American Composers Alliance Catalog and Archives - article in New Music Connoisseur (2016)

The American Composers Alliance Catalog and Archives, a collaborative effort between ACA, BMI, and the University of Maryland (link is external)- by Gina Genova; New Music Connoisseur 22.1 (2016)

American Jewish music writings

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Article - Musica Judaica, vol xix, 2009-10

Gina Genova
Reviewing a Cantor's Legacy: Newly discovered private correspondence between Cantor David Putterman and distinguished American composers 1943-70 

Article - Jüdische Kunstmusik im 20. Jahrhundert, vol 3, 2006

Gina Genova

The Estate of Lazare Saminsky  

Gina Genova bio

GINA L. GENOVA is the Executive Director of the American Composers Alliance, a music publishing company established by Aaron Copland in 1937. Formerly the senior research associate for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Arts and Sciences Department of Music, she was also a curator and archivist for the Fales Library at NYU and for the Earle Brown Music Foundation. She is currently a curator and producer of concerts for the American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM). She earned her bachelor's degree at Loyola Marymount University (1982), the master of music degree from the University of Arizona (1995), and a master of arts from New York University (1997), studying with Stanley Boorman and Gage Averill. Her dissertation on the music of John Watts and the Composers Theatre was completed at NYU, where she was a Langley Fellowship recipient. She completed the Certificate program in Intellectual Property Management at NYU in 2015. 

Gina formed Aria Artists Inc. in 2000, a service organization for music-related research, copyright renewals and reclaims, permission agreements, and other types of practical administration for composers and authors.  She has provided research and archival services for a gamut of projects around the United States and Europe. In recent years, she has developed, processed, edited, curated and supervised collections for composers, authors, illustrators, publishers, music and dance performers, and their estates, including John Watts, Laura Foreman, Griffith Rose, David Amram, Ezra Laderman, Jack Gottlieb, Sholom Secunda, Earle Brown, Raoul Ronson (Seesaw Music), and Cantor David Putterman.  She has been invited to speak and lecture on issues of music preservation and promotion for composers by the International Association of Music Libraries, the Society of Composers, Inc., NYU, Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona, the Jewish Music Forum series in New York, the University of Potsdam in Berlin.

In the 1980s, Gina worked as a producer for KXLU Radio, MSR Records, and George Liberace Music (publishing and recording) in Hollywood, and later, a production coordinator and unit manager for American Playhouse and Warner Brothers, for more than 20 feature films, including Longtime Companion, Young Guns II, and Natural Born Killers. In the mid- 1990s, she returned to graduate school to pursue a music degree, which has led to producing soundtracks for documentary films, collaborations with composers and spoken-word artists, including David Henderson, author of ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky: the biography of Jimi Hendrix, and senior staff positions with the American Music Center, the Milken Archive, and the American Composers Alliance. Gina is a member of ASCAP, the Recording Academy, and the Music Publishers Association, and was recognized at the Deems-Taylor Awards in 2004 for outstanding archival work and research on the program notes for the Grammy-award winning recording of Joseph Achron’s Violin Concerto, on Naxos.

Archive administration

Music recordings, scores, and related personal items (especially correspondence) are a valuable source of research and inspiration for music scholars, musicians, and historians. Everything from audio and video recordings, films, and photographs, to letters and printed emails, manuscripts, memos and concert notices—all of these items may be valuable for research and should be preserved for future access.

Gina Genova, owner of Aria Artists Music, has organized, processed, negotiated and placed collections for music composers and other artists in many internationally-known institutions, including the New York Public Library, the New York University libraries, the Juilliard School libraries, U.C.L.A. libraries, Northwestern University Special Collections, the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Milken Archive, the American Jewish Historical Society, and many others. 


 
 

Basic resume - Gina Genova

Gina Genova  - Resume 

Education
2013  Intellectual Property Management Certificate, New York University, Study of Copyright Law, Licensing, Trademarks.
1997    Master of Arts, Musicology, New York University; Thesis: Presenting on the Fringe in the 1970s: John Watts’ Composers Theatre
1995   Master of Music, Musicology, University of Arizona, thesis: CPE Bach and the Neue Lieder Melodien
1982   Bachelor of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Professional
American Composers Alliance, New York City  Director of Publishing  2008-current    
Music inventory management (archive and digital) and publishing services for large historic music collection by American composers. Non-profit business and financial management; digitization of scores and tapes; creation of modern printable editions of music from the early 1900s to early 2000s. Project manager for upgrade of company promotional material, website and social media; production and promotion of sales, licensing, recordings, concerts; fundraising. 

Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, New York City Director of Special Collections, Associate Director of Research, and Publications editor 1998 – 2008 
Discovery and acquisition of music manuscripts and related material for recordings; Processing, cataloging, writing, and editing research material for the production and archiving aspects of a culturally significant music preservation project, a set of 50 CDs and accompanying essays for Naxos American Classics. Regular interaction with composers, publishers, and estates. Produced the international festival “Only In America: Jewish Music in the New World.” Supervision of researchers in the U.S., Europe, and Israel, creation of library and artifact databases, training of archival assistants, and working with mechanical licensing department to provide current publishing and copyright status.

Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Archive consultant,
collection processing
Curating and processing music scores, recordings, and related memorabilia for the Downtown (New York) Collection at the Fales Library. Wrote successful NEA grant proposal for funding digital preservation of audio and video reels. Director: Marvin Taylor.        

Jewish Music Forum Lecture Series     Executive Director  2006 – 07
Planned and presented a monthly lecture series event with international speakers and panels of respondents. Designed and developed promotional material to foster academic/organizational outreach and co-sponsorships. Content writing for website, identified funding opportunities, wrote grant proposals;

New York University Adjunct Instructor, College of Arts and Sciences  2004 – 07
Taught Expressive Cultures of Sound 2004-06; Taught Harmony and Counterpoint for music majors, 2006-07.  Supervisors: Edward Roesner, Michael Beckerman

Aria Artists Music Music Archivist and consultant, free-lance projects   1999 – current
Sorting music archives and creating online databases for composers’ lists – broker of acquisitions for libraries and special collections in the U.S. and abroad,  including working with archives of Earle Brown, Gershon Kingsley, Griffith Rose, Tom Johnson, Jack Gottlieb, Cantor David Putterman, Ursula Mamlok, Lazare Saminsky, Alexander Tansman, John Watts, American Composers Alliance, and Musical Elements Ensemble. 

The American Music Center, New York City Information Services Manager   1998 – 99
Principal researcher and public information guide, providing information about American concert music to composers, performers, educators, students, related-industry and audiences; Designed a new-music library information web site, developed early ideas for New Music Box web magazine; wrote and edited a monthly membership & opportunities newsletter and crafted and produced a series of nationwide professional career development programs for composers and performers. Director: Richard Kessler.

The Sundance Institute, American Playhouse, Universal, New Line Production and Post-Production Film Supervisor  1984 – 93  
Production of on-location filming activities for PBS, Sundance, Oliver Stone, and many others.  *Separate film resumé request or check IMDB

KXLU Radio and MSR Records, Los Angeles;  Production director, Studio Manager, 1981-84.

Publications

Author, “Revision of a Legacy: Newly discovered Correspondence between Cantor David J. Putterman and Distinguished Composers 1943-70,” Musica Judaica, Spring 2012.

Author, “The Estate of Lazare Saminsky at the Milken Archive,” Jüdische Kunstmusik im 20. Jahrhundert: Quellenlage, Entwicklungsgeschichte, Stilanalysen," Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006.

Author, Compiler, and Editor: The Composer’s Survival Guide, 1st ed., American Music Center, 1998.
Editor and Proofreader The Notre-Dame Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Pl. 29.1, Color Edition by Edward H. Roesner,  München: Edition Helga Lengenfelder.

Author and Editor: C.P.E. Bach and the Neue-Lieder Melodien, 1997, song collection published by Aria Artists. 

Conference presentations

"The American Composers Alliance catalog and archives: A collaborative effort between ACA and the University of Maryland." IAML Congress Music Research in the Digital Age, Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York City, June 23, 2015.
 
"Commissioning new music for the American synagogue: Newly discovered correspondence between  Cantor David Putterman and distinguished composers 1943-1970." Only In America: International conference on music of the American Jewish experience, New York City, November 2003.

"Preserving Sacred Bridges: Music Memories and New Directions" Pozez Lecture Series, University of Arizona, Judaic Studies Dept., Oct. 2002; and Beth Emeth Synagogue lecture series, June 2003.

“Computer Music at Columbia University Computer Music Center: Group Mind or Network of Cooperation?”  American Musicological Society, New York Chapter, April, 1999. 

“Basic Skills for Composers: A Survival Guide”, NYU 1998, Society of Composers, National Student Conferences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000, and at the University of Texas, Austin, 1999.

“Stasis and the Emancipation of Time in American Minimalist Music”, American Musicological Society, New York Chapter, 1998.

Events produced/hosted
ACA and ASJM Concert Series, 30+ concerts of contemporary music for the American Composers Alliance and American Society for Jewish Music, among others, 2008-2014.

The Jewish Music Forum ongoing lecture series, Music, Media, and Memory, 2006-07.

The Composer’s Survival Guide; ASCAP and the American Music Center, traveling presentation, 1998-99.

Networking for Composers; with guest Richard Danielpour, Manhattan School of Music, 1998.
2nd Annual Steinway Hall Concert; The American Composers Forum, 1997. 

The College Survival Guide, with host Jon Listne; HBO Video, 1989.

Professional memberships
Music Library Association, Archivists Round Table of New York, National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences, Society for Ethnomusicology, American Musicological Society, Electronic Music Forum, American Music Center, Society of American Music, ASCAP.

Computer skills

Windows, Dos, and Macintosh operating systems, MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Filemaker Pro, Access, HTML web page design, Drupal and Wordpress, Photoshop and scanning software, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Finale, Website content and Email administration, book indexing software, and many others.

Awards, Fellowships
Langley Fellowship and Scholarship, New York University, 1995-1999; Czech-American Music Institute Fellow, 1996, 1997; Prague Academy of Music; American Composers Forum/Mellon Foundation Grant, 1997.

Additional professional activities
Trustee, Theophilous Trust, for the estate of Jack Gottlieb, 2009-current.
Advisory Board member, music committee, American Society for Jewish Music, 2007-current.
Contributing research editor, Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish (How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood), by Dr. Jack Gottlieb, SUNY Press, 2004.
Researcher, music arrangement and preparation: Danny Kaye: Court Jester, a traveling theatrical tribute produced by Dr. Sarah Blacher Cohen, professor at SUNY, Albany.