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Spring 2014 Newsletter Newsletter VOLUME 3, NO. 1 Spring 2014 ISSN 2328-5621 FOUR CENTURIES OF MASTERPIECES: KEYBOARDS AND THEIR MUSIC The National Music Museum on the Campus of the University of South Dakota Vermillion, South Dakota, May 14 to 17, 2014 The 2014 HKSNA meeting will be hosted by National Music Museum (NMM) in Vermillion, South Dakota, May 14th to 17th. Inspired by the breadth of the NMM’s superlative collection of his- torical keyboard instruments, the theme “Four Centuries of Master- pieces: Keyboards and Their Music” will be celebrated in a daz- zling series of events over three days and four nights. Featured per- formances by internationally renowned artists will explore reper- toire and instruments spanning the centuries from the early 1500s to the mid-1800s. Founded in 1973 on the campus of the University of South Da- kota in Vermillion, the National Music Museum is one of the great institutions of its kind in the world. Its renowned collections, which The National Music Museum. Photo by Tony Jones. include more than 15,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods, are the most inclusive anywhere. The NMM is a partnership between the USD, which provides staff and facilities for preser- vation, teaching, and research, and the Board of Trustees of the NMM, a non-profit corporation that is responsible for acquisitions, public exhibiting, and programming. The Museum’s meteoric rise to world-class status has attracted inter- national attention, and each year it attracts thousands of visitors and researchers who make the journey to Vermillion from all fifty states and many other countries. The NMM is housed in a 20,000 square-foot, climate-controlled building in which where 1,100 representative instru- ments are exhibited in nine galleries. The Museum’s Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, where many of the HKSNA events (Continued on page 3) TABLE OF CONTENTS The President’s Column.................................................................................................................................................. 2 Editor’s Note................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Schedule of the 2014 HKSNA Meeting.......................................................................................................................... 5 2014 HKSNA Meeting Registration Form...................................................................................................................... 9 Competition and Scholarship Announcements ............................................................................................................... 10 Announcing “Keys, Hammers, and Pipes”: a New Docublog ........................................................................................ 13 Upcoming Workshops..................................................................................................................................................... 14 Call for Proposals............................................................................................................................................................ 15 New Publications ........................................................................................................................................................... 15 Notes from England’s South Coast ................................................................................................................................. 16 Announcements from the Secretary and the Nominating Committee ............................................................................. 17 Manoel Rodrigues Coelho’s Flores de Mvsica and the International Influence on the Iberian Keyboard Language ..... 18 In Memoriam .................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Membership News and Notes ......................................................................................................................................... 24 THE PRESIDENT’S COLUMN Elaine Funaro HISTORICAL KEYBOARD Dear fellow keyboard enthusiasts, SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA NEWSLETTER I feel totally blessed and want to share with you a couple of observations and thoughts. Sonia Lee, editor E-mail: [email protected] The hills are alive with the sound of… yes, music! I don’t know what you are experiencing in your community, but The Historical Keyboard Society of North America Newsletter is published semiannually in March and right here we’ve been having one concert after another, with September. diverse programs ranging from the music of Purcell and Han- del, French baroque wind chamber music, numerous Aliénor Short articles, reports on member activities, an- nouncements of upcoming events, as well as reviews premieres, and even Brandenburg II on original instru- of publications and recordings are welcome. ments—and a premiere of the HIP Concerto by Duke composer Stephen Jaffe, winner of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Contributions can be sent in the body of an email or as a Microsoft Word document. Images or photo- Prize and Koussevitsky International Recording Award! This latter piece was written graphs should be in high resolution and sent as sepa- for the same instrumentation as Brandenburg II by J.S. Bach, which has of course sur- rate files. It is the contributor’s responsibility to vived for hundreds of years, and crossed numerous continents. So, this new work may obtain permission for the use of any material from the appropriate copyright holders. well become a part of our future legacy. Contributions and questions regarding the newsletter We as musicians are in a unique position today. We share a rich history of music, a should be directed to the Newsletter Editor. continuum of sounds from decades and centuries past. We have been reminded re- Deadlines for submissions to the newsletter are cently that 50 years ago the Beatles came to America. But did you realize that Denise February 15 (for the March issue) and August 15 (for Restout’s wonderful book, Landowska on Music, was copyrighted that same year the September issue). (1964)? In her book we are admitted to a world that is in some ways hardly recogniz- able today. Imagine if Madame Landowska had had access to the Internet! She would be amazed at the amount of music, recordings, and performances available at one’s HKSNA fingertips. How about all of the obscure recordings of pieces that one can see/hear on BOARD OF DIRECTORS YouTube. Unheard of, just a few years ago! President: Elaine Funaro (2014) Vice President: Sonia Lee (2014) Landowska writes about Manuel de Falla, whom she describes as the “first modern Secretary: David C. Kelzenberg (2015) composer to write for the harpsichord.” It’s hard to imagine the fact that de Falla con- Treasurer: Helen Skuggedal Reed (2015) ducted Landowska’s first performance of his concerto in 1926, almost 90 years ago. Later she performed this modern concerto with Serge Koussevitzky in Boston and Angeline Case-Stott (2014) New York, and with Stokowski in Philadelphia—such giants in the world of music! Shuann Chai (2014) That piece is now in our repertoire and is performed around the world by numerous Rebecca Pechefsky (2014) keyboardists. What would Landowska think of the over 600 scores from the Aliénor Alan Cole (2015) competition that are housed in the Duke music library? We are the keepers and benefi- Nicholas Good (2015) ciaries of a very rich history, and through our ongoing efforts our legacy will continue Boyd Jones (2015) to thrive and grow. Sally Todd (2016) Larry Palmer (2016) Where will we be fifty years from now? Judith Conrad (2016) Joyce Lindorff (Immediate Past President, SEHKS) Off to practice de Falla… Sandra Mangsen (Immediate Past President, MHKS) All the best, Elaine INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” ― George Bernard Shaw Malcolm Bilson Jane Clark Jorg Demus EDITOR’S NOTE Kenneth Gilbert Sonia Lee Christopher Hogwood Richard Kingston In this issue, I am pleased to bring to you the program and registration information for Gustav Leonhardt (+) the upcoming conference in Vermillion, S.D. You will also find Marcos Krieger’s arti- Davitt Moroney cle on Coelho's Flores de Mvsica and Vivian Montgomery’s report of her Fulbright Richard Rephann research residency in Britain. Just a few days before the release of this newsletter, our Peter Williams board sadly learned of the passing of James Pruett, who was a long-time supporter of HKSNA, its preceding organizations, and the Jurow Competition. We would like to send our deepest condolences to Lilian and her family during this difficult time. 2 (Continued from page 1) will take place, has superb acoustics, providing an ideal ambience for per- formances on historical instruments. Further information about the NMM is available at www.nmmusd.org. The meeting will begin on Wednesday evening with a reception fol- lowed by pianist Stephanie Gurga’s program of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century fantasies, and proceedings will conclude on Saturday evening with a banquet after which harpsichordist James Richman will perform eight- eenth-century works on the NMM’s well-known but newly refurbished harpsichord by Jacques Germain, Paris, 1785. Thursday evening will show- case Chilean-born artist
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