Music Library Association - Greater New York Chapter
October 2002 NEW SERIES NO. 40
CHAPTER OFFICERS
Chair: Paula Matthews, Mendel Music Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540 Tel: (609) 258-4250 Fax: (609) 259-6793 email: pmatthew@princeton.edu
Vice-Chair: Kent Underwood, Bobst Library, New York University, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 Tel.: (212) 998-2523 Fax: (212) 995-4794 email: kent.underwood@nyu.edu
Secretary-Treasurer: David Brown, Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 521 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 Tel.: (212) 870-1669 email: dbrown@nypl.org
Newsletter Editor: Jane Nowakowski, Talbott Library, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, 08540 (609) 921-7100 ext. 8305; fax: (609) 497-0243 email: nowakows@rider.edu
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAPTER CHAIR
Dear Members of The GNYMLA Chapter:
I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our meeting on October 28th, a Monday, from 1-5 pm at the NEW New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.htm) [details to follow, and available on the Chapter website: http://lib-terminal.princeton.edu/music/gnymla/index.htm] and as well as at the MLA meeting in Austin, Texas, February 12-16, 2002.
This will be a wonderful opportunity for a tour of the NYPL's new facility, and to get together once again to energize our happy band of Great New York area Music Librarians. Please try to take time from what I know are your very busy schedules to attend this gathering, bringing thoughts and ideas about how we should proceed with future meetings and projects.
Best Wishes,
Paula Matthews
Princeton University
Fall Meeting at New York Public Library
John Shepard
The Greater New York Chapter's Autumn Meeting will take place at the recently renovated New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The meeting is scheduled from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday Oct. 28, and will consist of tours of the circulating and research collections, updates on the Morgan Library renovations and an informal business meeting. Library colleagues and friends are welcome.
The Performing Arts Library is now closed to the public on Mondays because of budget reductions, so attendees are asked to arrive between 12:45 and 1 p.m. on the 28th at the 111 Amsterdam Avenue entrance of the Library, just south of 65th Street in Manhattan. The closest subway station is the 66th Street station of the Seventh Avenue IRT; take the no. 1 or the no. 9 train, and from the 66th Street station walk west to Amsterdam Avenue. If you prefer to take a bus from either Penn Station or the Port Authority Bus Terminal, catch the M11 bus on Tenth Avenue. If you arrive at Grand Central Terminal, you can board the M104 bus on 42nd Street and ride to Lincoln Center. Buses which approach Lincoln Center from the north on Manhattan's West Side are the M11, M7, M5, and M104.
For purposes of planning for the Meeting, please inform David Brown (dbrown@nypl.org) by Friday October 21 if you plan to attend. As NYPL is closed to the public on Mondays, it is necessary that we know if you plan to attend.
Chapter Meets in Princeton with Society of Seventeenth Century Music
The Greater New York Chapter of MLA met at Princeton University on Friday April 5th in conjunction with the annual conference of the Society for Seventeenth Century Music. In addition to tours of the Mendel Music Library and the Scheide Library, a distinguished private collection of books and manuscripts housed at the University's Firestone Library, chapter members had the opportunity to attend the panels and concerts sponsored by the SSCM. Chapter business was conducted at the conclusion of a lunch at the University Faculty Club provided by the Chapter. The Chapter had the privilege of hosting, in addition to 25 of its own members, the President of MLA Jim Cassaro.
Thanks to Daniel Boomhower, Princeton University, for this report.
NEWS OF CHAPTER MEMBERS
PATRICK HARDISH (NYPL) reports that his Duo for piano and percussion was released in June 2001 on Capstone Records on a CD of all piano/percussion duets by the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo. The name of the CD is Crossfade: Capstone Records CPS-8691.
CHANNAN WILLNER, (Music Division, NYPL) received the 2001 Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory for his article "Sequential Expansion and Handelian Phrase Rhythm."
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