I’ve just learned that I have been awarded a Summer Fellowship at the American Music Research Center Summer Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder, to do research in their two collections of silent film materials–the Alvin G. Layton Collection and …
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This year: My book chapter on music and disability in William Walton’s score for Laurence Olivier’s Richard III–specifically the ways in which Walton uses altered sounds from the orchestra to create musical manifestations of Richard’s “unnaturalness”–was published as “Music for …
I’m absolutely thrilled by this review by Rose Dodd of Louise Talma: A Life in Composition in Tempo, Volume 70, Issue 275 (January 2016, pp 109 – 111. DOI: 10.1017/S0040298215000844, Published online: 07 December 2015). A taste: Kendra Preston Leonard’s …
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I’m please to announce that I’ll be speaking at the University of North Texas’s ML75. UNT Symposium, celebrating the Music Library’s 75th anniversary. The Symposium takes place April 22-23, 2016. I’ll be talking about music in the library’s Special Collections–my …
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It’s really been a great week for my work on Talma and for #musicologyeverywhere (aka public musicology): first this this review by Nanette Kaplan Solomon of my book Louise Talma: A Life in Composition, and now I’ve just had an …
My newest post for W. W. Norton’s The Avid Listener is on British composer and author (and other things) Anthony Burgess’s excellent experimental novel Napoleon Symphony. Enjoy! [Full url: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/11/art-mimics-art-anthony-burgesss-napoleon-symphony-a-novel-in-four-movements.html]
I’m delighted to share this review of my book Louise Talma: A Life in Composition, written by Nanette Kaplan Solomon for the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, Fall 2015 issue. Here’s her conclusion: “a groundbreaking, multi-layered, important book …
I’m fully booked from arrival to departure at this point, but if you want to say hi, I’ll be participating in the following sessions: **Friday 12:15-1:15 CCRI Panel on Careers Outside of the Academy in Laffoon** **Friday 6:30-7:30 Music and …
My newest post for W. W. Norton’s The Avid Listener is up at “American Folk Rock Cattle Raid: The Decemberists’s The Tain.”