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rlin, Ohio THORSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 1987 Reception to celebrate violin-book collection Oberlin College is now the home of what Itzhak Perlman calls "the most significant single collection of literature in the world about the making, playing, and teaching of stringed instruments" and what Yehudi Menuhin^recognizes as "a valuable re¬ source for the world of stringed-instrument players." Assembled by the late Herbert K. Good-kind (1905-1982), author of Violin Iconog¬ raphy of Antonio Stradivari, the collec¬ tion was purchased jointly by Oberlin College and the Violin Society of America (VSA). There will be a public dedicatory reception for the collection in the Good¬ rich Room of Mudd at 4 pm Saturday 21 February. Reciprocal arrangement The presidents of both institutions agree that the joint acquisition of the collection marks the beginning of a continuing rela¬ tionship between the VSA and the college. In addition to housing the collection, the college will have available to it on a revolving-loan basis a selection of the best instruments and bows by gold medalists and certificate winners in the VSA's inter¬ national biennial stringed-instrument com¬ petitions. "With this new agreement, the VSA has established its only permanent public pres¬ ence," says VSA President Hans Tausig. "Although the VSA had received an offer from a prestigious East Coast university, it selected Oberlin as its first choice to house the collection because of the college's midwestem location and renown as a music center, as well as its superior reputa- Collection highlights Among the items included in the Good-kind Collection are: •The first edition of Leopold Mozart's treatise on violin playing, published in the same year his son Wolfgang Ama-deus was bom, 1756. •An album of 60 original albumen photographs of Franz Liszt, eight of them with Liszt's signature. •A 1747 treatise on the physics of violin tone production that is so rare that Edward Heron-Allen, in his 1894 bibli¬ ography of the violin, knew of only one other copy in existence—in the Bodle¬ ian Library of Oxford University. •An early 18th-century volume entitled The Art of Playing on the Violin, pub¬ lished in London, attributed to violin¬ ist/composer Francesco Geminiani, and thought to be the first work of its kind. •A French treatise on the violin pub¬ lished in 1687 that Heron-Allen called "one of the oldest and rarest works on the theory of bow instruments." •Forty books on early 19th-century violin virtuoso/ composer Niccolo Paga-nini, including works published during Paganini's lifetime. •Twenty-four books and pamphlets about varnish published between 1776 and 1968. tion both for library conservation and for making materials easily accessible to schol¬ ars." He adds, "Oberlin is now the place to go to explore virtually all that has been written on the construction, performance, teaching, and collecting of stringed in¬ struments and bows." "Oberlin is honored to become the permanent headquarters of the VSA," says President S. Frederick Starr. "It is a tribute to the new vitality and expanding ambitions of the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin. We look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration with the VSA and hope that its presence here will serve as a magnet to other musical organizations, societies, and businesses." The Goodkind Collection comprises over 2,000 books and auction catalogs from the 17th through 20th centuries, 2,500 periodical issues from the 19th and 20th centuries, and various other mate¬ rials, including correspondence and pho¬ tographs. Several of the earliest items are so scarce that they are not listed in Edward Heron-Allen's exhaustive 1894 bibliog¬ raphy of the violin and are not to be found at either the Library of Congress or the New York Public Library. An exhibit of outstanding materials from the collection will open at the dedica¬ tory reception, where there will be infor¬ mal remarks by Starr, Rachel Goodkind (daughter of Herbert K. Goodkind), Tau¬ sig, dean of the conservatory David Boe, and director of libraries William A. Mof-fett. There will also be a brief concert comprised oftwo performances ofa move¬ ment from Mozart's Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563, for violin, viola, and cello—one performance with new instru¬ ments by gold medal winners from past VSA biennial instrument-making compe¬ titions, and the other with old instruments. The new violin is by Amos Hargrave of Charlotte, North Carolina; the new viola by David Burgess of Ann Arbor, Michi¬ gan; and the new cello by Edward C. Campbell of Boiling Springs, Pennsylva¬ nia. Three Oberlin faculty members— violinist Marilyn McDonald, violist Jef¬ frey Irvine, and cellist Steven Doane—will perform. Painting of Stradivari On loan from the Goodkind family will be a painting depicting Antonio Stradivari at work. The painting, commissioned by Herbert K. Goodkind from artist Alton Tobey in 1972, will be on display as part of the dedicatory exhibit, which will be on view in the Goodrich Room through 2 March. Also on display during the recep¬ tion will be two violins and a viola by VSA gold medalist Campbell. GAR gift The GAR Foundation of Akron has granted $100,000 to the college for a scholarship fund. The grant will be invested as part of the college's per¬ manent endowment, and the income from the investment will be used each year to provide scholarships for eligible students. This is the GAR Founda¬ tion's second grant to Oberlin. In 1983 it contributed $50,000 toward the pur¬ chase of a VAX-11 / 750 computer sys¬ tem for the computer science program. Herbert K. Goodkind was a founding member of the VSA, which was estab¬ lished in 1973 to bring together concert artists, professional and amateur players, makers of instruments and bows, collec¬ tors, dealers, music lovers, and conserva¬ tories and libraries of music. The VSA holds annual conventions throughout the US in addition to biennial international competitions for makers of new stringed instruments and bows. It publishes ajour¬ nal, edited by Professor Albert Mell of Queens College, and provides scholar¬ ships to aspiring instrument and bow makers. Beginning next fall, a dozen stringed instruments and an equal number of bows by VSA gold medalists and certificate winners will be on display in the conserva¬ tory and will be available for Oberlin stu¬ dents, serious professional and amateur musicians, and instrument and bow mak¬ ers to play and to study. "This arrange¬ ment with the Violin Society will give our students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the best instru¬ ments and bows being made today," says Stephen Clapp, professor of violin. Illustration from TheDivision-Viol, or the Art ofPlaying upon a Ground, by Chris¬ topher Simpson, (London, 1667), one of the books in the Goodkind Collection. Lectures to celebrate Zinn's installation Two lectures today will mark the occasion of Grover A. Zinn's installation as Dan-forth professor of religion. Francis Oak¬ ley, president of Williams College and also professor of history there, will give a lec¬ ture entitled "Constance to 1688: The Vision of a Whig Pope" at 4:30 pm in King 106, and Zinn himself will speak at 8:30 pm in the same room; his topic will be "Imagination and Intellect in the Mystical Quest." Zinn's appointment as Oberlin's fourth Danforth professor of religion was announced last spring (Observer 27 March 1986). Oakley's book, Omnipotence, Cove¬ nant, and Order: An Excursion in the His¬ tory of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz, which was published in 1984 by Cornell University Press, was based on the Mead- Swing lectures he presented here in No¬ vember 1981. He has written several other books on medieval history, including The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages, published by Cornell in 1979. Bom in England and a naturalized US citizen, he has the BA degree from Oxford Uni¬ versity and the MA and PhD from Yale University. Hejoined the Williams faculty in 1961, became dean of the faculty in 1977, and was named president in 1985. He has held fellowships from the Gold¬ smith's College of London, the Weil Insti¬ tute, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Endowment for the Humani¬ ties, and he has received many other awards. Recent publications Chapters by Zinn have been included in two books published in the last year. "Suger, Theology, and the Pseudo-diony-sian Tradition," appears in Abbot Suger andSaint-Denis:A Symposium, published by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; and "Sound, Silence, and Word in the Spirituality of Gregory the Great" is in Gr'egoire le Grand: Colloque International du Centre National de la Recherche Scien-tifique, published by Editions du CNRS. Zinn has also been named coeditor of the "Dictionary of Medieval France," to be published by the Garland Press. Last month Zinn gave two lectures in Illinois, speaking on "Dynamics of Love and Lov¬ ing in the Victorines" at the divinity school of the University of Chicago and on "Love in the Mysticism of the Victorines" at Northwestern. In June he went to Nantes, France, to participate in a conference entitled, "Spirituality of Love in the Twelfth Century, East and West." Zinn's other publications include his translation of writings of Richard of St. Victor, for which he also wrote the intro¬ duction, and a book on Gregory the Great, both for the Paulist Press series "Classics in Western Spirituality." He con¬ tributed a chapter, "The Regular Canons," to Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century, published by Crossroad Press, New York. Zinn has been active in professional organizations and was elected councillor in the Mediaeval Academy of America. In 1985 Zinn received from Oberlin a curriculum-enrichment fellowship to de¬ velop a course on popular religion and also an H.H. Powers grant to visit shrines and pilgrimage centers in Europe to study popular religion. He taught the course in the spring of 1986. In 1982 he was awarded a travel grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 1972-73 he received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship that he combined with a research-status leave from Oberlin. He has been a member of the Oberlin faculty since 1966.
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Title | Oberlin Observer. 1987-02-12 |
Description | volume 08, number 11 |
Subject | Oberlin College--Periodicals |
Editor | Ganzel, Carol |
Contributors |
Jones, Sue (au) Lucas, Andrea (au) Perkins, Kimberly (au) Fehlan, Scott (au) Pulver, Steve (au) Schoonmaker, Richard (au) |
Topics | Faculty/staff variety show to return; Writes about experiences from program abroad; Writes about experiences from program abroad; Writes about experiences from program abroad; Champion diver Sean Fri; Lab report: Watching molecular beams scatter |
Date | 1987-02-12 |
Year | 1987 |
Month | February |
Day | 12 |
Type | text; image |
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Identifier | Oberlin_Observer_Vol_8_No_11.pdf |
Publisher | Oberlin College. Library |
Language | English |
Relation | http://www.oberlin.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/library/ref/index.php?db=observerindex |
Number of pages | 6 |
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Title | Page 1 |
Transcript | rlin, Ohio THORSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 1987 Reception to celebrate violin-book collection Oberlin College is now the home of what Itzhak Perlman calls "the most significant single collection of literature in the world about the making, playing, and teaching of stringed instruments" and what Yehudi Menuhin^recognizes as "a valuable re¬ source for the world of stringed-instrument players." Assembled by the late Herbert K. Good-kind (1905-1982), author of Violin Iconog¬ raphy of Antonio Stradivari, the collec¬ tion was purchased jointly by Oberlin College and the Violin Society of America (VSA). There will be a public dedicatory reception for the collection in the Good¬ rich Room of Mudd at 4 pm Saturday 21 February. Reciprocal arrangement The presidents of both institutions agree that the joint acquisition of the collection marks the beginning of a continuing rela¬ tionship between the VSA and the college. In addition to housing the collection, the college will have available to it on a revolving-loan basis a selection of the best instruments and bows by gold medalists and certificate winners in the VSA's inter¬ national biennial stringed-instrument com¬ petitions. "With this new agreement, the VSA has established its only permanent public pres¬ ence," says VSA President Hans Tausig. "Although the VSA had received an offer from a prestigious East Coast university, it selected Oberlin as its first choice to house the collection because of the college's midwestem location and renown as a music center, as well as its superior reputa- Collection highlights Among the items included in the Good-kind Collection are: •The first edition of Leopold Mozart's treatise on violin playing, published in the same year his son Wolfgang Ama-deus was bom, 1756. •An album of 60 original albumen photographs of Franz Liszt, eight of them with Liszt's signature. •A 1747 treatise on the physics of violin tone production that is so rare that Edward Heron-Allen, in his 1894 bibli¬ ography of the violin, knew of only one other copy in existence—in the Bodle¬ ian Library of Oxford University. •An early 18th-century volume entitled The Art of Playing on the Violin, pub¬ lished in London, attributed to violin¬ ist/composer Francesco Geminiani, and thought to be the first work of its kind. •A French treatise on the violin pub¬ lished in 1687 that Heron-Allen called "one of the oldest and rarest works on the theory of bow instruments." •Forty books on early 19th-century violin virtuoso/ composer Niccolo Paga-nini, including works published during Paganini's lifetime. •Twenty-four books and pamphlets about varnish published between 1776 and 1968. tion both for library conservation and for making materials easily accessible to schol¬ ars." He adds, "Oberlin is now the place to go to explore virtually all that has been written on the construction, performance, teaching, and collecting of stringed in¬ struments and bows." "Oberlin is honored to become the permanent headquarters of the VSA," says President S. Frederick Starr. "It is a tribute to the new vitality and expanding ambitions of the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin. We look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration with the VSA and hope that its presence here will serve as a magnet to other musical organizations, societies, and businesses." The Goodkind Collection comprises over 2,000 books and auction catalogs from the 17th through 20th centuries, 2,500 periodical issues from the 19th and 20th centuries, and various other mate¬ rials, including correspondence and pho¬ tographs. Several of the earliest items are so scarce that they are not listed in Edward Heron-Allen's exhaustive 1894 bibliog¬ raphy of the violin and are not to be found at either the Library of Congress or the New York Public Library. An exhibit of outstanding materials from the collection will open at the dedica¬ tory reception, where there will be infor¬ mal remarks by Starr, Rachel Goodkind (daughter of Herbert K. Goodkind), Tau¬ sig, dean of the conservatory David Boe, and director of libraries William A. Mof-fett. There will also be a brief concert comprised oftwo performances ofa move¬ ment from Mozart's Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563, for violin, viola, and cello—one performance with new instru¬ ments by gold medal winners from past VSA biennial instrument-making compe¬ titions, and the other with old instruments. The new violin is by Amos Hargrave of Charlotte, North Carolina; the new viola by David Burgess of Ann Arbor, Michi¬ gan; and the new cello by Edward C. Campbell of Boiling Springs, Pennsylva¬ nia. Three Oberlin faculty members— violinist Marilyn McDonald, violist Jef¬ frey Irvine, and cellist Steven Doane—will perform. Painting of Stradivari On loan from the Goodkind family will be a painting depicting Antonio Stradivari at work. The painting, commissioned by Herbert K. Goodkind from artist Alton Tobey in 1972, will be on display as part of the dedicatory exhibit, which will be on view in the Goodrich Room through 2 March. Also on display during the recep¬ tion will be two violins and a viola by VSA gold medalist Campbell. GAR gift The GAR Foundation of Akron has granted $100,000 to the college for a scholarship fund. The grant will be invested as part of the college's per¬ manent endowment, and the income from the investment will be used each year to provide scholarships for eligible students. This is the GAR Founda¬ tion's second grant to Oberlin. In 1983 it contributed $50,000 toward the pur¬ chase of a VAX-11 / 750 computer sys¬ tem for the computer science program. Herbert K. Goodkind was a founding member of the VSA, which was estab¬ lished in 1973 to bring together concert artists, professional and amateur players, makers of instruments and bows, collec¬ tors, dealers, music lovers, and conserva¬ tories and libraries of music. The VSA holds annual conventions throughout the US in addition to biennial international competitions for makers of new stringed instruments and bows. It publishes ajour¬ nal, edited by Professor Albert Mell of Queens College, and provides scholar¬ ships to aspiring instrument and bow makers. Beginning next fall, a dozen stringed instruments and an equal number of bows by VSA gold medalists and certificate winners will be on display in the conserva¬ tory and will be available for Oberlin stu¬ dents, serious professional and amateur musicians, and instrument and bow mak¬ ers to play and to study. "This arrange¬ ment with the Violin Society will give our students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the best instru¬ ments and bows being made today," says Stephen Clapp, professor of violin. Illustration from TheDivision-Viol, or the Art ofPlaying upon a Ground, by Chris¬ topher Simpson, (London, 1667), one of the books in the Goodkind Collection. Lectures to celebrate Zinn's installation Two lectures today will mark the occasion of Grover A. Zinn's installation as Dan-forth professor of religion. Francis Oak¬ ley, president of Williams College and also professor of history there, will give a lec¬ ture entitled "Constance to 1688: The Vision of a Whig Pope" at 4:30 pm in King 106, and Zinn himself will speak at 8:30 pm in the same room; his topic will be "Imagination and Intellect in the Mystical Quest." Zinn's appointment as Oberlin's fourth Danforth professor of religion was announced last spring (Observer 27 March 1986). Oakley's book, Omnipotence, Cove¬ nant, and Order: An Excursion in the His¬ tory of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz, which was published in 1984 by Cornell University Press, was based on the Mead- Swing lectures he presented here in No¬ vember 1981. He has written several other books on medieval history, including The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages, published by Cornell in 1979. Bom in England and a naturalized US citizen, he has the BA degree from Oxford Uni¬ versity and the MA and PhD from Yale University. Hejoined the Williams faculty in 1961, became dean of the faculty in 1977, and was named president in 1985. He has held fellowships from the Gold¬ smith's College of London, the Weil Insti¬ tute, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Endowment for the Humani¬ ties, and he has received many other awards. Recent publications Chapters by Zinn have been included in two books published in the last year. "Suger, Theology, and the Pseudo-diony-sian Tradition," appears in Abbot Suger andSaint-Denis:A Symposium, published by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; and "Sound, Silence, and Word in the Spirituality of Gregory the Great" is in Gr'egoire le Grand: Colloque International du Centre National de la Recherche Scien-tifique, published by Editions du CNRS. Zinn has also been named coeditor of the "Dictionary of Medieval France," to be published by the Garland Press. Last month Zinn gave two lectures in Illinois, speaking on "Dynamics of Love and Lov¬ ing in the Victorines" at the divinity school of the University of Chicago and on "Love in the Mysticism of the Victorines" at Northwestern. In June he went to Nantes, France, to participate in a conference entitled, "Spirituality of Love in the Twelfth Century, East and West." Zinn's other publications include his translation of writings of Richard of St. Victor, for which he also wrote the intro¬ duction, and a book on Gregory the Great, both for the Paulist Press series "Classics in Western Spirituality." He con¬ tributed a chapter, "The Regular Canons," to Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century, published by Crossroad Press, New York. Zinn has been active in professional organizations and was elected councillor in the Mediaeval Academy of America. In 1985 Zinn received from Oberlin a curriculum-enrichment fellowship to de¬ velop a course on popular religion and also an H.H. Powers grant to visit shrines and pilgrimage centers in Europe to study popular religion. He taught the course in the spring of 1986. In 1982 he was awarded a travel grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 1972-73 he received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship that he combined with a research-status leave from Oberlin. He has been a member of the Oberlin faculty since 1966. |
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