NEWSLETTER THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY COMPOSERS JANUARY, 1968 / VOL. 1, NO. 1

ANNUAL CONFERENCE NEWS FROM REGIONAL COUNCILS

The third annual conference of the American Society Regional Council VIII had a meeting December 9. of University Composers will be held at Temple Uni­ A Southwestern Regional Conference was set up, to be versity, Philadelphia, April 5-7. Registration will be held at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall May 25, 1968. The Friday morning, with sessions beginning Friday after­ confe'rence will include a panel discussion on new ap­ noon and ending Sunday morning. Three concerts proaches to the teaching of theory, a cocktail party, and three seminar-discusion programs are planned; and an evening concert of works by members of the details will follow in a mailing to the membership. Council. Scores for the concert will be selected by a committee consisting of Alden Ashforth, Barney Childs, and Peter Racine Fricker. Mr. Ashforth will also be in charge of the panel. Information· from Regional Chair­ man Barney Childs, Deep Springs College, Deep ~prings, Calif. Postal Address: Via Dyer, Nevada 89010. UNIVERSITY PERFORMING GROUPS are being presented during . the current season. The (alphabetized by name .of school) Group, which is di:rected by Harvey Sollberger and C,harles Wuorinen, is presenting si)( concerts this sea­ The Music Department of Brandeis University pre­ son in Mc.Millin Hall; remaining ones are Feb. 12, sents frequent concerts of contemporary music per­ Ma:rch 18, and May 13. Recent premieres have included formed by faculty and visiting artists. Recent concerts works by Benjamin Boretz, William Hibbard, Hubert have included works by Cohen, Kohn, Lerdahl, and S. Howe, Jr., Dennis Riley, and David Saperstein. In Shifrin, as well as Webern and Stravinsky. On May 3, conjunction with the Music Department of New York three pieces from Kim's Beckett cycle will have their University, the Group has begun publication of a Con­ first performance. Other spring concerts will include temporary Music Newsletter (q.v.). the premiere of John Harbison's Shakespeare Songs Hunter College is presenting a series of concerts di­ (April), and works by Davidovsky, Kohn, and Shapero. rected by Eric Salzman under the title New Image of Robert Helps will be a visiting artist in late March, Sound. Designed to show a cross-section, geographically performing Babbitt's Partitions and Post-Partitions. and stylistically, of new musical ideas, the series is Further information from Martin Boykan, Music Dept., presenting performers from Juilliard School of Music, Brandeis. University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, The Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the Composers String Quartet, the New York Ensemble the State University of New York at Buffalo is directed under Gunther Schuller, and the Charles Lloyd Quar­ by Lukas Foss and Allen Sapp. Twenty Creative Asso­ tet. Works include music as theatre, chamber music, ciates are awarded fellowships to the Center for one or electronic music, new jazz, a Berio premiere, a 20th two years, for intensive study and performance of new century classic by Carl Ruggles, and films with scores music. They present concerts in Buffalo at the Albright­ by Cage, Partch, and Varese. It is planned to continue Knox Art Gallery and in New York at Carnegie Recital the series next season. Remaining concerts this season Hall under the title, Evenings for New Music, and also are on Jan. 25, Mar. 22, Apr. 22, and May 7. a series of recitals in the University's Baird Hall. In The Center for New Music at the University of Iowa four seasons they have presented new works by com­ presented the American premiere of Messiaen's Cou­ posers both well-known and unknown, including mod­ leurs de la Cite Celeste at its opening concert in Octo­ ern classics, with emphasis on works which present ber. The Center has scheduled concerts at Iowa on interesting tasks for the performer. In March they will Feb. 18, Mar. 15, and May 4, and on tour in the participate in a Festival of the Arts Today in Buffalo, Midwest in March and April (cf. Calendar). It plays with Evenings for New Music on March 3, 10, and 17. a continuing role in the Theory-Composition Depart­ March 17 will be the date of the American premiere ment, with frequent seminars on performance prob­ of the "audience-participation" opera Votre Faust by lems and readings of student and faculty works; its Henri Pousseur, who is currently in residence at Buf­ presence has stimulated the composition of many new falo. Other Buffalo concerts are Feb. IO and Apr. 27 works. Chamber music scores (up to about IO players) (Evenings for N ew Music), and Jan. 24 and 31, Feb. 22 : may be submitted for performance to William Hibbard, and 28, Mar. 24, Apr. 9, and May 6 (Creative Associate Director, Center for New Music, University of Iowa, Recitals). New York Evenings for New ·Music are on Iowa City, Ia. 52240. A limited number of orchestral March 26 and April 30. scores may also be performed; submit to James Dixon, The University of California at San Diego is offering conductor, U. of Iowa Symphony Orchestra. The Uni­ a graduate seminar in Electronic Sound-Recording ancf versity of Iowa has an annual Symposium· of Contep:­ the Specialized Use of Electronics in Performance an.cl porary Music in May; this ye.ar's guest composer will Musicianship, given by Pauline Oliveros. The seminar be Mel Powell. will present concerts dealing with the use of electronics The University of Michigan's series, Contemporary in performance, in April, May, and June. Guest artists Direetions, wiU present works by Stockhausen and. will include David Tudor, Anthony Gnazzo, Lowell Boulez Feb. 24. These concerts reflect the activities of Cross, and Alvin Lucier. Scores are solicited for these · a project aimed at providing greater practical knowl­ concerts, and may be sent to Pauline Oliveros, Dept. edge of recent creative thought an·d typology. The proj­ of Music, University of California at San Diego, P.O.B. ect was made possible through a faculty research grant 109, La Jolla, Calif. 92037. enabling the composition staff to sustain a group of The Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia instrumentalists. Four other chamber music concerts University, now in its'.sixth season, recently announced · in this series were given during the 1967 summer ses­ its formal affiliation with the Coh1mbia-Princeton Ele.c~ sion, and a similar series is contemplated for summer, tronic Music Center; several tape and computer works 1968. Premiered during 1967 were works by Perlongo, Castiglioni, and Winsor; works by Davidovsky, Bolcom, ance problems requiring an ensemble of this calibre. Albright, Crumb, and Feldman were also performed. Composers are expected to be present at workshops Chamber music scores for consideration in the 1968 where their works are played. Submit scores, with summer series should be sent by June 1 to George stamped, addressed return envelope, to Prof. Robert Balch Wilson, School of Music, U. of Michigan, Ann Moevs, Workshop Director, Dept. of Music, Rutgers Arbor, Michigan. College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J. The Mills College Performing Group and Tape 08903. (An extended report on the Rutgers Ensemble Music Center is a workshop for composers in electronic appeared in the 1966 College Music Symp.osium.) music as well as a place for new works, both electronic The Aeolian Chamber Players at ·Sarah Lawrence and instrumental, to have a hearing. This season's con­ College present monthly seminars open to the public, certs include music of Balcom, Berio, Kirchner, Mil­ each devoted to one composer . Coming programs will haud, Ichiyanagi, Castiglioni, and others. A reading of be devoted to Edmund Haines (Feb. 12), Elliott Schwartz works by young composers in the Bay area is scheduled (March 13), Luciano Berio (April), and David Burge for May. Another special concert will include two (May). The Players also tour off-campus, and will per­ works commissioned for the group. The Tape Music form at the Bowdoin College Contemporary Music Center, now under the direction of Anthony Gnazzo, Festival (q.v.). Instrumentation consists of violin (or is being rebuilt, and by mid-spring will have two oper­ viola), cello, flute, clarinet, and piano, with doubling ating studios connected by a central control room. on auxiliary instruments. Scores for performance may Classes are offered in electronic music techniques, and be submitted to Lewis Kaplan, Director, Aeolian Cham­ the studio is used by twenty composers. Tape Center ber Players, Sarah Lawrence College. concerts this year include music by Wolfe, Cage, Lucier, The Contemporary Group at the University of Wash­ Behrman, Mumma, Ashley, and Rzewski. David Tudor, ington, directed by William 0 . Smith, has received a who is a visiting lecturer, performs in the concerts and Rockefeller grant to expand its activities and increase holds a weekly seminar in live electronic performance. its personnel, a grant matched by the University, which Scores for performance by the Performing Group and will gradually take over the complete support of this Tape Music Center, limited to about 8 players with Group on a permanent basis. Besides full professional or without tape, may be sent to Charles Boone, Co­ chamber orchestra on permanent faculty status, there ordinator. are yearly awards in student scholarships for perform­ New York University is inaugurating a series of con­ ance with the Group. Each season, the Group gives 6 certs of contemporary music to be held in Town Hall. concerts in Seattle, 3 in Spokane, 3 elsewhere in the The emphasis will be on chamber orchestra and large state, IO or more on the University campus by student chamber ensembles, works with chorus, and stage works. personnel, and weekly readings of student works. Special Not only new music, but seldom-performed classics of events of the current season include appearances at the the 20th century, will be included. The opening con­ CMS and MENC national conventions, and premieres ce'rt, in collaboration with the Group for Contem­ of works by Bartolotti, Nono, Stockhausen, and Verrall. porary Music at Columbia University, will take place New works by Crumb and Rochberg will be premiered May 12. A series of four concerts is projected for next next season. Coming Seattle dates are Feb. 4 and 25, season, with performers drawn from several contem­ Apr. 21, and May 12. The Group "would be most porary performing groups in the New York area. happy to receive scores in abundance," up to 25 play­ The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble at Rutgers ers, any combination. Send to Robert Suderburg, Asso­ University, directed by Arthur Weisberg, presents work. ciate Director, The Contemporary Group, University shops, open rehearsals, seminars, and public ·concerts of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98105. at the University, a concert series in Carnegie Recital Hall (remaining dates: Feb. 8 and May 9), and concerts on tour. Composers are invited to submit scores for SYMPOSIUMS AND FESTIVALS workshops and possible concert performance. The en­ semble consists of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, The University of Alabama will hold its 19th annual trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola (doubling Regional Composers Forum April 26-28. The Forum on mandolin), cello, and double bass, one each, with alternates between orchestral and chamber music, with woodwinds doubling on auxiliary instruments. Scores this year's Forum devoted to chamber music; works are are chosen on the basis of suitability of instrumenta­ mostly by composers living in the Southeast. This year's tion, with larger ensembles generally preferred, and guest composer is Roque Cordero, a Panamanian com­ the presence of notational, compositional, or perform- poser now in residence at Indiana U .; his string quartet, commissioned by the U. of Alabama String Quartet, Stevens and the Iowa Woodwind Quintet as guests. will have its premiere at the Forum. Information from Symposium chairman is Charles K. Hoag. Forum Committee, Box 2886, University, Ala. 35486. The University of Tennessee, with the Southeastern A symposium, "Chamber Music of Our Time," will Composers League and the American Choral Directors be held at the State University of New York at Bing­ Assn., announces the establishment of an annual sym­ ham.ton Feb. 10-13. The New York Woodwind Quintet posium of unpublished choral music, the first to be and the Guarneri String Quartet will participate in held May 17-19. Works may be submitted for mixed concerts, discussions, open rehearsals, and demonstra­ chorus, men's or women's glee club, madrigal singers, tions of performance problems. Also participating in or collegium musicum. Soloists and limited instrumen­ discussion will be composers William Klenz, Karl Korte, tal accompaniment (piano, organ, brass, woodwinds, and William Sydeman, whose works are among those percussion) are available. Composers from the South­ program.med. Open to the public free of charge; sched­ east will be given preference, though all may submit ule from Karl Korte, Harpur College, State U. of New scores; composers are expected to attend if performed. York at Binghamton. Scores should be submitted by Feb. I to Symposium Bowdoin College will present its Contemporary Music Committee, Dept. of Music, U. of Tennessee, Knox­ Festival May 3-4, with the Aeolian Chamber Players ville, Tenn. 37916. performing. The program includes premieres of works by Luciano Berio and David Burge, and also of a work selected in recent competition. The winning work (to ACTIVITIES OF OTHER SOCIETIES be announced) will also be published by the Bowdoin The American Music Center is a non-profit organ­ College press. The English composer Richard Arnell is ization founded in 1939 to foster and encourage the visiting composer at Bowdoin this year; a program of composition of contemporary music, and to promote his works is scheduled for Jan. 21. its production, distribution, publication, and perform­ The 3rd Festival of Contemporary Music at the Uni­ ance. Composers in any style and with any professional versity of Colorado, March 1-8, will have as guests affiliation may join the Center and receive many bene­ Bethany Beardslee, George Crumb, and Eric Salzman. fits through membership. Among the works to be performed are Babbitt's Philo­ mel, Crumb's Echoes of Time and the River, and Burge's At its New York headquarters, the Center maintains Song of a Sixpence. a library of members' scores for examination by con­ ductors, performers, and other interested persons. It The University of Colorado is also having an orches­ also acts as an information bureau, and its files of com­ tral symposium., sponsored by the Rockefeller Founda­ tion, with the Denver Symphony in residence, April poser biographical material, publishers' catalogs, infor­ 24-30. Scores for full orchestra by American composers mation on grants and festivals, and the like, may be are sought for performance. Send scores, and inquiries freely consulted. Current information of this nature on both events, to David Burge, P.O.B. 489, Boulder, is made available 6 times a year in the AMC News­ Colo. 80302. letter, Music Today, and in assorted other mailings. Georgia State College, in conjunction with the South­ Music Today also publishes information on members' eastern Composers League, will holds its annual Sym­ activities, their performances, publications, awards, etc. posium of Contemporary Music for Brass Feb. 16-18 in The American Music Center has valuable interna­ Atlanta. The College Brass Ensemble, directed by Wil­ tional contacts through its membership in the Inter­ liam. H. Hill, will premiere new works for brass, alone national Committee of Music Information Centres of or combined with other media; several works this year the International Assn. of Music Libraries, and through include tape. The New York Brass Quintet will be its position as the Official Information Center of the guests and will premiere a work by Robert Stewart National Music Councils, which is chartered by the com.missioned at last year's Symposium. (A detailed U.S. Congress. Music Today is distributed abroad to account of this Symposium appears in the Fall 1967 all USIA posts. issue of The Brass World.) The Georgia State College From time to time, the Center has been chosen to Brass Ensemble will also include many Symposium administer various grants, awards, and performance works on its 2 programs at the MENC national con­ projects. Recently, in conjunction with the American vention. Information from William H. Hill, Dept. of Composers Alliance, the Center has formed a corpo­ Music, Georgia State College, 33 Gilmer St. S.E., At­ ration called Pioneer Editions, Inc., for the duplica­ lanta, Ga. 30303. tion, dissemination, and sale of members' unpublished The University of Oklahoma will present an Okla­ scores. Through membership, composers can also re­ homa Composers Symposium Feb. 28-29, with Halsey ceive substantial discounts on the reproduction of manuscripts, recording services, and the purchase of second year students in IMCE courses were provided music, books, records, and supplies. by two or three students from each of three schools: Membership for composers is $10 a year. Other cate­ the California State Colleges at San Diego Alban Berg Society, Ltd., has re­ The Music Forum, an annual publication edited by cently been formed to promote the performance, pub­ William J. Mitchell and Felix Salzer, has just issued its lication, and study of Berg's works. The Society plans first volume. Articles will include analysis, theory, his­ to distribute information regarding Berg-studies, as well tory, performance practice and criticism. Many will as matters of publication and performance, in an an­ stress Schenkerian analysis. Musical manuscripts will nual newsletter, and to make available to members be reproduced and published accompanied by articles reprints of articles containing important Berg research. discussing them. The first volume contains articles Annual membership $10. Claudio Spies, Sec.-Treas., ranging from the Middle Ages through the 20th Cen­ c/o Music Dept., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, tury. Of special interest is George Perle's article, "The Pa. 19081. Musical Language of Wozzeck." This is an expanded version of the paper Mr. Perle read at the first confer­ The topic for the 1968 meeting of the American ence of the American Society of University Composers Society of Aesthetics will be: "Performing Artists and in New York. Order f.rom Columbia University Press, their Media." Papers and performances will relate to 136 South Broadway, Irvington, N. Y. 10533. current problems of dance, music, and theatre, rela­ A new Contemporary Music Newsletter is being pub­ tions between media, relations of composition to per­ lished jointly by the Group for Contemporary Music formance, etc. The meeting will be held at the Univer­ at Columbia and the Dept. of Music at NYU. The sity of Texas, Austin, Oct. 24-26. An announcement January issue has a survey of computer synthesis of appears in the Winter 1967 issue of the journal of music in the New York area, at Bell Telephone Lab., Aesthetics and Art Criticism, p. 280; the same issue IBM Watson Research Center, Columbia, Brooklyn contains an article by Van Meter Ames, "What is Polytechnic, NYU, Queens College, and Princeton. It Music?" on the new music aesthetic as seen by Boulez, also lists coming programs by the Group at Columbia Stockhausen, Brown, Cage, Foss, Briin, et al. and by several other New York groups. Mailing address: Contemporary Music Newsletter, 632 West !25th St., SPECIAL COURSES; New York, N. Y. 10027. CURRICULUM INNOVATIONS The Gaudeamus Foundation, Postbox 30, Bilthoven, A workshop, "Electronic Synthesis of Music," will be Netherlands, issues an information bulletin free of presented at Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale June charge with brief notices (in English) of European com­ 10-22. It will concern computer synthesis and sound petitions, contemporary music festivals, premieres, etc. convention, and publication. Deadline March 1. Rose CURRENT RESEARCH Marie Grentzer, 3021 Rowland Place N.W., Washing­ ton, D. C. 20008. A book on new systems of music notation is being Student Composer Awards, BMI. Western hemi­ compiled by Gardner Read. He would welcome cor­ sphere composers under 26 on Dec. 31, 1967, who are respondence from composers working with experimen­ regular students of composition. $250 to $2000. Dead­ tal systems, including examples of new symbols, so as line Feb. 15. Oliver Daniel, SCA Project, Broadcast to make the survey as complete as possible. All such Music, Inc., 589 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017. contributions will be gratefully acknowledged in the Harvey Gaul Contest. Art song with Sandburg text; book. Address communications to Dr. Gardner Read, or Christmas composition for two harps and organ. School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston University, Composers must be U. S. citizens. $250, $150, $100. $5 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. 02215. ent:ry fee. Deadline June 1. Mrs. David V. Murdoch, A program of computer synthesis of music has been Contest Chairman, 5914 Wellesley Ave., Pittsburgh, initiated at New York University, under the direction Pa. 15206. of Benjamin Boretz. The Music 4BF program has been Anthem Competition, Rochester Festival of Reli­ adapted to the CDC 6600 computer by Hubert S. Howe, gious Arts. Solo anthem category for vocal solo, duet, Jr. and Richard Friedman; the adapted program is trio, OT quartet; congregational anthem category pref­ called Music 66. erably unison; either may be accompanied or not. $100 and performance at Festival, Apr. 26-May 5. Deadline COMPETITIONS Feb. 15. Music Committee, Rochester Festival of Reli­ (deadline dates are all 1968) gious Arts, Central Presbyterian Church, 50 Plymouth Contest for Percussion Quartet, 10-15 min. $1000 and Ave. N., Rochester, N. Y. 14614. publication; 1 year's performance rights by New Per­ cussion Quartet. Deadline for score and parts May 1. Southern California Vocal Assn. Contest. Choral Composition Contest, Center of the Creative and Per­ composition suitable for high school. $250 and publi­ forming Arts, State U. of N. Y. at Buffalo, Music Dept., cation. Deadline Apr. 1. Mrs. Russell Gerow, Exec. Sec., Baird Hall, Buffalo, N. Y. 14214. Southern Calif. Vocal Assn., P.0.B. 5522, Pasadena, Calif. 91107. Joseph H. Bearns Prize. American composers be­ tween 18 and 25, incl. $1200 for work in one of the National Society of Arts and Letters. Non-serial work large media; $900 for work in one of 1the smaller media. for solo voice and chamber ensemble, with American Deadline March 1. Bearns Prize Committee, 703 Dodge text, 8-15 min. Composers 18 through 29 on June 19, Hall, Columbia U., New York, N. Y. 10027. 1968. $1000. Deadline Feb. 20. Mrs. James P. Wilson, 325 N. Mosley, St. Louis, Mo. 63141. Prince of Monaco Prize. Annual. Features chamber and sacred music in 1968 and 1971, orchestral music National Federation of Music Clubs Young Compos­ in 1970. 20,000 francs. General Secretary, Composi­ ers Contest. Composers between 18 and 25 who are tion Prize "Prince Pierre de Monaco," Palais Princier, NFMC members. Deadline Apr. 1. NFMC, Suite 1215, Monaco. 600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60605. Queen Marie-Jose Prize. Organ work in 1 to 4 mvts., International Piano Contest for Contemporary Music, 12-16 min. Composers not over 50 on Jan. l, 1968. "Concours Olivier Messiaen." Pianists not over 33 on 10,000 Swiss francs and radio performance. Deadline April 4, 1968. Apply by March l; the competition takes for score and tape May 31. Secretariat of the Musical place in Royan April 4-7. Contest Secretariat, Bureau Prize Contest "Queen Marie-Jose," 1249 Merlinge (Gy), de Concerts, Maurice Werner, 11 Avenue Delcasse, Geneva, Switzerland. Paris Se, France. Oscar Espla Prize. Unperformed symphonic work (may incl. chorus). 100,000 pesetas and performance. REMINDER Deadline March 15. Office of the Secretary, Oscar Espla 1968 membership dues may now be paid. Checks Prize, Town Hall, Alicante, Spain. for $25 ($10 for student members) should be sent to Sigma Alpha Iota. Work for mixed or women's Harvey Sollberger, Treasurer, American Society of chorus. Composers from North, Central, and South University Composers, c/o Department of Music, America between 22 and 35. $300, premiere at SAI Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 10027. 17 - Composers Forum, Donnell Library, New York. CALENDAR 18 - Concert, U. of Iowa Center for New Music. 20 - Contemporary Music Soc., Guggenheim Museum, (Check elsewhere in this Newsletter for more details New York. on many listings.) 22 - Creative Associates Recital, Buffalo. 24 - Contemporary Direction series, U. of Michigan. JANUARY 25 - Concert, U. of Washington Contemporary Group, Seattle. 16 - Contemporary Music Soc., Guggenheim Museum, New York. 26 - Monday Eve. Concert, Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art. 17 -American premiere, The Mines of Sulphur, opera by R. R. Bennett, at Juilliard. 27 - Greenwich House Contempornry Series, New York. 20 - Composers Forum, Donnell Library, New York. 28 - Creative Associates Recital, Buffalo. 21 - ·works of Richard Arnell, Bowdoin College. 28 - Oklahoma Composers Symposium, U. of Okla­ homa. Through Feb. 29. 22 _:_Monday Eve. Concert, Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art. 23 - Greenwich House Contempornry Series, New Yo'l:k. MARCH 24 - Creative Associates Recital, Buffalo. I - Festival of Contemporary Music, U. of Colorado. 25 - New Image of Sound concert, Hunter College. Through Mar. 8. 31 - Creative Associates Recital, Buffalo. 3 - Evening For New Music/Festival of the Arts To­ day, Buffalo. 6 - Composers Theatre, Studio 58, New York. FEBRUARY 9 .,-- U. of Iowa Center for New Music concert at Cedar Rapids, Ia. 4- Concert, U. of Washington Contemporary Group, Seattle. 10 - Evening for New Music/Festival of the Arts Today, Buffalo. 5 -Monday Eve. Concert, Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art. 11 -Monday Eve. Concert, Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art. 7 - Composers Theatre, Studio 58, New York. 13 - Works by Elliott Schwartz, Sarah Lawrence Col. 8 - Rutgers Contemporary Chamber Ensemble at Car­ negie Recital Hall, New York. 14 - NAACC chamber music concert, New York.

10 - Evening for New Music, Buffalo. 15 - Concert, U. of Iowa, Center for New Music. 10 - Symposium, Chamber Music of Our Time, SUNY/ 16 - Composers Forum, Donnell Librnry, New York. Binghamton. Through Feb. 13. 17 - American premiere, Votre Faust, opera by Pous- 12 - Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia Uni­ seur, Buffalo. versity, MacMillin Theater, New York. 17 - U. of Iowa Center for New Music concert at Illi­ 12 - Works of Edmund Haines, Sarah Lawrence Col. nois Wesleyan U. 12 - Monday Eve. Concert, Los Angeles Co. Museum 18 - Group for Contempmary Music at Columbia Uni­ of Art. versity, MacMillan Theater, New Yorrk. 12 - NAACC concert, Town Hall, New York. 20 - N. Y. premiere, Bomarzo, opera by Ginastera, New York State Theatre. 16 - Brass Symposium, Georgia State College. Through Feb. 18. 22 ....:.New Image of Sound concert, Hunter College. 24 - Creative Associates Recital, Buffalo. MAY 25 - Monday Eve. Concert, Los Angeles Co. Museum /} I - Composers Theatre, Studio 58, New York. of Art. 3 - Contemporary Music Festival, Bowdoin College. 26 - Evening for New Music, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York. Through May 4. 4 - U. of Iowa Center for New Music concert. 28 - N. Y. premiere, Carrie Nation, opera by Douglas Moore, N. Y. State Theatre. 5 - ISCM concert, American and European vocal mu­ sic, New York. 31 - ISCM birthday concert for Roger Sessions, New York. 6 - Creative Associates Recital, Buffalo. 7 - New Image of Sound concert, Hunter College. 9 - Rutgers Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Car­ APRIL negie Recital Hall, New York. 2 - U. of Iowa Center for New Music concert

9 - Creative Associates Recital, Buffalo. 9. - NAACC concert of chamber music, New York. JUNE

14 - ISCM concert, Composers Quartet, New York. IO - Electronic music workshop, Southern Ill. U. Through June 22. 17 - Greenwich House Contemporary Series, New York.

21 - Concert, U. of Washington Contemporary Group, Seattle. JULY

22 - New Image of Sound concert, Hunter College. 29 - Electronic music workshop, Peabody Conserva­ tory. Through Aug. 2. 23 - Contemporary Music Society, Guggenheim Mu­ seum, New York.

24 - U. of Colo. Rockefeller Symposium wit h Denver SEPTEMBER Symphony. Through Apr. 30. 6 - International Music Week of Gaudeamus Foun­ 26 - U. of Alabama Composers Forum. Through Apr. dation, Bilthoven, Holland. Through Sept. 13. 28. 27 - Evening for New Music, Buffalo. 21 '- ISCM International Festival, Warsaw. Through Sept. 26. 29 - Audio Engineering Soc. convention, Los Angeles, through May 2. 30 - Evening for New Music, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York. •

EDITORIAL COMMENT

With this issue, the Newsletter of the American So­ be lengthy. A post card, a short note, a brochure or ciety of University Composers begins publication. Its newspaper clippings-none of these takes much time to aim will be to present current information of general mail, and yet much helpful information can be pooled membership interest, information not readily available in this way. In particular, regional chairmen, college in other publications. It will report on the activities of music departments, directors of festivals and perform­ the Society and its Regional Councils, on contempo­ ing groups, sponsors of competitions, and the like, are rary performing groups, current research, curriculum urged to keep the Newsletter on their regular mailing innovations, government and foundation activity, com­ lists. It has also been suggested that regional chairmen petitions, pertinent reference to other professional so­ appoint someone specifically to report on activity of cieties and publications, and the like. Symposiums, fes­ interest within the region; this need not be confined tivals, and important premieres will be reported, where only to events sponsored by the Regional Councils. possible, well in advance, with specific dates and loca­ tions. Reports will be brief and up to date, with data Send material at any time for use in a subsequent on where more complete information may be obtained. issue to the Newsletter Editor: It is not planned to include long articles, or routine announcements of the compositions and performances Jean Eichelberger Ivey of members. (For further details of policy, see recent 13 Duzine Road Society mailings, especially Plans for the Newsletter.) New Paltz, N. Y. 12561 A special feature is the Calendar of events all over the country; it is hoped that this will grow in com­ Special gratitude is extended to the other members pleteness and usefulness to members. The apportion­ of the Newsletter committee for their efforts in plan­ ment of space in this first issue reflects the information ning this document: available; university performing groups, for instance, responded particularly well with information this time. David Cohen, Arizona State University In a later issue, the balance may be quite different. Carlton Gamer, Colorado College The publication of a good Newsletter depends on Gilbert Trythall, Peabody College for Teachers the cooperation of the membership in contributing appropriate items which, be it remembered, need not Rolv Yttrehus, University of .Missouri ..

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY COMPOSERS, INC. A non-profit cmporation in the state of New York c/o Department of Music Columbia University New York, N. Y. 10027

Executive Committee Richmond Browne, Yale University David Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology William Hibbard, University of Iowa Hubert S. Howe, Jr., Queens College Ben Johnston, University of Illinois Joel Mandelbaum, Queens College Harvey Sollberger, Columbia University Roy Travis, University of California, Los Angeles

Nati.anal Council I Robert Cogan, New England Conservatory Martin Boykan, Brandeis University II Leo Kraft, Queens College IV Donald Maclnnis, University of Virginia V Randolph E. Coleman (Chairman), Oberlin College VII Carlton Gamer, Colorado College VIII Barney Childs, Deep Springs College

Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Newsletter Editor

Materials should be sent to: 13 Duzine Road New Paltz, New Yark 12561