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J O U R N Al Of Volume L4 Number 1, -Winter/Spring 1993 Jo u r nal of the Conductors'Guild Table of Contents COMMENTARY THE OPERA OMNIA OF GIAOCHINO ROSSINI by Patricia B. Brauner FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL'S SUNDAY MUSICALES by Meg Freeman \(halen THE CONDUCTOR AS A COMPOSITIONAL RESOURCE (PART II) 20 by Zae Munn THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 28 by John Jay Hilfiger SCORES AND PARTS: Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 9 (Pan II) JJ by James Burton & Philip Gottling BOOKS IN REVIE\T 47 Heinrich Schenker,Beetltozten's Ninth Symphony reviewed by Peter Gibeau Mark Lammers, Nordic Instrumental Musicfor Collegesand Universities reviewed by John Jay Hilfiger Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer, eds.,lVagner in Performance reviewed by Baird Hastings Diane PeacockJezic,'W'ornen Composers: The Lost Tradition Found,2nd edition reviewed by Judy Ann Voois Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Verdi, A Biography reviewed by Henry Bloch Pierluigi Petrobellt, Music in the Tbeatre reviewed by Henry Bloch LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 62 I CONDUCTORS' GUILD, fNC. tournal of tbe Conductors'Guild Room Editor Voois 'West103South High Street, 5 Jacques Chester,PA 19382 Tel & Fax: 6L0/430-6010 AssociateEditor DavidDaniels Band/\TindEnsembleEditor HarlanD.Parker Officers Editor-at-large . JonathanSternberg President LarryNewland President-Elect .....AdrianGnam Vice President........ BarbaraSchubert Assistant Editors Secretary Charles Bontrager Interim Treasurer Paul Kirby StephenHeyde JohnJayHilfiger PastPresident........... MichaelCharry Louis Menchaca JonMitchell John Noble Moye JohnStrickler Board of Directors Contributing Authors Henry Bloch Glenn Block Victoria Bond John Canarina Henry Bloch Patricia B. Brauner CatherineComet MargeryDeutsch JamesBurton Peter Gibeau Robert Emile JoAnn Falletta Philip Gottling Baird Hastings Robert Fitzpatrick Lauren Green John Jay Hilfiger ZaeMunn 'Whalen JosephHenry DonaldR. Hunsberger Brian Newbould Meg Freeman 'Wes Kenney Kenneth Keisler J,rdy Ann Voois John Koshak Manuel Prestamo JamesSetapen Robert Spano JonathanSternberg Paul Vermel Production Staff John \flelsh Richard\Woitach Burton Tipser Executive Secretarv Jndy Ann Voois Production Linco Printing Co., Inc. Advisory Council The publication date of the present issue of the CharlesAnsbacher SergiuComissiona JounNer oF THECoi.roucrons'Gurlo is Fall, 1994;con- HaroldFarberman Lukas Foss sequentlytbe publication date and the issuedate do not Margaret Hillis SamuelJones coincide. Daniel Lewis Maurice Peress DonaldPortnoy Gunther Schuller Effectiae Volume 13, theJounNer oF rHE CoNouc- Evan\flhallon Tons' GuIro has beenpublisbed semi-annually, the tuo issuesbeing numbered 1 and 2; the seasonalreferences remain uncbanged, as is the journal's lengtb. 'Vinners Theodore Thomas Award The ICG's editors and staff, in evaluating material acceptedfor publication, uill determine appropriate Maurice Abravanel Leon Barzin credit for such contributions. LeonardBernstein FrederickFennell Max Rudolf Robert Shaw Library of CongressNo. 82-644733 Sir Georg Solti Copyright @1994 hy the Conductors' Guild, Inc, All rights reseraed. ISSN# 0734,1032 Commentary It was not many years ago that the ratio of male some well-deservednotoriety for her own accom- to female members in the Conductors' Guild was plishments. Meg Freeman Whalen's penetrating aboutnine-to-one. It currently standsat five-to-one. survey of Fanny's prolific musical activities,pro- Given thesepercentages, it is not surprisingthat past duced despitethe limitations createdby her gender, issuesof the JCG containedarticles and other mate- parentaldirectives, and the socialand culturaltradi- rial authoredprimarily by men. The presentissue is tions of early- and mid-nineteenth-centuryGermany, a welcome departurefrom that circumstance. With is engrossing.Ms. Whalen and the otherssimilarly the aid of a little research,the editorial staff of the engagedshould be commendedfor recapturingvital JCG was able to confirm what our collectivememo- and relevantinformation for inclusioninto the music ries had suggested:this is the first issue in the fif- history books, filling an unfortunate long-standing teen-yearhistory of the JCG that containsfour en- void in the artisticawareness of the world. tries - includingthe three lead articles- written by PartII of Zae Munn's surveyof orchestralworks "composer-specified womenauthors. Although the secondarticle and book that use functionaldirectives" review feature women-relatedtopics and activities, given by the conductorconcludes her study. It cap- the remainingtwo entriesare gender-neutralin their turesand preserves the essenceof that compositional subjectmatter. This is all by way of saying that 1) era and hopefully will prompt investigationand per- the JCG has and will continue to welcome articles formanceof the surveyedworks. producedby anyone on conducting-relatedsubjects Giventhis country'scurrent proliferation of clas- of any description; and 2) tclward the end of the sical- and chamber-sizeorchestras, John Jay "Call presentissue a for Articles" pagecan be found Hilfiger's annotatedbibliography on the medium is offering detailson the format in which articlesshould timely and useful. Conductorsinterested in or ac- be submitted. It is hoped that the significant pres- tively engagedwith chamberorchestras should de- ence of women-authoredarticles in this issue will rive professionalinsights and information from the prompt other women, members and non-members cited booksand articles. "Books alike, to give considerationto this journal when An expanded in Review" sectionstarts searchingfor a forum for their articles. with Peter Gibeau's lengthy and highly informative Patricia Brauner's fascinatingdescription of the descriptionof Heinrich Schenker'sBeethoven's Ninth on-going researchoperation dedicated to the music Symphony,recently published for the first time in of Gioachino Rossini occurring in Italy and at the English. The reader is urged to have the score on University of Chicago leads the presentissue. It hand when reading this entry (as well as the book concludeswith a most informativeand valuabletable itself). Dr. Gibeauis a Schenkerspecialist, and the detailing the works of Rossini currently availablein level of detailedinformation he offerspresents a crys- researched-editionvocal and full scores,as well as tallineview of the book's contents,bias and histori- performancematerials. Publicationssoon to be re- cal relevance. The balanceof the reviews address leasedare also indicated. recentlypublished books on Wagner,Verdi, women Harold Schonberg,in his 1967book, The Great composersand Nordic instrumentalmusic. "In Conductors,beganChapter X with: Germanythe In the field of publishing, one consrantmust be first dominating podium force was that perfect musi- attentionto mattersof copyright. For example,in " cian, Felix Mendelssohn. Nearly thirty years after the presentissue copies of sketchesdrawn by Wilhelm that publication and one-and-a-halfcenturies after her Henseland in the possessionof Meg FreemanWhalen death, Felix's sister Fanny is finally emerging from were not reproduced within her article becauseof the shadowsof her prodigious sibling and gaining continuedon page 63 JCG Vol. 14, No. l The operd omnia of GioachinoRossini by Patri cia B. Brauner includingthat The critical edition of Rossini'sworks, pub- to a collaborator. Seccorecitative, 'Italiana in Algeri, Il Turco lishedby the FondazioneRossini of Pesaro,Italy, of suchstandards as I was normally is a performing edition supportedby extensive in ltalia andIl barbiere di Siviglia, be composedby scholarlycommentary. The editorial committee so treated,but even arias might Cagli, Patricia a collaborator. Such is the case for the short comprisesPhilip Gossett,Bruno "Ls for Haly Brauner and Paolo Fabbri. Gossett.director of arias tn L'Italiana in Algeri , "Oh. come il the edition, is noted internationallyfor his work femmine d'Italia," and Lindoro, second-actfi- on Rossini, Verdi, and Donizetti, and is profes- cor di giubilo," and for the entire casesRossini sor of music and deanof the humanitiesdivision nale of Il Turco in ltalia. In some for a Roman re- of the University of Chicago. Cagli, musicolo- later substitutedhis own work: Luca gist, author and impresario, is artistic director vival of La Cenerentolain 1823,he replaced "Vasto teatro C il of the FondazioneRossini and of the Accademia Agolini's arra for Alidoro, "Li nell'arcano Nazionaledi SantaCecilia in Rome. Brauner is mondo," with his own del ciel " revived in a musicologistwho directs the American opera- profondo. Most of the operaswere revisions tions for the edition at the University of Chi- other cities after their first runs, and the mu- cago,and Fabbri a professorat the University of customarilywere madeto accommodate new Ferrarawho haspublished extensively on Rossini sical requirementsof the new theater and involved in sources. The project was begun by Cagli, cast. Although Rossinihimself was new Gossett, and Alberto Zedda, a conductor who preparingsome revivals and might compose was re- had alreadyprepared an edition of Il barbiere di pieces, occasionally an authentic arra is prob- Siviglia. Their goal was to presentthe music of placedby that of a collaborator. This of Rossini strippedof the accretionsgarnered dur- ably the situation in the Milanese revival role ing its now nearly two hundredyears of perfor- Tancrediin Decemberof 1813' where the for a mancetradition,l along with information about of the squire Roggiero, originally written and the the work's history and its use in
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