Great to see this, and nice to see Peter Holman and Dawn Grapes mentioned along with selected performers. It would have been nice to mention lutenists like Paul O'Dette, Nigel North, and Jakob Lindberg, all of whom have recorded the complete Dowland lute works. But all in all, a welcome tribute!
Lovely to see stalwarts like Rob Macdonald and Stephen Harrold in the photo. One key to the Tallis Scholars success is that Peter has always hired great singers.
Do you know that it used to be called the “Shrine to Music Museum”?
White-haired bearded man standing by a painting of a soldier who looks similar.
Back to see my Norton Simon Museum Doppelgänger, 8 years later. Dammit, he hasn’t aged a bit!
At the 1990 Berkeley Festival, Rolf was the “young kid” in Hesperion. We were at the same hotel and one day, the elevator door opened and there was Rolf, being held UPSIDE DOWN between two of his more senior colleagues! I wonder if he remembers.
This white mensural notation guide is a version of one I created originally for for my 1983 edition of DuFay chansons:
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Derelict US Army WW2 jeep on a suburban street.
Took a wrong turn in 1946 and, apparently, wound up here.
Pleased to talk to @selenasd.com with @npr.org about this important issue about the health and well-being of babies.
If the Supreme Court ends birthright citizenship, what will it mean for newborns? - NPR www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...
When Falstaff threatens to have ballads made up about Prince Hal and sung to filthy tunes (IHen4.2.2), he did not have a Latin-texted motet in mind, but the effect might be the same. Brilliant Josquin parody and amazing solo performance!
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Photo portrait of Bonnie Blackburn
Just devasted to learn of the death of Bonnie Blackburn (1939–2026). She was quite simply the world's greatest editor, besides being a brilliant scholar and a sweet person. O dear, the musical world has lost some of its light today.
During my recent life-saving stay in hospital, I thought a lot about the fact that the hospital was staffed with a legion of non-white, sometimes immigrant, medical professionals – all expert, responsible, compassionate and caring. I don't know how our health system could survive without them.
On the mend, thx
Side-by-side image of Biohazard warning label with detail of Robin Goodfellow character named in Midsummer Night's Dream, from a broadside ballad woodcut, relabeled Brohazard.
Spent some days in hospital, staring at the image at left, thinking it reminded me of something. Then "Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Called Robin Goodfellow. Are you not he …?" (MND 2.1) You kinda have to squint. Relabeled as I read it.
Recalls Thomas Ravenscroft’s Deuteromelia (1609) song: “Martin said to his man, fie man fie. Martin said to his man, who’s the fool now? Martin said to his man, fill thou the cup and I the can. Thou hast well drunken man, who’s the fool now?”
Saw this headline and thought @unamcilvenna.bsky.social has made the news! Apparently not, but it's part of the same tradition.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
Illuminating as always (!) but one factual detail needs correcting here (and in Wikipedia). Ege (d. 1951) could not have taught at Case Western Reserve University because it only bore that name from 1968 (I taught there for 40 years). It would probably have been called Western Reserve College.
This has just been announced. If you'll be at or near The Huntington Library on March 19 or know someone who will, please share this and come along!
huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com/event/16388604
Photo of a bearded man beside a tree-lined street with parked cars.
And each time I taught pre-tonal theory I always shared his work on number symbolism in Philippe de Vitry's Garrit Gallus as a marvel of imagination and acute observation. He was one of a kind. RIP Paul. This is how I remember him from our grad school days.
Sad to hear of the death of Paul Furnas who got his doctorate in music at Stanford on the same day I did in 1977. His diss on the Manchester Lyra Viol MS was important; his life-long interest in rounds & canons, and later in the Appalachian dulcimer were infectious enthusiasms. 1/2
Terrible news but great reporting (as usual) by my daughter @selenasd.com!
Lovely song!
In "Framing a Ditty for Elizabeth" (Early Music History 2020), I argue that it may have been written for the Entertainment at Harefield on Elizabeth's last summer progress, in 1602.
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A wonderful story and a tribute to the people of Oberlin! He mentions the founding of Western Reserve College (where I taught for 40 yrs) and by coincidence that was exactly 200 yrs ago on Feb 7.
Lovely to see John Chowning win a technical Grammy for developing FM synthesis. The mid-70s Stanford AI-Lab overnight (while DARPA engineers slept) was populated with John's students doing pioneering work on computer music (while I did notation). Karma, indeed!
music.stanford.edu/news/john-ch...
So happy for Amanda Forsythe (with Paul O'Dette, Steve Stubbs, & Robert Mealy) for winning the best classical solo vocal album Grammy for Telemann's Ino. Here's a sample from the live performance in 2021. Ausgezeichnet!
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I profiled Gavin Newsom, on whom hopes are being pinned, at length in this week's @newyorker.com. I report closely on the way he thinks, operates, builds coalitions, and on. And, yes, the hair. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Yes it was moving and apt, but it bugs me that Noonan gets credit for the line from a poem by a British pilot flying for the RCAF in 1941. Credit where credit is due.
Upgraded my operating system and discovered that my music font had simply disappeared from my computer. Restored again, but this is why I hate upgrading - there's always something that doesn't work any longer!
How sweet to learn that the 15th Century songs being performed in this Valentines Day tribute came from a heart shaped manuscript-- Click the link to read the preview in the Picture This Post Music section--
@folger.edu #FolgerConsort #WashingtonDCMusic #DCMusic #PictureThisPostMusic #MedievalMusic
Late here in CA. I can email it tomorrow so don’t fret about finding it.
