Orchestra Conductors Research Articles

Serendipity and Pseudoserendipity in Career Paths of Successful Women: Orchestra Conductors

Chance affects careers, and being prepared is of essence. This article draws attention to the silence in the creativity literature on the impact of positive chance events in careers of successful women in the traditional male field of orchestra conducting. Typical serendipity and pseudoserendipity patterns in this domain of the performing arts are underscored and illustrated with case histories of some prominent women visible in the media. The social context of the field is also discussed with additional examples, and avenues for future research are suggested. Public data support empirical results on serendipity in women's careers in many fields.

The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima (review)

Contents: Preface. Part I: Reminiscences. L. Fant, Two Memorable Meals With Ursula and Ed. R.M. Battison, American Sign Language Linguistics 1970-1980: Memoir of a Renaissance. B. Bragg, A Fish Story for Ursula and Other Remembrances. Part II: Historical and Comparative Analyses of Sign Languages. J. Woodward, Sign Languages and Sign Language Families in Thailand and Vietnam. D. McKee, G. Kennedy, Lexical Comparisons of Signs From American, Australian, British, and New Zealand Sign Languages. H. Lane, R.C. Pillard, M. French, Origins of the American Deaf-World: Assimilating and Differentiating Societies and Their Relation to Genetic Patterning. Part III: Language in the Visual-Spatial Modality. E.L. Newport, T. Supalla, Sign Language Research at the Millennium. P. Siple, Attentional Resources and Working Memory: A New Framework for the Study of the Impact of Deafness on Cognition. M. Wilson, K. Emmorey, When Does Modality Matter? Evidence From ASL on the Nature of Working Memory. P.B. Braem, T. Bram, A Pilot Study of the Expressive Gestures Used by Classical Orchestra Conductors. N. Frishberg, An Interpreter Creates the Space. Part IV: Linguistic Analysis of Sign Languages. S.D. Fischer, More Than Just Handwaving: The Mutual Contributions of Sign Language and Linguistics. R.B. Wilbur, Phonological and Prosodic Layering of Nonmanuals in American Sign Language. R.C. Loew, C.T. Akamatsu, M. Lanaville, A Two-Handed Manual Alphabet in the United States. E. Pizzuto, V. Volterra, Iconicity and Transparency in Sign Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Cross-Cultural View. M. Kuntze, Codeswitching in ASL and Written English Language Contact. S.K. Liddell, Indicating Verbs and Pronouns: Pointing Away From Agreement. Part V: Language Acquisition. J.G. Bettger, Viewing Deaf Children in a New Way: Implications of Bellugi and Klima's Research for Education. R.P. Meier, Shared Motoric Factors in the Acquisition of Sign and Speech. A. Abrahamsen, Explorations of Enhanced Gestural Input to Children in the Bimodal Period. D. Lillo-Martin, Early and Late in Language Acquisition: Aspects of the Syntax and Acquisition of Wh-Questions in American Sign Language. J. Reilly, Bringing Affective Expression Into the Service of Language: Acquiring Perspective Marking in Narratives. C.A. Padden, V.L. Hanson, Search for the Missing Link: The Development of Skilled Reading in Deaf Children. L.A. Petitto, On the Biological Foundations of Human Language. Part VI: The Neural Organization of Sign Language. A.R. Damasio, H. Damasio, Language and the Brain. D.P. Corina, Some Observations Regarding Paraphasia in American Sign Language. H. Poizner, D. Brentari, M.E. Tyrone, J. Kegl, The Structure of Language as Motor Behavior: Clues From Signers With Parkinson's Disease. V.A. Fromkin, On the Uniqueness of Language.

Orchestras in Small Colleges of Northeastern United States

SINCE 1946 THE AUTHOR has been the conductor of the orchestra at the State University College at Cortland, New York. From 1946 until 1952 the orchestra personnel was allstudent in nature, but in 1952 the membership was broadened to include faculty and musicians from surrounding communities. Through the years the writer has encountered many problems concerned with the general operation of a college orchestra, and has sought answers to such problems in published literature, attendance at professional conferences, and personal interviews with other college orchestra directors while attending such conferences. To his dismay, very little assistance has been found in any of these areas. There seems to be very little literature available on the subject, comparatively few meetings at professional conferences are devoted to problems of college orchestras and there has seemed to be a dearth of orchestra conductors at such conferences. Obviously, it could be very easy to conclude that, in fact, there actually are very few college orchestras in existence today, which could account for the absence of (1) appropriate literature, (2) professional meetings, and (3) orchestra directors. To determine if this really were true, a plan of research was devised to ascertain certain facts pertaining to the status of college orchestras on campuses today. The Study Two short questionnaires were prepared, and sent to a random sampling of the music departments of one hundred private and tax-supported colleges with an undergraduate enrollment under 3000 in the states comprising the Eastern Music Educators Conference. Such delimitations were

Contemporary Music in the High School

HE MUSIC of the mid-twentieth century will be evaluated by future generations. Pierre Monteux, the dean of today's orchestra conductors and the protagonist in the controversy stirred by the early Stravinsky, recently had something to say about the music of the mid-twentieth century, and it was not particularly complimentary. He indicated, in effect, that composers were composing to impress other composers rather than for public consumption. We will not debate the point. Let it suffice to be said that the music of our time is with us, and if it is different from that of