Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXIII, no. 2 (Summer 1997)
Some Recent Articles and Reviews
Compiled by William Kearns, University of Colorado at Boulder
ACOUSTIC GUITAR (Jan 97): Steve James, "National Anthem: A Musical History
of the resonator guitar," 42. (Feb 97): Chris Mosey, "Skiffle Fever [folk roots
of Beatles]," 62.
THE AMERICAN MUSIC TEACHER (Aug/Sept 96): Edwin Hughes, "A Program
[from MTNA Bulletin (Feb 1942)] for Nation-wide War-time
Musical Activities," 30. (Feb/Mar 97): Richard Bobo, "Edward MacDowell
as Pianist," 25. (Apr/May 97): Jonathan Brown and Kathleen Roundtree,
"Maurice Hinson: Still 'at the Piano'!," 22; Donna Staley Kline, "The
Enduring Teaching Legacy of Olga Samaroff Stokowski," 22.
THE AMERICAN ORGANIST (Feb 97): Colette S. Ripley, "Concert
Organ Music by Women Composers from the United States," 56. (Mar 97):
Mickey T Terry, "African-American Classical Organ Music," 56; Charles R. Brown, Jr.,
"The Sacred Music of Duke Ellngton," 62.
THE AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
(Jan/Feb 97): Peter C. Mose, "State of the Orchestras:
Toronto," 10. Reviews of recordings: Barber's choral music by Joyful
Company of Singers, ASV 939 (Koch); Violin Concerto, Dene Olding & Melbourne
Symphony, ABC 770004 (Naxos); Bowles' songs, 2-piano concerto, Koch-Schwann 1574;
Henry Brandt, Kingdom Come, Machinations, Oakland
Symphony, Pheonix 127 (Albany); Brubeck To Hope! A Celebration,
Telarc 80430; Castelnuovo-Tedesco chamber music, Orion 7802; Corigliano
early chamber music, CRI 659 (Koch); John Davison chamber music,
Albany 199; Morton Feldman songs, piano and chamber music, Ensemble Avantgarde,
Wergo 6273 (HM USA); Gershwin Girl Crazy Suite, overtures
to musicals, Rhapsody No. 2, Boston Pops, London 443900; Morton Gould,
American Ballads, Spirituals for Strings,
American 5ymphonette 2, American Salute,
London Philharmonic, Albany 202; Percy Grainger piano music, Marc Andre
Hamelin, Hyperion 66884 (HM USA); Hovhaness, music for violin, piano, string
orchestra, Marcal 951001; Ives, 3 Places in NE, Holidays
Symphony, They Are There, Baltimore Symphony, Argo 444 860
(Polygram); Otto Leuning piano, flute, and violin sonatas, string quartets,
CRI 706; Douglas Moore, Farm journal, Cotillion Suite,
Symphony in A; Marion Bauer, Prelude & Fugue,
Suite, CRI 714 (Koch); Frank Proto, Quartet 1,
Piano Quintet, String Trio, Ensemble Sans Frontiere (Cincinnati), Red Mark 9209. Collections: trios by Cowell,
Luening, Chilharas, Creston by Mirecourt Trio, Music and Arts 903 (Koch); Atlanta
Chamber Players perform Copland, Harbison, Amram, Rorem ACA 20038 (Albany); Flute music
by Stephen Foster and Sidney Lanier, Paula Robison et al., Arabesque 6679 (Allegro);
Thomson's Americana, Carter's To Music,
Shifrin's Odes of Shang, U. of Michigan choir/orch,
New World 80219; Americati folk songs, Dale Warland Sitigcrs, ACC 122.
(Mar/Apr 1997): Donald R. Vroon, "State of the Orchestras: NY Philharmonic," 5.
Reviews of recordings: Antheil Symphony No. 4; Copland Statements for Orchestra,
London Symphony/Goosens & Copland, Everest (Omega); Argento's Songs about
Spring, Letters from Composers, Cedille 29 (Qualiton),
A Water Bird Talk, Six Elizabethan Songs, Manhattan Chamber
Orch., Newport 85602 (Allegro); Robert Ashley, Automatic Writing, Purposeful
Lady, Slow Afternoon, She Was a Visitor, Lovely
1002 (Allegro); Milton Babbitt, Around the Horn, Cavalier Settings,
None But the Lonely Flute, Whirled Series, Homily,
Beaten Paths, Play It Again, Sam, Solo e Duettini,
Melismata, On Having Been and Still Being an American Composer,
Group for Contemporary Music, Koch 7335 [2CD]; Bernstein, Arias and Barcarolles,
A Quiet Place, Suite, West Side Story Dances,
Von Strade, Hampson, London Sym., DG 439 926; Bray, The Indian Princess;
Taylor, The Ethiope, Federal Music Society, New World 80232; Chadwick, Suite
Symphonique, Aphrodite, Elegy, Brno Phil., Reference 74;
Robert Chumbley, 3 Self Studies; Copland, Piano Quartet; McKinley,
Piano Quartet No. 1, Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, MMC 2041 (Albany); Copland, Piano Concerto,
Symphonic Variations, Short Symphony, Symphonic Ode,
San Francisco Sym., RCA 68541; Corigliano, Sym. #I, RCA 68450; Eleanor Cory,
Chamber & Orchestra music, NY Camerata & Polish Radio Sym., Soundspells 166 (Albany); Crumb,
Ecboes of Autumn, Nocturnes, Vox Balanae, Dream
Sequence, Zurich New Music Ensemble, Jecklin 705 (Albany); Cello Concertos of
Richard Danielpour, Leon Kirchner, & Christopher Rouse, Yo-Yo Ma, Philadelphia
Orch., Sony 66299; Jon Deak, Eeyore Has a Birthday, Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, Lady Chatterly's Dream, Centaur 2296 (Qualiton); Gershwin,
Porgy and Bess, excerpts, Dallas Sym. & Chor., Dorian 90223 (Allegro); Glass,
Music in 12 Parts, Philip Glass Ensemble, Nonesuch 79324; Gould, Fall River
Legend Suite, Stephen Foster Gallery Suite, Of Time and the River,
New Zealand Sym. & Gregg Smith Singers, Koch 7380; Grainger orchestral works, BBC Phil.,
Chandos 9493 (Koch); Grainger songs, Stephen Varcoe & Penelope Thwaites, Chandos 9053 (Koch);
Harbison, Symphony on G, Ruggles, Organum & Men & Mountains,
CRI 715 (Koch); Bernard Herrmann film scores, LA Phil., Sony 62700; Queen Lil'uokalani, 17 songs;
Lalo Schifrin, Lil'uokalani Symphony, Wa Nui 49501 (4257 Sierra Dr, Honolulu, HI
96816); Jerome Moross, Frankie & Johnny, Tall Story, Biguine
(sic), Flute Concerto, New Zealand Chbr. Orch., Koch 7367; Reich, Proverb,
Nagoya Marimbas, City Life, Paul Hillier Theatre of Voices/Steve
Reich Ensemble, Nonesuch 79430; Simon Sargon, Songs, Gasparo 318 (Allegro); Ernest Schelling
piano pieces, Mary Louise Boehm, Albany 193; Harry Somers, Nortb Country, Harp
Suite, Lyric, Symphony #1, National Arts Centre Orch., CBC 5162 (Allegro);
Robert Ward, Violin Sonatas 1 & 2; Arioso & Tarantelle, Serenade for Mallarme,
Albany 204; Frank Wigglesworth, Symphony No. 1, Twin Songs, A Short Mass,
Summer's Music, Lake Music, Trivium, Psalm 148;
Wuorinen, Piano Sonata 3, Bagatelle, Capriccio, & Feldman, Palais
de Mari, Alan Feinberg, Koch 7308; Collections: piano, 4-hands by Corigliano, Persichetti,
Levinson, Polin, Shifrin, Moss, Riegger, Laurel 859 (Tower); woodwind quintet music by Jerry Sieg,
Lawrence McKinley, Carleton Macy, David Vayo, Georgia U. Quintet, ACA 20032 (Albany); But
Yesterday is Not Today (American Art Song 1927-72), New World 80243.
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
(Winter 97): William Youngren, "B. H. Haggin [music critic]," 63.
ASIAN MUSIC (Sp/Sum 96): Usopay Cadar, "Maranao Kolintang Music and Its
Journey to Amcrica," 131; Craig A. Lockard, "Popular Musics and Politics in
Modern Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis," 149.
BLACK MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL (Fall 96): On teaching of black music-Carlesta E. Spearman,
editor's introduction, 217; Rosita M. Sands, "What Prospective Music Teachers Need to
Know about Black Music," 225; Lucius R. Wyatt, "The Inclusion of Concert Music of
African-Ainerican Composers in Music History Courses," 239; Christopher
Wilkinson, "Deforming/Reforming the Canon: Challenges of a Multicultural
Music History Course," 259; Charles E. Kinzer, "The Trios of New Orleans and
Their Pedagogical Influence on the Early Jazz Clarinet Style," 279; Willis Patterson,
"The African-American Art Song: A Musical Means for Special Teaching and
Learning," 303; Barbara R. Lundquist & Winston T. Sims, "African-American
Music Education: Reflections on an Experience," 31 1.
BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION (Sept 96): Joseph M. Murphy, "Saxo-
phone Instruction in Ai-nerican Schools before 1940," 1; Roger R. Rideout,
"Cossack on the Plains: Leopold Radgowsky, Music Teacher in Perry,
Oklahoma, 1928-1938," 13; George N. Heller, "William Billings (1746-1800):
Sources and Resources," 49; rev. of Bruce McPherson's and James Klein's Measure by
Measure: A History of New England Conservatory frown 1867," by George
Heller, 71. (Jan 97): William R. Lee, "Max Schoen and His Work in Music," 85;
David G. Tovey, "Jose Mariano Elizaga and Music Education in Early Nineteenth-
Century Mexico," 126; rev. of Jay Warner's Yhe Billboard Book of American Singing
Groups: A History," by R. Ed Goeke, 137.
BULLETIN OF THE COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION (Fall 96): George N. Heller,
"The Use of Rhetoric in Historical Research in Music Education," 30.
CHAMBER MUSIC (Dec 96): Lucy Miller, "From All Walks, Aniateurs in America," 18.
CHORAL JOURNAL (Mar 97): Gene Brooks, "An Interview with Gian Carlo Menotti," 9; Beverly Tayklor,
Interview with Stephen Paulus, 17.
THE CLARINET (Nov/Dec 96): Dennis Nygren, "Remembering Robert Marcellus," Pt. 1, 34; "Anthony Gigliotti:
In My Own Words," with Elena L. Talley, 44.
COLLEGE BAND DIRECTORS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL (Sp/Sum 94): Terry Austin, "Bands at the
1904 World's Fair," 23; Paul E Cutler, "The Texas Technological College During
World War 11: Weathering the Crisis," 30.
CURRENT MUSICOLOGY (59/1995): rev. of Leslie C. Dunn and Naiicy A. Jones, eds., Embodied Voices:
Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, 88.
EARLY MUSIC AMERICA (Winter 96/97): Scott Reiss, "Crossover in Early
Music [popular & folk music performance as a model]," 38.
THE ELGAR SOCIETY JOURNAL (Mar 97): William Kearns, "Horatio Parker, Edward Elgar, and Choral
Music at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," 4.
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (Winter 97): Jonathan Sterne, "Sounds Like the Mall of America: Programmed
Music and the Architectonics of Commercial Space," 22.
EX TEMPORE (Sum 95): Eric Richards, "Observation and Obsession: An American
Way of Art," 1.
FILM SCORE (Jan/Feb 97): Articles on John Williams' Music in the Star Wars
Trilogy, 9. (Mar/Apr 97): Doug Adams, "The Simpsons' Secret Weapon [composer
Alf Clausen]," 24.
FLUTE TALK (Apr 97): Mary Jean Simpson, "The 19th-Century American
Flutist [Sidney Lanier]," 16.
GRAMMY (Suni 96): Daniel Levitin, interview with Stevie Wonder, 14.
HISTORIC BRASS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER (Sum 96): Richard C. Spicer, "Grand Concert! A New Exhibition on
New Hampshire Town Bands," 37.
THE HYMN (Jan 97): John Saillant, "Hymnody and the Persistence of an
African-Ainerican Faith in Sierra Leone," 8; Jim Mankin, "Sing to Me of
Heaven-The Role of Eternal Life as Reflected in Gospel Songs," 18; Ellen Jane
L. Porter, "American Folk Hymns in Three Nineteenth-Century United Brethren
Hymnals," 28; Samuel J. Rogal, "Some Trends in Recent American Hymn Texts,
30; Nancy M. Turner, "The Chalice Hymnal: Broken Bread-One Body," 33.
(Apr 97): Carlton R. Young, "Yhe New Century Hymnal, 1995," 25.
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC JOURNAL (Feb 97): Undine Smith Moore, "My Life in Music,"
9.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JAZZ RECORD COLLECTORS JOURNAL (Fall 96): Steven L. Holzer,
"Robert Leo 'Bobby' Hackett," 1. (Winter 97): Geoffrey Wheeler, "The Jazztone
Catalog," 3.
INTERNATIONAL TROMBONE ASSOCIATION JOURNAL (Winter 97): Kreig E. Garvin & Andre M. Smith,
"Jaroslav Ciinera-1885-1972: Virtuoso Trombonist-Master Teacher," 34.
INTERNATIONAL TRUMPET GUILD JOURNAL (Feb 97): Andre M. Smith, "The Life of Charels Colin
and the Silver jubilee of the New York Brass Conference, 1973-1997," 4.
JOURNAL OF BAND RESEARCH (Sp 95): Jerome R. Markoch, "Analysis/Music
for Eighteen Winds by John Harbison," 1; Jere T. Humphreys, "Instrumental Music
in American Education: In Service of Many Masters," 39; Paul E Cutter, "Dewey
0. Wiley and the Texas Tech Band: The Depression Years," 71.
JOURNAL OF COUNTRY MUSIC 19/1 (97): Mike Streissguth, "Cindy
Walker," 9; Holly George-Warren, "(Growing Up Country [ten legends describe their
hardscrabble years]," IO; Dana A. Jeniiitigs, "Stubborn Faith: The Del McCoury Band
and the Nashville Bluegrass Band," 19; Ronnie Puch, "Country Music Is Here To
Stay [etymology of term]," 32.
JOURNAL OF MUSIC THEORY (Sp 96): Ed Sarath, "A New Look at Improvisation," 1.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION (Sp 97): Carolyn Livingston, "Women in Music Education
in the United States: Names Mentioned in History Books," 130.
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW (Fall/Wititer 96): Peter J. Garcia, "The
New Mexican E@irly Ballad Tradition: Reconsidering the New Mexican
Folklorists' Contribution to Songs of Intercultural Conflict," 150; rev. essay,
Jorge Duany, "Rethinking the Popular: Recent Essays on Caribbean Music and
Identity," 176.
MORAVIAN MUSIC JOURNAL (Fall 96): Michael Johns, "A Second Look at the
Wind Music of Collauf [Harmoniemusik of unknown composer in Moravian
archives," 7.
MUSIC AND LETTERS (Feb. 97): rev. of Steven E. Gilbert's The Music of
Gershwin, by Christopher Halley, 1 1 8.
MUSIC REFERENCES SERVICES QUARTERLY (1/1996): William E.
Studwell, "From Jingle Bells to Jingle Bell Rock: Sketches of Obscure or Fading
American Popular Christmas Songwriters, 1857-1957 (and a Little Beyond)," I; "The
Position of the Hymn in the Cultural Spectrum of the Late Twentieth Century,"
37. (2/1996): William Studwell, Complex Web of Composition: American
Popular Songwriting teams of the 20th Century," 1; Metro Voloshiti, "Federal
Music Project (WPA): An Essay and Bibliography, 49.
THE MUSICAL QUARTERLY (Sum 96): Orchestra issue-Leon Botstein, "'The
Future of the Orchestra," 189; Jutta Allmendinger, J. Richard Hackman, and
Erin V. Lehman, "Life and Work in Symphony Orchestras," 194; Ronald S.
Rosen, "Stranger in Paradise: The Life and Adventures of the Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra," 220; Marc-Andre Roberge, "Ferruccio Busoni, His Chicago Friends,
and Frederick Stock's Transcription for Large Orchestra and Organ of the Fantasia
contrappuntistica, 302.
(Fall 96): Scott Deveaux, "What Did We Do to Be So Black and Blue?," essay review of Gene
Lees's Cats of any Color: Jazz Black and White, David Meltzer's Reading
Jazz, and James Lincoln Collier's Jazz: The American Theme Song, 392;
W. Anthony Sheppard, "Bitter Rituals for a Lost Nation: Partch's Revelation in the Courthouse
Park and Bernstein's Mass, 46 1.
THE MUSICAL TIMES (Apr. 96): Wilfrid Mellers, "New World Oldies"
[commentary or CD releases of Still, Cowell, Partch, Bowles, Harrison, Chinary
Ung, Christian Wolff, Earl Brown, Morton Feldman], 20.
NOTES: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (Mar 97): Reviews of Elizabeth
W. Marvin & Richard Hermann, eds., Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays
and Analytical Studies, by Michael J. Schiano, 773; Renolds and Joy Press, The
Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll, by Robert A. Walser, 776; Ben
Greenman's Netmusic: Your Complete Guide to Rock and more on the Internet and Online
Services, by Leslie Troutman, 778; Kenneth J. Bindas's All of this Music Belongs
to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society, by Burton W.
Peretti, 808; Yasuhiro Fujioka's John Coltrane: A Discography and Musical
Biography, by Jim Farrington, 810; Samuel A. Floyd's The Power of Black Music:
Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States, by Christopher Brooks, 812;
John P. Welsh's The Music of Stuart Saunders Smith, by David MacBride, 815.
Music reviews: David Warren Steel, ed., Stephen Jenks, Collected Works, by
Linda Davenport, 983.
OPERA NEWS (2/22/97): Charles Baldridge, "American Inquisition" [rev. of
Myron Fink's The Conquistador premiered at San Diego Opera], 28. (3/8/97):
Patrick J. Smith, "Paul Kellog: New Era for the New York City Opera," 10. 3/22/97):
Peter G. Davis, ""Ball of Fire" [America's first international opera superstar], 15.
OPERA QUARTERLY (Winter 96/97): Zoltan Roman, "Mahler and Opera in
America," 39.
PERCUSSIVE NOTES (Feb 97): Terry O'Mahoney, "An Abbreviated History of
Cuban Music and Percussion," 14; Peter J. Pohorence, "An Interpretation for the
Music in a Revolutionary Era Drum Manual," 34.
PERFORMANCE PRACTICE REVIEW (Fall 96): Robert Toft, "Action and Singing
in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century England," 146.
PERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC (Winter 96): Catherine C. Hirata," The
Sounds of the Sounds Themselves: A-nalyzing the Early Music of Morton
Feldman," 6.
PIANO & KEYBOARD (May/June 97): Michael Lewin, "Rcdiscovering Charles
Griffes," 33.
POPULAR MUSIC (Jan 97): David Treece, "Guns and Roses: bossa nova and
Brazil's music of popular protest, 1958-68," 1; Jocelyne Guibault, "Interpreting
world music: a challenge in theory and practice," 31; David Harker, "The
Wonderful World of IFPI: music industry rhetoric, the critics and the classical marxist
critique," 45; Colin Symes, "Beating up the classics: aspects of a compact discourse," 81;
Andrew Bennett, "'Going down the pub!': The pub rock scene as a resource for the consumption of popular
music," 97.
REPERCUSSIONS (Fall 95): Katherine Bergeron, "Uncovering Cole, [performances of C.
Porter's Red, Hot and Blue], 10; Mark DeWitt, "Music in American Cultures: An Anthology of
Autobiographies [Student essay from authors class], 131.
RESEARCH MEMORANDUM SERIES (Dec 96): Suzanne S. Tiemstra, "Anthologies, Collections, and
Series of Latin American Choral Music," 1.
SACRED MUSIC (Fall 96): Duane L.C.M. Galles, "Baltimore's Failed Bid for the
American Priniacy," 5; Jane R. Riedel, "Johannes Piedel and the Music of the
Church," 15.
SMITHSONIAN (May 97): Chiori Santiago, "Ziggedy bop! Tap dance is back
on its feet," 87.
SCHWANN OPUS (Fall 96): Alfred W Cochran, "Aaron Copland: Film Composer," 15A.
(Fall 96/97): Mark Swed, "Lew Harrison: The Pacific Composer," 8a; Carol J. Oja, "The
Cross-Cultural Odyssey of Colin McPhee," 20A.
THE STRAD (Feb 97): "Success in High Society' [the Musical Art Quartet], 154.
STRINGS (May/June 97) Jim Wood, "The Legacy of Bill Monroe," 42.
SYMPHONY (Jan/Feb97): Steve Mencher, "Jazz Meets the Classics" [Wynton
Marsalis, Bobby McFei-rill, Marcus Roberts], 18; Mar/Apr 97): Wynne
Delacoma, "The Grant Makers" [foundation giving to orchestras], 28.
TEACHING MUSIC (Apr 97): Theron McClure, "Interlochen: The Earliest Years
[1927-28]" 33.
THEATRE ANNUAL: A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES (Fall 96): Dale Cockrell,
"Callithumpians, Mummers, Maskers, and Minstrels: Blackface in the Streets of Jacksonian
America," 15.
THE TRACKER (3/96): Barbara Owens, "The Opening of the Great Organ in Boston Music Hall," I 1;
John L. Speller, "Henry Jaschke and Gustav Treu [St. Louis organbuilders]," 15.
(4/96): Stephen Pine], "Late from London: Henry Corrie,
Organbuilder [Boston, Philadelphia, from 18221," 11; Howard Penny, "Mr.
Vanderbilt' Kapellmeister [Caryl Florio] at Biltmore [Ashville, NC]," 26.
THE WILSON QUARTERLY (Sp 97): "Classical Jazz," 56.
WOMEN OF NOTE QUARTERLY (Feb 97): Helen Walker-Hill, "Chicago
Composer Irene Britton Smith," 4.
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