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NEWSLETTER Of The American Musical Instrument Society Vol. XVIII, No.1 February 1989 Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art AM IS members attending the annual meeting in New York City will be able to view this exhibition of recently-acquired Korean instruments in the Andre' Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments. sions, musical interludes, and other activities struments, will be on view in the Amsterdam AMIS MEETS MAY 25-28 follow on the next two days, with the AMIS Gallery of the Library & Museum of the Per IN NEW YORK CITY business meeting and extra events on Sunday. forming Arts at Lincoln Center, and the The schedule (see pp. 2-3 of this Newsletter) American Museum of Natural History has In honor of the centennial of the Crosby allows ample time to visit the Andre Mertens deployed many of its non-Western instruments Brown Collection at The Metropolitan Museum Galleries for Musical Instruments at the in new galleries. of Art, the 18th-annual AMIS meeting will be Metropolitan Museum and to enjoy A Musical Other highlights of the meeting include a held in New York City, May 25-28, 1989. Most Offering, a special, NEA-funded exhibition of concert by the Mozartean Players, during of the official sessions will occur at Barnard about 100 outstanding recent acquisitions, which the Curt Sachs Award for 1989 will be College, which marks its centenary at the same many of which have not been displayed before. prllsented; this program will be followed by a time. Low-cost lodging is available in Bar The Museum is also planning a display of ex reception at the lovely townhouse of AMIS nard's dormitory, located directly across the citing new instruments by Ben Hume, a young member, Frederick R. Selch. The traditional street from the main building, Barnard Hall, American maker of imaginative and exotic in banquet will take place at Barnard College, and on the west side of Broadway at 116th Street. struments. will be followed by the second-annual AMIS Registration will begin at Barnard Hall at Concurrently, Shapes of the Baroque, an ex Show 'n' Sell auction. noon on May 25th; that evening, an informal hibit mounted by the American Federation of On Sunday afternoon the Metropolitan reception will be held outdoors, weather per Violin and Bow Makers to illustrate the Museum will present several films about mitting, on the college grounds. Papers, discus- historical development of bowed stringed in- (Continued on p. 2) 2 NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL AMERICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SOCIETY INSTRUMENT SOCIETY Andre' P. Larson, Editor The Newsletter is published in February, June, and October 18TH-ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MEETING for the members of the American Musical Instrument Socie ty (AMIS). News items. photos. reviews. and short monographs are invited, as well as any other information of interest to AM IS members. Address all correspondence to the May 25-28, 1989 Editor. AMIS Newsletter. c/o The Shrine to Music Museum. 414 E. Clark Street. Vermillion. SD 57069-2390 USA. Re quests for back issues and all correspondence regarding membership (820.00 per year) should be directed to the AMIS New York, New York Membership Office. c/o The Shrine to Music Museum. 414 E. Clark Street. Vermillion. SD 57069-2390 USA. BOARD OF GOVERNORS Cecil Adkins. ... President (1987-89) THURSDAY, MAY 25 (Barnard College) Laurence Libin. Vice-President (1987-89) Robert A. Lehman. .. Secretary (1988-89) Robert E. Eliason. .. Treasurer (1988-89) 12:00- Registration. Margaret D. Banks (1987-90) William E. Hettrick (1988-91) Jane Bowers (1988-91) Cynthia Hoover (1987-90) 3:00- 6:00 Board of Governors Meeting. Edmund Bowles (1988-91) Edward Kollick (1988-91) 6:00- 8:00 Reception. Ralph T. Dudgeon (1987-89) Barbara Lambert (1987-90) Lloyd P. Farrar (1987-90) J. Kenneth Moore (1987-89) Marianne Wurlitzer (1986-89) FRIDAY, MAY 26 (Morning activities at Barnard College) 9:00-10:30 Wind Instruments (Continued from p. 1) Tula Giannini, South Orange, New Jersey, "Jacques Hotteterre Ie Romain musical instruments-"Diro and His Talking and His Father, Martin: A New Look Based on Recently Found Documents." Music Bow" (W. Africa), "Making a Cello," and Cecil Adkins, North Texas State University, "Oboes beyond Compare? Not "A Drum is Made" (Nigeria)-as well as three Any More!" lectures by distinguished speakers, including Simon Levin, retired curator of the instrument Debra Kahler, University of South Dakota, "Unusual Trumpet and Cornet collection in Leningrad, and Hubert Henkel, Mouthpieces of the Early Twentieth Century." newly-appointed curator of the collection at the 10:45-11:45 Scientific Topics Deutsches Museum in Munich (and former Edward L. Kottick, University of Iowa, "Modal Behavior of Harpsichords: director of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum in What Vibrates and How" Leipzig). John Koster, New Bedford, Massachusetts, "Scientific Wood Identification: AMIS members who wish to prolong their A Look at the Possibilities" stay in New York may remain at Barnard Col 10:30-10:45 Break. lege up to two weeks at the reduced conference rate, a real bargain in this city. However, the 12:00-12:30 Miniconcert. dormitory has only twelve double rooms, so im 12:30- Lunch (on your own). mediate reservations are advised for couples Afternoon free, allowing for visits to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (An and persons wishing to share. More luxurious, dre Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments, plus A Musical Offering, but still inexpensive, alternate housing is an exhibition of 100 recent acquisitions), Lincoln Center (Shapes of the Ba available directly across Central Park from the roque, an exhibit prepared by the American Federation of Violin and Bow Museum, at the Excelsior Hotel (for informa Makers), and/or other activities. tion see the registration form enclosed with this Newsletter or phone the hotel directly at 7:00- Concert, The Mozartean Players, plus presentation of the Curt Sachs Award, 212-362-9200). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Local arrangements chairman for the Reception, home of Mr. & Mrs. Frederick R. Selch. meeting is Laurence Libin, Curator of the Department of Musical Instruments at the SATURDAY, MAY 27 (Barnard College) Metropolitan Museum of Art. William E. Het trick, Professor of Music at Hofstra Universi 9:00-10:30 Keyboard and Percussion Instruments ty, and Marianne Wurlitzer of Wurlitzer-Bruck Rodger Kelly, University of South Dakota, "Paul von Janko's Neue Claviatur: in New York, are co-chairmen of the program Was It a Viable Alternative?" committee. AMIS members are reminded that the Roland Loest, "The Great Square·Piano Bonfire of 1904." Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition Harrison Powley, Brigham Young University, "Music for the Holzspiel: A follows immediately after the meeting in New New Repertory." York. 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45·11:45 Bowed Stringed Instruments Frederick R. Selch, New York City, "The Five·String Bass Viol from Praetorius FISKE MUSEUM PLANS to Prescott." APRIL CONCERTS Allison A. Alcorn, University of South Dakota, "Current Trends in Issues of Violin Making: Case Study-Minnesota Makers." J ames Tyler and members of his group, La 11:45-12:00 Musica Viva, will present a concert of Baroque Break. vocal and instrumental music, with the British 12:00-12:30 Miniconcert. tenor, Nigel Rogers, on Sunday, April 9, at 3:00 12:30- 2:00 Lunch (on your own). p.m. in Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, 2:00- 3:30 Iconographical Topics Claremont, California. The eight instrumen talists play bowed and plucked stringed in Sue Carole DeVale, University of California, Los Angeles, "Harps and Har struments characteristic of the period. pists in Medieval Persian Miniatures." Frans Briiggen will perform a recital of Baro Alis Dickinson, North Texas State University, "Musical Instruments in the que and contemporary works for solo recorder Pre·Raphaelite World." on Friday, April 28, at 8:00 p.m. in Balch Dennis G. Waring, Middletown, Connecticut, "Advertising the Estey Reed Auditorium, Scripps College, Claremont. This Organ: Trade-Card Iconography." will be Briiggen's first southern California ap pearance in several years. 3:30, 4:00 Break. 3 4:00- 5:00 Demonstration of instruments in the Violin Octet, directed by Carleen M. Hut- chins and sponsored by the Catgut Acoustical Society, Inc. NEWS OF MEMBERS 5:00- 6:45 Break. Walter Hermann Sallagar of Vienna (he ac tually lives in the forest about 35 miles 6:45- 7:30 Cocldails. southwest of the city) is happy to assist or meet 7:30- Banquet, followed by auction. AMIS members who plan to visit Austria. He works with woodwinds, particularly bassoons SUNDAY, MAY 28 (Morning activities at Barnard College) and contrabassoons. 8:00- 9:00 Editorial Board Meeting. Gary M. Stewart, Conservator at The Shrine to Music Museum in Vermillion, has been pro 9:30-10:30 Annual Business Meeting. moted from Assistant to Associate Professor 10:30-12:00 Brunch. of Museum Science at the University of South 12:00- 5:00 Special Program, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dakota. Michael Nagy of Vienna is still working at the Wiener Staatsoper with Claudio Abbado MET CELEBRATES CROSBY A MUSICAL OFFERING and at the Wiener Musikhochschule, where he says he is involved with interesting acoustic BROWN CENTEN NIAL OPENS AT THE MET IN research projects dealing with musical "A Musical Offering," a series of special NYC ON MARCH 10 instruments. events celebrating the Centennial of the Crosby Laurence Libin, Curator of Musical In Brown Collection of Musical Instruments at A Musical Offering, a special exhibition of struments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art in N ew York 100 musical instruments acquired by The in New York and Vice President of AMIS, was City, continues (see AMIS Newsletter, October Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City malTied to Kathryn Lynn Shanks on New 1988, p.