Marian Wilson Kimber

Phone calls, too. I once had a scholar (whose name you know) tell me how much they loved my work while trying to get me to hire their student. I almost laughed out loud, as I’m fairly sure they’d never read anything by me.

Post you from a different era (not my research center).

kermit the frog says yay yay yay on a stage Alt: Kermit the frog says yay yay yay on a stage

Librarians at three different institutions have been really great to me this past week--scanning things for free and answering obscure reference questions. YAY LIBRARIANS!

Aunt Barbara’s herbed carrots.

My favorite Thanksgiving tradition, this time with cheese grater and saxophone.

In the name of my friend Steve, who died in 1986 at the age of 23—fuck you.

My asking questions and providing what information I know is apparently not helping things, so I'm going offline now. Everyone have a nice evening.

Thank you.

I know they paid the salary of Matt Brounley He was overseeing the outreach program funded by NEH. I spoke with him personally as was going to be involved with it at one point.

I read all the names.

Did the program committee meet with the board? That is what I was told.

Also, if people are interested in transparency, why are they signing the petition anonymously?

Also, it's my understanding that the Program Committee already met with the Board. The memo that is linked here is from July, so it seems outdated.

For example, some of the salaries of employees were paid for by the NEH grants. They did not come from the Society itself.

There's a certain amount of misinformation in this petition. I would urge everyone to wait until the full details emerge.

I want to read a review of Bad Bunny's Global Appeal: P FKN R by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau—any musicologists up for doing this review for me (reviews editor) and the Journal of Musicological Research?

Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works

IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...

I am so sorry.💐

@raygunsite.com Are you on it?

Me too. I called and yelled about it on my senators' voice mails.

You have seen the film Impromptu, yes?

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Daffodils, Violets & Snowflakes: Gendered Song Stereotypes for Young Girls - Women's Song Forum Devoted to women's songs and voices

Thank you, @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social, for calling out these gross, misogynist, and horribly dated songs still being marketed to young women and girls: www.womensongforum.org/2025/11/14/d... There are SO MANY better works out there for this age range & vocal level.

You are welcome!

There's also a certain amount of making fun of McClary-esque analyses. She doesn't get a mention--but Richard Taruskin does!

It’s funny. Tonic and dominant meet in a bar. The musicology student gets a hold of Don Giovanni who is suddenly…impotent. Rosen pontificates so much he misses the sonata form symposium.

It was silly--but fun!

Beethoven, Mozart with pink hair, and Haydn on the program for the opera by Steven Stuckey and Jeremy Dent, The Classical Style: an Opera (of Sorts) at the University of Iowa

Hey music nerds—have you ever seen the opera, The Classical Style? Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven go looking for Charles Rosen. There’s a satirical treatment of a UC Berkeley PhD student in musicology.

Girls singing about flowers and fairies, but not astronauts. Here's my latest essay, "Daffodils, Violets & Snowflakes: Gendered Song Stereotypes for Young Girls," critiquing Hal Leonard's song anthology: www.womensongforum.org/2025/11/14/d...

American Gothic by Grant Wood, with Van Gogh's Starry Night in the sky over the house. The people's heads are Vermeer's Girl with a pearl earring and Van Gogh's self-portrait.

What am I doing writing an article that is really about art history? I don't even know what journal to send it to....