Benjamin Britten: Centenary Reflections (1)
by Paul Banks NOTE: Byron Adams’s “For Benjamin Britten, Upon the Centenary of His Birth,” will appear next in this series. Read More
by Paul Banks NOTE: Byron Adams’s “For Benjamin Britten, Upon the Centenary of His Birth,” will appear next in this series. Read More
Editor’s note: November 22 this year is Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday, to be commemorated in a series of posts beginning… Read More
Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King Jayn Rosenfeld, flute Jean… Read More
by Carol A. Hess The questions explored at the session on “Public Musicology” during the American Musicological Society’s recent meeting in Pittsburgh were hardly new. Read More
Richard Crawford A capacity audience of some 500 musicologists provided the final musical illustration of… Read More
In 1914, at the height of a successful career as concert pianist, Donald Francis Tovey (1875–1940) became the [John] Reid Professor of Music at the… Read More
by Ryan Minor Another summer, another scandal: for opera scholars, Wagner fans, and perhaps anyone who reads newspapers, this was the summer of Frank Castorf’s… Read More
by Margo Miller Colin Davis died 14 April 2013 in London at the age of 85. Read More
by David B. Levy With the Spring 2007 issue of Beethoven Forum (vol. 14, no. 2), the journal which had started with such promise in… Read More
by Philip Gossett Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of posts commemorating Verdi’s bicentennial. Roger Parker’s piece is available… Read More