Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXIII, no. 2 (Summer 1997)
Conferences
26-31 July and 2-7 August 1997. A Composers Forum to be held at Puy de Bost, France,
on composing for string quartet will be lead by American composer and Sonneck Society
member Nancy Van de Vate. For ruther information, please write to Victoria Vaughan, Music
Dept., Southampton University, Southampton, SO17 IBJ England; Fax +44 (1703) 593197;
e-mail: vsv@soton.ac.uk
27 September 1997. The Department of Musicology and the Sibly Music Library of the
University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music will present a Celebration of Arthur
Farwell and American Music. The event will combine lectures, performances, a multimedia
presentation, and an exhibit of rare and unique materials from the Arthur Farwell Collection.
The collection, recently presented to the Library by the Farwell family and by Elizabeth Davis
Culbertson, author of He Heard America Singing: Arthur Farwell, Composer, and Crusading
Music Educator (Scarecrow Press, 1992), has now been processed and is open for
research. It comprises the composer's musical manuscripts, including previously unpublished
works, a diary of his early years of European training and lecture and concert tours of the
United States, and an extensive correspondence with many of the most influential musicians of
the day. Furthur information may be obtained from Mary Wallace Davidson, Sibley Music Library
(smmd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) or the Sibley Music Library at (716) 274-1350.
23-26 October 1997. Society for Ethnomusicology and International Association
for the Study of Popular Music joint meeting at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel, Pittsburgh,
Pennsbylvania. Contact Carl Rahkonen; Cogswell Music Library; Cogswell Hall 310;
Indiana University of Penn.; Indiana, PA 15705; Tel: (412) 357-5644; e-mail
rahkonen@grove.iup.edu.
30 October-2 November 1997. Joint meeting of the 62nd annual meeting of the American Musicological
Society and the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Phoenix, Arizona.
Contact Amy Holbrook; School of Music; Arizona State University; Tempe, AZ 85287-0405;
Tel: (602) 965-3371; e-mail icakh@asuacvaz.bitnet.
13-16 November 1997. College Music Society annual meeting. Sheraton City Centre Hotel,
Cleveland, Ohio. Contact Tod Trimble; CMS; 202 West Spruce Street; Missoula, MT 59802; Tel:
(406) 721-9616; email cms@music.org.
11-15 February, 1998. Music Library Association annual meeting in Boston, Mass.
Presenters wishing to submit proposals for poster sessions on recently completed research,
innovative music library projects, or imaginative resolution of music library problems should
write to Paula Elliot, Arts Collections, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5610; or
e-mail elliotp@wsu.edu. The web site for information and
registration is: http://rism.harvard.edu/~mla/
.
24-28 June 1998. William Grant Still and His World, Flagstaff, Arizona, sponsored
by Northern Arizona University and William Grant Still Music. This conference was originally
scheduled for June, 1997. Papers on the composer, performances of his music, and presentations
that link Still to his varied cultural surroundings are solicited. Presenters from fields of study
other than music are especially encouraged. To participate in the conference, please send a
one-page abstract (four copies), a tape if appropriate and a one-page vita to the address below before
December 1, 1997: Catherine Parsons Smith, Program Chair; Department of Music 226; University of
Nevada Reno, Reno, NV 89557-0049; Fax: (702) 784-6986; e-mail smithcp@scs.unt.edu
Updated 9/22/97