Category: featured guest blogger
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The Music of the Remarkable Mrs. Sirmen
We apologise for taking so long to get back to Part II of our post about composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Part I, about her life, is found here. Our guest author is the London-based musician Martin Ash, whose website is www.martinashmusic.com. When Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen embarked on her career, the…
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The Amazing Mrs. Sirmen, aka Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen
Taking up our #ThinkOutsideTheBachs challenge, London-based musician Martin Ash offers engaging insights on the groundbreaking and innovative violinist-composer (also singer and keyboard player) Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Martin Ash is a viola player, folk fiddler, and sometime mandolinist, arranger and composer. His website is www.martinashmusic.com. The first of two posts about Maddalena, it focuses…
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Remembering Karin Pendle (by Annie Janeiro Randall)
Annie Janeiro Randall, Professor of Music at Bucknell University, is the author of Dusty! Queen of the Postmods and editor of Music, Power, and Politics. We invited her to share her remembrance of Prof. Karin Pendle, and are happy to offer her thoughts, below. We mentioned Prof. Pendle’s passing a few weeks ago and linked to Dr.…
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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…