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Seeger, Springsteen, and American Folk Music
In the liner notes to his new album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Bruce Springsteen recounts how the recording took place the first day...
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 10/01/06 by Thurmaier, David · More from publication -
Starting Over from the End
In my end is my beginning. -T.S. Eliot, "East Coker" from Four Quartets I have been thinking a lot about endings lately. To name two reasons, I...
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 01/01/06 by Thurmaier, David · More from publication -
Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall
Horowitz, Joseph. Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall. W. W. Norton, 2005. 606 pages. $39.95. In his book, Classical Music...
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 01/01/06 by Thurmaier, David · More from publication -
Whatever Happened to Classical Music?
I read an article in Time magazine recently reporting that the members of the St. Louis Symphony had settled a labor dispute with the orchestra's...
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 07/01/05 by Thurmaier, David · More from publication -
A Connecticut Yankee Fifty Years Later
In my previous columns, I focused on two topics that have fascinated me for some time: the development of American music and the importance of...
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 10/01/04 by Thurmaier, David · More from publication -
New Music and the Wounded Dragon
Brahms's Requiem has not the true funeral relish: it is so execrably and ponderously dull that the very flattest of funerals would seem like a...
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 04/01/04 by Thurmaier, David · More from publication -
What is "American" Music?
A colleague recently asked me what makes the music of Aaron Copland sound "American." After rattling off obvious biographical facts about Copland...
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 10/01/03 by Thurmaier, David · More from publication -
Beatles as musical experimentalists, The
What is it about the Beatles that W still fascinates and captivates many of us? Surely even the surviving Beatles were surprised when their...
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 04/01/03 by Thurmaier, David · More from publication
