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  • Balanchine and Kirstein’s American Enterprise Available for Pre-Order

    Balanchine and Kirstein’s American Enterprise Available for Pre-Order

    The real story of what happened during choreographer George Balanchine’s first decade in the United States and his endeavors with impresario Lincoln Kirstein. The official release date of Balanchine and Kirstein’s American Enterprise (Oxford University Press) is November 1, 2018. Read more

  • Moonlighting in the fifteenth century…

    So excited to see the publication of the Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music, for which I translated five essays! Read more

  • Taruskinfest Lives On!

    Coming soon to a library or JSTOR platform near you! Two special issues of the Journal of Musicology in honor of Richard Taruskin. These six contributions were first presented at “After the End of Music History” (aka “Taruskinfest”), the conference Read more

  • Society for American Music 2014

    What a fantastic meeting of the Society for American Music this past weekend! And what fun to get to present about one of Ballet Caravan’s last gigs, their performances for the 1940 World’s Fair Pavilion of the Ford Motor Company, Read more

  • Catholic University of America – Musicology Colloquium

    Many thanks to Andrew Weaver and the Catholic University of America Musicology Colloquium for inviting me to present today! I spoke about my ongoing research on two of George Balanchine’s early American ballets, Serenade and the Ivy League satire Alma Read more

  • Cannibals at the Met – from the Oxford University Press Blog

    I’m a guest blogger today for the Oxford University Press blog or “OUPblog” as they call it. They invited me to offer some additional thoughts on my article about the Metropolitan Opera’s HD broadcast initiative. I am grateful for the Read more