Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship Fund
The AMS 50 Dissertation-Year Fellowships were established in 1984
on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the American Musicological
Society, and to realize the Society’s opportunity to redress
a dwindling supply of such awards nationally and internationally.
The fund was established by member contributions and a 1:4 grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities. On 1 March 2006
its principal balance was $1,258,551.90.
The fund was subsequently renamed to honor Alvin H. Johnson (1914-2000),
who had done the lion’s share of making it possible, and is
now commonly called the AHJ AMS 50 Fellowships. See
list of fellows.
Alvin Johnson was the executive director of the American Musicological
Society from 1978 until 1993. Genial and avuncular by natural disposition,
he guided the Society from adolescence to maturity with a hand both
patient and sure. He was a wizard with the finances and is the primary
reason the Society has achieved its reputation for fiscal prudence
and good sense. He was also studiedly droll in his annual recitation
of the facts and figures—another legacy still in practice.
Johnson steered the Society through its first capital campaign,
called AMS 50 (honoring the 50th anniversary of the AMS), helped
bring in the NEH Challenge Grant, and took special pleasure in certifying
the successful completion of the fundraising.
He earned the BA in music from the University of Minnesota in 1936,
and was subsequently a French horn player in the Minneapolis Symphony
Orchestra. His Ph.D. was from Yale University in 1954. Johnson was
on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania from 1962 until
his retirement in 1982.
Arthur Mendel AMS 50 Fellowship
From time to time, AMS 50 Fellows pursuing work on the German Baroque
or on the works of Josquin des Prez may be named Arthur Mendel AMS
50 Fellows. During the AMS 50 campaign, students, friends, and Princeton
admirers of Arthur Mendel (notably William Scheide, patron of Princeton's
Scheide Music Library) organized gifts of sufficient size to recognize
Professor Mendel when an AMS 50 award was made for a dissertation
representing his areas of expertise.
Arthur Mendel (1905–79) was widely known as the foremost American
Bach scholar of his generation. Mendel's editions and studies of
Bach's life and works, most notably The Bach Reader (with
Hans T. David), and his practical and critical editions of the St.
John Passion, brought him wide recognition. Mendel was Henry Putnam
University Professor of Music at Princeton University. “Evidence
and Explanation,” his 1961 plenary address to the Eighth Congress
of the International Musicological Society, meeting in New York,
remains a cornerstone of our discipline.
as of 1 July 2007:
Balance (OPUS Campaign): $46,710
Donors (238):
Carolyn Abbate
Wye J. Allanbrook
Jeremy Allen
Joan Applegate
Arved Ashby
Elizabeth Aubrey
Joseph Auner
Styra Avins
Thomas W. Baker
C. Matthew Balensuela
Rebecca A. Baltzer
Gregory Barnett
M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet**
Michael Beckerman
Graydon Beeks
Daniel Beller-McKenna
Lawrence Bennett
Ian Bent
Margaret Bent*
Laurence D. Berman
Lawrence Bernstein
Paul Berry
Bonnie J. Blackburn
Ted Blair
Dwight C. Blazin
Adrienne Fried Block
Stanley Boorman
Susan L. Boynton
Mitchell P. Brauner
Rheinhold Brinkmann
Clyde Brockett
David Brodbeck
Seth Brodsky
Claire Brook
Gwynne Kuhner Brown
Maureen Buja
Scott Burnham
James P. Cassaro
Isabelle Cazeaux
Thomas Christensen
Caryl Clark
Maribeth Clark
Walter A. Clark
Malcolm Cole
Debra and Kevin Connolly
Jon Alan Conrad
Susan Cook
Robert M. Copeland
Lenore Coral
Georgia Cowart
Stephen Crawford
Esther V. Criscoula de Laix
Elizabeth B. Crist
David Crook
Gianluca D'Agostino
Katherine Dacey-Tsuei
Mary E. Davis
George K. Diehl
Jennifer Doctor
Lawrence Earp
Elinor Elder
Raymond Erickson
Lloyd P. Farrar
Jane Ferencz
Michelle Fillion and Gordon Mumma
Robert Fink
Kristine Forney
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Jane Franck
Don Franklin
Roger Freitas
Michele Fromson
Sarah Fuller
Frederick Gable
William Gibbons
Philip Gossett
Robert Grimes
Bruce Gustafson
James Haar**
Rufus and Anne Hallmark
Susan Hammond
Barbara Hanning
Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Elizabeth Hays
Daniel Heartz**
Wendy Heller
Barbara Heyman
Jason Hibbard
Elizabeth N. Hille
H. Wiley Hitchcock
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
D. Kern Holoman**
Lynn M. Hooker
Cynthia Hoover
Christian D. Horton
Martha M. Hyde
Brian Hyer
Tatsuhiko Itoh
Donald Johns
Robert and Cristle Judd
Jeffrey Kallberg**
Theodore Karp
Yoko Kato
Aaron Keebaugh
Nizam P. Kettaneh
Richard Kramer
William Krause
Lori Kruckenberg
Edward Laufer
Steven Ledbetter
Douglas Lee
Sherry D. Lee
Beth Levy
David B. Levy
George E. Lewis
Mary S. Lewis
Louise Litterick
Bliss Little
Judith Lochhead
Lewis Lockwood
Bruce C. MacIntyre
Rebecca Maloy
Brian Mann
Carol G. Marsh
Thomas and Penelope Mathiesen
Paula D. Matthews
Yossi Maurey
Tara Mayorga
Kerry McCarthy
Susan McClary
Bruce McClung
Marita P. McClymonds
Anne Dhu McLucas
Natalie Michaud
Vera Micznik
Leta E. Miller
Robert P. Morgan
Mary Sue Morrow
Russell E. Murray
Sterling Murray
Anthony Newcomb
Virginia Newes
Alison Nikitopoulos
David Nutter
Greta Olson
Massimo Ossi
June C. Ottenberg
Jessie Ann Owens
Jann Pasler
David C. Paul
Sanna Pederson
Karen Pendle
Leeman Perkins
Vivian Perlis
William Peterson
Elisabetta della Pietra
Heather Pinson
Alejandro Planchart
Leon Plantinga
Pierpaolo Polzonetti
William V. Porter
Harold Powers
Katherin Preston
William Prizer
Vivian Ramalingam
Colleen A. Reardon
Christopher Reynolds
Eric Rice
John H. Roberts
Edward and Linda Roesner
Vincent Rone
Deane L. Root
David B. Rosen
Lois Rosow
Ruth Rowen
Julian Rushton
Virginia C. Saya
Henrietta Schavran
Martin Scherzinger
Kathleen Schiano
Anne Schnoebelen
David Schrader
Mark A. Schulz
Deborat Schwartz-Kates
Ann Besser Scott
Darwin F. Scott
Douglass Seaton
Emanuele Senici
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Richard Sherr
W. Richard Shindle
Anne C. Shreffler
Alexander Silbiger
Elaine Sisman
Dennis Slavin
Caitlin Snyder
Kerala Snyder
Ruth A. Solie
David Sommerfield
Louisa Spottswood
Pamela Starr*
Lousie K. Stein
Jane R. Stevens
W. Dean Sutcliffe
Jeanne Swack
Marica S. Tacconi
Richard Taruskin
Staphanie Tcharos
Nicholas Temperley
Jennifer S. Thomas
Aidan Thomson
Inouye Tohru
Gary Tomlinson
Carol A. Traupman-Carr
Kevin N. Turley
Michael Tusa
Mario Valente
Kate van Orden
Zachariah Victor
Ivan Waldbauer
Olga A. Walden
Robert Walser
Eric Wang
James Webster
Susan F. Weiss
Kathryn Welter
Richard Wexler
Miriam Whaples
Gretchen Wheelock
Darryl White
Carol Wilkinson
Richard Will
Blake Wilson
Mary Wolinski
Lesley Wright
Laura S. Youens
Kydalla Young
Max Yount
Albin J. Zak III
** = $5,000 or more
* = $1,000 or more
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