The Transactional Castrato
by Martha Feldman Excerpt from The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds, drawn from the Ernest Bloch Lectures (University of California Press, 2015). The… Read More
Articles by Kevin Romoser
8 May 1945
Victory in Europe, or V-E Day, was proclaimed after the military surrenders in Reims on 7… Read More
Medieval Music in Africa
by Anna Maria Busse Berger Anna Maria Busse Berger (Photo Gregory Urquiaga) NOTE: Anna Maria… Read More
TLS 1 May 2015: Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Botstein, Morrison
The cover of this week’s Times Literary Supplement (1 May 2015) features content from American… Read More
New Acquisitions at the Newberry
Here is a selection of the recent acquisitions in music made possible by The Newberry’s Howard Mayer Brown / Roger Weiss Rare Book Fund. Read More
Brahms, Clara, and Op. 78.
by Paul Berry NOTE: The following excerpt from Brahms Among Friends (Oxford UP, 2014) treats the Violin Sonata, op. 78, and its connections with Clara… Read More
Lilacs
Library of Congress 1 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in… Read More
Carla Zecher Named Executive Director, Renaissance Society of America
Carla Zecher, a member of the American Musicological Society, has been named Executive Director of… Read More
Ruth Tatlow on Mrs. Bach
What seems to us (and many others) a cogent and measured assessment by Ruth Tatlow of the Mrs Bach brouhaha (see Tim Cavanaugh’s essay,… Read More
JAMS 68/1: Spring 2015
Volume 68, no. 1, of the Journal of the American Musicological Society—or JAMS, as it… Read More