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TheThe NewsletterNewsletter ofof the the SocietySociety for for Seventeenth-Century Seventeenth-Century Music Music Vol.Vol. 23,24, No. 2, 2, Spring Fall 2015 2014 Miami 2016: How Sweet It Is! by david dolata ur 23rd annual meeting will take tice; CSI: Miami; Glades; and (back in the place April 14–17, 2016 in Miami, day) Miami Vice. Coconut Grove is an Othe centerpiece of a vast four- easy shuttle or cab ride from Miami Inter- county metropolitan area bounded by the national Airport (MIA), and the weather in Palm Beaches to the north and extending April is usually stupendous with low hu- all the way to Key West to the south, with midity and abundant sunshine. Our confer- Ft. Lauderdale, Coral Gables, and the ence hotel is the Mutiny, a boutique hotel Florida Keys in between. Hosted by the whose rooms are really studio apartments, Florida International University College of many with ocean views. A lovely outdoor Architecture + The Arts and School of Mu- area includes a tropical pool, waterfalls, sic in partnership with the Miami Bach So- and the occasional parrot. Because hotel ciety, the conference will offer stimulating rooms are in such high demand in Miami, intellectual and musical experiences in an SSCM members must reserve their rooms unparalleled setting. Florida International by February 29 to receive the discounted University (FIU), located in west Miami rate of $179 per night; the non-conference with satellite campuses throughout the re- rate per night is $300+! The Mutiny is a gion, is the nation’s fourth largest univer- five-minute walk from the conference site, and, outside, a lagoon with seventeenth- sity. As Miami’s public research university, a local church complex where the paper and eighteenth-century European-style FIU serves a diverse population in a city sessions and concerts will take place. sculpted gardens. SSCM members receive where 60% of its citizens speak Spanish at Following our opening reception at the discounted admission. For those who pre- home. Miami means “sweet water” in the Mutiny pool area on Thursday, our first fer to venture beyond Coconut Grove’s local indigenous Indian language. While it concert will celebrate Miami’s Spanish friendly confines, no place represents the is nicknamed the “Magic city” and the roots by featuring the world’s leading au- vitality of Miami more than South Beach “Gateway to the Americas,” no ethnic thority on vihuela, John Griffiths, who this or SoBe, a 15 to 20 minute car, cab, or group is more prominent than the Cuban past November was named AMS Corre- continued on page 3 community. Its center is along the famed sponding Member from Australia. On Fri- Calle Ocho (8th Street) in Little Havana, day night we will be treated to the FIU where you can enjoy the typical Cuban Opera Theater and Collegium Musicum’s In This Issue . rocket fuel espresso known to locals as performance of John Blow’s short opera “cafecito,” sample Cuban cuisine at Venus & Adonis, leaving you plenty of News of the Society beloved local restaurants such as the “Ver- time to sample Coconut Grove’s active sailles Café,” and watch Cuban artisans nightlife. Both concerts are sponsored by President’s Reminiscences 2 roll cigars right in front of you. Closer to FIU and the Miami Bach Society and are 2016 SSCM Announcement 3 Havana than to Orlando, South Florida free to SSCM members. Saturday night’s 2016 SSCM Call for Papers 5 certainly earns its tongue-in-cheek banquet will be held around the corner, in Treasurer’s Report 5 th moniker as Cuba’s 16 province. the quaint Peacock Garden Café that is Artis musicae periti 6 The conference itself will take place in sure to remind our Society’s esteemed Annual Business Meeting 7 Coconut Grove, Miami’s oldest and most president of the Coconut Grove he knew as picturesque neighborhood, right on the bay a young man. Membership Directory 8 with dozens of restaurants within a five- The nearby Vizcaya Museum and Gar- minute walk. It’s been referred to as “a dens should be of particular interest to our Reports and Reviews blend of Greenwich Village, Caribbean members. It is an oceanside estate an- Haapsalu Early Music Festival 3 port-of-call, and small European village chored by an Italian Renaissance style SSCM/AHS 2015 4 situated in a tropical paradise,” where pea- villa, built by the industrialist James Deer- cocks roam the streets as freely as do cats ing and adorned with luxurious decorative and dogs. It is the location of numerous arts, fine paintings and tapestries, a music film sets and TV shows such as Burn No- room, an organ room, an inner courtyard, Vol. 24, No. 2, 17th-Century Music 1 President’s Reminiscences and glitzy supper clubs, you are in for a Seventeenth-Century Music is the semi-annual surprise! David Dolata, our Local by lex silbiger newsletter of the Society for Seventeenth- Arrangements Chair, sings the praises of Century Music. In addition to news of the n anticipation Coconut Grove elsewhere in this newslet- Society, its members, and conferences, the of our forth- ter, but, if you will forgive my indul- Newsletter reports on related conferences, Icoming 24th An- gence, I would like to add a personal note musical performances, research resources, nual Conference, I here. In 1957, while working at the Ma- and grant opportunities. Please send inquiries thought back to our rine Lab on Virginia Key (this was in my or material for consideration to the editor: previous twenty- pre-musicology, scientist days), I lived three conferences for a year in a little apartment a few Alexander Dean (OK—I had to skip blocks from our conference venue. In A-R Editions a couple), and it oc- those days Coconut Grove resembled a smaller, tropical version of Greenwich 1600 Aspen Commons, Suite 100 curred to me that each one was in some ways special: different from all the oth- Village during those same years: hole-in- Middleton, WI 53562 ers, and memorable. Several had fabu- the-wall art galleries, book stores, coffee Phone: (608) 203-2584 lous locations and venues, like La Jolla shops, and a playhouse, all of which also Fax: (608) 831-8200 and New York’s Metropolitan Museum; served as beatnik hangouts. Like the [email protected] noteworthy historic hotels, like the Nas- Village, “the Grove” has changed and Please note that information for the next issue sau Inn in Princeton and the Gunter in become a bit gentrified, but has neverthe- must be submitted by January 15, 2016. San Antonio; fascinating historic attrac- less retained some of its original am- ISSN: 1054-6022 tions, like Shaker Village in Kentucky biance. For me, however, the most impor- (where we stayed in the original build- tant part of my Grove year was being Layout and Design ings and sang from shape notes), Old initiated, at the ripe old age of twenty- Donna Gorman and Ann Peter Salem Village in North Carolina (with its two, into early music. Not long after musically rich Moravian Archive and his- moving there I discovered the Coconut The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music is toric organ), and the Ephrata Cloister Grove Recorder Workshop, where early a learned society dedicated to the study and near Lancaster; unique strolling opportu- music and instruments were taught, sold, performance of music of the nities like the incredible Botanical and enthusiastically performed. The seventeenth century. Gardens at LA’s Huntington Library and Workshop is long since gone, but it was San Antonio’s Riverwalk; and fantastic there that for the first time in my life I Governing Board (2015–2017) banquets—can anyone forget the feast touched a harpsichord––a little Dol- Alexander Silbiger, president in New York’s Chinatown? I must add metsch spinet––and, if you pardon the cliché, the rest is history (or in any case, Duke University [email protected] that in each case we owed a great deal of the success of the meeting and the plea - my history). But back to the future! Wendy Heller, vice president sure it offered to the thoughtful planning David managed to find great venues for Princeton University and the warm hospitality of the people us to meet, eat, and sleep, incredibly af- [email protected] in charge of the program and local fordable considering their prime location, Jonathan Gibson, treasurer arrangements. and he has planned a couple of what James Madison University [email protected] Which brings me to the last confer- promise to be exceptional concerts. I Rebecca Cypess, secretary ence, and to the forthcoming one. The look forward to seeing you all there––this Rutgers University [email protected] outstanding special feature of our Iowa is a conference not to be missed! Gregory S. Johnston, meeting was of course the joint gathering I must add a concern that some mem- chair American Heinrich Schütz Society with the American Handel Society. It was bers won’t be able to attend because they University of Toronto a treat to have the Handelians join us in cannot afford the costs. Conferences, of [email protected] some of our sessions and other events, as SSCM as well as other organizations, have become increasingly expensive, and Hendrik Schulze, member-at-large well as to have the opportunity to attend some of theirs! Through the combined I expect that Miami will not be an excep- University of North Texas efforts of our Local Arrangement host tion. Therefore I once again urge you to [email protected] Bob Ketterer and the Program Commit- contribute to our Travel Fund, if you have tee headed by Wendy Heller we were not already done so (or even if you have), Honorary Members presented with a well-designed program, and take advantage of the matching fund Stephen Bonta which notwithstanding the logistical opportunity provided by some generous Bruce Gustafson complexities worked out beautifully; and members, which will double your contri- Barbara Russano Hanning being in friendly, comfortable Iowa City bution.