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1. Introducing Tess James, our new MTO Correspondent
Tess James, a Canadian journalist based in London, joins our
group of Correspondents for Europe. Tess is a freelance
stringer for Rondo Magazine in London, Classic CD magazine
in Munich, as well as several others. She works out of both
cities. She has initiated a project at Brown University to
categorize the music of Anthony Burgess, is working together
with the home-estate of Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni,
and has a special interest in the "forgotten composers" of
the last century. Tess is currently researching a major
project in England and Germany, involving Bruckner's favorite
student Hans Rott (1858-1886), whose string quartet will be
premiered in September. She has a keen interest in elements
of Mahler, Brahms, Bruckner, and Wagner found in Rott's
"Symphony in E Major" (1878), and the relationship between
Rott and Mahler. She also attends conducting classes with
the former assistant of Sergio Celibidache as part of her
work on a major profile article on the Maestro, which covers
in-depth the relationship with his orchestra, and the connection
between his conducting technique and his Bruckner performances.
We are fortunate and most pleased to have Tess on the MTO staff,
and look forward to her reports. Welcome!
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2. mto-talk: Where have all the "talkers" gone?
mto-talk has been very quiet these days, this despite a most
interesting and thought-provoking set of articles in our last
issue (4.2), which carried essay versions of talks given by
prominent SMT members (including the new President) at the
Plenary Session of the 1997 annual SMT meeting in Phoenix.
Jay Rahn, our new mto-talk Manager, posted an initial message
designed to elicit comments, but no one followed up. That
was unfortunate because the articles offered many opportunities
for discussion.
Needless to say, we are all busy and it is not easy to find
time to think through and formulate remarks on
scholarly issues in order to participate in serious discussion.
And although smt-list competes as a forum for talking about
music-theoretical matters, its subscribers do not include
many from mto-talk.
mto-talk was created to provide a means for focusing on issues
presented in items published in the journal, allowing the unique
opportunity for immediate peer response to the latest published
research, including the possibility of involving authors in the
discussion. We hope that mto-talk will remain viable and prove
beneficial. MTO readers are invited to post comments at any time,
even on past items, including reviews and MTO Correspondents'
reports.
It's not too late! Those who have in the meantime gotten around
to reading the Plenary
Session essays are encouraged to send
email to mto-talk. The article in the present issue is also
most interesting (if as General Editor I do say so myself...),
and ought to elicit responses, which author Stephen Soderberg
no doubt welcomes, and to which he will respond. Keep in mind
that each MTO essay has a hyperlink that gives readers an easy
way to send comments to mto-talk, and each table of contents
has a link to mto-talk
Hypermail for reading postings in HTML format.
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3. Music Theory Spectrum: Warehouse Sale!
Check out the ad in this issue for an announcement about the
clearance sale of back issues of Music Theory Spectrum, the
print journal of the Society for Music Theory.
Libraries and individuals can get a real bargain. Order now
while the supply lasts. Buyers can use the order form for back
issues, even though the prices given on the form differ from
the sale pricing. If you use the order form, notify Cynthia
Folio that you are taking advantage of the sale. Note that this
offer is for SMT members only, and for libraries.
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Lee A. Rothfarb, General Editor
Music Theory Online
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070
U.S.A.
mto-editor@societymusictheory.org
voice: (805) 893-7527 (with voice mail)
fax: (805) 893-7194