INSTITUTES AND CENTERS
The purpose of the PCMC, which is administered by the College of Arts and Letters, is to encourage the performance and promote the awareness of contemporary musical compositions by composers of Pacific Rim countries.
The center sponsors contemporary music festivals and encourages other countries, universities, and organizations to join in sponsoring such festivals to present members' compositions, encourages the mass media in participating countries to broadcast members' music by providing copies of sound recordings; maintains a library of members' published and unpublished scores, sounds recordings, performance documentation, and bioghraphies; sends scores anywhere in the world for a period no longer than one month; publishes an annual catalog of the library holdings; sponsors and encourages contemporary seminars; and encourages research.
The center was established to rekindle an interest in choral music and to reintegrate choirs into the world of entertainment. The center provides a structure within which teachers, scholars, and performing artists can teach choral music; explore and encourage composition of new repertoire; foster research and scholarly publication of emerging topics pertinent to choral study, and establish a special collection of recordings, personal letters, publications, and photographs that span the career of its founder, the late Dr. Roger Wagner.
The center's activities include cosponsorship of an international conference on Gregorian chant, presentation of a collection of scholarly articles, and choral composition content courses.
The Music Resource Center is the score and listening facility for the Music Department. It is located in John F. Kennedy Library North, 3rd floor, room 3022.
