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Images
Speaking of visuals (see previous blogpost) . . . Hans Ruckers the ElderDouble Virginal, 1581Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkwww.metmuseum.orgPermalink HEREMost every scholar who has ever published...
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The JAMS Experience
As promised here, volume 67, no. 1 of the Journal of the American Musicological Society (Spring 2014), has appeared online at JSTOR with color images and embedded video and audio. The enhanced...
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Die goldene kale in New York
by Michael Ochs NOTE: Di goldene kale (The Golden Bride), a 1923 Yiddish-American operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky (1881–1956), was presented in a concert version with piano by the National Yiddish...
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That Mozart Autograph . . .
... fetched almost $1 million (£578,500 = $972,285, hammer price plus buyer premiums) at the Sotheby's sale in London on 20 May 2014.In the same sale, the autograph of Rimsky-Korsakov's Second Symphony...
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There is Hope for Europe
The Grand Finale of the Eurovision Song ContestBy Philip V. BohlmanNOTE: This article originally appeared on the OUP blog on 13 May 2014 and is reposted here by kind permission.4–10 May 2014. The...
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Seeing a 17th-Century Motet
by Robert L. KendrickNOTE: Kendrick's Franke Forum at the University of Chicago occurred on October 13, 2013. The free lectures of the Chicago Humanities Forum seek to allow a larger audience exposure...
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The Washington Post
Today is the 125th anniversary of The Washington Post march, premiered June 15, 1889, at the award ceremony for the Post's essay competition that year.John Kelly retells the story in today's Post.The...
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The Classical Style, of sorts
by Kristi Brown-MontesanoOne year, during the opening Dean’s Welcome at the conservatory where I teach, the head of the violin studio addressed the students, faculty, and staff, extolling the school’s...
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Jeremy Denk responds:
NOTE: The librettist of The Classical Style—an Opera of Sorts here responds to Kristi Brown-Montesano's post just below, adding “I felt it was necessary to respond, even if only to allay the sense that...
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Singing Jeremiah
by Robert KendrickNOTE: Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week (Indiana UP) appeared in April 2014. Here is an excerpt. In the ritual year of early modern Catholics, the days before Easter...
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The Klinghoffer Controversy
by Charles T. DowneyThe Metropolitan Opera and its General Manager, Peter Gelb, took a considerable risk by planning to mount John Adams's The Death of Klinghofferthis coming fall. The furor generated...
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Dear Abbé
Professional musicologists offer answers and advice. Free.DEAR ABBÉ:Anent the fracas in these pages on The Classical Style: were there musicologist-nerds before What's Up, Doc? (1972)?...
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July 4
In honor of the bicentennial of the “Star Spangled Banner,” the Library of Congress hosted a concert and panel discussion on 3 July with the support of the Star Spangled Music Foundation and the...
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Snibblesworth-ed
An Open Letter to Jeremy Denk NOTE: See the posts of June 20 and June 24, 2014.by Kristi Brown-MontesanoFirst, an olive branch of congratulations on the successful premiere of your opera, particularly...
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After The Rite
by Maureen A. CarrAfter the Rite: Stravinsky’s Path to Neoclassicism (1914–1925) (Oxford UP, 2014) traces the evolution of Stravinsky’s compositional process with excerpts from The Nightingale, Three...
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Lorin Maazel (1930–2014)
New York PhilharmonicThe death, at his home in Virginia, of Lorin Maazel follows the losses in short succession of three other leading conductors of the post-Bernstein/ Karajan era: Colin Davis...
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Elements of Style
by D. Kern HolomanDISCLAIMER: the curator of Musicology Now here promotes his own book. This situation could be avoided if we had more incoming submissions during the summer lull. Act now.Consider the...
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Cipriano de Rore at the Crossroads
by Jessie Ann OwensOne wag answered the invitation Katelijne Schiltz and I extended to read a paper by making the following comment: “It is really an excellent idea to organize a Rore-Symposium. I...
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At the Brink in NYC
We wish all the constituencies—musicians, patrons, donors, board, the city of New York—well as they seek to honor the Metropolitan Opera's stated mission to provide “a vibrant home for the most...
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Reading Matter
The American Musicological Society awards publication subventions for books and editions in all fields of music scholarship. Twenty-eight books were recently granted $44,000 in funds to support...
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