IAML Electronic Newsletter No. 20, March 2006 sessions on copyright and film music, IAMIC-IAML-IMS 2006 training sessions and opportunies to hear Swiss composers and conductors. y An- nika Stemshorn reported the changes which had taken place in the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln. Jutta Lambrecht now has responsibility for shhet music and music information. y Martie Severt from the Netherlands told of the effects of a major reduction in the annual budget for music in his broadcasting com- pany, which included a 25% cut in the li- brary budget. y Finally, Roberto Grisley announced that the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome is seeking to digi- tize the string masters from orchestral works conducted by such figures as Pap- pano and Sawallisch. Veslemöy Heintz (here at the Ircam Mul- The second session focused on Collect- timedia Library), chair of the organizing ing, promoting and distributing contem- committee, reminds you that the early porary music. The speakers – Mieczyslaw registration deadline is April 10, 2006. Kominek and Andrzej Kosowski – repre- After that date, a higher fee will be sented respectively the Polish Music In- charged. formation Center (PolMIC) and the first Polish music publisher of note, PWM Edi- Further report from tion. PolMIC was founded in 1925, be- IAML 2005 came a member of IAMIC in the nineties and plans to launch a database of biogra- Broadcasting and Orchestras phies of performing musicians, musicolo- Branch gists and composers, and to digitize its collections. As to PWM, it lost its monop- Two sessions took place during the con- oly in 1989 and subsequently reorganized ference. At the Working meeting on to adopt marketing policies. It signed an Tuesday, Gina Boaks of the Royal Opera agreement with Chester, to cover distribu- House Covent Garden, London, described tion in Western Europe, and had particular the history of HOLiWog (Hire and Orches- financial success partly as a result of the tral Librarians’ Working Group), a com- popularity of Gorecki’s Third Symphony. mittee of representatives of orchestras and Educational materials form a substantial publishers’ hire librarians. In the ensuing part of the publisher’s output, which in- discussion, librarians described their ex- cludes also film, pop titles, illustrated lives perience with music hire in their respective of musicians and text books at all levels. countries. y Jürg Obrecht of the Zurich The rental library in Krakow possesses Tonhalle spoke about the upcoming 60,000 titles and orchestras find it cheaper MOLA conference (Major Orchestra Li- to rent orchestral materials. brarians’ Association), the first one to be Angela Escott held in Europe, and which will include Branch secretary

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Music (in) libraries Open position The library of the Our long-time Advertising Man- Juilliard School has ager, Sarah Canino, has asked us to recently received search for a replacement. Informa- 139 original rare tion on responsibilities and qualifica- music manuscripts, tions can be found here. If you are including first edi- interested in this position or have tions with compos- questions about the duties, please ers’ emendations, contact me at [email protected]. sketches and prin- Maureen Buja ter’s proofs; they range from Purcell to Mozart to Schubert to Brahms to Schnittke, and include the New book: audio in libraries printer's manuscript of Beethoven’s Ninth The Music Library Association has is- Symphony, Mozart’s autograph of part of sued the fifth volume in its Basic Manual the final scene of Le Nozze di Figaro and Series. Jim Farrington’s Audio and Video manuscripts of parts of Brahms's Sym- Equipment Basics for Libraries presents all phony No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 2. the information librarians need to know to They were donated to the Library by Bruce make intelligent decisions about providing Kovner, chairman of Juilliard’s board. listening and viewing facilities in libraries. According to Jane Gottlieb, the room to Everything from what to look for when house the collection will be built in what is buying new equipment, to how it works, to now a faculty lounge, and in the interim what to think about when designing a new the collection will be consolidated in a listening facility or retrofitting an existing storage facility and available on an ex- space is considered. tremely limited basis. Books: La bibliotheca de Events, publications música, free to libraries The Music Direction of the Argentine’s BBC Legends new releases National Government's Culture Secretary has just published the first three vols. of its This label of historical performances has new short music books collection called La recently issued recordings of Pierre Mon- biblioteca de música (The Music Library). teux conducting Weber’s Jubel Overture, They are offering to send them free of Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin, Pijper’s charge (shipping included) to those librar- Symphony no. 3, Elgar’s Enigma Varia- ies which might be interested in having tions and Chabrier’s Fête polonaise. These them. The first three titles are: were sources from collectors, as they don’t exist in the BBC archives. Vol.1 La música de las esferas (Music of the Spheres) Texts by Cicerón, New CD: stock market music Macronio, Favonio. The Somnium Scipi- onis narrated by Cicero and the first Span- Playing the Market is a recent experi- ish translation of its commentaries by Am- mental music recording by Emerald Sus- brosius Theodosius Macrobius and Fa- pension. The project features audio com- vonius Eulogius. positions based on patterns found in the stock market and in economic data. The Vol. 2 De Música (About Music) Texts resulting tracks range from minimalist or- by Esteban Buch, Mariano Etkin, León chestral pieces to raw industrial audio ar- Ferrari, Fogwill, Gerardo Gandini, Horacio rangements. González and Francisco Kröpfl. Short texts on musical though by contemporary Ar-

2 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 20 March 2006 gentine composers, philosophers, writers and artists. Change of address Vol. 3 Juan Bautista Alberdi. Teoría y The Italian IAML branch has praxis de la música (Juan Bautista Alber- changed address as of January 2006. di. Theory and practice of Music). Selec- It is now: tion and a preliminary study by Pola IAML Italia Suarez Urtubey. Texts by Argentine's 19th c/o Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai e century philosopher musician and politi- Archivi Storici cian Juan Bautista Alberdi. Piazza Vecchia, 15 All three books are in Spanish. Of your I-24129 Bergamo library is interested in having them, please Italy respond privately and I will compile a list. Leandro Donozo +39.035.399430  +39.035.240655 Shostakovich centennial Federica Riva As Dmitri Shostakovich was born on September 25, 1906, tion of the 30 years of his death at the many celebrations Festival de Colmar in 2005, then with con- take place this year. certs in early January, including the ¡ Binghamton Uni- Concert du centenaire organized by the versity (New York) Association Internationale Dimitri Chosta- announces concerts, kovitch, which will soon (April) publish on lectures, poetry rea- its web site a calendar of international ding and an art ex- events related to this commemoration. The hibit, to start March newly revamped Salle Pleyel (see below) 23. The University will hold a series of concerts Chostako- of Texas, Austin has opened a web site vitch et la musique russe throughout its providing information on Shostakovich 2006-2007 season with various orchestras, and his music, and on the events in the soloists and conductors, including Mstislav Austin area. Rutgers will hold a Rostropovicth, Vladimir Fedosseiev, Paavo Shostakovich Festival on April 7-9. ¡ Järvi or Mikhail Pletnev. ¡ Russia will Meanwhile in London, Valery Gergiev is celebrate in kind: The Golden Age ballet is continuing his “epic 15-month journey scheduled in March and July at the Bolshoi through the complete Shostakovich sym- Theater. Mstislav Rostropovich will inau- phony cycle at the Barbican Hall”. The gurate the Museum Shostakovich in Skt. BBC Radio 3 just broadcast all of his Petersburg on the anniversary day. Mean- string quartets and provides online re- while, DSCH Publishers continues work- cordings of Rostropovich talking about ing on a 150-volume edition of all of Shostakovich. A Symposium/Festival Shostakovich’s works, including many “Shostakovich 100” will take place on unpublished ones. In 2006, there are pub- September 24 and 25 at the Queen Eliza- lishing a facsimile of the 13th Symphony beth Hall in London, and another one a few and a photo album. days later at the University of Bristol. ¡ Shostakovich’s 15 symphonies con- Several events are scheduled for Septem- ducted by Kirill Kondrashin were recently ber in the Netherlands as well. ¡ France reissued in a boxed CD set. started quite early – in 2004, with the Cycle Chostakovitch at the Orchestre Na- Conservatoire’s new web tional de France, scheduled to close in Five years after having launched its web 2006 – and followed with a commemora- site, the Conservatoire is inaugurating its

3 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 20 March 2006 new version at the same address, fuller and more functional. It includes information on RILM survey registration, curricula and resources and RILM Abstracts of Music Litera- events of the Conservatoire. The Journal ture invites you to participate in a du Conservatoire, started in 1994 on paper, brief survey that will help us to refine and geared to its students and personnel, is our database's coverage and search also available online. tools, and to understand better the diverse needs of the wide range of Awards, grants people who use it. The survey will take only five to ten minutes to com- plete, and your input will result in an MLA award to RILM volume improved RILM for everyone. The annotated bibliography Speaking of Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie Music: Music Conferences, 1835-1966 has just won the Music Library Association’s prestigious Vincent H. Duckles Award for Cuban national music awards the best music research tool published in Five of the most emblematic Cuban art- 2004. ists have been recently awarded the 2005 Speaking of Music documents over 6,000 National Prize of Music during a gala- published papers on musical topics that concert ceremony held in December at the were presented at 496 conferences held Auditorium Hall of the Amadeo Roldan between 1835 and 1966. The book includes Theater in Havana: Cuba’s all-time ve- music-related items from conferences de- dette, Rosita Fornes, singer and songwriter voted to nonmusical topics such as psy- Pablo Milanes, pianist and composer, chology or folklore, and it fully covers Frank Fernández, musicologist and peda- meetings devoted exclusively to music. gogue, Maria Antonieta Henríquez, and Each entry includes a bibliographic citation chorus director and composer, Cuca and summary; detailed indexes are organ- Rivero. ized by topics and authors as well as by Henríquez, a pro- conference locations and sponsors. Reflect- fessor and re- ing myriad currents of thought from the searcher, is the au- mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth cen- thor of a book on tury—the heyday of Romanticism, the ad- the life and work of vent of Modernism, the rise and fall of Cuban composer, Marxism, and the emergence of multicul- violinist and con- turalism, to name just a few—the book ductor Alejandro provides a window on intellectual history García Caturla, born through the prism of music. in 1906 and killed The award was presented at the Music when he was 34 Library Association’s annual conference in years old. In his Memphis, Tennessee. The organization, book on Cuban music, Alejo Carpentier which celebrates its 75th anniversary this wrote: “He was gifted with a true genius, year, is devoted to music librarianship and his creative powers manifested themselves all aspects of music in libraries. At the since adolescence in a series of earth- presentation of the award, Speaking of Mu- shaking works of vehement, dynamic, un- sic was described as “a bibliography that controllable expression.” Salabert pub- bares new paths for the history of musical lished a pocket score of his Trois danses scholarship as a field of study.” cubaines.

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61-year old Fernández is one the Cuban chamber music and piano virtuosi, at home with classical and with orchestras, for popular music. her teaching activi- ties which have edu- Elisabeth Leonskaya honoured cated generations of Pianist Elisabeth excellent pianists Leonskaya received and for her interna- the Austrian Cross tional concert of Honour for Sci- tours”. Pnina Salzman was born in 1922 in ence and Art, First , and started performing as a child Class last month. prodigy at the age of 6. After It’s the highest award of its kind in Austria. heard her play when she was 8, she re- Of Russian origin, she studied under Jacob ceived a special stipend to allow her to Milstein at the Moscow Conservatory. study at the École normale de musique in Before emigrating from the Soviet Union Paris, where she graduated with excellence and settling in Vienna in 1978, Elisabeth in 1935. Leonskaja had won the prestigious Enesco, The jury cited Rodan as “one of the Marguerite Long and Queen Elisabeth foremost musicians in , an inspiring Competitions. She had given many conductor who contributed much to the concerts, which included duets with development of orchestral music in Israel, Sviatoslav Richter in a partnership that had to the education of generations of young a profound influence on her subsequent conductors and to the fostering of new Is- development as an artist. However it was raeli music creation. He has performed and her sensational debut at the 1979 Salzburg recorded over 300 original Israeli composi- Festival that rapidly brought her name to tions.” Mendi Rodan, born in 1929, started the attention of western audiences. Since his professional activities as chief conduc- then, she has given countless recitals at tor of the Rumanian radio orchestra. He numerous international music festivals and came to Israel in 1961, and has conducted is a frequent guest in some of the worlds and taught there ever since. He conducts most prestigious concert halls. several orchestras in Israel and teaches at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music Israel Music Prize and Dance and at the Eastman School of Conductor Mendi Rodan and pianist Music. He is the laureate of other awards. Pnina Salzman were awarded the 2006 (Source: Nfc) Israel Prize for music. Past laureates have included conductor Gary Bertini and com- Siemens to Barenboim posers Tzvi Avni, Andre Hajdu and Arie Daniel Barenboim has been awarded the Shapira. 2006 prize by the Ernst von Siemens The jury cited Musikstiftung for “having given us out- Salzman, “the first standing interpre- lady of the piano in tations of the entire Israel”, for being “a classical and rom- multifaceted artist antic repertoire and and a great pianist, who is also firmly who has contributed committed to the much to encourage cause of contem- and foster Israeli porary music”. music in the country and abroad. She is Barenboim has pro- noted for her unforgettable interpretations mised two thirds of in her many performances as soloist, in the prize money, 100,000 €, to the renova-

5 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 20 March 2006 tion of Berlin, Germany opera house, the commissioning more and different kinds of Staatsoper Unter den Linden, of which he new works, bringing in a wave of high- is artistic director, and the balance towards profile theater and film directors and strid- a new foundation he has created to help ing into the world of digital transmission. talented young musicians. The prize will Mr. Gelb's program calls for a collabora- be presented by the Bavarian Academy of tion with Lincoln Center Theater that will Fine Arts during a ceremony in Vienna on engage Hollywood directors like Anthony May 12, where Pierre Boulez, principal Minghella and Broadway directors like guest conductor of Barenboim's Chicago George C. Wolfe, as well as musical fig- Symphony Orchestra, will speak. ures like the theater composers Michael John LaChiusa and Adam Guettel and the D. Mus. Humperdinck jazz musician Wynton Marsalis. Major The singer Engelbert Humperdinck conductors who have never appeared at the (born Arnold George Dorsey in India), has Met will make debuts, including Riccardo been made an honorary doctor of music by Muti, Daniel Barenboim and Esa-Pekka the University of Leicester on January 27. Salonen. The Met will install a gallery for This distinction is awarded “to people works by contemporary painters, extending whose contribution to their local communi- its reach into the visual arts. The artists ties, society and the world at large is indis- include John Currin, Richard Prince and putable.” Humperdinck, who took in 1965 Sophie von Hellerman. (Source: NYT) the name of the 19th century composer of Hansel and Gretel, is well known for his New operas: Rorem, Saariaho, charity work and has an international repu- Henze… tation as a singer with almost 40 years in There is definitely a renaissance of the the music industry. The extent of his fame opera, as new works get commissioned, can be judged by the 130 million records written and performed – and draw much he has sold, the 70 Gold and 23 Platinum interest from the public. Albums he has to his name. He has re- Our Town, an op- cently published an autobiography entitled era by Ned Rorem What's in a Name. based on the classic play by Thornton BRIT to McCartney: not Wilder, was re- Sir Paul McCartney has turned down an cently premiered at offer from the BRIT Awards committee to Indiana University. honor him with the Outstanding Contribu- Rorem, best known tion to Music Award this year, due to the for his songs, is also reason that it might be seen his distin- the composer of guished career is coming to an end. In- three symphonies, stead, Brit-rock veteran Paul Weller will four piano concer- receive the award this year. tos, and nine operas, including the 1965 Miss Julie. He is also the author of many Other news of interest books, including famed New York Diary and Paris Diary. The libretto is by poet J. Changes at the Met D. McClatchy, the author of librettos for William Schuman's A Question of Taste, Peter Gelb, who takes over in August as Lorin Maazel's 1984, Eliot Goldenthal's the Met's first new general manager in 16 forthcoming Grandel, and other operas. years, has laid out broad-ranging plans to (Source: Playbill Arts. Picture courtesy of remake the venerable house, sharply in- Indiana University) creasing the number of new productions,

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The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho hour performance, conducted by Daniel will have her second opera, Adriana Ma- Barenboim and recorded at Bayreuth, will ter, premiered in Paris later this month. begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at midnight. The libretto is by Lebanese writer Amin The operas feature Anne Evans as Brünn- Maalouf, with whom she collaborated on hilde, Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegfried and her first opera, L’Amour de loin, and which John Tomlinson as Wotan, with presenter was awarded the prestigious Grawemeyer Donald Macleod guiding listeners Award for music 2003. Earlier this year, its throughout the day. A time-delay service concert version (including a video by Jean- will be available on the station's Internet Babtiste Barrière) was premiered in Paris- audio stream. (Source: Playbill Arts) under the baton of Kent Nagano. Hans Werner Henze is at work on an op- Three new symphonic con- era based on the Phaedra myth for the Ber- certs halls for Paris lin State Opera, scheduled to premiere in The Pleyel concert hall will reopen for a the fall of 2007. very rich and dense 2006-2007 season with 1,900 seats, after its owner rehabilitated Organ pipes threatened by EU the hall and leased it to a subsidiary of the European organ builders might be Cité de la musique. A new 1,500-seat audi- severely hampered by a 2002 badly-drafted torium will replace, in 2010, the Studio EU directive which come into force on 1st Olivier Messiaen of Radio France. And last July 2006. Its purpose is to restrict the use but not least, it appears the dream of of hazardous substances such as lead in Boulez might come true: the opening, in electronic circuit boards that subsequently 2012, of a 2,000-2,500-seat large sym- end up in landfill. Unfortunately it has also phonic hall in the Cité de la musique. managed to encompass the lead tin alloy used in pipe building – unless the organ is People completely mechanical and hand-blown. If allowed to stand unchanged this will make Change at Edinburgh Festival the manufacture of pipe organs illegal across Europe. (Source: Antony Gordon) Jonathan Mills, an Australian composer U.S. court: downloading music (born March 21, 1963) and arts admi- not fair use nistrator, will suc- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sev- ceed Brian McMas- enth Circuit recently upheld a $US22,500 ter as director of the Edinburgh Interna- judgement against a person for illegally tional Festival, the festival announced. distributing songs over the Internet. The Mills will begin his tenure in October, with court rejected the defendant’s argument responsibility for planning the 2007 event. that she was sampling music to decide Mills is artistic advisor to Melbourne's new what to purchase, and the argument that Recital Centre and former director of the these downloads were a form of time- Melbourne International Arts Festival, the shifting permitted as fair use under the Brisbane Biennial International Music Fes- Sony-Betamax decision. (Source: Copy- tival, and other events. right, New Media Law & E-Commerce Mills graduated in music from the Uni- News Vol. 10, No. 2) versity of Sydney where he specialized in composition with Peter Sculthorpe. As a Wagnerophiles hearken! composer he is regularly commissioned in BBC Radio 3 will broadcast Wagner’s Australia and increasingly in Europe and Ring in its entirety on April 17. The 15- the UK. His composition Sandakan Thren-

7 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 20 March 2006 ody for solo tenor, choir and orchestra won place. This technology is an ingenious the Prix Italia in 2005. In addition to his method of bi-directional signal communi- work as a composer Jonathan Mills holds a cation by using AC power lines as a trans- degree in Architecture specialising in mission channel, superimposing high fre- Acoustic Design. (Sources: Playbill Arts, quency signals over the AC power line. Scotsman) Multi-room communication between audio components equipped with DAvED cir- No change at LA Opera cuitry begins the moment they are plugged Plácido Domingo has renewed his con- into any electrical outlet, offering simple tract as general director of Los Angeles plug-and-play audio networking. Opera for another five years, allowing him to bring the company to its 25th anniver- Painless computer – home sary. He is joined by the company's incom- system interconnection ing music director James Conlon, who as- The Squeezebox 3 by Slim Devices is a sumes his post on July 1, as well as the device that provides access to digital music company's newly designated chief operat- files in any number of different formats on ing officer Edgar Baitzel, who recently a computer, and allows these files to be served as the company's artistic director. played easily through any existing audio Both Conlon and Baitzel have also signed playback system. It can be used by itself as multi-year contracts with the company. a gateway between your stereo and your (Source: Opera News Online) PC. (Source: Review by Mike Chin)

For film music composers Robot musicians The Midem music trade show saw the The Boston Ensemble Robot, composed birth of MCPA-Europe (Music Composers of musicians and young engineers, creates for Pictures & Audiovisuals – Europe), a acoustical music instruments which are federation of several European associations computer-controlled using robotics tech- of film music composers: UCMP (France), nology, producing “both simple and com- Musimagen (Spain), UFMC (Switzerland), plex patterns of sound from a variety of CC Composers (Germany), DPA (Denl- traditionally inspired acoustic sources. mark) and ELVIS (Finland). It aims at pro- These sound sources include strings, pipes, tecting the rights of the collective admini- drums and wooden keys. In this way, the stration of copyright, at protecting and de- orchestra will create sounds that diverge veloping cultural diversity, at consolidating from the usual clanking and banging peo- the status of the composer in the profession ple generally would connect with “robot and with respect to the public at large, and music,” but importantly shall also steer at establishing a common communication clear of attempts to imitate humans.” platform for European composers. Their web site provides information, as well as sound, pictures and movies demon- Technology strating the use of these new instruments. (Source: CNET) Painless audio interconnection A big problem with having a central sys- Instant Live Concerts tem that pipes music to different rooms is Concerts are usually live events, but it having to run yards of speaker wire may take quite a long time until recordings through the house. The DAvED (Digital become commercially available, if ever. Audio via Electrical Distribution) music Instant Live is a commercial venture which system from Marantz solves that problem records concerts, duplicates the masters at by using electrical wires that are already in high speed, and distributes finished CDs in

8 IAML Electronic Newsletter N° 20 March 2006 as little as six minutes after a show. It Andrei Petrov started in March 2003 recordings bands in Russian composer Boston, and has now expanded nationally Andrei Petrov, whose in the US. It is currently accompanying diverse body of works Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project which was played worldwide, started last month. Other orchestras – most died February 15 in St. notably the New York Philharmonic Or- Petersburg at the age of chestra (in an agreement with Deutsche 75. The Leningrad na- Grammophon) – have also embarked on tive wrote ballets, op- projects aiming at providing recordings of eras, symphonies and concertos as well as their concerts shortly after their perform- film soundtracks, theater productions and ance, either on conventional compact discs pop music. Petrov founded and directed the or through downloads. St. Petersburg Music Spring international festival. Mikhail Baryshnikov danced Pet- Transition rov's ballet, “The Creation of the World.” Among his other ballets was the recent Antanas Auskalnis “Master and Margaret.” (which UPI unfor- It was with great tunately dubbed “The Master and the Mar- sadness that we heard garita”…) of the recent death of our much loved friend Akira Ifukube and colleague Antanas The Japanese com- Auskalnis, energetic poser Akira Ifukube Director of the Phono passed away on Feb- Library at the Lithua- ruary 8 at the age of nian Academy of Music in Vilnius. 91. This self-made I met him first, though only briefly, at composer won the the Balto-Nordic Music Libraries Confer- Alexander Tcherepnin ence, Tallinn, 1999 and then at Edinburgh prize in 1935 and his 2000 where he delivered a paper on the symphonic Japanese history of Lithuanian sound recordings for Rhapsody rose to in- the A-V Commission. Three years passed ternational fame. He and we met again at Tallinn 2003 followed later composed many large orchestral immediately by a few days spent in Vil- works, as well as pieces for guitar and tra- nius. It soon became clear that Antanas ditional Japanese instruments such as the treated visitors to his home city like roy- koto, aiming at integrating oriental and alty, and in so doing made the short visit occidental influences in his music. Terry completely unforgettable with his great Riley considered him the grand-father of generosity of spirit. minimalism, because of the many ostinati in his compositions. He also wrote film We had looked forward to seeing him at music (most notably the theme for God- Warszawa 2005 but discovered that he had zilla, but also other “monster” movies) and been drawn away to Portugal at that time authored a large book on orchestration to pursue another of his talents as a folk which influenced subsequent generations music performer. Those who knew An- of Japanese composers. tanas will miss him enormously. It is hoped that a full obituary will be submitted to Fontes in due course. Antony Gordon

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