Craig H. Russell Named Regent's Outstanding Professor of the Year, 1994/95

The President and Regents of the twenty-two campus State University of California System named Dr. Craig H. Russell the Outstanding Professor of the Year last month. Though most of us know Craig as a composer and Hispanic scholar, this award calls singular attention to Craig's remarkable teaching abilities.

He and his wife Astrid have, in their characteristically generous and unselfish way, contributed the cash prize from this award to the Music Department Scholarship Fund of the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. We congratulate Craig on this singular and much-deserved honor!

Professor Maricarmen Gómez has kindly sent the following announcement for distribution to the membership:

Sociedad Internacional de Musicologia XVI Congreso Internacional Londres 14-20 agosto, 1997.
La musicologia y sus disciplinas hermanas: pasado, pressente y futuro.

La musicología se relacion casi siempre con otras disciplinas tanto humanísticas como científicas. El estudio de las relaciones de la musicología con otras disciplinas constituye el tema principal del congreso, que se desarrollará en la serie de mesas redondas que se están organizando. Por tanto, habrá no sólo un amplio espacio dedicado a los nuevos desarrollos de la reflexión musicológica, sino también se insistirá especialmente en áreas y temas interdisciplinares que no siempre han sido consideradas centrales por la musicolgía tradicional.

Las communicaciones ("Free Papers") estarán limitadas a veinte minutos a fin de disponer de tiempo suficiente para su discusión. Las propuestas deberán ser presentadas en una hoja escrita por una cara con el nombre y la dirección del autor o autora en la parte superior, para que sea posible garantizar su anonimato durante la lectura previa del comité cientifíco.

Las propuestas de sesiones de estudio ("Study Sessions") deberán incluir los nombres y direcciones de todos los participantes, que no serán evaluados de forma anónima, junto al nomber de un relator que tendrá la responsabilidad de presentar un resumen de la sesión antes del 15 de enero de 1998 para su publicación posterior. Las sesiones de estudio tendrán normalmente una duración de tres horas, con un descanso, e incluirán intervenciones preliminares de aproximadamente diez minutos de un máximo de seis participantes. Las sesiones de estudio podrán estar dedicados a algún aspecto del tema del congreso, a algún tema de interés especial, al estado de los trabajos de un grupo ya constituído o, incluso, a una publicación reciente. Tendrán preferencia aquellas propusetas que incluyan, cuando ello sea posibile, un grupo internacional de participantes.

Teniendo en cueta la disponibilidad de numerosas aulas de estudis en el Royal College of Music, sede del congreso, se podrán presentar igualmente propuestas para presentación de carteles ("Poster Sessions"; véase más abajo para más detalles). Cada cartel estrá expuesto durante tres horas, corriendo a cargo del presentador del cartel el equipo y materials necesarios. Las propuestas serán presentada de la misma manera que las comunicaciones.

En toda las áreas del congreso el comité científico está expecialment interesado en las propuestas presentadas por socios fuera de Europea Occidental y América del Norte.

El volumen de actas del congreso contendrá sólo los textos completos de las mesas redondas junto a resúmenes de las sesiones de estudio y los "abstracts" de las comunicacionse y carteles.

Todas las propuestas deberán ser enviadas del 1 de abril de 1996 en sobres con la indicación "IMS: Free Papers", IMS: Study Sessions" o "IMS: Poster Sessions" al president del comité científico:

David Fallows: IMS 1997
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Research Volumes on Latin American Music.

Greenwood Press of Westport CT. will publish a two-volume set on cultivated Latin American music. The first volume will be a Bio-bibliography of major Latin American composers from the Colonial period to the present. The second is entitled Musical Life in Latin America, and contains essays on the developments of musical institutions in each Latin American country. The first volume will contain analytic-biographical entries on 339 composers, while the second will include extensive historical essays on the development of cultural-musical institutions in each country of Latin America. Each essay will end with a bibliography and directory of current institutions. Each volume will be about 400 pages long. At this time, there are over 60 contributors working on the project which has a projected publication date of 1996. Although we have been working on this project for a number of years, I still may need backup writers. Those interested should contact me at the address given in the listing or through electronic mail: earias@wppost.depaul.edu/ DePaul University

School for New Learning, 243 S. Wabash, Chicago, Il 60604-2302. Submitted by Enrique Arias.

Ursula Mathis and Gerhild Fuchs have compiled a remarkable volume in the Veröffentlichungen der Universität Innsbruch, vol. 195, devoted to "Text + Musik." Essays on Portugese and Brazilian music are by Isabel Ribeiro and Burkhard Sieber while that on Spanish and Latin American music by Justo Fernández. Of special value are the sixty-eight pages of listings of recordings covering the years 1985-1993 on pp. 300-368. A small number of recordings of Catalan language performances is given as well.

Two other recent publications called to the attention of the Editor by Professor Robert Stevenson are: Aurellio Tello, ed., Cantadas y villancicos de Manuel de Sumaya, CENIDIM, Mexico City, 1994; and Ricardo Miranda, Ultimas Variaciones, Mexico City, 1994, CENIDIM, which consists of the first music print from the State of Mexico.

Recordings:

Max Lifchitz sends word of the release of two recordings which feature music by Latin American Composers: "...in the receding mist..." North/South Recordings, No. 1003, features music by Panamanian composer Roque Cordero and Cuban-American Composer Aurelio de la Vega; "Clarinet Fantasy", North/Sount Recordings, No. 1006, features works by Mexican composer Manuel Enríquez and Argentinean composer Guillermo Graetzer. Information concerning these recordings can be obtained from North/South Recordings, POB 698-Cathedral Station, New York, NY 10025-0698. Orders can be made by calling 800-752-1951.

Jan Weltman sends word of the following recent recordings: Andalucía el Música Judeo-Española, performed by Alia Musical, Directed by Miguel Sanchez, Centro de documentación musical de Andalucía; Poder á Santa María, Andalucía en las Cantigas de Santa María, performed by Sinfonye, Directed by Stevie Wishart, Centro de documentación de Andulacía; Juan Manuel de la Puente: Cantatas y Villancicos, performed by Al Ayre Español, Centro de documentación musical de Andalucía; L'Espagne et le Nouveau Monde, performed by Agrupacion Musica, Directed by Enzo Gieco; Juan del Encina, performed by the Berry Hayward Consort, Directed by Barry Hayward, BNL Productions; Cancionero musical de Palacio, performed by Grup Sema, Directed by Pepe Rey, Instituto Nacional de Los Aretes Eséncia y la Music; La Justa, Madrigals and Ensaladas from 16th-century Catalonia, performed by La Colombina, Accent Records, Belgium; Canções, Villancicos e Motetes Portugeses, Séculos XVI-XVII, performed by Huelgas Ensemble, Directed by Paul Van Nevel, Vivarte.

Anibale E. Cetrangolo sends word of the release of: Giacomo Facco: Festejo Harmonic, Serenata a Seis Vozes, performed by ALBALONGA and CORO DE "LA COMPAGNIA DEI FEBI ARMONICI", Directed by Anibal E. Cetrangolo, Symphonia #SY 94527, Bologna. This recording will be reviewed in a forthcoming issue of the Newsletter.

First International Conference on Hispanic Humor, 29 September-1 October, 1995, Philadelphia, PA.

Paul Seaver, Department of Foreign Languages, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, announces the first conference on Hispanic Humor. Please contact him at the address above for details.

The proceedings from the 1992 conference, "After Columbus: The Musical Journey" held at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo are being published in Volume 7 of Ars Musica Denver. Edited by Paul R. Laird and Craig H. Russell, the first volume is now available, and the second will appear in September 1995. Included in part one are articles by James W. Pruett, William John Summers, John Koegel, Manuel Carlos de Brito, Paul R. Laird and David Martinez, Elisa Bolio de Saldivar, Craig H. Russell, Antonio Corona, and Xoan Carreira. Both volumes of the proceedings may be ordered for $10.00 from Joy Laird, Business Manager, Ars Musica Denver: 907 Christie Court, Lawrence, Kansas 66049-4148.

Joseph Jennings, the members of Chanticleer and the Chanticleer Sinfonia were featured in a page one, Column One story on Tuesday, 28 February, 1995 in the Los Angeles Times. This remarkable recording, reviewed elsewhere in this volume by John Koegel, captured the imagination of Times reporter Abigail Goldman. Her story carefully and deftly explores the importance this recording project has for Californians, especially as they seek to recover a sense of their past, with its unique, Hispanic artistic tradition which is richer in many ways than those found in other American colonial regions.

With 1.1 million readers, it was no surprise that more than 2000 individuals in the first week called the 800/hotline to sample the excerpts from this remarkable recording. The reader response was so positive that it prompted an editorial column in the same paper on 8 March. The Sacramento Bee with over half a million readers reprinted the story in its Sunday edition, on 12 March.

The music on this disc, with the exception of one work, was edited by Dr. Craig Russell, who also provided the exemplary accompanying notes. Manuel Zumaya and Ignacio Jerúsalem are the featured composers. The central work on the disc is the D Major Polychoral Mass, presumed to be by Jerúsalem. The only known copy of the parts for this work were re-discovered by Dr. John Koegel in the Archdiocesan Archival Center at Mission San Fernando in 1992.

Abigail Goldman has informed the editor that National Public Radio is considering a special on the recording sometime in the future, and it is anticipated that this significant level of interest by both the musical and general communities may induce Joseph Jennings and Louis Botto, Conductor and Artistic Director respectively of Chanticleer, to consider a second volume dedicated to Baroque music from New Spain.

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