We here at Musicology Now would like to salute Michael Ochs, who edited and restored Joseph Rumshinsky’s Di goldene kale (The Golden Bride) for publication next year by A-R Editions for the American Musicological Society for its series “Music of the United States of America” (MUSA). Di goldene kale, a 1923 Yiddish-American operetta that… Read More
By Drew Massey Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker, discussed below. Photo credit: boston.com As part of my renewed effort to put more “now” into Musicology Now, last month I started writing a post about trigger warnings and their rapport with classical music. Then I… Read More
By Drew Massey It seems that power struggles these days are frequently mediated by the language of sport. Obama chose not to “spike the football” following Abbottabad; the Gregory Brothers, while better known for “songifying” politics, recently wrote an insightful critique of the choice to hold presidential debates… Read More
by Drew Massey As my co-editor Kern has noted, 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a pivotal moment in musicology: the Kerman-Lowinsky debates about the purpose of musicology. Interested readers can familiarize themselves with the terms of the debate here, here, and here; the crux… Read More