Victoria Lindsay Levine is professor of music at Colorado College, where she has served as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, the Christine S. Johnson Professor of Music, and the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies.

Philip V. Bohlman is Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago, Honorarprofessor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and artistic director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, an ensemble-in-residence in the Humanities Division of the University of Chicago.