Top AJBlog Posts For 12.06.15

Two books I’ve read recently had a notable impact on me. One was Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise (Oxford) by Douglas Shadle, who’s at Vanderbilt. It’s a history of the relationships among 19th-century American… … read more

Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance at the Joyce; Anneke Hansen Dance at the Irondale Center. Gallim Dance’s Daniel Staaf bears Austin Tyson in Andrea Miller’s Whale. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu Andrea Miller’s powerful dances always make me… … read more

This week, for the first time, I analyzed Ethel Smyth’s music in my 19th-century harmony class. I used the Kyrie from her 1893 mass as well as the slow movement of her Second Piano Sonata,… … read more

The long multifarious careers celebrated in the two felicitously concurrent monumental retrospectives that are now electrifying New York—Picasso Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and Frank Stella at the Whitney Museum (both closing on… … read more