Skip to main content

Music

This collection represents a sample of faculty work from the School of Music. The faculty members of the School of Music are theorists, historians, musicologists, composers, concert artists, music educators, and conductors outstanding in their specialties and dedicated to teaching. They have been trained at the finest graduate schools of music and conservatories. They perform in the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Northwest Sinfonietta, and other noteworthy Northwest ensembles. They are active in state and national teaching organizations.

Submissions from 2014 2014

Foreword to "Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War" by Carol J. Oja, Geoffrey Block

From Screen to Stage: A Little Night Music and Passion, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 2013 2013

Bock, Jerry, Geoffrey Block

Foreword to "Show Boat: Performing Race in An American Musical" edited by Geoffrey Block, Geoffrey Block

Hamlisch, Marvin (Frederick), Geoffrey Block

Loesser, Frank, Geoffrey Block

Musical Theater: Genres/Snapshot Introduction, Geoffrey Block

Review of: Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical by Stuart J. Hecht, Geoffrey Block

Rodgers, Richard, Geoffrey Block

Strouse, Charles, Geoffrey Block

Wright, Robert, Geoffrey Block

Yeston, Maury, Geoffrey Block

Doing Ethnography in Music Education, Pat Krueger

Submissions from 2012 2012

Celebrating Schubert in 2012, Geoffrey Block

Foreword to "Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater" by Jeffery Magee, Geoffrey Block

Foreword to "Loverly: The Life and Times of 'My Fair Lady'" by Dominic McHugh, Geoffrey Block

Review of: Analyzing Schubert by Suzannah Clark, Vanishing Sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann by Kristina Muxfeldt, and Schubert’s Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works by Susan Wollenberg, Geoffrey Block

Review of: Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music of Louis A. Hirsch [recording], Geoffrey Block

Performers on Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as Collaboration, Gwynne Kuhner Brown

Whatever Happened to William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony?, Gwynne Kuhner Brown

Submissions from 2011 2011

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Interview with Margaret Throsby, Geoffrey Block

Integration, Geoffrey Block

Is life a cabaret? Cabaret and its sources in reality and the imagination, Geoffrey Block

Review of: Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Russell E. Murray, Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus, Paul Harris

Lessons Learned, Keith Ward

Questions from the Choral Conscience, Steven Zopfi

Submissions from 2010 2010

Foreword to "Broadway, to life! : the musical theater of Bock and Harnick" edited by Geoffrey Block, Geoffrey Block

Foreword to "Pick yourself up: Dorothy Fields and the American musical" by Charlotte Greenspan, Geoffrey Block

Foreword to "South Pacific: paradise rewritten" by Jim Lovensheimer, Geoffrey Block

Keeping the Spirituals Alive: Eva Jessye and Jester Hairston, Gwynne Kuhner Brown, Eva Jessye, and Jester Hairston

Documenting Fire, Dawn Padula

For the Parlor and the Concert Stage: A Guide to Recent Collections of American Piano Music from the Classic and Romantic Eras, Keith Ward

Life after SYSO, Keith Ward

Paradigm Shifts: Leading to Greater Arts Engagement, Keith Ward

Review of “An Enchanting Read.”, Keith Ward

Submissions from 2009 2009

Foreword to "John Kander and Fred Ebb" by James Leve, Geoffrey Block

Deal Gently With Thy Servants, Lord, Steven Zopfi

Submissions from 2008 2008

Enchanted Evenings : The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber, Geoffrey Block

Revisiting the glorious and problematic legacy of the jazz age and depression musical, Geoffrey Block

The melody (and the words) linger on: American musical comedies of the 1920s and 1930s, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 2007 2007

Review of: Earl "Fatha" Hines: Selected Piano Solos, 1928-1941," composed by Earl "Fatha" Hines, edited by Jeffrey Taylor, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 2006 2006

"bigger Than A Show - Better Than A Circus": The Broadway Musical, Radio, And Billy Rose's 'jumbo', Geoffrey Block

Foreword to "Jerome Kern" by Stephen Banfield, Geoffrey Block

Obituary for Stuart Feder (1930-2005), Geoffrey Block

Empowering Music Student Teachers Through Inquiry: Cooperating Teacher Views, Patti J. Krueger

Submissions from 2004 2004

"Reading Musicals": Andrea Most's Making Americans: Jews And The Broadway Musical, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 2001 2001

Review of: The Life of Charles Ives by Stuart Feder, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 2000 2000

Adler, Richard, Geoffrey Block

Bock, Jerry, Geoffrey Block

Hamlisch, Marvin, Geoffrey Block

Review of: Charles E. Ives. Symphony No. 1 edited by James B. Sinclair, Geoffrey Block

Rodgers, Richard, Geoffrey Block

Schönberg, Claude-Michel, Geoffrey Block

Strouse, Charles, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1999 1999

Beethoven: Piano Music, Geoffrey Block

Gershwin, Geoffrey Block

Herbie Hancock, Geoffrey Block

Not Only for Cock-Eyed Optimists, Geoffrey Block

The Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives, Geoffrey Block and James B. Sinclair

Review of: From The Southland, Song, Piano Sketches And Spirituals Of Harry T. Burleigh (hilda Harris, Philip Creech, Steven Cole), Keith Ward

Submissions from 1998 1998

Review of: The Aids Quilt Songbook: Songs by William Bolcom, Elizabeth Brown, Carl Byron, Chris DeBlasio, Ricky Ian Gordon, John Harbison, Fred Hersch, Lee Hoiby, David Krakauer, Annea Lockwood, John Musto, Ned Rorem, Donald St. Pierre, Richard Thomas, Donald Wheelock, Keith Ward

Submissions from 1997 1997

Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from "Show Boat" to Sondheim, Geoffrey Block

Review of: Ludwig Van Beethoven: 'fidelio' by Paul Robinson, Geoffrey Block

Review of: The Music Of Gershwin by Steven E. Gilbert, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1996 1996

Review of: Sondheim Broadway Musicals by Stephen Banfield, Geoffrey Block

Selected Reviews 1888-1951, Geoffrey Block

Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 ("Concord, Mass., 1840-1860"), Geoffrey Block and Julian Rushton

Submissions from 1995 1995

Review of: Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir by Mary Ellin Barrett, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1994 1994

Review of: Beethoven Forum 1 edited by Christopher Reynolds, Lewis Lockwood, and James Webster, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1993 1993

Review of: Beethoven's `Appassionata' Sonata by Martha Frohlich, Geoffrey Block

The Broadway Canon From 'show Boat' To 'west Side Story' And The European Operatic Ideal, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1992 1992

Mozart's Isorhythmic Melodies, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1990 1990

Gershwin's Buzzard And Other Mythological Creatures, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1989 1989

Frank Loesser's Sketchbooks for The Most Happy Fella, Geoffrey Block

Contradictions Of Control - School Structure And School Knowledge - Mcneil,lm, Patti J. Krueger

Submissions from 1988 1988

Review of: Understanding Toscanini by Joseph Horowitz, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1987 1987

Review of: American Musical Review: From The 'passing Show' To 'sugar Babies' by Gerald Bordman, Geoffrey Block

Review of: Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind The Music by J. Peter Burkholder, Geoffrey Block

Review of: Good Morning Blues by Count Basie and Albert Murray, Geoffrey Block

Ethnographic Research Methodology In Music-education, Patti J. Krueger

Submissions from 1986 1986

Mozart's The Magic Flute: The Dark Side of the Sun, Geoffrey Block

Review of: The Glenn Gould Reader edited by Tim Page, Geoffrey Block

Submissions from 1984 1984

Some Gray Areas in the Evolution of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major, Opus 19, Geoffrey Block