Robert Labaree is an ethnomusicologist and performer specializing in Turkish music. He has been a member of NEC’s Music History faculty since 1984, teaching a wide range of western and non-western repertoires, and is director of NEC’s Intercultural Institute, which he established in 1993.
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Darwin’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful: What’s Musical about Biology and Why Does That Matter?
The goal of this essay is to reignite a conversation with the Post Carbon Institute’s own Richard Heinberg about music and change in planetary systems, a conversation which began in the fall of 2017. I’m captioning this second stage of the conversation “What’s musical about biology and why does that matter?”
August 18, 2020



















