Snibblesworth-ed
An Open Letter to Jeremy Denk NOTE: See the posts of June 20 and June 24, 2014. by Kristi Brown-Montesano First,… Read More
Articles
July 4
In honor of the bicentennial of the “Star Spangled Banner,” the Library of Congress hosted a concert and panel discussion on 3 July with the support… Read More
Dear Abbé
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Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free. DEAR ABBÉ: Anent the… Read More
The Klinghoffer Controversy
by Charles T. Downey The Metropolitan Opera and its General Manager, Peter Gelb, took a considerable risk by planning to mount John Adams’s The Death… Read More
Singing Jeremiah
by Robert Kendrick NOTE: Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week (Indiana UP) appeared in April 2014. Here is an excerpt. Read More
Jeremy Denk responds:
NOTE: The librettist of The Classical Style—an Opera of Sorts here responds to Kristi Brown-Montesano’s post just below, adding “I felt it was necessary to… Read More
The Classical Style, of sorts
by Kristi Brown-Montesano One year, during the opening Dean’s Welcome at the conservatory where I teach, the head of the violin studio addressed the students,… Read More
The Washington Post
Today is the 125th anniversary of The Washington Post… Read More
Seeing a 17th-Century Motet
by Robert L. Kendrick NOTE: Kendrick’s Franke Forum at the University of Chicago occurred on October 13, 2013. The free lectures of the Chicago Humanities… Read More
There is Hope for Europe
The Grand Finale of the Eurovision Song Contest By Philip V. Bohlman NOTE: This article originally appeared on the OUP blog on 13 May… Read More
That Mozart Autograph . . .
… fetched almost $1 million (£578,500 = $972,285, hammer price plus buyer premiums) at the Sotheby’s sale in London on 20 May 2014. Read More
Die goldene kale in New York
by Michael Ochs NOTE: Di goldene kale (The Golden Bride), a 1923 Yiddish-American operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky (1881–1956), was presented in a concert version with… Read More
The JAMS Experience
As promised here, volume 67, no. 1 of the Journal of the American Musicological Society… Read More
Images
Speaking of visuals (see previous blogpost) . . . Hans Ruckers the ElderDouble Virginal, 1581Metropolitan Museum… Read More
Stravinsky and the Futurists
by Mark DeVoto I have just returned from a short visit to New York where, at the Guggenheim Museum, I saw the exhibition called Italian… Read More
Fate Knocks at the Door of London’s Institute of Musical Research
by James Parsons Music scholars around the world owe a considerable debt to the Institute of Musical Research (IMR). Established in 2005 with operations commencing… Read More
Forensic Musicology
by Sandy Wilbur NOTE: as part of our ongoing series on professional activity in musicology, we asked Sandy Wilbur to summarize her work. As a… Read More
On Nino Pirrotta
by Anthony M. Cummings NOTE: Anthony Cummings’s intellectual biography of the distinguished musicologist Nino Pirrotta… Read More
Vienna Full: The Vienna Philharmonic in Berkeley
by Nicholas Mathew Over a long weekend, 6–9 March 2014, the Vienna Philharmonic was resident at Cal Performances—UC Berkeley’s venerable performing arts series—in a larger-scale… Read More
Opening the Geese Book
Fans of spiffy Internet sites will enjoy Opening the Geese Book, a collaborative project involving the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, where the… Read More