David Breckbill
David Breckbill holds degrees in music and musicology from Goshen College (B.A.), The University of Iowa (M.A.), and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.); his area of
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scholarly specialization focuses on the history of musical performance styles in the age of recordings. He has presented papers at a variety of regional, national and international conferences and symposia, and has contributed to various books, including Wagner in Performance, The Wagner Compendium, and the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. Dr. Breckbill has worked as a music critic for The Daily Iowan and The Lincoln Journal-Star, and since 1995 has reviewed recordings for the BBC Music Magazine. For the Nebraska Public Radio Network he has taught a variety of classes and has written scripts for Composer of the Month programming.