We are thrilled that the program for the upcoming annual Lloyd Old and Constance Old lecture, for Music in 21st Century Society, is growing quickly. Please welcome Greil Marcus to the program as the official respondent. Marcus is a noted music critic and journalist whose work focuses on American popular music and its place in society. He is the author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century and The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes, and he has written for Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. For the fall 2015 semester, he will be a visiting professor at the Graduate Center.

The program will feature, as previously announced, a lecture by philosopher Roger Scruton on the legacies of tonality and atonality and their places among modern audiences. This lecture will be followed by a conversation with Greil Marcus, and the debate is sure to be a lively one. The program will also include a short musical interlude, by performers yet to be determined.