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AMS Newsletter August 2004 VOLUME XXXIV, NUMBER 2 August 2004 ISSN 0402-012X AMS/SMT Seattle 2004 <www.ams-net.org/seattle> The American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory will convene in Seat- tle, 11–14 November. The joint national meet- ing begins Thursday with afternoon sessions and a spectacular opening concert and con- cludes Sunday at noon. The Sheraton Hotel and Towers will house the conference. Nes- tled in the historic Seattle downtown, the Sher- aton debouches on museums, shopping, con- cert halls, and many superb restaurants. A short stroll leads to the famed Pike Place Market, a ferry tour of the Puget Sound islands, or a sea- food restaurant serving fresh chinook salmon. Seattle offers abundant tourist attractions, beginning with the idyllic setting. The snow- capped peaks of the Olympic and Cascade ranges frame the city to east and west, while Mount Rainier towers to the south. Nine bridges connect this watery city, which floats amid lakes, bays, and inlets. The turning leaves make November a visual feast. Rain falls spo- radically, mostly in refreshing drizzles, keeping the air clean. Seattle culture encompasses one of the busiest theater calendars in America, a thriving rock-music underground, and some of the fin- est coffees and microbrews in the world. Hip- sters will gravitate to Capitol Hill, where they can tour the vinyl bins at Sonic Boom, read all night in Twice Sold Tales, or sip Kool-Aid in the Bauhaus Café. A fun monorail ride leads from the Sheraton to the Experience Music Project (EMP), an interactive popular-music museum and Jimi Hendrix shrine. Numerous In This Issue . President’s Message 3 Executive Director’s Report 4 Seattle Skyline with the Space Needle Courtesy of the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau Committee Reports 5 Grants and Fellowships Available 7 Awards, Prizes, and Honors 8 restaurants surround the Sheraton, offering issues, women’s spirituality, and Renais- Forthcoming Conferences 10 seafood, sushi, pan-Asian, pub food, or sance print culture. eclectic European cuisines. Calls for Papers 10 Concerts. The Concert Committee, chaired Seattle Preliminary Program 11 Program. The AMS Program Committee, by Neal Zaslaw (Cornell University) has Obituaries 17 chaired by Robert Kendrick (University of selected an equally colorful series of perfor- mances, ranging from parlour melodrama AMS Washington, D.C. 18 Chicago), has assembled a diverse spectrum of papers, including sessions on film music, News Briefs 20 jazz, music and illness, African-American continued on page 2 —1— Seattle—2004 continued from page 1 forms will receive complimentary beverage Society Election Results tickets at the Thursday evening reception. If The results of the 2004 election of AMS offi- to Balto-Finnish choral works (see the Pre- you contribute $100 or more, you will cers and the Board of Directors: liminary Program, pp. 11–17, for the full receive five tickets to share with your Vice President: Jeffrey Kallberg story). friends. Treasurer: James Ladewig The evening entertainments spotlight Registration. This mailing includes a regis- Directors-at-Large: Seattle’s early-music community. Gallery tration form. All members registering on or M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Concerts and Seattle Early Dance lead off before Friday, 1 October will enjoy a dis- Thomas Christensen Thursday night with “Theatre Music and counted rate. The AMS Web site also Cristle Collins Judd Dance of the French Baroque Court,” a includes online and PDF registration forms. AMS Membership Records pageant of dances by Lully, Rameau, and Child care. In response to individual Leclair. Andrew Manze and the English requests, the AMS is considering a more Please send AMS Directory corrections and Concert follow on Friday with program- updates in a timely manner in order to avoid extensive child care program in Seattle than matic concertos by Vivaldi, Schmelzer, we have done in recent years. Please com- errors. The deadline for Directory updates is 1 Biber, and Locatelli. Finally, on Saturday a December 2004. Send all corrections, updates, municate your interest to the AMS office as bus will convey concert-goers to magnifi- soon as possible. membership inquiries, and dues payments to cent St. Mark’s Cathedral to hear the the AMS, 201 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA Transportation. Seattle-Tacoma Interna- Tudor Choir and Cappella Romana present 19104-6313; 215/898-8698; toll free 888/611- tional Airport serves the Seattle area. The “Everlasting Light,” a concert combining 4267 (“4AMS”); fax 215/573-3673; <ams@ Gray Line Airport Express, running every Byzantine chant, English polyphony, and a sas.upenn.edu>. See the AMS Web site for half hour, will get you to the hotel for only major new work by Greek-Canadian com- more information: <www.ams-net.org>. $8.50 (taxis run about $30). You can buy poser Christos Hatzis. On Saturday after- your ticket online at <www.graylineofseattle. noon the Experience Music Project will AMS Newsletter Address com/airport.cfm>. Members wishing to host the first AMS popular-music concert, and Deadlines drive can take I-5 almost to the hotel garage. presenting rising Seattle band Visqueen. Take the Seneca Street exit from the south Items for publication in the February issue EMP has graciously offered half-price or Union Street from the north and drive a of the AMS Newsletter must be submitted by museum tickets to all AMS/SMT mem- few blocks west. The hotel is on the right. 4 November (21 November for reports) and bers. Tickets for all events will be available for publication in the August issue by 1 May online through the meeting’s Web site. Weather. Rain is always a possibility in to: Seattle, despite an unusually dry year so far. Interviews. A limited number of rooms at Peter Alexander Umbrellas are seldom essential, although a The University of Iowa the Sheraton will be available for job inter- views during the meeting. To reserve a shell or raincoat will help. Expect tempera- Arts Center Relations tures in the low 50s, dropping into the 40s. 300 Plaza Center One room, please consult the Web site or con- Iowa City, IA 52242 tact the AMS office; reservations received Scheduling. Please contact the AMS office fax: 319/384-0024 prior to 15 August will appear in the pro- to reserve rooms for private parties, recep- <[email protected]> gram booklet. Job candidates can sign up tions, or reunions. Space is limited, so please communicate your needs as soon as possi- The AMS Newsletter is published twice a via the Web or (if spots are still available) at the interview desk, located near the ble. The AMS Web site provides further year by the American Musicological Society, information. Inc., 201 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA hotel registration area. AMS policy prohib- 19104-6313; tel. 888/611-4267 or 215/898- its interviews in private rooms without Student assistants. The Local Arrange- 8698; fax 215/573-3673; <[email protected]. appropriate sitting areas. ments Committee, chaired by Stephen edu>; <www.ams-net.org> and mailed to all Benefit programs. Members of the Soci- Rumph (University of Washington), seeks members and subscribers. Requests for ety are urged to support the Committee on students to help during the conference in additional copies of current and back issues Cultural Diversity Travel Fund, the Howard return for free registration and $11 per hour of the AMS Newsletter should be directed to Mayer Brown endowment, and the AHJ (six hours minimum). If this is of interest, the AMS Philadelphia office. Claims for AMS 50 endowment by contributing $50 please see the Web site or contact the AMS missing issues must be requested within six or more to these worthy causes. All mem- office. months of publication. bers who contribute on their registration —Stephen Rumph Next Board Meetings The next meetings of the Board of Direc- AMS/SMT Annual Meeting ing” when making reservations. Budget tors will take place 10 November 2004 in Hotel Information 15.9% additional for state and local hotel Seattle, Washington, and 12 March 2005 in taxes. A hotel block is being held for the Seattle Washington, D.C. conference attendees at the conference The AMS negotiates a contract for AMS Home Page hotel: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, 1400 Sixth meeting space and hotel room-nights with Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101; tel. hotels four or five years before each The AMS home page address is <www. annual meeting. We agree to occupy a cer- 888/627-7056 or 206/621-9000; fax 206/ ams-net.org>. The Web site includes virtu- tain number of rooms and contract with ally all the things that might come in handy 621-8441. A link from the AMS Web site dedicated to room reservations is also hotels for this, in exchange for their agree- regarding AMS membership: JAMS deliv- available. ment to provide hotel rooms as well as ery, recent JAMS tables of contents, online meeting space and services. We are liable conference registration and full annual We have reserved a block of rooms at to pay significant supplemental fees if we meeting information, membership renewal the Sheraton Hotel at the special rate of do not hold up our end of the agreement; information, general collections of URLs for $159 per night (single) / $179 (double) for thus, your decision to stay at the confer- musicological subjects, links to our jobs & reservations received prior to 14 October ence hotels, in addition to enabling con- conferences electronic bulletin board, etc. 2004, 5:00 p.m. PST. venient access to the annual meeting, helps Send any and all Web site suggestions to the In order to qualify for the conference to ensure that we meet our contractual AMS office, <[email protected]>.
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