Education
Laird holds a Doctor of Philosophy in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include the Spanish and Latin American villancico, Leonard Bernstein, the Broadway musical, and Baroque cello. He has taught at Pennsylvania State University, State University of New York at Binghamton and the University of Denver.
Reviewer Alvaro Torrente described Laird"s book Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico as "a milestone in the study of the villancico.".
Career
Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico (Harmonie Park Press, 1997) Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research (Routledge, 2002) The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History (Scarecrow Press, 2004) Resident musicae: Essays in Honor of James West. Pruett (Harmonie Park Press, 2001. Company-editor) Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical (Scarecrow Press, 2007) On Bunker"s Hill: Essays in Honor of J. Bunker Clark (Harmonie Park Press, 2007) The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge University Press, 2002. Company-editor with William A Everett, second edition, 2008) Leonard Bernstein"s Chichester Psalms (Pendragon Press, 2010) WICKED: A Musical Biography (Scarecrow Press, 2011).
