Connecting
Once connected to the news each morning (unlike certain New Yorkers last week), I try not to succumb to lists (“Five Things the Government Can Do to Lower Airline Ticket Prices;” “3… Read More
Once connected to the news each morning (unlike certain New Yorkers last week), I try not to succumb to lists (“Five Things the Government Can Do to Lower Airline Ticket Prices;” “3… Read More
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 shifting sound of popular music is at the center of a big data story: the research results may seem counter-intuitive (is pop music getting… Read More
Connecticut College Music historian Katherine Bergeron has been named 11th president of Connecticut College in New London, it was announced this week. Bergeron, a native of Old Lyme, nearby, will take office in January 2014. Until then she will continue as Dean of the… Read More
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 skies and freezing temperatures of the upper East Coast soon gave way to the sun-filled horizons of the American South. Pleased that he had chosen… Read More
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, and her first composition. At the same time, I’ll be putting the finishing touches on my book about Talma and her works (Ashgate, forthcoming 2014). Read More
Version 1.6.0 of music21, the noted suite of tools for computer-aided research, was released by Michael Cuthbert, Christopher Ariza, and their MIT team on August 8. (The previous versions 1.5 and 1.4 appeared in May and January.) It’s a robust… Read More
by Will Robin24 July 2013 Note: Will Robin’s piece for NewMusicBox begins with Charles Seeger’s discovery of American shape-note notation and goes on to trace “a sturdy lineage of American musicians who sought out a maverick impulse in native… Read More
by Joseph Horowitz15 July 2013 Library of Congress Note: NPR’s summer project is a “Search for the Great American Symphony.” Joe Horowitz’s contribution deals with the “early history”: Gottschalk, Paine, Dvorak, Chadwick, Beach, Strong, Ives. Horowitz writes: The accompanying… Read More
Fans of Phil Ford and Jonathan Bellman’s weblog are mightily pleased to welcome it back after a hiatus of some years. Who wouldn’t grin to think about the “Maestro-Industrial Complex” or enjoy Ford pimping his… Read More