On October 20, 2016, Professor Poundie Burstein gave an excellent lecture at Mannes School of Music, “The Concrete and Abstract in Music Theory”! And of course, when you have a comic artist in your audience, she turns your talk into a comic.

This comic features a few people: professor Lynne Rogers, professor Hedi Siegel, professor Christopher Park, professor Robert Cuckson, professor Yuval Shapira, and professor David Loeb – all of which are great music theorists. And then there’s me…

Huge thanks to my friend Clair Nguyen (who goes to Hunter) and her mom. They brought me a can of homemade sugared ginger! Their kindness warms my heart in this big city so far from home.