SymphonyNOW has posted an excerpt from Mary Sue Welsh’s book about trailblazing harpist Edna Phillips, One Woman in a Hundred. Phillips was the first woman to hold a principal chair […]
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Q & A with One Woman in a Hundred author Mary Sue Welsh
Mary Sue Welsh is a former executive director of the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, where she worked with its chair Edna Phillips. She answered our questions about her new University of […]
NPR’s Weekend Edition features Wade
The February 10, 2013, Weekend Edition Sunday featured a segment on Bill Stepp’s version of “Bonaparte’s Retreat,” which is profiled in Stephen Wade’s book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. […]
Grammy for Stephen Wade?
Best wishes to Stephen Wade, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, whose Smithsonian Folkways CD Banjo Diary is up for a Grammy […]
Stephen Wade on Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR
Aaron Henkin from WYPR radio in Baltimore conducted an engaging in-depth interview with Stephen Wade, author of the book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recording and the American […]
The Wall Street Journal publishes new review of The Beautiful Music All Around Us
The December 22, 2012, edition of The Wall Street Journal includes Eddie Dean’s review of Stephen Wade’s recent book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. “The […]
Music in American Life Anniversary Sale–Last Offer!
There are just two weeks left in our Music in American Life Anniversary Sale! Use promo code MAL40 to get 40% off all in-print titles, including: Stephen Wade’s well-reviewed The […]
Beethoven’s Creativity
Was Beethoven the creator of masterpieces defined by a strict text or musical blueprint? New research into his creativity shows that Beethoven explored a range of artistic options, and as […]
Congratulations, Bruno Nettl
The University of Illinois News Bureau reports that UI Press author and U of I Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, Bruno Nettl, has been awarded the 2014 Charles Homer […]
Banjo Newsletter features Stephen Wade
Stephen Wade, author of the new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, is the subject of a cover story in the December 2012 issue […]
Music Tomes interview with Fred Bartenstein
Fred Bartenstein, editor of the recent Josh Graves memoir Bluegrass Bluesman, is featured in a recent Music Tomes interview. MT: What are you currently working on? FB: I wrote a number of […]
Stephen Wade on WHYY’s Radio Times
Earlier today, November 14, Stephen Wade appeared on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane to discuss his new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us and his new CD Banjo Diary. […]