David Yearsley has been music critic at “America’s Last Newspaper,” The Anderson Valley Advertiser, since 1990. Author most recently of Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks (University of Chicago Press, 2019), he writes a column every Friday on music and politics for CounterPunch. Professor of music at Cornell University, he has made numerous recordings on historic keyboard instruments— from ancient organs to vintage Moog synthesizers. He has been honored with Humboldt, Wenner-Gren, ACLS and Guggenheim fellowships.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.