The $11K award from the GRAMMY Museum® Grant Program will help the Rita Benton Music Library to digitize and preserve some of the earliest recordings of Czech music made on American soil: 173 wax and gold-moulded cylinder recordings of Czech music and recitations dating from 1903 to 1908. Buehner, who is director of the Rita Benton Music Library, and Daniel Johnson, digital preservation librarian, are the project coordinators.

Nathan Platte’s article, “Mixed Motives: Soviet Symphonies and Propagandistic Duplicity in The Iron Curtain (1948),” received a 2023 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism. Published in the open-access journal Music & Politics, Nathan’s article on the repurposing of Soviet symphonic music in an anti-Communist Hollywood film.

Steven Schick, a UI School of Music Graduate, shares his new music and the story of a beautiful 7-day stroll from San Diego to San Francisco.