About the Center

The Brook Center is a scholarly facility associated with the doctoral program in music at The City University of New York Graduate Center. Founded in 1989 by the renowned musicologist Barry S. Brook and renamed in his memory after his death in 1997, the Center's objectives are to promote and provide a setting for wide-ranging research and documentation activities in music; to offer professional training to students, music researchers, editors, iconographers, and archivists; to serve as a resource center for CUNY, for New York City, and for the nation; and to disseminate the results of its activities to the scholarly community and to the world at large through publications, conferences, and exhibitions.  Faculty members at The Graduate Center are often involved in the Brook Center's activities, and there are employment opportunities for graduate students, independent scholars, and editors.

The Brook Center also houses a number of valuable archives, in addition to those associated with the current projects described here, including papers and sound recordings of Barry S. Brook, Gustave Reese, and Emanuel Winternitz.

The director of the Brook Center is Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie.