Music Library Association - Greater New York Chapter
November 1997 N.S. no. 32
CHAPTER OFFICERS
Chair: J. Rigbie Turner, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 29 E. 36th St., New York, NY, 10016 (212) 685-0008
Vice-Chair: Barbara H. Sutherland, Yonkers Public Library, 1500 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, NY 10710 (914) 337-1500
Secretary-Treasurer: Hilary Albert, Queensborough Public Library, Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11432 (718) 990-0755 email: hilarya@queens.lib.ny.us
Newsletter Editor: Jane Nowakowski, Talbott Library, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540 (609) 921-3658 ext. 296 or 304 email: nowakows@rider.edu
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAPTER CHAIR
It is a pleasure for me to greet all the members of the Greater New York Chapter of the Music Library Association. As I thought of places for the chapter to meet, I read through previous Newsletters and was struck by the remarkable variety of venues that have hosted our local gatherings. I also recalled the memorable tours I've taken at the annual meetings of the International Association of Music Libraries. High among these is a side trip some of us made from Frankfurt to Mainz to visit Schott, where a wish of many years standing was fulfilled: I saw a music engraver at work. When it then occurred to me that in our profession we handle, and perhaps take for granted, a vast amount of printed music, an obvious venue suggested itself. How much do most of us know about the business that makes our jobs possible-that is, music publishing?
Our fall meeting will be on Tuesday, December 2nd, at 2:00 PM, at Boosey & Hawkes, which could (and perhaps did) celebrate both a centenary and bicentenary in the past few years. Thomas Boosey, the patriarch of this venerable firm of publishers and instrument makers, opened a bookshop in London in about 1795; and the New York branch of Boosey and Co. opened nearly a century later, in 1892. (The name Boosey & Hawkes, by which we all know the firm, dates only from 1930.) A roster of composers published under the Boosey imprint ranges from Richard Strauss to Stravinsky, Bartók to Britten, Carter to Rorem.
We will hear from four departments: the Rental Library; Promotion; Business Affairs, which includes copyright, licensing, and royalties; and Sales and Marketing. And we have asked that at least one question receive close attention: How does a composer go about getting a work published?
Directions:
Boosey & Hawkes is located at 35 E. 21st St., between Broadway and Park Ave. South:
- By subway: N, R, or No. 6 to 23rd St.
- By bus: M1, M2, M3, M5, M6, or M7
NEWS OF CHAPTER MEMBERS
PATRICK HARDISH's (NYPL) Sonorous for saxophone quartet was published last month by Soundspells Productions/Phantom Press (86 Livingston Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572). [Virtuoso Editions 9725 ; $24.00 for a score and set of 4 parts]
JAMES KALBACH (Rutgers University) received an M.L.S. from Rutgers in May 1997 and served as the summer reference intern at the Oberlin College Conservatory Library. He attended the IAML conference in Geneva this past September.
ARTHUR LAWRENCE (Manhattan School of Music) has been appointed librarian, archivist, and editor for the Union League Club in Manhattan, where the collection has strengths in Civil War material. He will continue as a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and as editor of the Journal of American Organbuilding.
JANE NOWAKOWSKI (Westminster Choir College of Rider University) represented Westminster at the annual meeting of the partners of Musica International at the Centre d'Art Polyphonique d'Alsace in Munster, France in October.
