Included in the Full Issue
- This Moment in History by Emery Kerekes
- Rocky Mountain High Baroque by Jacob Jahiel
- Asserting Her Voice by Rebecca Cypess
- The Many Faces of Lisette by Ashley Mulcahy
- Art of the Day Job by Genevieve McGahey
- From the Publications Director: Snapshots
- From the Executive Director: A Summit of Bold Ideas
- EMA Courant – News from Around the Early Music Community by Paulina Francisco
- Recording & Book Reviews
- EMAg Puzzle by Joshua Kosman
- Musings by Thomas Forrest Kelly
- Toil & Trouble by Judith Malafronte
- Canto by Hannah de Priest
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Features
Emi Ferguson’s Moment in History
Flutist-composer-singer Emi Ferguson is a renaissance woman at the highest level—a teacher, an activist, and, above all, a thinker.
Columns
Canto: Chance Favors the Prepared Voice
Reflections from a whirlwind summer of singing and travel: “It’s hard to be an ’emerging artist.’ Even though I’m working more each season, my calendar is a patchwork of jobs I’m constantly worrying over. The upshot of being young and ambitious is that my schedule is more flexible than established artists…so when last-minute opportunities come up, I can often say yes. Still, it’s hard to know what work to accept.”
Toil & Trouble: Where’s the Medieval Audience?
If medieval music is thriving in the U.S., why is it not on my radar? writes Judith Malafronte. Can early-music ensembles convincingly present music from the 12th to the 18th centuries, or do performers need to narrow their focus and cultivate a special audience? Is it smart to market the Ars subtilior repertoire to the Bach and Vivaldi crowd?