Have you registered for the IAML congress in Riga yet? It is only one month away, from June 18-22, 2017.

In less than a year after the formation of the Greek Branch of IAML, its annual conference was successfully carried out on April 21-22, 2017 in Athens at the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”.

Mari Itoh (Aichi Shukutoku University), of IAML Japan and the Japanese corresponding editor for Fontes, was recently a visiting researcher at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart and paid a visit to the WDR Notenarchiv in Cologne--the music archive of the West German Broadcasting Corporation. Here is a summary of her brief stay, followed by a summary of the visit in German by Katharina Jerusalem (WDR intern).

For several years the Board has sought to collect detailed feedback about our annual congresses from all participants. At our recent mid-year meeting we discussed the results of the survey taken after the 2016 Rome congress as well as the brief summary I prepared to facilitate the analysis and interpretation of these results. Since both documents are of potential interest to the entire membership, we are now publishing them on the website of the Rome congress: there you will find all the numeric results (also in the form of diagrams) as well as the abovementioned summary. (Note that the latter in part also relies on the comments made by the participants, some of which are too subjective or personal to be published here.)

The following is a list of notable anniversary dates for the second quarter of 2017, compiled by Katharina Jerusalem, intern at the Notenarchiv des Westdeutschen Rundfunks (WDR), Cologne. The first installment can be found here.

April 2017