Essays About the canon

We Still Have Work To Do!

An Open Letter to Young Musicologists by Amy C. Beal Did positivism end before women really made it into the history books? I’ve been wondering that a lot lately. Carla Bley (2012)photo Michael Hoefner A few years ago, while writing a… Read More

Patronage, the Canon, and how the game is still afoot

by DKH I was sufficiently annoyed by Bob Freeman’s post in the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s blog last month (“Needed: A Revolution in Musical Training,” 29 August 2014), to have begun a response. After all, everybody who is anybody in philharmonia—musicians, management, the public . . . even, gasp,… Read More