International Society for Contemporary Music explained

Full Name:International Society for Contemporary Music
Abbreviation:ISCM
Formation:1922
Founder:Egon Wellesz
Origins:Salzburg, Germany
Fields:Music
Parent Organization:Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM)

The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music.

The organization was established in Salzburg in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) following theInternationale Kammermusikaufführungen Salzburg, a festival of modern chamber music held as part of the Salzburg Festival.[1] It was founded by the Austrian (later British) composer Egon Wellesz and the Cambridge academic Edward J Dent, who first met when Wellesz visited England in 1906.[2] [3]

In 1936 the rival Permanent Council for the International Co-operation of Composers, set up under Richard Strauss, was accused of furthering Nazi Party cultural ambitions in opposition to the non-political ISCM.[4] British composer Herbert Bedford, acting as co-Secretary, defended its neutrality.[5]

Aside from hiatuses in 1940 and 1943-5 due to World War II and in 2020–21 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the ISCM's core activity has been an annual festival of contemporary classical music held every year at a different location, the first of which took place in 1923 in Salzburg, which has come to be known as the ISCM World Music Days (sometimes World New Music Days, abbreviated either WMD or WNMD depending on which name is used). There have been a total of 92 of these thus far, the most recent of which took place in Tallinn, Estonia in May 2019. The 2021 WMD in Shanghai and Nanning has been postponed until March 2022[6] and the 2022 WNMD is scheduled to take place in New Zealand in August 2022.[7] Each year, during the World Music Days. ISCM members also convene in a General Assembly. Membership in the ISCM is organized through national sections that promote contemporary music in each country. These sections are usually organizations independent from the ISCM that send delegates to the ISCM General Assembly. Each member of the national section is also a member of ISCM and may send in 6 works that are evaluated for performance at the World Music Days. National organizations that promote contemporary music, but have not been designated as the nation section of ISCM, are sometimes given an associate membership status. This status also applies to the members of these organizations. Some individual music professionals receive the "honorary membership" status. The ISCM is governed by an Executive Committee consisting of seven people; two (Secretary General and Treasurer) are appointed positions and the remaining five (President, Vice President, and three regular members) are chosen from and by the delegates in an election during the General Assembly.[8] Since 1991, the ISCM has also published an annual World New Music Magazine, a print publication that is distributed to its members for further dissemination. A total of 28 issues have been produced. Recent magazine issues are available as digitally downloadable PDFs from the ISCM's website.[9] ISCM is a member of the International Music Council. The current members of the Executive Committee of the ISCM (as of the September 2021 General Assembly which took place over Zoom) are: Glenda Keam (New Zealand), President;[10] Frank J. Oteri (USA), Vice President; Oľga Smetanova (Slovakia), Secretary General; David Pay (Canada), Treasurer; George Kentros (Sweden), Tomoko Fukui (Japan), and Irina Hasnaș (Romania).[11]

ISCM World Music Days

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ISCM Honorary Members

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ISCM ExCom (Update: July 9, 2024)

ISCM World Music Days jury members

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Significant premieres at ISCM World Music Days

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Significant performances at ISCM World Music Days

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: archives.nypl.org – League of Composers/ISCM records. Archives.nypl.org. 24 May 2018.
  2. Fauser, AnneGret. 'The Scholar behind the Medal: Edward J. Dent (1876–1957) and the Politics of Music History', in Journal of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 139, No. 2 (2014), pp. 235–260
  3. Haas, Michael. 'Egon Wellesz: The Forgotten Modernist', in Forbidden Music, 4 June 2014
  4. Book: The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938–1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality. David. Fanning. Erik. Levi. 6 December 2019. Routledge. 9781351862585. 22 December 2021. Google Books.
  5. Bedford, Herbert. Letter to The Musical Times, February 1936, p 159
  6. Web site: 2021 Shanghai, Nanning. www.iscm.org. 5 November 2021.
  7. Web site: 2022 New Zealand. www.iscm.org. 5 November 2021.
  8. Web site: Executive Committee | ISCM . 8 April 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160107044251/http://www.iscm.org/about/excomm . 7 January 2016 .
  9. Web site: ISCM. 24 May 2018. World New Music Magazine. 30 June 2020. Iscm.org.
  10. http://www.iscm.org/articles/newly-elected-iscm-excom-glenda-keam-new-president Newly Elected ISCM ExCom – Glenda Keam is New President
  11. https://iscm.org/about-us/executive-committee/ Executive Committee
  12. Web site: Previous festivals. ISCM – International Society for Contemporary Music. 22 December 2021.
  13. Web site: Honorary members. ISCM – International Society for Contemporary Music. 22 December 2021.
  14. Book: Haefeli, Anton . Die Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) : ihre Geschichte von 1922 bis zur Gegenwart . Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag . Zürich . 1982 . 978-3-7611-0596-2 . 10940867 . de . 610–614.
  15. Book: Haefeli, Anton . Die Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) : ihre Geschichte von 1922 bis zur Gegenwart . Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag . Zürich . 1982 . 978-3-7611-0596-2 . 10940867 . de . 479–546, 547–609.

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