Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXIV, no. 1 (Spring 1998)
Conferences
20-23 May 1998: Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Syracuse University. For
more information contact Jim Farrington, ARSC Program Chair, Wesleyan University
(jfarrington@wesleyan.edu).
25-26 June 1998: Summerwind Seminar 1998: Exploring the Music and Lyrics of George and Ira
Gershwin, at the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, 80 Forsyth St., Atlanta, Georgia.
This workship for teachers, singers, and music lovers includes concerts by the highly acclaimed
duo William Bolcom and Joan Morris and the American Music Trio, a master class with Joan Morris, and
seminars with Philip Furia, Uzee Brown, and others. For program and registration information,
contact Dr. John Otwell at 404/651-1720.
24-28 June 1998: William Grant Still Conference at North Arizona University, Flagstaff,
Arizona, will feature performances of works for the New York World's Fair of 1939 by Still and
Copland; Still's "From the Land of Dreams," a group of arrangments done by Still for "Willard
Robison and his Deep River Orchestra" between 1932-34, a revival fo Still's "Africa," and the
premiere of "The Black Man Dances." For information about conference registration contact
Catherine Parsons Smith, Dept. of Music 226, UNR, Reno, NV 89557 (smithcp@scs.unt.edu
or Patrica Hoy, Director of Bands, Still Conference, Department of Music, NAU, Flagstaff, AX 86011.
16-18 October 1998: For What It's Worth: Institutions and Popular Music/Institutionalizing Popular
Music, UCLA. Much of the cultural capital affiliated with popular music predicates itself upon
notions of anti-authoritarian individualism, while at the same time, popular music and its analysts are irreplacably
conected to any number of institutions. Papers are invited on the subject of any and all institutions
connected to popular music. E-mail or send 5 copies by May first to Dr. Bernard Gendron,
Program Chair, Dept. of Philosophy, Unv. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201
(bgendron@csd.uwm.edu.
22-25 October 1998: The Third Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music, Moravian College and
Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Conference will celebrate the 100th anniversary of
the Bethelhem Bach Choir, founded by J. Fred. Wolle, and the 250th anniversary of the Single Brethren's
House, current home of the Moravian College Music Department. Interested parties are welcome to
submit abstracts any time prior to 30 May 1998 to Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr, Co-chair, Bethlehem
Conference on Moravian Music, Moravian College Music Department, 1200 Main Street, Bethlehem,
PA 18018-6650 (610-861-1686). Abstracts may also be submitted via e-mail
(mecar01@moravian.edu or fax (610-861-1657).
22-25 October 1998: Society for Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
The conference theme is Communities of Collaboration. For information, contact SEM '98 Program
Committee, Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Morrison Hall 117, Bloomington,
IN 47405 (sem98@indiana.edu).
22-25 October 1998: College Music Society, Condada Plaza Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The College Music Society will hold its Forty-First Annual Meeting in conjunction with the 1998
National Conference on Technology and Music Instruction of the Association for Technology in
Music Instruction. For more information, see http://www.music.org.
28 October 1998: Amy Beach and Her Times, at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. The
conference will focus on aspects of Beach's life and works, as well as her colleagues and associates.
Submit three copies of proposals for papers or performances to William E. Ross, Special Collections,
University Library, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. 03824 by 1 May 1998 (special deadline
for Sonneck members).
29 October - 1 November 1998: American Musicological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, The Boston
Park Plaza Hotel & Tower.
6-7 November 1998: World War I and the Twentieth Century: Kansas Newman College, Wichita,
Kansas. A conference designed to take a multidisciplinary approach to the impact of the Great War
on the 20th Century. The keynote speaker will be Modris Eksteins of the University of Toronto,
author of The Rites of Spring. For more information, contact Puala Savaglio
(savagliop@ksnewman.edu).
Updated 4/15/98