Music Library Association - Greater New York Chapter
November 1998 N.S. no. 35
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 email: rturner@morganlibrary.org
Vice-Chair: vacant
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
J. Rigbie Turner
Greetings to all, and welcome back from a summer I hope was more restful than mine.
I am happy to announce that the fall Chapter meeting will take the form of a tour of the Steinway & Sons factory in Queens. I took this tour some years ago and was captivated from start to finish: If you've never seen the eighteen-layer, twenty-two-foot laminated frame of a grand piano wrestled into shape you're in for a treat. For a short preview of the tour, visit Steinway's Web site at www.steinway.com.
The tour is scheduled for 9:00 AM on Friday, December 4th, and will last about 2½ hours. At Steinway's request I must limit the tour to thirty persons, who will be divided into two groups of fifteen (which already exceeds their preferred size of eight to ten). If you would like to register for this tour, please e-mail or phone Hilary Albert. If you later find you can't make it, please let Hilary know so that others may come.
The factory is located on Steinway Place in Long Island City. Directions by subway: Take the Queens-bound N train to the last stop, Ditmars Blvd.; walk north (the direction the subway was traveling) to Ditmars Blvd.; turn right on Ditmars and walk to 38th St.; turn left on 38th and walk to the end, which is Steinway Place; enter through the white picket fence. It's a twenty-minute walk from the subway-pleasant enough on a recent sunny Sunday, but on December 4th you're on your own. A taxi would take about the same time as one to La Guardia Airport, which is almost next door to Steinway, but you won't find any cabs nearby when the tour's over.
NEWS OF CHAPTER MEMBERS
At the annual conference of the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association held in Houston this past April, ROBERT SUTHERLAND was elected for a three year term serving as Vice-President, President, Past-President of that organization. This is the second time he has been elected to serve in these positions.
BETH BLOOM (Seton Hall) was promoted to Associate Professor and received tenure at Seton Hall University.
PATRICK HARDISH (NYPL) has had several of his compositions performed: Soliloquy for bassoon on 5 December 1997 at NYU Loewe Auditorium as part of a graduate student recital; premiere of enlarged version of Sonorities V for marimba on 15 May 1998 at NYU Loewe Auditorium; Japanese premiere of Virginia Fantasy for piano on 22 March 1998 in Tomono Hall, Tokyo. Pat was named to the Program Committee of the Composers Guild of New Jersey in September 1997. He also gave a talk at the Video Roundtable during the MLA annual meeting in Boston in February 1998.
