by Rebekah Ahrendt Back in the summer of 2012, I was researching a French-language theater troupe that worked in The Hague at the turn of the eighteenth century. I ran across a short article written by the great theater historian Jan Fransen in the… Read More
by Bonnie Gordon The online community of the American Musicological Society is currently exploding around a post by Pierpaolo Polzonetti called “Don Giovanni Goes to Prison.” The post, about teaching opera in prison, sparked both harsh criticism of Polzonetti’s efforts… Read More
by William Cheng Audre Lorde (1934-1992) “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” – Bryan Stevenson (on working with the incarcerated), Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionFast and furious reactions to Pierpaolo Polzonetti’s… Read More
By Alexander Rehding Y2K hysteria: Time Magazine on January 18, 1999. This is a good time, fifteen years into the new millennium, to look back at the phenomenon of millennial music. The dust from the mass hysteria widely associated with… Read More
Each year, the American Musicological Society names as Honorary Members longstanding members who have made outstanding contributions to further the society’s objectives and the field of musical scholarship. This year there are four: Carolyn Abbate’s work on voice and… Read More