LEDGER LINES NEWSLETTER for ALUMNI & FRIENDS Dedication of the new additions and renovations. From left: The Duck, Dave Frohnmayer, Brad Foley, Lorry Lokey, Leona DeArmond, Robert DeArmond September, 2009 Vol. XXI, No. 2 LEDGER LINES — SPECIAL EVENTS — is the biannual newslet ter of the University of Oregon School of Music Saturday, Oct. 10 and Dance. Letters, photos, and contri- butions from alumni, friends, and faculty Festival of Bands are always welcome. The 31st annual Festival of Bands is one of Address correspondence to: the Northwest’s premiere marching band LEDGER LINES competitions, featuring nearly 30 top high School of Music and Dance school bands in Autzen Stadium. 1225 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1225 Saturday, Nov. 14 (Time TBA) EDITOR: Scott Barkhurst [email protected] Homecoming Weekend ASSISTANT: Carol Roth Ducks vs. Arizona State at Autzen Stadi- um. Alumni Band members can register for CONTRIBUTORS: Jenifer Craig, George Evano, Barbara Sherman, Marcelyn Atwood the weekend’s rehearsal and activity sched- ule at: www.oregonalumniband.com PROOFREADERS: Space is limited, so don’t delay! Laura Littlejohn, Carol Roth COVER PHOTO by Jack Liu: Sunday, March 7 Dedication of the new music wings Music & Dance at the Hult The University of Oregon School of Music and Dance present MUSIC & DANCE another wonderful program featuring several of our premiere ADMINISTRATION ensembles. More details available winter term (check our website at music.uoregon.edu) DEAN: Brad Foley [email protected] ASSOCIATE DEANS: SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DANCE Ann Tedards–Graduate Studies [email protected] ADVANCEMENT COUNCIL Jeffrey Williams–Undergraduate Studies [email protected] CHAIR: Niles Hanson, NW Stamping & David Hilton, Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.; Precision Co., Rosen Products Sunvisor Eugene, OR DANCE DEPARTMENT: Systems; Eugene, OR Jenifer Craig, chair [email protected] Marilyn Kays, arts patron; Eugene, OR PAST CHAIR: Al King, ’76, Vice President/ DEVELOPMENT STAFF: investment officer, RBC Dain Rauscher; Natalie Giustina Newlove, arts patron; DeNel Stoltz, director Springfield, OR Eugene, OR [email protected] Amy Salmore, program assistant Jenifer Craig, ’71, ’73, Associate Professor Jay O’Leary, M.D., arts patron; Eugene, OR [email protected] and Chair of Dance, UO; Eugene, OR Mary Glass O’Leary, ’55, arts patron; MAIN OFFICE: Mira Frohnmayer, ’60, Professor Emerita, Eugene, OR Pacific Lutheran University; Eugene, OR Phone: (541) 346-3761(music) (541) 346-3386 (dance) Mia Hall Savage, ’72, ’73, Pacific Youth Fax: (541) 346-0723 Mary Ann Hanson, President, Choirs; Portland, OR Web: music.uoregon.edu Eugene Symphony Association and arts patron; Eugene, OR John Wells, violinist; Springfield, OR Chris Hepp, International Sales Director, Jeffrey Williams, Professor and Associ- Sherman Clay Pianos; Santa Clara, CA ate Dean of Music; Eugene, OR 1 opment staff and I would be pleased FROM THE TOP to speak with you about these op- portunities, and how to include the Brad Foley, Dean school in your will or trust or create a lifetime-income gift. I urge you t has been a tremendously to let us know if you have already I celebratory and busy year—from made provision for the school in the long-awaited opening of our new your estate plans, so that we can and renovated MarAbel B. Frohn- thank you during your lifetime! mayer Music Building in winter As we put the finishing touches term 2009 (see dedication article on on the building, we shift our focus pages 2–3), to furnishing our new to the next two years and beyond to spaces and classrooms, to complet- achieve our next priorities for the ing Campaign Oregon: Transforming school that were determined through Lives, to numerous farewell concerts a school-wide strategic planning and events dedicated to retiring process, which was unanimously President Dave Frohnmayer and his approved by the faculty. wife, Lynn Frohnmayer, for their • Scholarship Endowment: $1 years of outstanding service. million to support recruitment and We welcome our new president, retention goals. Scholarship support Richard Lariviere, who began his is our top school-wide fundraising out the school, have helped us to be tenure in July. He comes to us from priority. well prepared for these reviews. I the University of Kansas, where • Equipment and Instruments: appreciate the many NASM alumni he served as provost, and from the $500,000 Funds for replacement, survey responses already received University of Texas at Austin, where repair, and maintenance, including from our 1999–2009 graduates, and he served as dean of the largest col- completion of our piano needs and encourage others to respond by the lege of liberal arts in the country. He developing the percussion, large October 1 deadline. Your comments earned his doctorate in Sanskrit from wind instruments, and early instru- and feedback are important to our the University of Pennsylvania, and ment inventory. continued assessment and improve- has built an impressive academic ca- • Guest Artists/Scholars: $250,000 ment processes. reer around the languages, histories, We continue to work towards the Although the economic realities religions, and culture of India. past campaign goal of $500,000, as will affect us to some extent this We are immensely grateful to these artists and scholars enhance year, we have been fortunate to have our donors and friends who have and enrich our programs for stu- outstanding leadership at the UO made our building project a reality, dents, faculty, and the community. helping us maneuver through these and have helped us furnish it with • Faculty and Student Ensemble tough times in a calm and fiscally beautiful, state-of-the-art new pianos, Travel and Outreach: $250,000 sound manner. The UO, unlike many furniture, and equipment. Likewise, Touring and general educational institutions across the US, has not we are thankful for the generosity of outreach enhances the student expe- had to resort to pay cuts, or major donors who have provided support rience and the schools and commu- faculty/staff layoffs or furlough for our students, faculty, and guest nities in which they perform. days, nor have we made significant artists and who continue to be in- long-term budget cuts. We have valuable in helping our school attract Now that we have completed done some streamlining and belt and retain the best talent, while also the building project and campus- tightening, and one aspect of that ensuring quality facilities and profes- wide campaign, the music program may reduce the number of Ledger sional opportunities commensurate is preparing for our ten-year Na- Lines we can afford to produce and with the caliber of our students and tional Association of Schools of mail this year. I encourage you to faculty. Without both current and Music reaccreditation process and a visit the School of Music and Dance planned gifts, meeting our goals campus-wide program review that website regularly for news, updates, would not have been possible. were delayed by one year as we and stories about the exciting activi- In the current economic climate, completed construction and moved ties occurring in Eugene: many donors are thinking of their and transitioned into our new http://music.uoregon.edu/ estate plans and utilizing charitable facilities. Recent strategic planning trusts or annuities that can provide and diversity planning processes Best wishes for the coming year. some attractive rates of return, pro- completed in spring 2008 and 2007, vide lifetime income, and eventually respectively, along with an ongoing benefit their alma mater. Our devel- curricular review process through- 2 beginning with a lead donation from WHAT’S NEW Kathleen Daugherty Richards Grub- be of Eugene, followed by major gifts from Gilbert and Thelma Schnitzer, Bob and Leona DeArmond, and Let the Music Begin! Lorry Lokey. “This opens a new era for our Alumni, friends, and colleagues celebrate the students, our faculty and staff, and dedication of the new music wings our many constituencies in Oregon and beyond,” said Brad Foley, dean o celebrate the completion of its students. This new building stands of the UO School of Music and $19.7 million additions and ren- as an incredible legacy for future Or- Dance. ovations,T the School of Music and egonians, and my siblings and I feel “We have Dance hosted a public dedication honored beyond words that it bears gone from and open house on Friday, March our mother’s name. She believed having one 6, in the new large instrumental that music was as essential to life as of the na- rehearsal hall at the MarAbel B. oxygen and water.” tion’s least Frohnmayer Music Building. adequate Special music included a music fa- trumpet fanfare written for the “At long last we have cilities for occasion by Professor Robert Kyr. facilities that truly a school of Performances also included the UO our size to Faculty Wind Quintet with pianist reflect the talents of one of the Alexandre Dossin, the UO Chamber our music faculty best.” Lorry Lokey Choir, and a jazz quartet. and students.” “The University of Oregon has —Dave Frohnmayer The music building was among a strong national reputation for the top three capital priorities of training excellent music educators the UO’s record-setting Campaign and performers,” said UO President The project increased the size Oregon: Transforming Lives, which Dave Frohnmayer. “At long last we of the music facility by about 50 raised more than $853 million. have facilities that truly reflect the percent. It took ten years from the The UO School of Music and talents of our music faculty and start of fundraising to completion, Dance surpassed its original cam- Dean Foley addresses a stand- ing room only crowd at the dedication ceremony, held in the new Aasen-Hull Hall. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JACK LIU BY PHOTOGRAPHS 3 paign goal of $10 million to raise a total of $17,508,638 for the music building, equipment and instru- ments, scholarships, and programs.