PUBLISHED: Dec 17, 2010
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In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org- Juliana Gondek, Professor of Voice and Chair of the Vocal Studies Department at UCLA, discusses why she requires that her students understand the social, political, religious and cultural context of the works they perform -- for example, being familiar with how eighteenth-century Viennese nobility dressed, sat and interacted when interpreting a Mozart aria.