“Circles,” from his first series (1841), is one of my favorite Emerson essays. While the gendered language and the Romantic search for the unattainable and infinite certainly date it, his ideas about change as a constant, that “every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series,” has inspired me over the years through the many remarkable changes in our profession. “Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth,” writes Emerson, “that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.” Emerson challenges us to be cognizant of and a participant in change’s continuum.

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To our Colleagues in the College Music Society,

The mission of our Society is to promote, as an agent of change, “music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction.” We have a proud legacy of a commitment to diversity and inclusion, as reflected in our publications, collaborations, conference programs, and leadership. We are also dedicated to inclusion of all perspectives that our forums and dialogues foster.