American music announcements 2007-2008

Announcements 2007 - 2008

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Media and Publications

+Three eBooks are now available written by Roger Lee Hall about his early life. The titles are:

"Following the Stars" - Music and Memories of Hopalong Cassidy

"Dream World" - Songs, Poems and Stories

"Free As The Breeze" - Confessions of a Struggling Songwriter

+To help celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, there is a CD featuring the commemorative cantata titled Ode to the Virginian Voyage, composed by Randall Thompson in 1957 for the 350th anniversary of Jamestown. Also included on the CD are memorial pieces in honor of Samuel Barber and Charles Tomlinson Griffes.
See No. 5 at the American Music Recordings Collection.

+There is a new DVD available titled, Emerson: The Ideal in America. This is the first and only video biography of the man who is still America's most quoted author from the past. The film features interviews with Emerson experts including: Robert D. Richardson, Jr.; Richard G. Geldard; and Sarah Wider. The musical score includes music by Beethoven and Chopin; also music by William Billings and Stephen Foster; and 3 music selctions (Psalm 100, 100 Psalm Tune New, Narragansett Indian Hymn) from the New England Song Treasury. For more information about this well produced and informative DVD on Emerson, go to: www.rwe.org

+Now available is an illustrated eBook about the best known Shaker song and its composer, titled: The Story of 'SIMPLE GIFTS': Joseph Brackett's Shaker Dance Song. It includes biographical information about Joseph Brackett and chapters devoted to Aaron Copland's arrangements of "Simple Gifts," and "Lord of the Dance" by Sydney Carter. Audio files of Shaker music are also included with this eBook.

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Research Information and Requests

+Read about Benjamin Franklin's musical instrument (reproduction shown at left) which he called his Armonica (or glass harmonica) at this link:

Massachusetts Music

+Many of Mozart's works received their first American performance in Massachusetts. Read about these early performances at this link:

Mozart in Massachusetts

+Dr. Candace Bailey is researching various aspects of women's music in the antebellum South and changes affected by the Civil War, and has presented several papers on these topics, including "Becoming Useful: Confederate Women Composers" and "Piano Girl or Piano Thumper? Women Pianists in the Antebellum South," and she has several publications forthcoming. For further information, write to: cbailey@nccu.edu

+For those researchers interested in subscribing to a free mailing list called "oldsongs-l," dealing with songs of the Tin Pan Alley period and earlier, write to: cabarnard@aol.com

+Musicologist, pianist and novelist Harrison Slater has written a four part series in Massachusetts Music News titled: "The Development of Music in Boston," and also an article titled "Chickering's 'Old Ironsides' '"for Piano Quarterly. These articles are available by free pdf downloads at this link: www.harrisonslater.com/pages/literature.html

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Classical Composers