Jeffrey Nytch

I realize I'm biased when I say this, but my husband is pretty amazing. Take for instance the work he does as Asst. Vice President for...

Earlier this week I woke up in a bad space. I’m talking, “I can’t bear facing the world” kind of bad space. The feeling was probably made...

College Music Symposium, Volume 64, no. 2 I was pleased to have been invited to contribute to the latest issue of the College Music...

Hello, friends! I know it’s been a while since I last wrote. I’ve been on a full-year sabbatical, which has not only given me the...

Some Introductory Thoughts I’m just off a three week residency at MacDowell, and it was nothing short of transformational. As I post this...

A month or so ago I posted the first part of two-part edition of “Field Notes” in which I began contemplating what’s next for the...

The other day I read the latest research on the effects of the Chicxulub asteroid that crashed into Earth approx. 66 million years ago....

It was two years ago today – Friday the 13th, as it turns out – that we got that fateful email: the campus was closing for the rest of...

Two weeks ago the CU-Boulder College of Music officially opened its new wing to the Warner Imig Music Building, a 50,000 square-foot...

May 18, 2021 It was 1:00 am and my body did not appreciate the chiming of my alarm waking me up out of a deep sleep. I’d gone to bed as...

As I wrote last month, a critical component of our nation’s recovery from the pandemic – both economically and socially – will be to fund...

"I honestly don't know how we come out of this. If I were a student again I'd be leaving music school to do something else." My colleague...

In 2008, the Federal government deemed an $83 billion bailout of the automotive industry essential to stabilizing an economy in freefall....

After a long summer and a tumultuous Fall, here's the latest "Field Notes" -- originally intended for September...

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...

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:...

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...

Say the word “team” to me and the first thing I’m likely to think of is getting picked last in gym class when teams were being chosen,...

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...