The Henry and Edna Binkele Classical Music Fund
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The Henry and Edna Binkele Classical Music Fund has supported publication of classical music books of the highest quality since its creation in 1995. We invite you to join us in building this fund, established by two sisters in honor of their parents. With your help, the Binkele Fund can continue to ensure the publication of exceptional scholarship on classical music in the United States and around the world.
Books the Binkele Fund has supported:
The Operatic Kaleidoscope
Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Popular Stage
Pub Date: August 2026
South Side Impresarios
How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene
Pub Date: November 2024
William L. Dawson
Pub Date: August 2024
Circle of Winners
How the Guggenheim Foundation Composition Awards Shaped American Music Culture
Pub Date: August 2023
Samuel Barber
His Life and Legacy
Pub Date: April 2023
Aaron Copland in Latin America
Music and Cultural Politics
Pub Date: April 2023
Musical Landscapes in Color
Conversations with Black American Composers
Pub Date: February 2023
Johann Scheibe
Organ Builder in Leipzig at the Time of Bach
Pub Date: April 2022
Interviews with American Composers
Barney Childs in Conversation
Pub Date: January 2022
The Music of James Tenney
Volume 2: A Handbook to the Pieces
Pub Date: December 2021
The Music of James Tenney
Volume 1: Contexts and Paradigms
Pub Date: December 2021
Unbinding Gentility
Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South
Pub Date: April 2021
Chen Yi
Pub Date: December 2020
George Frederick Bristow
Pub Date: November 2020
The Heart of a Woman
The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
Pub Date: June 2020
Unsettled Scores
Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler
Pub Date: December 2019
The Arithmetic of Listening
Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician
Pub Date: September 2019
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Composer and Critic
Pub Date: July 2019
Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz
Pub Date: March 2019
Libby Larsen
Composing an American Life
Pub Date: August 2017
Charles Ives's Concord
Essays after a Sonata
Pub Date: June 2017
English Pastoral Music
From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955
Pub Date: June 2017
Harry T. Burleigh
From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance
Pub Date: March 2016
Cybersonic Arts
Adventures in American New Music
Pub Date: November 2015
The Magic of Beverly Sills
Pub Date: November 2015
Blackness in Opera
Pub Date: October 2014
Aaron Jay Kernis
Pub Date: September 2014
In Her Own Words
Conversations with Composers in the United States
Pub Date: June 2013
Charles Ives in the Mirror
American Histories of an Iconic Composer
Pub Date: April 2013
The Great Orchestrator
Arthur Judson and American Arts Management
Pub Date: February 2013
George Szell
A Life of Music
Pub Date: June 2011
Music and the Wesleys
Pub Date: November 2010
Mysterious Mozart
Pub Date: June 2010
The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa
Pub Date: August 2006
Lost Sounds
Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
Pub Date: February 2004
Juilliard
A History
Pub Date: June 2002
Singing in the Wilderness
Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century
Pub Date: March 2001
