ICMS Kalamazoo – “Machaut in Theory: A (Somewhat) New Witness to the Libellus cantus mensurabilis”

Posting my Powerpoint here as a pdf so people can follow along from home or in the session.

Libellus

Compassion is Sometimes Foreign

Brave Fragile Warriors: Caring for Kids with Chronic Illness

A while ago, I was at a dinner sponsored by The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Care.  It was a dinner for all of the Patient and Family Advisory Councils of Massachusetts General Hospital.  We have eight of them, and so the room was quite filled with not only patients and families, but with administrators at all levels.

Unknowingly, I was sat next to the moderator who stood at the beginning of dinner, and asked us all to think of a  moment of compassionate care.  Then a runner went around the room with a microphone where people could share their stories.  And all of the stories were good ones, small acts of kindness that at the time made the pain of the moment more bearable.  We all have had those moments.  The truth is, I have a hundred stories of compassionate care, but I had chosen one of my favorite…

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The Gentileschi Self-Portrait: A Musical Consideration

A week ago today, several colleagues and I performed a lunchtime concert at the Wadsworth Atheneum in downtown Hartford.

Notes on a Manuscript Fragment

Several months ago, wandering through the large Antique Flea Market in Brimfield, Massachusetts, I came across a surprise. Sitting on the ground, leaning against an old clothes trunk out in the sun…

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When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression

I’ve never been punched in the face. Not in an actual fight, at least. I’m not much of a fighter, I suppose… More of an “arguer.” I don’t think I’m “…

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CFP: Music and the Occult

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Further Explanations

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