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When Reviewers Get It
Seeing one’s books reviewed is always both exciting and nerve-wracking. After all, any author who publishes a scholarly book will have worked for years to get everything right: the myriad details, the larger picture, the writing style … as well as, closer to publication, the bibliography, proof-reading, permissions to use photographs … the list is endless. And then, once the book is out there in the world, a few people will have the unenviable job of boiling its contents down
Jul 11


My "Da Vinci Code" Project
To be fair, this is not the project’s official title. But some of my friends jokingly refer to it this way, since they find the whole...
Feb 16, 2025


The Craziest Musicology Conference of All Time
One of my favorite movies (apart from Amadeus , which is in a league of its own) is What’s Up, Doc? , Peter Bogdanovich’s zany screwball...
Aug 21, 2024
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