Category: academia
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Remembering a pioneering scholar of women in music, Dr. Karin Pendle
In the past few years, so many have “discovered” the issue of women composers and gender in classical music. That is — for the most part — great! But sometimes it does seem like we keep on “re-inventing the wheel.” If instead we recognized and built on the work that has taken place in the…
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Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Andante for Strings — and a problematic publisher
Welcome to our Guest-blogger, Ian Sewell, a PhD Student in Music Theory at Columbia University. We thank him for sharing his experience about one of the 20th-century’s best- known works — and the difficulty in making an accurate and scholarly edition of that work available. Scholars of Ruth Crawford’s music are all too familiar with…
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Miriam Gideon’s “Fortunato” Premiered
We were thrilled to hear the stream of Miriam Gideon’s 1958 chamber opera, Fortunato, last week. This was the world premiere of this work, which Gideon apparently wrote hoping that it would be performed by the NBC Opera Theatre. She composed it in three acts, and orchestrated the first act. While her hope was that…
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SAM Conference: Day 3
Our adventures at SAM in New Orleans continue with more fantastic papers, food, and camaraderie! On Saturday morning I attended a truly wonderful session focusing on the lives and music of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, and considering new and intersectional ways to analyze and appreciate their respective bodies of work. Kori Hill presented on…