IAML Friday News (September 12, 2014)

IAML News

The Membership Committee is looking for members

Looking back: Antwerp

Two new Conference Diary entries

Conference diary #10: Dorianne Coleiro (Malta)

Conference diary #11: Virginija Pleskienė (Lithuania)

One new conference presentation

Looking forward: New York, joint conference with IMS

Call for papers and posters now online

From IAML's National Branches

IAML (UK & Irl): Jacquie Cooper has been named Public Librarian 2014

CAML (Canada): A new issue of CAML Review is now available for viewing or downloading via the journal site.

It includes a report of our president Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie’s Keynote Address to CAML/MusCan.

Articles of Interest

All by myself
Axel Klein, Musicology Now
“I am deeply grateful for a trend in librarianship without which this study would have taken very much longer: digitization. ...First of all, Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, is a fantastic resource. It features an increasing number of digitized scores, but what’s more, the newspapers and music journals at the core of such inquiry.”
American Bayreuth: The 1914 Peterborough Festival
Robin Rausch, Library of Congress
For five days in August in 1914, thousands of people descended on the tiny village of Peterborough, New Hampshire to attend the fifth summer festival of music and drama produced by the Edward MacDowell Memorial Association.
Archiving WOMAD 2014
The British Library’s relationship with WOMAD (World of Music Arts and Dance) is nearly as long as the festival's existence, recording performances for archival purposes since 1985.Since 1985 and each year, with the exception of three, a small team of staff from the British Library record as many of the performances as possible, including workshops and interviews.
Dans l’atelier du compositeur : les Variations Goldberg
Gallica et BnF Collections Sonore réunissent la partition des Variations Goldberg sur l’exemplaire ayant appartenu à Jean-Sébastien Bach et l’enregistrement emblématique de Glenn Gould
Deutschlandfunk: Zwischentöne
Der Musikwissenschaftler Peter Sühring, im Gespräch mit Joachim Scholl
Ältere klassische Musik und historische Aufführungspraxis: Das sind die Spezialgebiete des Berliner Musikwissenschaftlers und Kritikers Peter Sühring.
Über die Fachkreise hinaus bekannt wurde er durch die Beschäftigung mit dem vergessenen jüdischen Musikhistoriker Gustav Jacobsthal, dessen Nachlass Peter Sühring erschloss und in einer großen Monographie zusammenfasste.

Denver Public Library takes on Soundcloud with local digital music service, Volume
Matt Miller, Reverb
On the year of its 125th birthday, the Denver Public Library is hitting play on a digital means to disseminate local music to the community.
Theorizing Music Streaming: Preliminary Investigations
Kenneth Barr, Scottish Music Review, Vol 3 (2013)
The recording industry is in transition: from an industry of tangible music products towards an industry of intangible music services. Focusing on the music streaming service Spotify and its impact on the UK popular music market, this article scrutinizes key theoretical aspects of this shift from product to service.

New E-book

It's FREE!
BROEKER, TOBIAS (2014): The 20th century violin concertante - A repertoire guide to the compositions for violin concertante written between 1894 and 2006