Notes for notes.(Music Library Association award to Nancy Bren Nuzzo )

The board of directors of the Music Library Association (MLA) is honored to name Nancy Bren Nuzzo as the recipient of its Special Achievement Award. This award is given to an individual who has provided extraordinary service to the profession of music librarianship over a relatively short period of time. Ms. Nuzzo was presented the award at the association's 2007 annual meeting in Pittsburgh. Then president of the association, Bonna J. Boettcher, summarized Nancy's achievements at the presentation ceremony:

 
  Over the past decade MLA has transformed itself into an organization 
  that is more professional in its day-to-day operations requiring more 
  sophisticated methods to manage both its financial resources and human 
  talent. This year MLA would like to honor an individual who has been 
  at the center of this transformation. Nancy Nuzzo has: done much of 
  the background research and work with our accountants to bring MLA's 
  investments into accepted practice for non-profit organizations; 
  educated the Investments Subcommittee about the changes, shepherding 
  the changes through channels; worked with the financial managers and 
  our business office to set up the necessary accounts and establish 
  straightforward ways to track income on the investments; worked with 
  our publisher Scarecrow Press to  document various author contracts, 
  setting up documentation so that annual royalties can be calculated 
  and distributed as easily as possible; and, streamlined and documented 
  the dizzying number of processes required in the office of Treasurer/ 
  Executive Secretary for the benefit of her successors. 

Nancy Nuzzo recently completed a four-year term as MLA's Treasurer/Executive Secretary, and has served previously as editor of the association's newsletter, chair of its Publications Committee, and as Recording Secretary on the board of directors. She is director of Music & Special Collections at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.

The Leonard Warren Archive has been donated to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Library. Barrett and Muriel Crawford have donated their Leonard Warren Archive to the library at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Barrett is president and Muriel is secretary of the Leonard Warren Foundation. The archive includes more than 450 of Warren's sound recordings (including authorized and unauthorized 78 rpm and 45 rpm records, LPs, CDs, tapes, and videos) and over 400 items of memorabilia, including portraits, opera and family photographs, opera and recital programs, posters, correspondence, his personal scores and sheet music, the Warren biography, and other publications. The Crawfords acquired a portion of the archive through the generosity of Edward Warren Haber, who is Leonard Warren's grandnephew.

From his debut at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1939 until his death in 1960, baritone Leonard Warren was acclaimed as one of America's preeminent operatic artists. Among his greatest characterizations were his signature role as Rigoletto and his Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, Count di Luna in Il trovatore, Tonio in Pagliacci, Carlo in La forza del destino, Scarpia in Tosca, and Iago in Otello. Warren's dedication to perfection was legendary. As critic Paul Henry Lang of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, Leonard Warren's "voice and singing were the triumph of the oldest and most profound traditions of the lyric stage."

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