CORREO
THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION
CONTENTS:
CMSA 2007 CONFERENCE; SAN FRANCISCO
CMSA 2008 CONFERENCE: TUMACÁCORI
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY SEMINAR
ALTA CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE AT HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
NEW WORLD BAROQUE ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE
SYMPOSIUM ON "SITUATING MISSION SANTA CLARA DE ASIS: 1776-1851"
WEB REPORT
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CMSA 2007 CONFERENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
Under the leadership of Conference Chair Andy Galvan, planning is well under way for the 2007 CMSA conference, which will be held at Mission Dolores in San Francisco on February 16-18, 2006. A call for papers and registration information will be sent out to all members in the fall. Mark your calendars now.
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CMSA 2008 CONFERENCE: TUMACÁCORI
CMSA President Bill Fairbanks send the following note:
CMSA President Bill Fairbanks has announced that the 2008 CMSA conference will be held at the Esplendor Resort in Rio Rico, Arizona and at nearby Tumacácori National Historic Park. The conference sites are approximately 45 miles south of Tucson, and 10 miles north of the Mexican border. This will be the first time that CMSA has held its conference in Arizona. The conference will be chaired by CMSA member Diana Hadley, of the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona. She has already put together exciting plans. The conference hotel has a pool and golf course, is in a rural setting, and has elegant Mexican decor. Room rates are: single/double - $119; one bedroom suite - $180.
Dr. Bernard Fontana, perhaps the most knowledgeable person on missions in the Southwest, has agreed to be the keynote speaker. He also says what he really wants to do is lead a tour of Mission San Xavier for conference attendees.
Southwestern Mission Research Center (SMRC) will coordinate a three-day visit to eight of the Sonoran mission communities first visited by Father Kino. The tour will leave from the Esplendor Hotel on the morning after the conference ends. Double occupancy price for the tour of $450 per person includes transportation, two nights' lodging in Caborca, Sonora, two breakfasts, three lunches, two dinners, two margarita parties and on-board beer and soft drinks, and a visit to a prehistoric rock art site, and knowledgeable guiding by noted anthropologists, historians, and Mexicanists. The SMRC needs a minimum of thirty passengers. Since SMRC is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, $100 of the fee can be considered a charitable donation. Reservations can be made through CMSA or by contacting Southwestern Mission Research Center directly at 520 628-1269 or at info@smrc-missiontours.com.
Diana is making good progress organizing this event. It promises to be an outstanding conference! The conference will be held during the Presidents' Day weekend in February 2008 (February 15-18). Mark your calendars now! Make travel reservations early as this is the height of the tourist season in southern Arizona, and the peak of the annual, internationally famous Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, which some of you may want to visit.
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ACADEMY OF AMERICAN FRANCISCAN HISTORY SEMINAR
On Saturday September 16, 2006, Pamela J. Huckins, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, will give a seminar on "Furnishing the Northern Frontier: Logistical and Iconographical Aspects of the Decoration of the Alta California Mission Churches." The event will be held at the Franciscan School of Theology, 1712 Euclid Ave. Berkeley, California at 10 AM. More information is at http://www.aafh.org/ CMSA members who attended the San Fernando conference in 2005 will remember Pam's exciting presentation at that gathering.
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ALTA CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE AT HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
In connection with the inauguration of the Early California Population Project, about which Steve Hackel spoke at the last CMSA conference, a conference on "Alta California: Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formation, 1769-1850" will be held at the Huntington Library on September 29-30. Registration information is at the end of the program.
SESSION 1 FRANCISCAN IDENTITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BORDERLANDS
Moderator: Bill Deverell (University of Southern California and
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West)
José Refugio de la Torre Curiel (University of Guadalajara)
"Robust Wine and Sour Vinegar: Conflicting Personalities among Franciscan Missionaries in Late-Colonial Sonora"
Steven W. Hackel (Oregon State University)
"Junípero Serra: Agent of the Inquisition"
Robert M. Senkewicz and Rose Marie Beebe (Santa Clara University)
"What They Brought: The Alta California Franciscans before 1769"
SESSION 2 AFTER THE VILLAGE: INDIAN IDENTITY IN ALTA CALIFORNIA
Moderator: Janet Fireman (Editor, California History)
John Johnson (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History)
"Genetics and the Castas of Colonial California"
Lisbeth Haas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Indigenous Translations of Catholicism and Interpretations of History"
James Sandos (University of Redlands)
"Identity through Music: Indian Choristers at Mission San Gabriel, 1771-1791"
SESSION 3 BORDERLAND IDENTITIES OF SOLDIERS AND SETTLERS
Moderator: Richard White (Stanford University)
Louise Pubols (Museum of the American West, Autry National Center)
"Becoming Californio: Jokes, Broadsides, and a Slap in the Face"
Ramón A. Gutiérrez (University of California, San Diego)
"Creating Identities in Spanish California and New Mexico"
Andrés Reséndez (University of California, Davis)
"Montezuma and his Children: Echoes between the American Southwest and Old Mexico
SESSION 4 THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS: COMPARING NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Moderator: Walter Brem (Emeritus, Bancroft Library)
Albert L. Hurtado (University of Oklahoma)
"Herbert E. Bolton and California's Fantasy Heritage"
David J. Weber (Southern Methodist University)
"A New Borderlands Historiography: Constructing and Negotiating the
Boundaries of Identity"
Sylvia L. Hilton (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
"On the Margins of Empire and Memory: The Borderlands of North America in Spanish Historiography"
This conference is funded by Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell J. Milias and The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Registration 25.00 (graduate students will be admitted free) and a buffet lunch will be available on both days at $16.50 per lunch.
Registration forms are available in a variety of ways. For CMSA members who receive the Correo, however, the easiest would probably be to send me an email at rsenkewicz@scu.edu asking for the form, and I will send it back to you as a Word attachment, which you can print out and mail in to the Huntington.
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NEW WORLD BAROQUE ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE AT SAN LUIS OBISPO
We have received the following information from the New World Baroque Orchestra:
On Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 3:00 PM, you are invited to join in "The Festival of the Bells," a visual and musical celebration of the Native American and Hispano-American heritage of our region, featuring the ringing of the five new bells at Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, Monterey and Chorro Streets, in San Luis Obispo.
The program will feature historical music, both composed and used at the California Missions in their earlier years, performed by "The Festival Choir", including singers from the combined Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa and Mission San Miguel Arcángel Choirs, and guest soloists accompanied by the New World Baroque Orchestra under the direction of John Warren.
The festive event will open to the ringing of the Mission bells with the "Call to Worship" followed by a grand procession into the Mission church with the choir singers and Members and children of the Salinan Tribe and the singing of the morning hymn from the days of old Spanish-California, "El Cántico del Alba."
Musical highlights of the event will include selections from the beautiful "Misa en Sol", the Mass in G Major composed by Padre Juan Bautista Sancho, transcribed from the original manuscript and arranged by Mr. Warren for performance by the choir and orchestra. Father Sancho was well trained as a musician-harpsichordist and composer during his years of preparation for the priesthood in his native Majorca, prior to his coming to the New-World and later being assigned as the pastor and founder-director of the original Salinan-Native American orchestra at Mission San Antonio de Padua, at Camp Hunter-Liggett near Jolon, from 1804 until his passing there in 1830.
Another offering at the concert will be two rare works entitled "Aztecan Chanzonetas I and II", composed around 1599 by a young Aztec composer who added the distinguished title "Don" to his adopted Spanish name of his teacher and chapel master, Hernando Franco at the Mexico City cathedral. These pieces by Don Hernando Franco are Marian hymns, sung in the Nahuatl language and are probably the first examples of original musical compositions discovered at this time written by a Native-American, using an unusual blend of Western-European musical styles and New-World syncopated rhythms.
The program will include a brief performance on the new bells by members of the Old Mission's Bell Ringers Guild directed by Richard Ochs. Traditional ring patterns well as several new rings composed by talented young ringers in the Guild will be offered, demonstrating that the tradition of bell-ringing in the Mission churches is a living one at Mission San Luis Obispo.
The "Festival of the Bells" is free and open to the public. An opportunity to donate a free will offering will be given with the proceeds going to the historic preservation of the Mission.
For more information, please call (805) 239-3022
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SYMPOSIUM ON "SITUATING MISSION SANTA CLARA DE ASÍS: 1776-1851"
On November 11, 2006, CMSA, along with the American Academy of Franciscan History and the California Studies Initiative at Santa Clara University will sponsor a symposium on a new book authored by CMSA member Russ Skowronek, with Elizabeth Thompson: "Situating Mission Santa Clara de Asís: 1776-1851, Documentary and Material Evidence of Life on the Alta California Frontier: A Timeline." The volume is about to be published by the AAFH.
The event will be held at Santa Clara University, Wiegand Room, Arts and Sciences Building, at 2 PM on Saturday November 11. Panelists will include Tina Foss, Andy Galvan, Jake Ivey, and Jack Williams.
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WEB REPORT
Word has come that the Huntington Library's Early California Population Project is now online at http://www.huntington.org/Information/ECPPmain.htm
This website will be useful to a wide variety of scholars: community and family historians, anthropologists and ethnologists, social historians, demographers. Research resources are drawn from baptism, marriage, and burial records of California's missions.
Also newly online is the announcement of CMSA's Norman Neuerburg Award winner for 2006 (congratulations to Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz) and the new Kimbro Award, which went to Dr. Kenneth Pauley. See Neuerburg and Kimbro Awards <http://ca-missions.org/neuerawards1.html> for more detail.