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Brahms and Memory
A one-day symposium co-sponsored by the American Brahms Society and the University of New Hampshire

Saturday, April 12, 2008, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Paul Creative Arts Center, Room M-223
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Free and open to the public.

Papers will be presented on various aspects of memory (nostalgia, historicism, cultural tradition, etc.) as they pertain to Johannes Brahms’s music and its reception. Presenters include: Daniel Beller-McKenna (UNH), Robert Eshbach (UNH), Marjorie Hirsch (Williams College), Tobias Huenermann (UNH/University of Cologne); Benjamin Korstvedt(Clark University), Ryan Minor (SUNY Stony Brook), and Jacquelyn Sholes (Brandeis University). For more information sonsult the symposium website.

2007 Geiringer Scholarship Winners: Jacquelyn Sholes and Daniel Stevens

The American Brahms Society is pleased to announce the awarding of the 2007 Karl Geiringer Scholarship in Brahms Studies to Jacquelyn Sholes of Brandeis University and Daniel Stevens of the University of Michigan. For more information on the award and on previous winners of the Geiringer Scholarship click here.

New Publication Sponsored by the American Brahms Society

On Brahms and His Circle. Essays and Documentary Studies by Karl Geiringer.
Revised and Enlarged by George S. Bozarth. With a Forward by Walter Frisch

Published by Harmonie Park Press in association witht he American Brahms Society. This 400page book collects together the essays and articleson Brahms that Professor Geiringer produced over a period of more than sixty years. Intended as a companion volume to Geiringer's classic Brahms biography, the book includes chapters on Brahms as a reader and collector of books and music; Brahms and Schumann's last years; the Ettinger sisters' amusing pictures and verse book of Brahms, Hermann Levi, and Julius Allgeyer; Brahms as a composer of symphonies and string concertos; Brahms's final days; and Brahms's correspondence with his family, C. F. Pohl, George Grove, Eusebius Mandyczewski, Friedrich Chrysander, George Henschel, Dvorak and Wagner.