Year: 2015

What I'm Listening to This Month

November 2015 Recordings

This month finds me revisting recordings of Shostakovich symphonies as well as exploring recordings of his piano concertos. I am also listening again to several recordings of music by William Schuman.

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A Tribute to My Musical Father

November 8, 2015 The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I’ve been increasingly aware of the truth of that old saw as I have pushed into middle age. Every time I get a hair cut, I swear my father is looking back at me in the mirror! That’s not a bad thing in and of […]

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Musical Entrepreneurship

“Can I make a living as a musician? Yes, especially if you think like a music entrepreneur!” (Part 1)

Some of the best music schools, colleges, and conservatories in the United States are getting serious about training students as musical entrepreneurs. A few have been in this business for over a decade. Career development and entrepreneurship for music majors and recent graduates is very important to me, and not just because my current job […]

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Ideas for Professional Development (Archive)

Boost your productivity with four simple strategies

Whether you are a college/university faculty member expected to achieve a certain level of productivity before tenure and promotion review, a scholar with a non-teaching role on campus, an adjunct scholar-teacher, or an independent scholar, you probably want to be a productive researcher or creative artist. After all, you pursued graduate training because you loved […]

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Boost your Productivity with Four Easy Strategies

Whether you are a college/university faculty member expected to achieve a certain level of productivity before tenure and promotion review, a scholar with a non-teaching role on campus, an adjunct scholar-teacher, or an independent scholar, you probably want to be a productive researcher or creative artist. After all, you pursued graduate training because you loved […]

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What I'm Watching This Month

October 2015 Viewing

For those who know me, it should come as no surprise that I am watching the new season of Doctor Who. I am also enjoying BBC America’s new offering, The Last Kingdom.

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What I'm Reading This Month

October 2015 Reading

Michael Hall’s Music Theatre in Britain 1960-1975 (Boydell Press, 2015).

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What I'm Listening to This Month

October 2015 Recordings

Here are a few of the things I am listening to repeatedly this month: Elmer Bernstein’s score for the film The Magnificent Seven. Bernard Herrmann’s score for the film The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. William Walton’s Piano Quartet and String Quartet. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 8.

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Current Projects

I am currently and actively working on three research and writing projects, two of which are direct expansions of my initial published work on 1950s and 1960s culture and intellectual history, which can be found in my chapters in Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age. If all goes as currently planned, I will complete […]

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Major Publications

As an active musicologist and historian, I am regularly working on research for a number of publications and other scholarly projects and contributions. Here are three publications that I would especially like to highlight for you.   ~ ~ ~ Muted Anxiety: American Film Music in a Suburban Age (Oxford University Press, 2014) is now available. […]

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