Sonneck Society for American Music

Bulletin, Volume XXIV, no. 2 (Summer 1998)

Some Recent Articles and Reviews


Compiled by William Kearns, University of Colorado at Boulder

ACOUSTIC GUITAR
(Mar. 98): Ben Elder, "Bluegrass Breakthrough [Ricky Skaggs], 56; Steven James, "Avalon on my Mind" [Mississippi John Hurt], 71.
(Apr 98): Jeffrey P. Rogers, "Sultans of Swing," 35.

AMERICAN MUSIC TEACHER (Feb/Mar 98): Conie A. Sturm, "Advocating Music Study in the United States: A Colorful History with Lessons for Today's Arts Supporters," 17.

BASS NOTES (June 98): "United We Stand: The Great Rhythm Sections," 40.

THE BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN MUSIC EDUCATION (Jan 98): Linda Pohly, :N. Clark Smith's Influence in Wichita: Toward a More Complete Biography," 71; Kevin ;Fenton and Thomas R. Wine, "The Contributions of Cecil Riney [Friends University] and Harrison Boughton [Wichita State University]: "Four Decades of Choral Conducting," 90; Kensho Takeshi, "American Educational Influences on Japanese Music Education from the End of World War II (1945) to the First Tentative Course of Study (1947)," 115; Bonnie Jo Dopp, "Manuscripts in the Ginn Folk Song Collection" [MENC Historical Center, U. of MD], 138.

CANADIAN BAND JOURNAL (Winter 97): Ed Wasiak, "Saskatchewan's First Bands (pt. 2)," 10.

THE CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC BULLETIN (Sept/Dec 97): Ken Perlman, "Tune-Recall Among Traditional Fiddlers on Prince Edward Island," 8.

CHORAL JOURNAL (Mar 98): Linda Ferreira and Barbara Tagg, "Voices and Visions: An Interview with Eight American Choral Conductors," 9; David Griggs-Janower, "Rescued from the Feiry Furnace: George Frederick Bristow's Oratorio of Daniel," 9; Thurston Dox, "George Frederick Bristow and the New York Public Schools," reprint from American Music (1991), 23.

CIVILIZATION (Feb/Mar 98): Nicholas Saada, "In the Mood: From the Silents to Surround Sound: Music Makes for Moving Pictures," 76.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSIC EDUCATION 24/2 (1997): Paul D. Sanders, "Caleb Atwater's Contribution to Music Education in Ohio [1830s-40s]," 7.

CURRENT MUSICOLOGY 60/61 (1996): rv. of Allen Forte's The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950," by Jon Finson, 104.

THE DIAPASON
(Jan 98): John Brombaugh and Robert Parkins, "John Brombaugh and Associates, op. 34; Duke University Memorial Chapel [organ]," 16.
(Feb 98): Benjamin K. Williams, "Erben Organ Restoration, Huguenot Church, Charleston, SC, Knowlton Organ Company," 15.
(May 98): Mickey Thomas Terry, "A Second Glance: An Overview of African-American Organ Literature," 18.

DIRTY LINEN: FOLK AND WORLD MUSIC
(Feb/Mar 98): Kerry Dexter, "Michael Martin Murphy: Cowboy Dreams," 35.
(Apr/May): Paul-Emile Comeau, "Songwriters from the Atlantic Provinces," 66.
(June/July 98): Michael Parrish, "Graham Nash and David Crosby: Still Harmonious After All These Years," 47.

DULCIMER PLAYERS NEWS
(Feb-Apr 98): Paul Gifford, "Henry Ford and the Dulcimer," 26.
(May-July 98): Ralph Lee Smith, "Lorain Wyman [early 20th-c. folksinger and collector]," 46.

ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN (Winter 98): Brian Knave, "A Day in the Life: Diary of a Song [Recording] Session," 62.

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (Winter 98): Leslie C. Gay, Jr., "Acting Up, Talking Tech: New York Rock Musicians and Their Metaphors of Technology," 81.

FANFARE (May/June 98): Revs. of John Luther Adams's Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing, JoAnn Falletta & Apollo Chamb. O. (New World 90500-2). Charles Amirkhanian's Walking Time (A Room Music for Percy Grainger) and other electonic pieces (Starkland CD ST-206). Barber Symphony No. 1, Falletta & Virginia SO (VSO, P.O. Box 26, Norfolk, VA 23501). Henry Brant's Kingdom Come & Machinations, Oakland SO and Youth O (Phoenix PHCD 127). Brubeck piano compositons, John Salmon (Phoenix PHCD 130). Edwad Joseph Collins (1889-1951) Mandi Gras, Concertpiece for Piano and Orchestra, A Tragic Overture, Valse Elegante, Marin Alsop & Concordia O, Leslie Stifelman, pn. (Albany Troy 267). Dello Joio, Variations, Chaconne, and Finale; Creston, Dance Overture; Bloch, Evocations; David Amos & Lithuanian Phil O (Centaur CRC 2356). Diamond, Violin Sonata #2; Corigliano, Violin Sonata; W. Verdeht, vln.; R. Votapek, p. (Crystal CD 746). Druckman, String Quartets 2 & 3, Dark Wind, Reflections on the Nature of Water, Group for Contemporary Music (Koch Int. 7409); Windows, Dark Upon the Harp, Animus II, A. Weisberg & Orch. of 20th C. (CRI 781). Erb, Evensong, Concerto for Orchestra, Solstice, J. Sedates & N. Zealand SO (Koch Int. 3-7417-2H1). Gershwin, Piano Concerto; H. Grimaud, pn.; D. Zinman & Baltimore O (Erato 0630-19571-2). P. Grainger's orchestrations of his familiar works for Stokowski (1949), Grainger Ed. V. 6: Orchestra Works 2; R. Hickox & BBC Phil O (Chandos CHAN9584). Tom Hamilton, Sebastian's Shadow -- Longer Ramblings on a Short Bach Fugue, synthesizer (Monroe Street MSM 60103). V. Herbert, Eileen, M. Butterman & Ohio Light Opera Co. (Newport Classic NPD 85615/2). Husa, Divertimento for Brass Ens. & Perc., Fantasies for Orch, Trojan Women ballet scenes, Brno O (Phoenix PHCD 128). usa, Laderman & Powell String quartets; Colorado Quartet (Albany Troy 259). Kamran Ince, Symphony # 2, D.A. Miller & Albano SO; Remembering Lycia, K. Stalheim & PResent Music (Argo 289455151-2). Ives, 3 p=Places in NE, Orch Set # 2; Ruggles Suntreader, Men & Mountains; R.C. Seeger, Dohnanyi & Cleveland O (London 289 443 776-2). Bryan Johanson, Dance of the Blue Devil, vln & guitar; Soanta de Camera, marimba, guitar, cello; Bercuese, clar & Guitar; Two Cats Fugue, guitar, clar., perc., cello (Gagliano 601-CD). Talivaldis Kenins, Cello Sonata, Concertante for Fl. and Piano. Piano Quartet #2 (Canadian Music Centre Centrediscs CMC-CD 5997). Elodia Lauten, Variations on the Orange Cycle; Jerry Hunt, Trapani (stream); Kyle Gann, Desert Sonate; Lois Svard, pn. (Lovely LCD 3052). Dear Harp of My Country: The Melodies of Thomas Moore; John Flannery, ten. ; Janet Harbison, Irish hp. (ESSAY CD 1067/58). Rorem, Santa Fe Songs, Kurt Ollman, bar. & st. trio (Arizona Frieds of Chamber Music). Alan Sapp, The Four Reasons --A Concerto for Chamber Orch., Imaginary Creatures: A Bestiary for the Credulous, The Women of Trachis--Overture; K. Lockhart & Cincinnati Cham O (CRI CD 765). Lalo Schrifrin, Conceierto Caribeno, Guitar Concerto, Tropicos, London SO (Audvissi Traveling K 1033). Schreker, 3 preludes from Irrelohe, song cycle From Eternal Life (Walt Whitman), Prelude to a Grand Opera; P. Ruzicka & Deutsches SO Berlin, C. Barainsky, sop. (Koch 3-6454-2 H1). Elie Siegmeister, The 5 Piano Sonatas; Alan Mandel, pn. (Premier PRCD 1061). Ezra Sims, String Quartet No. 2, Elegie-Nach Rilke, Third Quartet; R. Pittman & Boston Musica Viva, Lenox Quartet (CR 784). Thomson songs, D. Bush, pn. (Albany Troy 272). Torke, Overnight Mail, Telephone Book, July, Flint, Change of Address; various groups (Arto). William T. McKinley, viola.
Concerto #3; Karen Dreyfus, va; J. Swoboda & Silesian Phil O (MMC MMC 2047). Alec Wilder, The Children Met the Train, Such a Tender Night, Nonet for Brass Insts.. Her Old Man Was Suspicious, Air for English Horna nd Strings, Set Fugue Mama, Sutie for Brass Quintet and Strings, Little White Samba, The Amorous Poltergeist, Songs for Patricia; Richard A. Clark & Manhattan Cham O (Newport 85630). Wolpe, Quartet (Piece) for Oboe, Cello, Piano, and Percussion, Cantata for Voice, Voices, and Instruments, String Quartet; Gruppe Neue Musik "Hans Eisler" Leipzig, Silesian Stg. Qrt. (cpo 999 090-2). Wuorinen, Piano Quintet, Lightenings viii, The Mission of Vigil, Percussion Quartet; Group for Contemporary Music (Koch Inter. 307410 2H1). Fire, Archangel, Archeopteryx, Hyperion, Wuorinen & O. of St. Lukes' (Koch Inter. 3-7614-2).
Collections: Shine on Harvest Moon: American Popular Songs from the Dawn of the [20th] Century, JoNeill Aron, s.; Stephen Aron, gtr. (Pavonia PV 1212). A Richard Crooks Serenade; R. Crooks & various ens. (ASV CD AJA 5240, mono/analog). An American Celebration; Richard Slavic, vc.; Alic Ryback, pn.; Bolcom, Rorem, Rochberg, Harbison, Copland (Crystal CD 639). Through and Within the Century Past; Debra Torok, pn.; Beach, Griffes, Gershwin, Barber, Schuman, Muczynski, Bonds, Dello Joio, Lipkis, Saturen (Verra 1001). The American Collection; Max Lifchitz, pn.; Kramer, Bassett, Starer, Bell, Crossman, Wolpe, Rands, Whitman, Lebenborn, Ogdon, Garcia (North/South N/S 1014). American Sketches; Capitol [sax] Quartet; Ferre, Howland, Marshall, Peck, Ruggerio, Van Heusen, Woods (Klavier KCD 11078). Shadows and Dreams, Cumjberland [wind] Quintet; Baumann, Dollarhide, Foley, Hoover, Jager, Tcherepnin (Centaur CRC 2335). New Music From Utah: Canyounlands; Abramyan Stg. Qrt.; Johnson, Roens, Yao, Wolkins, Cathey, Quaglia (Centaur CRC 2360). Voces Americanas: Voices of Change; various performers, Rodrigues, Lavista, Sierra, Davidovsky, Leon (CRI eXchange CD 773). MMC Orchestral Miniatures, vol. 2, Earnest, McKinley, Hugler, Franklin, Tarlow, Stanley, Skupinsky, Kemp; various European orchestras (MMC MMC2024). Orch. music of Paine, Buck, MacDowell, Foote, Carpenter, reissue from EMI 1987 (Albany Troy 235).
Royal Brown, "Film Musings": commentary on music for Titanic; Hoodhom, Kundun, Seven Years in Tibet, Nino Rota: Music for Film.

FILM SCORE
(Jan 98): Andy Dursin & Jeff Bond, "[John] Williams' List," 25.
(Feb 98): Doug Adams, interview w/Philip Glass about Kundun, 26.
(Mar 98): Jeff Bond, interview w/David Arnold on scoring for Godzilla.

FLUTE TALK (Jan 98): Kathleen Goll-Wilson, "Albert Tipton (1917-1997), 26.

HARMONY: Forum for the Symphony Orchestra Institute (Apr 98): Robert S. Spich & Robert M. Sylvester, "The Jurassic Symphony: An Analytic Essay on the Prspects of Symphony Orchestra Survival," 1; Soong Fu-Yuan, "Restoring the Ecosystem of American Classical Music through Audience Empowerment," 29; special section on women leadership roles in symphony orchestra organizations, 46.

THE HYMN
(Jan 98): Jim Mankin, "Alexander Cmapbell's Contributions to Hymnody," 10; Samuel J. Rogel, "Sankey's Sacred Sisters: Women in Gospel Hymns, Numbers 1-6 Complete (1984-1895)," 15.
(Apr 98): E. Myron Noble, "Thomas E. Talley and the Context of His Hymn Texts," 9; Raquel Mora Martinez, "Mil Voces Para Celebrar -- Himnario Metodista," 25; Christina Mennel, "Timothy B. Mason and The Sacred Harp (1834)," 30.

THE INSTRUMENTALIST
(Feb 98): Frank Bgattisti, "The Legacy of Charles Ives," 68.
(Mar 98): Grover Sales, "Remembering Dizzy Gillespie," 16.
(Apr 98): Robert Foster, "Great Symphonies for Band," 46.
(May 98): Catherine Sell Lenzini interviews Donald Hunsberger, "Beyond the Wind Ensemble," 12.
(June 98): Robert Foster, "The Circus Music Tradition," 42.

INTER-AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW (Sum-Fall 97, #1, ed. Robert Stevenson): "Pedro Cerone (1566-1625): Imposter or Defender of the Faith," 1; "Minority Coverage in Mainstream Musiclogical Journals, 1915-1995," 29; "Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. (1886-1979): Composer," 43; "Ignacio Jerusalem (1707-1769): Italian parvenu in eighteenth-century Mexico," 57; "Brahms's Reception in Latin America, Mexico City: 1884-1910," 63; Alison Deadman, "Brahms in Nineteenth Century America," 65; Walter Aaron Clark, "Recent Researches in Spanish Music, 1800 to the Present," 85.

INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC
(June 97): Cherilee Wadsworth, "Being a Female Composer in the U.S. Navy," 10; Gayle Worland, "Clara Lyle Boone, Pioneer in Music Publishing," 16.
(Winter 98): Glenn D. Colton, "Canadian Composer Jean Coulthard and Artist Emily Carr: Spiritual Encounters with Nature," 4; S. Margret W. McCarthy, "Women's Words About Music: American Newspaperwomen as Music Critics, Part 1," 12; rev. of Judith Tick's Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music," by Sharon Mirchandani, 39.

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE AESTHETICS AND SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC
28/1 (June 97): Ian Inglis, "Variations on a Theme: The Love Songs of the Beatles," 37; Irena Paulus, "Du role de la musique dans la cenema hollywoodien classique: Les fonctions de la musique dans le film Casablanca (1943) de Michael Curtiz," 63.
28/2 (Dec. 97): Juanita Karpf, "The Early Years of African American Music Periodicals, 1886-1922: History, Ideology, Context," 143.

INTERNATIONAL TRUMPET GUILD JOURNAL
(Feb 98): series of articles congratulating Adolph Herseth on completing 50 years as solo trumpeter with the Chicago Symphony.
(May 98): Ralph T. Dudgeon, "The Legacy of Walter M. Smith," 36; Stephen L. Glover, "Trumpet in Samuel Johnson's A Dictonary of the English Language (1755)," 40.

JOURNAL OF BAND RESEARCH 9Sp. 98): Steven L. Sundell, "H.N. Hempsted and Bands in Early Milwaukee," 77.

THE JOURNAL OF COUNTRY MUSIC 19/3 (98): Ronnie Pugh, "Sing, Spin, Stump, Sell: The Forgotten Figure Who Did It All [Texas Bill Strength]," 4; Michael McCall, "Billy Joe Shaver: Yesterday, Tomorrow Was Today," Pt. 1, 11; Gene Lowinger, "Bill Monroe: A Photo Gallery by One of His Boys," 20; Robert Price, "Ken Nelson: Bakersfield Bonanza," 32; Ted Olson, "Bern Godson: The Story Behind The Voice," 36.

THE JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGY (Fall 97): David Metzer, "Spurned Love: Eroticism and Abstraction in the Early Works of Aaron Copland," 417.

JOURNAL OF MUSIC THEORY (Fal 97): revs. of Steven E. Gilbert's The Music of Gershwin, by Cynthia Folio, 319; of Kyle Gann's The Music of Conlon Nancarrow, by Margaret Thomas, 330.

JOURNAL OF SINGING (Jan 98): Darryl Taylor, "The Importance of Studying African-American Art Song," 9.

JOURNAL OF THE CONDUCTORS GUILD (Wtr/Sp 96): Thomas R. Edmann, "Vincent Persichetti's Divertimento for Band: A Rehearsal Analysis," 41.

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION (122/2, 97): rev. of Allen Forte's The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era 1924-1950, by Richard Middleton, 303.

KEYBOARD
(Mar 98): Ernie Rideout, "The Spirit of the Blues: David Maxwell Steps Out Front," 66.
(Apr 98): Greg Rule, "David Arnold: The New Sound of James Bond," 26.

KURT WEILL NEWSLETTER (Sp 98): rev. of Geoffrey Block's Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Showboat to Sondheim," 15.

LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEW (Fall Winter 97): John Koegel, "Village Musical LIfe along the Rio Grande: Tome, New Mexico, since 1739," 173; Philip Pasmanick, "Decima and Rumba: Iberian Formalism in the Heart of Afro-Cuban Song," 252.

LIVING BLUES
(Jan 98): David Nelson, "Music Maker [Relief Foundation]: It's the Spirit Behind the Gift," 12; Linda Carron, "Alvin Anderson: Little Pink's Blues," 26; Jim O'Neal, "Jack Owens: A Remembrance," 30; Bill Dahl, "Andre :Williams: Mr. Rhythm is Back," 38.
(Mar 98): Michael Tisserand, "Don't Worry About Boozoo [Chavis]," 376; D. Thomas Moon, "Lonnie Brooks: The Bayou Boogieman," 48; John A. Brishin, "Teddy Reynolds: I Got Somethin' for Everybody," 62.
(May 98): Steven Sharp: Don't Start Me to Talkin'," 14; Maureen Jung and Jack Rhyne, "Fresno Blues," 26; Tim Schuller, "The Second Coming of Bobby Patterson," 36; George Carney & Hugh Foley, "DC & Selby Minner: Oklahoma Donw Home Blues," 40.

THE MAUD POWELL SIGNATURE: WOMEN IN MUSIC (Winter 97): Elaine Fine, "Three Daughters of American Industry [Isabella Stewart Gardner, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Winnaretta Singer, the Princesse de Polignac]," 6; Karen A. Shaffer & Anya Laurence, "Jeanette Thurber: A National Vision," 18; Judith Anne Still, "Legacy of Home: William Grant Still Music," 22; John Crosby, "Betty Hope: A Community Composer," 26; D.C. Culbertson, "Mamie Hall: Recording Pioneer," 28.

MORAVIAN MUSIC JOURNAL (#1, 1998): Nola Reed Knouse, "The American Moravian Brass Players: What Did They Play?," 11.

MUSICAL OPINION
(Winter 97): Geoffrey Crankshaw, "Steinway Visits Steinway," a short historical essay about the Steinway company on the occasion of H.Z. Steinway visiting London headquarters in commemoration of the bicentenary of H.E. Steinweg's birth.
(Sp 98): Denby Richards, "Thea Musgrave at 70," 216.

MUSIC ANALYSIS (Oct. 97): rev. of Joseph N. Straus's The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, by Liz Garnett, 399.

MUSIC AND LETTERS (Feb 98): rev. of Bill F. Faucett's George Whitefield Chadwick: His Symphonic Works, by Peter Dickinson, 130.

MUSIC REFERENCE SERVICES QUARTERLY
(v. 6,1/2 1997): William E. Studwell & Bruce R. Schuenemann, "State Songs of the United States: An Annotated Anthology," entire issue. Includes "A Tribute to Amerian Song," historical notes on various state songs, and music and texts.
(v. 6, 3, 98): Metro Voloshin, "The Banjo from Its Roots to the Ragtime Era: An Essay and Bibliography," 1; William E. Studwell, "Vulgar Song Parodies from the Good Old Days" Six Examples Affrecting Seven Enduring Songs," 13; Rebecca Martin, "Ben Hecht on the Jazz Age: The Scoop and the Scorn," 19; William E. Studwell, "INtergenerational Flow of Popular Music: The Positive Example of Glenn Miller," 59; David Lonergan, "When was Rock and Roll? The Alpha and Omega of the Classic Rock Era," 65.
(v. 6, 4, 98): Issue devoted to Christmas music and written by William E. Studwell and Dorothy E. Jones: "Propagators of the Christmas Carol" [Pioneer collectors Theodoric Petri, Davies Gilbert, and William Sandys], 3; "The Great Collectors, Adapters and Translators" [THomas Helmore, Johan Mason Neale, Henry Ramsden Bramley, John Stainer, Richard Robert Chope, Catherine Windsworth and Theodore Baker], 17; "The Pioneer Historians" [Edmondstoiune Duncan, Charles L. Hutchins, Edward Bliss Reed], 45; "The Oxford Bok Trio [Percy Dearmer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Martin Shaw], 59; "Other Twentieth Century Carol Expoerts" [George Ratcliffe Woodward, Richard Runciman Terryk, John Jacob Niles, Henry W. Simon, Erik Routley, George K. Evans, William E. Studwell], 73; "Obscure Carol Classics," 105; "The Christmas Carol as a Cultural Phenomenon," 137, and "The Christmas Carol: A Bibliographic Essay," 147.

MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM (sp. 98): rev. of Elizabeth W. Marvin & Richard Hermann, eds., Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies by Henry martin, 141.

THE MUSICAL QUARTERLY (Fall 97); Lawrence Schenbeck, "Music, Gender, and Uplift in the Chicago Defender, 1927-1937," 344; Liane Curtis, "Rebecca Clarke and Sonata Form: Questions of Gender and Genre," 393.

THE MUSICAL TIMES
(Jan 98): rev. essay-- Wilfrid Mellers compares David Schiff's Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue with John Whenham's Monteverdi Vespers (1610) in "Questions of Identity," 28.
(Apr 98): Anthony Gritten, "The Progress of an Essay" [tracing Edward T. Cone's thinking about Stravinsky], 4.

MUSICIAN
(June 98): Michael Gelfand, "B. B. King," 28.
(July 98): Mark Rowland, "Billy Bragg taps the artistry of Woodie Guthrie," 22.

NATIONAL ASSOC. OF COLLEGE WIND AND PERCUSSION TEACHERS JOURNAL (Fall 97): Joseph Murphy, "Saxophone Instruction in American Music Schools after 1940," 4; Geary Larrick, "African-American Percussionists of the 20th Century," 16.

NOTES: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
(Mar 98): revs of J. Peter Purkholder's All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing, and Geoffrey Block's Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition, by Kathryn Bumpass, 677; Ken Emerson's Doo-dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture by Calvin Elliker, 700; Lawrence Bergreen's Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, by Michael Cogswell, 713; Alan Green's Allan Sapp: A Bio-Bibliography, and Susan Hayes Hitchens's Ross Lee Finney: A Bio-Bibliography by Murl J. Sickbert, Jr., 714; eds. William Duckworth & Richard Fleming, Sound and LIght: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, by David P. Farneth, 716.
(June 98): Bonna Boettcher & William I. Schurk, 'From Games to Grunge: Popular Culture Research Collection at Bowling Green State University," 849; Paul E. Wells, "The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State Univdrsity: Documenting the Broad Range of American Popular Music," 860. rev. of Donna Stanly Kline's An American Virtuoso on the World State: Olga Samaroff Stokowski by Don C. Gillespie, 930.

OPERA
(Jan 98): John Allison, "Toronto [opera on] Transformation," 16.
(Feb. 98): Max Loppert, "Brave but Overworked" [Royal Opera's production of Paul Bunyan], 140.
(Mar 98): Rodney Milnes, "Light and Damess in Leeds" [Sweeney Todd], 270.

THE OPERA JOURNAL (Dec 97): revs. of Anthony Tommasini's Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle, by Leonard J. Lehrman, 47; of Michael T.R.B Turnbull's Mary Garden, by Carol Ann Modesitt, 50; of Hertzel Weinstar's & Bert Wechsler's Dear Rogue: A Biography of the American Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, by John Harrison, 62.

OPERA NEWS
(3/14/98): Thomas May, "Meister Builder: Washington Opera's music director Heinz Fricke," 28.
(June 98): "Women in Love" (Paula Kmper & Wende Person's Patience & Sarah scheduled for Lincoln Center Festival in July], 26.

THE OPERA QUARTERLY
(Fall 97): Robert Marsh, "The Annals of the Ravinia Opera, Part 3: 1922-1926," 79; rev. of Hertzel Weinstat's & Ben Wechsler's Dear Rogue: A Biography of the American Baritone Lawrrence Tibbett, by Joe Pearce, 126.
(Winter 97): Robert March, "The Annals of the Ravinia Opoera, Part 4, 1927-1931," 57.

OPTION
(Mar 98): Peter Margasak, "The New Chicago Jazz," 40.
(May 98): Josh Kun, "Rap en Espanol," 54.

OPUS (Winter 97-98): Mark Swed interviews Morton Subotnick, "Brave New World," 9A; Igor Kipnis, "The Grainger Explosion," 23A; Judith Tick, "New York 1929-1930; One West 68th Street," from Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music, 27A.

PAN PIPES (Winter 98): "Classical Music Opens Its Own Hall of Fame [Cincinnati]," 3.

PERCUSSIVE NOTES (Feb. 98): Jeff Harsough & Darrick Logozzo, 'Sixty Years of Drum Corps: An Interview with Elderick Arsenault," 18.

PERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC (Summer 96): Linda Ardito, "Miriam Gideon: A Memorial Tribute," 202.

PIANO TODAY (Sp 98): Joshua Paxton, "The Gospel Style of Ray Charles," 33; Andy Laverne, "Blue Bossa: A New Look at a Jazz Classic," 38.

POPULAR MUSIC (Jan 98): Charles Ford, "Robert Johnson's Rhythms," 71; Ernest A. Hakanen, "Counting Down to Number One: The Evolution of the Meaning of Popular Music Charts," 95.

POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY (Sp 97): Robert Pruter, "A History of Doowop Fanzines," 11; Timothy E. Scheurer, "John Williams and Film Music Since 1971," 59; David Sanjek, "Funkentelechy vs. the Stockholm Syndrome: The Place of Industrial Analysis in Popular Music Studies," 75; Jerry Rodnitzky, "A Rocky Road to Respect: Trends in Academic Writing on Popular Music and Popular Music and Society," 93; Robert Santelli, "The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum," 97; B. Lee Cooper, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me: Reflections on the Evolution of Popular Music and Rock Scholarship," 101; Timothy E. Scheurer, "The Best Books on Popular Music Since 1971: A Bibliography," 117.

RHYTHMMUSIC
(Mar 98): Fernando Gonzalez, "Paul Simon's Puerto Rican Redemption [The Capeman]," 30.
(May 98): Mike McGonigal, "Tibet: Cultural Cause Celebre," 30.

SAXOPHONE JOURNAL (Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr 98): Paul Cohen, "The Six Brown Brothers," Pt. 1, 6; Pt. 2, 6.

THE SINFONIAN MAGAZINE (Sp/Sum 98): "Classical Music Hall of Fame Announces First Inductees," 4.

SING OUT! (Sp 98): Doug Ashby, "Paul Germia, "The Elegant Bluesman," 34; IRwin Sibler, "Paul Robeson: A 20th-Century Joshua," 44; Michael Parrish, "Dawg Speaks: David Grisman's World of Music," 56.

SOUNDBOARD (Winter 98); Gregg Goodhart, "Joseph Breznikar's Twelve American Etudes," 19.

THE SOURCE
(Feb 98): "The Power 30," list of "movers and shakers" in rap, 113.
(Mar 98): Carlito Rodriguez, "Varnos A Rapiar: Latinos and Hip-Hop Music," 152.
(May 98): Donnel Alexander, "Acting Up [Ice Cube]," 128.
(June 98): "The Young Guns of Hip-Hop," 146.

STEREO REVIEW (Mar 98); Ken Richardson & Robert Ripps, "Top 40: four decades of popular and classical recordings that mattered -- and still do," 77.

THE STRAD
(Feb 98): Stephen Rees, "Rediscovering Welsh Fiddle," 143.
(Mar 98): Dennis Rooney, interview with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich about her new Violin Concerto, 232; Sorab Modi, "Born to Swing" [Stephane Grappelli]," 264.

STRINGS (Apr 98): various tributes to Stephane Grappelli [d. 12/1/1997], 44.

SYMPHONY
(Jan/Feb 98): Daniel Webster, "Memory and Emotion [composer Richard Danielpour]," 33.
(Mar/Apr 98): Richard J. Deasy, "A is for Arts Education [upcoming Dept. of Ecuation report on Status of arts in schools], 34.
(May/June): Marica Young, "New York Legend [Stanley Drucker]," 32.

TEACHING MUSIC (Apr 98); Michael Bitz: "Rap Music in Choral Education," 36.

TUBA JOURNAL
(Winter 98): Randy Harrison, "Jan Krzywicki Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra," 52.
(Sp 98): "A Bandmaster's Story" [tuba virtuoso Gus Helleberg], reprinted from Music Trade, 4/21/1900, 46.

WOMEN OF NOTE (Feb 98): Barbara Harbach, "Violet Archer: A Life Long Learner," 1; Barbara Harbach, "Violet Archer: A Bibliography," 11; Earline Moulder, "Alice Jordan: Chapters of a Musical Album," 20.

THE WORLD OF MUSIC (39/3, 97): Janet Sturman, "Movement Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Identity: Retentions, Borrowings, and Transformations in Native American Waila," 51.



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