Louis Epstein is Associate Professor of Music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. His book The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France was published by The Boydell Press in 2022. His articles appear in Music & Politics, Journal of Musicology, and The Journal of Music History Pedagogy; he also co-edits Open Access Musicology. In his spare time, Louis plays “Louis” in the family music duo Louis and Dan and the Invisible Band, which absolutely takes commissions.