Paul Laird
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Paul R. Laird (b. 1958) is an American musicologist. Currently the director of the Division of Musicology, and has taught at the University of Kansas since 1994. He has taught at Binghamton University and University of Denver. He holds a Ph.D. in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include the Spanish and Latin American villancico, Leonard Bernstein, the Broadway musical, and cello. He is the author of Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico (Harmonie Park Press, 1997), Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research (Routledge, 2002), The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History (Scarecrow Press, 2004), and is co-editor of Res musicae: Essays in Honor of James W. Pruett (Harmonie Park Press, 2001) and The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), Anuario musical , Nassarre , Revista de Musicología , Early Music , Australian Journal of Musicology , CMS Symposium , MLA Notes , Historical Performance , American Music , American Record Guide , Continuo Magazine , and other journals, conference proceedings, and Festschrifts. He has presented papers and lectures at many conferences and universities in the United States and Spain. He directs the Instrumental Collegium Musicum and is active as a Baroque cellist, performing with the Spencer Consort. In August 2002, he won a University of Kansas W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. His current projects include a book on Bernstein's Chichester Psalms for the College Music Society Sourcebooks on American Music series and an historical dictionary of the Broadway musical, which he is writing with William A. Everett.
