Kindly note that as of November 1, 2009, Ars Lyrica will no longer be published by Brepols.  The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations will resume publishing the journal until further notice. Please redirect your subscription data to the Lyrica Society as follows:

Dr. Ronnie Apter
1409 East Gaylord Street
Mount Pleasant, MI 48858
apter_rsa at cmsinter.net

Subscription and renewal checks should be sent to:

Dr. Dorothy Africa
Langdell Library
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA 02138
lyricasociety at aol.com

Thank you for your prompt attention to this important development and for your patience as we rapidly work to honor the following publication schedule:

Ars Lyrica 16 (2007) will be available at AMS-Philadelphia.
Ars Lyrica 17 (Ars Lyrica Celtica, 2008), is expected by February 2010
Ars Lyrica 18 (2009) and Ars Lyrica 19 (2010) are expected by November 2010.

To our loyal members and subscribers, we apologize for this delay and thank you for your patience and understanding. Please check our website www.lyricasociety.org toward mid-November for updates.

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ARS LYRICA 16

The Lyrica Society is pleased to announce the imminent release of Ars Lyrica 16
(2007).  The volume includes the following articles:

Jeff S. Dailey: Defending The Grand Duke

Wallace McClain Cheatham: The Umukoro Songs: Reflections from the Studio of the
Composer

Jean Kreiling: Amy Clampitt on Beethoven: Music, Memory, and Poetic Polyphony

Kimberly Fairbrother Canton: The Emperor Jones Meets Porgy and Bess: William
Grant Still, Langston Hughes, and their 'Troubled Island'

Jurgen Thym: Discovering “Musical Impressionism” by Way of Eichendorff and
Schumann: Wolf and Pfitzner at the Threshold

Bruce Brown: “. . . so wurde sie noch besser auf den Text gemacht seyn:” Zonca,
Raaff, and Mozart’s First Aria for Idomeneo

Yuri Porras: The Songs in Agustín Moreto’s 'La vida de San Alejo': Their
Function and Significance

Edward Green: Reconsidering Rousseau’s 'Le devin du village': An Opera of
Surprising and Valuable Paradox

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A cordial invitation to our annual, be-chocolated, AMS session, this year devoted to contemporary opera.

Safe travels, and very best wishes to all.

Paul-Andre Bempechat, President
Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relaitons
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Harvard University
pabempec at fas.harvard.edu