Part I: Concerning the College Music Society. American music and the College Music Society: an introduction / Dale A. Olsen ; Facilitating learning: the role of the College Music Society / Barbara English Maris ; Is there a future for the traditions of music and music teaching in our colleges and universities? / Leon Botstein ; The rewaking / William Carlos Williams -- Part II: The twentieth century and the new millennium. From "Winter music": a composer's journal / John Luther Adams ; Music at the millennium: America, the world, and the new generation / David Amram ; Medievalism in American musical life / Elizabeth Aubrey ; Blending choirs: a new paradigm for high school choirs with odd numbers and strange schedules / Barbara W. Baker ; Music publishing in America / Arnold Broido ; Classical music criticism: crises and hopes / Scott Cantrell ; Music theory and progressive rock style analysis: on the threshold of art and amplification / John S. Cotner ; The sounds of silents: an interview with Carl Davis / Carl Davis and John C. Tibbetts ; American choral music at the Millennium / David P. DeVenney ; The music we've called jazz / Ethel Ennis and Earl Arnett ; The twenty-first-century maestro / JoAnn Falletta ; Public-school music education in the twentieth century / Charles L. Gary ; The invisible art: new music in America / Bob Goldfarb ; Music librarianship: 70 years back and 70 years forward / Jane Gottlieb ; Will classical music remain a vital force in our culture? / Gary Graffman ; A proposal for artist-owned recordings and a university-based music distribution network / Marnie Hall ; And the music goes 'round: an interview with John Kander / John Kander and John C. Tibbetts ;