Dr. Gerald L. Phillips
Gerald L. Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Music at Towson University in Maryland. He has a PhD (1995) and MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from Temple University, an MA in Voice and Television Production from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (1975) and a BS in Music Education from Central Michigan University (1966). His performance career included the singing of forty-five operatic roles throughout the US, among them, the Count in the Marriage of Figaro, the title roles in Rigoletto and Wozzeck, Count Di Luna in Il Trovatore, Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, and John Proctor in The Crucible. He has also p…
Dr. Gerald L. Phillips
Gerald L. Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Music at Towson University in Maryland. He has a PhD (1995) and MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from Temple University, an MA in Voice and Television Production from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (1975) and a BS in Music Education from Central Michigan University (1966). His performance career included the singing of forty-five operatic roles throughout the US, among them, the Count in the Marriage of Figaro, the title roles in Rigoletto and Wozzeck, Count Di Luna in Il Trovatore, Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, and John Proctor in The Crucible. He has also performed as a soloist with several major US orchestras.
He has published papers in national and international journals of music, literature, humanities, world peace, philosophy and diversity, and has presented papers throughout Europe, the US and Canada. His primary philosophical interests are the aesthetics of music, critical theory, philosophy of science, and Greek tragedy. He has published a book: Dead Composers, Living Audiences: The Situation of Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century (2008), with Cambria Press.
