Dr Amy Zigler

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times.

Jason Isbell
Frank Turner
Ben Folds
Smyth - The Wreckers
Daughters of the Revolution

Excited to present my research on #ethelsmyth 's Der Wald today!

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-...

AMS Accountability Archive Grassroots membership response to a professional society in crisis

in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co

Found it. Thanks. Wow...

And me?

Please spill for the rest of us that are too far removed, or DM me 🙂

Der Wald. The Forest. E.M. Smyth. 1902. Musical score cover painting of two people collapsed in front of a bonfire while others dance.

Looking forward to presenting my paper, 'Love has the Victory!': Musical Representations of Female Power in Ethel Smyth's Der Wald at the AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting! #AMSMT25

A Cuban man deported by the US to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.

A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.

Couldn't agree more.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

FYI - Samantha Ege and I have a new article on Julia Perry arriving online in the latest issue of @oxfordamerican.bsky.social next Tuesday! I'm so excited for this piece to be published, I think it is one of the best writing projects I've ever been a part of

How do you file a claim? I don't have access to the Atlantic article.

35 years ago today, Deee-Lite released “Groove Is in the Heart,” a kaleidoscopic dance-floor explosion blending Herbie Hancock samples, Bootsy Collins funk, and a Q-Tip verse. With its trippy video and infectious beat, it became an instant club classic.

Oh no....

Genuinely, if any SE Michigander wants a tuba for this purpose, my brother bought a tuba exactly for this reason (I am not joking) and then realized he's not great at playing it.

So if you want a tuba, DMs open.

(A reasonable offer would be appreciated, probably.)

we all know how hard i support the democracy tuba movement

Excited to read this!

Just finished my first year teaching at UNCG School of Music! Huge congrats to all the students, including MM composition grads Kevin Leroy Grant Jr and Westly Heflin.
And many kudos to my first-year mentor, Joan Titus!
One year down, many more to go!

I wonder in what other contexts we might see such a review published in a journal as prestigious as Music Analysis. Would Music Analysis publish a review of a book on Mozart that did not make connexions to existing Mozart literature? Would such sarcasm and misreading survive the editing process in a review of a book by Joseph Straus or David Huron? Would a graduate student representative of Project Spectrum be given the latitude to write a 39-page review (including two and a half pages discussing the reviewer's own work despite its dubious relevance, four pages of ‘vignettes’, three pages on the recent actions of the Jazz Interest Group, more than 1500 words of block quotes from the book in question and 1200 more in block quotes from other sources)? I urge the editors to take care and reflect on who gets to publish such things, who doesn't and the effects of such a publication.

I wrote a letter to the editor of Music Analysis about a 39-page review of Phil Ewell's book that they published. I think it could have used some … editing. It's open access for now while it's pre-print so enjoy while you can. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Music folks (not just AMS): We have to be in this together. “There is no government agency or large foundation coming to save us. If the ecosystem of music scholars, teachers, performers, and organizations is to survive, we will have to save ourselves.”

www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...

ICE agents realize they arrested wrong teen, say 'take him anyway' Merwil Gutiérrez, was deported to El Salvador's notorious super prison, despite his family's insistence that he has no gang ties or criminal history.

Cannot even imagine being this poor kid, one minute you're dicking around with your friends in NYC and the next you're brought to a prison in a foreign country despite having no previous run-ins with the law or anything.

www.newsweek.com/merwil-gutie...

Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.

“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

60,000 North Carolina voters now have 15 days to cure their ballots. Not to be crazz but: are there 1000 volunteers on this site willing to track down 60 voters each & help them do it? I kind of think there are? Literally, here's the .xls file (& explanation): www.ncsbe.gov/information-...

Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election The ruling was a win for the Republican who narrowly lost a State Supreme Court race in November. The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation.

Breaking News: Thousands of voters must verify their eligibility or have their ballots in the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court race thrown out, a court ruled, a win for the Republican candidate who narrowly lost the election in November and challenged the result.

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Generally how I'm feeling these days.

Orange poster with 2 men and 2 women advertising a concert on 11 April by Winnfield Quartet in Greensboro, NC.

My new music ensemble Winnfield Quartet performs one week from today! #newmusic

Reported in the German press....

UK Subs detained

Me too