Anne Shreffler

With great sadness, the Society for American Music shares the news that Past President Charles Hiroshi Garrett has died. An eminent scholar, his books on music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have shaped thinking in our field for a generation.

SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A WEEK IF THESE CUTS GO THROUGH!! WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL THE END OF JUNE TO TELL @NYCMAYOR #NOCUTSTOLIBRARIES AND SAVE THE LIBRARY.

Umm I’m not sure but I might have stumbled on a weird musicological discovery that possibly the last movement of the tempest sonata is based on a movement by the irrepressible Hélène de Montgeroult

Academic freedom is under attack, from without and within. Valuable article by @AndrewMCrespo and @kirstenweld archive.org/details/the-ha…

Harvard Corporation (real name) announces faculty do not have the ability to decide who gets to graduate thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

BREAKING: The Harvard Corporation rejected an effort by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to confer degrees on 13 seniors facing disciplinary charges for participating in the pro-Palestine encampment. @HaidarEmma and @cam_kettles report. thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

UVa faculty and others in the community have reached out to me today asking where the school's president, Jim Ryan, is. The answer is we don't know. I have personally inquired with his office and with UVa's communications team with no response whatsoever.

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“So admin, what are you going to do?” the Spectator editorial board asks in criticism of Shafik’s handling of campus activism following her April 17 congressional hearing. “Suspend more students until your entire student population falls into line?” l8r.it/HBc2

NEW from me: As Harvard’s Governing Boards Meet, More than 350 Faculty Urge Against Gay’s Removal, Citing University Independence thecrimson.com/article/2023/1…

I'm so dismayed by Liz Magill's resignation and I so hope that Claudine Gay @Harvard will not follow. I fear too few of us have said what many of us think: She did nothing wrong, & the real failure of leadership would be surrendering to a campaign so hostile to our values. /1

Käthe Kollwitz, The Tower of Mothers, 1937 symbolic of women who refuse to surrender their children to war #WomensArt

𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙍𝘼𝙎 𝙁𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙇𝙀𝙆 💨 In an interview with @TIME after being named the Person of The Year, @taylorswift13 revealed how she physically trained for the 180-minute set list of the Eras Tour...

Prince rollerskating.

@spbrodsky How appropriate, since the only way to get to Ithaca is to drive ;)

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon