Early Music America

This catalogue provides a single resource for scholars, trombonists, chamber musicians, and conductors to access instrumental solo, ensemble, and choral works specifying trombone from the sixteenth century through to the end of the eighteenth.  This catalogue documents nearly 9000 musical works specifying the trombone, from anonymous pieces mentioned in early sixteenth-century writings up to Haydn’s […]

The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan welcomes applications for 2024-2025 research fellowships. The Clements’ holdings—books, manuscripts, pamphlets, maps, prints and views, newspapers, photographs, ephemera—are among the best in the world on almost any aspect of the American experience from 1492 through 1900, and support a diverse array of research projects. The

Double bassist Elisabeth Ellison has become the first graduate of the full program of Medieval Music Besalu (Catalonia), receiving a Specialist Certificate in Medieval Music Performance Practice, issued by the University of Lleida. This rigorous program, headed by musicologist Mauricio Molina, began as a summer institute over a decade ago, then was expanded to a

BLOOD, BOOZE & BETRAYAL is the debut album of Freelance Nun, an amorphous and adventurous duo-led collective founded by Tracy Cowart & Sian Ricketts. Recorded between 2020-2023  at The Carriage House and Tiny Panther Recording and released on November 10, 2023, this album features 8 new tracks that venture into the delightful macabre in collaboration

Concert Features Rediscoveries of Antonio Bencini’s Lost Christmas Oratorio and Antonio Gianettini’s Magnificat, in Collaboration with the Academy of Sacred Drama Soloists are Soprano Linda Tsatsanis, Mezzo-Soprano Kate Maroney, and Tenor Alex Guerrero, with Members of the American Classical Orchestra Chorus Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford leads the American Classical Orchestra (ACO) in its second