Acknowledgements That Didn’t Make It Into The Dissertation

Ryan Raul Banagale thanks a few people/places/things that he didn’t in the acknowledgements section of his completed dissertation.

Guest Post by Alexander Rehding: Happy Birthday, Tonality!

Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Theory at Harvard, puts on his party hat and observes the 200th birthday of tonality. In the process, he confronts a central concern of the history of music theory.

Harvard’s Graduate Student Conference: Song & Dance — Call for Papers

We just received the following CFP from Program Committee Co-Chairs, William Cheng and Hannah Lewis. Looks like a great conference, especially the keynote speaker!

The Fisk Op. 46 Organ Celebration Series at Harvard

Ryan Raul Banagale reviews one recital in a series of organ concerts at Harvard’s Memorial Church celebrating the instrument’s impending departure and tells us a little bit about why it is time for its approximately 4,500 pipes to ease on down the road.

Ryan & Drew in JSAM

Volume 3/1 of the Journal of the Society for American Music is a special issue on Leonard Bernstein in Boston.  Both Drew and I have articles in there–so does our friend and colleage Sheryl Kaskowitz–which we think you will enjoy–though perhaps not as much as these nifty little word clouds.

Ryan Raul Bañagale — “‘Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves”: Bernstein’s Formative Relationship with Rhapsody in Blue

Drew Massey — Leonard Bernstein and the Harvard Student Union: In Search of Political Origins

Sheryl Kaskowitz — All in the Family: Brandeis University and Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Jewish Boston’