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TLS 1 May 2015: Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Botstein, Morrison
The cover of this week's Times Literary Supplement (1 May 2015) features content from American musicologists Leon Botstein and Simon Morrison under the (not especially apt) headline “Women and song.”...
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Medieval Music in Africa
by Anna Maria Busse BergerAnna Maria Busse Berger(Photo Gregory Urquiaga)NOTE: Anna Maria Busse Berger today delivers the annual Faculty Research Lecture at the University of California, Davis. The...
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8 May 1945
Victory in Europe, or V-E Day, was proclaimed after the military surrenders in Reims on 7 May 1945 and in Berlin the next evening. The 70th anniversary, being commemorated today, is considerably tamer...
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The Transactional Castrato
by Martha FeldmanExcerpt from The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds, drawn from the Ernest Bloch Lectures (University of California Press, 2015).The castrato called Caffarelli (Gaetano...
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Dresden, 1845-46
by Christopher Reynolds Professor Reynolds here reflects on the genesis of Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven’s Ninth (University of California Press, 2015). [Professor Strunk was fond of...
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The Kennedy Center / Aspen Institute Arts Summit:The Road ForwardWebsite HERE.Saturday's summit features conversations, live performances, town-hall style debates, and discussions with artists,...
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Sara Levy's World
by Nancy SinkoffAnton Graff: portrait of one of the Itzig sisters,probably Sara Sara Levy (1761–1854) was the fifth daughter of a prominent Jewish family, the Itzigs, who made their home in Berlin,...
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Harry Partch Happenings
by Andrew GranadeHarry Partch, 1967William Gedney Photographs and WritingsDavid M. Rubenstein LibraryDuke UniversityWhen Harry Partch died in 1974, many believed his legacy would die with him. Ben...
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Hindostan: Pioneering Musical Encounters
by Nalini GhumanA grainy old photograph taken more than a century ago in Adyar, South Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, opens a revelatory window onto the history of Indian music in the West. A group of...
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Rethinking Historical Data: A Foray into Digital Humanities
by Danielle and Eric Fosler-LussierDuring the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the State Department's Cultural Presentations program....
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Leonardo's Lira
by Ross W. Duffin Professor Duffin's now widely reported essay suggesting the identity of the lira da braccio player in Marcantonio Raimondi’s Orpheus Charming the Animals appeared in the very handsome...
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Blind Auditions, Meritocracy, and the American Dream
American musicologist Will Cheng has published an interesting think piece in the Huffington Post, to which we refer our readership:William Cheng, “Meritocracy's Darker Notes,” Huffington Post, 22 May...
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Handel and the Royal African Company
by David HunterNOTE: Dr. Hunter's work has been featured in recent weeks on BBC (“In Search of the Black Mozart,” 2 June 2015) and in the New Statesman (Antonia Quirke, “In Search of the Black Mozart:...
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Music Research in the Digital Age
A joint congress of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) and the International Musicological Society (IMS) is underway at the Juilliard School in New York City. It lasts just short...
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Thoughts on Gunther Schuller
in memoriamGunther Schuller22 November 1925 – 21 June 2015by Barry Kernfeld After suffering through an endless string of jazz concerts ruined by overly aggressive sound men, I gave up entirely on live...
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Attali in America
by Eric Drott NOTE: Professor Drott’s “Rereading Jacques Attali's Bruits” appears in the current issue of Critical Inquiry (41/4 [Summer, 2015]: 721-56.Few books have had as significant an impact on...
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“Eili, Eili” as a “Traditional Yiddish Melody”
by Joshua WaldenIn 1918 the renowned St. Petersburg-trained violinist Toscha Seidel published a work for violin and piano titled “Eïli, Eïli.” The phrase “Traditional Yiddish Melody” appeared under the...
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AMS presidents ponder
by Richard FreedmanLast week in New York City hundreds of members of the International Association for Music Libraries (IAML) and international Musicological Society (IMS) gathered for a week’s worth...
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Jimi Hendrix and the “Star-Spangled Banner”
by Mark ClagueNOTE: The most recent lecture in the series co-sponsored by the American Musicological Society and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum took place on 25 March 2015. Mark Clague's...
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“The Star-Spangled Banner” and “God Save the King”: Glenn Gould’s Quodlibet
by Benjamin GivanSome years ago, Sony Classical re-released both of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould’s recordings of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) on a three-CD set. Along with remastered...
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