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Medicine to Music!

May 13, 2015 By richtere Leave a Comment

As college students we have to choose what profession we would like to do for the rest of our lives. For most of us it takes trying new classes or exploring new fields and ideas. Dr. Charles Frantz is adjunct professor of Theory at Westminster Choir College and he didn’t realize that music was his true love until his grandfather asked him halfway throughout med school. Dr. … [Read more...]

A Conversation with Stacy Wolf

May 8, 2015 By maenhoutj 1 Comment

On October 28, 2014, I was given the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Stacy Wolf, Professor of Theater at Princeton University. I have been a fan of one of her books, Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical, since its publication in July 2011, so I naturally jumped at the chance to speak with her. Dr. Wolf did not have intentions to study theater while she was … [Read more...]

Public Musicology’s Personal Side

November 14, 2014 By meditzj Leave a Comment

It’s been a few months since I started my research about sacred music in Princeton. Honestly, there was a lot that I already was aware of, and I didn’t think I was going to learn as much as I could with another topic. If there is anything that this type of research reinforces, however, it is the reality that public musicology can be reworded as simply studying people. Through … [Read more...]

The Best in Town: Talking with Sue Ellen Page

November 14, 2014 By meditzj Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, I learned a great deal about Princeton’s changing sacred music scene, except not by attending a concert, reading letters, or finding current articles. Believe it or not, I was not hiding behind a screen or reading a bunch of arranged letters, despite today’s socially awkward society. Rather, I was participating in a phenomenon called an interview, à la Barbara … [Read more...]

A New Perspective on an American Art Form

November 14, 2014 By emmastudent2013 Leave a Comment

Like many school projects, one usually can’t assume what the outcome will ever turn out to be. Exploring the music of Princeton has been a whole new experience and has certainly turned out to be a much more different series of events then I had originally envisioned. It has been my first look into public report of research and public proof of faults in one's works. When I … [Read more...]

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Upcoming Ecomusicology Conference

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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