John H. Pollack
John H. Pollack is Curator, Research Services, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He has worked in this department since 1995. His responsibilities include providing assistance to students and scholars, and teaching and organizing class sessions centered on the collections. He is also responsible for the Furness Shakespeare Library, which is part of the Kislak Center.
John holds a PhD in English from Penn and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. He specializes in Early American literature and history, and early modern book history. His research has focused on topics including Native American languages; colonial writings from New France; and Benjamin Franklin and colonial education.
This event has been postponed.
The British operatic baritone Christopher Maltman and the French pianist and conductor Audrey Saint-Gil pair up for a special recital, one which gives equal time to works by women composers.
The first half of the concert will feature songs by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn and Clara and Robert Schumann, while the second half highlights less well-known songs by Nadia Boulanger and Poldowski (Régine Wiernawski), followed by folksong arrangements by Benjamin Britten. The recital concludes with humorous ditties by the British comedy duo Flanders & Swann.
A pop-up exhibit of related music from the Penn Libraries will be on display in the Henry Charles Lea Library prior to and following the recital.
