FALL 2025 Schedule

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
ZD	Lumpkin		ARR 12:00 am-12:00 am	Opera Production for DMA Students (Voice). For DMA Voice Performance Students only, this course is designed to account for the various aspects of research, study, preparation for rehearsal and performance aspect of DMA students who are cast in roles Opera Institute productions. The activities include and are not limited to research, self preparation, coachings, rehearsals, and performances of staged productions where all of the preparatory processes allow for full integration of the skill-set developed in rehearsals. Assignment of roles is through audition only and/or at the discretion of the Opera and Voice faculty. Registration by permission only. (2 units) Submit Add form to request course. www.bu.edu/cfa/forms

FALL 2025 Schedule

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
ZH	Sung	CFA 154	T 11:00 am-12:15 pm	Piano Seminar. Open to graduate piano and collaborative piano majors seeking to develop practical skills in preparation for careers in performance and teaching. This course illuminates steps toward career development and focuses on building essential career tools through engagement in practical as well as reflective assignments. Students should register for 1 unit.

FALL 2025 Schedule

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
ZJ	Lumpkin		ARR 12:00 am-12:00 am	Choral Conducting Techniques. Individual student and small group meetings for choral conducting majors only; students should enroll for 0.5 units.

SPRG 2026 Schedule

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
DL	Smith		ARR 12:00 am-12:00 am	Sustainability and Holistic Wellbeing in Music Education. Online MM, DMA, and CAGS music education students only.

SPRG 2026 Schedule

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
ZC	DiPiero	FLR 121	TR 2:00 pm-3:15 pm	Crush Course: Love Songs and Social Critique. Love songs represent one of the oldest narrative forms of secular musicking in western genres; but for most of musicological history, love songs have been uniquely vulnerable to dismissal, understood by gendered discourses as inconsequential and superficial, mere affairs of the heart. Against such common-sense, this course asks what can be understood about music, history, and identity by taking love songs seriously. To do so, we will engage in theoretical approaches to both love and desire, in addition to surveying important historical examples of secular and romantic song. Finally, our course arrives in popular music studies to interrogate the contemporary status of this oldest of forms. Throughout, we will read, listen, and think along with the hypothesis that love songs—in their rendering of specific and mediated forms of desire—exist as a form of critique, advancing more analysis of the social world than their denotative subject matter may initially disclose. Register for 3 units.

SPRG 2026 Schedule

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
ZD	Lumpkin		ARR 12:00 am-12:00 am	Opera Production for DMA Students (Voice). For DMA Voice Performance Students only, this course is designed to account for the various aspects of research, study, preparation for rehearsal and performance aspect of DMA students who are cast in roles Opera Institute productions. The activities include and are not limited to research, self preparation, coachings, rehearsals, and performances of staged productions where all of the preparatory processes allow for full integration of the skill-set developed in rehearsals. Assignment of roles is through audition only and/or at the discretion of the Opera and Voice faculty. Registration by permission only. (2 units) Submit Add form to request course. www.bu.edu/cfa/forms

SPRG 2026 Schedule

Section	Instructor	Location	Schedule	Notes
ZJ	Lumpkin		ARR 12:00 am-12:00 am	Choral Conducting Techniques. Individual student and small group meetings for choral conducting majors only; students should enroll for 0.5 units.