Annual Lenore Coral Memorial Lecture:  Francesca Brittan (Case Western Reserve University) presents "The electrician, the magician, and the romantic conductor." A scholar of nineteenth-century music and aesthetics, she holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007) and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006 and 2008; she joined the faculty at Case in 2009.  Brittan's book, Fantasy, Science, and the Romantic Listener, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in the series “New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism.”