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
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...]