MLA in Pittsburgh, PA

The Pittsburgh Hilton Towers February 28-March 4,2007

BY Lisa Rae Philpott, University of Western Ontario Suzanne Meyers Sawa, University of Toronto

The Music Library Association met with photographs had cropped the image, so that the Society for American Music this year, so this fact was not immediately apparent. The everything was larger, including the opening black and white ink over gouache made it reception and the exhibits. It was good to difficult to read the notes, particularly those touch base with the many vendors who squares where white ink was used. regularly travel to MLA, and to meet some new exhibitors. Margaret Leng Tan described Cage's Chess Pieces as being unique to his oeuvre, Thursday's welcome speeches started early, representing the confluence of music, visual highlighted by the "Merry Marketeers" art and chess. She described the work as a singing a commercial, set to Stephen musical fossil, 64 squares, a 19 X 19" chess Foster's "I dream of Jeannie." board, and a finely-wrought score in Cage's own hand in a painting. Chess Pieces is a OPENING PLENARY SESSION through-composed score with twelve systems of music. Each line is self- American Music in American Libraries I: contained: twenty-two segments represent John Cage's Chess Pieces and Dance to twenty-two chess pieces. the West: a Rediscovery Panel: Don Nicholls, University of Chess Pieces had been in private hands Southhampton; Margaret Leng Tan, pianist; since its original exhibition; it had been Don Gillespie, C.F. Peters (retired); David inherited by the original owner's son, whose Patterson, Chicago, Illinois; Laura Kuhn sister persuaded him to loan the painting for was ill and sent her regrets. the Noguchi exhibition. Gouache on masonite, it is in a fragile state and it is A 1944-45 exhibition, The Imagery of highly unlikely to ever be exhibited again. It Chess, at the Julien Levy Gallery, New was possible to transcribe the piece from the York, prompted John Cage to produce a artwork, but the white lines made the music painting entitled Chess Pieces. Sixty years difficult to read. In addition, the later, the exhibit was remounted: The demarcation of the squares do not Imagery of Chess Revisited. Larry List, necessarily align with the lines of music. guest curator of the Noguchi Gallery, The original photography had cropped the managed to persuade the current owner of image at the margins, and it appeared that the Cage painting to loan that artwork for the signature was missing, but it was the revival. List realized that Cage's artwork discovered to be discreetly-inscribed along was likely also a musical work: published the side, in system 19. It took Leng Tan six weeks to transcribe the work. She recorded during this time. Her thesis was a dance Chess Pieces in June, 2005; the exhibit program; the music was written by John opened in October 2005. The CD was Cage, with toy instruments in the middle released in 2006, and was named as a section. This work is now published by C.F. "Desert Island" pick by Gramophone Peters, and has just been recorded on the magazine. Leng Tan performed the piece for Hungaroton label (HCD 31848) by the US. Amadinda Percussion Group of Budapest.

David Patterson's interest was piqued by a MUSIC REFERENCE OUTSIDE THE single quotation from 1946 "As the modern BOX dance has gained in popularity ...John Cage has more than 20 compositions to his In "Wikipedia for Music Reference: an credit." Merce Cunningham alone Interim Report," Kent Undenvood (New choreographed some 25 dances to Cage's York University) provided a fascinating works during the 1940s; Cage had another look at the pros and cons of Wikipedia, by 18 works choreographed by other dancers. comparing selected entries to similar entries Those 33 compositions, with dances in Grove Online and the Encyclopedia repeated frequently (some as many as 100 Britannica. After noting that, in a standard times) would have kept Cage's name in Google search, the top ten results almost front of dancers. One dancer, Ruth Hatfield, always include a Wikipedia article, choreographed and danced a work of Cage: Underwood discussed Wikipedia's article on Dance to the West. Patterson eventually Handel. Although it has been updated 700 managed to find Ruth Hatfield's daughters. times, the quality is generally uneven, with They had come across a John Cage date inaccuracies and not enough emphasis manuscript, and asked Patterson if he would on the over forty years that Handel spent in like a photocopy. Patterson was pleased to England. The works list fares better but only be on the other end of the telephone, so that lists collected editions from the 1sthand 19'h Ruth's daughters could not see him do the centuries. By comparison, the Encyclopedia "Scholar's Electro-glide of Victory!" Britannica demonstrates a much greater Patterson described this project as a 'study superiority in its "proportional grasp of in contrasts' between researching the topic," even though the bibliography is out enviably rich and orderly archives of of date. institutions, and the forays through electronic resources and personal archives, For Underwood's second example, Josquin, which left him feeling both giddy and the Wikipedia entry was "relatively overwhelmed. thorough" with a "relatively sophisticated distillation of material;" unfortunately, most Dance Music for Elfrid Ide is a hitherto- of it was taken from the New Grove unknown work for six percussionists, found Dictionary. Undenvood criticized the by Laura Kuhn in the Mills College Archive Encyclopedia Britannica as well, for in 2005. Cage taught at Mills College from continuing the outdated idea that Josquin 1939 to 1942. The compositional was a singer (there was another Josquin!), background of this work is a bit cloudy: and because its bibliography ends Elfrid Ide was the daughter of composer somewhere in the 1980ts, but he was most Chester Ide, and a student at Mills College critical of the plagiarism evident in the Wikipedia article. most frequently in bibliographic records. Less then 65% of the students correctly Underwood's third major example was identified: online catalogue, discography, James Brown, whose Wikipedia article has libretti, and sheet music; less than 50% had over 900 updates since he died on chose the correct answer for: liner notes and December 25, 2006 (the article has since song. been padlocked). This and the concluding short examples demonstrated that REFERENCE SOURCES FOR contemporary and popular music topics AMERICAN MUSIC receive better treatment in Wikipedia, but the results are unpredictable. Underwood Contemporary Living American ended by stating that, at the moment, Composers - Tammy Ravas Wikipedia should not be trusted: "Let the reader beware." Ravas assigned her class of graduate performance majors the task of assembling a In "Music in General Reference Databases," comprehensive biography on Gregoria Darwin Scott (Brandeis University) gave a Karides Suchy. Students had to tell her thoughtful overview of databases often where they searched, submitting a summary overlooked by music librarians as sources of of their search strategies, and outlining the information on musical topics. He spoke difficulties they encountered. Students highly of two sources in particular: The mined the usual suspects: the library Oxford Dictionary of National Biography catalogue, WorldCAT, Grove Music online, (Benjamin Britten was the example) and the standard music reference sources and American National Biography (the Andrews standard online and print indexes. They Sisters). His presentation is available at: found it necessary to broaden their strategy http://people.brandeis.edu/-dscott/mla/pitt- to include more general sources such as e-resources.htm and he is currently seeking newspapers, via LexisNexis Academic, the assistance from the technical staff at Historical New York Times, and EBSCO's Brandeis to make it more web-friendly. Newspaper Source. Biographical sources included Current Biography Yearbook, Alisa Rata (Southern Methodist University) American National Biography, Biography and Linda Dempff (College of New Jersey), Index or Biography Plus (Illumina). General gave the final presentation of the session, periodical databases such as Reader's Guide "Music Reference for General Library also proved useful. Users." They examined how the use of specialized terminology by music librarians Archival sources are also important sources has hindered student understanding of for information on contemporary composers: effective research strategies. After gathering for example, Archives USA (1959-present), terms, partly through queries to the listservs WorldCAT, and vertical files of individual of AMS and MLA, they administered a libraries. Web sites are also a good source of multiple choice survey to 239 students in information: composer societies, publisher three different areas, two in Afro-American sites, official web sites, and occasionally studies, and one in jazz history. The overall fan-created sites (Schickele.com being a score was 64%, but the authors found that prime example: created by a fan, but the terms most often missed were those used accurate). One can also find information about composers from blogs such as full-text, to accompany its current citations- myspace.com, individual composer blogs, only product. Of course, meetings are publisher-blogs, and fan-blogs. Lastly, why important sources of information: not try to contact a composer? Does your www.arncrican-music.org is the SAM site. composer teach at a university? Then try the College Music Society Directory for the Beyond the Music: American Music in institutional affiliation. Who is the principal General Reference Databases - Jennifer publisher of hislher music? Does this Oates, City University of New York composer belong to a composer society? How about an agent? Why not send a letter Cultural and social information abounds in or email? non-music-specific databases. America, History and Lfe offers one the option to DRAM to RAMH: Recent and receive formatted bibliographies, via Forthcoming American Music Reference RefWorks. Online digital collections from and Research Tools - Laurie Sampsel, U READEX offer an impressive collection of Colorado at Boulder primary documents from the American Antiquarian Society, including those from Sampsel defined recent as "since 2000." the Boston Musical Fund Society. READEX Forthcoming products include the Garland also offers a digital newspaper archive, Encyclopedia of World Music, soon to be including 1,300 titles from all 50 states, available online, as will Colin Larkin's dating from 1690-1922. A search on "Fisk Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4thedition Jubilee Singers" was offered. While music (summer 2007). The latter will be reviews are not included as a specific, compatible with Grove online, but also searchable category, this product is easy to available as a standalone product. use and navigate.

DRAM, the Database of Recorded American One Day It'll All Make Sense: Hip Hop Music, was represented in the exhibits area. Resources for Librarians and Teachers - See htt~://drarn.nvu.edu for a list of Andrew Leach, Center for Black Music participating labels, including New World Research, Columbia College, Chicago Records, Composers Recordings Inc. For a flat annual institutional fee, students can Intended as a refresher, or alternately an have unlimited access. Other sources introduction for those involved in collection include Smithsonian Global Sound, which development, this session offered a good offers a selection of online streamed sound; overview. The basics of Hip Hop culture Indiana University'svariations-3 project; are graffiti-writing, breaking (a.k.a. b- Alexander Street's African American Song; boying), DJ-ing (a.k.a. tumtablism) and and the Library of Congress's "I Hear MC-ing (a.k.a. rapping): good, basic America Singing" site, available at: introductions have been written by Yvonne http:i:'www.loc.rio\~l~~/perfom/il~as/.Naxos Bynoe and David Toop (the latter in Grove Jazz now includes the Fantasy label. Online). Recommended books were: Droppin Science: Critical Essays (1996); The Hymn Tune Index Online was revised in Can 't Stop, Won 't Stop (St. Martin's Press, 2001. Musical America Online is a recent 2005); Hip Hop Culture (2006); Hip entree to the arena. RiPM will soon offer Hoptionary; recommended authors include David Toop and Harvard's John Ranck. The Rudolf Richter. Gale series Contemporary Musicians is excellent, as is Ego Trip 'S Book of Rap Lists In "Prohibited in Pittsburgh: German Music (1999) and Freddie Fresh's discography. and Performers in the Steel City, November Recommended online resources: 1917," Charles S. Freeman (Palm Beach rapreviews.com, the Hip Hop Research Atlantic University) provided a detailed Portal at hiphopportal.net, the RoJaRo chronology, from late October 19 17 to late (Rock, Jazz, Roots) Index fi fi .roiaro.com, March 19 18, of events leading to greater and http:/~u~w~v.cbmr.org'styles/hipho~.htn~(the greater restrictions on German musicians Center for Black Music Studies), and and music, not only in Pittsburgh, but hiphopdirectory.com. throughout America. For example, on November 2, the Metropolitan Opera GERMAN IDENTITY cancelled its German season. Similarly, various groups in Pittsburgh demanded that Pam Dennis (Lambuth University) opened a Kreisler performance scheduled for this session with her presentation, "German- November 8 be cancelled, and it was. The Americans and the Post-Civil War South." anti-German rhetoric was such that the local She described the growth of the German paper, the Dispatch, suggested in a community in Memphis, centred on Beale December 9 column that "Germany uses the Street, where about thirty music groups music of Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, etc., to flourished until 1878, when many either 'convert' the world to the German cause." died from yellow fever or fled to Jackson, (quoted from Freeman's handout). Three Tennessee to escape it.. Only about 1500 days earlier, Ernst Kunwald, conductor of Germans remained in Memphis after this, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had most of whom were Jewish. Using primary been arrested as an enemy alien. In January sources from libraries and archives from all he was sent to Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia, over the South, Dennis explored how these and was later joined there by Karl Muck, musicians, performers, educators and conductor of the Boston Symphony retailers helped to foster a Germanic view of Orchestra. who was arrested on March 25. American art music culture. She examined in detail the role some of these men had at The presentation of E. Douglas Bomberger the Memphis Conference Female Institute, a (Elizabethtown College), "Fritz Kreisler, highly regarded educational institution for Apple Blossoms, and the Reintegration of women that received its charter in 1843. German Musicians after World War I," Affiliated with the Methodist Church, it continued Freeman's discussion of the anti- became coeducational in 1923 and changed German sentiment in the United States its name to Lambuth College, becoming a during and after World War I. As a university in 1991. Dennis mentioned by humourous example, he mentioned that name the following: Christopher Philip sauerkraut was sold as "Liberty Cabbage" Walker (1824-1913; came to the U.S. in (Freedom Fries, anyone?). Kreisler had 1840); Anton Shide (1835-1905); Charles F. enlisted in the Austrian Army in 19 14, was Utermoehlen (1842-1936; came to the U.S., wounded after four weeks in the trenches, in 1866); his son William G. Utermoehlen and returned to the U.S. with his American (1 875- 1949); Max. G. Wittmen (1 868- after wife Harriet, who had been a nurse with the 1908); Erwin Schneider (1 843- 1922), and regiment. Bomberger showed illustrations of objections in newspapers to his concert someone takes two separate pop songs and appearances, and talked about the attempts mixes them together, such as the songs of the newly-formed American Legion to "Stand by Me" and "Every Breath You ban German-speaking performers. Kreisler Take." These are often anonymous retired until after the war, appearing again bootlegged items, and could be said to have on October 24, 1919, to great acclaim. a historic basis in parody. Audacity is a free During that period of non-performing, he program that one can use to create mash- also wrote the operetta Apple Blossoms, ups, which then are circulated by file- . which was a smash hit on Broadway in the sharing. In terms of copyright, these mash- fall of 1919. It featured the dancing of the ups are not making money, nor are they Astaires, and ran through the end of April influencing the market sales of the original 1920. Bomberger concluded that the artists. popularity of this operetta helped Kreisler re-establish himself as a favourite of the The third segment of Katz's presentation American public. dealt with musical communities in cyberspace. In addition to Second Life (which could well be the future of internet MUSIC and TECHNOLOGY 11 - musical life, with real-time interaction), Concert in Second Life - Mark Katz, U YouTube and myspace (offering social North Carolina, Chapel Hill networking) are very popular. Second Life offers the possibility of music commerce: Internet music communities offer the one can buy recordings and attend concerts. opportunity to participate with musicians There are also MP3 blogs, where people can around the globe. Katz showed a clip of his post their favourite files, as well as a music- character, performing in a concert via for-robots blog. Second Life. He explained the delineation between analog and digital, explaining the Second Life expands one's community, connection between hip hop, turntables, being an intersection of music and vinyl records and DJ Battles. Battles are technology. It is interdisciplinary, as music incredibly physical. Amazingly, CD- specialists can collaborate with people in turntables have been designed to replicate other fields. One can participate, or merely the DJ experience, and assist one in finding observe. In comparing digital sampling with and manipulating a particular tracwsection. mash-ups, sampling uses more source works Vinyl is not just precious to hip hop, it is (often dozens), mash-ups, while similar, elemental and fundamental to the involve the use of fewer works. What is the experience; purists believe CDs are a barrier librarian's role? Well, you cannot copyright between the DJ and his music, and that only these items. Are you a party to copyright vinyl-DJing is real Djing. The cornerstone violation? We are losing all kinds of musical of Battles is that "Turntablism requires interactions and information, because these genuine skill!" The battle over Battles events are not being recorded and saved. continues, with an ongoing debate over old Perhaps mash-ups can be construed as fair vs. new technology, and represents a turning use, under a parody clause. In January, the point in the history of turntables. first mash-up CD was legally-released in the UK, after a sample clearance of "biblical Katz played a number of mash-ups, wherein proportions'! Today's listeners are missing- out on the musical gestalt of "the album" budget (or elsewhere): one can buy a great and are creating their own collections. many CDs for the price of 5+ simultaneous users. Perpetual ownership and access is HOT TOPICS IN MUSIC another plus of CD collections, since CATALOGUING streamed music access ends when the subscription ends. The group discussed the latest developments in the Descriptive Cataloguing Rules for Social software like Facebook and myspace Rare Books (DCRB); a new chapter will is another means of reaching one's users. include rules for the cataloguing of early Many students have accounts. Oberlin has printed music. These rules would be for created a Facebook account for the library, music printed via movable type, but would and has 350 "friends". Steve Littman also serve to inform the cataloguing of mentioned Web-inars, which are can be a music printed from engraved plates. The means of librarianlpeer-mentoring and a committee was trying to avoid a virtual means of what we try to do, with proliferation of notes in the cataloguing more access. Laura Gayle Green has a record, but agreed that is still important to Facebook account, with 80-some friends. know whether an early edition was She also has a myspace account, and a blog. published in a particular place, or sold at a specific shop, given that plates were kept Someone asked if anyone was using over long periods of time, and were often YouTube for instruction. One attendee sold to other publishers. mentioned that this was useful for a Latin American Music class, to help demonstrate HOT TOPICS IN MUSIC the research process. Tom Caw stated that LIBRARIANSHIP - Ruth Ann McTyre, U YouTube had saved him one evening, just of Iowa before closing, when some students wanted to see "Three Little Maids from School," Several attendees remarked that they are and their copy of Mikado was toast: there being challenged by their library were 3 or 4 clips available for viewing on administrators about spending money on a YouTube. dying format, the CD. But, until one can find all streamed titles in the library Several institutions are offering streamed catalogue, it makes sense to purchase CDs video-reserves, library-wide, using Media and offer searchable content to users. Other Site software. Professors get a username and reasons for purchasing CDs include a lack of password, students log-in via the proxy wireless access throughout an institution, the server and have access to course-specific need for a reliably-available teaching streamed videos for the duration of their collection, and lack of computers in course. classrooms. Users often feel that they are better-served with a collection of reserve MUSIC AND MASS- CDs. Streaming is still not wonderfully DEACIDIFICATION: Program and reliable, there are so many potential failure Tour - Sponsored by the MLA Preservation points. State institutions often have no Committee money to implement a streaming service, not without taking money from the serials Lisa attended the free Preservation 14 Technologies plant tour. This was a fascinating visit to an environmentally The Society for American Music (SAM) and friendly plant. The process used can help to the Canadian University Music Society reclaim our paper heritage, since both print (CUMS) began a cross-border dialogue last and manuscript formats can be safely year to promote cross-disciplinary treated. Preservation Technologies uses their scholarship, by having a SAM session at last patented non-aqueous formula to deacidify year's CUMS conference. Is there a paper items, while bindings, labels, distinctive culture on each side of the . adhesives, fabrics, leather and coloured Canada-US border? items remain unaltered and unaffected by the process. Attendees were encouraged to Deane Root (U Pittsburgh), past-president of dip their hands into the liquid solution, SAM, outlined sources of support for which dried very quickly, and merely left scholarship available in the U.S. Federally, one's hand feeling "smooth." There was no the NEH offers research grants in the range sensation that the solution had dried out of $200,000. Foundations often offer awards one's skin. Both bound and unbound items to independent scholars, and universities can be treated, the former by using elastics fund a wide range of scholarship. Major to affix them to the paddles, and the latter by grant applications are heavily peer- placement into folders which are then placed reviewed; Root has applied for 15-20 such in perforated plastic folders. Approximately grants, and has sat on many review panels. 90% of the solution is reclaimed and reused First time success is extremely rare, perhaps during the process, and special chambers one in 15-20 applicants is successful the first have been built to accommodate oversized time. American history topics have a greater music scores. likelihood of receiving funding. Foundation grants, such as Fulbright and Guggenheim The tour offered the opportunity to view the are prestigious and highly competitive. Few process from start to finish. Participating national or private grants include music as a libraries are issued a set of lockable tote bins possible topic: some foundations, including into which their titles are placed. Items are Indiana's Lilly Endowment, require a local processed in the solution for 30 minutes, connection. drained, and then placed into recovery vessels to reclaim the solution. All in all, a Mary Ingraham (U Alberta) studies highly impressive operation. Canadian music, cultural politics and opera. She stated that Canadians live and write as Their clients include the Library of though the border is everywhere; Americans Congress, Brown University, the University don't see the border. Ingraham believes that of Maryland, the University of Pittsburgh, Canadian institutions ignore us, as music is and Yale University. They have recently not specifically funded. A border is a opened a Canadian plant, located in political division, and there appears to be Gatineau, Quebec. Take a virtual tour of less and less difference. The Government of their process, at their website: Canada devised policies and procedures to http:/ www.ptlp.com'indcx.html police the imaginary border with agencies such as the Canadian Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and MUSICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Canadian music is a part-time labour of Within the Department of Canadian love. There is no scholarly society devoted Heritage, the Canadian Radio Television solely to Canadian music; curriculum Commission (CRTC) serves as the development of a program in Canadian watchdog to ensure that Canadian content music is not discussed. The Music Division (CANCON) regulations are observed by at Libraries and Archives Canada, founded broadcasters. The Canada Council was in 1970 by Hellmut Kallmann (Canada's created in 1957, to promote study and answer to Oscar Sonneck), is the nerve enjoyment of the arts; grants are available to centre of Canadian musical research, artists, producers, orchestras, festivals and collecting music and music literature. We composers. Killam Prizes are awarded have public and university libraries, annually. conservatory libraries and specialized collections, but none of these is devoted to The programs of the Canadian Broadcasting Canadian music alone. Corporation (CBC) aim to reflect Canada and its regions, with both English and John Graziano, President, SAM, City U of French treated equivalently. The CBC is New York (retired) involved with commissioning, producing and broadcasting; the CBC Vancouver The past twenty years have seen an Radio Orchestra is the last surviving of what explosion in American music studies. Since was once a series of CBC radio orchestras. the mid-1980's there have been 600+ dissertations on American music topics, SSHRC is responsible to the Federal from composers and their music, genre Minister of Industry and aims to make studies, studies of specific cities, to fandom Canadians more productive and competitive. and male impersonators. There is a new Recently, SSHRC funded 2,000 university Yale series about musical theater positions, Canada Research Chairs, to composers. One of the areas in which support excellence in scholarship and studies are lacking is in American musical research; according to Ingraham, these theater from 1870- 19 10, and analyses of the would appear to be mainly for men. SSHRC shows, music and scripts of the period. also offers Strategic Grants to build expertise, but none of these is targeted James Deaville, Carleton U toward music. In conjunction with the Canada Council for the Arts, SSHRC A German music specialist, Deaville trained administers two $50,000 Molson prizes in the U.S., coming to Canada in 1988 as a annually, one for the arts, the other for the landed immigrant. His job was the subject of social sciences and humanities. a two-tiered search, with a national search, followed by an international one, when no Robin Elliott, Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian with a dissertation in music Music, U Toronto criticism was found to fill the position. The tenure and promotion process is very similar The Chalmers Chair was created in 1984; in Canada. There are no private institutions John Beckwith was the first to hold this and no liberal arts colleges. Deaville offered position. This is the only academic Canadian details of his SSHRC funding, and described music position in the country. The study of the "Learneds" annual meetings sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences June 2007 issue will feature articles by Federation of Canada, where Anita Beckbill on "Music Circulating interdisciplinary studies are extremely Libraries in France" and Carol June Bradley popular. There are some disadvantages to on "Anna Harriet Heyer: an Isolated 'smallness' - everyone knows who you are! Pioneer."

Further discussion centered around common Gordon Rowley, Convention Manager, language vs. two official languages in commented that he always looks forward to , Canada. John Beckwith wondered whether this moment, when most of the activities there any U.S. scholars studying Canadian have wound down. He thanked Program music? When the Institute of Canadian Chairs George Boziwick (SAM) and Mark Music was begun, two speakers were McKnight (MLA) for a superb invited, both American Canadianists. collaboration. Attendees numbered 800+, Canadian musicologists may well wonder with 120 students, 50 in the first three years why SAM is so successful, and cite the of their career, and a total of 750 banquet language barrier as a particularly Canadian attendees. challenge. Is there Canadian musicology? Deane Root mentioned that 10% of all Ruth Ann McTyre thanked members for scholars participate in SAM; perhaps CUMS their donations--both financial and time--to needs more Canadian music topics, or a the MLA Shop and Silent Auction Tables. Canadian music interest group in SAM. The total revenue was $6,014.50. The Freeman Travel Fund should have reached HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MLA AGM its goal to be self-funding by the end of this conference. AR-Editions' contract for management services has been renewed for a further three Remembrances years. They maintain the members database, publish the Music Cataloging Bulletin, Rick McRae offered his tribute to Antonio process Notes subscriptions, and are never Calvo, his "perfect" MLA roommate. fazed by last-minute requests. Antonio passed away in the prime of his life, aged 44, a mere six weeks after his Bonna Boettcher gave the President's marriage. After Antonio's death, his wife Report, and announced the locations and Lulu returned to Shanghai, and has given dates of future meetings: birth to their son. 2008: 20-23 February--Newport, RI 2009: 18-22 February--Chicago, IL Laura Dankner offered remembrances of 20 10: 20-24 February--San Diego, CA Geraldine Laudati, who died at age 58 in August 2006. No matter the occasion or A new paraprofessional dues category has venue, be it San Francisco or the Shad been created, with a $45 membership fee. Festival, Laudati had 'big hair' and wore a There is no increase in dues this year. black suit, black hose and black heels. She was dedicated to the profession, to her James Cassaro reported on Notes activity students and to her family. Geri passed away over the past year. Each issue of the journal at her sister's home, surrounded by her has been published on time, or early. The family, her bird and her dog. Jeremy Smith won the Hill Award for his Susan Vita, Chief of the Music Division, article "A Newly Discovered Edition of Library of Congress, remembered Henry William Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets & Songs: Grossi, Head, Reader Services who passed Provenance and Significance" Notes 6212 away December 30, 2006, aged 57. Henry (December 2005): 273-98. was the consummate music librarian and Renaissance man. He studied culinary arts in The Newport Local Arrangements Paris, editing a series of Time-Life cookery Committee tempted us with promises of books with Ann Williams. Henry obtained a 'bracing ocean breezes,' lobster, and a masters degree in Library Science and Music Library Shanty contest. became Head of the Music Library, CUA. He joined the staff of the Library of Nancy Nuzzo was the recipient of a Special Congress in 2001; his term as Head of Achievement Award, organized Reader Services was all too short. He had surreptitiously and with great stealth. Nuzzo retired more than a year ago, on October 3 1, was instrumental in the transformation of 2006, but continued to inspire his staff as the MLA over a very short period of time. quintessential librarian and fountain of information. Henry taught himself Japanese in the last months of his life; he had already This was a remarkable conference, offering mastered French, Italian, German, Mandarin an even greater 'embarrassment of riches' to Chinese, and Pali (to read Buddhist texts). the attendee than the usual MLA conference. He had a blog, which he updated weekly, There were often four or five concurrent with a photo, details of his walks, and sessions of interest, making the choice of updates on his condition--which was which to attend just exponentially more extremely generous, and a source of hope difficult. You can investigate many of the and inspiration. handouts from the individual conference sessions at: Mimi Tashiro remembered Edwin Colby http://www.pitt.edu/-mla2007/handouts.h (1912-2006), the first music librarian at tm Stanford University. He began the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound and served as MLA President (1950-51). Colby would go to any lengths to answer a question. He had a prodigious and uncanny memory, and had an office so full that you couldn't tell whether he was there! He proofed every typed catalogue card, and had an affinity for languages - he was a multilingual punster, and learned Sanskrit while visiting China.

MLA7s publications awards were announced, with Mary Lewis winning the Duckles Award for her 2005 publication Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-1569, published by Garland Press.