Kendra Preston Leonard
Kendra Preston Leonard (born June 11, 1974, New Orleans) is a musicologist specializing in music and film in 20th century France and America. She studied as a cellist at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The Peabody Conservatory, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the University of Miami before studying musicology at the University of Cincinnati. She received her PhD from the University of Sunderland.
Leonard is the author of The Conservatoire Américain: a History (Scarecrow Press, 2007),[1] Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Scarecrow Press, 2009) as well as articles. She was a 2009 Visiting Fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book at Manuscript Library at Yale University for ongoing work on the music of Louise Talma. She is the director of the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive (www.sfsma.org).
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- ↑ Book Review, American Music, Vol. 26, No. 3, Fall 2008
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