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Tempo is printed annually by Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music in This issue... The Mary PaPPerT School of MuSic Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music is a national leader in performance, music education, music therapy, music technology and sacred music. At Duquesne we serve God by serving students and therefore do our utmost to ensure that students benefit from Quadratomic reprise......pg. 8 the finest teachers and the best academic resources. Among the dedicated teachers and scholars who make up the faculty of the Music School are members of the world- renowned Pittsburgh Symphony as well as other artists who are acclaimed performers of opera, jazz and sacred music. Our students have access to state- of-the-art music technology and other learning resources, including 68 Steinway Pappert center dedication......pg. 12 pianos. Duquesne is, in fact, the first Catholic University in the world to be numbered among an elite group of “All- Steinway” schools. The School of Music is also home to two first-rate concert venues: PNC Recital Hall, a 260-seat auditorium, and the recently constructed Thomas D. Pappert Center for Performance and Innovation, an acoustically superb and technologically sophisticated space for recording and performing. robert cameron’s Quarter century......pg. 22 Learn more at www.duq.edu/music. conTacT The ediTorS also... of TeMPo: News and Notes ............................................................................pg. 1 412.396.6080 [email protected] Christine Jordanoff Celebrates 25 Years .......................................pg. 3 Keys of Distinction ........................................................................pg. 4 The Mary Pappert School of Music Not Fiddling Around ......................................................................pg. 6 Duquesne University 600 Forbes Avenue Tempo Interviews Dean Edward Kocher .....................................pg. 16 Pittsburgh, PA 15282 All for a Song ...............................................................................pg. 18 Live Lobby Music ........................................................................pg. 20 Opera in the Aisles ......................................................................pg. 21 One to Watch—Anthony Rankin .................................................pg. 24 “Degenerate” Music Recital ........................................................pg. 25 Mary Pappert School of MuSic winter 2011 and newsnotes Major Grant and materials for local preschools. two days in November 2010. Her goal is to connect the fields of Her visit included two master funds recital hall music education and early childhood classes, one for composers and one renovation education, so that teachers feel on coaching contemporary ensembles, comfortable incorporating musical as well as a lecture delivered to all A PNC Foundation grant of activities into everyday instruction. music students. Tower, the winner $600,000 will help to renovate PNC Whitcomb is developing lesson of a Grammy Award, is a member of Recital Hall. The School of Music plans and selecting six local the American Academy of Arts and will use the majority of the grant for preschools in need of music programs. Letters and is the Pittsburgh Symphony improving the audience experience She will also train six undergraduate Orchestra’s Composer of the Year for in the 260-seat hall, including new music education majors to teach in the 2010–11 season. seating, fresh paint and new carpeting. the designated schools during the The PNC Recital Hall lobby will spring 2011 semester. Next summer, also receive improvements, including the School of Music will offer a Sean Jones Teams repainting and the installation of new professional development conference carpet, bulkheads, lighting, acoustic for Pittsburgh preschool teachers up with herbie wall panels, wall coverings and wood interested in incorporating the lesson hancock trim. In addition, a kitchen area will plans into their programs. be added, and the restrooms will be Herbie Hancock, one of our era’s completely remodeled. most influential jazz piano masters, composer Joan has selected trumpeter Sean Jones, a member of the Jazz Studies faculty, early childhood Tower Visits to perform the music of Miles Davis in an upcoming review in the summer Joan Tower, one of the nation’s Music initiative of 2011. Jones and bassist Marcus preeminent composers of orchestral, Miller will join Hancock and composer A PNC Foundation Grow Up Great chamber and instrumental music, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter as grant is helping Dr. Rachel Whitcomb and an accomplished conductor and the group re-imagines the music of create user-friendly music lessons pianist, visited the School of Music for opryland hotel orchestra includes alumni Three alumni of the Music School were in the orchestra when Nashville’s Opryland Hotel held its three-day, grand reopening in November 2010. Pictured during dress rehearsal, the three are (from the left) trombonist Gary Miller and trumpeters Alan Suska and Bill Laarz. The landmark hotel had been closed after record floods in the spring left much of the city under water. www.duq.edu/MuSic 1 trumpeter Miles at the spring 2010 School of Music dr. Sally Stone Davis. Both graduation ceremony. To commemorate Hancock and the occasion, faculty colleagues Worsing leaves a Shorter performed performed Gratitude, a commissioned with Miles Davis work composed by Mike Tomaro, chair legacy in Music ensembles in the of Jazz Studies. late 1960s, a time education that many jazz critics believe was new Graduate r. Sally Stone Worsing, founding Davis’ most creative period. ddirector of the City Music Center The review, organized to mark the chamber ensembles at Duquesne University, died Nov. 26 20th anniversary of the death of Miles Two new chamber ensembles— in her Penn Hills home after battling Davis, is slated for appearances at the Triano Woodwind Quintet and lung cancer. select European venues, including the Francis DeBroff String Quartet—will Worsing, 70, a classically trained North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), provide graduate-level scholarship pianist devoted to music education, the Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy) and the opportunities for qualified students facilitated more than 1,500 children Vitoria Jazz Festival (Spain). who are focusing on a career in musical and adults studying music at the City performance. Music Center, which she started in Students selected for the groups 1989. The center, which currently has Music School can receive full tuition remission and about 250 students ranging from ages concerts air on will serve as ambassadors for the 3 to 60, provides group classes as University and the Mary Pappert School well as individual lessons and recital WdSr of Music. opportunities. It became one of only 22 The School of Music Student community music schools accredited Showcase, two hours of programming by the National Association featuring performances by School of h. robert reynolds of Schools of Music, and her Music ensembles, can be heard each awarded honorary fundraising efforts helped to provide week on WDSR, Duquesne University’s disadvantaged students with student-operated Internet radio station. doctorate scholarships so that music would be The show airs Fridays, 1–3 p.m. To Duquesne University awarded available to all who wanted to learn. listen, visit www.wdsr.org and click an honorary doctorate to Professor A graduate of Carnegie Mellon the “Listen Now!” tab. Performances H. Robert Reynolds, a nationally University and the University of are prerecorded but the show is a live renowned wind ensemble conductor Pittsburgh, Worsing also had run broadcast from College Hall. and educator, at the May 2010 Music a music program for children at School commencement ceremony. Carnegie Mellon and taught at St. Reynolds is currently the H. Robert Edmund’s Academy, Shady Lane doc Wilson Reynolds professor of wind conducting School and the Western Pennsylvania awarded emeritus at the University of Southern California School for the Deaf before coming to Thornton School of Music and has Duquesne. Status been a frequent guest conductor at “For 21 years, Sally Worsing gave Duquesne. inspired and passionate leadership to Dr. John “Doc” the City Music Center at Duquesne Wilson, a member University,” said Dean Edward Kocher of the Music of Duquesne’s Mary Pappert School School faulty of Music. “Sally’s love of music and since 1972, was children brought a lot of beauty and awarded the rank of goodness to the youth and families of Professor Emeritus our region. We will miss her.” 2 Mary Pappert School of MuSic winter 2011 christine Jordanoff celebrates Twenty-five years with children’s chorus n 2011, Christine Jordanoff, professor of music education and director of choral organizations, is celebrating her twenty-fifth season as idirector of the Children’s Festival Chorus (CFC). Leading a children’s chorus was a long-standing dream for Jordanoff, work closely with the children in the even before 1973 when she became chorus, an opportunity to validate and a member of the Duquesne faculty. demonstrate teaching techniques and It was 12 years later that a colleague a course offering unique in the state, connected her with the CFC, then in according to Jordanoff. need of a director. Jordanoff can point out many A few months afterward, Jordanoff successes in her 25 years with the became the group’s director, and CFC CFC, including repeated requests to became an ensemble-in-residence at supply the chorus for

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