College of Fine Arts

"In all three of the works presented here, Lister proves he has a distinctive and secure compositional voice, one that is one well worth exploring by those who are seeking new and arresting music. For that select group, this disc receives my firm recommendation." – David DeBoor Canfield, Fanfare Magazine

“This book is the first to bring the vibrant transdisciplinarity of sound studies together with contemporary philosophy. A marvelously materialist philosophy of voice, the book lays out a philosophy of voicing, breathing, and listening; it equips the reader with timely new concepts, including intervocality, unjust soundscapes, and the sonorous sonic voice itself.” ―Professor Ada Jaarsma, Mount Royal University, Canada

"The exemplary performances by Jeppesen and theorbo player Catherine Liddell are immaculate in execution and played with the utmost sensitivity of phrasing and tonal beauty. All of this is captured in recorded sound that beautifully reproduces the atmosphere of an intimate gathering. The overall effect is quite magical, and a pleasure from start to finish."   -Ken Meltzer/Fanfare Magazine

"Based on decades of clinical work and astute exploration, Betsy Polatin has, in this book, created a science-informed, concise, and elegantly practical step-wise guide to finding the space within our bodies for our true selves to exist and to expand. She brings us wisdom much needed in our times." -Gabor Maté, MD, author of When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection

For more than twenty years, I have greatly admired Dr. Eustis for her bravery and generosity in sharing the most difficult aspects of her own artistic self-examination. This extraordinary book chronicles her profound connection of health and music, channeling the same emotional strength that fortifies her singing, teaching, and humanity. Learning the details of her harrowing journey has inspired me, with a gentle reminder that friendship and kindness are not to be underestimated, at any level. All my gratitude to Lynn for allowing us to see straight into her beautiful heart." – Craig Terry, Music Director, Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera Chicago

"This book fills a crashing silence in ethnomusicology. It acknowledges things long ignored and denied. It offers a set of crucial methodologies that should redefine our research practices. It pulls queer desire, presence, subjectivity, struggle, community, and worldview into a powerful critical configuration that will resituate our core asssumptions. This book makes it possible to hear past compulsory heteronormativity." – Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside

"In his sculpture Broken English, Gregory Gómez uses strong hard materials – steel and bronze – to construct a surprisingly delicate piece that celebrates the power of art to reach back to the past and ring true in the present. The bronze letters that repeat the first three lines of W. B. Yeats’ poem The Second Coming form a net of text around a thick tube sitting on a low plinth... Gómez works masterfully with the sense of Yeats’ poem in the sculpture’s form: it is a circle disrupted, threatening to let go of its center. But Gómez does not illustrate Yeats – he engages him through his title, Broken English. His compelling sculpture suggests that though communication in difficult times can falter, the breaks may allow in new and perhaps regenerative ideas." – Lesley Wright, Director, Grinnell College Museum of Art

“A bold attempt to up the intellectual ante around Stones criticism.” — Jim Wirth, Uncut

"Rites, Rights, and Rhythms is a landmark study in ethnomusicology. It combines sensitive, profound ethnography with a depth of historical insight that is a model for scholars working in any area of the discipline. At the same time, it offers a perspective on the shifting philosophical and material investments in race over time in Colombia that scholars of music and modernity will need to grapple with." – Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music, African American Studies, and Anthropology, University of Illinois

“Abe’s innovative book foregrounds important debates in ethnomusicology, East Asian Studies, and sound studies, with energizing new research on modern folk practices and popular music, neoliberal cities, and the global political ‘resonances’ of protest cultures.” — David Novak, author of Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation

“Compassionate Music Teaching presents a fresh and exciting new paradigm for music teaching in the 21st century. Framed around qualities that are evident in the strong teacher/student relationships that she highlights throughout, Hendricks presents compelling research that supports practical suggestions that can be used immediately in the classroom or studio. I highly recommend this book for those that wish to think deeply about new ways to approach teaching and hope to create an atmosphere where both teacher and student are inspired and motivated to learn and play music.” — Brenda Brenner, Associate Professor of Music Education, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music; President, American String Teachers Association

"This is a refreshing, wide-ranging and imaginative book. Robbie Merfeld teaches chamber music as a humane art, one of personal interaction as well as musical discovery. I was delighted by the inventive and always pertinent analogies to nature, sports, and Hitchcock movies, among other things, and equally impressed by the soundness and subtlety of the musical thinking. This is a book for all musicians, teachers and music lovers to learn from and enjoy." – Richard Goode, pianist

“By bringing to light the hidden histories of African-American and women art educators, Revitalizing History disrupts the monumental narratives of art education. This text is indispensable to any art educator who wants to envision their classroom as a public space that has the potential to radically transform our understanding of the past, in relation to our present and our future.” — Dipti Desai, New York University

“This Italian pianist showed artistic maturity beyond his years…there was a wonderful clarity and control of inner voices in his performances…” — The New York Times

“Wallace has a distinctive compositional voice, characterized by uncompromising but elegant dissonances, long flowing lines, and consistent forward direction. This is mesmerizing music, superbly rendered by the Arneis Quartet and their colleagues.” — David DeBoor Canfield, Fanfare Magazine

“Lockwood has given music lovers a great gift. By looking at historical context―who listened to Beethoven, what he read―and how the symphonies were planned, the reader gets a unique view of the creative process of one of our greatest musical minds.” ― Yo-Yo Ma

“Via’s touch is luminous, quite, and immaculate, perfectly judged, as his pedaling, never pounding with hands or feet, every note carefully and lovingly placed, fully alert and alive to every subtle delicate shift in color and tone of the composer’s intimate, almost solipsistic muses. This is a comforting and transfixing recital.” ― American Record Guide 2016

“I have often puzzled at what makes an actor believable; what really lets you enter into their character’s world. Here in The Actor’s Secret, some of those very secrets are made tangible and accessible in clear descriptive prose. By learning to become embodied—in breath, in posture, and in movement—these powerful techniques are revealed, not only to the actor, but to all of us in how we live our everyday roles—whether awkwardly and inefficiently, or comfortably with grace and flow.” —Peter A. Levine, PhD, best-selling author of In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness and Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

“In a single day, Via recorded sixty minutes of music. From beginning to end, they are simply astonishing.” — German National Radio (DeutschlandFunk)

“More than 20 authors, primarily conductors, contribute to this collection, which includes five essays about the history of Western choral music; nine essays addressing choral music in specific locations around the globe; and six essays about choral practice.” — Journal

Catalogue: 80698

ASIN: B000XULO70