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标题：Sylvia Goldstein became a member of the Joint Committee of the Music Library Association and the Music Publishers Association. (Notes for Notes).
作者：Davidson, Mary Wallace
期刊名称：Notes
印刷版ISSN：0027-4380
出版年度：2002
期号：June
语种：English
出版社：Music Library Association, Inc.
摘要：Sylvia Goldstein became a member of the Joint Committee of the Music Library Association and the Music Publishers Association in 1985, and a personal member of the Music Library Association in 1991. That same year she also became part of the newly created MLA-MPA Task Force on Music Publishers Archives, a cause she had long advocated as she watched historical records of several music publishers being dumped by new corporate owners. (The Task Force was dissolved in 1996, upon the publication of Kent Underwood, et al., "Archival Guidelines for the Music Publishing Industry," Notes 52, no. 4 [June 1996]:1112-18.) She was particularly anxious that an oral history project be undertaken with retirees who knew the often unwritten history of the music print publishing industry, and indeed, her own interview, completed in June 2000, is now being transcribed for such a project, inaugurated by the Music Publishers Association in 1999.
关键词：Music publishers;Music publishing;Sheet music

Sylvia Goldstein became a member of the Joint Committee of the Music Library Association and the Music Publishers Association. (Notes for Notes).

Davidson, Mary Wallace

Sylvia Goldstein became a member of the Joint Committee of the Music Library Association and the Music Publishers Association in 1985, and a personal member of the Music Library Association in 1991. That same year she also became part of the newly created MLA-MPA Task Force on Music Publishers Archives, a cause she had long advocated as she watched historical records of several music publishers being dumped by new corporate owners. (The Task Force was dissolved in 1996, upon the publication of Kent Underwood, et al., "Archival Guidelines for the Music Publishing Industry," Notes 52, no. 4 [June 1996]:1112-18.) She was particularly anxious that an oral history project be undertaken with retirees who knew the often unwritten history of the music print publishing industry, and indeed, her own interview, completed in June 2000, is now being transcribed for such a project, inaugurated by the Music Publishers Association in 1999.

Daughter of Max and Lillian Weitzman, Sylvia was born on 21 February 1919 in Harlem. At the age of five, she moved with her family to the house in Baldwin, New York, where she died of lymphoma on 21 January 2002. She joined Boosey & Hawkes in 1940 as secretary to Hans Heinsheimer in the "serious" music department, and "retired" in 1993 as corporate vice president, although she still went often to the office. In 1944 she married Joseph Goldstein (d. 1982), and was also admitted to the Bar of the State of New York. From then on she handled most of the legal work of the company, but that was not her only responsibility As Ned Rorem wrote in 1990, "Sylvia Goldstein is Boosey & Hawkes. ... What she doesn't know isn't worth knowing--about copyright, permissions, recalcitrant poets, recipes, gardening, travel, sewing, politics, the care and feeding of cats and dogs, and especially of composers" (Ned Rorem, "Who Is Sylvia," in his Other Entertainment: Collected Pieces [New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996], 309). Thanks primarily to the late Neil Ratliff, she became a good friend of many music librarians, too, and we will miss her personal warmth, good will, stamina, and inevitable curiosity about all things great and small.