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Martha C. Nussbaum's The Republic of Love
12th Aug 2026
The American academic offers an ideal blend of head and heart in this hugely engaging book on opera and political thought, taking in works from Mozart to Jake Heggie and drawing on her lifelong love for the artform as well as her extensive background philosophy.
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Samantha Ege on Piano Music of the Black Renaissance
28th Jul 2026
As a leading authority on the work of Florence Price and her contemporaries, Dr Ege shares her expertise on the piano repertoire of the Black Renaissance, discussing her sheet music publications Piano Music of the Black Renaissance and Florence Price: Fantasie Nègre, and her books The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price and South Side Impresarios.
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Hitchcock & Herrmann - The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema
13th Mar 2026
In the first of a new monthly series reviewing books on music, we take a look at Steven C. Smith's recent examination of the remarkable relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, which began in 1955 with The Trouble with Harry and ended abruptly and acrimoniously in 1966 when Hitchcock rejected Herrmann's score for Torn Curtain, taking in celebrated collaborations such as Psycho, North by Northwest, and Vertigo along the way.
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Eric Saylor's biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams
15th Dec 2022
David delves into one of our Books of the Year, offering his thoughts on a fascinating new biography by author and musicologist Eric Saylor of Ralph Vaughan Williams, released during the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth and published by Oxford University Press as part of their Master Musicians series.
