A new Digital Lecture in American Music has dropped! You can watch Lydia Harbach’s “Cantata Nuestra Madre Grande: Singing the Story of Dawson Island” on SAM’s YouTube channel.

Marian Wilson Kimber, Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa, receives the 2026 Mildred Throne and Charles Aldrich Scholarly History Award for her article, “Making Dvořák Iowan: Perle Schmidt, Spillville, and the Construction of Iowa’s Musical Identity,” which appeared in the journal, Annals of Iowa. Read more.