It Wasn’t Easy Being a Founding Father of the American Symphony

Enjoyed @dougshadle.bsky.social’s most recent NYT piece

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/a...

It Wasn’t Easy Being a Founding Father of the American Symphony

A little classical music history for the holidays. Remarkable performance of Bristow's "Niagara" Symphony (the first since its premiere in 1898) coming up next month!

College of Arts and Science announces new sports and society minor This interdisciplinary minor that covers the relationship between athletics and society is now being offered to students this academic year.

Did you know that Vanderbilt University now offers an undergraduate minor in Sports & Society? Our student newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler, had the scoop: vanderbilthustler.com/2024/10/13/c...

The Curious Case of Nora Holt, a Pioneer of Black Classical Music and Jazz Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs.

Hello, new followers! If you've come for wholesome, quirky, or otherwise outside-the-box classical music content, you've found the right place! How about this incredible NYT feature on Nora Holt written by one of my favorite scholar-musicians, Samantha Ege?? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/a...

Sure, incorrectly. The "endo" suffix marks the word as being in the progressive tense. "Reaching a growing" sounds ridiculous.

I have a brother-in-law who also goes into the office as much as possible for this reason! (really likes quiet, not psychopathy!)

We only slightly more senior colleagues appreciate it!

I'm glad I chose to put my cat on my profile from the beginning so that everyone just now joining BlueSky will know I was an early adopter.

How will we ever gossip now??

The 'Santa Claus Symphony,' born in Philly, that split American classical music into factions William Henry Fry, an influential critic, composer and Philadelphian, had a point to make with 'Santa Claus: A Christmas Symphony,' which premiered in 1853. Concert audiences loved it; others, not so ...

A recent assignment provided by Nate Chinen and Zev Kane at WRTI, for which I had delightful conversations with composer Kile Smith and musicologist Laura Moore Pruett, and happily revisited favorite books by Douglas Shadle and Joseph Horowitz. Season's greetings! www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlig...

Definitely the best concert in Nashville tonight.

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Thanks, Andrew!! It will spare me from having to listen to myself, which I find excruciating!! :-P

Okay, but have I asked you to submit an SMT-V proposal on this platform yet?

"Gen Z depends on saving money to pay the bills"

Thrilled to make an appearance on the "Sound Expertise" podcast with Will Robin! We talked about how broadening my view of who might want to engage with musicological work has taken my career on some surprising journeys. https://soundexpertise.org/

You can call me Doug without any guilt.

Yeah the blobfish is an excellent example.

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