University Profs. Get Library Pass to New Music
Across America, young music students are being fed a steady diet of the standard repertoire while learning the rudiments of the violin or the oboe. In many cases it’s not until their arrival at a conservatory or university that an opportunity to explore the work of living composers is even offered.
Realizing this, The New Music Performance Collection, a cooperative project of the Virginia Tidewater Consortium libraries, has been established to serve music faculty members who incorporate new music in their teaching. The collection is housed in the Diehn Composers Room at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Participating institutions also include Hampton University, Christopher Newport University, Norfolk State University, and the College of William and Mary.
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“Our goal is that this collection will serve music faculty throughout the United States who may contact the composers about their work and facilitate access to materials that might otherwise be unavailable or unpublished,” explains Lori Anne Boocks, Diehn Composers Room Supervisor.
The composers room currently includes the work of 93 composers and the development of a search database and Web site is underway. Boocks further explains that one of project’s main goals at this time is to garner more submissions from active composers throughout the United States. “We are focusing on post-1970 compositions in order to have music faculty and their university ensembles work with living composers. Music faculty may use this resource to select new music for student performances and to provide an opportunity to work directly with the composer.”
Works added to the collection are generally pieces commissioned by established ensembles or performers or juried as winners in composition contests, such as those held by The Society of Composers, Inc. The material is submitted as a gift, not a loan. One score is archived and another is put into circulation. The composer is required to complete an interview sheet on each piece, including the name of the organization that commissioned or awarded the prize, and a deed of gift.
Borrowing privileges are available to music faculty of any United States institution of higher learning. Music faculty and participating composers who wish to access the database must contact the Diehn Composers Room for an id and password. Old Dominion University provides access to these materials for noncommercial education and research purposes only. Those interested in borrowing from the collection should complete an online interlibrary loan form under “Borrowing Materials.”
Composers in the collection as of this writing:
- Allen Anderson
- Charles Argersinger
- Jesse Ayers
- Claude Baker
- Jennifer M. Barker
- Victoria Bond
- Richard Brooks
- Jonathan Brown
- Julian Bryson
- Harry Bulow
- Matthew Bumbach
- James Caldwell
- Evan Chambers
- George Chave
- Roger Cichy
- Dinos Constantinides
- James Crowley
- James Curnow
- Nicholas D’ Angela
- William Davis
- Emma Lou Diemer
- Paul Dorsam
- William Dougherty
- Frank Felice
- Truman Fisher
- Cynthia Folio
- Donato Fornuto
- Don Freud
- James Fry
- Jack Gallagher
- J. Ryan Garber
- Ann K. Gebuhr
- Fred Geissler
- Daniel Godfrey
- Arthur Gottschalk
- Jon Grier
- Stephen Gryc
- Roger Hannay
- Tayloe Harding
- Paul Hayden
- Brent Heisinger
- Jeraldine S. Herbison
- John Hilliard
- Jeffrey Hoover
- David Jex
- Andrey Kasparov
- Alan Kinningham
- Joseph Klein
- Peter Knell
- Jan Krzywicki
- Peter Lieuwen
- Dan Locklair
- Carleton Macy
- Stephen Melillo
- Timothy Merlbinger
- Allen Molineaux
- Jonathan Newmark
- Douglas Nott
- P. Q. Phan
- Mark Porto
- Paul Reale
- Gordon Ring
- Brian Robison
- Christopher Salerno
- Marc Satterwhite
- Gregory Scheer
- Michael Schelle
- Betsy Schramm
- Elliott Schwartz
- Ronald Shroyer
- Randall Snyder
- James Sochinski
- Greg Steinke
- Erich Stem
- Frank Stemper
- D. Andrew Stewart
- David Stock
- Harvey Stokes
- Vernon Taranto, Jr.
- Stephen Taylor
- Frank Ticheli
- Michael S. Timpson
- Perry Townsend
- Greg Tucker
- Alicyn Warren
- Eric Whitacre
- John White
- Philip Wilby
- Richard Willis
- Dana Wilson
- John Winsor
- Byron K. Yasui
- Paul Zonn