Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXIV, no. 3 (Fall 1998)
Conferences
5-7 February 1999. Teaching Women and Gender in World Music. Agnes Scott and Spelman
Colleges, Atlanta, Georgia. This workshop is intended to provide an overview of teaching women
and gender in world music. It will address a wide range of repertories and cultures, as well
as teaching materials such as course outlines and syllabi, and resources such as bibliographies,
audio-visual aids, and cyberspace connections. For more information contact The College Music
Society (www.music.org), 406-721-9616.
20-21 February 1999. Musical Borrowing from the Middle Ages to the Present. Crane School
of Music at the State University Colege at Potsdam, New York. For more information, contact Dr.
Stephen Johnson (johnsoss@potsdam.edu) at Crane School
of Music, State University College at Potsdam, Potsdam, New York 13676.
17-20 March 1999. The Music Library Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, California at the
Biltmore Hotel. http://www.usc.edu/isd/friends/orgs/mlascc/MLA99/index.html.
7 May 1999. Otto Albrecht Tribute at the University of Pennsylvania Music Library. A day-long
tribute in honor of the centennial of the birth of the first curator of Penn's Muic Library, Otto Albrecht
(1899-1984). Albrecht was a passionate music bibliographer perhaps best known for his Census of Autograph
Music Manuscripts of European Composers in American Libraries (1953). The day's events will feature a
symposium, an exhibit of some of the numerous rare music materials that Albrecht collected, and a
performance of several of these works for string quartet. For additional information contact Marjorie
Hassen, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library, University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206; (215) 898-3450/Fax: (215) 898-0559; hassen@pobox.upenn.edu.
14-17 October 1999. Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the College Music Society. Hyatt Regency
Hotel, Denver, Colorado. Held in conjunction with the 1999 National Conference of the Association
for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI). For more information see www.music.org.
5 December 1999. Conference on the Music of Amy Beach. Mannes College of Music. The conference will
coordinate efforts of musicologists, music theorists, and performers in exploring specific works
by Beach. Each session will consist of papers devoted to analytic, stylistic, and contextual explorations
of a single composition of Beach's, along with a performance of the composition discussed. Those
interested should submit a preliminary proposal by 15 March 1998. For further information, please
contact Adrienne Block and Poundie Burstein at AMYBEACH@aol.com.
4-7 November 1999. American Musicological Society. Kansas City, Missouri, The Hyatt Regency
Crown Center.
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