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Last weekend, SMR members celebrated a productive and successful year with a barbecue at Alyssa’s well-appointed home. The weather held out nicely, and members enjoyed a variety of culinary offerings, yard games, domesticated animals, and conversation. Congratulations, everyone, on a...

Last week, SMR members met for the organization’s year-end General Assembly. The meeting was well-attended, and members discussed a variety of topics, both reviewing the many undertakings of the year that passed (including our successful graduate-student conference in March!) and making...

On the opening weekend of spring break, Alyssa, Ho-Chak, Casper, and I had the great fortune of visiting the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, as arranged by Professor Lester Monts and the Stearns Collection.

Last weekend, SMR held its much-anticipated 2018 graduate-student conference. Students from around the country gave ten paper presentations (including one lecture-recital) on a variety of topics relating to the conference’s theme, “Music and Borders,” across the disciplines of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music...

Alyssa Wells was recently featured on the Brass Chicks blog—on International Women’s Day, no less—in a piece she wrote about her path to her current research. You can read all about it here.