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Musicology in the News
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| The RSS feed for Musicology in the News was implemented 16 February 2008. News items appearing on the AMS "News" page prior to that date appear below.
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January 11, 2008, Chronicle of Higher Education: New World Symphony and Discord, by AMS member Joseph Horowitz
December 29, 2007 : AMS Corresponding Member and Past President Margaret Bent has been made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to musicology. Her research centres on English, French and Italian music of the 14th to 16th centuries. She co-directs the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music.
December 2, 2007: New York Times: Adding Notes to a Folklorist’s Tunes, by Bill Friskics-Warren, on the release of "Recording Black Culture" (Spring Fed Records, 2007, ASIN B000VPB6Q6) including musicological fieldwork of folklorist John Work III. November 25, 2007: New York Times: Hard to Be and Audiophile in an iPod World, by Anthony Tommasini (including comments from Mark Katz, whose book Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music, University of California Press, 2004 (ISBN 0520243803) was published with support from the AMS).
September 17, 2007: The New Yorker, “Fantasia for Piano: Joyce Hatto's Incredible Career” by Mark Singer details the unraveling of the “Joyce Hatto” recordings (of “the world’s greatest pianist”). It highlights the work of Nicholas Cook and Craig Sapp, as well as the accidental discoveries of miscellaneous ipod users on two continents. October 5, 2006: NPR: Uncovering the 'True' History of the Funerary Violin: "A forthcoming book traces the lost history of a musical genre too good to be true..." September 28, 2006: New York Times: And the Orchestra Plays on, Echoing Iraq’s Struggles September 28, 2006: Chronicle of Higher Education: Studying Rock's Clean, Mean Movement (anti-drug/alcohol punk genres) September 27, 2006: New York Times: Opera Canceled Over a Depiction of Muhammad September 4, 2006: Balzan Foundation awards 1 million Swiss Francs to AMS Corresponding Member Ludwig Finscher September 1, 2006: Chronicle of Higher Education: How Colleges Can Encourage Female Composers, by [AMS member] Eileen Strempel: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02b01601.htm August 27, 2006: Portland Press Herald, Bowdoin hires a dean and reaps a bonus of note to the music world, by Bob Keyes. August 22, 2006: Portland Press Herald, Musicology Group Moves to Bowdoin, by Dennis Hoey. June 6, 2006: British Library acquires My Ladye Nevells Booke: http://www.bl.uk/collections/music/my_ladye_nevells_booke.html New York Times, May 28, 2006: "Check the Numbers: Rumors of Classical Music's Demise Are Dead Wrong," By Allan Kozinn: "For all the hand-wringing, there is immensely more classical music on offer now, both in concerts and on recordings than there was in what nostalgists think of as the golden era of classics in America..."
October 13, 2005: The New York Times: A Historic Discovery, in Beethoven's Own Hand, by Daniel J. Wakin (on the four-hand version of the Grosse Fuge recently found at Palmer Theological Seminary, outside Philadelphia). http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/13/arts/music/13beet.html August 6, 2005: Lectures on "Music and Money in Early Modern Europe" by AMS member John Kmetz reach 160,000 readers in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung. http://www.nzz.ch/2005/08/06/li/articleCZUON.html June 27, 2005: THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ruled unanimously this morning that commercial producers of file-sharing software may be sued for copyright infringement. The services are popular with college students who use them to download songs and movies, usually in violation of copyright law. June 7, 2005: The Guardian: Beethoven was a narcissistic hooligan, by Dylan Evans: With Beethoven, music did not grow up, it regressed to adolescence. He was a hooligan who could reduce Schiller's Ode to Joy to madness, bloodlust, and megalomania... http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1500951,00.html June 6, 2005: AMS member Mark Katz's book Capturing Sound, supported in part by a subvention from the AMS, received a write-up in the New Yorker...: http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/050606crat_atlarge June 3, 2005: NPR story: Barenaked Ladies compose music for a production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" at the Stratford Festival. by Celeste Headlee (AMS member Richard Rischar participates) ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4678701 May 20, 2005: The Guardian interviews Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau : It is not good to be 80. I did not like being 70, and I like being 80 even less. It is the start of the final episode... http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1487391,00.html May 20, 2005: Sawkins v Hyperion: Ruling in favor of Sawkins: Hyperion's view: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/ The New York Times, December 15, 2004: "Beethoven by the Numbers": "The world's largest collection of Beethoven manuscripts and letters has gone digital. The Beethoven House in Bonn, his birthplace, has scanned more than 5,000 handwritten letters and manuscripts and posted many of them for access on its Web site (www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de). The project, in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication in Munich, cost more than $6 million and includes many documents newly available to the public, said a spokeswoman at the Beethoven House. The Web site, in English and German, also includes audio examples of some of Beethoven's works." The Denver Post, October 5, 2004: "Conducting America's score: Teacher who mentored icons like Glass, Copland to be feted at CU symposium," By Kyle MacMillan: "Aaron Copland. Philip Glass. Quincy Jones. Walter Piston. Virgil Thomson. These are just a few of the most celebrated names among the more than 130 American composers who studied with Nadia Boulanger and are listed in the prestigious New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians..." The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 2004: "From cathedral to computer, obscure Renaissance music," By David Patrick Stearns: "PRINCETON - While great cathedrals survive majestically from the 15th century into the 21st, most of the music heard within them has slept in libraries, and would continue to do so unless kissed back to life by an unlikely mechanical prince: a MIDI synthesizer. Hear it happen on your PC...." [Discussion of Rob Wegman's Renaissance Music web site, http://www.princeton.edu/~rwegman/mass.htm] The New Yorker, September 2, 2004: UNAUTHORIZED, The final betrayal of Dmitri Shostakovich, by Alex Ross: "There are few documented examples of the fake or forged autobiography, although the genre probably has a long, secret history.... " http://www.newyorker.com/critics/music/?040906crmu_music Chronicle of Higher Education, July 16, 2004: Silent Treatment: A copyright battle kills an anthology of essays about the composer Rebecca Clarke, by Richard Byrne: http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i45/45a01401.htm Philadelphia Inquirer, April 5, 2004: Well-traveled Bach: "Part of a lost composition by Johann Sebastian Bach has been found in Japan nearly eight decades after it went missing, a Japanese music professor said yesterday..."(scroll down the page) New York Times, March 15, 2004:
MOZART BY ITS RIGHTFUL NAME: "A Mozart mystery has been solved at last. So says the musicologist Michael Lorenz, an expert on the Viennese music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries..." Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/20/04: From Harvard to Homeless to Ohio State [AMS member Graeme Boone]: New York Times, Feb. 4, 2004: photo, p. B9
October 29, 2003: Elaine Sisman (Columbia University), AMS President-Elect, story in Columbia News: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/03/10/elaineSisman.html September 5, 2003: "Lyrical Writing About Music," re AMS member
Beth Levy. By Sharon Walsh, The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i02/02a01002.htm June 29, 2003: Orchestral Survival: It's Not Simply the Economy, Stupid,
by James R. Oestreich (NYTimes): They were successive entries in Andante.com's
news summary one recent Thursday: "San Antonio Symphony Declaring Bankruptcy,"
"Oregon Symphony Musicians Take Pay Cut."... June 28, 2003: David Lewin: A Seeker of Music's Poetry in the Mathematical
Realm, By Edward Rothstein (NYTimes): "'I am sorry now that I did not
write an opera with her every year,' Virgil Thomson once wrote about Gertrude
Stein. 'It had not occurred to me that both of us would not always be living.'..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/28/arts/28CONN.html June 20, 2003: The Case of the Mysterious Cornetist, by Peter Monaghan (Chronicle):
Athens, W.Va.: From here, it's a long way to the jazz joints of New York and
the art form's birthplaces, like New Orleans and Kansas City. Here at Concord
College, on a damp, green ridge of the Appalachian Mountains, Gary Westbrook
doesn't exactly resemble a ghost of Dixieland as he peers at a laptop computer.
A sequence of contorted lines shudders across the screen. "It's all in
the tone," he says...." June 15, 2003: Adventures in Downloading Haydn, by Anne Midgette (NY Times):
"CLASSICAL music critics seldom get to feel that they're on track with
a hip new product. So I came to iTunes with an extra sense of empowerment...." January 29, 2003: Record Industry Has No Plan to Seek Names of Students Trading Copyrighted Songs, by Andrea L. Foster: "In a case that campus-network administrators followed closely, the recording industry won an important legal victory last week that will help record companies ferret out music fans who illegally trade copyrighted material..." http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003012901t.htm December 23, 2002: Beethoven Seen as Musician, Not Hero, By James R. Oestreich:
"More than Bach, more than Mozart, more than Mahler, Beethoven remains
central to our way of thinking about Western music..." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/23/books/23OEST.html December 15, 2002: Puccini Turns Respectable, By Gary Tomlinson: "Opera
lovers continue to flock to Puccini, and opera companies bank on the fact..."
http://query.nytimes.com/search/full-page?res=9403E6DF123BF936A25751C1A9649C8B63 December 15, 2002: 'White Christmas': An Anthem Frosted With Irony, by Bernard
Holland: "The first impression of "White Christmas" is motion..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/arts/music/15HOLL.html
December 13, 2002: Eugene K. Wolf dead at age 63... http://www.ams-net.org/Eugene-Wolf-Obituary.html December 8, 2002: Tchaikovsky: 'Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's ''Nutcracker'' will be performed on stages from small towns to the New York City Ballet this month -- and in ''literally hundreds of productions around the world,'' according to Jeffrey Milarsky, music director and conductor of the Columbia University Orchestra. That, along with the ''1812 Overture,'' ''Swan Lake'' and certain other works, means that Tchaikovsky, as Milarsky says, ''is played more than any composer.'' Yet where Milarsky and other members of the classical music establishment herald a revival of esteem for Tchaikovsky during recent years, Milton Babbitt, 86, a giant of the serialism movement in modern composing, has a problem with him...' http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/08/magazine/08CRASH.html October 16, 2002: Philip Brett dead at age 64... Memorial web site: http://www.musicology.ucla.edu/philip/ October 11, 2002: Rooting for Truffles With Igor: Stravinsky scholarship blossoms despite a protective heir -- By Scott McLemee: http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i07/07a02001.htm October 10, 2002: Higher-Education Organizations Urge a Crackdown on Illegal File Sharing -- By Vincent Kiernan: "The leaders of six major higher-education organizations are asking the presidents of all American colleges to take steps to stop illegal distribution of copyrighted materials, such as songs and motion pictures, through college computer networks..." http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002101002t.htm September 27, 2002: Can we find an Anthem for 9/11? -- By Martha Bayles:
"In the last year, many popular musicians have tried to produce a song
accessible to all ears, yet also able to resonate with the overwhelming emotions
of September 11..." September 14, 2002: A Philosopher [Adorno] With New Disciples (in Music, Not Philosophy) -- By Edward Rothstein: In Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus," the music teacher Wendell Kretschmar plays Beethoven's Opus 111 piano sonata for his students... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/14/arts/music/14CONN.html July 21, 2002: Odd duo against record labels - Michael Jackson, Al Sharpton -- By Jimi Izrael: Michael Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton have joined forces to fight racism, and it's the greatest show on Earth. Not since Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie have Americans been so amused and disgusted at a coupling. Who cares what their gripe is? ... http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/2002/07/22/news/editorial/3710800.htm July 20, 2002: Alan Lomax, Who Raised Voice of Folk Music in U.S., Dies
at 87... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/obituaries/20LOMA.html June 24, 2002: Music Made With Soda Cans and Soggy Hamburger -- By MATTHEW
MIRAPAUL When the British musician Matthew Herbert performs as Radio Boy, he
demolishes his instruments. But the debris from his theatrically violent concert
contains neither guitar-string curlicues nor drumstick splinters....http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/24/arts/music/24ARTS.html June 14, 2002: A Portrait of the Maestro, in His Own Words -- By JOHN
ROCKWELL -- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was the most-written-about conductor
ever and deservedly so. Much of that writing has come from a coterie of admirers,
men and women so overwhelmed by the force of his music-making and personality
that they became devotees. Harvey Sachs is one of those devotees, having written
two books already on the maestro. So it would be easy to dismiss this collection
of largely personal letters as leftovers... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/14/books/14BOOK.html June 13, 2002: A Hit Song Puts Ethnic Tensions at Center Stage -- By
RACHEL L. SWARNS -- [D] URBAN, South Africa, June 10 — The lyrics pulse
through this city's shabby townships, through the sidewalk vegetable stalls,
leaving some listeners outraged while others shout out their approval. This
year's most-talked-about song has sharply divided this ethnically diverse city...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/13/international/africa/13AFRI.html June 13, 2002: An International E-Competition Relies on the High-Tech [Yamaha] E-Piano -- By ANTHONY TOMMASINI -- Early this evening in St. Paul a panel of seven pianists will gather in the intimate Sundin Music Hall on the campus of Hamline University to judge the six young finalists in a new international piano competition. But in an unprecedented move, an eighth judge, Yefim Bronfman, with the highest profile among these pianists, will also be evaluating the finalists. From Hamamatsu, Japan. Where it will be early Friday morning... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/13/arts/music/13NOTE.html June 6, 2002: Professor [Jeffrey Kallberg] Recontructs Chopin Piece
-- PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Feverishly ill and hallucinating, Frederic Chopin was
staying on the island of Majorca in 1839 with his mistress, writer George Sand.
It was raining, and he was trying to finish his preludes - 24 in all, one in
each key... http://www.ap.org/ (perform search)
June 4, 2002: Music's Open Secret -- Sexual harassment has long been
a problem in music departments. Two cases at top public colleges draw attention
to the issue... http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i39/39a01201.htm June 3, 2002: CD Becomes No. 1 Before Its Release -- The Eminem Show," the latest album from the rapper Eminem, made its debut last week and shot immediately to No. 1 on the Billboard charts. But what has recording industry officials concerned is how popular and widely distributed the album was before it was ever released... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/technology/03MUSI.html June 2, 2002: Some Questions Unsolved by Leonard Bernstein By ALLAN KOZINN On a November evening in 1973, in the final moments of the sixth and last of
his Norton Lectures at Harvard University, Leonard Bernstein offered what he
described as a personal credo: a summation of his beliefs about music as he
looked into the final quarter of the 20th century... June 2, 2002: Orchestras Repeat Well-Tried Formulas By PAUL GRIFFITHS LORIN MAAZEL conducts the New York Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony!
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Fifth
Symphony! Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in Shostakovich's
Fifth Symphony!... June 2, 2002: Stravinsky: Finding Religion in the Theater, Drama in the
Church O ften called cold and inexpressive, Stravinsky's music can seem ill suited to the secular space and secular rituals of the concert hall. Its rightful homes may be sacred: the theater of the church and the church of the theater. Robert Craft's revelatory new recording of three of Stravinsky's choral monuments, the "Symphony of Psalms," "Les Noces" and "Threni" demonstrates that the theatrical and religious impulses, based on the willing suspension of disbelief, are at the core of Stravinsky's art... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/arts/music/02SCHI.html May 22, 2002: * THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS on Tuesday rejected proposed fees that radio broadcasters -- including those at colleges -- would pay for playing music online. Now James H. Billington, the librarian, has until June 20 to determine on his own what the fees should be. His decision Tuesday did not indicate whether he thought the proposed fees were too high or too low. |
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