JAVS Fall 2020

10. The YAC will share reports and minutes from their three meetings to the AVS board. The YAB chair is invited to attend AVS online board meetings and annual AVS Board meetings as a non-voting member.

The database is fully searchable across a wide variety of categories. There is also a link to help us correct errors, omissions, and to submit new works to the database. Please share widely. Let’s help this amazing music and these incredible composers get the recognition they deserve! You can access the database at the following website:

Music by Composers from Underrepresented Groups

Back in early June, a team of violists got together to assemble a database of music for viola by underrepresented composers. We are absolutely thrilled to be able to share this resource with the viola community today! The VAST majority of the work was done by Dorthea Stephenson, Katie Baird, and Adie Cannon who spent untold hours hunting down works all over the internet, in multiple languages, and inputting them into the database. It is really because of them that this database has over 1100 works to date. We also couldn’t have done this without the tireless wizardry of our violist/librarians Joshua Dieringer and David M. Bynog.

https://www.americanviolasociety.org/Composer Database/Search.php

Please contact Molly Gebrian with questions at molly. gebrian@americanviolasociety.org.

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Journal of the American Viola Society / Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall 2020