Jeffrey Nytch

Last week I wrote about a PNME opening night to remember in which I fell off a ladder in the City Theatre lobby and shattered my wrist. (...

Since my beloved Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble's summer season was cancelled this year, we decided to ask members of the PNME family to s...

This past weekend, I visited my 50th state. A few things to get out of the way first before I get to what I really want to talk about: I’...

Oh my: the last few months have been quite something, haven’t they? It’s hard for me to believe that the last edition of these Field Note...

I was going to post about this during my forest trip last month, but the trees kept calling me...and so I set aside the geological discus...

Today was once again spent in the many parks that make up the combined "Redwood National and State Parks." There is, as one might expect,...

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/a-pair-of-glasses-were-left-on-the-floor-at-museum-and-everyone-mistook-it-for-...

A provocative piece of news came out from Oberlin College recently, and it’s caused quite a stir within music higher education. The artic...

Like so many around the globe, I’m positively heartsick over yesterday’s fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. To stand helplessly by as...

Last night I had the pleasure of attending a concert presented by Tafelmusik, the Toronto-based early music ensemble. The program, "A Tal...

Earlier this month I was fortunate to help lead the College Music Society's "Summit 2.0: Re-imaginging the Undergraduate Music Curriculum...

Last year the Pittsburgh philanthropic community tried something new with the notion of "Giving Tuesday," an initiative that's gained tre...

The last couple of days at the Winter Olympics have featured on of my favorite of all sports events: the bobsled! And the timing is fortu...

A recent article in Blue Review by scholars Amanda Ashley and Leslie Durham (“How Universities Train Artists as Makers, Creators, and Doe...

Andrea Moore’s article, “Neoliberalism and the Musical Entrepreneur” (Journal of the Society for American Music (2016), Vol. 10, number 1...

You’ve probably heard about the Newport Contemporary Music Series, recently launched (if that’s the appropriate term) in Rhode Island and...

If you glanced at the opening program of the Colorado Symphony’s 2017-18 season, playing this weekend in Denver, you might be tempted to ...

As I begin 2017, I'm wrapping up Phase One of my sabbatical year and reflecting on how action-packed the last five months have been! Sinc...

This week while I was in residence at Michigan State University, I had a student come up to me and ask a great question: What can I do af...

College Music Society Summit on 21st-century Music School Design Morning Remarks: Will May – Dean, Baylor University School of Music Mary...