Toward the Star of the North: SSCM 2011 at the University of Minnesota by Kelley Harness
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The Newsletter of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall 2010 Toward the Star of the North: SSCM 2011 at the University of Minnesota by Kelley Harness he nineteenth annual conference of the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music will be held April 7–10, 2011, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Birthplace Tof the Andrews Sisters, Prince, A Prairie Home Companion, and the Mall of America (which is technically in Bloomington, MN), the twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul are also home to a thriving early music scene, as well as two resident orchestras (the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra), an opera company, and internationally known museums and theaters. While the paper sessions and banquet will be held on the University’s Minneapolis campus, conference attendees will have a chance to experience a bit of Saint Paul as well, with a Thursday night reception and concert by up-and-coming harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani (www.mahanesfahani.com), who will be performing on the Schubert Club’s seventeenth- and eighteenth-century University of Minnesota instruments. One of the Twin Cities’ best known early music groups, the Rose Ensemble Ted Mann Concert Hall (www.roseensemble.org), will present Friday night’s concert. Now home to approximately 3.2 million people in the greater metro area, the establishment and growth of the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in the nineteenth In This Issue . century were due largely to their proximity to the Mississippi River, whose rapids helped News of the Society spur the growth of the Minneapolis milling industry, while calmer, more navigable Anne Schnoebelen: An Appreciation 1 waters downstream turned Saint Paul into a bustling port, an intermediate destination President’s Message ................2 continued on page 19 From the Editorial Board of the WLSCM ..........................2 2010 Irene Alm Memorial Prize. 5 Letter from Europe ................6 Anne Schnoebelen: An Appreciation In Memoriam .....................17 by Lois Rosow New Members ....................17 As president of the Society, Lois Rosow delivered Reports and Reviews the following address at the conferral of honorary 2010 Conference at Rice University ...3 membership—the Society’s highest honor—on Annual Business Meeting ...........4 Anne Schnoebelen. The presentation took place Early Modern Rome, 1341–1667 .....7 during the business meeting on March 5, 2010, Fourteenth Biennial International at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Conference on Baroque Music ......8 Houston, TX.—Ed. European Sacred Music, 1550–1800 ..9 Seventeenth–Century Music in Rome 10 nne Schnoebelen holds a BA from “Beyond Opera” with La finta pazza ..11 Rosary College, a Master of Music in The Sound of Royal Entry: piano from the University of Illinois, Antwerp, 1635 .....................11 A Anne Schnoebelen and Lois Rosow Treasurer’s Report ................13 and a PhD in musicology, also from the University of Illinois. She is currently the Cavalli’s Eliogabalo at Joseph and Ida K. Mullen Professor Emerita musicology, the list of students whom she Stony Brook University .............17 of Musicology at the Shepherd School of inspired to pursue careers in the field Conference Announcements Music at Rice University, where she taught includes, among others, Anne Walters SSCM 2011 at the and served as an administrator for over Robertson, Cristle Collins Judd, Robert University of Minnesota ............1 thirty years. Judd, Maribeth Clark, Andrew Weaver, Calls for Papers and Manuscripts ...12 By all accounts she was a supremely and Paul Schleuse. A senior member of Upcoming Conferences ...........13 dedicated teacher and mentor. Although our Society writes, “She put the School on Members’ News ....................14 Rice does not offer a doctorate in the early-music map.” Her distinguished continued on page 16 Vol. 20, No. 1 17th-Century Music u 1 Seventeenth-Century Music is the semi-annual President’s Message newsletter of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. In addition to news of the Society, its udos to Greg Barnett for the splendid Houston confer- members, and conferences, the Newsletter ence: lovely facilities, excellent special events, delicious reports on related conferences, musical food, and such smooth transitions that we were quite performances, research resources, and grant K unaware of the army behind the scenes. We greatly appreci- opportunities. Please send inquiries or material ate the Shepherd School’s hospitality and generous financial for consideration to the editor: support. Congratulations also to the Program Committee for Roger Freitas the many fine papers and the imaginative organization of the Eastman School of Music program: Mauro Calcagno (chair), Olivia Bloechl, Alex Fisher, 26 Gibbs Street Rochester, NY 14609 Christine Jeanneret, and Barbara Hanning. The special guest Phone: (585) 274-1458 speaker, Prof. Dr. Walter Werbeck, president of the International Fax: (585) 274-1088 (attn: Roger Freitas) Heinrich Schütz Society, gave us much food for thought about Email: [email protected] the difference between German and Anglo-American styles of Please note that information for the next scholarship. He clearly enjoyed his visit with us and also his stay in Houston. In the issue must be submitted by January 15, 2011. course of the conference, Prof. Werbeck and Carroll Shaddock, a local choir director, ISSN: 1054-6022 began to lay plans for a future IHSS festival in that city. Undoubtedly many SSCM members will want to attend. Assistant Editor As readers will see in the minutes of the Houston business meeting, we have revised the Sarah Williams by-laws to give Lex Silbiger and his successors a new title: editor-in-chief of WLSCM. This Associate Editors makes sense not only as a parallel with JSCM but also to accommodate a new intermediate Beth Glixon editorial level at the Web Library: Jeff Kurtzman has accepted the position of general Colleen Reardon editor of special projects; he is currently working with the editors of a forthcoming major anthology of instrumental ensemble music. Another procedural change is evident on Corresponding Members the index pages of the two latest editions to be published: “prepared for publication Michael Klaper (2010–2013) by Eleanor McCrickard and Janette Tilley” (WLSCM 18) and “prepared for publication Europe by Guido Olivieri, with the assistance of Catherine Gordon-Seifert” (WLSCM 19). To [email protected] give Lex some relief as he completes a major funded project of his own, members of Greta Olson (2006–2010) the library board are stepping up and performing time-consuming copy-editing tasks. Australasia Bravo to Lex and his colleagues for their productive teamwork and for the growth and [email protected] success of this wonderful resource. Layout and Design Members who were unable to be in Houston should certainly read the report of Karen Ver Steeg, Eastman School of Music the editor-in-chief of JSCM, as summarized in the minutes of the business meeting. An ad hoc committee chaired by Jeff Kurtzman is looking into alternate publication The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music is arrangements for the Journal. In the meantime we have signed a one-year contract a learned society dedicated to the study and extension with University of Illinois Press. performance of music of the seventeenth Finally, by the time you read this column, a folder of past issues of the Newsletter century. will have been mounted as open-access pdf’s at the SSCM website. The Select Index Governing Board (2009-2012) of Past Articles, maintained by Margaret Murata, will help readers find material that interests them in those issues. The plan is to maintain the collection so that at any given Lois Rosow, president Ohio State University time, all issues except those of the preceding two years will be available online. The [email protected] most recent four issues will continue to be available only in hard copy to dues-paying members. The governing board invites all friends of seventeenth-century music from Kimberlyn Montford, vice president Trinity University around the world to dip into this rich repository without leaving the convenience of [email protected] their computer screens. Lois Rosow Susan Lewis Hammond, treasurer [email protected] University of Victoria [email protected] Antonia Banducci, secretary From the Editorial Board of the Web Library University of Denver of Seventeenth-Century Music [email protected] Gregory S. Johnston, chair American Heinrich Schütz Society, e are pleased to announce the addition to the WLSCM catalogue of two University of Toronto new editions. No. 18 is a series of Vespers psalm settings by Giovanni [email protected] WPaolo Colonna for various combinations of solo voices and string ensemble––some with optional choir––in an edition by Dr. Pyrros Bamichas Honorary Members of the University of Athens. This set of impressive works from the end of the Stephen Bonta Alfred Mann† seventeenth century forms the largest edition published thus far in the WLSCM Anne Schnoebelen series. No. 19 is on a smaller scale, a lovely motet for three voices by Marc-Antoine Alexander Silbiger Kerala Snyder Charpentier, edited by Dr. C. Jane Gosine of Memorial University (St. Johns, Canada). Go and have a look at www.sscm-wlscm.org. More to come. 2 u Vol. 20 No. 1 17th-Century Music Wisdom among the Owls: A Report on the 2010 Conference at Rice University by Roger Freitas he 2010 meeting of the Society took place March 4–7 in the Tmodern and elegant setting of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (Houston, Texas). (The program and abstracts for the conference remain available at www.rice.edu/sscm/index. shtml.) After a lovely opening reception, the proceedings really got underway with a much anticipated workshop on baroque dance, led by Yvonne Kendall (University of Houston). Sadly, I myself missed the dancing due to delayed flights, but the many reports I heard all told of an informa- tive, fun, at times even madcap evening.