The H word
Humanities. A summer of glossy manifestos and thoroughgoing press response kicked off when Harvard published its treatise on the future of arts and humanities there. Read More
Articles by Kevin Romoser
Pedagogically Speaking
by Stephen C. Meyer At the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Pittsburgh I will conclude my… Read More
Connecting
Once connected to the news each morning (unlike certain New Yorkers last week), I try… Read More
Big (Bad) Data
by Robert Fink The effect of “big data” on the humanities is a hot topic in intellectual circles these days, and every so often, the… Read More
Katherine Bergeron, musicologist, named President of Connecticut College
Connecticut College Music historian Katherine Bergeron has been named 11th president of Connecticut College in New London, it was… Read More
Prokofiev on the Train
by Kevin Bartig On the evening of 8 February 1930, a train spirited Prokofiev and his wife Lina south from New York City. The cloudy… Read More
Preview: Louise Talma in Her Youth
by Kendra Preston Leonard On September 24 at the Library of Congress, I’ll give a talk on American composer Louise Talma (c. 1906–1996), her youth,… Read More
Birth Announcements and Other Current Events
Version 1.6.0 of music21, the noted suite of tools for computer-aided research, was released by… Read More
Shape Notes, Billings, and American Modernisms
by Will Robin24 July 2013 Note: Will Robin’s piece for NewMusicBox begins with Charles… Read More
Tracing the Spirit of the Early American Symphony
by Joseph Horowitz15 July 2013 Library of Congress Note: NPR’s summer project is a… Read More