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Marilyn L. McCoy

Marilyn L. McCoy

Marilyn L. McCoy is a musicologist, teacher, and lecturer active in the Boston area. Since moving to New England from California in 1999, she has served on the music faculties of the University of New Hampshire and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Though primarily a Mahler scholar, she worked at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles for the last three years of its existence (1995-1998), serving as Assistant Archivist and co-author of A Preliminary Inventory of Schoenberg Correspondence. She contributed to Schoenberg and His World, edited by Walter Frisch, and The Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism , edited by Murray Steib. Her article "'It is my very self': The Multiple Messages of Gustav Mahler's lch bin der Welt abhanden gekommen ," was published in Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes , ed. Colleen Reardon and Susan Parisi (Harmonie Park Press, 2004). Professor McCoy presented authoritative lectures on Mahler's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies at MahlerFest XV and XVI, and she has been a regular Symposium participant ever since. Her pre-concert lectures are a popular favorite at each MahlerFest.