Bulletin 41, March 2000
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Comite International des Musees et Collections d'Instruments de Musique Comite Internacional de Museos y Colecciones de Instrumentos Musicales CIMCIM International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections President Dr Eszter Fontana, Director, Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universitiit Leipzig, Tiiubchenweg 2c, Leipzig D-04103, Gennany. Telephone +49 341 2142121. Fax +49 341 2142135. E-mail [email protected] Vice President Sumi Gunji, Professor Emeritus, Kunitachi College of Music, 1-7-7 Ikebukuro, 170 Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Telephone and fax +81 3 5396 5183. E-mail [email protected] Secretary Corinna Weinheimer, Ringve Museum, Pb 3064 Lade, N-7441 Trondheim, Norway. Telephone +47 7392 2411. Fax +47 7392 0422. E-mail [email protected] Treasurer Margaret Birley, Department of Musical Instruments, Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ, UK. Telephone +44 208 699 1872. Fax +44 208 291 5506. E-mail [email protected] World-Wide Web URL: http:Jiwww.icom.org/cimciml Bulletin No. 41 March - mars 2000 Announcements Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa Report from Bob Barclay: CIMCIM wishes to congratulate Dr John Henry I have been relatively invisible for a considerable van der Meer on his 80th birthday in February. time as I have been in the last stages of my PhD, John Henry van der Meer was one of the founders which is now completed. The dissertation examines of CIMCIM and we are most grateful to him for all the antagonism that has grown up between the wonderful work he has done in the course of restoration and conservation, describes a new his career. All our best wishes and many happy structure for viewing actions on historic musical returns. instruments, and proposes risk analysis strategies as aids in decision-making. I am preparing to Burkina Faso, CIMCIM!ICOFOM joint meeting disseminate some of my work in the form of We are really sorry to announce that the joint publications and conference presentations. I plan to meeting with ICOFOM planned for June 2000 in attend the SFIIC Conference Instruments pour Burkina Faso has to be postponed (or cancelled) demain which is being held in Limoges in June. I again. There was major difficulties in the planning will present a paper entitled 'The Restorer and the of the conference which could not be influenced by Conservator: Deconstructing Stereotypes'. Also, CIMCIM. once my professional life gets back on track again, I intend to write a book on the topic of use and CIMCIM is convinced of the importance of such a preservation of historic instruments, hopefully meeting in an African country with ICOFOM or following the structure of the dissertation, but any other committee of ICOM. As far as we can making it pleasant to read! see, the planned conference cannot take place this coming summer despite our efforts. After several I send my best wishes to all CIMCIM members old letters, phones and Internet mail, it is with regret and new, and hope to see some of you again at a that we came to this conclusion. future CIMCIM meeting. For a full list of Eszter Fontana, Carmelle Begin publications and current activities of CCI, visit our website at Tereza Scheiner, chair of ICOFOM writes: http://www .cci-icc.gc.ca/ ICOFOM has now decided NOT to organise this Bob Barclay year's conference in Burkina Faso, but keep the interest in meeting in the country, maybe within 2 Gustav Holst Birthplace Museum, Cheltenham, or 3 years. Hildegard Vieregg, ICOFOM's Gloucestershire, U.K. Secretary, has made an invitation for Munich, for I am very pleased to announce that from I April 2000, and ICOFOM has officially accepted this 2000 the Holst Birthplace Museum will be run as invitation. We will meet in October, probably right an independent museum with a board of trustees, a after Oktoberfest. She is now taking care of the full-time curator and a team of volunteers. As first arrangements and will soon define dates and CIMCIM members may be aware, the museum program. The theme for the meeting will be the (formerly run by Cheltenham Borough Council) same as for Burkina Faso - Museology and was threatened with closure to the public last year Intangible Heritage - and ICOFOM is still because of budget cuts. As the result of a local interested in discussing common aspects of this campaign, gifts were secured to keep the museum theme with CIMCIM. If interested, please contact open for the present, but in the long term the Hildegard Vieregg, e-mail [email protected] museum will have to be self-financing- a challenge Warmest regards, Tereza Scheiner, ICOFOM we are meeting through improved marketing and 1 museum activities to bring Holst and his music to Missing Objects collection and the Red List) to a wider audience. customs departments the world over. Gustav Holst was born in this house in 1874. On In addition to the close collaboration that has long display is a fascinating collection of Holst existed between ICOM, INTERPOL and police memorabilia including the piano on which much of departments, a Memorandum of Understanding 'The Planets' was composed and there is a Holst should soon be signed between ICOM and archive of great interest to scholars. The birthplace INTERPOL to strengthen their collaboration and is also an important period house in its own right make it official. For more information please showing the 'Upstairs, Downstairs' life of a contact Valerie Jullien, ICOM Secretariat; Victorian-Edwardian family home. [email protected] In the immediate future, the museum will be /COM Japan establishing a website and we would especially The Japanese National Committee now operates a welcome links to other composer and/or birthplace website at: museums or even, more simply, a reciprocal http://www.museum.or.jp/icom-japan/ exchange of leaflets to advertise our museums. If You may find it convenient to use the generalised you are interested in doing this, please do contact address form for ICOM Committee resources. This me at the museum. allows a Committee's name to be suffixed to the Joanna Archibald, Curator address of the central ICOM server at http://www .icom.org/ /COM, Customs and Police: working with Accordingly, the new website may also be accessed museums in the fight against the illicit traffic in at: cultural property http://www .icom.org/japan On Tuesday, 25th January 2000, in Brussels, the Cary Karp Secretary General of ICOM signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Customs Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, SAM Organisation (WCO) to co-operate over the fight CIMCIM congratulates Dr Rudolf Hopfner on his against the illicit traffic in cultural property. Theft new post as Director of the Samrnlung alter in museums and the looting of archaeological sites Musikinstrumente. As Director he is the successor serve to sustain international traffic in cultural to Gerhard Stradner, who retired at the end of last property. The fight that ICOM has been leading in year. the field for a number of years should be supported by close collaboration with police and customs Edinburgh University Collection of Historic officers. Workshops with INTERPOL have already Musical Instruments resulted in active co-operation between museum On the 17th March, EUCHMI formally opened its professionals and police officers in many countries. Sound Laboratory, an interactive facility with computer simulations and live sounds of The agreement that has just been signed with the instruments, designed to explain how instruments WCO marks an important step forward in the fight work. The 'Laboratoire du Son' devices were against the illicit traffic in cultural property, for the developed with European Community (Raphael question of cultural heritage transcends borders. Programme) funding by the Musee des Instruments Within the competence of each national de Musique, Brussels, the Cite des Sciences et de administration, customs departments can greatly l'lndustrie, Paris, the Musikinstrumentenmuseum contribute to the fight against this traffic. In the der Universitat Leipzig, and the University of same way, strengthened co-operation between the Edinburgh. Details at authorities responsible for protecting heritage and http://www .music.ed.ac. uk/euchmi/ the customs authorities as much at the national as Arnold Myers the international level should mean increased efficiency in customs checks. The Memorandum of Musikmuseet, Stockholm Understanding should serve to strengthen Dr Stefan Bohman has recently taken over the co-operation between the two organisations in position as director of the Musikmuseet. He has official and practical terms, particularly by sharing been working at the (ethnological) Nordiska museet information between the two secretariats, and thus in Stockholm for many years, during his last period between customs authorities and members of there as director of the department of ICOM. Joint projects should soon be up and documentation and research. running, including implementation of tools for raising awareness, setting up training programmes Bohman's doctoral thesis in ethnology, in 1985, for customs officers, and distributing ICOM was about the music of the Labour Movement. He information on illicit traffic (the One Hundred is a senior lecturer of museology, at present 2 tutoring, amongst others, a student who is writing University, the Archives is a closed-stack, non her doctoral thesis about the collections of music in circulating collection that embraces books, Swedish museums. Further, he has been a reviewer periodicals, pamphlets, photographs and other of western classical music, a university lecturer on illustrations, organ plans and specifications, recital folk music etc. and he is, of course, an active programs, catalogues, correspondence, ephemera, musician. Apart from his formal qualifications, he and other documentary materials pertaining is known as a constructive person with visions and primarily to organ history and design, organ good initiatives and with the ability of arousing building and playing, organ music and organists, enthusiasm among his colleagues.