I may have come across them …. in fact, I listed them all here, along with your entire output. zenodo.org/records/6395...
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I may have come across them …. in fact, I listed them all here, along with your entire output. zenodo.org/records/6395...
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Fair enough! We will try and organise something closer to you. Accessibility important!
You got something on elsewhere?
On 28 March, I will be in London giving a paper at the Beethoven Summit at the Admiral’s House in Greenwich. Happy to be in the company of such great scholars! And Beethovenians, do come along!
www.beethovensummit.org/schedule
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
@dbellingradt.bsky.social Surely you are aware of this important contribution to the literature: www.youtube.com/shorts/EGi7h...
Wait, what? Did life give you lemonade and now you are trying to figure out the history of this drink? I really need to read up in this....
If you are a historian of any kind, take the time to read this thread and the responses. And follow @dbellingradt.bsky.social - he reliably has threads like these.
All of this is to say that there is a strong incentive these days to avoid the hard work of interpreting sources, and instead people like having 'the sources speak for themselves'. This has been a longstanding problem in amateur history (in music: HIP!) but now it is spreading everywhere.
We've been here before: when the Beethoven-Haus started to publish the conversation books in the 1970s and claimed to have direct access to Beethoven's thinking. Nice advertising slogan, but sources need to be treated complexly. People lie, overstate, joke, or even falsify. We risk losing context...
So thank you, anonymous Reader, for taking the time and effort. I obviously don't know who you are, but hope that you have many who follow in your footsteps. If you ever identify yourself at a conference or a talk, drinks are on me!
For all the talk about the use of technology in scholarship, the thing that is really indispensable is just having smart readers who can spend weeks reading and thinking about what is particularly good about a manuscript and how to improve it. There just isn't an alternative to close reading.
Very happy to have received the final reader report for my upcoming book on American pianists in Berlin, Weimar, and Vienna around 1900. Phrases like " a tour-de-force of meticulous, careful analysis of primary sources" got thrown around, while also identifying a couple of traps that I could avoid.
That is really insane. Have you considered submitting it to a different programme?
Oh my, that’s terrible. Did they at least give a reason?
Sad news out of Nottingham Uni: "world-leading" but suspending (i.e. closing for now) music and modern languages programmes? Surely not. I hope they reconsider.
Please sign this petition protesting the closure of the music programmes:
c.org/k884FyfWPt
I am so looking forward to waking up to a chorus international political commentaters and their no doubt terrible takes on the Dutch election results.
See particularly that one James Bond film ….
Homesick now.
Out now: my full issue of NCMR on Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century! Thanks to all of the authors and my co-editor Annelies Andries for their amazing work!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I am particularly pleased that you report just that, 'conversations'. Sometimes, discussions about this can look like decrees are being given out from on high, particularly if you are not part of the discussion. It is very important to show the process of consensus forming, if there is a consensus.
I used to see a lot more threads like this one back in the other place. This is a super helpful and ongoing summary of a discussion that affects all in academia, whether you are junior, mid-career, or a senior academic. Recommended!👇👇👇
Depending on when you think you can get it done, it might be worth considering publishing it with B&B as a series. Might be worth having a chat/think about that....
That many words in “months”? Blimey, I am finishing a book right now of the same length which took me three years….
If you are interested in research into early recordings, check out our blog reporting on the STSM hosted by @evamoreda.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow in June 2025! earlymuse.eu/publications...
Oh no!
One day I will write an article about all the ways my name has been misspelled in (usually positive) reviews.
Which ones are you looking for? Newspapers.com has worked wonders for me...