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Valentin Silvestrov and what the times dictate
by Peter J. Schmelz Valentin SilvestrovAmong the almost daily shocks and surprises from the Ukraine has been the active engagement of the Ukrainian pianist/composer Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937, Kiev)....
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Down with Eleven: On the overamplification of American life
by Jay NordlingerRe-posted, with kind permission, from National Review / Digital, April 7, 2014.It's not our biggest problem, or even in the top ten, or top 100. But it’s still a problem, I think: the...
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Andrew dell'Antonio His just-published Contemplating Music was one of the reasons I chose Berkeley for graduate school in 1985, and I was awed and a little cowed to have him lead the “musicology boot...
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Joe
by D. Kern HolomanJoseph Kerman at 60Just before his 60thbirthday, after Andrew Porter had (yet again) cited Opera as Dramain that week's New Yorker, I asked Joe what it what it was like to be so...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ:From time to time your namesake used to publish her favourite recipes. Have you any?...
View ArticleThe Magical Power of “Let it Go”
In this recent video, musicologist W. Anthony Sheppard (editor of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and department chair at Williams College) investigates how the musical, poetic, and...
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Listening to Downton Abbey (part 2)
by Michael AccinnoNote: Listening to Downton Abbey (part 1) is available HERE. On 8 June 1926, a distinguished crowd gathered at London’s Covent Garden for Dame Nellie Melba’s farewell performance as...
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Christian Wolff at 80
by Amy C. BealChristian Wolff at recording sessionsfor his Exercises, September 2005,near Poggiolo farm, Pozzuolo, Umbria, Italy. Photograph by Larry Polansky.I most recently saw Christian Wolff this...
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The Band Played On
Alfred Cortot and Wlhelm Kempff during the concert de clôture, Exposition Arno BrekerOrangerie, 1 August 1942.Akademie der Künste, Berlin.Even if you don't read a word of French, find and peruse a copy...
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New Discovery in Johanna Beyer Research
by Amy C. BealOur government may not work quickly, but in some cases it eventually gets around to something useful and important. Eight months ago, I ordered composer Johanna Beyer’s passport records...
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Let the Sisters Sing
by Cesar Favila The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the ApostlesBesides the opera house, the convent church was the place to hear some of the most talented female musicians in “public” up through the...
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Music and Higher Education in the 1970s
NOTE: The following, from the archive, are position statements by noted music scholars for the symposium “Music in Higher Education in the 1970's,” held at the University of Toronto on 7 November 1970....
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The Unlikely History of Sixties Rock and Roll
by Christopher DollIn narratives of American popular-music history, the song “Louie Louie” is usually depicted (to the extent it surfaces at all) as a minor, and ultimately ephemeral, controversy: a...
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Haps at JAMS
NOTE: With volume 67, no. 1, the Journal of the American Musicological Society—or JAMS, as it is familiarly known—has implemented new features planned and announced in 2012. The two most significant...
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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 two-volume manuscript is housed (US-NYpm M. 905);...
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Vienna Full: The Vienna Philharmonic in Berkeley
by Nicholas MathewOver 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 reprise of their...
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On Nino Pirrotta
by Anthony M. CummingsNOTE: Anthony Cummings's intellectual biography of the distinguished musicologist Nino Pirrotta (1908–98) won the 2013 John Frederick Lewis Award from the American Philosophical...
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Forensic Musicology
by Sandy WilburNOTE: as part of our ongoing series on professional activity in musicology, we asked Sandy Wilbur to summarize her work. As a forensic musicologist, I have a wide variety of projects,...
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Fate Knocks at the Door of London’s Institute of Musical Research
by James ParsonsMusic scholars around the world owe a considerable debt to the Institute of Musical Research (IMR). Established in 2005 with operations commencing in 2006, the institute is one of ten,...
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Stravinsky and the Futurists
by Mark DeVotoI have just returned from a short visit to New York where, at the Guggenheim Museum, I saw the exhibition called Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe, which will...
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