EASTMAN NOTES

A BIANNUAL PUBLICATION FOR ALUMNI OF THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC FALL/WINTER 2002

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t’s good to be back! And what kind of alumni magazine I started as Eastman’s director of does an alumnus want to produce? Sim- publications on July 15, 2002, and ply reporting the year’s events at a school the welcome I have received from the that offers so much to its students, to the faculty and staff has been hearten- community, and to the musical world, is a Iing and exciting. I am an Eastman alum complicated but fascinating task. I like to myself – an MA in musicology – but my think of Eastman Notes as a news maga- association with this wonderful school zine about the School and its people, with began long before my graduation in the a balance of news about Eastman in the Class of 1987. past, Eastman in the present, and most My fi fth-grade class spent most of important, Eastman in the future. a year (1966–67) watching and hear- Eastman has a remarkable 80-year ing a series of TV concerts, each with history, so it’s easy and fun to research music from a different country, in which events from the School’s past; the prob- Eastman musicians (and the gravelly lem is choosing only one per issue. In this voice of the narrator and sometime con- issue, we recall the Philharmonia’s 1962 ductor, the recently retired Eastman tour of Europe, the Middle East, and Rus- Director Howard Hanson) were featured. sia – an event many Eastman alumni In seventh grade, I was a member of remember vividly, and a remarkable the Eastman Children’s Chorus, and musical and diplomatic achievement at took part in the fi rst performances of the height of the Cold War. Alec Wilder’s Children’s Plea for Peace, Eastman in the present is actually most directed by Milford Fargo. (I know I was of the magazine, with features on many introduced to the composer, but I’m afraid different events of the past year, short all I remember is a gray-haired man in profi les of new faculty members, and the tweeds with a pipe.) customary alumni and faculty news. My own interest in music started at Eastman’s future is also addressed in around the same time, and I listened to this issue with a new regular column on many of the Mercury LPs of American the exciting plans of the still-new Insti- music by Hanson and the Eastman- tute for Music Leadership, and in James

KURT BROWNELL Rochester Orchestra, and by Frederick Undercofl er’s 2002 Convocation Address, Fennell and the Eastman Wind Ensem- on the problem of “curriculum infl ation.” ble. Most of them, happily, are now on This is an introduction, to me, and an CDs; I listen to them on headphones in invitation, to you. You have been great my offi ce instead of stretched out in front about sending Notes updates on your of the living room stereo. lives and careers, but I invite all Eastman Then, after several years of writing alumni and faculty to send us story ideas, about music, I became, after two very busy letters in response to stories and reminis- years (1985–87), an actual Eastman alum- cences. We’d like anything that enhances nus. I continued newspaper writing about the value of the Eastman experience: music for many years. And now, here I am, a complicated, fascinating experience, one of the people offi cially entrusted with which, in my experience, reverberates spreading the word about Eastman. through the years. ❧

David Raymond, editor

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Published twice a year by the Offi ce of Communications, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY 14604 (585) 274-1040 E-mail: [email protected] FEATURES DEPARTMENT NEWS 2 ‘The miracle of immersion’ 21 Music Education Director and Dean James Undercofl er MENC wins for education projects addresses a growing concern at David Raymond Eastman – with advice from an 23 Keyboard/Organ Editor illustrious predecessor 25 Keyboard/Piano Christina Zikos 3 “… and he kept the box” 26 Theory Contributing writer Jazz bassist and Eastman alum Ron Carter receives the Hutchison Medal 28 Humanities Sara Shumway 5 Britten, bel canto, & Broadway 29 Strings/Viola Widya Widjaja Opera is changing, and Eastman Student interns 30 Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media students are ready for the transformation 31 Community Education Division Kurt Brownell Jay Capers 8 “Drip-dry diplomats” 32 Institute for Music Leadership Gelfand-Piper Photography In 1962, the Eastman Philharmonia Elizabeth Lamark temporarily warmed up the Cold War Amy Vetter 11 Alumni Weekend 2002 IN TRIBUTE Contributing photographers Eastman grads tour the past and 33 William Warfi eld: A great American visit the future Amy Vetter baritone leaves legacy to Eastman Photography editor In memoriam Steve Boerner SCHOOL NEWS 34 Merritt Torrey, Jr.: “Junior” put Graphic design Eastman on stage for 40 years 14 Eastman welcomes new faculty Susan Robertson Gamelan delights the senses through Associate Director for Communications music, dance, and word NOTES 15 Cooke, Wolf named to Eastman Board 35 Alumni notes of Managers 37 Lost and found: A Chambers The fall 2002 entering class cornet work 16 Young Artists Piano Competition 39 Teacher’s aid fl ourishes 40 Virtual virtuosity 17 Summer Session highlighted by a visit from the Canadian Brass 43 Faculty notes On the cover Alarm still sounding: Eastman grads Killmer and crew celebrate 20 years explore new music together at Eastman Last year, Eastman’s opera students took the stage in everything from a Broadway 18 Eastman Horn Choir travels to Finland 44 Student notes musical to La Bohème (pictured). 19 New instrument strikes a golden Clarifi cations & additions Story, page 5. (harpsi)chord PHOTO BY GELFAND-PIPER PHOTOGRAPHY 20 A month of Marian (McPartland)

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her gifts to a purpose, within his or her larger and local communities – artistry, scholarship, leadership. Finding and establishing a balance ‘The miracle among these three domains is central to our work. We’re out of balance now. Not only do our students not have enough time to practice, we faculty and administration have little of immersion’ time to think, practice, and perform. The development of artistry requires the creation and maintenance of an Director and Dean James Undercofl er environment that permits and encour- ages immersion. Artistry requires space addresses a growing concern at Eastman – and time in which to grow. It requires an immersion in artistic activities and with advice from an illustrious predecessor thought. I believe it is this lack of time for immersion that drives our discomfort with the current curriculum. Hanson shed some light on this in 1954. BY JAMES UNDERCOFLER He reasoned that curriculum infl ation was hat can we do about curriculum infl ation? caused by the rapidly increasing body of knowledge in music. Remember that this Consistent themes regarding a shadow, or was 1954. Imagine how this situation has unstated, curriculum and the problem of our stu- been compounded since then. Interest- ingly, he also cited Americans’ belief that dents not having enough time to practice have education can solve all of society’s needs dominated our concerns as faculty, administra- and ills. He was specifi cally referring to a number of new courses that were added Wtion, and students over the past several years. We are experiencing and required in the aftermath of the wars the results of curriculum infl ation – the process of continuously (Second World War and the Korean Con- fl ict). Certainly, from my past in public adding more content, more skills development, and more experien- education, curriculum infl ation created by tial learning to our degree programs and to our everyday lives. the addition of courses to address society’s perceived needs was commonplace. We Our problem is real, but not new. How- will need to examine our own curriculum ard Hanson, Eastman School of Music CONVOCATION 2002 to see where we have reacted in a simi- director from 1924–1964, spoke eloquently lar manner. Hanson becomes brilliant, about curriculum infl ation in 1954 at a questions. Is not the freedom to choose at however, in describing the need for the conference of school vocal and instru- the very core of the practice of the arts? artist to become fully immersed in artis- mental teachers. I will refer to Hanson’s The problems associated with curriculum tic endeavors and scholarly pursuit. He thoughts in depth, later in this talk. infl ation have expanded as a result of the declares curriculum infl ation the enemy of Today I hope to shine some additional choices we have made about how the curric- immersion and artistic enrichment. critical light on the problem of curriculum ulum is organized and taught. In fact, little As we tackle the problem of curriculum infl ation and suggest some vantage points thought has been given to instructional infl ation, I ask that we keep the educa- from which to analyze and understand it. organization. Once content is decided, how tion of the young artist central in our I will also suggest some strategies on how it is scheduled within the day and week is minds, that we embrace the need for the to tackle it. given relatively little attention. young artist to become truly immersed The sheer volume of what we all believe Our diffi cult challenge is to work in many aspects of his or her art form. needs to be taught overburdens our system. toward determining both what is taught To accomplish this we will need to ques- Unfortunately, because curriculum infl a- and how it is taught. In addressing both tion not only what we teach, in both tion happens gradually, we have not been of these areas simultaneously, I believe performance and academic domains, but equipped to view our many well-intentioned we can create an even better curriculum. also how we teach it. In order to be truly curriculum additions globally. When we do What do we want to accomplish in this successful, we will need to be willing to recognize that some tough decisions need to process? rethink and reorganize everything we do. be made, we have almost no experience or The mission of the School is clear: that Permit me a quick anecdote to illus- tradition on which to draw. of combining the fi nest performance pro- trate the magnitude of this challenge. Furthermore, the question of who chooses gram with excellent academics and the All research to date suggests that ado- what is taught presents all sorts of ethical challenge to each student to apply his or lescents do not function well early in

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the morning, that to structure a day for Maazel conducts the New York Philhar- maximum educational success, one would monic in Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony! start it mid-morning. However, high Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Los schools in this country continue to begin Angeles Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s their days somewhere between 7 and 8 Fifth Symphony! Christoph Eschenbach a.m. Many of the historical reasons for an conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in early start, such as the need to perform Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony!” Griffi ths farm labor after school, have changed. writes an insightful article that moves And a number of efforts have been made from the occurrence of sameness to the by school boards and state legislatures lack of imagination in programming. As to change daily scheduling. All appear to he says, “What makes our orchestras’ have failed. schedules look so repetitive is not only Why? Aversion to change. that they repeat one another but also that Let’s not even begin a curriculum they keep repeating a few well-tried for- review if we are not willing to truly mulas, right through their programming.”

explore all possibilities and know that To be sure, the cause of sameness is mul- TAKEHIKO TOKIWA change will affect each of us, that it is tidimensional. Music schools and conserva- Ron Carter inevitable. We cannot change everything tories are one of these dimensions. I worry outside our own studio or classroom, but that in our noble efforts to fully prepare continue with “business as usual.” our students, we, the music schools and “… and he kept conservatories, have structured elegant, but oh, so similar curricula; and, that this the box” sameness contributes in large part to the Jazz bassist Ron Carter, ’59, was awarded pervasive sameness that Griffi ths laments. the Hutchison Medal at an Eastman We at Eastman We at Eastman have the opportunity School ceremony on May 19, 2002, and to take on a challenge that will serve as a gave the following acceptance speech. have the opportu- beacon and demonstrate its benefi ts deep into the fabric of the music world. We can imagine somewhere in your program nity to take on a continue our great tradition of leadership or on a bulletin board or in a library within our art form. book you will fi nd a list of recipients challenge that will Let me close by quoting Hanson in his of this award before me … When my talk from 1954. I name is read, what will be some of the … demonstrate its “Perhaps some day we shall cease try- thoughts that go with it? ing to make stalks of corn from seeds The most recorded jazz bassist of the benefi ts deep into of wheat. Perhaps some day we shall century, or the person who gave private les- cease trying to grow apple trees from sons to literally hundreds of bassists for the the fabric of the rose bushes. Perhaps some day we shall past 40 years? A distinguished professor of be less sure that we know ’what is good music emeritus at the City College of New music world. for them’ and devise an educational York, or a father who would come home plan whereby at least our most talented from a nightclub performance at 3 a.m. and I know we can succeed in our efforts youngsters can develop freely and fully proceed to play with his kids, much to his to recraft a curriculum that provides our on the basis of the fulfi llment of the tal- wife’s chagrin? One of the bassists who students with essential knowledge and ents with which the Lord in His wisdom helped move the bass to a new level, or a tools, allows them to grow liberally as has provided them. This will be a happy lover of cactus and sports cars? Someone artists, and provides them some choice day for education, a day when we will no who was truly a student of Music with a in exploring their interests. I believe the longer educate by pounding in, but rather capital “M” or one of eight children raised process will include a combination of by leading out, drawing out each student by two loving and concerned parents? A reducing volume, shedding and adding as an individual to the fullest develop- tall, handsome, and elegant African Ameri- content, and reorganizing how we teach, ment of his inherent powers. In that day can male, or a tall, handsome, and elegant learn, create, and perform. we shall probably not know as much but African American male? I have been worried since before I we will know it better; our knowledge I’d like to have my son come forward came to Eastman about an epidemic of may not be broader but it will be deeper at this moment and deliver this medal for sameness in our art form. This sameness and richer. We will have been cleansed of me [to my mother in the audience]. By has infected music from programming infl ation by the miracle of immersion.” ❧ my name on this list of recipients of this to sound to composition to pedagogy. award I’d like an asterisk with a note that It is potentially lethal, in that it runs Director Undercofl er’s 2002 Convocation should read: “He gave this medal to his counter to the creation and expression Address is available on the Eastman mom, and he kept the box.” of art itself. Paul Griffi ths recently wrote website: www.rochester.edu/Eastman/ about it in The New York Times: “Lorin html/recentnews/convoc_address.html.

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BY DAVID RAYMOND

ith their long operatic and academic résumés, “Is-it-a-musical-or-is-it-an-opera?” entry, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (1979), was Steven Daigle and Benton Hess aren’t exactly performed by the New York City Opera Broadway babies. But as the stage and musical shortly after its Broadway run, and premiered at the Chicago Lyric Opera directors of Eastman’s Opera Theatre, they are this fall, with Bryn Terfel as the Demon doing their best to create young professional Barber. (Eastman Opera has performed Street Scene and Candide, and it has singersW who are adept in all areas of musical theater. Because, as scheduled Sweeney Todd for fall 2003.) Hess puts it, “One thing you can guarantee, if you’re a singer, is that While not sung throughout (the text- book defi nition of an opera), all these you never know where you’ll end up.” works have minimal dialogue and Nowadays, that can be at the Met, on Broadway, or anywhere maximal, often diffi cult, music. And they require performers who are comfortable in between. In the past 25 years, opera with the demands of both. has steadily grown in popularity in Amer- ica. That’s good news for trained singers, f Eastman Opera Theatre has a phi- but, says Daigle, “It’s such a competitive losophy, it lies in offering students the market for singers now, that it’s best to greatest variety of operatic and musi- be trained without a specialty or a focus cal theater opportunities. Eastman’s in mind. We want our students to get the I2001–2002 season, Hess’s first as music preparation that will allow them to be director, began last fall with a splendid pro- successful.” duction of Conrad Susa’s Transformations. Daigle observes: “Most stage perform- This 1972 work marries a jazzy, dissonant Steven Daigle Benton Hess ers are now training in voice and opera. score to Anne Sexton’s sardonic retellings The day of the musical starring the actor Webber or Stephen Sondheim. On the of stories by the Brothers Grimm, as per- who’s a hit-or-miss singer is pretty much other hand, older American “Broadway formed – and transformed – by patients over.” Hess adds: “More and more, the operas” like Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, in a mental hospital. (Daigle remarks kinds of theater pieces being written now Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, and Leonard that Susa doesn’t call Transformations an require legitimate voices.” Bernstein’s Candide, fi rst presented in opera, but a “musical entertainment.”) Those theater pieces include such the 1940s and ’50s, defi nitely require Then came Sondheim’s Broadway musi- wildly popular fare as Les Misérables, and legitimate voices – and have now entered cal Passion; and last April, Puccini’s just about anything by Sir Andrew Lloyd the operatic repertory. A more recent TURN TO PAGE 6 ➧

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GELFAND-PIPER PHOTOGRAPHY Stephen Sondheim’s romantic musical Passion, presented in the Opera Studio in February, stretched voice students musically and dramatically.

➧ FROM PAGE 5 And the Opera Studio (Annex 804) is a While Passion doesn’t call for booming La Bohème – defi nitely an opera. But tiny “black box” theater, where Eastman high notes sustained over a Wagnerian whatever you want to call these three students have performed everything orchestra, Hess doesn’t hesitate to call it works, they are all musical theater, from a Noël Coward revue, to Xerxes an opera. “The musical requirements are requiring strong singing and acting. (the School’s fi rst production of a Handel not different,” he says. “The singers con- The variety that Eastman aims for in its opera), to Passion. centrate on other things. The sopranos in opera program is supported by the School’s our production would tell you that while variety of performance venues. “If our only ondheim’s tale of obsessive love, there aren’t many high notes, there sure available space was the Eastman Theatre, with a delicate, beautifully tai- are lots of low notes.” we would have to revisit what our pro- lored score, is hardly a typical “A show like Passion performed by gram was about,” Hess explains. “But we Broadway musical. In fact, typical classically trained voices – you’d expect it also have wonderful performing spaces in SBroadway musical audiences didn’t like it to stick out, or not to work very well,” says Kilbourn Hall and 804.” at all, and it had a brief run in 1994. Daigle. “But the style of the piece made it The 3,094-seat Eastman Theatre is the But like some of its “Broadway opera” a very comfortable fi t for us.” opera program’s “main stage,” used for predecessors, Passion has had a healthy Developing every part of these voices- large-scale productions of standard reper- afterlife in opera houses and workshops. in-training is a good idea, says Hess: “Stu- tory operas accompanied by the Philhar- With its demanding music and outsized dents work on extending their upper and monia, like Falstaff, Così fan tutte, and emotions, perhaps this musical belonged lower voices all the time in their teachers’ La Bohème. there all the time. Sondheim himself studios; in this piece, they use the part of Kilbourn Hall, at 455 seats, is ideal for remarked, “Passion is not an opera because the voice on which the whole voice ought a wide variety of smaller-scale operas: there is so much dialogue. But it is an to be based, the part of the voice that’s Le Nozze di Figaro; Gilbert & Sullivan’s opera in its attitude towards people. If it natural for conversation.” Patience, which had a sold-out run in the were all sung and done at the Metropolitan He adds, “No matter what Passion is fall of 1999; or demanding, occasionally Opera House, nobody would laugh because called, it requires singers with a good, solid, disturbing, modern chamber operas like [Fosca, the love-obsessed leading charac- technical background, as does so much of Transformations and Britten’s Turn of ter] behaves the way Salome behaves and Sondheim’s work. You couldn’t get through the Screw. Elektra behaves, and you accept it.” a week of, say, Sweeney Todd without it.”

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Eastman Opera will produce another astman’s opera students have “I recommend a semester in directing musical, She Loves Me, in February 2003. ample opportunity to develop class to any singer,” he says. “When you This romantic show by Jerry Bock and their acting chops, not only in learn to think like a director, you see the Sheldon Harnick (who wrote Fiorello! the class sequence “Introduction opera both musically and dramatically, and Fiddler on the Roof), a modest Broad- toE the Lyric Theatre,” but also in a class and explore the characters’ motivations way success in 1963, went on to become devoted to practicing dialogue scenes and characterizations. a favorite cult musical, more admired from famous plays. Since Daigle’s arrival, “Learning to direct also affects the than performed; it was briefl y revived on Eastman now offers a sequence of classes practical side of a performer. It gives you Broadway in 1993. in opera directing as well. the opportunity to get inside the mind of a While She Loves Me is lighter, more “It gives students a chance to dive into director, thinking ’What is he looking for?’ of an operetta, than Passion, it still has another area,” Daigle explains. “There are And as a singer, I am also sympathetic plenty of music – nearly 30 separate very few jobs like mine, working simply about not asking singers to do things numbers. Harnick’s clever lyrics require as an opera director and teacher in a uni- that would harm their voices.” He adds, performers whose articulation allows the versity. Most students will get jobs that “I also enjoy the prep time and seeing audience to understand every word. involve performing, voice teaching, and the different aspects of the production “She Loves Me is another musical directing a college opera workshop.” being put together – the sets, the lighting, that ideally requires classically trained Daigle also employs Eastman students the costumes.” voices,” says Daigle. “I think that is why at the College of Wooster’s Ohio Light He was originally a composition stu- it wasn’t very successful originally, and Opera, where he was named artistic dent: “I see a lot of the same principles wasn’t performed much until recently. We’re moving into an age when classically trained voices are more the norm in musi- cal theater, and more performers can do justice to the music.” And in true Eastman Opera tradition, She Loves Me was balanced this fall by a classic Italian opera, Rossini’s Turk in Italy (sung in English), and in spring 2003 will be complemented by Benjamin Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (fi rst performed in 1960, making it an infant by operatic standards). Each has stringent musical demands, from Rossini’s bel canto lines and ornaments to Britten’s pointed musical characterizations. “Every show is a learning experi- ence,” says baritone J.J. Hudson, a DMA candidate and student of Carol Webber. “Transformations was my fi rst venture into modern opera. It was a very choreo- GELFAND-PIPER PHOTOGRAPHY graphed production, but Steve had a very “I grew a lot as an actor,” says J.J. Hudson (far left) of his role as #8 in Conrad Susa’s Transformations, strong concept for the show, and his stag- presented last fall in Kilbourn Hall. ing was so bound to the musical score, that we all kind of got it.” The most chal- director in 1999. The summer company’s at work in both: concern with tension, lenging part wasn’t learning the music, repertory includes 19th and 20th century release, textures.” he says, but “having to remain onstage operettas from all over the world, as well and in character through the entire as Broadway musicals like Brigadoon and imply listing this season’s and opera. I grew a lot as an actor.” Camelot, and provides valuable profes- last season’s productions presents Shows like Transformations, Passion sional stage experience for singers begin- the Eastman Opera’s philosophy (in which Hudson played the male lead, ning their careers. in a nutshell. Says Hess of each Georgio), and La Bohème (in which he Hudson is pursuing a doctoral minor Sseason as a whole: “Our students can be played Colline) are very different musi- in directing. He began by directing indi- well-versed in all styles, which is in their cally, but “Preparation for roles is really vidual opera workshop scenes assigned best interests. The voice faculty is a real- the same in all productions,” he says. “We by Daigle, who then asked him to come istic crowd. And this is right in line with focus in on the music and the text. We up with ideas for staging nine standard their philosophy of giving students what get such strong musical coaching from operas from Don Pasquale to Wozzeck; is best for them.” Benton, and so much time and energy is this spring, Hudson will direct an Daigle sums it up simply: “We train invested, that we’re liberated by the time entire workshop scenes program in the them to do what they know they want to we work with Steve.” Opera Studio. do – to perform on a stage.” ❧

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COURTESY SIBLEY MUSIC LIBRARY ARCHIVE “An opportunity beyond the most vivid dreams.” The Philharmonia, headed by Howard Hanson and Frederick Fennell, lands in Madrid in November 1961. ‘Drip-dry diplomats’ In 1962, the Eastman Philharmonia temporarily warmed up the Cold War

BY DAVID RAYMOND

orty years ago, the Cold War was at its chilliest, and Against this forbidding backdrop of current events, there was a bright spot: the Mideast wasn’t much warmer. In the early 1960s, the U.S. Government’s program of Inter- the world was battered by the Bay of Pigs invasion, the national Cultural Exchanges, begun in the 1950s under President Eisenhower building of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and continued by President Kennedy. the Algerian and Cyprian revolutions, and the over- Van Cliburn’s Gold Medal at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow set throwF of Nikita Khrushchev. the stage for America to send many of its In such an unsettled atmosphere, many Americans saw no reason best classical and jazz musicians, danc- ers, and singers to the USSR – and vice to turn their bomb shelters back into rec rooms, and could be for- versa. Americans saw Russian singers at given if they preferred to stay close to home. the Met and Russian folk dance troupes on the Ed Sullivan Show; Russians saw

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Benny Goodman, Leonard Bernstein, and shall be able to do some good through Syria and Egypt. In the ancient city of the New York Philharmonic. our efforts.” Aleppo, Syria (“We noticed a good number In one of the most remarkable of these of posters on the orchestra advertising cultural exchanges, the Soviet Union – he numbers alone are impres- that this is the fi rst concert to be given along with much of Europe and the Mid- sive: a tour covering 30,000 here in 5,000 years,” wrote Rodean. “I east – got to see 87 of America’s brightest miles, with 40 concerts in 34 believe it!”), a bomb went off outside the young musicians. cities in 16 countries, per- hall during the concert. At the Cairo The Eastman Philharmonia, conducted formedT by an orchestra of 87 (51 men, 36 Airport, Hanson confronted airport offi - by Howard Hanson and Frederick Fen- women), with an entourage of 11. They all cials who refused to allow two French nell, undertook an arduous four-month arrived at their fi rst destination, Lisbon, members of the entourage to enter Egypt, tour of Europe, the Mideast, and the on November 25, and then proceeded saying that if they couldn’t, the entire Soviet Union in 1961–62, and brought through Spain, Switzerland, France, orchestra would leave. (Hanson won.) it off with fl ying colors. It wasn’t exactly Belgium, Germany, Sweden, and Greece. As might be expected, the most inter- unprecedented, because the Eastman Many European critics, whose idea of an esting student observations were of life String Quartet toured for the State American cultural export was Coca-Cola, behind the Iron Curtain. Violinist Rich- Department in 1960. Much later, in the were astounded by the Philharmonia’s ard Kilmer (BM ’61, MM ’64), the Phil- ’80s and ’90s, the Philharmonia and the youthful virtuosity. harmonia’s concertmaster, wrote many Wind Ensemble made impressive Ameri- This was true even when the lights of his thoughts down in his Recollections can and international tours. But the went off during a performance, as they of the 1962 Tour of Poland and the Soviet ambitious 1961–62 tour by Eastman’s “drip-dry diplomats” (Fennell’s phrase) is still unique in the School’s history.

ounded in 1958, the Philharmo- nia had performed throughout New York State before it was invited to play at the Second Inter-AmericanF Festival of Music in Washington, D.C., in April 1961. That summer, the State Department requested a western European tour: France, Ger- many, Scandinavia, and Italy. That itiner- ary changed dramatically to include the Mideast, Poland, and the Soviet Union. After announcing the tour, conductor and orchestra spent most of a semester rehearsing. In the spirit of cultural exchange, the programs included works by Schubert, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky, as well as such American composers as Piston, Barber, Hovhaness, COURTESY SIBLEY MUSIC LIBRARY ARCHIVE and Schuman – and, perhaps inevitably, The Philharmonia performing in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall in January 1962, one of many history- Hanson’s own “Romantic” Symphony. laden stops on the tour. By late November, with music rehearsed, visas procured, shots admin- did in Madrid during Stravinsky’s Fire- Union, a paper he wrote for a University istered, and draft deferments approved bird Suite (the orchestra played from of Rochester class, History 206, Interna- (one of them at the very last minute), the memory); when part of the city had tional Relations, after his return. students were ready. On Thanksgiving been devastated by a fl ood, as in Seville In 1962, the country was celebrating its 1961, the night before the Philharmonia (concert proceeds were donated to fl ood 20th anniversary as the Polish Peoples’ was to leave Rochester, Richard Rodean victims); or when part of the audience Republic, but its memories of World War (BA ’62, MA ’64), a bassoonist in the had been involved in an anti-American II devastation were still fresh. After a few orchestra, began his journal of the trip: demonstration that morning, as in Brus- days in Krakow (“Little Rome”) and in “An opportunity such as this is … beyond sels (where students also sang along with Warsaw, the capital and largest city, he the most vivid dreams. I think most of Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever when noted “the people are very self-contained us feel a great deal of humbleness … I they recognized one of its themes as an from great fear … rarely talking, never think it’s worth noting that the medium off-color drinking song). smiling, and never laughing. When a of music is able to penetrate the barriers The Philharmonia spent a Merry group of us would go out in the evening that the forces in the material and physi- Christmas in the newly liberated country and would stop, laughing raucously at cal world have established. I pray that we of Cyprus, and a volatile New Year in TURN TO PAGE 10 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 9 of wonderful people that are sick with Hanson and the orchestra made a com- someone’s joke, the Poles were startled distortion and confi nement.” They were memorative recording for Mercury, Musi- and would look to see … who had made transported by the Philharmonia, who cal Diplomats USA, of eight short works this noise, (who) was so free and self- found that Russian audiences expected played on the tour – including Stars and assured.” lots of encores. Whatever the state Stripes Forever (some of these items have Polish orchestras used inferior, often thought, the people usually insisted that been re-released on CD). State-owned instruments, Kilmer noted, at least one of them be Sousa’s Stars and Hanson also refl ected on his and played with “the European concept of Stripes Forever, which they called for by experiences in an article for DAR sound,” with less volume than American yelling “Amerikansky March! Amerikan- Magazine, saying that he learned “the orchestras. “[They] play furiously (par- sky March!” In Lvov, they had to turn off importance of the arts – and in this ticularly in the strings) to produce a forte the house lights to get the audience to case, music – as a means of spiritual which is considerably strained … Lesser leave. (In Chernovtsy, one of the smaller communication … I found that, at least in orchestras play with an enthusiasm, cities on the tour, a few students showed Western civilization, music does indeed warmth, and sensitivity which seems their gratitude by making “a large Ameri- know no barriers.” to be a complete expression of the frank can-type snowman” in the university admissions of the players that they are so courtyard.) he 40 years since the Philharmo- thankful to be playing again.” The members of the orchestra were also nia’s tour have brought changes As for the Warsaw Conservatory on the receiving end of cultural exchange. to the world that few foresaw students, “These were the fi nest young Kilmer discovered that Russian LPs were – including the Eastman stu- Tdents who reported on their trip. “I’m not sure that all the love of Ameri- cans built up by all the cultural exchange programs will … sway their leaders who are sworn to destroy us in one way or another,” Kilmer (now principal second violinist of the Austin Symphony) con- cluded his paper. “As these people do not control their government but are controlled by it, their convictions may count for nil in the crucial moment. And as long as their life continues to improve materially I do not believe they will ever revolt against the Kremlin.” When Rodean – now a dean at Texas Women’s University – donated a copy of his 1962 tour journal to the Sibley Music Library, he appended a preface, written from a 1990 standpoint, recalling: “… a COURTESY SIBLEY MUSIC LIBRARY ARCHIVE time when political fence mending was This photo was printed in February 1962 in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle with the caption: assisted by cultural exchange events. “PHILHARMONIA IS COMING – Robert Sattler, concert manager of the Eastman Philharmonia on its The performing arts and their advocates 16-country tour, points to a poster (with picture) heralding orchestra’s engagement in Lvov, a city became the center of attention – a minor comparable in size to Rochester. Bystanders are attracted by poster and the smiling Amerikanski.” dent in the curtain of missiles, blockades, and rhetoric that dominated the stage of people I have ever met,” Kilmer wrote. available for one ruble (about $1.10 in world focus. It was into these parameters “They were more serious as students and 1962). They also attended opera, ballet, of guarded optimism that the Eastman people than anything we imagine in the and symphony presentations in all the Philharmonia orchestra, under the U.S. They were highly educated, eager Soviet cities they visited. “The quality of direction of Dr. Howard Hanson and Dr. and curious in many fi elds, and pretty these performances varied from accept- Frederick Fennell, set out to make a dif- talented musicians … They were particu- able to very, very good,” wrote Kilmer. “But ference.” larly eager to know about contemporary they were all done with unfailingly good But, he concluded, “Time has not been American composition and to have record- showmanship and in the grand manner.” kind to that optimism.” ings and scores of new works sent to them The world is an even more dangerous in return for same from Poland.” hen the well-traveled musi- and fragmented place now than it was 40 The Philharmonia saw a fair amount cians arrived back in Roch- years ago, so the Philharmonia’s 1961–62 of the Soviet Union – seven cities, enough ester in March 1962, they tour is an accomplishment that seems to lead Rodean to write in his February were treated as “return- even more impressive in retrospect than 4 journal entry, “I see here a country ingW heroes,” said Rodean in his journal. it did then. ❧

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KURT BROWNELL Guests of Alumni Weekend 2002 found the famous Eastman Theatre chandelier shining as brightly as ever. Alumni Weekend 2002 Alumni Weekend’s tour of the Eastman Theatre was called “Tour the past, visit the future”; that phrase applied to all the weekend’s events, as Eastman grads toured old haunts like the Theatre and the former Prince Street dormitories, enjoyed the current sights and sounds of Eastman, and got a hint of hopes for the future. Students from years past, includ- ing the legendary Mitch Miller, BM ’32, had the chance to meet, talk with, and even perform alongside the Eastman stu- dents of 2002. Here’s a photo album of some of the highlights of Alumni Weekend 2002, starting with the School’s most recogniz- KURT BROWNELL able symbol, that crystal chandelier. ❧ Eastman’s two newly appointed conductors put student ensembles through their paces on Friday afternoon: Neil Varon with the Philharmonia, and Mark Scatterday with the Wind Ensemble. Alumni MORE PHOTOS ON PAGES 12–13 ➧ watched, listened – and some even played along.

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Friday began with a kickoff reception (sponsored by Carl Fischer, LLC and the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music), continued with tours of the Eastman Theatre, and ended onstage with a dessert reception (sponsored by David Christa Construction, Inc. and Macon Chant- reuil, Jensen & Stark, Architects LLP). Direc- tor and Dean James Undercofl er presented proposed Eastman Theatre renovations, and a student combo fi lled the stage with jazz music.

KURT BROWNELL Saturday evening included an Eastman Virtuosi concert, with a splendid performance of a Weber Trio by fl ut- ist Bonita Boyd, cellist Steven Doane, and pianist Barry Snyder.

KURT BROWNELL ELIZABETH LAMARK On Saturday night, the legendary Mitch Miller – oboist, conductor, record producer, TV star, and Eastman graduate, BM ’32 – received the Alumni Achievement Award, and celebrated the 70th anniversary of his On Saturday afternoon, Eastman graduation alumni boarded a with an informal Q&A shuttle for 40 Prince session on the Street – the address Eastman Theatre of the former Eastman stage, hosted by dorms, now the Jim Undercofl er. Rochester City School District’s impressive School of the Arts. AMY VETTER

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Left: Alumni examine yearbooks and other memorabilia at Saturday night’s reception on Cominsky Promenade.

Right: A nostalgic landmark – a lion who formerly guarded the Prince Street dorm, now the School of the Arts.

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KURT BROWNELL Back on the Eastman stage: members of classes of ’51 and ’52 celebrated their 50th reunion at Alumni Weekend 2002.

Capturing memories old and new: during the tour of School of the Arts, an inquisitive alumnus photographs the photographer. AMY VETTER

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Eastman welcomes new faculty Eastman welcomes a par- ticularly large and notable group of new faculty to the School this year:

COURTESY CLAY GREENBERG Christopher Azzara Beautiful sound in Kilbourn Hall: Professor Ellen Koskoff (rear) joins Eastman gamelan students. Associate Professor of Music Education After completing graduate and Gamelan delights the senses doctoral studies at Eastman, Christopher Azzara (MM ’88, through music, dance, and word PhD ’92) spent the last decade as an associate professor of Rochester audiences experi- music education at The Hartt enced Indonesia last spring as School of Music, Dance and the School’s Balinese Gamelan Theatre of the University of Lila Muni (“Beautiful Sound”) Hartford. Azzara is a popular and Gamelan Kembang speaker in this country and Salju (“Flower in the Snow”) abroad. His research and presented a second annual publications have investigated evening of sacred, secular, the meaningful relationships modern, and traditional Indo- among listening, creating, nesian music and dance. improvising, reading, compos- The April Kilbourn Hall ing, and analyzing music in performance showcased a variety of general, vocal, Indonesian guest dancer Ni and instrumental settings. Luh Kadek Kusuma Dewi and At Eastman, his unique com- Visiting Associate Professor bination of abilities will be of Gamelan I Nyoman Suadin, utilized in teaching both music as well as nearly 40 Eastman COURTESY CLAY GREENBERG education and instrumental students, faculty, staff, and Indonesian dance from guest Ni Luh Kadek Kusuma Dewi. pedagogy. community members. Along with modern and traditional premiered in Rochester’s Web- Indonesian Revolution, by Kathryn Cowdrick dances by Kusuma Dewi and ster Park last fall. Margaret J. Katomi. The book, Assistant Professor of Voice Suadin, the ensembles pre- For those who wish to learn according to Eastman Profes- Since an Adler Fellowship sented the world premiere of more about gamelan and its sor Ellen Koskoff, president of with the San Francisco Opera a work by Daniel Iannantuono, role in politics, art, history, the Society of Ethnomusicol- launched her career, Kathryn winner of Eastman’s biannual music, and international rela- ogy, is a “wonderful and touch- Cowdrick has appeared with Barbara Smith Competition tions, a new book was recently ing story … that recounts the numerous opera companies for Gamelan Composition. published by the University of arrest and imprisonment of [a] throughout North America Rounding out the program Rochester Press: The Gamelan Central Javanese court musi- and Europe. Now, she joins were two gamelan excerpts Digul and the Prison Camp cian, his building of a prison TURN TO PAGE 15 ➧ from Professor of Composition Musician who Built It: An gamelan, and its eventual res- Robert Morris’ Playing Outside, Australian Link with the toration in Australia.” ❧

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Cooke, Wolf New faculty The fall 2002 entering class ➧ FROM PAGE 14 named Here is a snapshot of this year's entering class at the Eastman School of Music. Altogether, a total of 269 students – representing to Eastman 20 countries and 34 states – were admitted out of 1675 applicants. Board of Enrollment Demographics Managers Applicants Enrolled Female Male UNDERGRADUATE UNDERGRADUATE Two new members have been elected to Eastman’s Board of 974 74 66 Managers, bringing the total Eastman as an assistant pro- membership to 19. Each new fessor of voice. Cowdrick’s 140 board member will serve a approach to singing comes

three-year term to end in 2005. GRADUATE GRADUATE from a unique educational Well-known entertainment and professional background reporter Jeanne Wolf is editor- 701 75 54 as a speech therapist and at-large for Redbook magazine; deaf educator, with degrees a contributing editor for TV from Columbia University and Guide; West Coast editor for 129 Pennsylvania State Univer- YM, a publication for teenage sity. She has taught privately readers; and host of a daily Countries of origin and has worked with many radio show, Jeanne Wolf’s Hol- UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE young artists in master lywood. Creator of the “Inside 124 United States 90 United States 1 Spain classes, specializing in voice Entertainment Report” for the 3 Singapore 15 Korea (North and 1 Peoples’ Republic disorders and care of the popular television series Enter- 3 Canada South) of China professional voice. 3 Korea (North and 5 Taiwan Republic of 1 Netherlands tainment Tonight, Wolf makes South) China 1 Italy frequent appearances on the 2 South Africa 5 Canada 1 Cyprus show as a celebrity reporter, 2 Peoples’ Republic 3 Hong Kong 1 Croatia as well as on other news and of China 2 Japan 1 Bulgaria 1 Mexico 1 United Kingdom 1 Austria entertainment shows including 1 Japan The O’Reilly Factor, The View, 1 Australia Access Hollywood, and Court Statistics provided by Phyllis Wade, Acting Director of Admissions TV, and on networks CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and CBS. Wolf is president of her own company, Pentacom Produc- University of Miami for Univer- York State boards of the Martin William Dobbins tions, which has produced sity President Donna Shalala. Luther King Commission, the Professor of Jazz Studies a wide variety of programs Pinny Cooke, who holds a Rochester Jewish Home, and and Contemporary Media ranging from PBS fi lms to TV master’s degree in social work the Boys and Girls Club advi- A versatile and acclaimed Guide Celebrity Dish for the from Ohio State University, sory board, among many others. conductor, composer, Food Network. Some of the has been an advocate both in At East House, a mental health arranger, performer, and edu- award-winning fi lms produced Rochester and for Rochester for agency in Rochester, NY, the cator, Bill Dobbins returns by Wolf and broadcast nation- many years. Her professional Pinny Cooke House offers resi- to the Eastman faculty as ally on the Public Broadcast- experience includes 10 years dential treatment for women professor of jazz studies and ing System (PBS) include That as director of social services for addicted to alcohol and drugs. contemporary media; he also Weird Classical Stuff and the Al Sigl Center, an agency Cooke has been honored will direct the award-win- What’s An Orchestra All About, that offers services to people numerous times, receiving ning Eastman Jazz Ensemble programs designed to interest with disabilities and their fam- recognition from the Roches- and the Eastman Studio children in classical music; and ilies. In addition, Cooke served ter Area Multiple Sclerosis Orchestra. Dobbins originally the fi rst-ever television special for 12 years as a New York Society, National Council on served on the faculty from on composer Charles Ives. State Assembly member. Alcoholism, DePaul Mental 1973–1994, designing (with One of three national hon- Her civic experience is vast, Health, the Indian Commu- Rayburn Wright) the School’s orees selected for the Women including board memberships nity, United Cerebral Palsy, master’s program in jazz of Leadership Award by Pine at the Rochester Philharmonic the Association for Retarded studies and chairing the jazz Manor College, Wolf serves on Orchestra, the Health Associa- Citizens, and the Medical Soci- TURN TO PAGE 16 ➧ the President’s Council of the tion, the Rochester and New ety of Rochester. ❧

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New faculty ➧ FROM PAGE 15 department from 1989 until accepting a position at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany. There, he was principal director of Cologne’s 18-member WDR Big Band, one of the world’s premier jazz ensembles.

Mikhail Kopelman Professor of Violin KURT BROWNELL Doug Humpherys, co-chair of the piano department and competition director, with the 2002 Young Artists Mikhail Kopelman has International Piano Competition winners (left to right): Hong Xu (second prize), Yoonjung Han (third prize), and Igor performed throughout Lovchinsky (fi rst prize). Hong Xu entered Eastman as a freshman this fall. the world as fi rst violinist with both the Tokyo String Quartet (1996–2002) and Young Artists Piano Competition fl ourishes the Borodin String Quartet (1976–1996). During those 26 Eastman’s Young Artists adjudicator. “But it became there is no elimination until years, Kopelman maintained International Piano Com- clear that including a competi- the fi nal rounds: all entrants a busy teaching schedule petition began modestly, tion was the way to attract the get to play two solo recital with professorships at Yale but it has developed into a highest-level talent.” It worked: programs before the fi nalists University (1996–2002) and at competition that “really is “The level of playing is off the are chosen. the Moscow Conservatory international,” in the words of charts now.” The competition has become (1980–1993), where he taught its director, Professor Doug- There are 600 piano com- an important Eastman recruit- violin and coached chamber las Humpherys. “Everything petitions every year in the ment tool; this year 60% of the music. Prior to joining the about it has grown, from the United States alone. If a new incoming freshman piano class string quartets, Kopelman numbers of students to its one is to fl ourish, it needs to had participated in the fes- was a member of the Bolshoi worldwide reputation. In offer something distinctive. tival. While the competition Theatre Orchestra, was con- recent years we have hosted “There’s been a subtle shift in has attracted a lot of inter- certmaster of the Moscow competitors from China, the function of piano competi- est, Humpherys adds that it Philharmonic Orchestra, and Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, tions,” Humpherys explains. is important “to maintain an was second-prize winner in Ukraine, Finland, Rumania, “Young pianists still enter to educational component, a pur- the 1973 Jacques Thibaud Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Can- win prizes and start careers, pose besides the competition.” International Competition in ada.” The sixth Competition but competitions have also Students not only perform Paris. was held last summer from turned into venues. Audiences during the weeklong festival, July 20–24, and by the begin- attend competitions to hear but also take part in master William Marvin ning of the fall semester the the concerts.” classes and get to meet the Assistant Professor of Theory School had already received Indeed, public interest in ESM faculty. “Studying piano William Marvin returns to many inquiries for next year. the Eastman Competition has and practicing for long hours Eastman after having taught The festival and competition also grown. “We had to turn is a very solitary activity,” music theory and aural started out in 1997 as a sum- people away from the fi nals” says Humpherys. “It’s impor- skills at Oberlin College mer workshop and institute (held in Kilbourn Hall), he tant that the students get to Conservatory of Music since for pianists aged 14–18, says says, “and had a thousand meet new people who do the 1996. Prior to that he was a Humpherys, who has been people for the winners’ recital same thing they do. After all, TURN TO PAGE 17 ➧ involved in many piano com- in the Eastman Theatre.” The they are meeting their future petitions as a performer and competition is unusual in that colleagues.” ❧

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Summer Session highlighted New faculty ➧ FROM PAGE 16 teaching assistant at Eastman by a visit from the Canadian Brass while working on his master’s and doctoral degrees, and Hailed by The Washington Brass and concluded with a The Canadian Brass tours received both the Edward Post as “the men who put free concert by the students the world, and has been seen Peck Curtis Award for Excel- brass music on the map,” the they coached. by millions of television view- lence in Teaching by a Gradu- Canadian Brass made a special Ruth Cahn, director of the ers on such programs as The ate Student (1992) and the visit to Eastman last summer Summer Session program Tonight Show, NBC News’ Outstanding Graduate Teach- for a weekend residency as and a colleague of the Brass’ Today, and Entertainment ing Prize (1990). Now, after part of the School’s Summer tubist, Eastman alumnus Tonight. Concertgoers have completing his PhD in music Session. During the two- Charles Daellenbach, organized come to love the wide range of theory at Eastman in 2002, day event, the brass quintet the event. “The Brass were so styles that the group includes Marvin (no relation to Dean worked with and coached pro- personable and generous with in its performances, from gos- of Academic Affairs Elizabeth fessionals and collegiate and their time while they were pel songs, marches, opera med- West Marvin) joins his alma high school students in brass here. We’re just ecstatic that leys, and rock tunes, to jazz mater as assistant professor ensemble repertory. The week- they’ve agreed to come back standards – always blended of theory. end workshop opened with a next year for a repeat perfor- with lively dialogue, humor, performance by the Canadian mance, July 11–13, 2003.” and theatrical effects. ❧ Alarm still sounding: Eastman grads explore new music together Two ensembles with founda- tions at Eastman, Ossia and Alarm Will Sound, perform William Porter on a new CD from composer Professor of Harpsichord Steve Reich, released in fall and Organ Improvisation, 2002 by Cantaloupe Records. part-time The CD, which was reviewed Widely known as a performer recently by New York Times and teacher in the US and music critic Alan Kozinn in Europe, William Porter is its Album Showcase, features a leader among organists two of Reich’s most important working toward recovery works from the 1980s, Tehillim of an historical approach to and Desert Music. Directing musical performance. He the ensembles on the recording has achieved international was Alan Pierson. recognition for his skill in In related news, on October COURTESY ALARM WILL SOUND improvisation in a wide 19, Alarm Will Sound, Alan Front row (left to right): Jessica Johnson, Kala Pierson; Second row: Dennis variety of styles. After join- Pierson conducting, pre- DeSantis, Payton MacDonald, Gavin Chuck, Stefan Freund; Third row: John ing the Eastman faculty last miered composer David Lang’s Richards, Courtney Orlando; Fourth row: John Orfe, Caleb Burhans, Jason fall as visiting professor of Increase in a concert in New Treuting, Alan Pierson, Lawson White. organ improvisation, Por- York City’s Miller Theatre. ter accepted a position as Gavin Chuck, managing direc- the professional relationship so much that they formed professor of harpsichord tor of the ensemble, said of between our group and Bang the independent ensemble to and organ improvisation the experience, “Working with on a Can/Cantaloupe Records.” remain together even after in a part-time capacity. He David Lang was a fantastic Ossia, the completely stu- graduation. Alarm Will Sound, was professor of organ and opportunity for Alarm Will dent-run new music ensemble who specialize in the music of harpsichord at Oberlin (1974– Sound. Not only did we get to at Eastman, was the source Steve Reich, experiment with 1986), and a faculty member work together musically with for Alarm Will Sound’s mem- a wide range of music and at the New England Conser- a preeminent contemporary bership. A core group of stu- attempt to integrate theatre in vatory (1985–2002), and is American composer, but the dents and recent graduates their performances to attract a TURN TO PAGE 18 ➧ concert also strengthened enjoyed their Ossia experience broader audience. ❧

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New faculty ➧ FROM PAGE 17 co-founder of Affetti Musicali and Musica Poetica, Boston- based ensembles of Baroque repertory. Porter will con- tinue to teach part-time at Yale University.

Mark Scatterday Professor of Conducting and Ensembles, department co-chair COURTESY HEIDI LUCAS Mark Scatterday, a former While in Finland, the 23 members of the Horn Choir (shown with Director Peter Kurau) kept busy with concerts, student of recently retired master classes, and lectures, but also saw the sights of Lahti and Helsinki. Eastman Wind Ensemble con- ductor Donald Huns berger, follows in his esteemed Eastman Horn Choir travels to Finland professor’s footsteps as EWE conductor and professor of BY KATHERINE ARCENAUX conducting and ensembles. AND GRETCHEN SNEDEKER “On behalf of all of us in the Horn It has proved to be a once-in-a- Scatterday received his The Eastman Horn Choir, Studio, may I express my sincere lifetime experience for our cur- bachelor’s degree in music founded by Professor Emeri- gratitude to the legions of sup- rent horn students, and one education and performance tus of Horn Verne Reynolds, porters who made our participa- which, in a larger sense, demon- from the University of Akron, traveled to Lahti, Finland tion in the 34th International strated the unifying power of his master’s degree in trom- from August 3–12 as featured Horn Symposium in Lahti, Fin- music in a international setting bone performance from Uni- performers of the Interna- land, possible. Our eclectic con- and hope for the future in a post versity of Michigan, and his tional Horn Symposium, the sortium of sponsors ranged from 9/11 world. Thank you again, and doctor of musical arts degree only collegiate horn choir so the widespread generosity of we look forward to other collab- from Eastman in 1989. Prior to featured. This annual event Eastman horn alumni spanning orations carrying forth the ban- joining our faculty, Scatterday creates an opportunity for over 50 years, to local and inter- ner of the Eastman School and was professor of music at hornists around the globe to national corporations, and to of great music.” Cornell University and chair come together to enjoy great friends of the horn studio. We of its music department, as music, learn from each other, are indebted to each and every Peter Kurau well as a principal conductor and foster international con- one of you for your support and Associate Professor of Horn for Ensemble X, a profes- nections. The ensemble is encouragement in bringing this Director, Eastman Horn Choir sional contemporary music currently under the direction magnifi cent project to fruition. ensemble. of Professor Peter Kurau and includes 23 undergraduate Neil Varon and graduate horn students. choir written in memory of Finnish hymn. This concert Professor of Conducting The Eastman Horn Choir the victims of the September was attended by Crystal Meri- and Ensembles was featured in four perfor- 11th terrorist attacks, by wether, cultural affairs offi cer Born in New York City, Neil mances during the sympo- Eastman horn student Lindsey at the United States Embassy Varon studied piano, com- sium. The full-length concert Wood. The Horn Choir also in Helsinki, who noted that position and conducting at included the world premiere of performed a transcription of her assistant, a Finnish native, the Juilliard School before In Memorial: To Structure and Sibelius’s Finlandia, arranged was moved to tears by the TURN TO PAGE 19 ➧ To Remembrance, a two- by Wood, complete with a performance. Other highlights movement piece for horn vocal rendition of a popular TURN TO PAGE 19 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 18 authentic Finnish sauna. The all involved. The Eastman of the concert included the trip also included a brief stay Horn Choir extends its grati- New faculty European premiere of Fanfare in Helsinki, the capital of Fin- tude to all who made their ➧ FROM PAGE 18 for Ghosts by James Willey (BM land. While in the capital, stu- visit to Finland possible. Spe- ’61, MM ’63, PhD ’72). dents visited the harbor area cial thanks are owed to Esa Throughout the Sympo- and took a bus tour of the city, Tapani and the International sium, Eastman horn students visiting Sibelius’s monument Horn Society, the Eastman attended master classes and and other landmarks. School of Music, alumni lectures given by prominent The trip was a remarkable donors, corporate sponsors, international hornists such as and rewarding experience for and the Kurau family. ❧ Hermann Baumann, Bruno Schneider, Randy Gardner, and Esa Tapani. The week’s events also embarking upon a 30-year incorporated many concerts conducting career in Europe including appearances by Rus- and Asia. In 1981, Varon was sian jazz hornist Arkady Shik- named the first Kapellmeister loper, Spanish natural hornist of the Deutsche Oper am Javier Bonet, and Froydis Ree Rhein in Düsseldorf, Germany. Wekre, Norwegian hornist and From 1987–1991, he was past president of the Interna- music director of the Sud- tional Horn Society. Eastman’s westfälische Philharmonic, own Peter and Pamela Kurau followed by an appointment also made appearances as general music director throughout the week, includ- for the City of Gelsenkirchen, ing a collaborative perfor- where he was chief conduc- mance of Cole Porter’s “Blow, tor of the Gelsenkirchen Phil- Gabriel, Blow,” arranged by harmonic. Varon also spent a former Eastman faculty mem- year as guest professor at the ber John Greer. renowned Toho Gakuen Con- The International Horn EASTMAN SCHOOL ARCHIVE servatory in Tokyo. In addition Society sponsored several Nine feet, two keyboards, three courses: the new Kingston harpsichord. to teaching conducting at competitions during the week Eastman, Varon conducts in which the Eastman Horn the Eastman Philharmonia, Choir was well represented. New instrument strikes Eastman School Symphony Elizabeth Porter (BM ’02) and Orchestra, and Eastman Julia Fagan (BM ’04) won first a golden (harpsi)chord Chamber Orchestra. prizes in the high-horn and low-horn divisions, respec- The organ department of the lid by artist P.T. tively, in the Dorothy Frizelle recently added an additional Gladding. The entire instru- Orchestral Competition. jewel to their collection of ment is heavily gilded with Eastman alumna Jenny Kim early music instruments with gold leaf. Because of its 63- (BM ’00) took first place honors the acquisition of a Kingston note compass and rather long in the prestigious Jon Hawkins harpsichord (pictured above). scale, it was conceived as a Solo Competition. Susan Freese Built by Richard Kingston in “multi-purpose” harpsichord, (BM ’03) took second place in 1987, the instrument has two on which one can play a wide the Phillip Farkas Memorial keyboards and three courses range of the harpsichord rep- Solo Competition. Several of strings, two of which play ertory from the 16th through Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon Eastman horn students were at unison pitch, and one that the 18th centuries. Associate Professor also invited to participate in plays an octave higher. Nearly Professor of Harpsichord of Composition the Honorary College Horn nine feet long, its style refl ects & Organ Improvisation Wil- Mexican-born composer Choir under the direction of northern-European harpsi- liam Porter says of the new Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon Hermann Baumann. chord traditions of the 18th acquisition: “We are pleased to received his undergraduate During their stay in Lahti, century, but it is not a copy of gain such a resource at a time degree in guitar and com- students were given the any particular instrument. when student interest in harp- position at the University of opportunity to immerse them- The case sits on a Louis XVI sichord study is growing.” California at San Diego, and selves in Finnish culture, stand with fl uted legs, and is The instrument will be both a master’s degree and visiting local restaurants, the highly decorated with a full available for student practice TURN TO PAGE 20 ➧ daily open-air market, and an mural painting on the inside and performance. ❧

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New faculty ➧ FROM PAGE 14 PhD in composition from the University of Pennsylvania. He also has been recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Omar del Carlo Fellowship from Tanglewood. Before joining Eastman, Zohn-Muldoon was a member of the composition department at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. His works have been performed by eighth blackbird, Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players, and San Francisco Contemporary Players.

GELFAND-PIPER PHOTOGRAPHY The unstoppable Marian McPartland returned to Rochester in May to celebrate her career and introduce a young Howard Potter talent, Jason Moran. Associate Dean for Community and Continuing Education A month of Marian (McPartland) After an extensive search, Howard Potter was The spotlight shone on Mar- opened in May with a private was to take part in the Fourth appointed associate dean ian McPartland this past reception for faculty, staff, and Annual Marian McPartland/ for community and continu- May as Eastman hosted and other guests. During the recep- Eastman Jazz Series, a ing education. In this faculty honored the legendary jazz tion, which took place both in workshop and concert. Each position, Potter assumes pianist and great friend of the the Library and the stunning year, McPartland brings overall leadership for the School. In addition to her dis- atrium of Eastman Place, with her an exceptional jazz School’s Community Educa- tinguished performing career, Director and Dean Undercofl er pianist who deserves wider tion Division (CED), as well as McPartland’s National Public presented McPartland with a recognition. studio and classroom teach- Radio show, Piano Jazz, is the plaque designating her an This year, 27-year-old Jason ing responsibilities. A music longest-running show in the “Offi cial Eastman Artist,” a Moran made his Rochester educator, performer, conduc- history of public radio. title bestowed only one time debut. Since breaking into the tor, composer, and arranger, before in the history of the rising-star ranks of jazz in Potter was previously chair- Celebrating Marian School – to late photographer 1997, the Houston-born, person of the performing arts at Eastman and Eastman legend Lou New York-based Moran has department at The Manlius All four fl oors of Sibley Music Ouzer (also a friend of McPart- been hailed by audiences Pebble Hill School, Syracuse. Library were incorporated land’s). The event was made and critics alike, and his CD Potter received a bachelor’s into a major exhibit of photos possible in part through a gen- Black Stars was named best degree from SUNY Fredo- and memorabilia spanning erous gift from Friends of jazz recording of 2001 by The nia, a master’s degree from McPartland’s career. Piano Jazz and the ETV New York Times. On the day Eastman, and a doctoral Drawn from her personal Endowment of South Carolina. of the concert, Moran pre- degree from the Manhattan archives, the displays included sented a free, informal jazz School of Music. He has a posters, awards, clippings, and 4th Annual Marian McPartland/ lecture/workshop to the public post-graduate diploma from more. The exhibit, which was Eastman Jazz Series featuring video clips of prolifi c the Juilliard School. free and open to the public Another reason for Ms. jazz pianist Jaki Byard, with through September 15th, McPartland’s visit in May whom he studied. ❧

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MUSIC EDUCATION

BY RICHARD F. GRUNOW n my last column for Notes, I indicated that the Music Education Department is I expanding its educational commitment on a global scale and in a variety of venues. As you read this column, I think you will agree that the faculty and students are living up to expectations. The recent year brought about many changes in the Music Education Department, and many more are forthcoming. Roy Ernst, professor of music education for nearly 27 years, retired from Eastman at

the close of the fall semester KURT BROWNELL 2001. Roy had a long and MENC wins for education projects important career at Eastman. Eastman’s Student Chapter #50 of MENC (a.k.a. National Association for Music Education) was doubly honored Certainly one of his most sig- by the national organization this year, winning two awards “in recognition of outstanding chapter programs nifi cant contributions came in for the advancement of music education.” They were the only U.S. chapter to receive awards in both the recent years as director of the “Program” and “Project” categories. Some members of the MENC group were photographed with their award National New Horizons Music plaques at a recent meeting. Left to right: Beth Fox (2001 president), Lisa Dixon (VP), Julia Kemp (president), Dr. Project. His seminal work Richard Grunow (chapter advisor), Katie MacDougall (secretary), Maggie McKeown (current member). with that project will remain vital to the entire country and to Eastman for many years to music learning process. His entation to music teaching Rounds for Strings: Shaping come. Our best wishes go out chapter on improvisation and learning. In that seminar, Music Independence (Kjos); to Roy, now emeritus profes- appears in the New Handbook Azzara is providing a renewed and the co-authorship of sor of music education, and we of Research on Music Teach- emphasis on the importance Teaching Music Through Per- hope he will return often. ing and Learning, published of musicianship skills for formance in Orchestra (GIA). In fall 2002, we welcomed by Oxford University Press teaching. Not surprisingly, a He is author of “What String a new member to the Music (2002). A much sought-after generous portion of the class is Matters Matter,” a chapter Education Department: clinician and presenter devoted to improvisation. We in Deciding Matters in Music Associate Professor Christo- throughout the United States are extremely pleased to have Education (David Elliott, ed.), pher D. Azzara (MM ’88 and and in Europe, Azzara also Chris on board. soon to be released by Oxford PhD ’92) was the unanimous performs regularly as a jazz Associate Professor Louis University Press. choice to fi ll the position left pianist. Most recently, he per- Bergonzi continues an impres- Susan Conkling, associate vacant with Roy’s retirement. formed on a recital of music by sive list of guest conduct- professor of music education Azzara brings to the depart- Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, ing engagements including (on leave fall 2002), presented ment a breadth of experience, and George Gershwin at the appearances in Morrow and recently at the American including seven years as an Hartt School of Music, and on Athens, Georgia; Richmond, Choral Directors Association instrumental music teacher a concert performance of the Virginia; Chicago; Rochester; Convention in Pittsburgh; in the Fairfax County Public Chris Azzara Jazz Quartet and Melbourne, Australia. American Association for Schools in Fairfax, Virginia, for the Schroon Lake Arts During the summer months Higher Education Conference and eleven years in the Music Council in Schroon Lake, New he also taught various classes in Chicago; and the Music Education Department at York. His responsibilities at as part of the International Educators National Confer- the Hartt School of Music. Eastman include research Music Workshop in Stavanger, ence in Nashville. During Chris is an author, educator, advising, instrumental meth- Norway. Bergonzi’s recent summer 2002 she served as jazz pianist, and arranger ods and techniques, student publications include an NEA commissioner from the United with unique insights into the teachers, and the Freshman study, “Music Preferences States to the International role of improvisation in the Seminar, a two-semester ori- of Americans”; Canons and TURN TO PAGE 22 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 21 Young Pianists.” In September, Duquesne University School degrees in Public School Music Society for Music Education’s she was the moderator for of Music in Pittsburgh, and at (PSM). Refl ecting the expand- Commission on the Education “Programming for Family Con- the C.W. Post Campus of Long ing role of the department, of the Professional Musician certs” at the Chamber Music Island University, where Jenni- and in compliance with other in Stavanger, Norway. “The America Outreach and Resi- fer Scott Miceli (PhD ’99) is now music schools in America, the Impact of Professional Devel- dency Institute in Rochester, in her second year as assistant name was changed in the late opment Partnerships: Our and in October she was a pre- professor of music education. 1960s to the Music Education Part of the Story,” an article senter at the New York State Professor Grunow’s in-ser- Department (MUE). she co-authored with Dr. War- Music Teachers Association, vice workshops in New York Like most music education ren Henry of the University also in Rochester. Her article State during 2002 included departments throughout the of North Texas, appeared in “Music for Lifelong Learning” Dansville Central Schools; country, our department con- a recent issue of the Journal appears in the winter issue of Pearl River Public Schools; tinues to satisfy requirements of Music Teacher Education. the Orff Echo. Fox is among the Gordon Institute for Music for music teacher certifi ca- While on leave, Conkling four researchers awarded an Learning, Niagara Falls; and tion. In recent years, however, presented a paper on “The early childhood music research the Patchogue-Medford School our mission has expanded to Tertiary Music Curriculum as grant to conduct a national District. During the summer include instruction from birth Community Property” for the status study of music in early he lectured on “Bringing Com- through adult education, with May Day Group Colloquium in childhood programs – An prehension to the Keyboard” increased emphasis on under- Columbus, Ohio, and she was Examination of Musical Prac- at the Summer Piano Teachers standing the music teaching the featured speaker at the tices in Preschools. Seminar at Eastman. Grunow and learning processes for annual Music Leadership Day During spring 2002, Assis- is the principal author of the that expanding population. at Georgia State University in tant Professor Kathy Robinson revised edition of Jump Right In other words, research in Atlanta. Conkling presented presented at Brigham Young In: The Instrumental Series recent years has provided sub- an in-service locally for the University and the Utah – for Strings released during stantial insight into the music music teachers in the Gates- Music Educators Association, summer/fall 2002. learning process, insight that Chili Central School District. and for the “2002 Salute to Eastman’s undergraduate has rightfully infl uenced the In spring 2002, Donna Brink South Africa Teacher Educa- and graduate music education music teaching process at all Fox, Eisenhart Professor of tion Workshop” and “2002 students continue to thrive levels of instruction. Music Education, presented Salute to South Africa Arts in in their educational pursuits. While the emphases on workshops at the Prepara- Education Week” in Birming- Will Dabback, PhD student music teaching and learning tory School, University of ham, Alabama. in music education, was the are evidenced in curricular New Mexico, Albuquerque; In June, Robinson received recipient of an Eastman changes at the undergraduate the Music Teachers National a Distinguished Alumni Teaching Assistant Prize, and and graduate levels, it should Association in Cincinnati; Award from Lebanon Valley David Stringham received the realistically be refl ected in the Music Educators National College. During July and annual Presser Award for name of the department. In an Conference in Nashville; and August she made her fourth an outstanding undergradu- even broader sense, virtually Early Childhood Music Day trip to Kimberley, South ate student at the end of his all graduates of the Eastman at Indiana University/Purdue Africa, as co-director of junior year. The local MENC School of Music will engage University at Indianapolis. Umculo: The Kimberley Proj- Chapter #50 was also honored in music teaching and learn- In summer 2002, Fox ect. In fall 2002 she presented (see photo and caption). ing if they choose to remain in attended the weeklong meet- for the Africa Colloquium Two signifi cant changes are the profession. The Department ing of the Early Childhood Series at Lebanon Valley Col- also on the horizon, contribut- of Music Teaching and Learning Commission of the Interna- lege; the Greater Pittsburgh ing substantially to the high (MTL), therefore, addresses tional Society for Music Edu- Orff Schulwerk Chapter; and level of enthusiasm in the more accurately the mission of cation in Copenhagen, where the National Conference of department this year: the department and the needs two of her former doctoral the American Orff Schulwerk While still in the planning of contemporary society. students (Linda Neelly, PhD ’00, Association in Cincinnati. stages, a renovation is being We welcome your thoughts and Terry Fonda-Smith, DMA Robinson is the multicultural considered for the outdated and comments about the pro- ’00) presented poster sessions consultant for Music Expres- offi ces and classroom space posed renovation and name on their early childhood work. sions, Warner Brothers’ new in the current Music Educa- change. Please contact us During July, Fox presented music textbook series. tion Department. Along with by mail, or at the updated at the annual meeting of Professor Richard Grunow the renovation plans, we Music Education Department the Early Childhood Music presented during January are contemplating a name website: www.rochester.edu/ and Movement Association of 2002 at the Midwestern change for the department. A Eastman/musiceducation/. ❧ International Conference in Conference on School Vocal little history might be help- Minneapolis, and also at the and Instrumental Music at ful to understand the need Richard Grunow is professor Summer Piano Teachers Semi- the University of Michigan, for change. Graduates of the of music education and nar at Eastman on the topic of Ann Arbor. In the spring he department in the years prior chair of the music education “Building Musical Capacity in conducted workshops for to the 1960s were granted department.

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a recital and master class for KEYBOARD/ORGAN younger students; James Hig- don presented a lecture-recital on Alain’s organ works. Nancy Cooper (MM ’80, DMA ’83) pre- BY DAVID HIGGS, CRISTA MILLER, sented a workshop on Thomas AND MARK WILLEY Jefferson’s organ music, and imothy Olsen, David other workshops were given Higgs’s TA and DMA by Raymond Egan and Judith candidate at Eastman, Willoughby. T won the fi rst prize Other ESM alums were fea- in the National Young Art- tured in performance, includ- ists Competition in Organ ing Craig Phillips (MM ’87, Performance at the National DMA ’89) and Diane Meredith Convention of the American Belcher (MM ’83), who each Guild of Organists, held in played with the Philadelphia September in Philadelphia. A Orchestra. Craig was both new Eastman DMA student, performer and composer of Crista Miller, was a semifi nalist, his Concerto for Organ and and played beautifully. Tim’s Orchestra. prize consists of a cash award, Jim Undercofl er hosted a a recording with Naxos, and wonderful party for Eastman two years of professional con- alumni and friends, which was cert management and career also a “launching” of the new direction by Karen McFarlane Eastman Rochester Organ Initia- Artists. He’ll play many con- tive (EROI). Jim, Hans Davids- certs throughout the U.S. over son, Bill Porter, Jürgen Thym, the next two years. Kerry Snyder, Peter Dubois, Other Eastman students and I spoke about all the involved at the Convention new happenings in the organ were undergraduates Rico department. A big surprise Contenti, Chris Lane, and Timothy was a visit by Katie Pardee (MM Pyper, who each played a “Ris- ’84, DMA ’87), who was visit- ing Stars” recital, as part of the ing from her new home and award for each of them win- job in Oxford, England. Hans ning one of the nine regional Davidsson read a written AGO competitions last year. greeting from David Craighead, Kerala Snyder, Eastman pro- who was unable to be at the fessor emerita of musicology convention, but who was very and affi liate in organ, gave a KURT BROWNELL much with us in spirit! It was workshop on the new book she The 17th-century practice of casting organ pipes on sand was revived at a great success by all accounts. edited, The Organ as a Mirror September’s EROI Festival. Craftsmen from GOArt in Göteborg, Sweden, Alumni Clair Rozier (DMA of its Time (Oxford University poured a mixture of molten tin and lead, then spread a thin sheet on a spe- ’85), Jeff Brillhart, Mark Ander- Press), published just in time cially constructed, eight-foot sand-bed. son (MM ’87), Chappy Stowe (MM for the convention. The book ’79, DMA ’83), Allison Evans includes essays by several the premiere of a work com- class on “Bach the Improviser” Henry (MM ’80, DMA ’83), Jeff Eastman faculty and alumni, missioned for the convention at the Pedagogy Conference. McClelland (MM ’83), and Wes- including Hans Davidsson and by ESM alumna Emma Lou William A. Little, a past visit- ley Parrot (MM ’82) were instru- William Porter. Gerre Hancock Diemer, MM ’49, PhD ’60), and ing professor of musicology mental in the planning and was honored for his astound- gave a master class on Bach’s at Eastman, moderated a administration of the conven- ing contributions to the fi eld chorale preludes at the Peda- panel discussion on Bach and tion, and had crucial roles in of choral music and organ gogy Conference, held prior to the future, called “Carry Me the organization and execution improvisation at the opening the convention at Bryn Mawr Back to Old Thuringia.” Alum of this large gathering (c. 2,400 concert, performed by Gerre Presbyterian Church (where Chris Young (MM ’87, DMA ’91) organists), which was quite a and the St. Thomas Choir. alumnus Jeffery Brillhart (MM gave two presentations on success despite the heat! Gerre also gave a workshop on ’79) is director of music). Bill computer assisted teaching, The fi rst annual Eastman improvisation. Porter, our new professor of demonstrating fascinating Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) David Higgs played two recit- harpsichord and organ impro- programs he has developed. Festival was held September als of new music (including visation, also gave a master Mark Laubach (MM ’84) gave TURN TO PAGE 24 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 23 and acquire major instruments Labyrinth of the World and the taught a course to Eastman 12–15, 2002, in conjunction based on historic models. Paradise of the Heart, with nar- students on pipe making, with Alumni Weekend. Guests The concert that followed ration by Davidsson. Eastman organ maintanance, and con- of the organ department was an inauguration for one organ student Christopher Petit sulting for churches. included a select group of of the instruments of the presented an enlightening pre- Throughout the EROI Fes- American organ builders, a EROI project: a 17th-century recital lecture, “Hic Habitat tival, visiting organ builders group of scholars, researchers, Compenius-style organ, exqui- Minotaurus: the Symbolism attended sessions to discuss and performers from GOArt, sitely crafted by Paul Fritts. and Liturgical Uses of the recent advances in the fi eld Göteborg University (Sweden), The concert demonstrated Medieval Labyrinth.” of historic organ research and members of the Roches- the instrument’s versatility Saturday evening, Joel that have been made by the ter Chapter of the American with works for solo organ, Speerstra (Göteborg Uni- scholars and craftsmen at Guild of Organists. Festival strings and organ, and organ versity) presented a pedal GOArt, Sweden. On Saturday activities were a celebration of in alternation with choir and clavichord recital to a stand- morning, leading American the Organ Art, with something congregation. The evening ing-room-only crowd in organ builders collaborated with their Swedish colleagues in the demonstration of the 17th-century technique of casting pipe metal on beds of sand. This eye-catching dem- onstration, held on the lawn in front of Christ Church, attracted a fascinated public who applauded as the molten metal cooled into shining sheets on the specially con- structed sand-bed. Celia Applegate, Porter, Davidsson, and Speerstra par- ticipated in a panel discussion moderated by Professor Daniel Zager. The discussion featured an introduction to The Organ as a Mirror of its Time. On Sunday, the enthu- siastic crowd returned to Christ Church to hear newly appointed Professor of Harp- KURT BROWNELL sichord and Organ Impro- After pouring the metal mixture, the hardened, but still pliable, sheet was shaved, molded, and cut into pipes, to visation William Porter in applause from the crowd on Christ Church’s lawn. Eastman’s Hans Davidsson observes a GOArt craftsman. recital. Porter, internationally renowned as a performer and for everyone: performers, also featured the premiere of Schmitt Hall. Speerstra, the improviser on the harpsichord builders, musicologists, stu- Kennedy’s Novum Pascha, a builder of Eastman’s two and organ, presented an impro- dents, and the public. work written in memory of the manual and pedal clavichords, vised demonstration of the The EROI Festival opened victims of September 11. demonstrated his mastery of individual stops and ensembles on Thursday night, Septem- The weekend featured many technique and brought the of the Paul Fritts organ. He ber 12, with a gala concert other exciting performances, as warmth and intimacy of this then moved to the harpsi- presented by organists David well. On Friday, Eastman organ unique instrument to life. chord for the remainder of the Higgs and Hans Davidsson, the students Rico Contenti, Jungwha Before their performances, concert, presenting music by Ying Quartet, and the vocal Kim, Chris Lane, and Timothy Olsen Landgren and Speerstra Scheidemann, Froberger, and ensemble SONUM, directed played a lunchtime recital on taught workshops and master Bach. It was a fitting conclu- by Stephen Kennedy. William the Fisk organ at Downtown classes on Eben and improvi- sion to a most successful first Johnson, mayor of the City of United Presbyterian Church. sation, and pedal clavichord annual EROI Festival. ❧ Rochester, gave the opening That evening at the Lutheran technique, respectively. In remarks. Director Undercofl er Church of the Incarnate Word, addition, Vidas Pinkevicius Associate Professor of Organ welcomed the Festival guests Johannes Landgren (Göteborg gave a lecture on recent David Higgs is chair of and unveiled the EROI project University) gave the excit- research of the organ builder Eastman’s organ department. to the Rochester community, ing American premiere of a A.G. Casparini. Builders Mar- Crista Miller and Mark Willey including our plans to build new work by Petr Eben, The tin Pasi and Bruce Fowkes are graduate assistants.

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serves as the school historian, KEYBOARD/PIANO and is currently in the process of writing the fi rst volume of the history of the Eastman School of Music. Within the BY DOUGLAS HUMPHERYS to teach at the Eastman Sum- While on a four-week tour last year he has published fi ve hile maintain- mer Seminar in Hamamatsu, of China, Douglas Humpherys articles on sacred music in a ing an intense Japan. Her performance presented concerts and master variety of journals. He recently commitment schedule has included concerts classes in Hong Kong, Shang- presented master classes and W to teaching with violinists Igor Ozim, hai, Shenzhin, Cheng-Du, a lecture entitled The Reluc- and mentoring students, Charles Castleman, and Ger- Wuhan, Guanzhou, and Nan- tant Romantic: Hints for More the Eastman piano faculty ald Fischbach; violist Donald king. Last spring, as a visiting Effective Teaching of Chopin at consistently demonstrates a McInnes; cellist Jeffrey Solow; professor at Yonsei Univer- Hollins University in Roanoke, commanding and important and soprano Carmen Balthrop sity, he conducted a series of Virginia. musical presence engaged at the National Museum of master classes in Korea, and Rebecca Penneys has just in professional endeavors American History in Washing- performed in Kumho Concert released two new CDs for throughout the world. Com- ton D.C. During the last year, Hall in Seoul. He was a guest Fleur De Son Classics. Chau- bining a variety of artistic she has been a visiting profes- artist for MTNA conventions tauqua Recital Gems, a solo and scholarly disciplines, the sor at Ohio University and a in Hawaii and New Jersey, disc, features works by Bartók, faculty individually and col- Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, and lectively continues to make Schumann-Liszt. The second important musical contribu- CD, recorded by the New tions in the areas of perfor- Arts Trio, includes works by mance, teaching, recording, The faculty … continues Beethoven, Pärt, Bloch, and and publishing. In addition to Brahms. Recent performances the intrinsic value associated to make important musical have included solo and cham- with these professional pur- ber recitals in Seoul, Montreal, suits, the model of performing contributions in the areas Toronto, the Cleveland Insti- artist, teacher, and scholar tute of Music, and the Oberlin enhances the musical develop- of performance, teaching, Conservatory. ment of current students and Thomas Schumacher, on sab- the recruitment of new stu- recording, and publishing. batical leave of absence from dents to Eastman. Eastman for spring 2002, Natalya Antonova recently Hitchcock Resident Artist at and recently performed at has just returned from a performed several times in the University of Minnesota. Rowan University, SUNY Gen- six-month appointment as Europe, presenting concerts, In addition to his perfor- eseo, and Tulane University. visiting professor of piano at master classes, and lectures mances at the Classic Ragtime Last May, Fernando Laires the Conservatory of Music in at the Brussels Conservatoire Society in Indianapolis, Tony directed and participated in a Shenyang, China. In July, he in Belgium, and performing Caramia returned to Sedalia, festival tour in three cities in returned to Japan, where he a series of solo and chamber Missouri for the tenth time, China – Shenyang, Yan Tai, performed and lectured on the recitals at the International to present recitals and master and Xiamen. This past summer piano music of Isaac Albéniz. Festival in Paris. Additional classes at the Annual Scott he was a faculty member of the His recent book on Albéniz performance and teaching Joplin International Ragtime International Workshops in was published in Japan by engagements have included Festival. Norway and was honored at the Zen-on Music in April. This venues in Dallas, the Pianists He was the guest artist at Universidade de Aveiro Fes- was his second volume for World Festival in Chicago, and the MTNA State Conven- tival in Portugal. He recently Zen-on; a study of the piano the UCLA School of Music in tion in West Virginia, and released a CD featuring works pieces of Brahms appeared in Los Angeles. She was recently performed a benefi t concert of Beethoven and Liszt on Sin- 2000. Future projects for Zen- listed in Who’s Who Among for the American Pianists fonia Records, which received on will include contributions American Teachers. Association. He also presented critical claim in the European to a new performance edition Jean Barr presented master classes and recitals for the Piano Teachers Association of Albéniz’ Ibéria, as well as classes and lectures for MTNA International Workshops Journal and Clavier. books on Mendelssohn and associations in Connecticut, in Australia and Norway, Vincent Lenti, a member of the the Preludes of Rachmaninoff. Texas, and Maryland. Her par- which included a multi-media Eastman piano faculty since Additional recent engage- ticipation as a faculty member lecture/recital entitled Happy 1963, was the recipient of the ments included concerts in at the International Work- 100th Birthday, Billy Mayerl. Eisenhart Award for Teach- Taiwan and Washington, D.C. shops has taken her to Austra- This fall, he taped a segment ing Excellence in May 2002. Barry Snyder performed and lia and Norway, and last year, of Piano Jazz with Marian In addition to his continuing recorded the three Sonatas she returned for a third time McPartland for NPR. faculty responsibilities, he TURN TO PAGE 26 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 25 won third prize at the inaugu- mentor to many young artists. admitted by audition and per- for violin and piano and the ral Thousand Islands Interna- Mrs. Karsh asked Penny to formed at the TCU/Cliburn Romances of Schumann with tional Piano Competition. represent all of the young peo- Institute in Fort Worth, Texas. Asako Urushihara in Kobe, Kris Bezuidenhout, MM stu- ple with whom Mr. Karsh had Amber Shay, DMA student of Japan, for the Fontec label. dent from the class of Rebecca associated through the years. Nelita True, gave several solo In addition to concerto, solo, Penneys, has been nominated Sergio Monteiro, DMA stu- and chamber music perfor- and chamber performances for the Artist Diploma at dent of Nelita True, won mances at the International at Eastman, Mr. Snyder Eastman, concertized this Eastman’s recent Bartók Summer Music Academy in presented recitals in Perth, summer in Belgium, Holland, Third Piano Concerto Compe- Leipzig, Germany, and at the Australia; Bangkok, Thailand; and Germany, and will be per- tition; during the summer, he International Workshops in and Amberside, England. forming in Japan in March. gave twelve recitals in Rio de Norway. He was a faculty member I-Hsuan Cheng, DMA student Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Julia Siciliano, sophomore of the Beethoven Institute of Nelita True, was admitted by As First Prize winner of the student of Nelita True, won at Mannes College and per- audition and performed at the Maria Campina International Eastman’s Beethoven Second formed a recital with violinist Paris International Summer Piano Competition, he gave Piano Concerto Competition, Sylvia Rosenberg in Weill Hall Sessions and the Prague Inter- three recitals in Portugal. and was admitted by audition in New York City. national Piano Masterclasses. Hee-Jung Nam, a senior study- to the Konzertarbeitswochen At the Music Teachers’ Kan Chiu, senior in the class ing with Thomas Schumacher, 2002 in Goslar, Germany, for National Association Conven- of Fernando Laires, performed won second prize in the Interna- summer study. tion in Cincinnati, Nelita True Mozart’s Concerto K. 488 and tional Stepping Stones category Hong Xu, a freshman from received the 2002 Achieve- Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 in the of the 44th Canadian Music Wuhan, China studying with ment Award, the highest same evening with the China Competition, held in Ottawa Douglas Humpherys, won sec- honor given by the MTNA. In Kunming Symphony Orchestra. this past June. Nam, a native of ond prize at the 2002 Eastman September she was invited to Mark DiPinto, MM student of Seoul, Korea, and a resident of Young Artists International inaugurate the Distinguished Nelita True, this past summer Vancouver, British Columbia, Piano Competition, and was Teachers Series at the Univer- appeared as soloist with the also won the special award for selected to appear as a soloist sity of Texas at Austin, where New England Youth Ensemble the best interpretation of a con- with the Rochester Philhar- she performed and gave mas- in Carnegie Hall, and in cities temporary Canadian composi- monic Orchestra in November. ter classes. Her engagements in England, Scotland, Zimba- tion. In 2001, she represented Di Zhu, freshman studying this summer took her to Phila- bwe, and South Africa. Eastman at the Hamamatsu with Nelita True, played her delphia, Alberta, The People’s Penny Johnson, an MM stu- (Japan) International Piano New York debut recital on Republic of China, Salt Lake dent from the class of Barry Festival. That same year, she September 23. ❧ City, Norway, and Portugal. Snyder, performed at the was selected through com- Memorial Service for the petitive auditions to appear as Douglas Humpherys is Student highlights famous photographer Joseph soloist with the Rochester Phil- associate professor of piano, David Berry, a junior from Karsh at the Notre Dame harmonic Orchestra. co-chair of the piano depart- Syracuse, New York studying Cathedral in Ottawa, Canada. Daniel Pesca, sophomore ment, and CED collegiate with Douglas Humpherys, Mr. Karsh was well known as a student of Nelita True, was instructor in piano.

THEORY

BY STEVE LAITZ William Marvin, who comes to terpoint on Broadway: The There will be many stimulat- any important us from the Oberlin College Quodlibet as Compositional ing presentations this year in changes took Conservatory, where for the Strategy” at the joint meeting the Department. The ongoing place this year in past six years he has taught of the Society for Music Theory series of bi-weekly graduate M Eastman’s theory aural skills. Like Joel, Bill and the American Musicologi- symposia features presenta- department. Joel Galand, who brings diverse strengths to the cal Society in November. tions by students and faculty. has taught at the River Cam- department, with pedagogy Other changes in our faculty In addition, the bi-monthly pus for the past six years, is front and center. One of the include Elizabeth Marvin’s per- weekend Music Cognition now a member of Eastman’s fi rst and most visible changes manent full-time appointment Symposia bring together theo- faculty, where he is currently Bill has made to the aural as dean of academic affairs rists and musicologists from teaching counterpoint and skills curriculum is the shift at Eastman; and department Eastman, the River Campus’s graduate analysis courses. Our from movable do to fi xed do. He chair Bob Wason’s passing the Brain and Cognitive Sciences second new faculty member is presented “Simulating Coun- torch to Steve Laitz. TURN TO PAGE 27 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 26 become increasingly topic- Davy’s was his marriage and technology. Ciro Scotto’s department, Cornell, and other oriented. to Maya Chaly, now Maya articles on George Crumb’s regional institutions. Finally, A remarkable event took Temperley, last June.) Processional, and on issues our guest speaker series place last May at Eastman’s In August, Elizabeth Marvin of timbre in the music of will feature distinguished commencement ceremonies; turned in the fi nal manuscript Metallica, are in press. fi gures in the field and will 10 of our students received revisions on her co-authored Norman Carey’s forthcoming include Dirk Povel, Jay Rahn, their PhDs in music theory! textbook project (with Jane article “On Coherence and Tom Mathieson, and Dmitri This extraordinary number Clendinning) for W.W. Nor- Sameness and the Evaluation Tymoczko. testifi es to the unrelenting ton, The Musician’s Guide to of Scale Candidacy Claims” The undergraduate cur- discipline and talent of our Theory and Analysis, and its will appear in the Journal of riculum is this year’s primary students and the depth and companion volume by Joel Music Theory, and his review focus, as we refi ne our offer- consistency of faculty advis- Phillips (with Clendinning of Harmonic Experience by ings in order to balance a more ing. Special thanks to Matthew and Marvin), The Musician’s W.A. Mathieu appears in reasonable pace with in-depth Brown, who, for the past three Guide to Aural Skills. Marie the current issue of Music presentation of core concepts. years, has given over his life Rolf has completed a chapter Theory Spectrum. Norman has At the heart of these changes by holing up at Java’s (the cof- in Debussy and His World upcoming recitals this fall in is the challenge of developing fee house next to Eastman) to (Princeton University Press), both Rochester and New York a curriculum that embraces meet for the better portion of and in June 2002 was invited City; he will be appearing in the concerns of theoretical and each day with the lion’s share to participate along with such Merkin Hall performing works analytical rigor, deep musi- featuring New York composer cianship, and palpable con- Joseph Blunt, with soprano nections between theory and Carole Anderson. music making. Bob Wason put the fi nishing This semester, for what we The undergraduate curriculum touches on a number of proj- hope will be the beginning of ects, two of which have since an important tradition, per- is this year’s primary focus, appeared: his Chapter 2 of The formers and our faculty came Cambridge History of Western together to offer an intensive as we refi ne our offerings Music Theory; and his paper undergraduate course. Steve “Two Bach Preludes/Two Laitz and the Ying Quartet in order to balance a more Chopin Etudes …” in Music (Eastman’s resident string Theory Spectrum. Bob also quartet) co-taught a seminar reasonable pace with in-depth maintains his strong connec- on Bartók’s String Quartets. tions with jazz; his review of The course merges analytical presentation of core concepts. Peter Pettinger’s Bill Evans: and historical perspectives How My Heart Sings also with performance implica- of advisees (seven) to guide notables as Pierre Boulez in appeared this past spring in tions. In December, students them through the arduous the BBC Radio 3 broadcast the Annual Review of Jazz presented their analytical process. In the Works: Debussy’s “La Studies. Last fall Bob and fi ndings and performed all six The faculty has had a very Mer.” Steve Laitz is currently Henry Martin presented a quartets. productive year. Elizabeth in the page-proof stage of his jointly written paper entitled Our graduate curriculum Marvin was a guest of the textbook, The Complete Musi- “Constructing a Post-Mod- continues to evolve. Special Sibelius Academy in Finland cian: An Integrated Approach ern-Jazz Pedagogy” at SMT, seminars offered for theory to serve as respondent to a to Tonal Harmony, Analysis, which is scheduled for publica- graduate students in the past dissertation on similarity rela- and Listening (Oxford Univer- tion in Jazz Forschung/Jazz couple of years have included tions in nontonal music. Simi- sity Press), and in the midst Research. Ciro Scotto’s transformation larly, Bob Wason is feverishly of editing the nine-CD set of Several prestigious awards course and Dave Headlam’s cur- preparing for a trip to Sweden, examples and exercises that were bestowed on our faculty, rent seminar on musical tim- where he is to be the “Oppo- will accompany it. including Bob Wason’s Deems bre. Davy Temperley taught nent” in the defense of a dis- The department’s Taylor Award for his liner-note a seminar on music percep- sertation on tuning of organs penchant for integration is essay, “Alec Wilder and Ameri- tion, and Bob Wason one on during the time of Bach at the not restricted to harmony can Song,” and Bob Gauldin’s Bill Evans. University of Göteborg. textbooks. Along with Mark Gail Boyd Stwolinski Prize For Eastman’s DMA popula- Publications and other Bocko of the Electrical and for Lifetime Achievement in tion, the Theory department notable events include Davy Computing Engineering Music Theory Teaching and continues to advance new spe- Temperley’s Cognition of Basic Department, Dave Headlam is Scholarship. ❧ cial topics, including Norman Musical Structures (MIT developing a Music Research Carey’s seminar on Chopin and Press), which appeared in Lab at the University of Steve Laitz is associate Brahms, and our more gen- November 2001. (Yet another Rochester to explore the professor of theory and chair eral analytical surveys have major accomplishment of interaction of music, science, of the theory department.

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audio simultaneously, while Ernestine McHugh’s smash HUMANITIES watching fi lm clips and slide hit from last year, Love and projections. Honor in the Himalayas: Com- Sometimes the power of ing to Know Another Culture the images themselves posed (University of Pennsylva- BY JONATHAN BALDO as part of a collection entitled a threat to smooth techni- nia, 2001), an ethnographic ow to enjoy the plea- Growing Up Postmodern: cal operation. According to memoir of her life among the sures of camping Neoliberalism and the War on reliable reports, Kevin was Gurung people of Nepal, con- without dodging the the Young. sometimes so transfi xed by tinues to win high praise from H usual nuisances – rain, Earlier this year the depart- the images in Leni Riefens- reviewers. In the Himalayan mosquitoes, biting fl ies, or ment experimented with tahl’s fi lms that he had to be Research Bulletin, Pramod other outdoor pests? Our own Eastman’s fi rst distance team- released from their spell so Parajuli writes of “the very Tim Scheie has the answer: try taught course. Our intrepid that he might return to his familial and warm window the eminently civilized “opera German Professor Reinhild technical duties. from which she observes the camp” at Princeton, complete Steingröver teamed up with During the past year, two trenches of patriarchy in the with stimulating perfor- Patricia Mazòn, a German his- members of our department name of honor, hierarchy, sta- mances, intellectual debate, torian at State University of were awarded book contracts. tus, and order. All around her, and running water. This sum- New York at Buffalo, to offer Rutgers University Press will women’s position is danger- mer Tim, associate professor of “German Cultural History, publish Associate Professor of ously unstable. … Of course, it French (and sometimes Bali- 1750–Present,” a video con- History Jean Pedersen’s Leg- is an all too familiar story but nese musician when he per- ferencing course taught by islating the Family: Feminist to Ernestine’s credit, it is writ- forms in Eastman’s gamelan means of an Internet2 hook- Protest, Social Theatre, and ten with magnifi cent prose ensemble), earned a National up. The course paired German Republican Politics in France, and poise.” Endowment of the Humanities culture with German history. 1870–1920 early next year. What was the former East fellowship to attend a summer More important, it paired two Bridging the study of history Germany doing cinemati- seminar entitled “Opera: Inter- diverse student populations. and literature, Jean’s book cally when the Eastern bloc pretation, Reading, Staging.” The course allowed Eastman examines public responses to collapsed? During this past Affectionately known as students to interact not only late 19th- and early 20th- summer Reinhild Steingröver “opera camp” to its partici- with their own professor and century plays, feminist politi- laid the groundwork for a pants, the seminar, directed with each other, but also with cal campaigns, and republican full-scale investigation of this by noted musicologist Carolyn another group of students and parliamentary processes to issue by working at the for- Abbate, brought together their professor on the SUNY/ explore how debates over mer DEFA studios in Berlin, scholars from various disci- Buffalo campus. Eastman marriage and motherhood Babelsberg, Germany’s fi rst plines to explore opera from students loved the intellec- responded to larger debates fi lm studio (dating from 1917 multiple perspectives. Tim’s tual stereoscopy that resulted over the meanings of repub- and formerly known as UFA). project was to examine the from having two teachers, lican citizenship, French Reinhild earned a DAAD work of French critic Roland in two distinct but related national identity, and French grant to study fi lm produc- Barthes, about whom he is disciplines, and two diverse imperial identity in the fi rst tion during the unifi cation currently writing a book. “The student groups, all conversing half of the Third Republic. We period and examine how these seminar opened my eyes to with one another. are certain it will prove to be transitional fi lms refl ected the incredible richness and The class had its share the greatest thing since – the the rapidly changing political complexity of this art form,” of frightening technical baguette. climate in Germany. When says Tim. moments. For three consecu- Joan Saab, our assistant the censorship apparatus Last May, Tim spent four tive sessions, the sound would professor of American Stud- suddenly disappeared, circum- weeks conducting archival not work properly. “They could ies, has recently earned an stances of production changed research in Paris before hear us, but we couldn’t hear advance contract for her study quickly. With leftover monies, traveling to Rotterdam to them,” recalls Eastman’s For the Millions: The Desa- the former East German stu- attend the Conference of the Director of Technology and cralization of American Art, dios made about thirty feature International Association for Musical Production, Kevin 1933–1945. fi lms from 1990–92. Reinhild Philosophy and Literature. At McPeak. At such moments, the A probing study of the rela- hopes that by studying these the conference he presented course reverted to the era of tion between American art little-known fi lms, a clearer a paper, “Of Texts, Tools, and the silents, allowing Eastman and politics and of the forms a picture of the end of socialism Toys,” in which he addressed students to see the SUNY pro- “democratic aesthetic” might and the beginning of the Ber- the tension between politics fessor in pantomime. take, Joan’s book will be one lin Republic will emerge. ❧ and pleasure in current liter- For the most part, however, of the inaugural volumes in ary and cultural studies. Over thanks to the diligent heroics a new series issued by the Jonathan Baldo is associate the summer he also published of McPeak and Nigel Waters, University of Pennsylvania professor of English and an article, “Trouble Child: the campuses were able to Press on the arts and modern chair of the humanities Barthes’s Imagined Youth,” communicate via video and America. department.

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Steamboat Springs Music Jessica Wyatt (BM) is begin- STRINGS/VIOLA Festivals, and as a soloist with ning an MM degree at the the Chicago Symphony and Juilliard School. the Aspen Festival Chamber John Richards (BM) is Orchestra. He served on the beginning an MM degree at BY DEPARTMENT FACULTY national jury for the 1999 Eastman. This November, Starting with this issue of Eastman Notes, we’re trying some- Coming Up Taller Awards, John performed the Viola thing new in our coverage of the String Department. Each report has taught at Northwestern Concerto of the American com- will be devoted to news about a single instrument. We begin with University, Interlochen, and poser Jeff Manookian in Yere- the viola. – Ed. the Brevard Music Center, and van, Armenia. tival and School as performer is vice president of Chamber Eleonore Schults (BM AMU/ Faculty news and faculty member. He was Music America. MEI) is in her fi fth year teach- his year, Viola Profes- an Aspen professional partici- This year, in addition to our ing internship in the Roches- sors John Graham and pant in the late 1980s, and a weekly studio classes and our ter City School District as part George Taylor welcomed student in the late 1950s. He semester exchange master of her MEI degree. T Phillip Ying, professor also returned for a fi fth year classes between studios, we Will Hakim (BA) fi nished an of chamber music, to the viola to teach and perform in the will present master classes MM degree in May at Juilliard faculty. While continuing his Strings, Voice, and Piano Sem- with Sabina Thatcher (BM ’86), while freelancing and teach- central role in the chamber inar in Hamamatsu, Japan. principal violist of the St. Paul ing privately in New York, music program, Graham is also on Chamber Orchestra and the and performing with String he will also accept the board of direc- Aspen Festival Orchestra, and Orchestra of New York (which some students for tors of the Ameri- Thomas Riebel, who performs debuted in Carnegie Hall in viola instruction. can Viola Society. extensively in Europe as a May with a program of Ameri- Professor Ying is a In February, soloist and as a member of the can contemporary pieces), and graduate of ESM, George Taylor was Vienna String Sextet. Recent with the Fountain Chamber receiving his BM a juror for the visiting presenters have been Music Society. degree in 1991 and Sphinx Competi- Daniel Avshalomov of the Ameri- Former grads that have his MM degree in tion for Black can String Quartet and Kim recently been in touch: 1992 as a student and Latino String Kashkashian of the New Eng- I-Ting Chang (BM ’97) and of Martha Katz. Phillip Ying Players, held in land Conservatory of Music. Ting Yu Hseih (BM ’96, MM ’98) This fall we have Dearborn, Michi- are in the Evergreen Chamber 35 viola students enrolled in gan (other jurors included Graduates Orchestra in Taiwan. the following programs: DMA Ida Kavafi an, Toby Saks, Our 2002 graduates are Kathryn Dey (BM ’96) lives in (2); MM (6); BM/BMA (27). Diane Monroe, and Stephen moving on: Greenville, South Carolina. Our students have come to Shipps). He also conducted Rachel Altobelli (BM) is free- She is viola instructor, depart- Rochester from nearly every master classes during the lancing in Albuquerque, New mental and chamber music state, and our international competition, which is unique Mexico. coordinator, and string orches- students are from Sweden, in its celebration, support and Jamie Arrowsmith (BM) and tra coach at the South Carolina Korea, and Taiwan. acknowledgement of excel- his Eastman colleagues in Governor’s School for the Arts At the beginning of this year lence in string playing for all the Hyperion String Quartet and Humanities, a residential John Graham issued a series of fi nalists and prizewinners. were quartet in residence at a high school for the arts serving three CDs, Music for the Viola. Eastman alums Damon Coleman summer program in Colorado 11th and 12th grade students With the assistance of the Han- (cello) and Madeline Neely (BM Springs, and have begun the in South Carolina; and is prin- son Institute for American ’99, viola) were members of the MM degree program at Kent cipal violist in the Greenville Music, the first two CDs, Para- Sphinx orchestra. This past State in Ohio, as the graduate Symphony Orchestra, which bles and Earth-Fire, were digi- summer Taylor performed and quartet. presents weekly educational tally remastered from master taught at the Musicorda Festi- Chrissie Albright (BM) is outreach programs in elemen- tapes Graham recorded for CRI val at Mount Holyoke College be ginning an MM degree at tary schools to approximately Records in the 1980s. The third in Massachusetts. Southern Methodist University. 2000 students throughout volume, Harmonie, was recorded Phillip Ying tours through- Younjung Im (MM) is freelanc- upstate South Carolina. She in Kilbourn Hall in January out the United States with ing in the Ithaca, NY area. initiated The Palmetto Viola 2001. Music for the Viola includes the Ying Quartet (also visit- Elizabeth Myers (MM) is Society – the South Carolina everything from J.S. Bach and ing artists in residence at freelancing in the New York chapter of the American Viola Max Reger to Stravinsky, Brit- Harvard University), and is City area, and plays regularly Society – with over 40 members. ten, and Shostakovich – and this year performing with the with the Eastern Connecticut Brett Deubner (BM ’90, MM Matthew McGaughey’s Harmo- Turtle Island Quartet. He has Symphony. ’92) is in the New Jersey nie, written in 2000 for Graham. performed at the Marlboro, Heidi Remick (BM) is begin- Symphony, freelances in the This past summer Graham Tanglewood, Caramoor, Nor- ning an MM degree at Rice New York City area, and is a rejoined the Aspen Music Fes- folk, Aspen, Colorado, and University. TURN TO PAGE 30 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 29 Adrienne Sommerville (BM member of the Halcyon Trio ’95, MM ’98) is with the New J AZZ STUDIES & CONTEMPORARY MEDIA (viola, clarinet and piano) and World Symphony, and can be Triolgy (fl ute, viola, and harp). heard in recordings of works Greg Falkenstein (BM ’94) is by Tchaikovsky and Glazunov in the Phoenix Symphony, is with Eastman faculty member BY HAROLD DANKO and regional venues, and two principal violist of the Breck- Oleh Krysa and members of the his has been a period of our own, saxophonist Josh enridge Music Institute, and Lake Winnipesaukee Cham- marked by changes Rutner and pianist Red Wie- has performed recently with ber Players (Russian Disc CD and expansion in the renga, host their own jazz radio the Oregon Symphony and the 10-055). T department, with stu- show on WGMC. This FM sta- Atlanta Symphony. Eva Stern (MM ’97) is visiting dents numbering in excess tion (90.5 and 101.5), broad- Cheryl Frank (MM ’96) is in assistant professor of viola at of 50 for the fi rst time. Three casting both locally and on the the New Orleans Symphony. Bowling Green State University. large ensembles and seven Internet, produced a program Amy Getter-Santos (BM ’97) Devon Sweedy (BM, Theory, small groups (called Jazz Per- from an Eastman Theatre con- has held positions in the ’01) is librarian and substitute formance Workshops) rehearse cert last March by the Eastman Washington (DC) Opera, the violist for the New World weekly in preparation for the Studio Orchestra conducted by National Endowment for the Symphony. many performances taking Fred Sturm, in which the music Arts, and the Offi ce of Con- Wee Hsih Tan (MM ’01) is in place throughout the year. The of Harold Danko was arranged gressional and White House the Singapore Symphony. DMA program has enrolled its by student writing majors. Liaison. She is currently with Rosalyn Troiano (MM ’84, fi rst students, and graduate More collaborations in this the U.S. Federal Courts, Offi ce DMA ’00) is lecturer in music TAs have assumed a larger media avenue are on the way, of Legislative Affairs. and conductor of the chamber role in both classroom and since there is no shortage Cheryl Kohfeld (MM ’01) is in orchestra at Juniata College. administrative capacities. of talent in our midst and it the Pacifi c Symphony. She is also director of the Twenty students will graduate is important that the music Morgan Kleene (BM ’00) is State College Suzuki Program. this spring, meaning lots of being made here is heard by fi nishing an MM Degree in Kate Undercofl er (BM ’97, MM recital excitement, plus a sea- a larger audience. Recently Mathematics at the Univer- ’02) teaches violin and viola son of heavy-duty recruiting a visiting artist from New sity of Rochester. privately in Ithaca, NY, substi- for the faculty. York City commented that the Vickie Kuan (BM-AMU, MEI tute teaches in the Ithaca City Honors continue to come music he heard by student ’94) was teaching in New School District, works part- our way. This year Down Beat jazz groups at Eastman was York State and in Virginia, time at a pre-school, and per- magazine presented awards better than 85% of the music has graduated this year with forms as violinist and violist to Brian Shaw, for best origi- he had paid to hear in the a MM Degree in Music Edu- in the Ithaca area. She was nal composition, saxophonist last year. cation at ESM, and is now married this past summer. Matt Pivec for best jazz-rock There are many highlights teaching in the Fairfi eld, Con- Juliet White-Smith (DMA ’98) performance, and pianist Dave to recap from the year 2002, necticut schools. is professor of viola at the Uni- Guidice, in the vocal jazz cat- commencing in January at Chu-Ping Lin (MM ’96) is versity of Northern Colorado, egory. Brian Shaw also won the IAJE conference in Long principal violist of the Taiwan is president of the Colorado fi rst place in the International Beach, California, where the National Symphony and was Chapter of the American Viola Trumpet Guild competition Eastman Faculty Jazz Quartet – married earlier this year. Society, and is also a member of in London during the sum- trumpeter Clay Jenkins, pianist Madeline Neely (BM ’99) is its national board of directors. mer, showing off his classical Harold Danko, bassist Jeff Camp- beginning a new position as Tim Zenobia (BM ’98) is prin- side. The RPO recognized bell, and drummer Rich Thomp- violist of the Midland-Odessa cipal violist with the “Persh- trombonist James Hirschfeld, son – presented a concert (TX) String Quartet and prin- ing’s Own” Army Strings and pianist Mamiko Kitaura, bassist featuring selections from its cipal violist of the Midland- assistant principal with the Ike Sturm, and drummer Ted CD The Question Is … In Feb- Odessa Symphony. Alexandria (VA) Symphony, Poor, who will perform with ruary the Jazz Ensemble and Lynn Melby (MM ’92) free- and freelances in the Washing- the orchestra in the November New Jazz Ensemble, with Clay lances and has a private stu- ton D.C. area. showcase concert. Look for Jenkins as trumpet soloist, dio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We urge all viola grads, from David Guidice next spring in presented in concert format One of her viola students current and former viola stu- a vocal performance with the the music of Miles Davis and entered Eastman as a fresh- dios, to let us know where you RPO. In June, Dave Rivello was Gil Evans from the recording man this fall. are and what you are doing. ❧ a fi nalist (Category 1, Large Miles Ahead. Guitarist Ben Brenda Robak (MM ’93) is in Ensembles) in the Jazz Com- Monder was guest soloist in the New Orleans Symphony. John Graham posers Alliance’s Julius Hemp- the March Chamber Jazz Con- David Sinclair (BM ’92) free- ([email protected]) hill Awards, winning Mark of cert, with student ensembles lances and teaches viola in George Taylor the Unicorn Music Software. performing his music. Fred Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and ([email protected]) Faculty, students and recent Sturm’s fi nal appearance as plays in and is manager of the Phillip Ying graduates continue to make director of the Jazz Ensemble Westmoreland Symphony. ([email protected]) a jazz scene happen in local TURN TO PAGE 31 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 30 Weiskopf’s compositions in April featured the music and saxophone work were of Jim McNeely, with the spotlighted. composer/pianist as guest Legendary drummer Jack soloist. Pianist Matthew Good- DeJohnette and saxophon- heart presented a workshop in ist John Surman presented a April, and Marian McPartland workshop in early November, appeared in concert with Jason and Eastman alumnus John Moran in a two-piano thriller Hollenbeck was featured in in May, ending the school the November Chamber Jazz year on a very high note (see Concert with his group, the “School News,” page 20). Claudia Quartet. Events for the fall semester Another legend, composer included two residencies by and arranger Bill Holman, was trios of musicians in collabora- in residence in early Decem- tion with performances spon- ber in conjunction with a sored by the Bop Shop. The KURT BROWNELL concert of his music by the fi rst, in September, featured Eastman’s jazz students have many opportunities to hear famous musicians Eastman Jazz Ensemble, led Michael Moore (woodwinds), in concerts and master classes. Saxophonist John Surman and drummer by Bill Dobbins. ❧ Lindsey Horner (bass), and Jack DeJohnette visited the school in November. Michael Vacher (drums), play- Harold Danko is associate ing the music of Bob Dylan. trio in selections from their Faculty Recital Series with professor of jazz studies and In October, Los Angeles-based new CD, and the Eastman guest artist and new Eastman contemporary media, and pianist James Carney led his Jazz Quartet performed in the faculty member Walt Weiskopf. chair of the department.

COMMUNITY EDUCATION DIVISION

BY HOWARD POTTER Di Zhu, CED piano student of while facilitating audience Orchestra, directed by Howard here is no better place Patricia Hanson. cultivation. Potter and made up of 35 of to prepare for Eastman In addition, CED graduates In 1978, former preparatory the top scholastic musicians than Eastman … currently study at the Juil- department director Vincent of greater Rochester (includ- T The Community liard School, Harvard, Indiana Lenti authored an ambitious ing one student who drives Education Division offers the University, SUNY Fredonia, history entitled The Prepara- every week from Buffalo!). best preparation for collegiate New England Conservatory, tory Department – Historical The Jazz Orchestra is a two- conservatory study. In 2002, New York University, Ithaca, Origins of the Eastman School tiered program that includes the CED conferred diplomas Colgate, Notre Dame, Hartt, of Music and its Commit- middle school and high school to 23 outstanding men and the American Academy of ment to the Education of the students. Our sensational women, well trained and quite Music and Dramatic Arts, and Rochester Community. It middle school students will be knowledgeable in the rigors of Oberlin. chronicles the important years groomed to become top-notch study at Eastman, as well as These statistics complement of planning and constructing performers. For part of every the location of every practice the vision of the founders – Eastman (1918–1921), and Saturday session, they will room and rehearsal hall! Of that Eastman be established highlights the intrinsic rela- join their older counterparts those 23, one is at Potsdam, “not only as a collegiate insti- tionship between the collegiate in rehearsals and special jazz one at Tufts, and fi ve are tution within the University of school and the community or seminars. enrolled as freshmen here at Rochester community, but also preparatory school, as was the Also new this year is the Eastman: Chelsea Bonagura, as a music school for children intention of the founders. Eastman Children’s Chorus, CED voice student of Cecile and adults within the Roches- This vital relationship needs directed by Laurie Jenschke. Saine; Liren Chen, CED guitar ter community.” ongoing nurturing. This ensemble already has student of Petar Kodzas; Charlie George Eastman’s goal This year the CED has an enrollment of 35 children, Dye, CED percussion student was to create a large prepara- added great new program- grades 3 through 12, and is of Ruth Cahn and Rich Thomp- tory department within the ming. We are proud to also a two-tiered, fast grow- son: Anna Liberson, CED piano conservatory for the purpose announce the formation of ing comprehensive choral student of Alla Kuznetsov; and of training future musicians, the Eastman Preparatory Jazz TURN TO PAGE 32 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 31 Other innovative collabora- program. Plans are in the INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC LEADERSHIP tion of teaching and technology, works for an Eastman Chil- IP-based videoconferencing, dren’s Chorus Spring Choral took place several times at Festival involving teachers Eastman this past fall. On and students from the greater BY DAVID RAYMOND had training outside the West- September 21, students from Rochester area. BASED ON FACULTY INTERVIEWS ern classical music canon. And Professor Nicholas Goluses’ In an effort to become more astman’s Institute students heard world music guitar studio observed the global, the CED is offering a for Music Leadership sounds in movies, TV, and pop dress rehearsal for the fi rst new Youth Gamelan Ensemble (IML), founded in 2000, music, so it was now familiar performance of Roberto Sier- (gongs, xylophones, drums, E is rapidly growing, and and appealing to them. ra’s Folias by Miami’s New fl utes, singing, and more) for offering many programs to There was never a degree World Symphony. Following children ages 10–18. Students educate students about living program in ethnomusicology, the rehearsal, students at will learn to play traditional a life in music. but the development of the Eastman and at the Peabody and new Indonesian music, The Fall 2002 semester Institute for Music Leadership Conservatory of Johns Hopkins which has infl uenced musi- in cluded an exciting addition to created a viable structure for University were able to speak cians from Debussy to Peter the IML’s Diploma and Certifi - it – “a godsend,” in Koskoff’s with Sierra and with the solo- Gabriel. World music special- cate programs: World Music words. Earlier this year, she ist, guitarist Manuel Barrueco. ist Clay Greenberg teaches this and Ethnomusicology. IML also proposed two programs to be On September 26, students exciting new class. continued its explo- from John Beck’s We have also added a Musi- ration of the possi- percussion studio cal Theater Class taught by bil ities of new Inter- observed the fi rst Patricia Alexander and Cecile net2 technology. performance of Saine. This class is geared to Ellen Koskoff, IML continues its Chameleon Music adults and older teens with associate professor by Eastman alum- an emphasis on the develop- of ethnomusicol- exploration of the new nus Daniel Welcher ment of stage awareness, vocal ogy, remembers (BM ’69). And on interpretation, and ensemble “those brave souls Internet2 technology. September 30, techniques. In the near future, who took ’World students in Susan we will add music technology Music’ with me in the 1980s.” put under the IML umbrella, Callan-Harris’ “Keys to Healthy for high school students, as The study of non-Western a Certifi cate in World Music Music” class interacted with well as new courses in compo- musical cultures, ancient and and a Diploma in Ethnomu- Dr. Don Greene, author of sition, history and a variety of modern, was still a new thing sicology, both to be earned Audition Success and Perfor- small, premier ensembles. at Eastman 20 years ago, but alongside a traditional mance Success, during his This is a great time for the now there are many other Eastman degree. residency with the New World Community Education Divi- “brave souls” signing up for These are potentially valu- Symphony in Miami, Florida, sion. We are proud of our illus- courses in ethnomusicology able programs, says Koskoff: in a class called “Performance trious history, and cognizant of and world music. One sure “More and more positions in Stress and Centering.” the fact that we are part of the sign of their general accep- the job market require a musi- Both the Internet2 collabo- Eastman family tree. But we tance: they’ve “spun off” a very cian with at least some expo- rations and IP-based videocon- are not content to rest on our popular Eastman gamelan, sure to world music classes.” ferencing are initiatives of the laurels. Rather, our continued which performs frequently in And as she put it in her pro- Institute for Music Leadership, goal – to prepare students for the Rochester area. (This fall, posal for the programs: “Good with assistance from the Uni- conservatory and to nurture Eastman’s Community Educa- musical citizenship requires versity Telecommunications the appreciation of music, tion Division started a youth knowledge of one’s own musi- Department. “We are moving building a community of edu- gamelan.) cal cultures as well as those ahead to share more ideas and cated audiences – is imple- In the intervening years, of the others with whom we resources with New World mented with an awareness of says Koskoff, “More and more share our world.” Symphony, including clinicians life in the 21st century. people saw how ethno could In November 2001, IML and master classes,” says IML On a personal note, let me stand by itself, and also how sponsored its fi rst Internet2 director Ramon Ricker. say again, I am proud and it informed whatever they session collaboration, a real- Only 200 other colleges and happy to direct the Community did.” Koskoff began to teach time teaching session with universities in the United Education Division, and invite the Eastman Colloquium, “an trumpet students and teach- States have the facilities for all to drop by and say hello. ❧ introduction to the world of ers from Eastman and from this kind of interactive learn- music, broadly speaking – a the Royal Scottish Academy of ing. “It’s a tremendous out- Howard Potter is associate dean way for students to open their Music and Drama in Glasgow. reach,” says Ricker. “You can for community and continuing minds.” In fact, this was the fi rst use of communicate with somebody education, and a CED instruc- At the same time, she adds, Internet2 technology for trans- in almost real-time halfway tor of percussion and jazz. more and more new faculty atlantic interactive education. around the world.” ❧

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In memoriam Notices of the death of the fol- lowing Eastman alumni were reported between March and December 2002. Notices are listed in alphabetical order under decade of earliest degree received. Maiden names are listed in paren- theses whenever available. 1920s Atta (Bartlett) Tuites (’27), January 2002 1930s Rosilla (Riley) Beverly (BM ’34), August 2002 Beatrice (Miller) Blake (BM ’33), June 2002 Nettie Lee (Whipkey) Carlow (BM ’38), July 2000 Dorothy (Codner) Fennell (BM ’36, MM ’39), March 2001 Mary (Howell) Hadley JAY CAPERS/DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE (BM ’30), April 2001 William Warfi eld’s last Eastman Theatre appearance was at an 80th birthday concert in January 2000, reading the Fred Klein (’35), July 2002 words of Martin Luther King in Joseph Schwantner’s New Morning for the World. George E. Leedham (BM ’38), April 2002 WILLIAM WARFIELD 1920–2002 Nellie M. Lucia (BM ’32), March 2001 Virginia (Renter) Lumbard (BM ’30), December 2000 A great American baritone leaves Dorothy (Dirkson) Miller (BM ’32), December 1997 legacy to Eastman and to Rochester Helen Rachwalski Nolan (BM ’32, MA ’72), The Eastman community, and 1942, and after four years of Show Boat, giving a magnifi - April 2002 the musical world in general, military service, returned to cent onscreen performance of Mary E. (Bowers) Reid was deeply saddened by the earn his master’s degree in the song “Old Man River.” (BM ’37), December 2001 death on August 25 of William 1946. Warfi eld then performed Warfi eld also sang the fi rst Stanley Paul Rudnicki Warfi eld, at age 82. in the national tour of the performance of Copland’s Old (BM ’32), April 2002 Born January 22, 1920 Broadway hit Call Me Mister American Songs, with the Glenn (Taylor) Swan in West Helena, Arkansas, and on Broadway in Blitz- composer at the piano. How- (MA ’38), July 2001 Warfi eld moved to Rochester stein’s Regina. ever, his most famous por- Charlotte Virginia (Parker) at a young age with his fam- In 1950 he made his recital trayal was the lead role of Wyrens (MA ’39), March ily. He graduated from the debut in New York’s Town Hall Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. 1999 Eastman School of Music in and played “Joe” in MGM’s TURN TO PAGE 34 ➧ 1940s John B. Armesto (BM ’49), In 1950 he played “Joe” in MGM’s Show Boat, September 2002 Virginia (Hand) Dorsey giving a magnifi cent onscreen performance (BM ’42), January 1995

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➧ FROM PAGE 33 Portrait, accompanied by the James Milikin University, ist’s legacy at Eastman also Warfi eld also distinguished Eastman Philharmonia, won a Illinois State University, and includes the William Warfi eld himself in solo recitals, and as Grammy Award in the spoken Moorehouse College. Scholarship, given annually a soloist in Handel’s Messiah, word category. William Warfi eld’s last to a deserving voice student Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the Warfi eld made six separate performance at Eastman was from a background similar to Mozart, Verdi, and Brahms tours for the U.S. Department at an 80th birthday concert Warfi eld’s; and the William Requiems, and the Passions of of State – more than any other in January 2000, reading the Warfi eld Partnership Path- Bach. American solo artist – and words of Dr. Martin Luther ways Program between the The RCA Victor recording received numerous honorary King in Joseph Schwantner’s Eastman School’s Community of Porgy and Bess starring degrees and awards from aca- New Morning for the World Education Division and the Warfi eld and Leontyne Price demic institutions including with the Eastman Philharmo- Rochester City School District, won a Grammy Award in the University of Arkansas, nia and receiving an Alumni which provides expanded 1964, and his recorded nar- Lafayette University, Boston Achievement Award. musical education and oppor- ration of Copland’s A Lincoln University, Augustana College, This great American art- tunities for city youth. ❧

MERRITT TORREY, JR. (“JUNIOR”) 1931–2002 “Junior” put Eastman on stage for 40 years The Eastman community was in 1953, working alongside his tours: to the West Coast (1968), 1978 South Asia tour with a deeply saddened by the death father. He was appointed assis- the U.S. State Department performance part on triangle on August 6 of Merritt Torrey, tant stage manager in 1963, Tour to Japan and Southeast for Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Jr. – affectionately known as and ultimately retired as stage Asia (1978), the tour to Cana- Forever, created especially for “Junior” – at age 71. manager in 1993. dian and East Coast major him by Rayburn Wright. Junior’s father, Merritt, Sr. – During his 40 years at halls with Wynton Marsalis When asked what he liked or “Torrey” – was stage man- Eastman, Junior was involved (1987), and four tours to Japan best about his job in an inter- ager when Junior was a boy, so with a countless number of (1990, ’92, ’94, and ’96). view with the Campus Times the youngster started helping performances and musicians. As a leading advocate of the in 1990, Junior simply said, “I out backstage at age 10. Junior He accompanied the Eastman EWE’s Sousa Spectacular, love the students. That’s the was fi rst hired as a stagehand Wind Ensemble on numerous Junior was recognized on the reason I stay here.” ❧

G. Frank Lapham (BM ’40), Carl M. Steubing Jr. (BM ’47, Darrell L. Scott (MM ’59, PhD ’64), In memoriam March 2002 MA ’50), March 2002 May 2001 ➧ FROM PAGE 33 Robert Hall Lewis (BM ’49, Leola (Yount) Wilkins (BM ’49), Edmund Foster Soule (PhD ’56), Marguerite Baker Figeroid MA ’51, PhD ’64), March 1996 April 2002 March 2002 (BM ’41), September 2001 M. Arline (Schoenberg Louise B. Woeppel (MM ’49), Robert W. Getchell (MM ’41), Camassar) Mandel (BM ’45, January 2001 1960s July 2002 MA ’47), June 2002 Ward Woodbury (MM ’45, Calvin Hugh Cullen (BM ’61), Charles Gambill Gleaves Jr. Irving Nathanson (BM ’41), PhD ’54), April 2002 June 2000 (BM ’49), May 2002 May 2002 David R. DeCarlo (BM ’61), Vera Barden Green (BM ’46), Mary (Givens) Nelson (MA ’42), 1950s June 2001 January 1997 November 2001 Sandra (Campbell) Appleman John Loxley Firth (MM ’60) Everett N. Howe (BM ’49), James L. Pierce (BM ’41), (BM ’59), July 2002 Annette Meriweather (BM ’62), April 2001 August 2000 Myron Bazarian (BM ’51), April 2002 Walter R. Jones (BM ’48, MM ’49), Andrea (Percival) Politis (BM ’48), May 2001 Eugene Wolf (BM ’61), December July 2002 October 1993 Jack S. Bemis (MA ’56, PhD ’62), 2002 William M. Jones (MA ’46), Jayne Welch (Coleman) Reinfeld July 2001 June 1999 (BM ’45), January 1996 Charles E. Carter (MM ’51), 1970s Gladys J. (Hennum) Kuehmann William H. Schempf (MA ’41, PhD December 1999 David Mark Randolph (MM ’72, (BM ’48), November 2000 ’60), June 2002 Sr. M. Annarose Glum (MM ’52), DMA ’78), January 2000 Harlan G. Lang (BM ’47), Miriam (Tabor) Standen (BM ’42), March 2002 February 2001 May 2002 Marysh (Mieszkowski) Matarrese 1980s Helen (Morrison) Langhans Edward C. Steiner (MA ’49), (PhD ’47), May 2002 Thomas Dewey (BA ’86, BM ’88), (BM ’43), July 2001 June 2001 Stanley D. Petrulis (BM ’51), February 2002 March 2002

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The following news is based on information received from Eastman The Detroit Symphony versity. At Randolph-Macon alumni and other sources from April–September 2002. If you have recently presented George Woman’s College, where she alumni news to report, please email East [email protected]. Walker (DMA ’56, DMA ’57) serves as director of corporate edu and include the years of graduation and degrees received. with its fi rst annual Classi- and foundation relations, cal Roots Award for Lifetime Amos served as composer and Jackson (MM ’52) now is run- Achievement in American music director for the Greek ning ClarNan Editions, a Music. The symphony spon- play, The Libation Bearers, 1940s desktop publishing company sored the release of Walker’s performed in October. specializing in historic music Piano Concerto (Sony), com- by women composers. posed for and performed by Ann Labounsky (BM ’61) Doriot Anthony Dwyer (BM ’43) Nathalie Hinderas. received excellent reviews for is featured in a new book An American Mass, a 45- her new book Jean Langlais: entitled Women Who Could minute work by Chesley The biography of E. Craig Han- The Man and His Music (Ama- … and Did: Lives of 26 Exem- Kahmann (BA ’52), was pre- kenson Jr. (BM ’57, MM ’59) deus Press). Donald E. Metz plary Artists and Scientists by miered in November 2001 at was among those of several of American Record Guide Karma Kitaj, PhD. Dwyer was the Presbyterian Church in outstanding achievers to be writes: “Music fans in general one of the fi rst women to be Sewickley, PA. included in the White House will enjoy reading it; organ- hired as fi rst chair by a major Millennium Time Capsule, a ists will love it, and with good symphony orchestra, when William Preucil (BM ’52, MM large sealed cabinet of memo- reason. This is an absolutely in 1952 she joined the Boston ’56), concertmaster of the rabilia to be opened in 100 splendid effort.” Symphony Orchestra as prin- Cleveland Orchestra and years. Hankenson, credited cipal fl ute. She remained there former fi rst violinist with the with conceiving the idea for Professor of Music and Associ- for 38 years, after which she Cleveland Quartet, will serve computerized event ticketing, ate Dean, Research and Grad- began a career as a soloist and as faculty in the new Valade has held numerous faculty uate Studies at Kent State continued to teach. Master Teacher Program at and leadership positions in University William M. Anderson Interlochen Arts Camp. The the arts, including associate (BM ’63, MM ’64) is president- Charles Strouse (BM ’47), fi lm program provides individual director of the Brevard Music elect of the 4,000-member and stage composer famous and ensemble study with Center (NC), executive direc- Ohio Music Education Asso- for a long string of popular distinguished orchestral musi- tor of the Saratoga Performing ciation (OMEA). Broadway musicals includ- cians to competitively selected Arts Center (NY) and the Wolf ing Bye Bye Birdie and Annie, high school violin and cello Trap Center for the Arts in Jo Anne Almendinger Edwards composed his second piano students. Washington, D.C. He currently (BA ’65) and Bill Keck (BA ’65) concerto. Concerto America was is president and CEO of Pro- recently celebrated 10 years of premiered in June by the Bos- Neil McKay (MM ’55, PhD ’56), ducers, Inc. in Tampa, FL. playing together in the Con- ton Pops and Keith Lockhart. professor emeritus at the stitution Brass Quintet of Ver- University of Hawaii, recently Trumpeter, writer, arranger, mont. Edwards is a librarian At 76 years of age, pianist won the Loudoun (VA) Sym- and composer Raymond Shahin at Johnson State College (VT); Alice W. Miller (née Webster, phony Orchestra’s American (MM ’59) was selected as an Keck is band director at Mont- BA ’48) continues to teach and Composers Competition. The inaugural member into the pelier (VT) High School. perform, with no plans for prize included world premiere Bishop Kearney (Rochester, retirement. Miller is on the performances of his orches- NY) High School Hall of Fame. William Schirmer (MM ’66) faculty of the Dorolyn Acad- tral work, Symphony No. 2 He was band and musical was among the winners of emy of Music in Oak Park, IL, (A Shakespeare Triptych), in director at the high school for the Fresh Ink 2002 Florida which offers music instruction Leesburg, VA, in March. 17 years; under his leadership, Composers’ Competition of to underprivileged children. the Bishop Kearney Marching the Jacksonville Symphony Miller also performs regularly George L. Buckbee (MM ’54) Kings won two state champi- Orchestra. Schirmer’s “Allegro at area nursing homes, and appeared as the bass soloist onships, in 1969 and 1972. drammatico” from Symphony has compiled a book of her in Stainer’s The Crucifi xion, No. 221 received a runner-up songs and piano compositions. which he performed in an award and was premiered at ancient church in Hollola, the Fresh Ink concert in May. Finland. In January, Buck- bee conducted the sold-out 1960s Now a hotel/resort owner in 1950s fi rst concert of the newly Palm Springs, CA, Casey Criste formed Chamber Orchestra In June, Naomi Amos (BA ’61, (BM ’67) also continued musi- in Stockton, CA. His edition of MM ’62) served as composer cal pursuits since leaving After retiring from the faculty seven Concert Arias for Tenor and music director for a pro- Eastman, including perform- of the University of Arkansas, by Mozart (Subito Music) duction of Chekhov’s The ing as baritone soloist with the where she taught for more received a good review in the Cherry Orchard at Summer- San Francisco and Los Angeles than 30 years, Barbara Garvey NATS Journal. stage at Indiana State Uni- TURN TO PAGE 36 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 35 Conductor, effective last May. Composer Louis Karchin (BM Darlington joined the Wolf operas, the Berkeley Sym- Hangen is music director of ’73) was treated to a 50th Trap Opera Company orches- phony Orchestra, and the San the Indian Hill Symphony in birthday concert in September tra for their production of Francisco Symphony. For 10 Littleton, MA, and has been at Merkin Hall in New York Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. years, he was also baritone solo- a frequent guest conductor City, performed by the Da Capo ist with All Saints Episcopal at the Boston Pops since his Chamber Players and Solo- The George A. and Eliza Church in Beverly Hills, CA. debut there in 1979. ists of the Washington Square Gardner Howard Foundation Contemporary Music Society. awarded a fellowship to Phil Composer Max Stern (BM ’69) Several works by Frederick The concert featured, among Markowitz (BM ’74) for the recently completed an opera Koch (DMA ’70) were per- other works, the premiere of expansion of his multimedia entitled Messer Marco Polo, formed recently in Ohio, Karchin’s Voyages, for Alto composition, Abstract Expres- which revolves around the including his Sonata for Cello Saxophone and Piano, written sion – Musical Portraits of travels of Marco Polo, his and Piano at Baldwin Wallace for Taimur Sullivan and Mari- American Masters, into a suite search for truth, and the inner Conservatory, and Phantasm lyn Nonken (BM ’92). Karchin for piano trio and chamber dilemmas that accompany for Solo Marimba at the Cleve- is the recent winner of a God- orchestra. Markowitz, active each new discovery in his land Composers Guild and dard Lieberson Award from for more than 30 years as a journey. Parts of the opera repeated for the New Music the American Academy of Arts composer and progressive jazz were recorded in Prague and Festival of Sandusky. His and Letters and is professor of artist, also has been recipient released on CD earlier this Jubilation for Trumpet and music at New York University. of composition grants from the year. Stern is a current fac- Piano was premiered in March Doris Duke Foundation, the ulty member and founder of a by Romund Anderson, trum- Barbara J. Rogers (BM ’73), New York Foundation for the music division of the Depart- pet, at the Baldwin Wallace piano faculty member at Arts, and the National Endow- ment of the Arts at Ben-Gurion Conservatory. Northwestern College (MN), ment for the Arts. University of the Negev, Israel. gave a presentation on Women The Edwin Mellen Press Composers for the Minnesota New York pianist and composer Last January, Steven Wasson recently published A Percus- Music Teachers Association John Serry (BM ’75, MM ’90) (BM ’69, MM ’71) became a sionist’s Guide to Music – State Convention in June. In toured the Czech Republic this charter member of the Asso- Bibliographic Essays by Geary July, she taught at Northwest- summer with bassist Fratisek ciation of WELS and ELS Larrick (MM ’70). Larrick, who ern’s Piano Institute. Uhlir and his quartet. Serry is Composers (AWEC), a group of resides in Stevens Point, WI, a recipient of Jazziz magazine’s composers and arrangers who plays auxiliary percussion in Earlier this year Yvonne grand prize and was nominated are members of the Wisconsin the Grenadiers Band. Caruthers (BM ’74) interviewed for a Grammy. Serry plans Evangelical Lutheran Synod Marvin Hamlisch for the to conduct Radio City Music (WELS) and the Evangelical Concert Fanfare for Orchestra, Smithsonian’s Resident Asso- Hall’s annual spring show in Lutheran Synod (ELS); he an original work by Richard ciates program, “An Evening 2003, entitled Carnivale. presided over their fi rst meet- Audd (MM ’71), won fi rst prize with Marvin Hamlisch.” She ing in July. Wasson’s publisher, in the Creative Labs Sound- also performed Saint-Saëns’ After 22 years as a school Allegro Publishing-Graphics font contest. Audd resides and Cello Concerto No. 1 with the music teacher, Richard Kirk of Edina, MN, has established works as a video tape editor in American Youth Symphonic Austin (BM ’76) retired to pur- a link to his works on their California. Orchestra, and led two semi- sue a new career as an actor Web site, www.allegropub.com. nars on “The Art of Practic- and singer. Austin currently Violinist Eden Vaning (MM ’72) ing” for the Kennedy Center’s works in the Chicago area in Terry L. Zipay (BM ’69), an joined former New York Phil- Summer Music Institute. In theater, musical theater, oper- exhibited painter, has served harmonic principal harpist July, Caruthers coached cel- etta, and as a member of an a for the past two years as Myor Rosen in a duo recital lists in the National Repertory cappella quartet. department chairperson of at the Florida Atlantic Uni- Orchestra in Breckenridge, CO, visual and performing arts at versity Hibel Concert Series and addressed the orchestra on Roger Briggs (MM ’76, PhD ’78), Wilkes University (PA). earlier this year. “How to Enhance Your Career artistic director and conductor with Outreach Programs.” for Whatcom Symphony The Michael Isaacson Song- Orchestra (WA), and his book Volume 1 (Transconti- Oboist Dorothy Darlington (BM brother Jeff Briggs (BM ’79), 1970s nental Music Publications), ’74) spent the summer per- CEO of Firaxis Games in Bal- comprising 50 liturgical, edu- forming around New York City timore, collaborated in a com- cational, and life-cycle compo- with several groups, including puter game project entitled The Boston Symphony sitions by Michael Isaacson the Edwin Franko Goldman “Sid Meier’s Civilization III.” Orchestra announced the (PhD ’73) was recently pub- Memorial Band, and in two Roger, whose works have been appointment of Bruce Hangen lished. A second volume of 50 Puccini operas for Central performed by the London (BM ’70) to the newly created additional compositions is Park’s Summer Stage “New Symphony Orchestra, the post of Principal Pops Guest expected in winter 2003. York Grand Opera.” In August, Seattle Symphony, the Czech

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Philharmonic, the Prague music teacher, building-level Symphony, and the Warsaw administrator, and district- Symphony, among others, com- Lost and found: level administrator. posed the music for the strat- egy game, which was designed A Chambers cornet work The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Jeff (who has himself writ- profi led the Pittsburgh Sym- ten the scores for more than Three men with an East- pieces, 13 selections for phony Orchestra’s principal 30 games). man connection helped cornet or voice and piano, trumpet George Vosburgh (BM revive a lost work by the and six theater orchestra ’79) last March before a sched- Clement Reid (BM ’77) received 19th-century cornet vir- arrangements, the work uled performance of Haydn’s an Artist Initiative Grant from tuoso, band director, and that caught his eye was a Trumpet Concerto, Jerzy Sem- the Tacoma Arts Commission composer William Paris handwritten solo for B-fl at kow conducting. Vosburgh, for a May 2002 program fea- Chambers (1854–1913). cornet with piano accom- formerly of the Chicago Sym- turing premiere performances Milan Yancich, a retired paniment titled American phony Orchestra, has been of his works Summer Holiday horn teacher at the School, National Fantasie, by W. a member of the Pittsburgh for Band and Sons of the moved from Rochester to Paris Chambers. When Symphony since 1992. Desert for Piano Four-Hands, Ocala, Florida, in he checked the which was performed with fel- October 2001. complete list- low alumnus Walter Kovshik His wife, ing of Cham- (BM ’77). In addition, Reid’s Paulina (’47E), bers’ known Northwest Fanfare was com- is the daugh- works in the 1980s missioned and premiered last ter of Paul White, Heritage Ency- February by Harvey Felder longtime Eastman pro- clopedia of Band Leo Schwartz’s (BM ’80) new and the Tacoma Symphony. fessor and conductor of the Music, no such piece was to musical Me and Al was show- Rochester Civic Orchestra, be found, so he telephoned cased at the International Nyela Basney (BM ’78, MM ’79) and Josephine Kryl, daugh- William Rehrig, the editor Festival of Musical Theatre- has been appointed to a three- ter of the turn-of-the-century of the Encyclopedia, and Sony Showcase. The Global year term as music director/ cornet virtuoso and band confi rmed that the piece Search for New Musicals, run conductor for the Midland- leader Bohumir Kryl. Before was unknown. A few weeks by The International Festival Odessa (TX) Symphony and Mr. Kryl died in 1961, he later, Rehrig saw the manu- of Musical Theatre in Cardiff, Chorale. Basney also has gave his entire band library script and declared it to be Wales, brings new musicals served as associate conductor of to his grandson-in-law, Mr. in Chambers’ own clear, from around the world to the the Shreveport (LA) Symphony Yancich, who in turn gave elegant hand. attention of producers, direc- Orchestra, assistant conductor the bulk of it to the Sibley Crissey then contacted tors, and the general public. of the American Symphony, Music Library and smaller another acquaintance, the Me and Al is a dark comedy artistic director of Chamber portions to the school noted band historian, com- inspired by the true, but little Opera Texas, and principal con- districts of Crown Point, poser, and arranger Loren known, story of Dr. Reinhart ductor of the Massapequa (NY) Hobart, and Gary, Indiana. Geiger (BM ’68, MM ’70), Schwimmer, an optometrist Philharmonic. He retained a small portion and asked him to make a who longed to be a gangster of the collection and kept it band arrangement of the and ultimately lost his life in Leslie Dunner (BA ’78) recently in his home. Upon moving to work. As soon as Crissey the St. Valentine’s Day Mas- conducted the orchestral Florida, he gave this portion obtains a copyright on the sacre. In May 2003, The New premiere of jazz pianist and to his former student, H.E. arrangement, it will be Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus will composer Patrice Rushen’s “Kit” Crissey Jr. (BM ’66). made available to any con- premiere Leo’s Twelfth Night Sinfonia, performed by the As Crissey set about cert band that wishes Songs for Male Chorus and Annapolis Symphony Orches- cataloguing the 34 band to use it. ❧ Small Orchestra, as part of a tra, where Dunner serves as fundraising event in coopera- music director. tion with City of Hope. III for Two Pianos and Two appointed to the voice faculty Beverly Simms (MM ’78) won Percussionists at the Music of Colorado State University, Composer and performing the 2002 Distinguished Teach- Teachers National Association Fort Collins, CO. artist Barbara Harbach (DMA ing Award from Indiana State (MTNA) convention in Cin- ’81) was awarded an honor- University, where she serves cinnati. Her chamber group, Kraig D. Pritts (BM ’79) ary doctor of music degree at as associate professor of music. Cramped Spaces, has com- was re cently appointed Wilmington College during Simms also maintains a per- pleted a CD of music for pianos superintendent of schools its March Festival of Women formance career, including solo and percussion. for the Deposit (NY) Central in Music and Art, where three recitals in San Francisco and School District. He formerly of her works were premiered. St. Louis, and a performance of Juliana Bishop Hoch (née served the Moravia, NY Harbach, visiting professor of George Crumb’s Makrokosmos Hitpas, BM ’79) has been schools as an elementary TURN TO PAGE 38 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 37 Barrick Steeles (BM ’81) has that committee in more than College Chorale at Alice Tully fi ne arts at the University of been appointed assistant 20 years. Hall, Lincoln Center. Pianist Wisconsin-Stevens Point, also principal bassoonist with The Tammy Lum (BM ’83, MM ’85) is founder of Vivace Press, a Cleveland Orchestra, and Scarecrow Press recently was also a featured artist on music publishing company instructor of bassoon at the published Singing With Your the same program. specializing in works by Cleveland Institute of Music. Whole Self: The Feldenkrais women and other underrepre- Method and Voice, by Elizabeth Cory Hall (MM ’88) contributed sented composers. Bradley Ellingboe (MM ’83), pro- Blades-Zeller (MM ’84, DMA an article to the July-August fessor of music at the Univer- ’93) with Certifi ed Feldenkrais 2002 Clavier, “On Bach and Composer Dan Locklair (DMA sity of New Mexico, recently Practitioner Dr. Samuel Nel- Courante Tempos.” He also ’81) was awarded his 22nd led the University Chorus son. Blades-Zeller is associate gave a presentation on “Bach’s consecutive ASCAP Award and Chamber Orchestra of professor of voice and music Use of the S-D-G Motive” to in June from the American Albuquerque in the premiere education at Heidelberg the 2001 AMS Southern Chap- Society of Composers, Authors, of his Requiem. The 10-move- College (OH). ter in Baton Rouge and the and Publishers. Also in June, ment, 45-minute work was 2001 CMS National Confer- Orchestral Music of Dan Lock- performed at UNM on the Patti Monson (BM ’84) recently ence in Santa Fe. Hall is an lair was released on CD by composer’s birthday. became director of the Man- adjunct instructor of music Albany Music. This summer, hattan School of Music’s con- and humanities at St. Peters- he was Composer-in-Resi- International opera singer temporary music ensemble. burg College (FL). dence for the Brevard Music Renée Fleming (MM ’83) has Monson is fl utist for the New Festival. His Symphony No. 1 been named a Commander of York new-music ensemble Fred Maxwell (MM ’88) recently (Symphony of Seasons), com- Arts and Letters in France, Sequitur, and has recorded a completed a 31-concert tour missioned by a consortium one of the country’s highest solo disk, Conspirare – Cham- with pop singer Alicia Keys, of American orchestras, was artistic honors. She received ber Music for Solo Flute, on including a live performance given its world premiere by the order’s insignia in June the CRI label. at the Grammy Awards in the Louisville (KY) Symphony while performing the title role February, at which Ms. Keys Orchestra in October. in Dvorák’sˇ Rusalka at the Eleanor Sandresky (MM ’84) is won fi ve Grammys. Maxwell Bastille Opera in Paris. Flem- a founding director of Music is a freelance trumpet player The 12th Annual Kleban ing also performed for Presi- At The Anthology (MATA), an and educator in the New York Award for the most promis- dent Bush and First Lady organization that serves as a City area. ing musical theater librettist Laura Bush in the Kennedy catalyst for emerging compos- was awarded to Lori McKelvey Center’s Concert for America, ers; she shares the title with Pianist Jeffrey Watson (MM (BM ’81) in March. McKelvey, broadcast nationally on Sep- co-founders Philip Glass and ’88) performed in several ven- who composed the songs and tember 11, 2002. Lisa Bielawa. In addition, ues this spring, including the orchestral score for the fi lm Sandresky is a founding mem- Contemporary Music Forum musical Beauty and the Beast, Nazareth College (Rochester, ber of Exploding Music, a com- in Washington, D.C., with the is the recipient of numerous NY) Director of Percussion poser-performer collaboration. Washington Ballet at Kennedy ASCAP Awards and two Gil- Studies Kristen Shiner-McGuire Sandresky has been a member Center’s Eisenhower Theater, man & Gonzalez-Falla Theater (MM ’83) spent the summer of the Philip Glass Ensemble and at Marshall University Foundation Commendation touring the world as a for 11 years and freelances as (WV). In April, Watson began Awards. drummer and jazz singer a composer and pianist. a four-month position as asso- with several bands. She ciate conductor for Sunday in Assistant Conductor of The has performed with the all- Jacqueline Smith (née Cratin, the Park with George and A Cleveland Orchestra Steven female trio The Pop Tarts in BM ’85) is chair of the per- Little Night Music during the Smith (BM ’81, MM ’83) joined the U.S. Virgin Islands, and forming arts department of the Kennedy Center’s Sondheim the faculty of the Oberlin Con- just completed a CD with the Rectory School in Pomfret, CT. Celebration. Watson is direc- servatory of Music effective group. She also has performed Her husband, Paul Smith (MM tor of the Capitol Hill Arts July 1. In addition to his new with Jon Seiger and the All- ’84) became principal at Bolton Workshop in Washington, D.C. duties as visiting associate Stars at the New Orleans High School, CT, in May. professor of conducting and Jazz and Heritage Festival, Two works by composer David music director of the Oberlin the Suncoast Jazz Festival Beth Newdome (BM ’86), student Heuser (BM ’89) have been Conservatory orchestras, he (FL), and the Ocho Rios Jazz of Charles Castleman, has released on CD. Cauldron, for will continue in his position Festival in Jamaica, where the won a tenure-track position as orchestra, is on the CD New with The Cleveland Orches- group opened for jazz organist assistant professor of violin at Music from Bowling Green, tra, as music director of The Jimmy Smith. Shiner- Florida State University. Vol. 2, (Albany) and Deep Blue Cleveland Orchestra Youth McGuire serves as secretary Spiral for saxophone and tape Orchestra, and as music direc- for the Percussive Arts Society Organist Adrienne M. Pavur is included on saxophonist tor for the Santa Fe Symphony Executive Committee and (BM ’87, DMA ’96) recently Jeremy Justeson’s CD Jugger- and Chorus. is the fi rst woman elected to performed with the Nyack naut (Equilibrium).

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and at the Music Institute of Chicago in Winnetka. She is 1990s Teacher’s aid an artist-in-residence at the Cliff Dwellers Club of Chicago New musicology gradu- State University), the list and performs frequently in the Mezzo-soprano Xiu-Ru Liu (MM ates usually go off to teach of contributors includes Chicago area. ’90) enjoys an active sched- music history and survey current musicology faculty ule, performing principal courses in a college, and members Patrick Macey and Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins alto and mezzo roles such as often have lots of questions Ralph Locke; former faculty (BM ’93) announced her debut Maddalena in Rigoletto and about how to do it. Some of member Robert Fink (MA ’88); CD, which includes works by Suzuki in Madama Butterfl y the questions are answered Maria Archetto (MS ’79, PhD Kodaly, Brahms, and Ravel. for opera companies in Europe in a new book, ’92), now teaching at Hall-Tompkins commissioned and the U.S. Liu also has Teaching Music Emory University; a new work for violin and per- performed solo recitals in the History, published Michael Pisani (PhD cussion by Siegfried Matthus, U.S. and Germany, and in a by Ashgate, and ’96), associate edi- which she premiered at the live national telecast of sacred edited by Mary Nat- tor of The Journal Pine Mountain Music Festival songs from the Crystal Cathe- vig (BM ’81, MA ’82, of Film Music; and in Michigan this summer. dral in Los Angeles. PhD ’91). Marjorie Roth (MM The book, which ’86, MA ’90, DMA Oboist Michinobu “Mitch” Iimori CFRE International has Natvig says took ’99), now teaching (BM ’93) recently participated awarded Lisa A. Seischab (BM fi ve or six years from initial at Nazareth College. in recording sessions with ’90) the professional designa- idea to publication, is the “I chose people I knew to the Oregon Symphony and tion of Certifi ed Fund Raising result of informal conversa- be good teachers, at differ- The Third Angle, a Portland- Executive (CFRE). Individuals tions with colleagues about ent points in their careers,” based contemporary music granted the CFRE credential a longstanding need: a book says Natvig. “I wanted a ensemble. For the past two must meet a series of stan- designed for college level good mix of people, who summers, he was appointed dards as well as pass a written teachers of history of music had varying pedagogical double reed instructor at the examination of knowledge and or music appreciation approaches, from very con- Young Musicians and Artists skills required for a fundrais- courses. “There are books servative to postmodern.” Camp in Salem, OR, where ing executive. Seischab is cur- on teaching music theory The subjects covered range he taught private lessons, rently director of major gifts or musical education, but from teaching fi lm music chamber music, and bluegrass, for the University of Maryland musicologists have rarely and 20th-century music, and performed with chamber University College. committed their peda- to problems of student groups. gogical ideas to print,” says preparedness and teach- The University of Texas at Natvig. “There have been a ing music and non-music Linda Lister (MM ’93) recently Austin recently awarded a few pamphlets on specifi c majors in the same class. joined the voice faculty of DMA in piano performance subjects, but this is the fi rst Maybe the last word on Shorter College in Rome, GA. to Anthony Tobin (BM ’90). In and only book-length treat- Teaching Music History Her chamber opera about the addition to maintaining a ment of the subject.” should come from Natvig’s Brontë sisters, How Clear She private studio, Tobin tours Teaching Music History preface: “As we ourselves Shines, was premiered in May regularly as solo and collab- is also rich in Eastman have been formed by a life at the University of North orative pianist with the Austin associations: beside editor in music, so we seek to Carolina-Greensboro. Eurythmy Ensemble. Natvig (now an associate impart the joys of a musical professor at Bowling Green life to our students.” ❧ Marc Thayer (BM ’93, MM ’95) Greg Magie (BM ’91) was has been named director of appointed professor of orches- Community Partnership Pro- tral studies for San Francisco Samantha George (BM ’92, Time’s Arrow, a new music grams for the St. Louis Sym- State University, and director MM ’93) was named acting ensemble founded by percus- phony Orchestra. Thayer most of the San Francisco State concertmaster of the Milwau- sionist Ingrid Gordon (BM ’92), recently served as community Symphony, effective fall 2001. kee Symphony Orchestra, made its debut in June with a outreach manager for the New effective September 1. George mini-tour of Queens, NY, per- World Symphony (FL). Lawrence Loh (BA ’92) is one of has been associate concert- forming percussion-focused con- three fi nalists in the search master of the MSO since temporary chamber repertory. Longtime Eastman favorite for a new music director by 1999. Previous positions Marian McPartland hosted the Binghamton (NY) Phil- include assistant concertmas- Clavier magazine recently alumnus Gary Versace (MM ’93) harmonic. Loh, along with the ter of the Colorado Symphony published “Summer Projects on a segment of her PBS radio other fi nalists, will conduct and core concertmaster of for Students” by Marie Alatalo series Piano Jazz in June. the orchestra during the the Hartford (CT) Symphony (DMA ’93). Alatalo teaches in Versace is an instructor at 2002–2003 season. Orchestra. a home studio in Evanston, IL, TURN TO PAGE 40 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 39 2001 as Amour in Lully’s Cad- the University of Oregon, and mus et Hermione, conducted performs regularly in Portland by Christophe Rousset in the and Seattle. Festival Ambronnay. Calleo, who resides in Paris, recently The Nashville Symphony was chosen as a Resident announced in May the promo- Young Artist with the Opéra tion of Zeneba Bowers (BM ’94, Montpellier, and will be fea- MM ’96) to assistant princi- tured in several roles in 2003. pal violin. Bowers joined the orchestra in 1999, having previ- Michael Klotz (Diploma with ously served as concertmaster Nichols’ vBow Honors, ESM Preparatory of the New World Symphony. ’96; BM with Performer’s Certifi cate, ’00) has joined Last May, the Choral Arts the Amernet String Quartet Society of Philadelphia per- as violist, upon completing a formed a world premiere by Virtual virtuosity double master’s degree in vio- Howard Yermish (BM ’94) at the Charles Nichols has a degree that employs a computer, lin and viola at the Juilliard Kimmel Center for the Per- in violin performance from servomotors, and encoder School (’02). The Quartet, win- forming Arts (PA). Eastman (BM ’90), a mas- sensors to produce haptic ners of the Banff and Tokyo ter’s degree in composition feedback. Simply put, this International String Quartet Marci Alegant (MM ’95) was from Yale, and a doctorate means that the musician competitions, serves as artists- appointed assistant dean in computer music theory physically feels as though in-residence at Northern Ken- of Oberlin Conservatory of and acoustics he is playing a tucky University. Highlights Music. In addition to her from Stanford. real violin with of this season include three administrative duties, she also He is putting a real bow and performances in New York conducts two choral groups. them all to real strings, and concerts in New Orleans, Her husband, Brian Alegant work with his even when Cincinnati, New Jersey, Los (PhD ’93) is associate profes- development making non-vio- Angeles, and Mexico. sor of music theory at Oberlin. of the vViolin linistic sounds and vBow (the (everything Jason Masimore (BM ’96) gradu- Marcella Branagan (DMA ’95), a “v,” non-techies from a trumpet ated magna cum laude from the member of the piano faculty at note, stands for to a double bass, Georgetown University Law Allegheny College in Meads- “virtual”). Charles Nichols just to limit the Center. He accepted a position at ville, PA and State College of A picture in possibilities to the New York law firm Hughes New York at Buffalo, gave a this case is worth a thou- acoustic instruments), all Hubbard & Reed, where he will solo performance at the Ursu- sand sounds. The virtual using a violinist’s motions be involved in entertainment- line Center in Canfi eld, OH. violin bow resembles its and techniques. related litigation. She also performed as part traditional counterpart The vViolin is far from of the Arts Canisius Series at only in passing. A fi berglass fi nished. Nichols – who An article by Elizabeth Wells Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. rod moves back and forth recently was appointed (MM ’96), “The New Woman: through a hole at the end assistant professor of Com- Lady Macbeth and Sexual Evan Jones (MM ’95, MM ’96, of a robotic arm, which is position and Music Tech- Politics in the Stalinist Era,” PhD ’02, DMA ’02) recently connected to an acrylic base nology at the University appeared in Cambridge Opera completed his fi rst year as shaped like a violin (see of Montana – has built the Journal this summer. Wells assistant professor of music photo). bow and fi ngerboard, and is was also scheduled to read theory at Florida State Uni- The resemblance doesn’t still working on the strings papers at the International versity, Tallahassee. He also end there. By all accounts, and body. They will take a Musicological Society meeting saw the appearance of his fi rst Nichols is the fi rst person little time to fi nish, so stay in Belgium and at the national two articles in peer-reviewed to have developed a vir- tuned to Eastman Notes for meeting of the American journals. tual stringed instrument an update! ❧ Musicological Society.

Louise Vickerman (MM ’95), prin- Adjunct Professor of Gui- cipal harp, Utah Symphony Games in Salt Lake City. emonies, which took place in tar at Bowling Green State Orchestra, was featured in She confessed that the Utah frigid, 24° temperatures. University Matthew Ardizzone Harp Column magazine (May/ Symphony had prerecorded (DMA ’97) has released a solo June 2002) for her participa- their performance, then “faked Elizabeth Calleo (MM ’96), a guitar CD, which received a tion in the opening ceremonies it” with rented and donated student of Carol Webber, made 2001 Crystal Award of Excel- of the 2002 Winter Olympic instruments during the cer- her French opera debut in lence from The Communicator

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Awards. Ardizzone also serves programs for the Vancouver and direct four choirs and the vin College in Grand Rapids, as executive director of the Symphony. string orchestra. Michigan. She recently was Great Lakes Performing Art- a guest speaker for the Port ist Associates, and is an active Pianist Jonathan Arevalo Coo The Cincinnati Symphony Huron (MI) Kiwanis, lecturing performer in the Ann Arbor (MM ’98, PC ’99) participated Orchestra, led by music direc- on “Inspiration and Obligation and Detroit areas. in an event promoting the tor Paavo Jarvi, premiered to Arts Education for Youth.” Smart Symphonies CD, a proj- Kevin Matthew Puts’ (BM ’94, Kim’s work in exploratory vio- Courtney Hershey Bress (BM ’97), ect of the Grammy Foundation DMA ’99) Symphony No. 2 in lin projects also was featured new principal harpist for the and Mead Johnson concerning March. The Barlow Endow- in a newspaper article. Colorado Symphony Orches- music and its effect on the ment commissioned the work tra, was featured in an adver- mental development of babies. for the CSO as an artistic Michael Klotz (BM with Per- tisement for Lyon & Healy in Coo takes an active role in reaction to the events of Sep- former’s Certifi cate, ’00) has the May/June issue of Harp arts and culture in the Philip- tember 11. The American joined the Amernet String Column magazine. pines, where he is pursuing a Composers Orchestra, founded Quartet as violist, upon com- master’s degree in diplomacy. as an orchestra specifi cally pleting a double Masters The Alexander von Humboldt devoted to music by Ameri- degree in violin and viola Foundation of Bonn, Germany, Melissa Dunne (BM ’98, MM ’00) cans, also featured a premiere at the Juilliard School (’02). announced Damon Lee (BM ’97) has been playing with The of Puts’. In addition, the Bal- The quartet, winners of the as a winner of the 2002 Ger- United States Army Field Band timore Symphony Orchestra’s Banff and Tokyo International man Chancellor Scholarship since August 2000, when she 2002–03 season will include String Quartet competitions, competition. Lee, who currently won the principal harp position. new works by Puts. serves as artists-in-residence resides in Tokyo, will spend at Northern Kentucky Univer- one year in Berlin studying The Virginia Symphony The American Academy of sity. Highlights of this season composition under multimedia Orchestra recently appointed Arts and Letters awarded include three performances in specialist Sandeep Bhagwati. Shizuo “Z” Kuwahara (BM ’99) Gregory Spears (BM ’99) its New York, and concerts in New as assistant conductor. Kuwa- 2002 Charles Ives Scholar- Orleans, Cincinnati, New Jer- Dave Matthews Band: Just the hara previously was director of ship, a prize of $7,500 given to sey, Los Angeles, and Mexico. Riffs for Saxophone (Hal Leon- orchestral activities at Ameri- composition students of great ard Corporation) was recently can University, Washington, promise. Spears is currently Eun Sang Park (BM ’00) won a published by David Pope (MM D.C. Kuwahara was invited to studying for his master’s position in the fi rst violin sec- ’97). Pope is assistant profes- Sydney, Australia in August for degree under Martin Bresnick tion of the Fort Worth (TX) sor of saxophone at James the Maazel/Vilar International at Yale University. Symphony. Madison University (VA). Conducting Competition. Pianist David Riley (DMA ’00), Last May, vocalist Lisa Tarantino Clarinetist Andrea Levine (BM student of Jean Barr, has (BM ’97) appeared at Cleve- ’99) was appointed to the New 2000s been invited to perform with land’s Severance Hall as a solo- World Symphony (Miami) last the New York Philharmonic ist with the Cleveland Wind December. Kelly Hardee (BM ’00) com- Chamber Players in Merkin Symphony. The performance pleted a master’s in trombone Hall next April. Other engage- featured works by Leonard Among the winners of the performance at the Cleveland ments include the National Bernstein and Andrew Lloyd 50th annual BMI Student Institute of Music in May of Art Gallery in Washington, Webber, and included an emo- Composer Awards is John 2002. She recently received D.C., Rockefeller University tional tribute to America and Kaefer (BM ’99). Kaefer, who a grant from Deutscher Aka- (NY), and Carnegie’s Weill those affected by the tragedy currently is studying at Juil- demischer Austauschdienst Recital Hall. Riley also was of September 11. In addition, liard, received a scholarship (DAAD), a German student recently broadcast live from Tarantino enjoys work as a grant toward his education. exchange service, to study and Winnipeg on CBS National fashion model; she recently do research in Germany over Radio, and in the past year returned from a photo shoot in Frank Martignetti (BM ’99) com- the coming year. has been heard live on WQXR the Pacifi c Rim. pleted his master’s degree in and WNYC in New York City. choral conducting at the Uni- Hornist Jenny Kim (BM ’00) Florida State University versity of Cincinnati’s Con- is the winner of the 2002 Katrina Zook (DMA ’00), who added Eastman alumni servatory of Music. He spent International Horn Society was married in August 2001, Michael Buchler (PhD ’98) and the summer participating in Hawkins Scholarship. The is assistant professor of music Nancy Rogers (PhD ’00) to its CCM’s Opera Theatre and the scholarship is to be used at the University of Wyoming, theory faculty in fall 2002. Music Festival of Lucca (Italy) toward expenses for attending where she teaches voice, vocal Program. Martignetti has the 2002 IHS Symposium. pedagogy, vocal methods, and Stephanie Chow (MM ’98) accepted a teaching position introduction to music. has been named manager of at Weston (CT) High School Violinist Julia Kim (MM ’00) education and community where he will teach theory began teaching this fall at Cal- TURN TO PAGE 42 ➧

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➧ FROM PAGE 41 Mark Houghton (BM ’02) won was fi nalist in the 2002 Con- Several alumni, including Andrew Bauer (MM ’01) has the principal horn position cert Artists Guild Competi- clarinetist Andrea Runfola, vio- accepted a position in the U.S. with The Phoenix Symphony tion. Members include Matthew linist Mathew Tworek, and pia- Army, playing euphonium in effective in September. Hough- Bickel (MM ’99), Sam Bucci- nist Paul Hartley (BM ’57, MM’ the Continental Army Band at ton played principal horn with grossi (BM ’99), Steve Haase 60) performed a recital in Buf- Fort Monroe, VA. the Harrisburg (PA) Sym- (BM ’99), Erik Kofoed (BM ’99), falo, New York. The program phony while completing his and Aaron Moats (BM ’00). was sponsored by The Friends Leah Brockman (BM ’01) has degree at Eastman. ❧ of Vienna, The Arts Council in been appointed principal horn Recent Eastman graduates Buffalo, Erie County Decen- of the South Dakota Symphony. Melissa Ngan (MM ’02) and Eric tralization Program, and Ensembles Snoza (BM ’01) were married the New York State Council on Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey (MM during the summer of 2002. the Arts. ’01) and mezzo-soprano Nancy Bram Glik (BM ’01) and Melissa was appointed to Maultsby performed Mahler’s Meghann Eckenhoff Glik (BM the fl ute section of the Civic The Eastman Trombone Choir had Lied von der Erde with the ’01) were married in Febru- Orchestra of Chicago. a successful concert at Trom- Brooklyn Philharmonic, Rob- ary 2002, with music provided bone Day at Mannes College ert Spano conducting. The by another Eastman alum, Two concerts featuring in February. Conductor John New York Times called the per- Cary Savage (BM ’00). Bram Eastman performers and Marcellus gave a master class, formance “invigorating.” is saxophonist/clarinetist composers were presented in sponsored in part by United for Hypnotic Clambake, an the Washington, D.C. area last Musical Instruments, before The Mountain Music Trio, eclectic band that performs July, at Montgomery College the evening concert. which is made up of faculty from in the Northeast. Meghann is in Rockville and at St. John’s the Rocky Mountain Center for employed as the scheduling College in Annapolis. Music In another trombone-related the Musical Arts (CO), includes coordinator in Eastman’s Con- by professor emeritus Samuel event, the Bionic Bones jazz Eastman alumna Tenly Polhemus cert Offi ce. Adler, David Heinick (BM ’76, trombone ensemble made (BM ’01), oboe and English horn. MM ’77), Eric Ewazen (BM ’76), an appearance in May at The trio gave a recital in Sep- The Prism Brass Quintet (made Clement Reid (BM ’77), and the International Trombone tember in Grimes Recital Hall up of young Eastman alumni) David Snow (BM ’76) was per- Festival at North Texas at the Rocky Mountain Center. performed as ensemble-in- formed by Deborah Brown (BM State University, sponsored residence this summer at the ’77, MM ’79), Steve Haase (BM in part by United Musical Ryan Brown (MM ’02), who Boston University Tanglewood ’99), Carol Heinick (BM ’77), Instruments. The ensemble studied with William Weinert, Institute in Lenox, Massachu- Walter Kovshik (BM ’77), and was the winner of the has been appointed director setts, this summer. Currently Wayne Smith (BM ’96). The per- International Trombone of Chapel Choir and Women’s graduate quintet-in-residence formance featured primarily Association’s Kai Winding Chorus at Houghton College at the University of Maryland contemporary solo and cham- Competition this year, and in Houghton, NY. at College Park, Prism also ber music. also in 1995. ❧

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Professor of Percussion John Beck announced his retire- ment from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at the end of the 2002 season. Beck joined the RPO in 1959, and has held the position of principal timpani since 1962 – only the third timpanist in the orchestra’s 80-year his- tory. Beck, who will continue to teach at Eastman, received the RPO’s Musician Volunteer of the Year award for 2002.

Ruth Cahn, Jack Frank instruc- tor in the Community Educa- tion Division and Summer Session Director, has won elec- tion to the Board of Directors of the Percussive Arts Society. BENNETT KILLMER Former students celebrating oboe professor Richard Killmer’s 20th anniversary at Eastman were: Front row (L to Among the winners of the R): Jane Gabka (BM ’89), Ashley Barret (BM ’85), Anna Hendrickson (DMA ’00), Amari Barash (BM ’97), Laura 2002 Rochester Philharmonic Griffi ths (BM ’91), Tenly Polhemus (BM ’01), Terry Smith (MM ’97, DMA ’00), Shelly Sublett (MM ’83); Back row Orchestra’s Musicians’ Awards (L to R): Julie Bassett (BM ’96), Jackie Leclair (BM ’88), Dan Willis (BM ’90), Richard Killmer, Jason Lichten- for Outstanding Music Educa- walter (MM ’94), Michael Miller (DMA ’00), Emily Rostetter (BM ’01), and Leslie Odom (DMA ’89). tors is Professor Emeritus of Music Education Roy Ernst. Killmer and crew celebrate 20 years at Eastman Brad Lubman, assistant profes- On June 22, 2002, former presented the opening com- of a Boismortier Trio, with sor of conducting and ensem- oboe students, along with ments, followed by Shelly Killmer conducting. bles at Eastman, conducted current and retired Eastman Sublett, who read an intro- A potluck dinner was held the premiere of Three Tales by faculty, celebrated Professor ductory letter from George at the Harley School Library. Steve Reich and Beryl Korot Richard Killmer’s 20 years at Corbett (MM ’90), and then Several alumni – Chip Hamann at the Vienna Festival, as well the School. Faculty and col- presented Killmer with a (BM ’93), Erin Hannigan (MM as subsequent performances leagues in attendance were: keepsake book containing ’96), Robert McManus (BM ’89), in Spoleto (SC), Amsterdam, Ray and Judy Ricker, Charles letters and pictures from and Amy Anderson – called Torino, London, Brooklyn, Krusenstjerna, Verne Reynolds, individual students solicited during supper to extend their Baden-Baden, Paris, Lisbon, Kathy Kemp, Jonathan Parkes, for this particular event. greetings to Killmer. The Berlin, Perth, Hong Kong, and Peter Kurau, Stanley Hasty, Killmer’s children presented following morning, a group Los Angeles. Lubman also Fernando Laires, Robert Wason, him with a family keep- of alumni met Killmer for served as conductor and cham- Nick Goluses, Donna Brink Fox, sake book also, followed by breakfast at the Hyatt. ber music coach of the Bang Ralph Locke, and Jean Barr. a short and enthusiastic Kudos to Jackie Leclair for on a Can Summer Institute The event started with speech from Killmer. organizing the entire event, at Massachusetts Museum a reception on the second The fi fteen oboists in and to Terry Fonda Smith, who of Contemporary Art (Mass fl oor Cominsky Promenade. attendance then per- made all of the Rochester MOCA) in the Berkshires. Charles Krusenstjerna formed three movements arrangements. ❧ Soon to be released CDs on the col legno label include Beethoven’s Piano Concerto Arts and Letters this year, (DMA ’56 and ’57). David Liptak Space, performed in No Bound- No. 1 and John Cage’s Con- including Joseph Schwantner, (MM ’75, DMA ’76) was hon- aries, a series linking poetry, certo for Prepared Piano professor emeritus of composi- ored with an Award in Music. classical, and new music. The (Stefan Litwin, pianist, Saar- tion, who was elected to the series received an excellent bruecken Radio Orchestra, 250-member academy. The Eastman’s Ying Quartet was review in The Wall Street Lubman conducting). selection committee included mentioned in a March 20th Journal’s Leisure and Arts sec- another professor emeritus New York Times article on the tion. Eastman alumnus Kevin Eastman faculty and alumni in composition, Samuel Adler, renovation of Symphony Space Puts’ (BM ’94, DMA ’99) Dark were honored and awarded and alumni Jack Beeson (BM in New York City. The quartet, Vigils was among the works by the American Academy of ’42, MA ’43) and George Walker also resident at Symphony performed by the Yings. ❧

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The Brian M. Israel Prize was tor. Johnston-Turner is pursu- for her dissertation project, Composition and Arranging at awarded to Winnie Cheung. ing a doctorate in conducting. “Broadway Opera and Opera Eastman. Simmons is a stu- Cheung is a master’s degree on Broadway: 1934–1958.” dent of Fred Sturm. student in both piano perfor- The Rochester Philharmonic mance and composition. Orchestra recently announced Pianist Deanna Oye, a student Master’s student Jennifer the promotions of Liana Koteva of Jean Barr, was awarded the Snyder, who studies piano with Organist Ji-Yoen Choi, student to a full-time position in the P.E.O. Scholar Award from the Jean Barr, was winner of a of David Higgs, released a second violin section, and International P.E.O. Sisterhood. Brooks Smith Fellowship for debut CD (Naxos 555367) that Tigran Vardanian from second 2001. received a rave review in the violin section to fi rst violin The 2002 Down Beat Maga- March/April 2002 issue of section. Vardanian and Koteva zine Student Music Awards Freshman pianist Di Zhu, for- American Record Guide: “She are master’s students who honored second-year master’s mer CED student of Patricia has huge technical skills cou- have studied with Zvi Zeitlin. student Jamey Simmons with Hanson now studying with pled with sensitivity toward “Best Jazz Arrangement” for Nelita True, was selected to registration and tempo that The Eastman Pathways his version of the Bill Evans compete in the inaugural New earmark her not as a rising Scholarship Program recently composition “Turn Out the York Piano Competition at the star but as one already on the appointed music education Stars.” Simmons won the Manhattan School of Music. threshold of signifi cance in master’s student Victoria Kuan same award in 2001 for a dif- Zhu recently won the Howard the organ world.” Choi was as a mentor for Pathways ferent arrangement. He also Hanson Certifi cate of Merit winner of the 2000 American students. was recipient of the Ray and from the Rochester Piano Guild of Organists National Maxine Schirmer Prize in Jazz Teachers’ Guild. ❧ Competition. Rochester’s Jewish Com- munity Center recently co- Vocalist Lisa Conlon won fi rst sponsored and hosted a piano place in the 2002 Lotte Lenya concert of works from Israeli Competition for Singers. composers performed by Ilan Levin, a doctoral student in Composition students Stefan Rebecca Penneys’ studio. Freund and Adam Roberts won ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young James Myers, a doctoral stu- Composers’ Awards. Zachary dent of Jean Barr, received Wadsworth won an honorable several honors over the past CLARIFICATIONS & ADDITIONS mention. year, including the 2001 Bar- bara M.H. Koeng Award for The spring 2002 issue of Notes ■ Vice-chair/chair-elect, The Hyperion String Quartet, an vocal accompanying, the 2001 included an article about Cataloging and Classifi cation, ensemble made up of students Excellence in Accompanying Eastman faculty who hold American Library Association Amanda Brown, Amy Lovinger, Award, and fi rst prize (piano) leadership positions in out- ■ Two-term policy com- Jamie Arrowsmith, and Jonathan in the 2001 Jessie Kneisel Lie- side organizations. Our Sibley mittee member, Program for Brin, won the Russell Award at der Competition. Music Library staff are high Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) the 2002 Coleman Chamber achievers as well! ◆ ◆ ◆ Music Competition. Composer Jeff Myers won a BMI Student Composer Award Jim Farrington, head of public Our article in the spring issue, Maria Guenette, doctoral piano (his second BMI award) and services entitled “New Grove” features student of Jean Barr, was the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for ■ President, Association for Eastman faculty, staff, and invited to study in Salzburg on New Music Grant. He spent Recorded Sound Collections alumni did not include the scholarship in summer 2001. the summer at Tanglewood ■ Founding member, name of alumna Elizabeth Raum While there, she won a com- Music Center as the recipi- National Recordings Preserva- (BM ’66), who has written petition and performed at the ent of the ASCAP Foundation tion Board three operas among many Schloss Leopoldskron as well Leonard Bernstein Composer ■ Book-in-progress for other works, and also appears as other Salzburg venues. Fellowship. The Eastman Phil- Music Library Association and in the New Grove Dictionary harmonia premiered Myers’ Scarecrow Press of Music and Musicians II. Cindi Johnston-Turner was Metamorphosis for violin and She is listed in Grove’s Dic- invited to present a paper at orchestra in May 2002, with Jennifer Bowen, head of technical tionary of Women Composers the World Association of Sym- Yuki Numata on solo violin. services, Sibley Music Library; and their Dictionary of Opera phonic Bands and Ensembles head of cataloging, River Campus as well. We apologize to any (WASBE) Conference in Swe- An Elsa T. Johnson Fellowship Libraries other Eastman-related alum- den this summer. She also was awarded to Heidi Owen, a ■ Chair, international working nus or faculty member whom recently published an article doctoral student in musicol- group regarding international we may have overlooked in in the Canadian Music Educa- ogy. Owen earned the support library cataloging standards this article. ❧

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17005-Eastman 44 12/26/02, 9:53:41 AM EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC - LEGEND #001954

In the waning days of the fall semester of 1954, Dr. Herman Genhart took the podium in the Eastman Theatre to lead the Eastman School Chorus and Orchestra in a rehearsal of the Bach Magnificat.

A high note from the Bach trumpet sounded. An ominous creak emanated from the darkened house.

Suddenly, four tons of ceiling plaster plunged to the seats below, crushing 10, damaging 13, all of them unoccupied. AND THE ORCHESTRA PLAYED ON.

Even today, the cause of the collapse --- the trumpet, faulty infrastructure, or fate --- remains unknown.

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17005-Eastman 45 12/26/02, 9:53:44 AM AMY VETTER Eastman shows off its “handiwork” In a gesture of support for an inclusive community, and in mark” in support of the effort. During a short ceremony denouncing any and all acts of intolerant, hateful behavior, that day, Director Undercofl er and Dean Wade spoke out the offi ces of the Director and Dean of Students coordi- to reinforce Eastman’s purpose as a haven for personal, nated a campus-wide “Show of Hands Against Intoler- artistic, and intellectual growth, and its goal to be an envi- ance” on April 4th. From morning till evening that day, a ronment free from discrimination and hatred. So many in large canvas banner was spread on the floor of the Main the Eastman community wished to take part that a second Hall, and brightly colored paints and markers were avail- banner was created. Both colorful Show of Hands banners able for students, faculty, and staff to literally “make their were hung in the Main Hall for two weeks after the event.

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