Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXIV, no. 3 (Fall 1998)
Members in the News
"A 'Progessive' Opera? Frederick Converse's The Immigrants" by Charles S. Freeman was awarded
a tie for First Place in the 1998 National Opera Association Scholarly Paper Competition. The paper
will be published in an upcoming issue of Opera Journal. Jim Farrington is now the Head of Public
Services of Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music. Scarecrow Press is publishing
Nineteenth-Century American Music : A Guide to the Sources by N. Lee Orr and Dan Hardin.
Sondra Wieland Howe presented a paper on "Leadershiop in the Music Educators National
Conference: The Female Tradition" at the 17th Research Seminar of the International Society for
Music Education in Johannesburg, South Africa, in July 1998.
Al Benner is a finalist in the "Music for a New Millennium Commissions" from the
Khachaturian-Leeds Society of America. Benner and his wife (Lisa) are new music faculty members
at the Louisiana School for Math, Science & the Arts in Natchitoches, LA. As a result, Conners
Publications is now located at 503 Tahow Stree, Natchitoches, LA 71457-5718; 318-357-0924;
ALMEI@aol.com.
Linda Schubert presented a paper entitled "Longing for the 'Real' Middle Ages: Early
Music and the Problem of Authenticity in Period Film Scores," at the symposium, "Yearning for the
Middle Ages?," held at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She published an article
entitled "Plainchant in Motion Pictures: The 'Dies irae' in Film Scores," Florilegium
15 (1998): 207-229 in July.
A new CD-ROM, The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783, assembles and
indexes all references to music, dance, theater, and poetry in American newspapers from the earliest
extant copy (1690) through the end of the Revolutionary War (1783), including those in the French and
German languages.
According to the publishers, the collection includes pieces about stolen costumes, lost flutes,
African-American fiddle-makers, Native-American dancers, stories about local actors, theatrical
performances, lost choreographies, violin parts, piano makers, puppet shows, music paper, reed
cases, Welsh harps, scores, plays, ballads, and more.
Published by University Music Editions, the database is the work of three Sonneck Society members,
May Jane Corry, Kate Van Winkle Keller, and Robert M. Keller. For more
information see www.universitymusicedition.com/Performing_Arts/index.html
or call 800/448-2805, 212/569-5340.
Updated 12/29/98