Music Library Association - Greater New York Chapter
March 1998 N.S. no. 33
CHAPTER OFFICERS
Chair: J. Rigbie Turner, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 29 East 36th St., New York, NY, 10016 (212) 685-0008; fax: (212) 481-3484
Vice-Chair: Barbara H. Sutherland, Yonkers Public Library, 1500 Central Park Ave., Yonkers, NY 10710 (914) 337-1500 email: bsuther@wls.lib.ny.us
Secretary-Treasurer: Hilary Albert, Queensborough Public Library, Fine Arts Division, 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; fax: (609) 497-0243 email: nowakows@rider.edu
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAPTER CHAIR
As some of you know, the Board of the Music Library Association recently approved a proposal to hold the annual MLA meeting in New York in 2001. That is welcome news indeed-the last winter meeting here was in 1960, the last summer meeting in 1974-but will mean a lot of work, most of which will fall to the local arrangements committee. Some of you have already asked if plans were underway for this conference. The answer is yes, and now is your chance to become involved in early discussions about this major undertaking. Yes, 2001 is the first year of the next millennium and may appear comfortably in the distance. But conferences, like exhibitions, can seem to be years in the future one day and ominously near the next.
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 7 April at 3:00 PM, at the Pierpont Morgan Library. The sole topic of the meeting, which will be moderated by Jane Gottlieb and John Shepard, will be the 2001 conference. I urge everyone to attend who has suggestions for making 2001 a year to remember, and not just for its cinematic associations.
The Morgan Library is located on Madison Avenue between East 36th and East 37th Streets. The nearest subway stops are at Park Avenue and 33rd Street and at Grand Central Terminal on the Lexington Avenue line, and at 34th Street on the 6th Avenue line; uptown buses run on Madison Avenue, downtown on 5th Avenue. Please use the library entrance on Madison Avenue at 37th Street.
Many of you also know that our chapter now has a Web site: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~kalbach. If you would like your institution listed in the Online Resources section on the site, please send your URL to James Kalbach at kalbach@rci.rutgers.edu. Jim and I welcome suggestions for improving the site. I am most grateful to Jim for designing our chapter homepage and agreeing to maintain it. (I impatiently await the day when the Morgan Library makes its Kubrickian leap into the late 20th century so I can visit the site myself and even send and receive an email now and then.)
NEWS OF CHAPTER MEMBERS
MAUREEN BUJA began a new position as Managing Program Editor at Stagebill, NYC, in September 1997.
PATRICK HARDISH's (NYPL) Ave Maria (originally for soprano voice and piano) and Invention (originally for piano) were performed in versions for tenor voice and accordion and solo accordion, respectively, at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Soho (NYC) on 31 August 1997 as part of the American Accordion Association series of concerts. [Apologies from the editor for omitting this entry from the fall newsletter.]
BRUCE MACINTYRE (Professor of Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center) had his monograph Haydn : The Creation published by Schirmer Books in December 1997. It's the latest in their series "Monuments of Western Music", edited by George Stauffer.
RUTH HALLE ROWEN's (CUNY Graduate School) Symphonic and Chamber Music Score and Parts Bank Thematic Catalogue of the Barry S. Brook Facsimile Archive of 18th and Early 19th Century Autographs, Manuscripts, and Printed Copies at the Ph.D. Program in Music of the Graduate School of the City University of New York was published by Pendragon Press (41 Ferry Road, Stuyvesant, NY 12173-2712), 1996. [Thematic catalogs, 24]
