Emily Richmond Pollock

In this episode, I chat with Professor Emily Richmond Pollock. Professor Pollock is an Associate Professor of Music at MIT whose research explores twentieth-century opera, musical institutions, and cultural politics. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, she is the author of Opera after the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her scholarship has appeared in leading journals such as The Journal of Musicology and Twentieth-Century Music and has earned recognition including the Kurt Weill Prize. Professor Pollock’s current project, “Opera on Uncommon Ground,” investigates the history and aesthetics of American opera festivals. Alongside teaching and research, she continues to perform as an oboist with ensembles in the Boston area.