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THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION
CONTENTS:
CMSA CONFERENCE---REGISTRATION DEADLINE COMING UP FAST
CMSA MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
CMSA ELECTIONS
CORO HISPANO DÍA DE LOS REYES CONCERT SERIES
PENTACLE PRESS WEBSITE
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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CMSA CONFERENCE---REGISTRATION DEADLINE COMING UP FAST
The registration deadline for the 2005 CMSA Conference is fast
approaching: the deadline for those who wish to register without paying
a late registration fee is JANUARY 18. The conference promises to be
exceptionally exciting! It will take place at Mission San Fernando and
the Woodland Hills Hilton on February 18-20. Conference registration
materials have been mailed to all members. Conference registration
forms are also available at our web site:
http://www.ca-missions.org/confreg05.html. The list of conference
speakers and activities was also included in the conference mailing,
and it may also be found at our web site:
http://www.ca-missions.org/conf.html. To receive the discounted rate at
the Hilton Woodland Hills, you must go through Dave Dent at the Hilton.
His number is 818-596-4569. PLEASE REGISTER SOON.
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CMSA MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
CMSA Membership renewal forms were recently sent to all members.
Please renew your membership now. The next issue of the Boletín
will be out around the beginning of February and it will be sent only
to those who have renewed their memberships!
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CMSA ELECTIONS
Mail ballots for CMSA Board members and officers were recently sent out
to all members in December, and the deadline for returning the ballots
is JANUARY 15. Please return those ballots as soon as you can!
Send them to CMSA, PO Box 3357, Bakersfield, CA 93385-3357
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CORO HISPANO DÍA DE LOS REYES CONCERT SERIES
Rooted in the Hispano-American tradition of celebrating the arrival of
3 Wise Men, Coro Hispano‚s annual Día de los Reyes concert
series never fails to rouse the spirits, whether of seasonal or
metaphorical winter doldrums. Under the direction of CMSA member Juan
Pedro Gaffney, R. and with the performers of Conjunto Nuevo Mundo, the
program will consist of works
by Francisco Guerrero, Juan Gutierrez de Padilla and Manuel Correa as
well as aguinaldos from Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and others.
Saturday, January 8th at 8 pm in St Mary's Catholic Church
2039 Mount Diablo Boulevard, Walnut Creek
Less than one mile from the Walnut Creek BART station
Sunday Jan 9th at 4 pm in First Presbyterian Church
1140 Cowper at Lincoln, Palo Alto
One mile from the Stanford Caltrain Station
Saturday Jan 15th at 8 pm in St Joseph the Worker Church
1640 Addison St, Berkeley
One half-mile away from the North Berkeley BART station
Sunday Jan 16th at 3 pm in Mission Dolores Basilica
Dolores at 16th Street, San Francisco
Fiesta to follow at 5:15 pm in the Parish Auditorium
3351 16th Street, San Francisco
Less than a half-mile from the 16th & Mission Street BART station
Tickets: General admission is $20, Senior and Student admission is $15,
Children and youth aged 18 and enter FREE. Tickets available through
our web site at www.corohispano.org <http://www.corohispano.org/>
, via e-mail at tickets@corohispano.org, or by telephone at
415.431.4234.
The Coro and Conjunto are under the direction of Juan Pedro Gaffney R.
who founded them in 1975 to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of
the Mission and City of San Francisco. The Coro has presented music of
the Spanish-speaking world to audiences throughout Northern and Central
California ever since, and has emerged as a leading voice world-wide in
the recovery of Latin America‚s classical music legacy. Both groups
function as a program of Instituto Pro Música de California, a
non-profit arts/education institute dedicated to researching, promoting
and presenting the folk and classical music repertories of Iberia and
Ibero-America. Over the past twenty-nine years, IPMC‚s research program
has returned more than 100 works of Spanish and Latin American
composers, both ancient and modern, through U.S. and/or 20th century
premiere performances. The organization also introduces this rich
musical heritage to the public through affordable live performances
such as Día de los Reyes, which is their most popular concert.
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PENTACLE PRESS WEBSITE
CMSA member Dave McLaughlin reports that the Pentacle Press website is
up and running. Check it out at http://www.missionscalifornia.com/
The site includes a "Missions Gateway" section. This contains an
interactive map and 4-5 minute "visual journeys" of each of the 21
missions done in Macromedia Flash. They also contain a time line for
each mission, historic and current photographs, and travel tips.
The site also includes five galleries, including one which galleries
presents the 19th century mission and mission-era event drawings of
Alexander Harmer and A.B. Dodge. Visitors will also want to peruse the
interesting "California Stories" section.
Dave reports that the site has begun receiving questions from both
children and adults. So he has established a special "Ask the Experts"
section where he has posted a number of the more interesting Q&A
from the past few months. He writes, "A number of CMSA members have
been quite helpful to me in developing answers although we take final
responsibility for the accuracy."
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Robert H. Jackson, „Congregation and Depopulation: Demographic Patterns
in the Texas Missions,‰ Journal of South Texas 17:2 (Fall, 2004), 6-38.
George Harwood Phillips, „ Bringing Them Under Subjection: California's
Tejon Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852-1864. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 384 p. Hardcover $59.95. ISBN:
0803237367
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