Julia Nolan is someone I have admired from a distance. The first occurrence was twenty-six years ago, six rows back and eighteen seats in. I saw her perform the Heiden Sonata on the stage of Pollack Hall at McGill University for the Hommage à Gerald Danovitch concert. In Canada, a country of regions, Julia is […]
Try
I find myself at the end of an interesting journey. I’ve been poking my nose into what’s happening in academia; probing the scholarly work of today’s saxophonists. The book in question is The Legacy of Elise Hall: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the Saxophone, edited by Kurt Bertels and Adrianne Honnold, published by Leuven University […]
Castles Made of Sand
This is the sixth blog post in a projected series reviewing The Legacy of Elise Hall: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the Saxophone, edited by Kurt Bertels and Adrianne Honnold, published by Leuven University Press, 2024. This post focuses on the fifth chapter, or the first of two chapters in Part III labelled Beyond Elise […]
Spirits In The Material World
This is the fifth blog post in a projected series reviewing The Legacy of Elise Hall: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the Saxophone, edited by Kurt Bertels and Adrianne Honnold, published by Leuven University Press, 2024. This post focuses on the fourth chapter, or the second of two chapters in Part II labelled Critical Organology […]
Word Crimes
This is the fourth blog post in a projected series reviewing The Legacy of Elise Hall: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the Saxophone, edited by Kurt Bertels and Adrianne Honnold, published by Leuven University Press, 2024. This post focuses on the third chapter, or the first of two chapters in Part II labelled Critical Organology […]
Enigma Variations
This is the third blog post in a projected series reviewing The Legacy of Elise Hall: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the Saxophone, edited by Kurt Bertels and Adrianne Honnold, published by Leuven University Press, 2024. This post focuses on the second chapter by Kurt Bertels titled: Paying and Playing? Elise Hall and Patronage in […]