A Billy Joel Conference this Fall
by Ryan Bañagale Billy Joel in 2009. Photo Credit: David Shankbone The first-ever… Read More
by Ryan Bañagale Billy Joel in 2009. Photo Credit: David Shankbone The first-ever… Read More
This is Part II of Bálint András Varga’s interview with virtuoso pianist Edward Kilenyi Jr. For Part I, please click here. Read More
We are pleased to be able to print for the first time in English another essay omitted for reasons of space from Bálint András Varga’s … Read More
Our friends over at the OUP Blog have an interesting interview with David Conte… Read More
Lily E. Hirsch writes to remind us that: In my book Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (Univ. of Michigan… Read More
In case you missed it, there is an interesting interview with Jane Edwards about… Read More
The following interview was omitted for reasons of space from a collection of extended interviews with musicians Bálint András Varga, From Boulanger to Stockhausen… Read More
by Bonnie Gordon The online community of the American Musicological Society is currently exploding around a post by Pierpaolo… Read More
by William Cheng Audre Lorde (1934-1992) “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” –… Read More
Editorial Update: Comments for this Post are Now Closed. Please continue the conversation on social media, or in the posts elaborating on these issues… Read More
By Mackenzie Pierce Sound decays. Once its vibrations drop below the audible capacity of the human ear, it survives only as memory, trace, or reproduction. Read More
By Katelijne Schiltz What has one eye but cannot see? Yes, I confess: this is a silly riddle, and its solution—a needle—is rather trivial. But… Read More
by Martha Feldman In 2014-15 the faculty in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago where I teach decided to boil its eight… Read More
The editors of Grove Music are inviting submissions to their third Spoof Article Contest: more information can be found at Anna-Lise Santella’s announcement … Read More
by Robert W. Eshbach John Singer Sargent, portrait of Joachim.Art Gallery of Ontario… Read More
We here at MN thought our readers would like to know that AMS Member William Cheng recently appeared on the Washington Post’s… Read More
by Christopher Doll The incomparable David Bowie died of liver cancer on January 10, 2016. His twenty-fifth and final studio album,… Read More
The well known scholar John Covach has a remembrance of David Bowie on CNN. Read the article here. Read More
by Mark De Voto Craft with Stravinsky, 1964. Image credit: New York Times… Read More
By Christopher J. Wells Like many jazz scholars, I spend a lot of time engaging in critical historiography, contemplating the effects of the sedimental layers… Read More