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August 2007 AMS Newsletter AMS NEWSLETTER THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONSTITUENT MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES VOLUME XXXVII, NUMBER 2 August, ISSN -X En route pour Québec! The Society’s 2007 Annual Meeting AMS Quebec City 2007 1–4 November www.ams-net.org/quebec/ As if Rudolf Steiner (or Saturn) were guiding our calendar of meetings, the AMS resumes its seven-year Canadian cycle (Montreal , Toronto ), this time in one of the oldest and most historic places in North America, Quebec City. Our meetings will be held in the modern and superbly appointed Centre des congrès, attached by underground walk- way to the two conference hotels, the Hilton sur Vieux Québec and the Delta Québec. Located on Parliament Hill just outside the fortified walls of Old Quebec, the hotels are within walking distance to the upper and low- er sections of the historic districts. They have spectacular views of the old city, the opulent Château Frontenac, and St. Lawrence River. And of course, there is an underground shop- ping mall beneath the hotels. Quebec is a UNESCO World Heritage Copyright © Luc-Antoine Couturier, courtesy Quebec City Tourism courtesy City Quebec Couturier, Copyright © Luc-Antoine Site, a cultural treasure, and a repas fatale. The Château Frontenac and the fortifications, Quebec City, site of the Fall AMS meeting old city features two wonderful museums, the Musée national des Beaux Arts, whose per- manent collection (much of it housed inside NEH/OPUS Match Halfway There continued on page Good news. By the beginning of sum- and an especially generous gift from Ruth mer , gifts and pledges totaling nearly Picker, the Martin Picker and M. Elizabeth , had been certified to the National C. Bartlet endowments have begun to fund In This Issue… Endowment for the Humanities, thus assur- worthy proposals already. ing a handsome first federal payment of the President’s message . NEH / OPUS Challenge Grant. A full-court The Box Score Exectutive Director’s report . press before the meeting in Quebec City Awards, Prizes, Honors . Gifts and Pledges to Date: ,, hopes to find the $, in new gifts or JAMS News . NEH grant not yet credited: , pledges that will qualify us for receipt of all Demographic Survey . Total number of donors: the proffered funds. Committee Reports. Here is a rare case of your tax dollars com- Date Donors k k Quebec City Preliminary Program. ,, ing back to support the profession of musi- / / News from the AMS Board . ,, cology. On receipt of the first payment from / / Conferences . the United States government, the Society Obituaries . Certified eligible for NEH: , will be able to begin funding the Publication AMS Nashville . Still needed for full certification: Awards for Young Scholars (AMS 75 PAYS). $384,066 President-Elect Jane A. Bernstein . Thanks to ongoing support from members, –– continued on page President’s Message What does it take to make a great orchestra? Noah Greenberg Award. For its fiftieth an- paign. Among them are funds named for A great conductor? Great musicians? A long niversary, in , the Society as a whole un- Barry and Claire Brook (publications on tradition? Those conditions are of course nec- dertook its first major endowment campaign, musical iconography), John Daverio (unre- essary, but not sufficient. A great orchestra is AMS 50, which raised money to endow four stricted), and Margarita Hanson (editions of created by establishing a strong tradition of dissertation-year fellowships. or books on music or musical culture before music-making at the very highest level. The The Society is now engaged in another en- ). These are just three; there are several task requires a conductor who is not only dowment campaign designed to insure its more to come. Among those in the offing is a great musician, but also has the ability to continued health and to promote excellence the AMS 75 Publication Award for Young hire and retain the finest musicians and mold in musical scholarship well into the future. Scholars (AMS 75 PAYS), an award that will them into an exquisite ensemble, with princi- I am speaking, of course, about: OPUS: support the publication of first books by re- pal players who are stars on their instruments. Opening Paths to Unlimited Scholarship. I see cent Ph.D.s. As most of you know, this award Hence, much as we might want to think OPUS as vitally symbolic of what we as a So- is part of the $. million dollar challenge otherwise, the road to orchestral greatness is ciety and as individual scholars do and aspire grant that the Society has recently received paved with money—not just a strong annual to do, both for ourselves and our students. from the National Endowment for the Hu- budget, but an endowment that can fund The diverse initiatives included in the cam- manities. We all can be justly excited about named chairs and buy superb instruments. paign will provide support to musicologists this award, which will expand our publica- For me, the model of a great orchestra has at every stage of their careers: undergraduates tion possibilities substantially. always been the Cleveland, first under George and terminal master’s degree candidates from And finally, once we have written the papers Szell, and then under Pierre Boulez, Loren underrepresented groups in our discipline and published the articles and books that will Maazel, and Christoph von Dohnányi. I first can receive travel grants from the Committee be encouraged by the various facets of the heard the orchestra on tour in Albuquerque on Cultural Diversity to attend the Annual OPUS Campaign, the Society can recognize in , and was overwhelmed by its sound, Meeting of the Society. Graduate students are the best of those products by an expanded clarity, precision, and sheer musicality. That eligible for support not just from the Alvin H. array of awards: the Paul A. Pisk Prize for a impression is still true today. Hearing the Johnson AMS 50 and Howard Mayer Brown paper presented by a graduate student at the Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall under Fellowships, but also from the M. Eliza- Annual Meeting, the Alfred Einstein and H. their present conductor, Franz Welser-Möst, beth C. Bartlet, Harold Powers, and Eugene Colin Slim Awards honoring articles, and the is a special experience in its own right. What K. Wolf travel funds for research. Both the Lewis Lockwood and Otto Kinkeldey Awards I hadn’t realized in , though, and am es- Bartlet and the Powers funds are also open honoring books by scholars in earlier or later pecially struck by now, is the level of financial to post-doctoral students and junior faculty stages of their careers, respectively. Open to support for the orchestra on the part of both members. The Janet Levy Fund provides scholars at any stage are the Claude V. Palisca corporations and individuals. That support research support to our colleagues working Award for an edition or translation, the new manifests itself in a large number of endow- outside academe. Those same colleagues, as Ruth A. Solie Award for an edited collection ments: twenty-four programmatic funds and well as those working in institutions that do of musicological essays, and the Robert M. forty-nine endowed chairs in the orchestra not provide financial assistance for travel to Stevenson Award for an outstanding example itself. Is it any surprise that the Cleveland Orchestra can attract and keep wonderful meetings, are enabled to do that via the Pro- of scholarship in Iberian music. Assuming musicians? And the Cleveland is just one of fessional Development Travel Grants admin- that we do indeed match the NEH challenge several great orchestras in the United States, istered by our Membership and Professional grant, we shall be able to offer the new Music orchestras that are among the finest in the Development Committee. in American Culture Award, honoring books world. Any of you who have published books re- that illuminate some aspect of American mu- Thecorrelate of America’s great performing cently will know that production costs are sic in its cultural context. ensembles, in my mind, is a great scholarly en- rising steeply, and that publishers are asking I have gone on at some length about the semble, the American Musicological Society. authors to assume more and more of the fi- OPUS Campaign partly in order to inform or Like its counterparts in the orchestral world, nancial burden for producing their books. remind you about the tremendous scope of the AMS has a strong tradition of promoting With a view toward addressing some of these this program, literally offering opportunities the highest level of performance in the schol- issues, the Publications Committee and Com- to all of us at all stages of our careers. Perhaps arly realm. Its committees function in ways mittee on Career-Related Issues have invited more important, though, I find this program analogous to a symphony orchestra’s Orches- Lynne Withey, President of the Association simply exciting, especially for what it has to tra Committee and its various audition com- of American University Presses and Director offer to our students and colleagues who are mittees, both insuring the well-being of the of the University of California Press, to de- now at the outset of their careers. Opening whole and supporting the highest standards liver a talk at the upcoming Annual Meeting Paths to Unlimited Scholarship is not just a of research and publication. (at noon on Saturday November). slogan. With all of us contributing, it will The AMS has benefited from the strong TheAMS has long had a program for book become reality. And analogous to the endow- support of its members from the very be- subventions administered by our Publications ment of a great orchestra, it will continue to ginning, but it took a special step forward Committee.
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