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Israfel – Music for flute and electronics

Artists: Paolo Bortolussi flute, Keith Hamel & John Oliver electronics Recording details: Redshift Records, 2016 Works: Keith Hamel Krishna’s Flute Larry Lake Israfel John Oliver (BMus’82) Birds of Paradise Lost Kaija Saariaho NoaNoa Link Israfel by Paolo Bortolussi Israfel by Paolo Bortolussi

Double Concertos for Violin and Clarinet

Composer: Stephen Chatman Ensembles: Verdehr Duo and Las Cruces Symphony, Lonnie Klein conductor Performers: Walter Verdehr violin, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr clarinet Recording details: Crystal Records, 2016 Work: Concerto for Clarinet, Violin and Orchestra

Superposition in Kaija Saariaho’s ‘The claw of the magnolia….’

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music from 1960-2000, edited by Laurel Parsons, and Brenda Ravenscroft, 156-175. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2016. Weblink: https://global.oup.com Abstract: Kaija Saariaho’s From the Grammar of Dreams, for two solo female singers, elegantly articulates the poetic structure of Sylvia Plath’s […]

Verdi on Stage: Notes on Five Recent Productions

Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: Nineteenth-Century Music Review 13, no. 2 (2016): 392-400. Weblink: https://www.cambridge.org

Discipline and Pianist: Foucault and the Genealogy of the Étude

Author: Konoval, Brandon Publication details: Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century, edited by Catherine M. Soussloff, 79-102. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016. Weblink: http://www.academia.edu

Music, Bacchus, and Freedom

Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body, edited by Youn Kim and Sander L. Gilman. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015. Weblink: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com Abstract: Nietzsche points out in The Birth of Tragedy (1872, rev. 1886) that modern Dionysiac music began with Beethoven’s symphonic music and matured in Wagner’s […]

A Cannon-Shaped Man with an Amphibian Voice: Castrato and Disability in Eighteenth-Century France

Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil William Lerner, Joseph Nathan Straus, 329-344. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015. Weblink: https://global.oup.com Abstract: This essay suggests how cultural histories of the castrato (exemplified by the writings of Giuseppe Gerbino, Roger Freitas, Bonnie […]