Combining cultural analysis with historical and personal accounts of a century of musical life at the American Academy in Rome, this volume provides a history of the AAR's Rome Prize in Composition.
Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933--1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled experimental institutions in arteducation and practice.
Traditionally the primary function of NGOs has been confined to mitigating the effects of war by providing humanitarian aid and protection on the peripheries of violent conflict. However, in recent ye