments d’une écoute privilégiée pouvant conduire à l’exigence de qualité sonore pour le monde au quotidien.
RECORDINGS
Minueto en el Estilo Galante by Dueñas
Recording with the chamber musicians
of the Colombia National Symphony Orchestra. Directed by Nestor Dueñas-Torres. Conducted by César Leal. Bogotá, Colombia, 2008.
Lexico Series Vol. 1
Lexico Series Vol. 1: Chamber Music of Latin American Composers. Recording project directed and Produced by César Leal. October, 2006.
COLLABORATIONS
Shipmates is a collaborative exhibition of painting, sculpture, video and sound work by Daniel Reidy and Greg Pond, which features a sound collaboration with conductor and musicologist César Leal and trumpet performer Ethan Tessier (Gettysburg College student).
Exhibition for Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN. June 4-30, 2022
This project is in response to finding a 50 year old audio recording of Ansel Adams typing an unknown letter. It takes the form of a hardcover book with 38-page essay by Godfre Leung, sheet music, print of a typewriter drawing by Lenka Clayton, and 12″ LP featuring new sound compositions by Lenka Clayton, Chris Duncan, Barbara Held, Michael Masura Flora, Jonathan Kaiser, Tiffany Ng, Steve Roden, Greg Pond & César Leal. Design by Studio Elana Schlenker.
Recording in Multimedia Project. Pond, Greg, Cesar Leal, Jessica Usherwood, and Brian Mueller. “Typing.” In Land AA. Vol. IV. Andrew P. Lewis and Peter Happel-Christian, ed. Clear as Day. Chattanooga, TN: Clear as Day, 2019.
Multimedia. Pond, Greg (artistic director), César Leal (musical director), Jessica
Usherwood (soprano), Charles Stehno (Sewanee student). Acoustic Space. 2018. Part the Guncotton Project.
o Exhibition for Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN. July-August 2018.
o Exhibition for Art Prize, Western Michigan University, Grand Rapids campus,October 2018, Don Desmett, curator.
Photography Kevin Bouldin courtesy of New Dialect.
