As a teenager in the army learning the French horn, Willie Ruff ’53M, ’54 M.M. was taught that “music don’t mean a thing unless it tells a story.” Though he will retire this May after 46 years on the School of Music faculty, the 85-year-old Ruff says he...
The “old goddess” is a paradoxical character in Maya mythology. She is the grandmother who raised the infant gods, but in most accounts, she hated them, and finally tried to kill them. Despite her significance, she rarely appears in ancient Maya art.In...
James Hepokoski, newly designated as the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music, is a specialist in symphonic and chamber music from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with particular expertise in musical style and its political and cultural...
John Durham Peters, newly appointed as the inaugural María Rosa Menocal Professor of English, is a media historian and social theorist.John PetersPeters is the author of three books, including “Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication...