Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXIII, no. 1 (Summer 1997)
Some Recent Articles and Reviews
Compiled by William Kearns, University of Colorado at Boulder
ACOUSTIC GUITAR (Aug 96): Jeffrey Rodgers, "My Secret Place" [interview
with Joni Mitchell], 40.
THE AMERICAN ORGANIST
(June 96): Stephen Hamilton, "An Interview with Kenton Coe," 53.
(Aug 96): Catherine Hicks, "An Interview with Dan Locklair," 40.
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE (July/Aug 96): Ron Emery, "State of the Orchestras
XXI: Albany Symphony ORchestra," 6; Donald R. Vroon, "The Art of Criticism," 58.
THE AMERICAN STRING TEACHER (Sum 96): Joshua Feigelson, "A Toast to Elizabeth
Green," 32; Daniel Foster, "Memories of Paul Rolland: The Man and His Teaching," 45.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY (Jan 1997): Dvid Schiff, "The Many Faces of Ives," 84.
BD GUIDE (May/June 98): Frank Byrne, "Colonel John R. Bourgeois -- On His
Retirement," 2.
BULLETIN O HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION (May 96): Keven Fenton, "History
of the Singing Quakers of Friends University [Wichita, KS]: 1898-1959," 165; Robert A.
Engelson, exract from DMA thesis, "Early Choral Music in the Nornet's Nest:
Community Choirs of Charlotte, North Carolina, 1865-1918," 197.
CIVILIZATION (Oct/Nov 1996): Matthew Gurewitch, "The Music Man: Leonard
Slatkin Goes to Washington," 62.
CHORAL JOURNAL (Aug 96): Patricia J. Trice, "Choral Arrangements of Spirituals:
Birth and Perpetuation of a Genre," 9; Marvin V. Curtis, "Lyrics of the African-American
Spiritual: The Meaning Behind the Words," 15; Gary and Mary A. Stollak, "Competition
in Choral Education: Adults' Memories of Early Choir Experiences," 21.
THE CLARINET (May/June 96): Phillip Rehfeldt, "Donald Martino: A Set for Clarinet
(Unaccompanied)," 6; John Johnson, "An Interview with John Mohler," 36.
THE COMPUTER MUIC JOURNAL (Sum 96): Larry Austin and Rodney Waschka II, "Computer
Music for Compact Disc: Composition, Production, Audience," 17.
CONTINUO (June 96): Paul R. Laird, "The Shrine to Music Museum [Vermillion, SD],"
14.
THE DIAPASON (June 96): Sally Cherrington, "The History of Organ Pedagogy in
America, Pt. 2," 15.
THE DOUBLE REED (July 96): James Brody, "Jerry Sirucek: Honoring a Life in Music,"
5; William Davis, "Music for Solo Bassoon by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composers," 57.
EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (Sum 1996): Johann Buis, "Hindemith and Early Music: An
American Frontier," 28.
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (Spr/Sum 1996): Cheryl L. Keyes, "At the Crossroads: Rap Music
and Its African Nexus," 223.
GUITAR REVIEW (Spring 96): Julian Bream, "Toru Takemitsu: An Appreciation," 2; David
Tanenbaum, "A Brief Takemitsu Memorial in Three Parts," 6; Adriano Sebastiani, "Dusan
Bogdanovic: A Ne Voice," 23.
GEORGIA MUSIC NEWS (Sum 96): Jorge Salas, "Introduction to the World Wide Web
for Musicians and Music Educators," 23.
THE HYMN (July 96): Thomas Day, "Mary, Martha, and the Hymn Today," 6; William S.
Smtih, "Resurrection Hymns: Feast? or Famine?," 21; Gerhart Teuscher, "Jesus, Still Lead On:
Count Von Zinzendorf (1700-1760)," 32; Karl Kroeger, "Two Unknown Billings Compositions in
John Norman's The Massachusetts Harmony (1784)," 44.
INDIANA THEORY REVIEW (Spring 1996): Barbara A. White, "Difference or
Silence?: Women Composers Between Scylla and Charybdis," 77.
THE INSTRUMENTALIST
(July 1996): William Geugold, "Of Music and Fanfares for Olympic Games," 42.
(Aug 1996): Anne Mischakoff, "Janos Starker Creats Music with Discipline and
Emotion," 12.
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MUIC JOURNAL (June 96): Suzanne Robinson,
"Unmasking Peggy Glanville-Hicks," 4; Andra McCartney, "Creating Worlds for My Music
to Exist: Women Composers of Electroacoustic Music in Canada," 16; Ursula Rempel,
"Syllabus: A History of Women in Music [one-semester course]," 24; Pauline Oliveros,
"A Former USCD Professor Speaks Up," 28.
JAZZ EDUCATORS JOURNAL (July 1996): Antonio J. Garcia, "Wynton Marsalis:
Speaking from the Melody [interview]," 30.
JOURNAL OF BAND RESEARCH (Fall 1994): Gene Anderson, "Analysis: Musical
Metamorphosis in Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria
von Weber," 1; Frederick P. Williams, "The American Band of Providence (1902) and
[Herbert L.] Clarke's Band of Providence (1903): The Recordings," 96.
JOURNAL OF SINGING: NATS (June 1996): Pamela Gore, "A Singer's Guide to the Solo Vocal
Music of Daniel Pinkham," 3.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Fall 1996): Richard Crawford,
"Edward MacDowell: Musical Nationalism and an American Tone Poet," 528; essay
review of Jon Finson's The Voices That Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century
Popular Song, by Deane Root, 580.
JOURNAL OF THE CONDUCTORS' GUILD (Sum/Fall 1994): Alan Pearlmutter, "Concept
to Concert: Evolution fo a Chamber Orchestra (Musical Diversions Society, St. Louis),"
108; Victoria Bond, "Towards a Composer-Friendly Environment," [interview with
Ellen T. Zwilich], 113.
JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGY
(Winter 1996): Kay K. Shelemay, "The Ethnomusicologist and the Transmission of
Tradition," 35; Jeanice Brooks, "Noble and Grand Servante de la Musique: Telling the
Story of Nadia Boulanger's Conducting Career," 92.
(Spring 1996): Andrea Olmstead, "The Toll of Idealism: James Loeb (1867-1933) --
Musician, Classicist, Philanthropist," 233.
LIVING MUSIC (Spring 1996): Alissa Roosa, "Interview: Donald Erb," 1.
MADAMINA (1996): Paul A. LEvi, "On Dayenu: A Passover Oratorio," 8.
THE MAUD POWELL SIGNATURE (Sp/Sum 1996): Pamela Blevins, "Marion Scott --
In Time to Come," 6; Elaine Fine, "A Look at Changing Attitudes Towards Women in
Orchestra," 12; Karen A. Shaffer, "Elisabeth Adkins [concertmaster, National
Symphony Orch]: Master Musicians, Versatile Leader," 21.
MUSIC EDUCATORS JOURNAL (July 1996): Scott C. Shuler, "Why High School Students
Should Study the Arts," 22.
MUSIC REFERENCE SERVICES QUARTERLY
(4/3, 1996): Sebastian D.G. Knowles, "Muddying the Well: Contemporary
Musicology and Absolute Music -- A Commentary on Ruth Solie's Musicology and
Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship," 1; William E. Studwell,
"The Obscure Popular Songwriters' Hall of Fame: Part 1, A-L," 17; Beth Bloom,
"The [Federal Gov't] Documents Collection: A Treasury of Information on Music
and Musical Issues," 37; William E. Studwell: "Circus Music and Drinking Songs:
United States Manifestations of Two Age Old Recreations: An Essay and Bibliography,"
57; VIrginia D. Edwars, "The Musical Mess that the Mass is in: A Conservative
Christian View of Recent Popular Music: An Essay and Bibliography," 63;
William E. Studwell, "A Dozen Dazzling Discs: A Personal Listing of the Twelve
Best American Pops Recordings up to 1970," 73.
(4/4 1996): William E. Studwell, "The Obscure Popular Songwriters' Hall of Fame,
Part 2, M-Z," 1.
THE MUSICAL QUARTERLY (Spring 1996): Kay K. Shelemay, "Crossing Boundaries
in Music and Musical Scholarship: A Perspective from Ethnomusicology," 13;
Toru Takemitsu, "Roger Reynolds and Toru Takemitsu: A Conversation," 61; Wesley
Berg, "Hymns of the Old Colony Mennonites and the Old Way of Singing," 77.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATIN OF COLLEGE WIND AND PERCUSSION INSTRUCTORS JOURNAL (Sum 1996):
Norman Heim, "William Schmidt: Master Wind Composer -- PT. 3," 4; Randall E. Faust, "Composer
PRofile -- Ladislav Kubik," 39.
NOTES: JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
(Sept 1996): Calvin Elliker, "Sheet Music Speical Issues: Formats and Functions," 9;
reviews of Bruno Nettl's Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections
on Schools of Music, by Henry Kingbury, 32; Cyril Ehrlich's First Philharmonic
Society, and Michael Musgrave's The Musical Life of the Crystal Palace, by
Nicholas M. Temperley, 44; Katharine D. Newman's Never Without a Song: The
Years and Songs of Jennie Devlin, by Roger De V. Renwick, 47; John Gil's
Queer Noices: Male and Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Music, by Martha
MOckus, 55; eds. Malcolm Gillies and David Pear, The All-Around Man: Selected
Letters of Percy Grainger, by Robert Ross, 75; Beverly Bush Patterson's The
Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches, by R. Paul
Drummond, 80; Richard K. Lieberman's The Steinway Saga: An American Dynasty,
by Richard Ratliff, 81; eds. Frank J. Cipolla and Donald Hunsberger, The Wind
Ensemble and Its Repertoire: Essays on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Eastman Wind
Ensemble, by Graydon Beeks, 84; Ruth Glasser's My Music is My Flag: Puerto
Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940, by Gagbe Averill, 88;
Peter Manuel's Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae, by
Robin Moore, 89; ed. Jonathon S. Epstein, Adolescents and Their Music: If It's Too
Loud, You're Too Old, by Robert Walser, 91. Video Review: New England Dances,
by Betsy Gamble, 132. Music Reviews: four volumes of Nineteenth-Century
American Theater -- Karl Kroeger, ed., Early Melodrama in America: The Voice
of Nature (1803); Victor Fell Yellin, ed., The Aethiop (1813); Thomas Riis,
ed., George L. Aiken and George C. Howard, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); Anne Dhu
McLucas, ed., Later Melodrama in America: Monte Cristo (ca. 1883) -- all by David Kelleher,
281; William Mayer's Dream's End, for oboe, clarinet, horn, violin, cello, and
piano, by Jerome Rosen, 288; Lee Hoiby's The Tempest; opera in three acts, by
John McCauley, 291.
(Dec 1996): Sion M. Honea, "Preservation at the Sibley Music Library of the Eastman
School of Music," 381; Calvin Elliker, "Trends in the Price of Music Monographs and
Scores as Reflected in NOTES," 403; reviews of William D. Goodfellow's An Index to
Popular Songs and Gary Lynn Ferguson's Song Finder: A Title Index to 32,000
Popular Songs in Collections, 1854-1992, by Pauline S. Bayne, 446; Margaret
W. McCarthy's Amy Fay: America's Notable Woman of Music, by Ann Sears, 469;
Nicholas Tawa's American Composers and Their Public: A Critical Look, by
Wallace McKenzie, 178; Gary Haggerty's A Guide to Popular Music Reference Books: An
Annotated Bibliography by Stephen Davison, 482; Henry W. Sullivan's The Beatles
with Lacan: Rock 'n'ROll as Requiem for the Modern Age, by David Schwarz, 489.
Multimedia CD-ROM reivew: Morton Subotnick, All My Hummingbirds Have Alibies by
Steven Davison, 530. Music reviews: Eileen Southern, ed., African American Theater:
OUt of Bondage (1876) and Peculiar Sam; or, The Underground Railroad, vol. 9 in
Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater, by Willie Strong, 622; Judith Tick and
Wayne Schneider, eds., Ruth Crawford's Music for Small Orchestra; Suite No. 2 for Four Strings
and Piano, by David Nicholls, 626.
THE OPERA JOURNAL (June 1996): Leonard Lehrman, "What is Jewish Opera?", 56.
OPERA NEWS (Aug 1996): Ned Rorem, "The American Art Song: Dead or Alive," 14; Paul
Sperry, "The Great American Songbook," 22.
THE ORFF ECHO (Summer 1996): Tossi Aaron, "Ballads: USA, Pt. 2," 20.
PERCUSSIVE NOTES
(June 1996): Niel DePonte, "An Analysis of Tomas Svoboda's
Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra," 53.
(July 1996): Rick Mattingly, "Saul Goodman 1907-1996," 6; various tributes to the
late Saul Goodman, 12; Marc Churchill, "Mastering hte Motions for Multi-Toms,"
29.
(Aug 1996): Interviews with several members of Nexus, celebrating 25th anniversary;
Michael Colgrass, "Small Essay on My Early Percussion Music," 70.
PIANO AND KEYBOARD (Oct 1996): Jed Distler, "Robert Helps -- Radical Pianist,
Maverick Composer," 44.
THE QUARTERLY: JOURNAL OF MUSIC TEACING AND LEARNING (Spring 1996):
Special issue William Billings: A 250th Anniversary Celebration -- Jonathan
Bellman, "Editorial: William Billings at 250: Looking Beyond the American Tunesmith,"
3; Sondra W. Howe, "William Billing: A Biographical Overview," 6; Raymond C.
Hamrick, "Sojourn in the South -- Billings Among the Shape-Noters," 10; Rose D.
Daniels, "William Billings: Early American Music Educator," 12; Karl Kroeger,
"William Billings's The Singing Master's Assitant as a Pedagogical Aid for
Singing Schools," 18; Maxine Fawcett-Yeske, "Stylistic Development in the Fuging
Tunes of William Billings," 32; Nym Cooke, "William Billings: Representative
American Psalmodist?" 47.
THE SAXOPHONE JOURNAL (July/Aug 1996): Robert Bernotas, "Sue Terry" [interview
with leader of Terra Mars ensemble], 16.
SMITHSONIAN (Nov 1996): Donald Dale Jackson, "Red, Hot & Blue: A Salute
to American Musicals [National Portrait Gallery Show]," 46.
SRINGS
(Aug 1996): Elzabeth Dossa, "The Fate of the Arts [role of NEA]," 48
(Sept/OCt 1996): Timothy Pfaff, "Hollywood's Emerging Stars [Holywood Bowl
Orchestra]," 42; Julie L. Lieberman, "Where to Study Jazz in the U.S.," 50.
SYMPHONY MAGAZINE (July/Aug 1996): Lesley Valdes, "The Age of Audience,"
38; Bruce O. Boston, "Report Card [on NEA-funded orch.-school-community partnerships],"
46; Tonya M. Robles, "Music Talks in Baltimore [BSO youth pgorams]," 54; Karen Campbell,
"Dreams Made Concrete [concert halls]," 70.
TEACHING MUSIC (Aug 1996): Bruce O. Boston, "Doc Severinsen -- Lessons for
a Lifetime," 44.
THEORY AND PRACTICE (Vol. 20, 1995): Cynthia Pace, "Accent on Form-Against -
Form: Ruth Crawford's Piano Study in Mixed Accents," 125.
TUBA (Sp 1996): Don Little and Richard Murrow, "Interview with Everett Gilmore
[Dallas Symphony]," 36; Michael Grose, "Tubas, Travels, and Thoughts: A Conversation
with John Richards [Oregon Symphony]," 44; Kelly S. O'Bryant, "An In-Depth
Look at the Tuba and Euphonium Sections of the United States Military Service
Academy Band, Pt. 1," 50.
20th-CENTURY MUSIC
(June 1996): Mark Alburger, "St. Joan La Barbara: An Interview," 1.
(July 1996): Jane Solose, "Canadian Duo Piano Literature Since 1980," 8.
(Aug 1996): Mark Alburger: "Dreams and Prayers of Osvaldo Golijov [Argentine-US
composer]," 1.