John Nádas, now retired and living in Florence, lends Il Trillo his expertise as a consultant in academic music studies at the university level. He has taught until just recently for thirty-five years as a faculty member of the Music Departments at the University of California-Santa Barbara and then at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, specializing in research as a music historian in the magnificent musical traditions of Renaissance France and Italy, especially Florence. The courses he has offered, however, range quite broadly, to include general surveys of all of music history as well as music appreciation classes aimed at the general college student, encompassing specifically courses on Bach and Handel, the Italian Baroque including Monteverdi and Vivaldi, Mozart and Haydn, and especially Italian opera of the ninteenth-century focusing on Verdi and the Risorgimento. Moreover he enjoys teaching courses on the history of chamber music and ways in which we in a modern cultured society listen to and make music in an age of recorded sound.
