Mark your calendars! The Atlantic Chapter fall meeting will take place at Princeton University, October 19-20, 2012. Our host is Darwin Scott, and we will meet in the Woolworth Music Building, also home to the Mendel Music Library. Possible tours before our conference include a docent-led tour of the Princeton University Art Museum, and a [...]
On Sunday afternoon, October 30th, a panel of distinguished musicians and others gathered at the Free Library of Philadelphia for the symposium “The Black Composer in Classical Music: Talent to be Known” to discuss classical composers of African origin. Organized by Richard Greene, educator and researcher at Temple University, with lead sponsorship by Steven Landstreet, [...]
We’ve just begun a year-long project to enter all of the USMB members for the past sixty years into our database. Entries will include their dates of service, terminal rank, and instrument, and the work involves comparing rosters for each of those sixty years. (The ultimate dream would be to have all of our members [...]
Like most music librarians, I’ve been involved in music for most of my life. I started playing the cello in elementary school. (I had my sights set on the violin, but my music teacher said my hands were far too big.) I began composing in junior high, and I enjoyed it so much I majored [...]
Members of the Atlantic Chapter gathered October 14-15 for our annual fall meeting. We met on Friday in the beautiful Philips Autograph Library on the campus of West Chester University. After a warm welcome from our host, Paul Emmons, our meeting began with Joe Clark (Kent State University), discussing user centered programming at the Kent [...]
