The International Center for American Music celebrates the decennial of its foundation (in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 25 January 2002). Today ICAMus remembers its past, thanks its supporters, and works on new projects focused on the study of American musical sources.
The texts of a historic ICAMus event, and one of the most successful, are online: the Ives 32-Song program at Teatro della Pergola in Florence (7 May 2003), with projected texts, translations and images, and with light design).
Today’s Newsletter from The Charles Ives Society is a memorable issue. Executive Editor James Sinclair has announced the landmark publication of the Ives Society Critical Edition of Ives’s Symphony No. 4 by Associated Music Publishers (subsidiary of G. Schirmer).
Please read the press release on the ICAMus Foster Program performed in the Scuola Comunale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" di Prato Christmas Concert at Teatro Metastasio in Prato, Italy.
Foster texts of the upcoming December 23rd, 2011 ICAMus concert with Scuola Comunale di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” of Prato, Italy are online, in the original with accompanying Italian translation by Aloma Bardi.
The ICAMus Web site has been linked from prominent sites and blogs of institutions and individuals. Our gratitude goes to all of them, as we look forward to our continuing collaborations in future years.
ICAMus marks the anniversary of Puccini’s death (29 November 1924) with the Organization’s ongoing exploration of new sources and topics, particularly related to "La Fanciulla del West"
ICAMus has been investigating for years the international range of inspiration, influence and contacts of the Tuscan composer.
ICAMus announces its discovery and publication of new Puccini manuscript correspondence that sheds light on “La Fanciulla del West”. Aloma Bardi discovered a recently acquired collection of Puccini holograph manuscripts at the Library of Congress Music Division. Puccini scholar Barbara Boganini has transcribed and annotated the documents, and has provided an Introductory Note, in Puccini, the United States and the Years of “La Fanciulla”: Previously Unpublished Correspondence of Giacomo Puccini to George Maxwell; With a Letter to Carlo Clausetti.
ICAMus annuncia la sua scoperta e pubblicazione di nuova corrispondenza manoscritta di Giacomo Puccini, che arricchisce la documentazione relativa alla “Fanciulla del West”. Aloma Bardi ha scoperto presso la Library of Congress, Music Division, a Washington D.C., U.S.A., una collezione di autografi pucciniani di recente acquisizione. Barbara Boganini, da anni dedita allo studio delle fonti americane dell’opera, ha trascritto e annotato i documenti, corredandoli di una Nota introduttiva, in Puccini, gli U.S.A. e gli anni della “Fanciulla”. Corrispondenza inedita tra Giacomo Puccini e George Maxwell; con una lettera a Carlo Clausetti.
Barbara Boganini (Camerata Strumentale "Città di Prato", Prato, Italy) and Evan Rothstein (Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK, and ECMTA, European Chamber Music Teachers’ Association) have joined the ICAMus Board of Directors. Aloma Bardi submitted their candidacies for discussion by the Board at the February 2011 Board Meeting. The candidacies were unanimously approved.
