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Dominique-René de Lerma

Oboe; Musicology

".....De Lerma deserves our unfettered admiration and respect... Meriting the enthusiastic praise of the authors of the forewords to these four volumes, he has given us something beyond the great value of his works: he has revealed to us, the musicologists of America, our own shortcomings in providing leadership and in producing meaningful research. By demonstrating the vast gaps in American music research, he shows in the same moment the directions American music studies must take to maintain any semblance of self-respect in our chosen profession."
Sam Dennison, in American music, summer 1988, v6n2, p246.

"....[He] has demonstrated in countless ways his life-long commitment to the documentation and promulgation of black music."
Carol Lems-Dworkin in African music: A pan-African annotated bibliography, p90.

".Dominique has reservations about the term musicologist, even more to ethnomusicologist, but I don't really know what else to call him. Whatever he is, his thinking on these matters is the most expansive I have ever encountered."
Gene Lees in "John, Gil, Dave, and the man on the Buffalo nickel"
in Gene Lees jazzletter (v10n8, August 1991) p3.

"...[He] has gathered research and information not only by virtue of his work in academia, but also by a multitude of activities central to the composers' support system over the past 25 years. Working in the midst of the musical network has given him an intimate perspective on the musical and social ramifications of repertoire and programming in today's orchestral world."
Sandra Hyslop in Symphony, January-February 1994.

EDUCATION

Indiana University (Ph.D., 1958); University of Miami (B.M., cum laude, 1952); additional work at the Berkshire Music Center, Curtis Institute of Music, University of Oklahoma, and College of Notre Dame.

PRIVATE STUDY

Oboe with Marcel Tabuteau, Fernand Gillet, Albert J. Andraud; also private study of bassoon, (with Thomas C. Collins), composition (with Bernhard Heiden), and phrasing (with Joel Belov).

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Lawrence University, 1993-; Northwestern University, 1993; Columbia College, 1990-1993; Florida State University, Wiley and Lucilla Housewright Eminent Scholar in Music for 1989-1990; Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University, 1982-1990; Morgan State University, 1976-1990; Kent State University, 1975; University of Oklahoma, 1962-1963; Indiana University, 1961-1962, 1962-1976; University of Miami, 1951-1962.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS [selected citations]

Director for Research, Afro-American Music Opportunities Association, 1972-1975; Chief Consultant, Columbia Records, 1972-1978; Founder-Director, Ben Holt Memorial Concert Series, 1992-; Juror, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Unisys Competition, 1992; Juror, Sphinx Competition, 1998.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE [selected citations]

American Musicological Society (1952-1982); College Music Society (Council, 1980-1982); Deutsche Mozart Gesellschaft (1956-1968); Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (1961-1964); Maryland State Arts Council (Councilor, 1983-1987); Music Library Association (Board of Directors, 1969-1971); Pi Delta Phi [French honorary fraternity] (Honorary charter member, 1952); Scandinavian-American Foundation (Fellow, 1969-1971)

CONSULTANT SERVICES [selected citations]

American Council of Learned Societies; American Symphony Orchestra League; American Library Association; American Musicological Society; Philip Brunelle; Buffalo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Catherine Comet; City College of New York; Civic Orchestra of Chicago; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Ford Foundation; Alex Haley; Ben Holt; Houston Symphony Orchestra; Howard University Press; Indiana State Arts Council; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Law Offices of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine; MacArthur Foundation; Minnesota Orchestra; Michael Morgan; William Naboré; National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Public Radio; New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; Florence Quivar; George Shirley; South Carolina Public Television; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; University of Tennessee Press; WETA-FM; WETA-TV.

LECTURE SERVICES [selected entries]

American Choral Directors Association; American Musicological Society, Kennedy Center Mozart Festival; Baltimore Museum of Art; Catholic Music Educators Association; Chicago Art Institute; Cleveland State University; College of the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas); Fisk University; Goucher College; Music Educators National Conference; Music Library Association; National Office of Black Catholics; National Public Radio; New England Conservatory of Music, Northeastern University, Phillips Academy; Rice University; St. Augustine's College; Sibelius Academy (Helsinki); Smithsonian Institution; La Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris); Spelman College; State University of New York (Purchase); Tufts University; United States Information Agency; University of Chicago; University of Colorado; University of Florida; University of Houston; University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, and Chicago); University of Iowa; University of Kentucky; University of Louisville; University of Michigan; University of Toronto; Voice of America.

PUBLICATIONS [more than 1000 titles; selected sources]

Publishers of monographs: American Choral Foundation; American Musicological Society; Greenwood Press; Harper's College Press; Kent State University Press; Lilly Library; Music Library Association. Publishers of liner and program notes: College Music Society; Collins Classics; Columbia Records; CRI; Laurel Records; Musical Heritage Society; New York Philharmonic; New World Records; Orion Records. Publishers of articles: Acta Mozartiana (Austria); American National Biography; Black Music Research Journal; The Black Perspective in Music; Canon (Australia); Choice; College Music Symposium; Le Conservatoire (France); Dictionary of American Negro Biography; Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Germany); Ethnomusicology; Greenwood Press; Music Review (England); Musical America; The New Grove Dictionary of American Music; The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980 and 1999 editions); The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers; Oxford University Press; Revista Interamericana (Puerto Rico); Symphony; Umana (Italy). Publishers of reviews: American Reference Books Annual; The Black Perspective in Music; Choice; Ethnomusicology; Journal of Research in Music Education; Library Journal; Music Educators Journal; Notes. Publishers of edited music: Associated Music Publishers; Merion Music; Peer International. Labels of recorded music editions: Audio House Records; College Music Society; Columbia Records; Orion Records; Performance Records. Performers of edited and arranged music: Århus By-Orkester, Denmark; Betty Allen; Martina Arroyo; Black Music Repertory Ensemble; Harolyn Blackwell; Philip Brunelle, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Chicago Sinfonetta; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Paul Freeman; Hilda Harris; Helsinki Philharmonic; Natalie Hinderas; Ben Holt; Jacques Israelivitch; Juilliard Quartet; London Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Zubin Mehta; New York Philharmonic; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Julius Rudel; George Shirley, Victoria Symphony Orchestra. Reviews and related literature authors and publishers: American Symphony Orchestra League News; Gilbert Chase; Christian Science Monitor; Chicago Defender; Cleveland Plain Dealer; Stanley Dance; Ebony; Kenneth Furie; Elliott Galkin; Donal Henahan; High Fidelity; Hufvudstadsbladet, Helsinki; Jazz Journal; Los Angeles Times; Irving Lowens; New York Times; Newsweek; Records and Recordings; Harold Schonberg; Stereo Review; Eileen Southern; Time; Variety; Virgil Thomson; Washington Post; Yearbook for Interamerican Research.

ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE [18 seasons, including work with the following selected figures]

Franz Allers; Alfredo Antonini; Sir Thomas Beecham; Pietro Cimara; Eileen Farrell; Arthur Fiedler; Lukas Foss; Howard Hanson; Jascha Heifetz, Alexander Hilsberg; Skitch Henderson; Newell Jenkins; André Kostelanetz; Serge Koussevitzky; Renée Longy; Yehudi Menuhin; Leonard Rose; Artur Rubinstein; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Fabien Sevitsky; Isaac Stern; Leopold Stokowski; Gladys Swarthout; Heitor Villa-Lobos; Paul Whiteman.

BIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES [selected entries]

1955, American Leaders in the Humanities; 1965, Who's Who in American Education; 1969, 1999, Dictionary of International Biography; 1970, A biographical directory of librarians in the U.S. and Canada; 1973, Personalities of the West and Midwest; 1973, International Scholars Director; 1977, International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory; 1978, International Authors and Writers Who's Who; 1978, Who's Who in Community Service; 1979, International Who's Who in Education; 1980, Who's Who in Library and Information Services; 1981, Who's Who in the East; 1982, Who's Who in American Music; 1984 & 1996, Who's Who in Maryland; 1984, Personalities of America; 1984, Community Leaders of the World; 1984, The International Who's Who of Intellectuals; 1992, Who's Who in Entertainment; 1994, Who's Who in the World; Dictionary of International Biography, 1999.

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS [selected citations]

Alice and Corrin Strong Award; Associated Colleges of the Midwest; Chapelbrook Foundation; Center for Black Music Research; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Fondation Pro Helvetia; Government of France; Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation; National Association for Equal Opportunity in High Education, Honorable Mention; National Black Music Caucus; National Endowment for the Humanities; Svenska Institutet för Kulturellt Utbyte; University of Miami, Distinguished Alumnus for 1994-5.

PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN TRAVEL

Austria (Vienna); Canada (Toronto); England (London); Finland (Helsinki); France (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux); Germany (Bonn, Darmstadt, Munich); Italy (Florence, Rome); Netherlands (Amsterdam, Den Haag); Norway (Oslo); Portugal (Lisbon); Soviet Union (Leningrad); Spain (Madrid); Sweden (Stockholm); Switzerland (Berne); Virgin Islands (St. Thomas).

BROADCASTING EXPERIENCE [selected]

CBC, Toronto; NPR, Washington; Radio Fourvière, Lyon; Voice of America; WEAA, Baltimore; WEDU, Tampa; WGMS, Washington; WQXR, New York; WTVT, Miami.

COURSES TAUGHT

(CC = Columbia College; FSU = Florida State University; IU = Indiana University; KSU = Kent State University; LU = Lawrence University; MSU = Morgan State University; NU = Northwestern University; OU = University of Oklahoma; PCM = Peabody Conservatory of Music; UM = University of Miami)

Contact details and further information

Lawrence University
Conservatory of Music
Appleton WI 54912-0599

Conservatory office: 920/832-6611
Conservatory fax: 920/832-6633
Personal e-mail: Dominique-René de Lerma

For further details of Lawrence University, Conservatory of Music see http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/

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