Marvin Gaye Live

Produced by musicologist Andrew Flory and several teams of students at Carleton College, this project  visualize Marvin Gaye’s performance career, which included over a thousand performances over twenty five years. The project contextualizes Gaye’s careers...

British Library Finds

It’s been a full day: morning and afternoon at the British Library, evening at the opening events of the conference I’m attending here. Highlights included: – Looked at letters written to Walter Leigh, an English composer who died fighting the...

Getting Summer Research Started Right

On this first day of CURI research, I’m . . . in London. In my defense, I’m here to present a paper on the 1924 Soirées de Paris season, which means I’m thinking about (and soliciting feedback on) the topic of our summer-long project. I’m also...

Manifesto

Premieres, innovations, and influential revivals jump off the pages of musicological scholarship, contributing to a historical narrative that emphasizes progress and the new even when the overwhelming majority of historical evidence suggests that...