Publications
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Books:
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Making American Opera after "Einstein." [In progress]
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Refereed Articles:
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“‘My answer to what music theater can be’: Iconoclasm and Entrepreneurship in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave.” American Music 37, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 29–50. *2018 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winner*
“Philip Glass.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Music, edited by Bruce Gustafson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. “‘We are not trying to make a political piece’: The Reconciliatory Aesthetic of Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave.” In Rethinking Reich, edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Siôn. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. “Doctor Atomic or: How John Adams Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sound Design.” Cambridge Opera Journal [Forthcoming]. “Assembling Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble, 1975–91.” Invited essay for a special issue of Contemporary Music Review. [Under review] “Steve Reich.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Music, edited by Kate van Orden. New York: Oxford University Press, [Contracted, due Feb. 2020]. |
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Press:
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"Political Music, Musical Politics: A Discussion Panel with Samuel Adler, Maria Grenfell, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Catherine Likhuta." NewMusicBox, 30 January 2019.
"Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures." New York Times, 12 November 2018. “Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons.” New York Times, 4 May 2018. “How Do You Teach People to Love Difficult Music?” New York Times, 9 March 2018. “Celebrating Women’s Rights, ‘That Most American Of Operas’.” New York Times, 3 November 2017. “How to Produce Opera Outside the Opera House.” NewMusicBox, 16 August 2017. “‘People Power’—The Communal Ethos of Satyagraha.” NewMusicBox, 8 June 2016. |
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Book Reviews:
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William Cheng, Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014; Winifred Phillips, A Composer’s Guide to Game Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. MAKE: A Literary Magazine (July 2015): http://makemag.com/double-review-composers-guide-to-game-music-and-sound-play.
Joshua S. Walden, ed. Representation in Western Music. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. MAKE: A Literary Magazine (July 2014): http://makemag.com/review-representation-in-western-music. Yonatan Malin, Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 68 (2011): 354–57. Jonathan Dunsby, Making Words Sing: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Song. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Nineteenth-Century Music Review 4 (2007): 133–35. |
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Multimedia Reviews:
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Charles Wuorinen, Brokeback Mountain [DVD]. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 72 (2016): 796–97.
Jake Heggie, Moby-Dick [DVD]. Notes 71 (2014): 140–41. Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd [DVD]. Notes 70 (2013): 163–64. Anthony Turnage, Anna Nicole [DVD]. Notes 70 (2013): 163–64. Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier [DVD]. Notes 68 (2011): 159–60. Jonathan Dove, The Adventures of Pinocchio [DVD]. Notes 66 (2010): 629–30. |
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Encyclopedia Articles:
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“Balthrop, Carmen”; “Baltimore”; “Graham, Colin”; “Jenkins, Florence Foster”; “Streit, Kurt”; “Volpe, Joseph.” The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
“Marian Andersen.” The Twenties in America. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2012. “Farrar, Geraldine”; “Harris, Roy”; “Heine, Heinrich”; “Kellogg, Clara Louise”; “MacDowell, Edward”; “Nordica, Lillian”; “Thomson, Virgil”; “Vaughan Williams, Ralph.” Foreign Musicians in Paris: A Web Resource. http://parisforeigners.web-dev.unc.edu. “Jacques Brel.” Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009. |
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Other:
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Liner notes. La saison des fleurs: Songs for Voice and Fortepiano. CD. Louise Toppin, soprano; John O’Brien, fortepiano. Albany Records, 2017.
Various program notes. Carolina Performing Arts, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Columbia Orchestra, Columbia Chamber Orchestra. 2007–2015. Finding Aid. Morton Gould Papers [co-author]. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2010. |