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The Music Library Association has announced its publications awards for 2001. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2001 was presented to Horst Leuchtmann and Bernhold Schmid for Orlando di Lasso: seine Werke in zeitgenössischen Drucken, 1555-1687, Orlando di Lasso: Sämtliche Werke; Supplement (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001). The MLA Publications Awards Committee noted that "This three-volume catalog of the compositions of Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) represents a singularly impressive bibliographical achievement by two leading Lasso scholars.... In addition to serving as a model of research and scholarship, Leuchtmann and Schmid's work underscores Lasso's prominence among Renaissance composers and his important place in Europe's transition to a culture of printed music during the sixteenth century." Teresa M. Gialdroni and Agostino Ziino received the Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature published in 2001 for "New Light on Ottaviano Petrucci's Activity, 1520-38: An Unknown Print of the 'Motetti dal fiore'" (Early Music 29 [November 2001]): 500-532. The committee commented, "Rigorously argued and meticulously documented, Gialdroni and Ziino's article represents a significant contribution both to Petrucci research and the field of early music printing. Their analysis of the Tenor and Bassus partbooks of a previously unknown collection printed by Petrucci and Bartolomeo Egnazio in 1538 is a model of analytical bibliography...." The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for best review published in Notes in 2001 was presented to Mark Germer for his review of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed. (Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, eds. [London: Macmillan; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001]) which appeared in Notes 58, no. 2 (December 2001): 320-25. The Publications Awards Committee observed, "Mark Germer ... places seasoned criticism of this monumental reference work in the context of an eloquent essay on encyclopedic information. In evaluating the most widely-known music resource used by all manner of musicians, scholars, and enthusiasts, Germer provides commentary that is poised, yet critical and carefully considered...."

Other MLA Awards. There were two recipients of the Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music: Ayden Adler, doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music, for her project "Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music": The Influence of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra on the Culture of Classical Music in America," and Ryan Patrick Jones, doctoral student at Brandeis University, for his project "Aaron Copland's The Tender Land." The Dena Epstein Award Committee commented about Ms. Adler's project, "This research aspires to shed light on the fundamental cultural conflicts underlying the phenomenon of pops concerts—the attempt to provide orchestral music, which was born out of the elitism of aristocratic Europe, to the democratically-minded American general public through the institution of the American symphony orchestra.... With the Epstein award money, Ms. Adler intends to ... look at the Fiedler- related materials at the Boston Symphony archives and at Boston University...." About Mr. Jones's project the committee noted, "This research will document the compositional processes involved in Aaron Copland's only opera.... Mr. Jones intends to examine all of the primary source material [housed in the Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress]."

The 2002 Kevin Freeman Travel Grant helps aspiring music librarians offset the cost of attending the annual meeting of the association. This year grants were awarded to Kirsten M. Dougan, University ofWisconsin, Madison; Rachel Rogers, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; and Stacie A. Traill, University of Minnesota.

The 2002 Walter Gerboth Award was presented to Daniel F. Boomhower, Assistant Music Librarian, Princeton University, for a project that focuses on the publication of music by and writings about Johann Sebastian Bach emanating in the early twentieth century (1923-54) from the German music publisher Bärenreiter. This award is offered to members of MLA who are in the first five years of their professional library careers to assist research-in-progress in music...