companies are identified—amateur and college groups among them—with
addresses and names of administrators. The “general index” is really an
expanded table of contents.- Musical America. International Directory of the Performing Arts. Hights-
town, N.J.: Primedia Information, 1999. 831p. ISBN 1-891131-01-X. ML13
.M497.
Title and publisher vary for this yearbook, which has been published since - It presents useful data for the U.S. and Canada on performers, groups,
agents, publishers, and business aspects of music. An index of names gives
total access to the material. It is of interest that the list of opera companies (by
state and city) runs to 27 pages for the U.S. and Canada and to only 6 pages
for the rest of the world. - Couch, John Philip.The Opera Lover’s Guide to Europe. 2nd ed. New York:
Limelight, 1991. 300p. ISBN 0-87910-191-1. ML1700 .C68.
Ticket information, including seating, and local transportation facilities, for
opera houses in major cities and also in smaller centers. Arranged by country
and city. - Rabin, Carol Price. Music Festivals in America: Classical, Opera, Jazz, Pops,
Country, Old-Time Fiddlers, Folk, Bluegrass, Cajun. 4th ed. Great Barrington,
Mass.: Berkshire Traveller Press, 1990. 271p. ISBN 0-9301-4501-1. ML35 .R3.
Title varies; first edition, 1979. A handy inventory of 160 U.S. and Canadian
festivals, arranged geographically under each category. Directors and typical
participants are named, and ticket information is given. Regional maps pin-
point the exact locations. With an index of the festival names.
Older directories will not be described here, but their value should be mentioned. On
one level, they provide the researcher a slice of the past. On another, they often give
facts that are still valid, in more detail than later publications offer; for example, we
find floor plans of opera houses in Scandinavian cities in Eugène d’Harcourt’s La
musique actuelle dans les états scandinaves(1910; IOM1861). Pierre Key’s Music
Yearbook(IOM0153) provided directory information on opera companies with lists
of singers and premieres during its period of issue, 1924–1938. A fine series of guides
by Elaine Brody and Claire Brook, issued 1975–1978, covered eight European coun-
tries (Duckles11.68; IOM1438–1441). The Opera Directoryby Anne Ross (1961;
Duckles1.468) covered about 7,000 singers and other personnel. Other retrospective
directories are noted in IOM0138–0140, 1442–1443, and 2499.
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