TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAMBER MUSIC: A Publication of Chamber Music America  
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010, VOL. 27, NO. 1

features

AMERICAN MASTERPIECES:  AMERICANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
To the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, American music is simply music composed in the U.S.
by Fred Cohn
January/February calendar of American Masterpieces-supported events

AMERICAN COMPOSER: JUDD GREENSTEIN
High Seriousness is not a necessary condition for the creation of seriously good music.
by Kyle Gann

CHICK COREA'S WORLD OF MUSIC
The astounding breadth of the pianist/composer's work reflects a mind in a constant state of wonder and curiosity.
by Stephanie Stein Crease

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE SCANNER
If you've performed Mendelssohn's Octet, you probably weren't playing the version Felix composed as a teenager.
by Judith kogan
        
columns

JAZZIN' AROUND: THE OTHER SIDE OF SOMETHING
Bill Evans's excellent adventures with fiddle, banjo, dobro, and acoustic guitar
by Gene Santoro

HIGH FIDELITY: ON TO THE FUTURE WITH HAYDN
The bicentennial of Haydn's death didn't get the attention it deserved--except perhaps from the recording industry.
by James M. Keller

EDIFICATIONS: SEMPER MUSICALIS
MusicianCorps--a kind of domestic Peace Corps staffed by artists--is getting a head start in four cities.
by Eric Booth

departments

CMA NOTE: SURVEYING THE PRESENT, MAPPING THE FUTURE
         by Margaret M. Lioi

CMA NEWS: 2010 CMA/ASCAP AWARDS

AMERICAN ENSEMBLE: HAYDN QUARTET SLAM IN IOWA, FANTASTIC MERLINS, CYPRESS STRING QUARTET, THE DORIAN WIND QUINTET AT 50
22 SEGUES AND IN MEMORIAM

COVER TO COVER: SCHOENBERG THROUGH HIS CHAMBER MUSIC
Frank J. Oteri reviews Schoenberg's Chamber Music, Schoenberg's World.
        
64 CMA SCORES: Joseph Schwantners RHIANNON'S BLACKBIRDS (2006), for piccolo/flute, clarinets, violin/viola, piano and percussion

88 BACKBEAT: THE ROAD TO OPUS 135
by Fred Raimi
Sometimes the composer is at least one step ahead

Cover:  Chick Corea by Kris Campbell