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May 17, 2005
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SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
  • Dr. Robin Leaver, professor, sacred music, served as a visiting professor at the Department of Music, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand in March where he contributed to a conference on eighteenth-century music held at Wellington Town Hall, and gave the pre-concert lecture before a performance of Bach's St. John Passion, Wellington Cathedral of St. Peter - the first performance of a Bach Passion in New Zealand using period instruments. Dr. Leaver was also advisor for a successfully defended doctoral dissertation at Drew University for Shelley P. Sanders Zuckerman, "Spiritual Formation through Singing the Psalms: A Study of John Brown of Haddington's The Psalms of David in Metre with Notes (1775)" (PhD., 2005). Dr. Leaver's article "Johann Spangenberg and Luther's Legacy of Liturgical Chant" appeared in the Spring issue of Lutheran Quarterly.

 

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