Join us for a pre-dinner meeting starting at 5:30 and then our meeting and speaker starting at 6:30. Our speaker for our first meeting of the club year will be Dr. Paul Christiansen. “Orchestrating Public Opinion: How Music Persuades in Television Political Ads”

Dr. Paul Christiansen is an associate professor of music at Seton Hall University. His background is in television production and he earned his PhD in musicology from the University of California, Davis. He is a musicologist specializing in Czech music and music in political advertisements.