When Barcelona was “absolument moderne”: The Schoenberg / Gerhard Correspondence Shows the Impact of Musical Modernism in Catalonia and Elsewhere Like Paris and Berlin, interwar Barcelona (c.1920-1936) was a cauldron of international modernist creativity: Schoenberg composed Moses und Aron, Webern conducted the Pau Casals...
In memoriam Assunta “Sunny” Carballeira (August 23, 1925 – January 20, 2019) music’s grande dame of “old” New York There’s so much talk right now whether NY has lost its bite and how much better it was that “old” NY of times past. ...
For Better or Worse (better, mostly), We Are All Immersed in the Digital Humanities For better or worse, we are all now immersed in the Digital Humanities. Forget the Parisian cafés and the endless conversations, legs crossed, cigarette-holding,...
A quiet pond no longer, music scholarship generates controversies A quiet pond no longer, music scholarship generates controversies For many decades, perhaps centuries, what we now call musicology and its sibling disciplines (ethnomusicology,...
“Just thinking”—Itamar, a publication from Valencia, thrives on its in-betweenness “Just thinking”—Itamar, a publication from Valencia, thrives on its in-betweenness For those who still don’t know it, Itamar: Revista de Investigación Musical / Territorios...
Baltasar Samper and Early Jazz in Barcelona In the early 2000’s, pianist and scholar Joan Moll gave Antoni Pizà a clump of yellowish loose old quartos in a modest supermarket plastic...
Brook Center’s 18th-Century Symphony Archive is now freely available online The 18th-Century Symphony Archive is a collection of microfilms and photocopies of over 3000 original sources (scores and parts) documenting the history of the...
Reading Iberian Music through the Lens of #BlackLivesMatter By Meira Goldberg & Antoni Pizà Recent events in the USA, including the deaths of Elijah McClain, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and a devastating...
Canceled: “Flamenco in the USA” (27 March) and Kiko Mora Talk (26 March) As per the latest update to the Graduate Center’s COVID-19 response policy (10 March), events through March 29 with more than 20 people in...