Michael Saffle and James Heintze, Editors

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CMS proudly announces the publication of Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium, Michael Saffle and James Heintze, Editors. In the timely spirit of assessing the waning century with an eye on the future, the contributors to this collection of essays summarize achievements of the last one-hundred years in American musical life and often speculate on its future. From the vantage points of diverse musical backgrounds, goals, disciplines, and occupations, the authors typically communicate memorable developments in their own professional lives as well as in the evolving "lives" of their particular professions. Conceived as a means of marking the Millennium by The College Music Society, the volume is like wise intended to call attention to the good works of leaders and members of that bi-national organization since its inception in 1958.

Perspectives by Performing Artists and Ensemble Conductors—Barbara W. Baker (public school choral music), Ethel Ennis (jazz), JoAnn Falletta (orchestral music), Gary Graffman (keyboard music), Marilyn A. Kielniarz (church music), Ann Kilkelly (dance), B. B. King (blues), Jerold Ottley (choral music)

Perspectives by Composers—John Luther Adams, Davis Amram, Carl Davis (film music), John Kander (Broadway musicals), Elliott Schwartz, Judith Lang Zaimont

Perspectives by Agents of Music Business and by Advocates for Community Interaction—Earl Arnett (jazz venue proprietor), Arnold Broido (music publishing), Scott Cantrell (music criticism), Bob Goldfarb (public reception of new music), Marnie Hall (music distribution), Rances W. Preston (performance rights), Elizabeth Ramirez (community-college outreach), Patricia A. Shifferd (community-based patronage), William Velez (performance rights)

Perspectives by Scholars and Librarians—Elizabeth Aubrey (medieval music), John S. Cotner (rock analysis), David P. DeVenney (choral music), Charles L. Gary (music education), Jane Gottlieb (music librarianship), William Kearns (music historiography), Howard Mandel (jazz), Dale A. Olsen (transcultural theory), Jack Sullivan (immigrant musicians), John C. Tibbetts (oral history), John White (music theory), Josephine R. B. Wright (African-American music)

Tributes to The College Music Society—Leon Botstein, Barbara English Maris, Dale A. Olsen, William Carlos Williams