One week before he performs with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Rosen will speak on campus as part of the University of Dayton's Distinguished Speaker Series. Rosen, a music scholar and author as well as a pianist, will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in the Kennedy Union Ballroom on campus.
Admission is free and open to the public.
His speech at UD will be a response to a recent New York Times article that claims it is difficult to listen to classical music. Born in New York City, Rosen was enrolled in the Juilliard School at age 6. Beginning at age 11, Rosen studied with Moritz Rosenthal, a legendary virtuoso who was a pupil of Franz Liszt and friend of Johannes Brahms. In 1951 he made his debut New York recital and made his first recording, Debussy Etudes . He also received his doctorate in French literature that year from Princeton University.