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Bach himself didn’t invent any of the forms he used. He used the forms he inherited, but he transformed them .

Bach himself didn’t invent any of the forms he used. He used the forms he inherited, but he transformed them .

In his new book, Carolina's Lost Colony: Stuarts Town and the Struggle for Survival in Early South Carolina (2022, USC Press), historian Peter N. Moore examines the dual colonization of Port Royal at the end of the seventeenth century. From the east came Scottish Covenanters, who established the small outpost of Stuarts Town. Meanwhile, the Yamasee arrived from the south and west. These European and Indigenous colonizers made common cause as they sought to rival the English settlement of Charles Town to the north and the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine to the south. However, as Moore tells Walter Edgar, religious idealism and commercial realities came to a head setting in motion a series of events that transformed the region into a powder keg of colonial ambitions, unleashing a chain of hostilities, realignments, displacement, and destruction that forever altered the region.

Now, if ever there was a musician who was entitled to say of a Bartók quartet, “This is the way it goes,” it was Robert Mann. He knew those quartets inside out, and had recorded them more than once.

Our notions of “truth” in the history of musical ideas and performance practice may not always be quite as solid as we think.

“T” is for Townes, Charles Hard (1915-2015). Physicist, Nobel laureate.

You could write a book about the life of the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann– and as it turns out, Telemann himself wrote three – three separate autobiographies.

After Beethoven, all composers were seen and evaluated in Beethoven’s light, or rather in his enormous shadow.

After Beethoven, all composers were seen and evaluated in Beethoven’s light, or rather in his enormous shadow.

Percussion instruments, whether alone or in combination, have always been very useful ingredients for adding flavor and color to orchestral compositions.