In The Loop | May 17, 2011

The next SUNDAY SALON is this Sunday, May 22 at 2pm. We will be meeting in JACOB GOODMAN's apartment, 310 West 72 Street (#16A). There will be a special presentation by LEONARD HINDELL, a bassoonist with the New York Philharmonic for 33 years, a frequent performer with new music groups, and a performer member of the NYCC, will give a talk/demonstration entitled "The Versatile Voice of the Bassoon." He writes: "Long considered the Character Actor of Music with few notable examples of concerti and sonatas, the bassoon has been evolving into an interesting vehicle for more prominent exposure." He promises to bring some interesting examples, including a rehearsal with Igor Stravinsky making comments about the Rite of Spring.

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The fourth and final (but not least!) concert of the NYCC 2010-2011 season is just around the corner: Saturday June 4 at 7:30pm (note the earlier start time!). The venue is the Symphony Space Thalia, Broadway and 95^th Street. Tickets are $20 payable at the door. This concert promises to be quite eclectic and varied—the sundry pieces are scored for everything from harp to mandolin, guitar to marimba, and even an electric cello (to name a few). Composers include ROGER BLANC, JOHN EATON, HUBERT HOWE, RICHARD McCANDLESS, JOSEPH PEHRSON, and ROBERT S. COHEN.

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PERI MAUER will be conducting and playing cello with her new piece, "Scene 3: Blogarhythm on the Rocks," for chamber ensemble on June 21st, 3 pm, in Central Park (64th and 5th), as part of Make Music New York 2011.

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The musicologist, scholar, and composer Lawrence Kramer asked me to share the following opportunities: one if a call for papers and the other is a call for piano compositions.

Here's the announcement:

Counterpoints: Nineteenth-Century Music and Literature

19th-Century Music is sponsoring this one-day interdisciplinary conference at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus on Saturday, October 22, 2011. Graduate students, part-time and junior faculty are invited to submit abstracts (maximum: 500 words) to the editor, Lawrence Kramer, lek791@gmail.com, by June 30, 2011 (extended from April 30). Papers selected for presentation will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal.

The topics may range as widely as the contributors' imagination can compass. Possibilities include, but are by no means limited to, portrayals of music or musicians in nineteenth-century literary works, musical representations in nineteenth-century music of literary genres, characters, or texts, literary opera, incidental music, aesthetic theories, models of performance, treatments of nineteenth-century music in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and film, treatments of nineteenth-century literature in twentieth-and twenty-first-century music, including opera and film music, and the list goes on. As always, we define the chronological borders of the nineteenth century very loosely.

We are also considering a piano recital combining old and new compositions inspired by literary works and would like to feature a group of younger pianists from the same pool of applicants as the CFP. If you would like to be considered for a spot on the program, please include a resume and performance sample. If the file size of the latter exceeds 10mb, please use a file delivery service such as Dropbox or YouSendIt.