Jeremy Grimshaw

Jeremy Grimshaw {[email protected]} is an associate dean in the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University, where he also teaches courses in contemporary and world musics and directs Gamelan Bintang Wahyu, BYU’s Balinese percussion orchestra. He is the author of two books, The Island of Bali Is Littered with Prayers (Mormon Artists Group, 2009) and Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young (Oxford University Press, 2011). He holds a PhD in musicology, along with a Certificate in World Music, from the Eastman School of Music.

Music of a “More Exalted Sphere”: The Sonic Cosmology of La Monte Young

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

Seven and a half blocks east and five blocks south of the Salt Lake Temple, the 0,0 of the city’s cardinally aligned grid, an inconspicuous gate on the north side of the street opens onto a long path that leads to what was once the backyard of Thomas B. Child. A stonemason by trade and Mormon bishop by calling, Child spent many of his spare moments between 1945 and 1963 designing surreal and sacred sculptures and engraving poignant aphorisms into stone tablets, gradually creating one of the most unique (and, even to most Mormons, unknown) collections of folk art in the United States.

The Lindsey Stirling Effect

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 4