“Sleeping Beauties”: Fall 2025 Irene Casteel Lecture

Sandra Coursey, DMA, delivered the fourth lecture in the Irene Casteel Lecture series, co-sponsored in part by Northern Review. 

Her lecture concerned the music of women composers of the 19th century, and was interwoven with live piano performances of this work.

You can read more about Coursey’s work in Northern Review’s announcement of the Fall 2025 Irene Casteel Lecture.

Northern Review’s exclusive coverage of past Irene Casteel lectures can be found here:

Spring 2025: Megan Connell, “The Applied Use of Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Therapy: Building Empathy and Relationships while Rolling Dice”

Spring 2024: Tobias Buckell, “How Bad Metaphors Hurt Us”

Spring 2023: Rachel Kowert, “Moderating the Metaverse”

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated (11/07/2025) to correctly display Coursey’s most recent degree as a Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA).