AMS Newsletter August 2003
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VOLUME XXXIII, NUMBER 2 August 2003 ISSN 0402-012X AMS Houston 2003 <www.ams-net.org/houston> The sixty-ninth annual meeting of the Ameri- can Musicological Society will be held in Houston, Texas, from Thursday, 13 Novem- ber through Sunday, 16 November 2003. The conference sessions will take place at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Houston. One of the largest hotels in the downtown area, the thirty-story Hyatt has close to a thousand rooms, three restaurants, an outdoor rooftop pool, and a fully equipped fitness center. The Hyatt lies six blocks southeast of Houston’s downtown theater district, which includes Jones Hall (the home of the Houston Sym- phony Orchestra), the two-theater Wortham Center (home to the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Ballet, and the Da Camera Soci- ety), the Alley Theater, and the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. This is the Society’s first meeting in Hous- ton, the country’s fourth largest city. Hous- ton’s vibrant arts scene includes top-flight opera, ballet, symphony, and theater, a lively international film festival, and excellent museums. A cosmopolitan seaport, Houston is also known for its food and popular music. Local specialty cuisines include Cajun, Tex- Mex, Mexican, Vietnamese, Indian, and South- western, and one can find good zydeco, salsa, blues, Western swing, and country-western bands throughout the city. Although down- town has experienced a revival in recent years, much of this activity happens in areas close to downtown, such as the Montrose and the Museum District. In This Issue . President’s Message 3 Executive Director’s Report 4 Committee Reports 6 Grants and Fellowships Available 7 Moores Opera House, University of Houston Courtesy of the University of Houston Awards, Prizes, and Honors 8 Forthcoming Conferences 10 Program. The AMS Program Committee, hoven, Brahms, Berlioz, Bartók, and Mah- Calls for Papers 10 chaired by Jann Pasler (University of Cali- ler, those focusing on individual periods News Briefs 10 fornia, San Diego), has assembled thirty- and traditions include “Florentine Songs of the Early Quattrocento,” “Scenes and Houston Preliminary Program 11 three full sessions, six short sessions, and three evening panels representing a wide Machines, Spectacle and Symbolism in the Obituaries 17 range of perspectives. In addition to ses- Seventeenth Century,” “The Politics of AMS Seattle 18 sions on individual composers such as Beet- continued on page 2 —1— Houston—2003 continued from page 1 at the University of Houston, Houston’s Society Election Results leading early music ensembles will collabo- The results of the 2003 election of AMS offi- Public Mourning,” “Perception and Rheto- rate in a performance of Monteverdi’s Ves- cers and the Board of Directors: ric in Classical Music,” “Voice and Spectat- pers of 1610. This special presentation by President-Elect: Elaine Sisman orship in Italian Opera,” “Re-evaluating Houston Early Music and the Moores Secretary: Rufus Hallmark Progress in Early American Modernism,” School of Music features the musicians of Directors-at-Large: and “Memory, Identity, and the Totalitarian Ars Lyrica Houston (Matthew Dirst, artistic Virginia Hancock Experience.” director), the Houston Chamber Choir Massimo Ossi “Collaboration and Twentieth-Century (Robert Simpson, artistic director), and the Michael Tusa Ballet,” “Music and Visual Culture in the Whole Noyse, the San Francisco–based AMS Membership Records Twentieth Century,” “Film Theories,” and Renaissance wind band (Herbert Myers, “Resonant Bodies in Popular Song” are director). A reception for AMS members, Please send AMS Directory corrections and up- among those sessions addressing interdisci- sponsored by the Moores School of Music, dates in a timely manner in order to avoid plinary issues. Thematic and theoretical ses- follows the concert. Buses will be available errors. The deadline for Directory updates is sions crossing the borders of time and from the Hyatt. Tickets may be purchased 1 December 2003. Send all corrections, up- space include “Music Books and Their via the registration form. dates, membership inquiries, and dues pay- Meanings,” “The Sacred in Spain and New On Friday, 14 November, at 7:30 p.m. ments to the AMS, 201 S. 34th Street, Phila- Spain,” “Instrument, Gesture, and the and within walking distance from the Hyatt delphia, PA 19104-6313; 215/898-8698; toll Body in Performance,” “History as Myth,” in the Wortham Center, the celebrated free 888/611-4267 (“4AMS”); fax 215/573- “Opera and Revolt,” “Nation-Building and Houston Grand Opera will present Han- 3673; <[email protected]>. See the AMS Social Identity,” and “Jazz, Gospel, and del’s Giulio Cesare, directed by James Robin- Web site for more information: <www.ams- Transnational Movement.” Each evening son and conducted by Patrick Summers. net.org>. will feature a panel discussion: on Thursday The cast will feature David Daniels (Julius AMS Newsletter Address “Girl Singers of the 1960s,” on Friday Caesar), Laura Claycomb (Cleopatra), Patri- and Deadlines “Carl Jung’s Psychology of the Uncon- cia Risely (Sesto), Theodora Hanslowe scious and Music,” and on Saturday “The (Cornelia), and Brian Asawa (Tolomeo). A Items for publication in the February issue Role and State of Resources for the Study small block of tickets is reserved at a dis- of the AMS Newsletter must be submitted by of Hispanic Music.” The complete prelimi- count rate for conference attendees; see the 10 November (23 November for reports) nary program appears in this issue as well registration form. and for publication in the August issue by 1 as on the meeting Web site. On Saturday, 15 November, buses will May to: Concerts organized by the Performance leave the Hyatt at 1:00 p.m. for a three- Andreas Giger hour tour of the Menil galleries, including a AMS Newsletter Committee. The AMS Performance Com- Editor, performance of Morton Feldman’s Rothko <[email protected]> mittee, chaired by Julie Cumming (McGill Chapel at the Rothko Chapel. The Menil School of Music University), has scheduled five concerts: campus includes the main gallery, featuring Louisiana State University four at the hotel during the day and one Dominique de Menil’s world-famous col- Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504 evening concert at St. Christopher Catholic lection of surrealist art, as well as the Cy tel. 225/344-0427; fax 225/578-3333 Church. These concerts include works of Felix Draeseke; a lecture-recital on the Beet- Twombly Gallery, the Byzantine Chapel, The AMS Newsletter is published twice a hoven Bagatelles; a multi-media lecture-recital and the Rothko Chapel. Buses will return year by the American Musicological Society, of Elizabethan songs and lute music; a con- by 4:00 p.m. Seating is limited; use the Inc., 201 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA cert of “rediscovered” flute quartets by “tickets” area on the conference registra- 19104-6313; tel. 888/611-4267 or 215/898- Quantz; and a concert by the Orchestra of tion form to reserve a place. 8698; fax 215/573-3673; <[email protected]. New Spain featuring a Mass by Francisco On Saturday, 17 November, at 8:00 p.m. edu>; <www.ams-net.org> and mailed to all Courcelle, Vespers excerpts by José de and also within walking distance at Jones members and subscribers. Requests for Nebra, and a villancico by Padre Antonio Hall, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, additional copies of current and back issues Soler. Tickets for the Orchestra of New under guest conductor Claus Peter Flor, of the AMS Newsletter should be directed to Spain will be available at the AMS meeting. will present the War Requiem by Benjamin the AMS Philadelphia office. Claims for Britten. A small block of tickets is reserved missing issues must be requested within six Other concerts. On Thursday, 13 Novem- months of publication. ber, at 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House continued on page 4 Next Board Meetings The next meetings of the Board of Direc- Annual Meeting 17% additional for state and local hotel tors will take place 12 November 2003 in Hotel Information taxes. Houston, Texas, and 20 March 2004 in Seat- The AMS negotiates a contract for tle, Washington. A hotel block is being held for the Houston meeting space and hotel room-nights with AMS Home Page conference attendees at the conference hotels four or five years before each hotel: The Hyatt Regency Houston, 1200 annual meeting. We agree to occupy a cer- The AMS home page address is <www. Louisiana Street, Houston, TX 77002. Res- ams-net.org>. The Web site includes virtu- tain number of rooms and contract with ervations: 800/233-1234 or 713/654-1234 ally all the things that might come in handy hotels for this in exchange for their agree- regarding AMS membership: JAMS deliv- or <houstonregency.hyatt.com> ment to provide hotel rooms as well as ery, recent JAMS tables of contents, online The conference rate is $135 per night meeting space and services. We are liable conference registration and full annual (single) / $155 (double) / $175 (triple) / to pay significant supplemental fees if we do not hold up our end of the agreement; meeting information, membership renewal $195 (quad) for reservations received prior thus your decision to stay at the confer- information, general collections of URLs for to 22 October, 5:00 p.m. CST, 2003. musicological subjects, links to our jobs & ence hotels, in addition to enabling con- conferences electronic bulletin board, etc. In order to qualify for the conference venient access to the annual meeting, helps Send any and all Web site suggestions to the rate, you must identify “AMS Annual Meet- to ensure that we meet our contractual AMS office, <[email protected]>. ing” when making reservations. Budget obligations. —2— President’s Message year later, the momentum from that considerably to 500 in all.