Dr James Wierzbicki

PhD Cincincatti

Dr James Wierzbicki

Previously on the musicology staffs of the University of Michigan and the University of California-Irvine, and for more than twenty years chief classical music critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other large American newspapers, James Wierzbicki currently focuses on twentieth-century music in general and film music in particular. Along with a monograph on the electronic score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet (Scarecrow Press, 2005) and Film Music: A History (Routledge, 2009), his recent publications include articles in Beethoven Forum, Music and the Moving Image, Opera Quarterly, Screen Sound, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and Musical Quarterly.