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NEWSLETTER for ALUMNI 6. FRIENDS February, 2004 Vol. XVI, No. 1 grams would not be available. Additionally, the ability to revi- 6 talize and expand our current facili- Music Dance ties would not be feasible without Brad Foley, Dean the support of private donors. In this or more than a century the issue of Ledger Lines, we recognize at the University of Oregon FUniversity of Oregon School of those who have made financial and Music has made significant contribu- in-kind contributions during the A beautiful campus environment, a wealth of performance opportunities, tions to the community of Eugene, 2003 calendar year. We thank each the state of Oregon, and our nation one of you for believing in what we and a superb faculty to prepare you for a successful career in teaching, through the efforts of our outstand- do. Thank you for your investment peqforming, conducting, or composing. ing faculty and talented students. in music and dance education at the I'm proud of the many creative and University of Oregon. scholarly efforts by our more than Momentum is building for our 100 faculty and staff in music and capital project. When I arrived in fall dance as well as the talents demon- 2002, $1 million of the $7.6 million strated by our 500-plus majors. needed from private sources had Annually, we serve more than been raised for the $15.2 million 3,000 students from across the cam- building project. I am pleased to an- pus through various course opportu- nounce that thanks to a lot of people, nities. In just the past academic year we have now surpassed the $2.3 mil- alone, music and dance faculty per- lion mark toward our goal. formed and presented in more than I share this information with you 1,000 creative activities all across the to let you know that we are moving Hurwitz, J. Robert Moore, Randy state of Oregon, in 32 states through- forward with this new building cam- Moore, George Recker, Victor Stein- out our nation, and around the world paign, and with private support it is hardt, and Richard Trombley. Their in nearly a dozen international ven- becoming a reality. It has been combined record of service exceeds ues. named by President Frohnmayer as 190 years, during which they have Many of the wonderful things one of the three capital priorities on influenced thousands of lives. They that we are able to do in the School campus in the university-wide will be remembered for their in- of Music are possible only through fundraising campaign. Our Director volvement in untold numbers of the support of alumni and friends. of Development, DeNel Stoltz, has performances, presentations, work- Without these generous people, the more details on our fundraising in shops, clinics, and master classes MUSIC & DANCE DEGREES Scholarships and graduate scholarships to recruit and support her article on page 2. [see story, page 3).To fill the vacated OFFERED AT OREGON: teaching fellowships are talented students, and the funds to A notable transition is taking positions, national searches for their available, based on assist in bringing outstanding guest place within our school following successors are being conducted in B.A., B.S. in Music or Dance application and audition. performers, scholars, and teachers to the retirements last summer of six music education, , saxophone B.Mus. in Performance the UO campus to enrich our pro- long-time faculty members: Robert and jazz studies, as well as in col- B.Mus. in Composition laborative pianolchamber music, and B.Mus. in Music Education voicelopera workshop. B.Mus. in Jazz Studies DEAN: Brad Foley B.A., option in Music Theory LEDGERLINES Many other items of interest can be found throughout this issue of B.S., option in Music Technology is the official newsletter of the ASSOCIATE DEANS: Ledger Lines, including the plans for University of Oregon School of Ann Tedards-Graduate Studies M.A., M.S., M.F.A. inDance Robert Hurwitz-Undergraduate Studies the 35" annual Oregon Bach Festival Music and Department of Dance, and M.A. in Music History which are shaping up exceedingly is published twice a year for alumni, DEVELOPMENT STAFF: M.A. in Music Theory well. It promises to be a festival not M.Mus. in Composition faculty, and friends of the school. DeNel Stoltz-School of Music to be missed, and we invite you to M.Mus. in Music Education Your letters, photos, and contribu- Peggy Renkert-Oregon Bach Festival make plans now to attend this M.Mus. in Performance For information, contact: tions are always welcome. Jane Scheidecker-Oregon Bach Festival M.Mus. in Conducting School of Music Admissions summer's festivities. EDITOR: Scott Barkhnrst Please join us on campus for M.Mus. in Intermedia Technology 1225 University of Oregon Address all correspondence to: M.Mus. in Piano Pedagogy some of the many excellent concerts Eugene OR 97403-1225 LEDGER LINES ASSISTANTS: Sugie Hong, Robert M.Mus. in Jazz Studies or programs we sponsor, and best or call: (541) 346-1164 (Music) School of Music Hurwitz, Laura Littlejohn, Carol Rotb 346-3386 (Dance] wishes for 2004! D.M.A., Ph.D. in Music Ed 1225 University of Oregon D.M.A., Ph.D. in Composition Eugene OR 97403-1225 CONTRIBUTORS: George Evano, D.M.A. in Performance or call (541) 346-3761 Robert Kyr, Gregory Mason. Ph.D. in Music History e-mail: [email protected] COVER PHOTO by Cliff Coles. Ph.D. in Music Theory The Oregon Jazz Ensemble enjoy playing piano for many de- Even the title character of Amahl cades after graduating. had a UO connection: Sam Rowan, a Upon graduation, they moved local seventh-grader who sang the back to Portland, where Gilbert even- role beautifully and with great confi- Music Building Campaign tually became president of Industrial dence, is the son of Tama Cuddeback Air Products, Inc. In 1969, it was Rowan [M.Mus. 1990). Reaches $2.3 Million Mark sold to a French company and Gil- The performance, which drew a bert started Schnitzer Investments, a The UO School of Music and the large and appreciative crowd, was by DeNel Stoltz, Director of Development substantial real estate and holding Eugene Symphony have always had led by guest conductor Scott Terrell. company based in Portland. He re- a good working relationship over the The production was staged with the hrough the generous help of student classroom. tired in 1973, and they now split years-indeed, many of the current orchestra on stage [rather than in the T alumni and friends, the lives of "Music and education have al- their time each year between Port- and past performers in the acclaimed pit), the vocal soloists and chamber : the students and faculty of the ways been important to our family. land and Rancho Mirage, California. orchestra have come from the faculty choir in front of the musicians and School of Music are being trans- We are both grateful for the educa- Dean Brad Foley proclaimed, "It and student ranks of the music split to either side, with dancers oc- formed today, and a legacy is being tion that we received at the Univer- is exciting to be moving forward school. cupying the downstage center area. left that will benefit scores of future sity of Oregon, and this gift is a won- with this new building campaign. But the level of collaboration hit Eugene Symphony Music Direc- generations of students, performers derful way to share our love of music With private support from generous a new high in producing a perfor- tor Giancarlo Guerrero said "We and music educators. by helping music students of tomor- friends like the Schnitzers, it is be- mance of Menotti's opera, Amahl were delighted to have this unique Just one short year ago when row," said Gilbert and Thelma. "And, coming a reality." President Frohn- . and the Night Visitors, in the Hult opportunity to collaborate with the Dean Brad Foley arrived at the to honor Thelma, the love of my mayer has named the project as one Center's Silva Hall in December. School of Music and Department of School, $1 million had been raised life," Gilbert added. of three capital priorities on campus The concert version, set with a from the UO opera program, includ- Dance, and to showcase Amy's won- toward the $7.6 million needed from as part of the University-wide ballet choreographed by Amy Stod- ing bass Greg Barkett, baritone Gene derful choreography and the impres- private sources for the $15.2 million fundraising campaign. dart, involved more than thirty stu- Chin, tenor Andrew Brock, and so- sive talents of these young singers building expansion and renovation. In addition to the Schnitzers, the dents from the School of Music and prano Jennifer Bacon-all prepared and dancers. Their professionalism With a recent $250,000 gift from School of Music is deeply indebted Department of Dance: the UO Cham- by Mark Kaczmarczyk; and Walter and musicality in a very short re- Thelma and Gilbert Schnitzer, the to many friends of the school, in- ber Choir led by Sharon Paul; UO Kennedy from the dance department hearsal period was absolutely excep- School just reached the $2.3 million cluding: Kathleen Richards Grubbe dancers in the ballet; vocal soloists appeared as one of the three kings. tional." mark toward our goal. The impact of '41, for her $500,000 gift to the build- their gift is doubled - as are all pri- ing as well as to our scholarship and vate gifts to this project - since the dean's discretionary funds; UO the world eventually would find School of Music has been granted Foundation Trustee Bob DeArmond peace within its soul." Legislative bonding from the State of '52 and Leona '51, for their gifts to Kupferman and Dowd have had a Oregon for $7.6 million of the build- the building of upwards of $350,000 musical relationship since 1974, and ing expansion. In order to capture as well as their generous $100,000 The Oregon Percussion Ensemble the Legislative bonding, an equal endowment for student scholarships The Oregon Percussion En- has performed and recorded three amount must be raised from private in piano and voice-Leona's areas of semble, conducted by Charles Dowd, other Kupferman works for percus- sources by July 2007. study; David Maves '61, for a appears on a new compact disc, sion orchestra: A Crucible for the $165,000 gift of the home and violin Meyer Kupferman, Orchestral Music, Moon with soprano Ann Tedards, Thelma and Gilbert Schnitzer made of his late brother Larry; Timothy Vol. XVI on the modern New York Sound Phantoms No. 5, and "... this gift is a wonderjkl a $250,000 gift to the building to and Virgina Foo for their $50,000 gift classical music label Soundspells Prometheus. Kupferman also com- way to share our love of name Thelma Schnitzer Hall. to the building. Other gifts to the [CD 135). Dowd and the avant-garde posed a virtuosic solo, The music by helping music building for which we are grateful Oregon Percussion Ensemble per- Stone Tears of Ixtaccihuatl, for students of tomorrow." Both natives of Portland, Gilbert include $26,000 from UO Founda- form Percussion Symphony (". . .On Dowd, and both Dowd and and Thelma met when they were fif- tion Trustee Ca1 '50 and wife Mari- Tibet and Tiananman Square..."), an virtuoso Tracy Freeze [D.M.A. '03) teen. Gilbert asked Thelma to a high lyn Smith '50; $25,000 from Tom and abstract sonic mosaic composed for have performed Moonsticks for Solo Thelma Schnitzer, a UO School school dancing school, and they Alice Landles; and $25,000 from Jon six virtuoso multi-percussionists Marimba throughout the US. and in of Music graduate (1940), and her have been together ever siuce-re- Anderson of Random Lengths Publi- playing sixty-six classical and indig- Germany. husband Gilbert, a graduate of the cently celebrating their sixty-fifth an- cations. We also thank Sam McClure enous percussion instruments. Symphony was dedicated to the Kupferman, an American "ro- UO Lundquist College of Business niversary. After high school, Thelma for his $30,000 scholarship gift, and The new CD features six percus- memory of oppression in Tibet, mantic" serial composer, paints thick [1940), recently made a generous gift attended the University of Washing- UO Foundation Trustee Ann Thomp- sionists from the UO School of Mu- where an entire indigenous culture contrapuntal textures with his Infini- to name Thelma Schnitzer Hall in ton for two years while Gilbert stud- son and husband Fay for their sic: principal timpanist W. Sean was wiped out; and thoughts about ties Tone Row, and is a prolific, con- the building. Thelma Schnitzer Hall ied business at the University of Or- $10,000 scholarship gift. Wagoner, principal marimbist Tracy Tiananman Square, where a student temporary voice. He has composed will be a versatile space with perma- egon. She transferred to the UO after Freeze, and multi-percussionists uprising by the thousands was bru- twelve symphonies, seven operas, nent risers and state-of-the-art audio- her sophomore year, during which For information on gifts to the David Constantine, Brian Gardiner, tally attacked by armed tanks and seven string quartets, ten concertos, visual equipment. It will include a she and Gilbert married. She studied School of Music or Department of Jordan Glenn, and Brenda Trow- soldiers. I felt a need to make a state- and hundreds of chamber works, in- grand piano and will serve for small piano with Professor George Hopkins Dance, contact DeNel Stoltz at (541) bridge. ment-protesting in the only way an cluding spectacular solo pieces for recitals, performances, or as a 150- and continued to take lessons and 346-5687 or [email protected] Kupferman says: "Percussion artist can speak out-and hoped that virtuoso musicians. our mission. I am especially pleased Retirement Lures Six to see the quality of the new faculty members now being hired in the The Oregon un- both f~inctionaland distinctive." School of Music," he added. "This veiled new uniforms this fall. and New unifurrus aside, the OMB The School of Music's education Long-time Faculty should assure an exciting future for they are quite a departure from the turned in another solid year on the department has initiated a propam our school." past. The design concept was created field. including a successful 25th an- titled "Choral Partnerships: Univer- ix members of the music faculty, (28); Randy Moore (29); Victor Some of the biggest changes have by Nike and funded through the ath- nual Festival of Bands, and one of its sity and Community" for the 2003- S with nearly 200 years of collec- Steinhardt (35); Robert Hurwitz (38); been in the technology area, accord- letic department's Nike contract, best halftime shows in years, based 2004 academic calendar. tive teaching among them, have and Dick Trombley (40). ing to Robert Hurwitz. "We were still which was reworked this past sum- on music frorn the motion picture Pi- The University of Oregon Con- opted for retirement. The six made At the retirement party, Dean mer. Nike's goal was to create a new, rutes uf the Corjbbenn. The OMB also cert Choir, directed by Assistant Pro- their announcement last spring, but Brad Foley noted that their retire- non-traditional look for the band, spent three days in El Paso, Texas, as fessor Shannon Chase, is partnered will continue teaching through the ments leave "a huge void in our "I am especially pleased : evoking a biker-style image with the the Ducks competed in the Sun with the Springfield and Thurston current academic year as searches school that will take quite a long helmets, and a color scheme that is Howl-Oregon's ninth bowl game in High School concert choirs for a se- proceed for their replacements. while to fill. Their records of service to see the quality of the compatible with Oregon's new foot- the past ten years! + ries of clinics, exchanges, and con- Robert Hurwitz, 1. Robert Moore, and influence have touched thou- new faculty members ball uniforms. cert events. Randy Moore, George Recker, Victor sands of lives during their tenure now being hired in the The band uniforms generated While many of the clinics will Steinhardt, and Dick Trombley were here, and they will be remembered School of Music ... " quite a range of reactions, both posi- occur on the public school cam- honored at a special reception in for their involvement in hundreds if tive and negative, from fans of all puses, the Springfield Concert Choir early December; Dean Brad Foley not thousands of performances, pre- -J. Robert Moore ages, not to mention a lot of media traveled to the UO on Nov. 21 to par- ' lauded their accomplishments, and a sentations, workshops, clinics, and attention, which has been great expo- ticipate in an exchange rehearsal in large group of faculty, staff, and master classes not only locally, but using purple ditto masters to make sure for the band. Most of the criti- Beall Hall with the UO Concert friends gave them a well-deserved across the state, region, nation, and multiple copies in the 1960s, and the cism centered on the helmets, but as Choir. There were approximately 170 sendoff. even at the international level. electric typewriter was state of the the season wore on, most fans be- singers involved in the event. The recent turmoil and uncer- "Their collective legacy in teach- art," he noted. "There were no pho- came comfortable with the new look. The Choral Partnerships program tainty surrounding the Oregon Public ing includes courses in music theory, tocopiers, computers, video cameras, The new uniforms included a serves to connect the university to Employee Retirement System (PERS) music history, music education, ap- e-mail, or the internet. Registration complete wardrobe of accessories as the community through the young and its future configuration due to plied music, techniques classes, and was done manually, with students well: custom-designed shoes, sun- people who participate in these pro- state budget cuts was a factor in at ensemble direction-practically ev- crowding into Mac Court and wait- glasses, reversible yellow vest, mock grams. least some of the faculty members' ery area of course work that the ing in long lines for cards that would turtle t-shirt, baseball cap when the "University students serve as decision to retire, perhaps a year or School of Music offers." confirm enrollment in each course." helmet is not being used, a second mentors to the high school students two earlier than they otherwise Several of the retirees offered Randy Moore, who plans to con- outer coat, and a backpack to store and are connected through their mu- might have. some thoughts and reflections on tinue sharing music with the com- gear. As director Todd Zimbelman sic making experiences," said Chase. The years of service at the Uni- their years of service. J. Robert Moore munity via children's choirs and vol- said, "our primary goal is to put a "The goal of the program is not mere- versity of Oregon for the six are sig- noted, "What we now offer our stu- unteering, said, "I am thankful to great band on the field each week, ly to teach these singers to aspire to nificant in quality and quantity: dents has been vastly expanded, and Edmund Cykler and the UO School and outfit them in a uniform that is music making, but also to connect George Recker (20); J. Robert Moore we all have the right to feel proud of of Music for opening me up to a glo- them with the college experience bal perspective on music education, and to encourage them through their which I continue to share with stu- peers to pursue an education." dents. Teaching hundreds of brilliant A survey instrument was used to future teachers has been a real joy in prompt students to identify both so- my thirty years here." cial and musical benefits in the part- Hurwitz, who has worked under nership program. Overwhelmingly, eight deans and interim deans (not university and high school students counting the two months he served valued the exposure to another as interim dean himself) remembers choir's music and performance as feeling "very fortunate to have be- well as the social interaction. come part of a faculty that, despite From a recruiting standpoint, the inevitable differences of opinion, high school students like learning focus, and priorities, seemed to get more about college from college stu- along remarkably well ... I've seen dents. Many were surprised to learn, the passing away of many of my for example, they could participate original colleagues, and the depar- in choir in college even if they were ture of others for other institutions, not a music major. but that special feeling of a faculty Dean Brad Foley [third from right] poses with five of the six retirhes at the getting along has remained with me special retirement reception: [left to right) J. Robert Moore, Randy Moore, through the years." + Victor Steinhardt, George Recker, and Robert Hurwitz. for nearly 25 years, the master class is open by audition to graduate and ~rofessionallevel conductors. Its two-week curriculum goes beyond GEORGECRUMB WIY Beth Shoemaker (doctoral graduate Bach Masterworks Form ~ Mozart' to include technique, inter- This summer, the Composers 4:00 p.m.) on July 3. teaching fellow in bassoon) has been pretation, and repertoire study. Symposium of the Oregon Bach Fes- Forty composers will be selected appointed to the adjunct faculty at Application deadline is March I. tival has invited George Crumb to be to be participants in the Composers Willamette University in Salem, OR. th e Core of 35th Season although auditors may apply through its composer-in-residence on the oc- Symposium. They will spend a ten- 1 June 1 casion of his 75th birthday. To cel- day period at the University of Or- , a senior voice major aking music and molding the Baritone soloist ebrate this milestone, the symposium egon (Tune 29-July 9), participating and a recipient of the Polastri Schol- M musicians who make it-the Thomas Quasthoff, is commissioning ten of its partici- in a host of activities: daily seminars arship, has accepted a professional twin aims of performance and educa- who has overcome Dants to create new works in honor during which they will present their contract with Ball in the House, the : tion-come to the fore during the physical handicaps to of George Crumb. music to each other for Boston-based men's 35th anniversary of the Oregon Bach become the most The commissions discussion; sessions ensemble. Hollens is a student of Festival, June 25-July 11, 2004. lauded singer of his will be premiered by the where they will meet Mark Kaczmarczyk. Events take place at Beall Hall on the generation, sings the Third Angle New Music with the symposium UO campus, and at the Hult Center title role in Mendels- Ensemble (the sympos- composers-in-resi- Erica Brookhyser, a senior voice for the Performing Arts in Eugene. sohn's Elijah in the ium's 2004 ensemble-in- dence, George and student of Milagro Vargas presently Co-founder and Artistic Director Festival's final con- residence) on three con- David Crumb; a special studying with Eric Mentzel, was one Helmuth Rilling returns again, cert. certs during the Oregon session with festival of three winners of the Metropolitan accompanied by the Gachinger Quasthoff, who Bach Festival. composer-in-residence Opera National Council Oregon Kantorei, his Stuttgart choir. Rilling made his US. debut at Each of the concerts Krzysztof Penderecki; District Auditions in November. She founded the Gachinger 50 years ago. the 1995 festival, also will feature several of the and attendance at festi- advances to the Northwest Regional This will be the choir's first West sings two perfor- commissions, plus the val rehearsals and con- Auditions in February. Coast appearance. mances of a Schubert music of Crumb and his certs.- recital in Beall Hall son, David, who is an as- George Crumb "I can think of no Four UO saxophone students (The and performs a pops sistant professor of composition and better way to honor George Crumb Twisted Oak Saxophone Quartet) The Gachinger Kantorei, concert. Other fea- theory at the School of Music. The [on his 75thl and the Oregon Bach performed by invitation last July for one of the world's fore- tured artists are pia- works will also celebrate the Oregon Festival [on its 35thI than to commis- the 13th World Saxophone Congress most Bach choirs, will nists Robert Levin and Bach Festival's 35th anniversary. sion new works. We will celebrate in Minneapolis, held at the Univer- Jeffrey Kahane and The three symposium concerts creativity with creativity!'' remarked sity of Minnesota. The students were make its first West Coast composer/conductor will be given in Beall Hall on two Robert Kyr, director of the sympo- Dylan Dwyer, Jesse Dochnahl, appearance at the Krzysztof Penderecki, consecutive days: an afternoon con- sium since its founding in 1994. Kendra Borgen, and Kevin Ryan. All Oregon Bach Festival. who leads the Festival cert (2:00-4:00 p.m.) with a birthday "Each of the ten works will also he a four have studied with J. Robert orchestra in Beetho- party immediately following on July way of saying thank you to the festi- Moore, but the quartet was coached St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, is depicted ven's Symphony No, 6. 2; a morning concert (10:00-Noon) val for its support over our first de- mostly by Steve Vacchi. The World in the lead illustration for this year's Oregon Bach Bach's towering St. Matthew Pas- Penderecki will and an afternoon concert (2:00- cade of activity." Saxophone Congress occurs every Festival as a visual symbol of how the event has + sion opens the festival, with the Fes- also be a lecturer for three years in different venues touched lives over itsfirst 35 years. tival Chorus and Gachinger Kantorei the Composers Sym- throughout the world, and is the serving its dual choir format. The St. posium, an innovative, biennial se- BACH FESTIVAL, continued for performers and audiences, has al- largest gathering of student, profes- Matthew also features the Moran showcase for the Gachinger group. ries of workshops and premieres led ways been a distinctive focus of the sional, and amateur saxophonists. Children's Choir of Israel and Ger- One of the world's foremost Bach by Robert Kyr of the School of Music strong, choir director of St. Olaf Col- Festival," said Executive Director Saxophonists come to perform for man tenor Lothar Odinius in the role choirs, the Gachinger was the fea- (see story, next lege. The YCA is open to high school Royce Saltzman. "This year's pillars each other, to talk about advances in of the Evangelist. tured choir on Rilling's 172-CD singers nationwide; auditions take of choral-orchestral masterworks- the instrument and its literature, and Bach's Mass in B Minor is complete Bach edition, winner of the place at live sites or by recording Bach's St. MatthewPassion and Mass to enjoy nightly concerts by some of performed in the second week as a 2000 Cannes Classical prize. val's Youth Cho- through March 1, 2004. in B Minor, Mozart's Requiem, and the world's most prominent saxo- The Mozart Requiem is thor- ral Academy, Amid the celebration of tradi- Mendlessohn's Elijah-give Festival phonists. The music ranged from tra- oughly explored in three Discovery launched in tions, there's one new program: an audiences an opportunity to enjoy, at ditional literature for saxophone to Series lecture-demonstrations before 1998, provides institute for graduate-level arts ad- one time, some of the greatest stories newly composed works for saxo- a full-scale performance takes place a ten-day inten- ministration students, jointly offered ever sung." phone and other abstract ensembles. July 2 in the Hult Center. In the lec- sive training by the festival and the UO's arts ad- Oregon Bach Festival tickets go The UO Quartet performed Quatuor tures, Rilling examines the work's program fo;high ministration program, June 25-July on sale March 23. For information de Saxophones by Ida Gotkovsky. + nuances, and then turns the baton 3. Participants attend seminars, con- about schedules, concerts, and the singers Thomas Guusrr~j, over to the conductors of the festival Tune 26-Tulv,.. 6. certs, and go behind the scenes to educational programs, call (800) master class, who lead performances under the direction of Anton Arm- study production techniques. 457-1486, or go to the web site at of each day's section of the work. "The marriage of music and text, oregonbachfestival.com + A key component of the festival Continued next page and the depth of meaning it creates 2003 state publication, titled "Music Colin Curie, concerto soloist with last July. He also was course director Education: A Model for Cultural Di- the Eugene Symphony. of a two-week medieval music work- versity." Chase also is the new fac- shop sponsored at the university by Barbara Baird played organ recitals ulty advisor to the University of Fritz Gearhart and John Owings per- the Vancouver Early Music Prog- in the Florida Keys in August and Oregon's MENC Collegiate Chapter. formed an all-Prokofiev program in ramme. In September he served as September. Together with Dr. Julia Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie on Oc- guest professor at the Royal Conser- Brown, Baird presented duo-organ Mike Denny had another busy sum- tober 26; the program also included a vatory in The Hague, Netherlands, recitals in Eugene during the Oregon mer and fall performing in clubs and premiere of a new work by Robert where he taught an intensive work- Bach Festival in Beall Hall and in concerts. He was a featured sideman Kyr, Variations in the Name of shop on medieval monophonic song, November at the First United Meth- alongside Dick Hyman and Ken Peace. The program also was re- improvisation, and early polyphony. odist Church. Baird taught a master Peplowski during the Oregon Festi- peated in two other locations, Roch- In October he joined soprano Ann class on the keyboard dance music val of American Music. At the Lane ester and Ithaca, NY. Gearhart pre- Tedards and harpist Laura Zaerr to of Bach for the Portland chapter of Community College Jazz Festival, he sented a master class at Ithaca Col- present the world premiere of Oregon Music Teachers Association, worked with several of the area's lege on that trip as well. Golden Apples of the Sun, a song and presented a lecture-demonstra- large jazz ensembles and was a cycle by Professor Emeritus Hal tion on Baroque Dance for the featured member of the renowned Michael Grose played tuba with the Owen. In December Mentzel ap- Tualatin Valley chapter of Oregon Bobby Shew Quintet. Denny also Oregon Symphony in September on peared as tenor soloist in Handel's Music Teachers Association. worked with his own groups at local the inaugural concerts of the orches- Messiah with the Portland Baroque clubs. Denny is a musical director for tra's new music director, Carlos Orchestra under the direction of Dave Camwell (GTF) had eight new . vocalist Lyn Burg's recently released Calmar. Gary Cooper. works published, including seven by CD, Good Morning, Heartache, avail- David Maves, brother of the late Lawrence Maves, visits with Kathryn Luck- Dorn Publishing and one by UNC able on the Rafael label. Violinist Kathryn Lucktenberg and Rebecca Oswald's composition for tenberg (center) and Alice Blankenship following the memorial service in Jazz Press. Most of the new Dorn cellist Steven Pologe performed in and piano, Field Report: Moves' honor. Blankenship holds Maves' violin, which David donated to the material is saxophone ensemble Charles Dowd was principal timpa- Carnegie Hall on December 28 with News from Rural Oregon, received its school, along with Larry's home, valuedat $165,000. To the UO'sKnightLibrary, arrangements of music by Bach, nist with five orchestras since last The New York String Orchestra un- East Coast premiere last October at David gave Larry's LP record collection, which included a particularly rich Vivaldi, Handel, and Paganini. The summer: Eugene Symphony, Oregon der the direction of Jaime Laredo. Rider University in Lawrenceville, assortment of operas, orchestral recordings, and violin music. other piece is a junior high big band Bach Festival, Cascade Festival of Pologe and Lucktenberg performed N.J. It was presented as part of a chart called "Back Seat Confessions." Music, OFAM's American Symphon- on an all-Prokofiev chamber music conference titled "Sounding Off: The UNC Jazz Press publication is an ia, and Oregon Coast Music Festival. concert at the Killington Music Festi- Women Composers and Conduc- arrangement of Pat Metheny's "Have He did an interview and timpani val in Vermont, where they served as tors." Oswald attended the confer- You Heard," which was played and solo on the UO Today television faculty members throughout the ence, which was hosted by Rider's A UO student initiates a drive with her professor recorded by the Oregon Jazz En- show, and performed with the Or- month of July. In August they per- Gender Studies department and $10,000 semble last year. egon Symphony in March. As a jazz formed for three weeks at the Grand Westminster Choir College. and classmates, raising for a local charity vibraphonist, Dowd played a Hilton Teton Music Festival. Keudra Borgen, a 22-year-old "All of this was kind of inspired Shannon Chase taught musicianship Showcase session at the Percussive Robert Ponto was a featured guest music major, donated $500 of her by inner-city poverty," Borgen said. to the Oregon Bach Festival's Youth Arts Society International Conven- Anne Dhu McLucas read four papers conductor for the Western Interna- hard-earned cash to help a local "I was kind of excited about the Choral Academy. She also directed tion in Kentucky, and played with at national/international meetings tional Band Clinic held in charity and then challenged her prospect of organizing and getting in- the newly established University of his Goodvibes Jazz Quartet in Mon- this past fall: "Historicizing Oral Tra- last November. He conducted four classmates to "put your money volved." Oregon Summer Chorale, a univer- terey, CA. In April, Dowd presented dition: 'Proofs' of the Accuracy of different high school honor bands in- where your mouth is." While DeBevoise's class focuses sity ensemble offering undergraduate a chamber jazz /marimba Orality" for the Royal Music Asso- volving more than 650 student musi- The project grew out of a debate on inner-city problems, many of the and graduate students an opportu- faculty concert in Gerlinger Hall, and ciation in Cardiff, Wales; "The Scot- cians from around the US. in her Introduction to Urban Politics issues-poverty, welfare and a lack nity to participate in teaching and was vibraphone soloist at a Eugene tish Experiment: Incorporating Tra- class about taxes and social prob- of good jobs-plague rural Oregon as conducting choral repertoire. During Symphony Gala in January. He con- ditional Music in Higher Education" Marian Smith had a chapter titled lems. Borgen asked the students in well. The organization they selected fall term, Chase developed a choral ducted the world premiere recording for the Society for Ethnomusicology "Dance and Dancers" appear in the her class if they would be willing to to be the recipient is Parent Partner- partnership between the University of Percussion Symphony by Meyer in Miami; "'0 Brother': The Creative new Cambridge Companion to pay extra taxes to support social ser- ship of Cottage Grove, which pro- Concert Choir and the Springfield Kupferman on the New York Sound- use of Film in Teaching Oral Tradi- Grand Opera (Cambridge University vices. Forty-six of the students said motes parenting skills and healthy District's high school choral pro- spells label with The Oregon Percus- tions" for the College Music Society Press, 2003). She also served as a yes, and Borgen decided to challenge child, youth, and family develop- grams, involving exchange rehearsals sion Ensemble (OPE), and conducted in Miami; and "Mescalero Apache moderator for the panel on the their claim. ment. and choral clinics. She was guest six other concerts with OPE featuring Ritual Music: Creating a Public Maryinsky ballet at the "From the Borgen proposed that if 30 stu- The drive ended up raising conductor for the Eugene Chamber premieres of new chamber works for Space with Music" for the American Maryinsky to Manhattan" conference dents in the class pledged $100 of $10,000-$4,000 from the students Singers' holiday concert, and was percussion. Dowd conducted a Lou Folklore Society in Albuquerque. in Ann Arbor, Michigan last fall. The their own money to go toward a so- plus the $500 each from Borgen and adjudicator and clinician for the Harrison tribute with OPE at the panelists were dance and music his- cial service agency, Borgen would her professor, along with a $5,000 November 2003 Portland Chamber Northwest Percussion Festival in Se- Eric Mentzel, accompanied by lute, torians Lynn Garafola, John Wiley, contribute $500. When she pitched matching donation from the Syn- Choir Festival. Chase is the newly attle, and was a multi-percussion so- harp and medieval fiddle, performed Elizabeth Souritz, and Stephanie her idea to Professor Kenneth chronicity Foundation. Borgen was appointed multicultural chair for the loist at Boise State University in a recital of 13th- and 14th-century Jordan (whose paper included a live DeBevoise, he offered to throw in shown on local TV presenting the Oregon Music Educators Association May. Last spring Dowd hosted a songs from the courtly love tradition $500 himself. check in front of her classmates. + and contributed a column to the fall Silva Hall percussion appearance by at the University of British Columbia Continued next page so he had heard many stories of mu- FACULTY, continued Gregory Mason Research sical life in the 1920s and 1930s and Music Grads Score Film the musical celebrities who traveled (Brussels and Rome, 2003) was pre- Project Touches on Twain to Detroit and the famed Orchestra sented in Bologna, Italy. During the Rebecca Oswald (M.M. 2001) and Andrew Lane (M.M. 2003) Hall, built for Gabrilowitsch by the fall he traveled twice to Ithaca, NY, Gregory Mason, a member of the automobile magnates. for concerts and an all-Corelli CD re- n October 2002 Rob Simonsen, music technology, and who now UO piano faculty who teaches cham- "Gabrilowitsch was glamorous, a cording with the New York State Ba- I a talented emerging film com- teaches electronic music techniques ber music and runs the graduate major celebrity in his day, loved by roque orchestra. He was also invited poser, asked for Rebecca Oswald's at the UO. "Lane is a fine violist," accompanying degree progmms, his colleagues, and idolized by the to present a new series of seminars assistance on orchestrating the score said Oswald, "and I knew he had or- has been pursuing an interesting the musicians in his orchestra," said in performance practice at the Royal for an independent film, Westender, chestral playing and conducting ex- research project the past few years. Mason. "Classical stars of that period Conservatory early music depart- by M.0.B Productions. Simonsen perience. I knew he'd be a quick The charismatic Russian Ossip were like the pop stars are today." ment in Brussels. Vanscheeuwijck had taken a few jazz courses from study for the score, that he'd be con- : Gabrilowitsch was one of the leading Gabrilowitsch was offered music has been invited to be a lecturer and Toby Koenigsberg at the UO School scientious of precious studio time, piano stars of the Golden Age, circa directorships with the Vienna and panel-discussion chair at the of Music several years ago, and and that he could communicate 1900-1935, and his mentor was New York Philharmonics as well as Orpheus Academy on 17th-century Oswald had received her master's quickly with the musicians in a way Anton Rubinstein. He was also the the Philadelphia, hut remained loyal music theory in Ghent in April. degree in composition from the that would bring out the composer's legendary conductor of the Detroit to the Detroit Symphony even School of Music in 2001. Simonsen intentions." Furthermore, with Symphony from 1918 until his death through the hardships of the Depres- Claire Wachter was an invited dis- and Oswald met in Corvallis, and Lane's music technology experience, in 1936, molding it into one of the sion. Gabrilowitsch conducted the cussion leader at the 2003 National she watched a rough cut of the film he understood the challenges of syn- world's top orchestras at that time. first full national live radio broadcast . Conference on Piano Pedagogy in with MIDI music cues. chronizing sound to picture. His recordings of the Arensky of a classical orchestra in 1922 with Oak Brook, Illinois. "The MIDI tracks emulated an or- Simonsen hired musicians from Waltz with pianist and friend Harold soloist Artur Schnabel. chestral sound," said Oswald, "and the UO, OSU, and the Eugene and Bauer and the Schumann Piano Mason spent a week with the Laura Zaerr gave the world premiere the musical ideas were well-devel- Portland Symphony orchestras, and Quintet with the great Flonzaley sizeable Gabrilowitsch archives in of Golden Apples of the Sun by Pro- oped, so I knew that it would sound the session took place in December Quartet are considered some of the Ossip Gabrilowitsch, a popular Detroit and was a Quarry Farm Fel- fessor Emeritus Hal Owen, sung by really great finest recordings of the twentieth pianist and conductor, was also the low at the Mark Twain Center in Ann Tedards and Eric Mentzel with with a live century even today. son-in-law of Mark Twain. New York State. His research has un- Zaerr at the harp. The piece is a 25- orchestra. covered film footage, including re- minute song cycle, based on ancient Simonsen's was Twain's last direct descendent. hearsals as concerto soloist and as and modern Irish texts. + initial idea "Classical stars of that Gabrilowitsch, much admired conductor with Jascha Heifetz, and was for me to period were like the and respected for his personal quali- other private movies, including teach him to pop stars of today." ties as well as his great musical gifts, Gabrilowitsch with pianist-composer orchestrate also was a leading voice for progres- Leopold Godowsky. Recent inter- The Oregon String Quartet played a the music." sive causes in the early decades of views with producers and archivists mixed jazz and classical concert with By mid- In 1909, Gabrilowitsch married the twentieth century. at RCA and BMG have resulted in a guest violinist Diane Monroe, who November, the daughter of Mark Twain, Clara Mason had heard of Gabrilo- more complete discography. appeared in the movie Music of the Simonsen Clemens, who had a modest career as witsch early in life; Mason's grandfa- Mason has now finished his pri- Heart starring Meryl Streep. Monroe realized that a singer and who controlled her ther was a violin student of Eugene mary research and is organizing it was the Trotter visiting professor for plan was father's literary estate for the next Ysaye who played viola in Gabrilo- into chapters prior to publication in two weeks in January. The Quartet unrealistic half century. Their daughter Nina witsch's orchestra for eighteen years, the near future. + also presented a clinic session at the given the Oregon Music Educators Conference deadlines, so he asked Oswald to 1 2002 at Blind Pirate Studios in titled "Humor in Music," which fea- orchestrate the music and to create a Cottage Grove. FACULTY, continued He had 20 performances hom Octo- sic by Bach with Marc Destrub6 and tured a recently recorded work, Lon- score and parts, which she did in Westender premiered at the Se- ber to January, including a role as Kris Verhelst. He also taught Ba- don Bridge Variations, by Livingston about a week. attle International Film Festival in demonstration by New York City soloist in Haydn's Sinfonia roque cello and basso continuo at the Gearhart. The Oregon String Quartet Simonsen sent Oswald MIDI files June 2003, where its director was Ballet dancer Peter Boal). Concertante with the Oregon Mozart San Francisco Early Music Society disc, OFAM Presents William Grant and mock-ups for the 26 awarded fifth place. It was also fea- Players. Baroque music workshop in San Still, recorded in 2001, has been cues, totaling more than 90 minutes tured at the Blue Sky Film Festival Steve Vacchi's bio was included in Rafael, where he played several con- listed in the BMG music catalog and of music. It was mostly a string track, in Las Vegas last September. the 2004 edition of Marquis' Who's Marc Vanscheeuwijck taught an ad- certs. He played Baroque bass in is still available at Barnes and Noble a brass track, plus a few tracks with Westender is an independent, Who in America. He had a new CD vanced Baroque cello seminar at the Monteverdi's Selva Morale with Ital- bookstores (quite amazing, consider- harp, all of which she then voiced feature-length, medieval-period film release: Tomas SvobodaIChamber University of Aka12 de Henares ian vocal ensemble La Venexiana at ing many classical discs go out of into a string orchestra with harp, shot almost entirely on locations in Works vol. 1 with clarinet (perform- (Spain) last May, then went to Paris the Flanders Festival in Bruges and print soon after they are realeased). four horns, and bass . the scenic and diverse wilds of Or- ing on Summer Trio and Concerto and Italy to continue his research on in F6nBtrange (Alsace). In Septem- He also asked if Oswald knew egon. The Westender soundtrack is for Woodwind Quintet). As the final Baroque bass instruments in Italian ber, his new book, The Cappella Mu- The Oregon Brass Quintet concluded anyone who could conduct the ses- available for purchase, and the DVD phase of a UO summer research music. Back in Eugene, he offered sicale of San Petronio in Bologna un- a CD recording project which in- sion using a click track, and she rec- is expected to be released soon. award, Vacchi completed a source several Elderhostel lectures, a pre- der Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1 674- cludes the music of Ives, Ewald, ommended Andrew Lane, whose For information on Westender, handbook for the Baroque bassoon. concert lecture, and a concert of mu- 95). History-Organization-Repertoire Previn, Crumb, and others. + master's degree was in intermedia go to www.westendermovie.com + figures in computer music interna- were recently heard on "A Prairie where Liesl taught middle school Teatro Argentina in Rome (where his master's in accountancy in May tionally." Thompson traveled to Home Companion." Last June, he and high school band and choir. The Barber of Seville first pre- 2003. Recent music activities: after a Prague for a concert of the awarded performed works by Beethoven and They moved to Anchorage where, miered). He also prepared the Na- four-year sabbatical, he has again Larry Beach (B.Mus. 1965, M.Mus. compositions in December. The work Zwilich with the Columbia Trio at after a year of substitute teaching [a tional Orchestra of Malta before the taken over as the music director of 1971) retired from 27 years teaching will be broadcast and recorded for the Washington State Music Teach- break from full-time, by choice) she arrival of conductor John DeMain. the Boise Valley Chordsmen, who re- music in the McKenzie School Dis- publication. For more information, ers Association Convention, and in picked up a wonderful part-time Kuo participated in the conductor's ceived the Most Improved Chorus trict in 1995. Since then he has been contact Thompson at (770) 993-1607 September he gave a series of solo choir position teaching middle retreat at Medomak, run by Ke~eth award at the Evergreen District Bar- maintenance supervisor at St. Bene- or rsthompsonQgsu.edu jazz piano recitals in Khabarovsk and school and high school choirs. After Kiesler, director of orchestras and bershop Competition in Spokane, dict Lodge in McKenzie Bridge. He Vladivostok, Russia. the birth of their second daughter professor of conducting at the Uni- WA, in October. Gabe also sings bass retired in August and he and wife Kari Epstein (B.Mus. 1982) an- last April, she decided to take an ex- versity of Michigan. in Razorburn and baritone in Up- Linda Nelson Beach moved to nounced the release of her board- Karen Silbernagel-Danley [B.Mus. tended two-year leave. Liesl belongs swing, two competitive barbershop Springfield. Linda works for the game, Hotflash! (The Menopause 1990) teaches band at Riverglen Jun- to an acoustic singing duo called Michael Webb [B.S. 1996) attended quartets. Razorburn was one of two : Forest Service as a cartographer. Game). She describes the game as ior High in Boise, Idaho. The Good Dog that performs original grad school at Portland State and re- featured quartets on the Cascade fun, irreverent, educational, and de- Riverglen Jazz Band earned the children's songs about nature. She ceived his Oregon Teaching Certifi- Chorus's annual show in Eugene last John Ferguson [B.Mus. 1966) has re- signed as a way for women going Judge's Choice award and first and and her singing partner released cate in the summer of 2002. He also fall. tired from being an elementary band through this life transition to laugh second place the past two years at their first CD [April '02) called Tunes is honting a new local Portland and vocal music teacher for the at themselves, and not go through it the Gene Harris Jazz Festival. Karen From the Tides. For more informa- power trio called 3 Second Rule, Matthew Turner (B.Mus. 1997) com- Roseburg public schools. alone. For more information, go to was chosen to represent Idaho in "50 tion, ordering and listening samples, with which he plays guitar and posed two new works in 2003: Tri- www.hotflashgame.com, or e-mail Directors Who Make a Difference," log onto gooddogmusic.com, Liesl swaps lead vocal duties. The band umphant Overture for concert band Jill Mary Hodgen Storie [B.Mus. Epstein at emailQhoflashgame.com. awarded by School Band and Or- , has been active in Alaska Music Edu- plans to perform locally and region- was given a reading by the Oregon 1973) reports that her son, John, is She continues to teach cello and chestra magazine. Karen earned her cators, writing arts advocacy articles ally, with shows in Eugene currently Band Directors' Association and was a sophomore at USC where he is a freelance as a cellist in the Denver master's degree in music education for the journal. She has been singing in the works. performed by the Columbia Gorge studio jazz guitar major and has re- area. and conducting from the University with the Alaska Chamber Singers Wind Ensemble; Mass for a Friend ceived three ownb beat awards in the of Colorado-Boulder in 1998. In since 1998 and just started an a Gabe Caretto [M.Mus. 1997) was the was performed by the Cascade Sing- past two years: John Weddle [B.M. 1971; M.M. 1976; 2000, she married Greg Danley and cappella quartet called Magnetic vocal music director at Meridian ers in The Dalles, OR, and the West- D.M.A. 1989) is the music education this year they were elated by the North. During the summers of '97 High School from 1993-2000. After minster Chapel Choir in Bellevue, Bertil van Boer [M.A. 1978) has pro- coordinator at California State Uni- birth of their first child, Kalena and '98 she attended the University leaving teaching, he changed careers WA. Turner is a K-8 music teacher at duced a CD for Naxos titled Com- versity in Turlock, CA. He also is the Grace. Karen and Greg own the busi- of Southern Mississippi, earning a and is now an accountant at CSHQA Thomas Academy in Auburn, WA. 4 plete Piano Works of Joseph Martin chamber music coordinator, con- ness Pics to Pixels, where they incor- master's in music education. Liesl re- Architects in Boise. He completed Kraus. He is also involved in a ducts the Symphony Band, teaches porate pictures, music, and video ports that Anchorage and the outly- project with the Stuttgart Opera to music education courses, and over- into a digital scrapbook on CD-ROM ing areas are in need of music teach- produce Kraus's Aeneas in Carthage sees the credential program. Weddle for schools, reunions, weddings, and ers-especially choir directors-and during the 2005-2006 season. assumed the position in 2002 and businesses. encourages UO music education stu- HAVE WE HEARD FROM YOU LATELY? also played a clarinet recital in New dents to consider Alaska when they .------11m------.I Robert Scott Thompson [B.Mus. York at Carnegie Hall that same sum- Ty Young [M.M. 1990) is active as a graduate. 2/04 UO School of Music & Dance Alumni I 19811, a composer and associate pro- mer. He continues to play in the cellist in a number of orchestras and I fessor of music at Georgia State Uni- Sunriver Music Festival each August. period-instrument groups in the Dal- Teun Fetz [B.Mus. 1995) completed WHAT'S UP? I versity, was awarded first prize in Olga Klobas Weddle [B.M. 1982, las, Texas, area. He has an often hec- his D.M.A. [percussion) in June 2003 NAME Class of 1 the Musica Nova International Com- M.M. 1987) teaches beginning and tic but rewarding lifestyle with wife from the University of Illinois at Ur- petition for Electroacoustic Music in junior high bands and elementary Laura Bartholomew Young [B.M. bana-Champaign. He currently main- Degree 1 Prague, Czech Republic, for his com- music in the Turlock School District. 1988) and seven-year-old daughter tains a private studio and does sub- Comments I position, The Ninth Wave. For this Their son Dylan, age 11, plays trum- Marin as a licensed foster family. Be- stitute teaching for the Libertyville, I year's competition, 126 pieces from pet, and daughter Lindsay, age 15, sides volunteering as a tutor within IL School District. His duties include 29 countries were considered. Prizes plays clarinet. the Richardson Independent School private lessons and directing the were awarded in two main catego- District and serving as Children's percussion ensemble for the high ries: for autonomous electroacoustic Matt Cooper [B.M., 1984) was pro- Choir Director at First Christian school. He also is percussionist with - music, and for compositions com- moted to full professor at Eastern Or- Church of Plano, Laura has an active the Illinois Symphony Orchestra in I bining electroacoustic media with egon University, where he teaches schedule as flutist in the Richardson Springfield, IL. My current address: [please print) This is a change of address I acoustic instruments and/or voices. piano, jazz studies, and theory. Four Community Band. Address I Because the piece combines com- students in his college jazz ensemble Kelly Kuo [B.A. 1996) made his Pasa- City State Zip 1 puter-generated sounds and live Liesl Davenport Wheeler [B.Mus. dena conducting debut last October, Phone [day) [eve) 1 cello music, Thompson's piece won 1991) and her husband Dennis [UO leading a program of operatic arias I in the latter category. "I'm really 1991) have been in Alaska for the and duets with mezzo-soprano -1 have more news to share! Call me for a more complete update. honored to be recognized by the past nine years. They currently live Mileua Kitic and tenor Allan Glass- 1 Musica Nova," said Thompson. "Pre- in Anchorage with their two daugh- man. He was assistant conductor for vious winners of this competition in- ters, Tabitha (3) and Riley Mae (1). a new production of Candide for the You may also send your alumni news to Ledger Lines via e-mail c/ editor clude some of the most important From 1993-98 they lived in Seward Festival Euro Mediterraneo at the Scott Barkhurst at [email protected] consultant in many countries. He yond music and the arts. She was the also the founder of Tylan & Assoc- more than twenty years. During his had a long and successful career, was plenary lecturer to the Japanese first president of the Rogue Valley iates Theater Production & Entertain- university years, Miller's greatest primarily as a beloved music teacher, Chemical Society in 1979 and a Hospital Auxiliary, and an early sup- ment Company. His interests includ- pride was in helping future music beginning with his first job at Tigard Marian Aird passed away at age 83. distinguished scholar designate with porter of hospice care. Frohnmayer ed gourmet cooking, collecting educators, professional band direc- High School, followed by 15 years as She was Dean Robert Trotter's secre- the US-China National Academies also threw legendary dinner parties, antiques, traveling, performing, and tors, and university professors get a a music teacher and track coach in tary and the graduate office secretary of Science Exchange in 1981. In said Patsy Smullin, president of Cali- fine arts. Memorial contributions healthy start in their careers. He Hawaii. Sievers and his family for Royce Saltzman for many years in 1988, he was elected to honorary fornia Oregon Broadcasting Inc. "She may be made to the University of modeled a gentle, caring leadership moved to The Dalles, where he the 1960s and 70s. She retired in membership in the Pharmaceutical was always entertaining, and enter- Oregon School of Music. approach, yet one in which musical taught all levels of school music, 1981. Professor Emeritus Hal Owen Society of Japan. The UO presented tained the way people did in the expectations were high. Miller had a was conductor of a community band, says Marian was "the music grad- Boekelheide the Charles E. Johnson past, when everything was home- Vondis Miller died last September in deeply caring spirit and joyous verve men's glee club, and Episcopal uate's Mother Teresa. We remember Memorial Award in 1991. He was made, and the dishes were beautiful, Tucson, Arizona, at age 68. Miller for life. He was living proof against church choir, owned and ran a music her for her patience and dedication; president of the Eugene Ballet board and the hostess played piano for you was born in Portland, devoted his the old adage that "you can't teach store (Sievers Music Box), and : we also remember her Norwegian Elk of directors hom 1988 to 1991. Mem- for a while," Smullin said. life to sharing the joys of making mu- an old dog new tricks2'- Miller managed a family wheat ranch in Hound and the warm hats she used orial contributions may be made to sic with young people. He believed made a point of learning a new trick Heppner. He concluded his career to make from the dog's shedding ev- the Virgil and Caroline Boekelheide Russell M. Harrison, a professor of that making music together is won- every day! In their "retirement," after eight years as a music teacher in ery year!" Endowment Fund at the UO or to the music education at San Jose State derful for both the minds and hearts Miller and his wife Linda developed the Sherwood School District. In Eugene Symphony. University from 1957 to 1981, died of students. He lived his beliefs until a large music program at Hohokam recent years Sievers was well known Virgil Boekelheide, a long-time sup- Oct. 24. He was 87. Harrison earned the last day of his life. After complet- Middle School, in Tucson, AZ. There as that "amazing old guy" in the porter of the arts, died September 24 MarAbel Frohnmayer, mother of his bachelor's degree from Western ing his bachelor's degree at the UO they worked with a unique blend of section of such groups as the of age-related causes. He was 84. He University of Oregon President Dave Michigan University in 1945, a (1957), he began two years of service Pascua Yaqui Tribe students and UO alumni band, A1 Kader Shrine graduated magna cum laude from Frohnmayer, died at her home in master's hom the University of as a commissioned officer with the students from Latino immigrant Band, Providence Hospital Stage Dakota Wesleyan University and Medford from complications of old Michigan in 1947 and his doctorate US. Army. Later, he returned to the families. On the day before he died, Band, Beaverton Community Band, earned a Ph.D. from the University of age. She was 94. Frohnmayer and her in music education hom the UO in UO for a master's (1961) and D.M.A. Miller was happily and busily help- Salvation Army Band, Mittleman Minnesota. Boekelheide taught late husband, Otto, a prominent at- 1954. He taught choral music at degree (1973). Miller taught band in ing and challenging his students. Jewish Community Orchestra, chemistry at the University of torney who died in 2000, were Eugene High School before joining Oregon public schools, taught Gresham Orchestra, and the High

Illinois, the University of Rochester, known for six decades of community the San Jose State faculty in 1957, sessionallv> at the Universitv of Society Dance Band. He was featured and the University of Oregon before service. A lifelong music lover, and retired as a full professor in Oregon, and toured Europe with on PBS's "Oregon Art Beat" as the retiring in 1984. He received a MarAbel Frohnmayer graduated from 1981. He was a charter member of several musical groups. He was initial trumpeter of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953, an the UO in 1930. She helped found the Music Educators National Con- named one of the Ten Out- Portland Youth Philhar- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1958, the Rogue Valley Symphony, and ference (MENC). After he retired, he standing Young Men of monic. Remembrances can a Fulbright Distinguished Professor was first president of the Rogue Val- played with the Symph- America by the Jaycees. In be made to the Aimee in 1972 and Alexander von Hum- ley Chorale. She also worked with ony of the Sierra and sang with the 1975, Miller began teaching Wood Memorial Scholar- boldt awards in 1974 and 1982. In nonprofit organizations such as the Columbia College Community at the University of Leth- - ship at Beaverton High 1962, Boekelheide was the first Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Chorus. Always a music promoter, bridge, in Alberta, Canada. School. Oregonian elected to the National Britt Music Festival, and the Rogue he organized and for five years He then joined the faculty at the Academy of Sciences. Boekelheide Valley Opera. "She was one of those directed the Sonora Hills Chorus, University of Calgary, where he was Silver Soarks died recentlv taught, lectured, and worked as a people who always wanted to do which is still active. Remembrances head of music education and director from a prolonged illness at the more for you are being made to the Dr. Russell of bands. He founded the University age of 67. She was well known to than you could Harrison Memorial Scholarship of Calgary's award-winning interna- Bill Sievers passed away September audiences and harpists in the Eugene do for her," Fund-a fund designed to further the tional Conducting Diploma Prog- 23 at age 95. Sievers was born in area for many years. She studied said Lynn music education of talented youth ramme. Miller was president of the Portland, and at age 12 he helped harp both privately and later as a Sjolund, direc- from Summerville High School Alberta Band Association and served recruit members for Portland's first student at the University of Oregon, tor of the entering the teaching profession, as a member of the board of directors youth symphony, which later where she.graduated in 1957. She Rogue Valley thus continuing Harrison's work. of the World Association of Sym- became the Portland Junior Symph- was a member of the Eugene Chapter Chorale. For phonic Bands and Ensembles. In ony. He was also the youngest of the AHS, was historian and served her lifetime of Arnold Laferty of Eugene died Oct. 1989, Miller became the dean of the member of the pit orchestra at the several times as president of the service to mu- 19 at the age of 72. Laferty was born School of Fine Arts at the University Broadway and Hollywood Theaters chapter. She was a member of the sic and the in 1931 and married Jean Millhollen of Lethbridge and president of the before "talkies" were around. During Eugene Symphony in its early years, arts, MarAbel Hemphill in 1968. He served in the World Association of Symphonic the Depression he financed his playing second harp with her teacher was given the Navy from 1950 until 1952, and Bands and Ensembles. As a dean, college education at the University of and mentor, Doris Calkins. Sparks School of received a master's degree in music Miller not only was responsible for Oregon by singing and playing gigs left a wonderful legacy in the gift of Music's Distin- from the University of Oregon in one of Canada's major art collections, with several dance bands. While in her Lyon & Healy gold harp to UO guished Alum- 1967. Laferty was a lifetime resident he helped the School of Fine Arts college he performed exhibition School of Music; the harp will be na Award in of the Eugene area and worked as a dramatically increase its size and fi- diving at Jantzen Beach, and was a featured in recitals at Beall Hall The Boekelheide Endowment brought dancers Pamela Geber 1993. But her music instructor, director, and per- nancial stability. He was on the Northwest diving cha&@ion from during the year. + andEric Handman (right) to campus fall term. With them are interests former in various churches, schools, board of directors for the Western In- 1930 to 1935 while competing for the Trish and Keith McGillivary (leftl and Caroline Boekelheide. stretched be- and community productions. He was ternational Band Conference for Multnomah Athletic Club. 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