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CROSSROADS OF TRADITIONS: THE SECOND INTER-AMERICAN COMPOSITION WORKSHOP.

The Latin American Music Center and the School of Music at Indiana University, with support from the United States Information Agency (USIA), announce "Crossroads of Traditions: The Second Inter-American Composition Workshop," for composers from Latin America and the United States. 
The workshop will be held for three weeks from June 24 to July 14, 1996, at the Indiana University campus in Bloomington. Participation in the Associate Composer category is open this year to applicants from Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States. Attendance in the workshop participant category is open to all other composers and interdisciplinary scholars interested in the subject of this workshop.
The subject for the 1996 workshop will be the interaction of the composer with his or her acknowledged tradition and with that of other cultures and historical periods.
Applicants from the United States and Latin America must apply by or before February 1 (reception date). The results will be announced by March 15, 1996. 
For further information contact: Erick Carballo
phone: (812) 857 2193
 

The Newberry Library has announced that its 1996 Summer Institute will be devoted to the Spanish and Hispanic-American Archival Sciences, 24 June-2 August, 1996. The Institute will be directed by Consuelo Varela, of the Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos de Sevilla. Dr. Varela is the editor of the Complete Works of Christopher Columbus. The Institute will provide intensive training in the reading and editing of Spanish and Hispanic-American manuscript books and documents from the late medieval through the early modern periods. The Institute will be conducted in Spanish. The address for the Newberry Library is 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380; telephone, (312)943-9090.
 

HANDBOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (HLA) 

Scholarly evaluations of books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies can now be accessed on line. CitaDel's HLA indexes and annotates relevant books as well as over 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals and conference proceedings.
SUBJECT COVERAGE: Social sciences and the humanities, in alternate years (e.g., humanities are covered in 1990, social sciences in 1991)
DATES OF COVERAGE: 990 to the present
SUPPLIER: Hispanic Division, Library of Congress
UPDATE FREQUENCY: ANNUALLY
SIZE: Over 21,000 records as of April 1995 with approximately 10,000 added at each update
ABSTRACTS: Over 60% of records contain evaluative annotations by more than 130 contributing subject specialists.
This service, provided by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., can be subscribed to by university and college libraries. While not directed specifically toward music, many of the entries deal with music and musical subjects. Interested parties should contact: RLIN Information Center, The Research Libraries Group, Inc., 1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041-1100 (Phone: 800-537-RLIN; Fax: 415.964.0943; e-mail: bl.ric@rlg.stanford.edu)

Early Music , August, 1995, is the third volume devoted to Iberian Discoveries. Contributions by IHMSG members Tess Knighton, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Douglas Kirk, Wolfgang Freis, Ivan Moody, Michael Noone and Noel O'Regan can be found in this masterful compilation of current research on Luso-Hispanic music. Dr. Tess Knighton has performed an extremely valuable service to the course of Iberian music history by devoting three editions of this Journal to this region and its music history.

Ivan Moody announces that the publishers Gordon & Breach/Harwood Academic are beginning a new series of editions with the title Music Archive Publications. The series is unlimited in geographical and chronological terms, but the aim is to publish `opera omnia' style editions of music not previously published or available only in inaccessible or out of print editions. There are already several contributions from the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil. Additional projects from South America would be most welcome. All proposed editions must be made available on computer diskette. Proposals in any of the European languages should be sent to the Managing Editor Ivan Moody, Rua António Costa Carvalho, 230 2º Dtº, 2765 São João do Estoril, Portugal, Tel/Fax + 351-1-466-0243
 

CONCERT INFORMATION

Juan Pedro Gaffney, Director of Coro Hispano de San Francisco y Conjunto Nuevo Mundo , announces their fall 1995 and January 1996 concert series. Flores para La Virgen , a series of concerts in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe composed by Mexican Renaissance masters, will take place in six different San Francisco Bay area venues during the month of October. The Dia de los Reyes Concert Series, featuring music by Sor Juana Ynéz de la Cruz, Gaspar Fernandes, Alonso Xuares and others, will be presented in six communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Information concerning these concerts can be obtained by writing to: Instituto Pro Música de California , 295 Sanchez Street, San Francisco, CA 94114-1613; telephone (415) 431-4234.

The New England Philharmonic and the Chorus Pro Musica under the Direction of Jeffrey Rink, will present the New England Premier of the Cantata Criolla by Antonio Estevez, on February 24, 1996, at the Tremont Temple. The soloists for this performance will be Idwer Alvarez and William Alvarado. The concert will also include South American Folksongs set by Luis Sandi and the Coros No. 10 of Hector Villa-Lobos.

The Musicians of the Old Post Road Series, in collaboration with guest ensemble La Fontegara from Mexico, will explore the rich musical heritage of 18th-century Spain, Mexico, and Central America through the works of Domenico Scarlatti, Francisco Manalt, Manuel de Sumaya, Ignacio Jerusalem, and others. Saturday, March 9, 1996 8:00 PM, Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For information call 617-648-4824.
 

New Bibliographic Project Begun

The editor, with assistance from the Kewit Computing Center at Dartmouth College, would like to announce the establishment of a Data Base project devoted to the identification of the Printed and Manuscripts Sources of Part Music in the Philippines, 1550-1800. The pilot project will begin with sacred music from the major churches, music schools and the Cathedral of Manila. The editor would welcome information on musical sources from the Philippines or on projects already underway that deal with historic music materials from these institutions and this region.
 

Editor's Notes

The editor would like to offer special thanks to the contributors to this volume of the Newsletter, Professor Paul Laird for his description of the New York Study Session of the IHMSG, and Professor Carol Hess for her report on the Aston Magna Academy, devoted this past summer to the Cultural Cross-Currents: Spain and Latin America, ca. 1550-1750.

From the Latin American Music Center comes their Newsletter, La Música . The Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Carmen Téllez. Vol. 2, no. 1 is packed with wide-ranging information. The Institute's address is: Latin American Music Center, School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Phone : (812) 885-2291; Fax: (812) 855-4936; E-mail: GDIRIE@ucs.indiana.edu.

Coming in the Winter Number of the Newsletter , reviews of Louise Stein's, Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theater in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Craig Russell's, Santiago de Murcia's "Códice Saldívar No. 4"; A treasury of Guitar Music from Baroque Mexico, and Scores and Recordings at the Indiana University Latin American Music Center, Ricardo Lorenz, Luis R Hernández and Gerardo Dirié, editors.

With the number of new materials appearing on Hispanic music, both in the Americas and Europe, we clearly need to have a Book Review Editor and Recordings Review Editor. I would be grateful to hear from members who would like to serve in this capacity, and would be thrilled if multiple individuals from various regions of the globe would wish to serve in these areas. If interested, please contact the editor.

Electronic Mail Reminder. Professor Carmen Téllez, Director of the Latin American Music Center, Indiana University, has kindly extended an invitation to the IHMSG to communicate information and queries through the E-Mail network of the Center. To subscribe to this Bulletin Board, send a message to LISTSERV@IUBVM.INDIANA.EDU. In the body of the message write: SUBSCRIBE LAMC-L, your e-mail address, your first and last name. If you have your e-mail with a default "signature" (quotation, picture, address, etc.), please disable it before you send the messages. Inquires about the Bulletin Board can be sent to Erick Caballo, LAMC-L Coordinator: 
carballo@iubvm.indiana.edu.

[William John Summers, Editor]