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WINTER, 1974/Vol. 7, No. 1

1974 CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK

Events for the ASUC Ninth Annual National Applications should be received by the hotel Conference, February 22-23, are scheduled no later than one week in advance of the at five different locations in New York's Conference. Members arriving by plane Mid-Town and upper West Side: Manhattan should take the airport limousine to School of Music, Columbia University, The Grand Central Station (or to the Port Juilliard School, Carnegie Recital Hall, Authority if arriving from the Newark and the Library and Museum of the Airport) and take a taxi from there to the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. It was hotel. suggested that those members living outside The opening session of the Conference the New York area might be interested in is on the "A" floor of the Library and attending meetings at several participating Museum of the Performing Arts. One of institutions. All events are on or near the entrances to the Library is from the the IRT subway; detailed maps and instruc­ Lincoln Center Plaza between the tions for transportation will be available. Metropolitan Opera and the Vivian Beaumont Me mbers who need hotel accommodations Theater. Registration begins at 10:00 a.m. may want to stay at the Hotel Empire (when the building opens) , and the open­ (which is offering special ASUC convention ing ~ession is in the auditorium at 10:30. rates) . The hotel is across the street Although there may be some changes, the from Lincoln Center (whe re we are holding complete program at this point for the our initial meetings). Free parking is Conference i s as follows: provided. Please use the hotel registration form included on Page Five of the Newsletter; all reservations will be acknowledged.

Thursday (February 21) 7:30 p.m. A meeting o f the Corporation and National Council in the American Music Center, 2109 Broadway, Suite 15 - 79

Friday (February 22) 10:00 a.m. Registration in the Auditorium of the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, "A" floor. 10:30 a.m. Opening address by Barney Childs (University of Redlands). 1:30 p .m. Concert including works by Eleanor Cory, Bruce Taub, Joe l Gressel, Ursala Mamlock , Claire Polin, and Ronald Pellegrino. 3:00 p.m. "New Choral Music", a lecture and tape presentation by Edwin London (University of Illinois). 4:30 p.m. Tour of the Music Division of the New York Public Library, including a brief discussion on the deposit of original manuscripts in libraries with a visit to the Elliott Carter Exhibit. 8:00 p.m. Concert at Manhattan School of Music including works by Anthony Iannaccone, John Se lleck, Rolv Yttrehus, William Penn, and James Hartway. Mr. Hartway is bringing the "Contemporary Arts Chamber Ensemble" from Wayne State University. 10:00 p.m. No-host mixer at Manhattan School of Music. Saturday (February 23) 10:00 a.m. Business meeting at Columbia University School for International Studies Conference Center, top floor. 11:30 a.m. Panel discussion entitled "Young Composers in American Universities". Panel members will be Jack Behrens, Tom Cleman, and Larry Nelson. 1:00 p.m. National Council and Executive Committee luncheons. 3:00 p.m. Seminars (dual sessions). Seminar I (Columbia University): "Interpretations of Orderings of and in Pitch and Time", John Rahn. "COMPOSE: Recent Research in Computer Aided Composition and Analysis", Gary Nelson. Seminar II (The Juilliard School) : "Preparation of Music on Transparencies or Polyester Film", Owen Reed. "Music Copying and Part Extraction", Arnold Arnstein. 8:00 p.m. Concert in Carnegie Hall entitled "Festival of Contemporary New York Performing Ensembles". The concert will include performances by the following groups: The Group for Contemporary Music, Da Capo Chamber Players, Notes from Underground, The Composer's Ensemble, The Light Fantastic Players, and Contemporary Ensemble of Manhattan School of Music. 10:00 p.m. Reception in Carnegie Recital Hall and Adjournment.

A great deal of work thus far has gone COMPETITIONS into the planning of the Conference. The Department of Music and the New Those in charge are: Program Chairman, Valley Music Press of Smith College David Burge; Local Arrangements, Gerald announce the Alvin Etler Memorial Warfield and Ludmila Ulehla; Conference Competition. Submissions must consist of Committee, Richard Brooks, John Epperson, a previously unpublished chamber work for John Selleck, and Bruce Taub. any combination (up to five) of the follow­ ing: flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, one or two violins, viola, cello, piano, harpsichord, soprano, and electronic tape. PROCEEDINGS RECORDING The winning work will receive a professional David Cohen (Arizona State University) performance at Smith College and will be informs us that a recording of pertinent published by the New Valley Music Press. musical examples will be made available Runners-up will also be considered for with Proceedings VII and VIII. The performance and publication. recording will include music of David For competition entry form, and further Cohen (assorted examples of computer music) , information, write: Alvin Etler Memorial Hubert s. Howe, Jr. (FREEZE), and John Competition, Department of Music, Sage Melby (Forandrer). The cost of pressing Hall, Smith College, North Hampton, is being covered by the composers involved Massachusetts 01060. The deadline is while distribution will be through the December 1, 1974. ASUC. The recording can be obtained at an Bowdoin College Department of Music is additional cost of twenty-five cents. sponsoring its seventh annual competition Further information will be distributed for new chamber music. Compositions must with the Proceedings at the National be scored for any combination of the Conference. following instruments: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. Doublings, such as piccolo, and bass clarinet, are permit­ ted. Use of electronic sounds, film~ GRANT ON BEHALF OF 1HE ASUC slides, or other auxillary sources is also Barton McLean (Indiana University, acceptable. The winning composition will South Bend) has received a grant from the receive a $150 cash prize, publication by President's Council on the Humanities to the Bowdoin College Music Press, and per­ cover expenses for the compiling of ASUC formance by the Aeolian Chamber Players. radio programs. Mr. McLean will report Deadline for submission of entries is on this grant at the National Conference March 1, 1974. For complete information in February and give instructions to write: Elliott Schwartz, Department of members for submitting tapes to be included Music, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Main on these broadcasts-. 04011. NEW CATALOGUES ASUC COMPOSERS IN ACTION r--- A completely revised second edition of Tom Cleman (Northern Arizona University) te Catalogue of Music for Small Orchestra has received a faculty grant from NAU for is being prepared for 1974 publication. the summer of 1974. The grant is to enable This comprehensive catalogue, widely used him to complete work on his composition, in its earlier edition by school and uni­ Music for Small Orchestra. versity orchestras, will list such music presently available for sale, rent, or loan. A small orchestra, by definition,­ includes the usual orchestral instruments Jean Eichelberger Ivey (Peabody but is limited to a maximum of twelve Conservatory) was recently the subject of a winds. Composers with compositions suit­ half-hour television program filmed by able for inclusion in the catalogue WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington,D.C. should contact: Cecilia D. Saltonstall, The telecast is part of a series called Strathan, New Hampshire 03885. "A Woman Is .... " and shows Dr. Ivey in Drs. David S. Thatcher and Bryan N.S. her dual roles as composer and teacher of Gooch of the University of Victoria, composition at the Conservatory. Her Vic toria, British Columbia, Canada, are Skaniadaryo for piano. and tape was premiered preparing a volume to be entitled Musical last November at the New York State Music Settings of British Literature, 1870-1970: Teachers Association annual convention in A Catalogue. They are attempting to Buffalo, and three of her compositions, ascertain which composers have taken Forms in Motion, Aldebaran, and Three Songs their vocal texts from, or whose orchestral of Night, have been accepted for publication works have been inspired by, the works of by Carl Fisc h er, Inc. The latter two are major British authors who were writing also slated for release shortly on a between the years 1870 and 1970. Composers Folkways record. who have such works and would like them ·_,..--...,,11cluded in the catalogue should contact ~r. Thatcher or Dr. Gooch. Karel Husa (Cornell University) has r ecently completed his Sonata for Violin and . Piano, commissioned by the Koussevitzky AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD Foundation. · The first performances will be The National Federation of Music Clubs given March 31 and April 2 at Alice Tully has awarded first prize in the national com­ Hall for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln petition for the 1972-73 American Music Award Center. His Concerto for Trumpet and Wind for Promotion and Performance of American Orchestra was premier ed last August at the Music to the Music Department of the University Univ ersity of Connecticut and his Conce rto of Wisconsin River Falls. Application for the for Percussion and Wind Ensemble received a award was made through the e fforts of ASUC performance in December by the New York member Conrad De Jong, Associate Professor Philharmonic. Mosaiques for Orchestra has of Music at River Falls. The Federation's been c horeographed for the Atlanta Ballet's purpose i n offering this annual award i s two­ Touring Ensemble and is now being performed fold: first , "to honor and give national re­ during the company's tour unde r the title cognition to those institutions that have Fireline 1973. encouraged and acknowledged the importance of American composers"; and, second, "to stimulate increased performance and public appreciati on and support of American Music". Janos Kiss (Cleveland Mus ic School Factors considered in making the award are: Settleme nt) has received word that the quality of music p e rformed, student-faculty premier performance of his Quintet for Violin participation, support of visiting and and Four Trombones was given by members of ~~es ident composers, commissions and special the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Bregenz, _, roj ects, diversity of musical styles re­ Austria, during the Bregenz Music Festival p r esented, and pioneering spirit in program­ in August. Four of Mr. Kiss' compositions ing. The award inc luded a $500 prize, pro­ were heard on the National Federation of vided by the America n Society of Composers , Music Clubs "Musicale" program over station Artists, and Publishe rs (ASCAP ). WNYC, New York City, in Nove mbe r. Gregory Levin (University of Calgary) Frank G. Stewart (Mississippi State recently heard the premier of his Raga for University) has been notified that he is Trumpet, Organ, and Tape at Knox United one of two winners of the Mannes College o ~ Church in Calgary. The work is scheduled Music first opera contest. The one act for performances later this year in Cleveland, opera, To Let the Captive Go, describes the Tokyo, and Hiroshima. It will be featured last days of Mary Queen of Scots. The work in the 1974-75 concert tour of trumpeter was completed in 1971 for Stewart's doctoral Edward Tarr and organist George Kent. thesis at Michigan State University and will be premiered in March in New York City.

Jerome N. Margolis (Harvard School) will hear the premier of his Sacred Song Francis Thorne's Cantata Sauce received this Spring presented by the combine d choral its premier performance this November by and instrumental ensembles of Harvard School, the Philadelphia Composers Forum. His Argyll Academy, and Temple Judea in Los Third Symphony was recorded in December by Angeles. His Gebrauchsmusik for Dance for the Prague Symphony for Serenus Records. He solo percussion has just been published by has also received a commission from HaMaR Percussion Publications. Composers and Choreographers Theater under a grant from the New York State Council to write a ballet with Stuart Hode s' chore o­ Claire Polin (Rutgers University) is graphy. Last year Mr. Thorne was recipient currently on a year's Academic Study leave of a Fellowship grant from the National from Rutgers writing a book on the Ap Huw Endowment for the Arts. Manuscript, a rare harp tablature. She spent the summer of 1973 in Wales as research The Group for Contempora ry Music on lecturer at the Unive rsity of Wale s, their January 14 concert pre s e nted works by Abe rystwyth, and was guest flautist and John Selleck (Migrations for electronic composer at a special concert in Llanbadarn tape), Otto Luening (Tone Poems for two which included a performance of her violas), and Milton Babbitt (All Set for Sonata for Flute and Harp. Dr. Polin is jazz ensemble). curre ntly completing a choral work based on the Book of Isai ah for the Haifa Madrigal Society o f Israe l a nd will shortly b egin a commission for the Philade lphia Civic Ballet. rnANGE OF ADDRESS Several of her compositions are published by Seesaw Music Corporation and her Serpentine Carlton Gamer, 1122 Wood Ave nue, for solo viola was recently recorded for Apartment 4, Color ado Spring s, Colorado RPC-Camde n Re cords. 80903.

EXEOJTIVE COMMITTEE (1974)

Ric hmo nd Br owne , Unive r sity of Mic higan; Thomas Cl ema n, Nor t h ern Ar i zon a Uni ve rsity; J ohn Cl o u gh , Unive rsi ty o f Mi c higan ; Warn e r Hu tchison, New Mexico State Uni v e rsity ; John Selleck , Columbia Unive r s ity; Bruc e Ta ub ; Col umb i a Un iversity; Eliz ab eth Ve rcoe , Farmington State Coll e ge ; Gerald Warfi e ld, Chairman , Mu s i c Division , New York Public Li brary .

NATIONAL COUNCIL (19 74)

John Rogers , Univer s i t y of New Hampshire (Re gion 1); Ludmila Ule hla , Manhattan School o f Mus ic ( 2); Gordon C. Cyr , Tows o n State Colle ge ( 3); Dona ld Ma c innis , Un ive r s i ty of Virgin i a (4) ; Richard He rvig , Unive rsity of Iowa ( 5 ); Mic hael Horv it, Un iversity of Ho u s t o n (6 ); St ephe n Scott, Co l o rado College (7); Mar s h a ll Bi a l osky , Cal ifornia State College , Dominguez Hil l s ( 8 ); Home r Keller, Uni versity of Oregon (9) ; David Burge , Ch airman, Univer s i ty of Col orado . EDITORIAL COMMENT A final reminder: since there will be {\ no Summer issue of the Newsletter, it is ____,, The Society has been growing rapidly the Spring issue which will include during the past few months. According announcements for Summer and early Fall to Chairman Gerald Warfield, our present 1974. Keep us in mind if you have events membership stands at 335, a very sub­ you would like listed. I urge you to stantial increase. continue to send such announcements and A further note from Gerald informs other material you think might be of us that Louise Talma received this year's interest since the Newsletter is useful Grand Prize for being the first to only if you contribute. Deadline for respond to the billing for ASUC member­ submissions to be included is May 10, 1974. ship dues. Hopefully her example will Remember! Copy not received in time for encourage those members who have not yet the Spring issue will not be in print paid to send their checks as soon as before late Fall, 1974. possible to save the ASUC an additional bil.ling. Tom Cleman, Editor ASUC Newsletter Box 6031 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona 86001

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