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Ron Standring- Westminster Choir Member During 1956-1957 World Tour

May 12, 2015 By barnardc Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v6CJhMcGLE Eric Hung interviews Ron Standring, choir member during the Westminster Choir's World Tour in 1956-1957. This tour was sponsored by the U.S. State Department as a part of Cold War cultural diplomacy efforts. Ron shares his impressions of the multitude of countries which they visited, the experiences that he had, and how the choir … [Read more...]

Furthering Public Musicology

February 2, 2015 By Eric 1 Comment

At "The Past, Present and Future of Public Musicology" conference this past weekend, it is nice to hear some of my colleagues "come out" as "public musicologists."  It seems to me that, in order for "public musicology" to go forward and to gain legitimacy (I am aware that this is very problematic), one thing we MUST do is to get rid of is the idea that "real musicologists" work … [Read more...]

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Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation

April 8-10, 2016 Westminster Choir College of Rider University Princeton, NJ "Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation" seeks to bring together scholars, performers, and composers to further explore the relationships between music, culture, and the environment. The conference will tune to sounds as they fit or belong in the place they are heard, as they fit or belong in some other place, or as they have no ecological home, either built or natural. Among the questions at

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