IAML Electronic Newsletter No. 23, April 2007

Music (in) libraries IAML 2007 El Palao de la Música Catalana The deadline for early bird registration th The exceptionally is only five weeks away, the 30 April. beautiful art nou- So check out the website, download the veau Palace of Cata- registration form and send off your ap- lan Music of Barce- plication with payment details to the lona, designed by address you’ll find there as soon as you Lluís Domènech i can. Murray Scott, Publicity Montaner, opened its doors in 1908. It includes a gorgeous Μεγάλη Μουσική Βιβλιοθήκη concert hall, in which the Orfeó Català, es- της Ελλάδας Λίλιαν Βουδούρη tablished in 1891 and owner of the build- The Greek Minister of Culture, Marietta ing, has been performing ever since, and Giannakou, has inaugurated on March 15 which has seen some of the greatest per- the new building of the Lilian Voudouri formers, such as Pablo Casals, Richard Music Library of Greece at the Palace of Strauss, Arthur Rubinstein and many oth- Music in Athens. Headed by Stephanie ers musicians and non-musicians. The Pal- Merakos, it occupies a surface of 3,800m2 ace hosts an important music library- (41,000 sq. ft.) which includes two reading archive, which holds manuscripts from the rooms for a total of 80 seats, one dedicated 9th to the 20th centuries, scores and biblio- to arts and humanities, and one to music, a graphic collections of value. The building classroom, a multifunctional hall for lec- was added in 1997 to the Unesco World tures, conferences and concerts, two piano Heritage list. rooms, a children’s library, and an internet Concerts at the Luís Ángel café. The collection consists of 130.000 ti- tles of books, scores and recordings, and Arango Library Situated in Bogotá (Colombia), this is the most important public library and cultural center of the country, and probably in Latin America. Its music department – headed by Stella de Paramo, (see Newsletter n° 13, p. 5) – holds the Perdomo collection of music in- struments, some of which are also visible in its online virtual library, which also includes biographies of Colom- bian composers, scores, music excerpts and a few books on music. It also offers a very rich musical season, including a cycle of ancient music, with the ensembles Diabolus in Musica and La Fenice, cham- ber music with the Academy of Saint Mar- tin in the Fields, the violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and the Angela Hewitt.

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Music from behind the bars Italian musician Francesco Lotoro has been collecting originals, copies and recordings including operas composed in the depths of the Nazi death machine to jazz pieces writ- ten in Japanese POW camps in Asian jun- gles. A library, set to open in September at Rome’s Third University, will offer schol- ars a repertoire of 4,000 papers and 13,000 microfiches including written music, let- 400 titles of periodicals, as well as rare ar- ters, drawings and photos. Lotoro, a pian- chives of Greek music. The latter is an im- ist, is also rearranging and recording many portant part of the Library and was estab- of the pieces to produce a collection of 32 lished in order to gather, develop and CDs, five of which have already been pub- document all kinds of sources about Greek lished. music and become a center for its study. It Experts say his work marks the first time holds books, scores, recordings, periodi- such a vast effort has been made to assem- cals, ephemera, photographs, manuscripts, ble and revive in one place a musical other documents on ancient, byzantine, treasure trove scattered around the world. traditional and modern art music, as well “I don’t know of any institution gathering as archives of Greek composers. Christos only musical documentation,” said Bret D. Lambrakis, president of the Palace of Werb, the musicologist at the U.S. Music announced that the library will enter Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washing- in collaborations with the National Art ton. “It’s an important project that will be- Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art so come an important resource for musicians as to create an artistic database which will globally.” be available on the internet for teachers Lotoro said he is constantly discovering and schools. In addition to the catalog of new works, “and this is not a good sign; its holdings, the library provides full cata- it’s a sign that history hasn’t done its job.” logs of works by major composers. Caveat Many of Lotoro's finds are works written lector: if you look for “Theodorakis”, se- in Theresienstadt, a Czech town used by lect “Θεοδωράκης, Μίκης (Μιχαήλ)” in the Nazis from 1941 as a ghetto and transit the drop-down menu…! camp to which Jewish leaders and artists Fire destroys music library were deported from all over Europe. Theresienstadt was used by the Germans as The Oregon East Symphony offices in a propaganda tool to hide their extermina- Pendleton were destroyed by a blaze on tion plans, and inmates were able to stage March 15. Michelle Kajikawa, director of the Youth Programs and Concert Produc- tion of the orchestra, said that 20 years of records and archives and its music library were lost to the fire, which may have started from a popcorn maker inside a neighboring bar. It may be many months, possibly over a year, before the orchestra sees any help from insurance. The only ob- jects which survived the fire were the cello and guitar of Kenneth Woods, conductor and musical director of the Oregon East Symphony.

2 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 23 April 2007 operas, concerts and cabaret shows. But of Events the 140,000 Jews sent there, 33,000 died and nearly 90,000 were deported to death Sound and music computing camps. April 16, Bruxelles (Belgium). This free The Rome library will include works by Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Roma (Gypsies) imprisoned by the Nazis; Workshop is the first occasion, in the choral songs by Dutch women interned by European context, to show to a composite the Japanese in Indonesia, and the music of public the achievements and results of a Edmund Lilly, a U.S. colonel from North highly interdisciplinary domain such as Carolina who wrote songs and poems as he that of Sound and Music Community. The went through various Japanese camps from workshop will be the occasion for the surrender in the Philippines in 1942 to libera- launch of the SMC Research Roadmap tion in Manchuria more than three years written by the S2S² Consortium and tar- later. geted at the growth and expansion of the Also in the library are the works of Berto community at large. Boccosi, an Italian captain who started writ- The Sound and Music Computing Work- ing an opera while held by the Allies in an shop will provide an opportunity to meet Algerian camp. Lotoro says he is looking the key researchers in this field and catch a into pieces by German officers held in Soviet glimpse of what medium and longer term camps. “Music is a universal language, so research will bring to cultural and creative the music written by the German officer and industries. The SMC workshop will in- by the Jewish prisoner have the same his- clude scientific presentations, policy torical value,” Lotoro said. He said he hopes maker's guidelines, roadmapping discus- the library will give scholars greater under- sions and even a musical performance with standing of “the explosion of creativity” that new and extraordinary instruments. This gave birth to a tango in Buchenwald or a broad range of activities of the Sound will waltz in the Italian camp of Alberobello. appeal to a wide public ranging from the If nothing else, music was a way for research specialist to the curious layman, prisoners to stay sane. “Composing for an from the R&D engineer to the contempo- author is a question of mental survival,” rary musician. said David Meghnagi, a psychology pro- In view of the upcoming ICT call for fessor at the Third University who is projects, this Sound and Music Computing spearheading the creation of the library. Workshop will also be open to presenta- “In this way he keeps his humanity intact tions of SMC-related project submissions. and allows his mind to imagine a different Interested parties should submit their slides future.” in Adobe PDF or MS-PowerPoint format Lotoro had established, together with to (4 slides maximum including the cover Paolo Candido, the Archivio Musicale dei page). The deadline for submission is Fri- Ghetti e Campi (musical archive of ghettos day April 13th, 2007 at 5pm. The partici- and camps) at the Institute of Jewish Music pation in the Workshop is free of charge of Barletta (Italy), which had published a but a registration is required. The deadline 20-CD set of music written by imprisoned for registration is Friday April 13th, 2007 or deported composers from 1933 (date of at 5pm. opening of the Dachau and Börgermoor Methods for recording analysis camps) to 1945. From an article by Ariel David April 12-14, Egham (UK). The topic of (The Associated Press, by per- this symposium organized by CHARM mission) and other sources. (The ARHC Research Centre for the His- tory and Analysis of Recorded Music, which were instrumental in analysing the

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Joyce Hatto recordings, see last newsletter greater circulation of knowledge and prac- p. 5) is how to get musicologically interest- tices in a spirit of tolerance and mutual ing data off recordings, and what to do recognition. The program for the plenary with the data once you’ve got it. We’ll be sessions will include an inaugural day and discussing these issues in relation to West- 4 theme days: music across borders, musi- ern ‘art’, popular, and world music. cal production, music and society, music and politics. Please send your proposal of 24th music biennale Zagreb paper to Pierre Bois. April 19-28 Zagreb (Croatia). This international festival of contemporary mu- Gaudeamus music week 2007 sic, which has been held since 1961, pre- September 3-9, Amsterdam (Netherlands). sents a very rich program consisting of re- The jury selected seventeen works out of cent music works produced in the country more than three-hundred-and-eighty entries and abroad, ballet, movies and exhibitions. written by composers from fifty-four dif- It will also focus on women composers. ferent countries ranging from Argentina to Iceland and from Taiwan to Costa-Rica. Third conference on interdisci- The selected pieces will be performed dur- plinary musicology ing the Music Week. At the end of the fes- August 15-19, Tallinn (Estonia). The tival the jury will awards the Gaudeamus theme of CIM07 is singing from the view- Prize for best work. In addition to these se- point of all musically and musicologically- lected works, a number of compositions by relevant disciplines. CIM07 will be hosted young composers will be programmed. A by the Estonian Academy of Music and preliminary program will be available on Theatre, supported by the University of its website in May. Tartu, and presented in collaboration with the European Society for the Cognitive Poetics and politics of place in Sciences of Music, the International Musi- music cological Society and the European Semi- October 17-20, Vilnius (Lithuania). In- nar in Ethnomusicology. Abstracts must be spired by a cultural turn in current musi- submitted to Kaire Maimets-Volt. cology, the 40th Baltic Musicological Con- ference is devoted to the links of music as Music in the world of Islam creative practice and experience to its so- August 3-9, Assilah (Morocco). The situa- cial and cultural contexts. tion of musical traditions in the Islamic The topic of the conference, “Poetics world changed significantly after the Sec- and Politics of Place in Music”, might in- ond World War due to the independence clude, but is not limited to the following movements, the Cold War, the non-aligned aspects: country policies, the development of the • cultural meaning of place and its im- media and globalization. New issues are pact on a musical work; appearing nowadays with the concepts of • local vs. global in musical creativity cultural diversity and protection of intangi- and its reception; ble cultural heritage, which will have an • music and community, music for obvious effect on the futures of the various community; musical traditions. Varying approaches • embeddedness of music in cultural con- have been taken depending on the coun- text and intercultural tries and their cultures and these merit con- • exchange; sideration and comparison. • sense and representation of place in The goal of this conference will be to music and politics of recognize the vitality and diversity of the musical traditions and practices found in • cultural identity. the world of Islam today and to promote

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Special sessions will be dedicated to sic, since the problems of identity are often prominent Lithuanian composers and mu- similar. A study of such regions suffering sicologists: a pioneer of Lithuanian an identity crisis in the nineteenth century quartertone music, composer Jeronimas such as Alsace or the French Basque re- Kacinskas (1907-2005), a representative of gion could be particularly rewarding. The Lithuanian modernism, composer Jonas discussion shall therefore concentrate on Nabazas (1907-2002), and a distinguished the different aspects of identity construc- musicologist and one of the founders and tion in the field of music from the begin- leaders of the Baltic musicological collabo- ning of the nineteenth century up until the ration, Prof. Vytautas Landsbergis (b. First World War. It shall attempt to clarify 1932). Some musical events commemorat- the extent of the influences common to dif- ing Kacinskas, Nabazas and their interna- ferent nations, for example, the European tional links will be included in the pro- political context, the sociological context, gramme of the Gaida international con- or the ideological context. It shall also at- temporary music festival slated for 15-25 tempt to shed light on the measure of in- October 2007. fluence specific to individual countries, Please submit proposals for papers of 30 such as individual history, culture, antece- minutes in length with an abstract of no dents. The following subject areas in par- more than 500 words and a short CV by e- ticular shall be discussed: mail or by post to: 1. The creation of a national art music Musicological Section (the national schools); Lithuanian Composers’ Union 2. The categories of “national” versus A. Mickeviciaus 29, “universal”. LT-08117 Vilnius, Lithuania 3. The interest in folklore; the research into folklore as an ideological proc- Music and national identity ess. October 18-19, Strasbourg (France). The 4. The role of music during periods of aim of this conference is to consider the revolution and war (1848 revolution, role and the function of music in the con- wars of independence, Franco- struction of identity of the different Euro- Prussian War, First World War). pean nations between 1830 and 1918. The 5. The rejection of minority music, and formation of national identities poses dif- its eradication from the repertoire. ferent problems according to whether the country is one of the larger nations Proposals for papers should be sent, via (France, Germany) or whether it is on the e-mail, to the two members of the Organis- fringe of Europe. In the latter case, musical ing Committee before 15th May 2007. identity was often determined, partially or Proposals, in French, German, or English, totally, by neighbouring and/or foreign cul- should include a provisional/ working title, tures. an abstract of 300 words maximum, and a In reconsidering the different national short CV. The proceedings will be pub- musical styles, whether they concern popu- lished. lar music or folklore, a term which it Mathieu Schneider (Strasbourg) would be appropriate to define in the pre- Beat A. Föllmi (Zurich) sent context or art music, the conference aims to show how they can be interpreted New publications as constructions rather than natural data used by nations in order to define them- BMC as a CD label selves. The Music Center was estab- These reflections on national music lished by László Göz, its current director, could be stretched to include regional mu- in 1996. In those years, most of the old la-

5 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 23 April 2007 bels had disap- (New Hungarian Music Assiociation En- peared, except for semble), Mike Svoboda, Gérard Buquet Hungaroton, and and Elizabeth Laurence. contemporary Hun- - Zoltán Kocsis and the National Phil- garian music, as harmonics: Kodály’s 20 Hungarian Folk well as jazz, wasn’t Songs in orchestral transcriptions by Koc- well distributed. Ini- sis; The Kálló Double Dance, Budavár Te tially, Göz founded Deum (probably with a bonus DVD?). BMC with the in- - A Trio Lignum solo album with the in- tention to create a teresting mix of old music and contempo- music information rary Hungarian music (2 clarinetists and a center with a data- bassoon player). base on the internet, - A CD of works by László Melis: solo which is what has piano pieces with Zoltán Lengyel at the pi- been put in place: ano. BMC organizes concerts, contem- porary music festi- vals and the MOL Jazz Festival Buda- pest; it has a large music library consisting of books, scores Technology, rights and recordings. An old building is cur- Ravel not yet free rently being rehabilitated and turned into the Music Forum: it will host BMC when A French reader has alerted us that, con- finished, and provide them with a much trary to what was mentioned in the last needed recording studio and a concert hall. newsletter, Ravel’s works won’t enter the As to the CD label, it proposes many public domain before 2016 (take or leave a genres of music, principally classic (con- year). It turns out that the EU directive of temporary – Péter Eötvös, György Ligeti 1993, which sets the copyright protection and others – and more classical – Bartók, to 70 years including war periods after the Liszt and non-Hungarian composers), but death of the author, does not apply retroac- also jazz. Three new classical albums will tively in cases where national laws had al- come out in May: lowed for a longer protection. In 1985, - A double Kurtág CD, with recordings France had decreed that music works were from the BMC 2006 Kurtág festival and protected for 70 years plus war years (8 which includes a bonus track with Martha years and 120 days for World War II). and György Kurtág from their last concert Webradios better off in in Wien. Europe? - A solo album of Ildiko Vékony, cimba- lom player, who will play mostly Bach, as The US Copyright Royalty Board has re- well as two pieces of living Hungarian cently released new rules, which would composers (Zoltan Jeney and Adam Kon- impose rate hikes of .08 cents per streamed dor). song per listener retroactive to 2006 and - Schola Hungarica’s recording of poly- then climb by 30 percent each year until phonic vespers. 2010, ending at .19 cents per song per lis- tener. Each station would also have to hand Four other recordings are slated for later over a minimum $500 royalty payment un- this year: der the ruling. Critics say the new burden - An Eötvös CD, “As I crossed a bridge will effectively wipe smaller commercial of dreams”, with the UMZE ensemble webcasters off the map.

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At the same time, an agreement has been one work recorded and distributed on CD signed in France between France Webra- during the previous year. A selection dios, a cover organization which represents committee chooses among the candidate the main 14 French webcasters and SCPP works those which represent best the cur- (Société civile des producteurs phono- rent trends of contemporary music, and graphiques) which represents most of the sends them to participating schools. Those majors (Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, War- pieces are studied by 10th-12th graders, who ner…). According to this agreement, very then elect the winner. small webradios (less than 5,000 simulta- neous listeners and whose yearly budget is Stoeger prize to Jalbert under 15,000 €) will pay a flat fee of Jalbert, a 39-year-old faculty member at 480 €, while small ones (over 5,000 and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Mu- less than 20,000 simultaneous listeners) sic in Houston, received the Elise L. will pay 960 €. Retroactive fees (for radios Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music which had started broadcasting before the Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of agreement) are 100 €/year. Large profes- significant contributions to the chamber sional webradios already have specific music repertory. agreements in place. Jalbert has received numerous awards SCPP doesn’t impose the use of DRM for his compositions, including the Rome (digital rights management mechanisms) Prize, the BBC Masterprize, a Guggenheim on the streams, but radios will have to put fellowship, BMI and ASCAP Awards, a in place some sort of copy-protection sys- Society of Composer’s Award, and the tem, such as rapid changes in the accom- Bearns Prize in Composition. Previous panying metadata (the so-called ID3 tag) winners of the Stoeger award include Gun- during the broadcast of a single song, ther Schuller, Oliver Knussen, Osvaldo which cause ripping software to “think” Golijov, Aaron Jay Kernis, Judith Weir, the song has ended and a new one has Thomas Ades and Kaija Saariaho. started. Other news of interest Awards, grants Elgar off the (bank) note Prix des lycéens to Matalón It was recently announced that the image Composer Martin Matalón (born 1958 in of Sir Edward Elgar is definitely to be Buenos Aires, and living in France) was taken off the UK £20 note, to be replaced recently awarded the Grand prix lycéen des with a far-less familiar face, that of the compositeurs (high-schoolers grand prize 18th-century philosopher and economist for composers) for his Torito Catalan. This Adam Smith. This year marks the 150th work is part of his cycle dedicated to Luis anniversary of Elgar's birth and celebra- Buñuel’s 1929 movie Un chien andalou tions of his music are in full swing up and (screenplay by Salvadór Dalí). Matalón down the country with much pomp and studied music composition at the Juilliard- circumstance. (Source) School, and was commissioned by IRCAM in 1995 to compose a score for the newly restored version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (which was recently performed in Paris). Matalón is the winner of several interna- tional prizes, including the Guggenheim in 2005. The Grand prix des lycéens is awarded to composers born after 1945, re- siding in France, and who have had at least

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Philip Glass: Appomattox Bach under the direction of . This new opera by Philip Glass will be Deutsche Grammophon has issued a box set premièred by the San Francisco Opera next of twelve CDs entitled “The Art of Ernst October. The original director, George C. Haefliger,” with repertoire ranging from Wolfe, left the production so as to work on Bach to Janácek and including the three a movie. He will be replaced by Robert great Schubert song cycles. Woodruff, artistic director of the American Julian Budden (1924-2007) Repertory Theater. The conductor will be This opera scholar, Dennis Russell Davies, and the soloists radio producer and Dwayne Croft and Andrew Shore. broadcaster is princi- US débuts for Zemlinsky pally known for Well, almost. His in A minor for cello “three volumes on and piano, composed over 100 years ago, has the Verdi operas (I, only recently been found at an estate in south II, III) and a single- Wales. It was first performed in public in volume biography of North America in Oct. 2006 at the Library of the composer (1982), Congress in Washington D.C., where Zem- followed in 2002 by linsky's other compositions reside, by the one of Puccini. They Montage Music Society of Boston. It has are acknowledged now been premièred in the US west, at Colo- classics, well written and exhaustively re- rado Mountain College. searched, full of insight and leavened with humour. This was criticism of the highest Concerts for babies order: Budden was to Verdi what Ernest The Palau de la Música in Valencia (Spain) Newman was to Wagner, David Cairns to is starting a chamber concert series for ba- Berlioz and David Brown to Tchaikovsky. bies 12 months old or less. They will be The single-volume biographies have peers short, will include pieces by such compos- but no superiors.” () ers as Handel or Mozart “specially ada- Harold Powers (1928-2007) pted for the occasion”, as well as of local composers. The ensembles will include a Harold Powers, a harp and percussions, “so as to introduce Princeton professor the feeling of rhythm to children”. whose scholarly interests encompas- sed musicology, eth- Transition nomusicology and Ernst Haefliger (1919-2007) music theory, had This Swiss tenor, a student of Fernando Ca- taught at Harvard pri and , came to international University and at the attention in 1949 at the , in University of Penn- the première of ’s Antigonae. He sylvania before later recorded Mahler’s Das Lied von der returning to Prin- Erde with , and sang with some ceton. His work culminated in the book of the greatest performers and “purest” Puccini’s : The End of the Great voices of his generation, such as Irmgaard Tradition, co-written with William Seefried, Maria Stader and Dietrich Fischer- Ashbrook. His other interests included Dieskau. I still remember listening with comparative musicology and the relationship much excitement to his clear and moving of music to language as well as a career-long voice live in Frank Martin’s oratorio In terra exploration of mode in music theory. pax, and in recordings of the Passions of

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