Research

Sophie is an active researcher working on twentieth-century ballet and American music.

Here are some of her publications.

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Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets

Eastman Studies in Music, Rochester University Press, 2021, 323pp.

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The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time.

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The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia

Edited by Edward Campbell and Peter O'Hagen, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 564pp.

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Entries authored: 

Ballet Dancing and Stravinsky; Choreography, Choreographers and Dancers; The American Ballet; Ballets Ida Rubinstein; Adolph Bolm; Pierre Brasseur; Enrico Cecchetti; Lucia Chase; Anton Dolin; Mikhail Fokine; Elie Gagnebin; Berenice Holmes; Stansilav Idzikowski; Tamara Karsavina; Lincoln Kirstein; Serge Lifar; Lydia Lopokova; Alicia Markova; Léonide Massine; Bronislava Nijinska; Vaslav Nijinsky; Zhenya Nikitina; Alexander Orlov; Ruth Page; Maria Piltz; George and Ludmilla Pitoëff; Marie Rambert; Elise Reiman; Nicolas Remisoff; Ida Rubinstein; Lydia Sokolova; Jean Villard

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The Cambridge History of Music Criticism

Edited by Christopher Dingle, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 826pp.

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Chapter authored:

Old Divisions and New Debates: Music Criticism in Postwar America (pp. 671–94)

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