WAYS TO HELP THE MUSICIANS IN NEW ORLEANS New! Now available: Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies (ISAM Monograph No. 35) Jazz at Brooklyn College American Music-Related Events Contribute to ISAM 19^th –Century American Orchestra Conference January 17-19, 2008 Recent Events Folk Music in the City: New York’s Friends of Old Time Music 18 November 2006 Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center 10am-5pm “Don’t Say Goodbye to the Pork Pie Hat”: Re-Evaluating Larry Neal’s Creative and Critical Vision of the Black Aesthetic 19 and 20 of October 2006 at Brooklyn College Spring 2006 Speakers Series Feminist Theory & Music conference CUNY Graduate Center and NYU 23-26 June 2005 Folk Music in the American Century:  A Tribute to Alan Lomax Spring 2003 Conference The review essay "Honoring Alan Lomax, Folk-Music Crusader"  by Jon Pareles appeared in The New York Times,  Monday, 14 April 2003  You must register to read articles Ruth Crawford Seeger Festival, Fall 2001 Ruth Crawford Seeger Festival Booklet Past Events Fall 2005 Speakers Series Spring 2005 Speakers Series Music in Polycultural America  Spring 2004 Speakers Series Music in Polycultural America  Fall 2004 Speakers Series Music in Polycultural America  Fall 2003 Speakers Series

H. Wiley Hitchcock 1923-2007 The Institute for Studies in American Music (ISAM) at the Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College, is delighted to announce the establishment of a fund in memory of H. Wiley Hitchcock (1923-2007), Distinguished Professor emeritus at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and founding Director of ISAM. The fund will support fellowships at Brooklyn College by both established experts in American music and junior scholars of exceptional promise. Donations of any amount are graciously accepted. Please make checks payable to “The Brooklyn College Foundation” (memo: Hitchcock Fund) and send them to: Hitchcock Fund The Institute for Studies in American Music Conservatory of Music Brooklyn College 2900 Bedford Ave.Brooklyn, NY 11210 We recently received the sad news that CUNY Distinguished Professor emeritus H. Wiley Hitchcock, 84, the Institute’s founder and first Director, had passed away on 5 December 2007 after a lengthy illness.  Hitchcock had a truly extraordinary career. He was born 28 September 1923, in Detroit, MI.   After attending Dartmouth (A.B., 1944) and University of Michigan (M.M. 1948, Ph.D. 1954) –  studying in 1949 at the Conservatoire Américain (under Nadia Boulanger) – and after teaching at the University of Michigan, N.Y.U., and Hunter College, Professor Hitchcock came to Brooklyn College in 1971 where he established the Institute for Studies in American Music.  This was four years prior to the founding of the Sonneck Society (now the Society for American Music), at a time when few musicologists recognized the breadth and significance of American music. Wiley was a brilliant scholar, a true man of letters, a model musicologist with multifaceted interests, impeccable standards, and path-breaking publications.  His highly esteemed work in American music studies, especially the compiling of the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986), was built on excellent earlier contributions to the fields of French and Italian Baroque music, especially his seminal work on Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The Amerigrove set provided one of the first comprehensive resources for American music, with entries ranging from folk and popular idioms to jazz and concert hall music. His 1969 textbook for Prentice-Hall, Music in the United States: An Introduction, went through four editions and is still widely used. As a champion of the music of Charles Ives, he was unmatched, and one of his later projects was a remarkable edition of Ives’s 129 Songs (A-R Editions, 2004). Hitchcock was a staunch advocate for American music of all kinds, and counted among his innumerable friends composers, scholars, musicians and enthusiasts from all over the world.  In 1990-92 he served as President of the American Musicological Society, and the list of distinguished projects and committees to which he brought his expertise seems endless.  Wiley was a respected colleague at Brooklyn College’s Conservatory of Music as well as at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Doctoral Program in Music, where he became a helpful and encouraging mentor and friend to many newly minted Ph.D.’s in music, even after his retirement from CUNY in 1993. The Institute joins the Hitchcock family in their grief at this inestimable loss. Spring 2008 Speaker Series Click here for directions to ISAM at Brooklyn College Recent Publications Fall 2007 Newsletter Spring 2007 Newsletter (Requires Adobe Reader 5) Fall 2007 Newsletter (HTML version) Spring 2007 Newsletter (HTML version) Click here to access any of our previous Newsletters The Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, is an internationally recognized center for the study and presentation of American music. A division of the College's Conservatory of Music, ISAM was established in 1971 by H. Wiley Hitchcock, its first director. His successor, Carol J. Oja, served as director from 1993 to 1997; Ellie M. Hisama served as director from 1997 to 2005. Jeffrey Taylor is the current director. The Institute contributes to American music studies in several ways. It publishes a biannual newsletter and a series of monographs, serves as an information center, and sponsors conferences and symposia dealing with all areas of American music including art music, popular music, and music of the oral tradition. Since its founding, the Institute has encouraged research by offering fellowships to scholars and composers. ISAM enriches the educational experience of Brooklyn College students, faculty, and members of the Brooklyn community through its regular programming of annual conferences, lectures, conferences, and artist residencies. Institute for Studies in American Music Brooklyn College of the City University of New York 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889 Tele: (718) 951-5655 Fax: (718) 951-4858 email: isam@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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