L'SIVERSITY of OREGON SCHOOI. of MUSIC' NEWSLETTER for ALUMNI & FRIENDS Januarv. 1991

Nonprofit Organization US. Postage PAID Eugene, Oregon Permit No. 63 I 961 E. 18th Ave. Eugene, OR 97403 The Dean's Desk School Gary Martin, Acting Dean For nearly two months I have been anticipating the opportunity to write this of MUSIC column. Everyone speaks of the importance of alumni and friends to the well-being of a school or college, but LEDGER LINES is the official when I became the Acting Dean of the newsletter of the University of music school this fall I found dramatic Oregon School of Music, and is evidence of the truth of that claim. intended for alumni, faculty, and The University helps deans keep track friends of the music school. You of donations through its Gift Vouchers. comments are always welcome. At least once a week I receive one of these Gift Vouchers that informs me of Address all correspondence to: the most recent contributions to School of University of Oregon Music programs. Week after week I am impressed by the appearance of names of School of Music faithful supporters of the school. It is 961 East 18th Avenue very rewarding to see confirmed in print Eugene, OR 97403 the good will of such friends. As you and worked with all of our student or call 5031346-3761. know, these are times of extremely tight composers, bringing. - real vigor to that budgets. Very often some of our program. GARY MARTIN programs are made possible only because And in December, the Fighting Duck Acting Dean people like you have chosen to support Marchinz Band-all230 of them- the school. I have been eager to thank headed fk the Freedom Bowl in SCOTT BARKHURST you for your help, and want to assure you Anaheim, California. What a great way of the immense value of your Newsletter Editor to end a term! contributions. Our students' lives are On a more serious note: if you are a enriched by your generosity. SARA M. JONES resident of the state of Oregon, you are This has been an outstanding fall term. aware of the passage of Measure 5, which Director of Development We have a very talented class of requires that lost public school funds be freshmen and transfer students, one of the replaced from the state's general fund. AMY ZAHM strongest in several years. There is a This means that higher education will RIVERS JANSSEN well-placed enthusiasm for the potential suffer significant cuts and tuition Student Assistants of all our students, as well as for some increases in the immed~atefuture. recent curriculum changes. We are eager to keep the School of Cover Photo: Our new certification program for Music healthy and to keep a college by JURETTA NIDEVER public school teachers has begun. It education available to all deserving includes the fifth-year program in which Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and his young Oregonians. Please monitor the students participate in student teaching situation in Salem closely; if you will quintet were guest artists at this year's throughout the year, plus a new three- Oregon Jazz Celebration. Story, page : contact your legislators and urge them to year undergraduate conducting laboratory support higher education, you will exea a in which students learn to conduct and significant positive influence on the leg- rehearse ensembles, and other islative process in the next few months. innovations. We are proud of this In conclusion, please think of us when program which is distinctive in several you see or hear outstanding young ways, and which sets an important new musicians in your community. Drop me direction for the profession. a note, and let us look into the possibility The term included approximately 35 of bringing them to the University of concerts and recitals, including a new Oregon when they are ready for college. Composer's FON~and the inauguration And above all, thank you for your loyal of the Vanguard Series, dedicated to the support. performance of contemporary music. With best wishes for 1991, The series was launched with a performance by the Debussy Trio, one of The University of Oregon is an equal the outstanding new ensembles in the opportunity, affirmative action institutil country. They not only performed committed to cultural diversity. brilliantly, but conducted master classes Frazier, Booth Join Faculty Workshop to Feature Vanguard Series Two new faculty members came aboard fall term, and both have had an immediate Arnold Jacobs Debuts at UO The Vanguard Series, a new coucer impact on School of Music -programs. - The legendary Arnold Jacobs will head Richard Frazier is the school's first full-time a three-day series of master classes at the series featuring some of the country's performing instructor of tuba and euphonium. In addition University of Oregon School of Music on most acclaimed young artists, made its to private instruction, he directs the music school's wind March 28-30.. debut fall term at the School of Music. and brass chamber music programs, directs the Tuba- Jacobs, the former principal tubist of Conceived by Robert Kyr, new Euphonium Ensemble, and performs in the Faculty Brass the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is a associate professor of composition, the Quintet. widely recognized authority on respiratory Vanguard Series will give students anc A native Texan, Frazier received his bachelor's and function for wind and brass players. His patrons the opportunity to enjoy progr: master's degrees from the University of Houston. He trip to Oregon will be his first west coast which include recently premiered taught tuba and euphonium at Sam Houston State visit for such an intensive master class American music as well as selections f University and Wharton Junior College before moving to series. the standard repertoire. Chicago, where he worked as a professional musician and In the master classes, Jacobs will The first concert in the series featur studied with the legendary Amold Jacobs. outline his unique approach to respiratory the Debussy Trio, a flute-violin-harp While in Chicago, Frazier founded the highly acclaimed Chicago Chamber Brass, function and psychological motivations ensemble from Los Angeles. Their with whom he continues to perform. He also performed with the Civic Orchestra of for wind and brass performers. Also program included music by Ibert, Chicago, the symphonies of Oak Park and Elmhurst, and the popular folk group "Hot scheduled are performances by the Debussy, Pietro Locatelli, Jacques University Symphony and the Oregon Bondon, and a Michael Kibbe Tamale and the Red Hots." One ofthe high schooljazz ensembles takes its /~rriion riie Reall Hall stug~. Blessed with a great sense of humor and a flair for creative programming, Frazier Wind Ensemble, featuring solos and composition that was commissioned h. wasted little time in organizing the School of Music's first "Octnbafest" on October concerti for wind and brass instruments. the trio. 3CLa vaudevillean program that skillfully combined Mozart, Sousa, Shakespeare, and Recitals and reading sessions of wind and "This mixture of the new and old gi ives The Beach Boys. brass music will also be offered. audiences the chance to experience the Jazz Celebration Keeps- For winter term, Frazier has scheduled "Chamber Music at Tea Time"- a Sunday UO instructor Richard Frazier, who is best of both worlds," said Kyr. "It's a rare afternoon program of student chamber ensembles, with tea and crumpets served at ~rganizingthe workshop, began studying opportunity to make new acquaintance:s intermission. with Jacobs 17 years ago, and counts him while enjoying the company of old Growing, Improving as a dear friend and an inspirational friends." Dave Booth is the new associate director of bands, with the teacher. "I feel blessed that I have been Performers on the Vanguard Series will T he ?regon Jazz Celebration Yamaha Corporation and Zildjian responsibility of directing the UO Marching Band, conducting the able to spend so much time with Arnold also be artists-in-residence at the Scho01 pohshed off its third year with a Cymbals for their help in underwriting the UO Symphonic Band, and assisting Steve Paul in administration lacobs," said Frazier, "and am eager for all of Music during their stay, giving mas ter record turnout of over 50 ensembles from appearance of the guest artists. of the band program. my friends in this part of the country to classes and, in particular, a special twc)- around the Northwest. Owen is already laying the groundwork Booth has a bachelor's degree in music education from Boise share in this experience." day workshop for composers enrolled in Director of Jazz Studies Steve Owen for next year's Jazz Celebration, with a State University and a master's in wind conducting from the Registration for the three-day event is the graduate program. The student was especially pleased with some priority going to finding a corporate University of Oregon. He was mostrecently the associate director $60, with a $10 discount if received by composers will each write a three to fi ve- operational changes that made things run sponsor for the event. With the demand of bands at Indiana State University, where he more than doubled March 1. Participation is open to any minute piece for the visiting artists wh ich smoother. "We modified the format established [or a top quality jazz event of the size of the marching band in two years. He formerly directed nterested musicians and music lovers of will then be rehearsed and recorded du Iring somewhat this year," said Owen, "freeing this type, the benefits to both a sponsor the award-winning band at Sprague High School in Salem, 311 ages. the workshops. up the clinicians so that in addition to their and the UO music school are obvious. W Oregon. For further information, contact This kind of musical collaboration adjudicating, they had an hour each day to The quality and enthusiasm of the UO Marching Band, iichard Frazier at the UO School of between students and professionals is Irare do a workshop of their choosing." already at a high level for the past several years, shifted into high gear under Booth's Music: (503) 346-5646 during business in higher education, and the UO Schoc11 of The result was a total of 26 open clinics leadership. The band performed at seven home football games this term, traveled to lours, or (503) 343-5789 evenings and Music is the only school in the countr)I to and sectionals during the two-day Seattle for the Washington game, and to Anaheim for the Freedom Bowl on Dec. 29. weekends. w offer this opportunity to its students orI a celebration, covering all instrument areas, regular basis as part of its cuniculum, plus composition and arranging. according to Kyr. The large selection of clinics is in keeping with the Jazz Celebration's Music School Receives Davis of Moe's Pianos in Portland. nusic by Schumann, Maddox, and The next concert in the Vanguard Although performers frequently Series is Marimolin, a violin-marimba duo 1 identity as an educational event, rather :hopin, plus the premiere of his own new than a competition, making it different New Steinway disagree in their preference for a piano's rio for violin, clarinet, and piano. from Massachusetts, scheduled for from most other jazz festivals in the West. A new 9-foot Steinway grand piano "feel," that was not the case here; they The new Steinway joins three other February 11. w That conceDt seems to he a~oreciatedhv arrived recently at the UO music school were unanimous in their selection, and :oncert grands at the music school, two of .. with great fanfare. came to their decision in a relatively short the participating ensembles, who come ~hichare also Steinwavs. w from the middle school, high school, and Professor Victor Steinhardt, chair of time. college ranks. "The sectionals and the piano department, traveled to New "It has a really sweet tone, a rich York City last year with associate resonance to it," said Steinhardt. "It is workshops were very well attended this year," said Owen, "and the clinicians were professor Dean Kramer to personally very pliant-I can shape phrases with inspect five Steinways. Joining them in subtlety." just great." the inspection were New York pianist Steinhardt will give the new piano its Special ruest artists this year were the David Oei and two piano technicians: concert inauguration at his Faculty Artist DOII Gniiey ofrhe UI~~I'PI-S~Qof Kansas William Garlick of New York, and Steve Series recital on February 18, performing Peterarcu usErskine. ~oberts SpecialQuintet, thanks and drummer went to the [, ,s~lro,,iio,7c.c/i,rjr..

~ - - .. . - -- . .. .. OREGON BACH FESTIVAL ...... -J RESULTS: With one term of conducting Carl Halverson, New York; baritone Music Education Undergoes lab under our belts, the music ed faculty Oregon Bach Festival Richard Zeller and bass Arthur Woodley, are elated at the results. Young teachers both of New York. are improving daily, and the entire music In addition to the major concert events, Innovative Change at UO education student population is inspired by Readies for 22nd Season the 1991 season also offers six evening watching this process. The conducting lab concerts of chamber music and recitals, by Dr. Stephen J. Paul, UO Associate Professor of Music Education is also proving to be a place where some ecause 1991 marks the 200th amiver- including a program of Bach Suites No. 3 students are able to make the decision not B sary of Mozart's death and the 150th and 4, conducted by Rilling. Pianist tartmg wlth the fall of 1990, the and loudly, and to communicate with plain to teach, getting a much better idea of anniversary of Antonin Dvorik's birthday, Jeffrey Kahane will headline a chamber S"undergraduate music education and direct language. This first concern what is involved and realizing that it is not those two composers will share the concert featuring music by Mozart, cuniculum was replaced with an area involves the self. Next come the a career for them. It is much better to find spotlight with the Festival's namesake, Poulenc, and Beethoven, and long-time - innovative new program designed to give other concerns: What are the students that out as a sophomore or junior, rather Joham Sebastian Bach, at the 22nd Festival soloist Ingo Gotizki will give an young teachers more opportunities for actually doing? Can I hear problems and than in the middle of student teaching or Oregon Bach Festival. Artistic director oboe recital. practical teaching experience. The diagnose them? Can I give good solutions the first year of employment. and conductor Helmuth Rilling, acknowl- Other popular returning features program was designed over the last for problems? These concerns can all be edged worldwide as a conductor and Bach include six lecture-performances in the several years by the music education worked on in the conducting lab WHAT NEXT? One of the biggest issues scholar of the first rank, returns to Eugene 500 p.m. "Discovery Series"; six noon faculty, motivated by the desire to turn out environment. The one element missing is on the national scale is improving the for the Festival, scheduled to run June 23 concerts "On the House"; five meet-the- teachers who are more ready to enter the the behavior management aspect, which quality of teacher candidates. At the to July 7. artist events such as the "Let's Talk" classroom upon graduation. obviously will be different with children University of Oregon we already have fine Rilling will lead the Festival's musical series and the annual Bach's Lunch, and than with other college students. The undergraduate musicians wanting to be forces in Bach's Magnificat, St. John "Inside Line" concert lectures preceding GOALS AND IDEALS: The basic music education students are required to teachers. And yet, it is increasingly Passion, and Christmas Oratorio, major performances. premise of the new program is that "you take a practicum in the public schools difficult to recruit students into education Mozart's Mass in C Minor., and Dvorik's The Oregon Bach Festival is also only learn to teach by teaching." once in each of these three years in order programs in any field. If you, as alumni or dramatic opera Dimitrij. Dvorik's expanding its master classes from the Teaching is a performance skill, just like to begin learning the discipline skills so friends of the school, can encourage historical grand opera, only performed traditional conducting series to include playing an instrument or singing, and must necessary for success in the public students into music careers, and can tell once in the United States (New York, piano, strings, and voice. Chief among the be practiced to be mastered. Universally, schools. them about the wonderful rewards of 1984), embraces national, political, and new offerings is a vocal master class with in the United States, teachers are trained teaching, you can make a difference. The individual conflicts with a sequal plot and Frederica irm Srurle -~~ Frederica von Stade, tentatively scheduled by sitting in classrooms and being told NEW DEGREES: After four years in the national Teacher Corps program is characters out of Boris Goduuov. for June 29. about teaching, except for a short period program (three of them spent in the iesigned to attract some of the best and The annual orchestra concert under Vocal soloists with the Festival this For more information about the 1991 of student teaching right before conducting lab), a student will graduate brightest to teaching. In music we are not Rilling's direction consists of Mozart's season include sopranos Donna Brown, Oregon Bach Festival program or to be put graduation. The new program has the goal with a music education degree, but no ioing enough. More encouragement is "Prague" Symphony, Schubert's "Unfin- Paris, Patricia Spence, San Francisco, and on the mailing list, call the Festival office of getting every prospective teacher up in teaching certificate. The State of Oregon needed from public school teachers to ished" Symphony, and Mendelssohu's Lubica Rybarska, Bratislava (Czechoslo- at 5031346.5666. front of a class for significant amounts of has mandated a new Fifth-Year their high school level musicians, and "Italian" Symphony. vakia); mezzo sopranos Ingeborg Danz, time, starting in the sophomore year. Certification program which takes place at more scholarship aid is needed specifically Among the featured guest artists is Detmold (Germany), and Gabrielle Prata, the graduate level. A four-term sequence, For music teacher trainees. celebrated soprano Frederica von Stade, New York; tenors Scot Weir, Wiesbaden FORMAT: The heart of the program is a which includes two terms of part-time and who enchanted Festival audiences in 1989 (Germany), Michael Schade, Toronto, and new class called Conducting Lab, which is one term of full-time student teaching, MORE TO COME: As the program with a recital of European and American required for all sophomore, junior, and leads to the certificate. The young teacher :rows and is refined, many more young art songs. Also returning is pianist Jeffrey senior music education majors. This class is then eligible for a job. Two more terms, -eachers will go into the public school Kahane, and German trumpeter Hannes meets with everyone all together to leam usually taken in the summer, will result in -a& confident and eager to teach music. Laubin, who will be joined by his two basics such as conducting skills, and then the Master of Music Education degree. Even with the uncertainty of the political trumpet-playing brothers, Wolfgang and the instrumental and choral students divide Aimate and school funding in the state, it Bemhard, to present an aural extravaganza to form a bandlorchestra and a choir. BENEFITS: Young teachers in the !s wonderful to see here at the UO such of brass music. In their concert they will Meeting as an ensemble, the students get program see each other as teachers on a jedicated young people who are eager to be joined by protege Boris Kleiner on the opportunity to learn rehearsal regular basis. Up until now, they only saw nake their careers serving music and the organ. techniques in an environment where they :ach other as performers on stage. :hildren of the Northwest. New on this year's roster are the can still be guided and coached by the Research has shown that the ability to see popular Duke Ellington Orchestra con- faculty. Six music education faculty sneself in a role (such as teacher) is an ducted by Mercer Ellington. The Los currently team-teach the classes. Students important factor in succeeding in that role. Angeles Piano Quartet, America's premier in the instrumental lab play secondary Students will now get more actual quartet of its kind, makes its first Bach instmments to simulate beginning and teaching experience in their first four Festival appearance; its members include junior high bandslorchestras, and primary years than they did before in the whole violinist Joeseph Genualdi, a recent inshuments to simulate advanced high program. Then, on top of that, they will addition to the UO music faculty. Also school groups. have a year-long student teaching presented for the first time is Ave Sol, an :x~erienceto refine those skills in the astounding award-winning group of 36 THEORETICAL BASIS: Leaming to public school classroom. After five years singers from Latvia in the Soviet Union; teach is a sequential process. The first :under the old program about 95% of the and The New York Baroque Dance concern of any teacher is "What do I do?" students took five years to finish just the Company, which promises audiences a Teachers first need to learn to conduct, to mdergraduate degree) they will have their "visual feast fit for the salon of Louis XIV himself." make good eye contact, to speak clearly :ertificate and half a Master's done. Stephen J. Paul - - I-.--- PROFILE -. 1 lesson. And yet I can never recall her with her generous support of other artists. being impatient or sharply critical. She Since her death on June 13, 1969, her We are Counting on You to Ruth Lorraine Close never said or did anything that would contribution is being carried on in the by Sally Maxwell, UO Assistant Professor. ofHa1.p embarrass or humiliate a student. It was form of the Ruth Lorraine Close Musical Count Yourself With Us! just enough that she expected the best Fellowship Awards. he name of Ruth Lorraine Close has ously colored as we had every right to from each one of us. When she returned As Morette Rider, then Dean of the hops mt~\icalumni noticed call our "friends"-who support our prn- T become well known nationally in the expect in an artist holding the position of from her study with Grandjany, she was University of Oregon School of Music, rh~,\e:~r tl~nt the mmber oisolicita- grams with contributions even though they last ten years because of the yearly solo harpist in the Portland, Oregon brimming with enthusiasm so that I said at the 1981 AHS Conference in tion phone calls they have received from are not music alumni. These people value Awards Auditions in her name. However, Symphony Orchestra-really worthy of benefited from her experience. She was Portland, Oregon: the UO has been dramatically reduced. A music and education in their daily life; few people know much about this her undoubted skill as an executant." an inspiring teacher. I cannot imagine any "Mrs. Close, in her will, specified university-wide effort to streamline they come to concerts in Beall Hall, they generous lady as a harpist, teacher, and Mrs. Close also had the honor to student being bored with music as she certain bequests to Stanford University telefund calling over the next three hear our students and faculty perform at . person, or about her many contributions to perform Maurice Ravel's Introduction et tanuht ...it" and a number of other institutions and years-thereby reducing the number of athletic events and around the community, the:world of music and specifically During the 1920s, Mrs. Close associations and, as the final statement calls to frustrated alumni-will ask alumni and they have special interests in provid- to the harp. spent nearly every summer in specified, that because of her long- to identify their foremost areas of interest ing music scholarships. Born in 1896, Ruth Lorraine Europe, concertizing and studying standing association with the University of on campus, and will direct their donations Together, our alumni and friends forge began studies of the harp when she with Marcel Grandjany at Oregon the remainder of her estate should to those schools, colleges, and programs. strong links for us around the world, and was eight years old while living in Fontainebleau. In 1926, she be used to establish scholarships for This March and April, if you are a they help make our school unique in the New York. Her parents, brought Grandjany to Portland to advanced students of music at the music alumni and you receive a fund Northwest. This year, their donations will encouragedby her talent, took herto perform and to give lessons, thus University. In her typical gentle fashion, raising call from a student, take a moment support, among other things: Europe for further training. She introducing him to the Northwest. she stated that she hoped this action would spent one year (1907) in Dresden Mrs. Close was well known and make it possible for these students to .student travel to music educators studying harp with Professor respected in the social circles of concentrate on their music without the conferences, festivals, and competitions Ouellet, as well as harmony, theory, Portland. She was very active in distractions of working for tuition costs and piano with Mme Potter-Frizzel. the MacDowell Club, an while they were in school. She suggested, new practice room pianos She was twelve when she began organization devoted to music, and but did not specify, that some extra four years of harp studies in Paris was the first president of the preference be given to students coming visiting artists and lecturers in teaching under the tutelage of Mme Tardieu- Oregon Chapter of the National from the states of Washington and Oregon and performance Luigini, one of the harp professors Harp Association. She was a and in the fields of harp and composition. at the Conservatoire National. At gracious, attractive woman, "The result has been the granting of additions to the new Laboratory for this time, she also had lessons with beautifully dressed with striking these fellowships to twenty-five or more Technology in Music Instruction Alphonse Hasselmans shortly red hair. In a review of a concert students each year for the past ten years, before his death in 1912, and later in Paris, The Tribune stated: "She truly a living memorial to her interests and faculty travel to perform, present papers, added to her musical versatility by gave a charming program and is as musicianship. and attend conferences studying conducting with And16 good to look at with her "Through the efforts of Mrs. Doris Bloch. Along with her studies in picturesque instrument as she is Calkins and her daughter, Sally Calkins classroom equipment needs harp and in music, she also pursued delightful to hear." Maxwell, who is our professor of harp, the her interest in the French, German, One of her students, Doris state treasurer was persuaded that the scholarships (if designated for a fund) and Italian languages. Calkins, recalls: "Mrs. Close had amount of $6,000 annually, plus some . She returned to the United States tiny feet and would bring suitcases administrative allowance, be granted to marching hand equipment and uniforms in 1911 to enroll in Stanford full of shoes from France every the American Harp Society to establish the National Ruth Lorraine Close Awards University, oneof thefirst womeuto year. They were elegant satin Douglas 01-me(UO 32) and professor The high quality of education provided Auditions as an annual event. You are all pursue a law degree. She received embroidered slippers in all colors emeritus John McManus swap stories at by the University of Oregon School of well aware of the results and I am an A.B. degree, specializing in a to match her Paris gowns. We the Alumni Band reunion during Music greatly depends on the financial delighted to have this opportunity to pay pre-law curriculum, on May 17, never knew too much about her Homecoming in November. support of its alumni and friends. Several 1915. Completing her work at parents; however, she often wrote tribute to the memory of this great lady of scholarship funds, a Dean's Fund, the H Stanford University, she married to her mother whose address was the harp, Ruth Lorraine Close." School of Music Annual Fund, and special Carlos Close, a banker in Portland, at Buckingham Palace. She was to ask any questions you may have about funds for programs such as the Chamber Ruth Lo1 r nine Close Oregon. They remained in Portland always very generous and invited Reprinted by permissionfrom the the School, or leave a message for a Music Series, make possible important op- until his retirement. me to go to Europe with her American Harp Journal favorite professor or for our Acting Dean. portunities for students and faculty. These As principal harpist with the Portland Allegro under the baton of the composer several times, but my felt I was too And please donate whatever you are able are opportunities that our state-supplied Symphony Orchestra, Mrs. Close played during his visit to the Northwest. young at the time." to the School of Music. If you have given funding simply does not cover. Please under many distinguished conductors, As head of the harp department of When her husband retired, they moved before to more than one area of the count us in as your philanthropic priority such as Willem Van Hoogstraten, Karl Ellison-White Conservatory of Music in to Palm Springs, California, where he later University of Oregon, the student will ask when you are contacted this spring! w Krueger and Edgar Stillman Kelly. She Portland, Mrs. Close attracted many fine i died. Several years after his death, Mrs. you to identify which of those areas you presented solo concerts, not only in the students from Oregon and Washington. Close married Harvey Gracely of Ohio, a wish to support. Of course, we are hoping Northwest, but in San Francisco, New One of these students, Florine Stone longtime family friend. you will count yourself as an enthusiastic York, London, and Paris. The London DuFresne, wrote: "As a teacher she was During her lifetime, Ruth Lorraine donor to the School of Music. Daily Telegraph, reviewing her concert, exacting and thorough. Nothing ever Close consistently contributed to the harp Another special group of people stands said: "Ruth Lorraine Close's perform- escaped her and one just couldn't get by and to harpists through the inspiration of next to School of Music alumni-folks we ances were as finely pointed and gener- with any sloppiness or poorly prepared her playing and of her teaching, along 8 r--.. .. -. . - ...... - ...... - - .. .- FACULTY .. . - ...... -- -. .I LL: Have there been some cross-over Japan, Israel, Gelmany, England, United Kammerer-Dowd Jazz Quartet, and is benefits of your being both IFCM States, The Netherlands, Venezuela, composing and arranging works for his Music and the Global Family president and executive director of the Austria, the USSR State Choir, and the Goodvibes Jazz Trio. Dowd performed Saltzman, UOfaculty attend IFCM Conference Oregon Bach Festival? World Youth Choir I mentioned earlier. four Elliott Carter solo timpani pieces at All the choirs performed separately, with Umpqua Community College in Roseburg Saltzman: Absolutely. One obvious the latter four combining for the Brahms in November, and was jazz drummer with UO professor Royce Saltzman, in his sixth Requiem under the direction of Robert advantage has been the opportunity to the Oregon Jazz Quartet in September. year aspresident of the International meet with Helmuth Rilling when I travel Shaw. We then went by ship to Tallinn, Federation for- Choral Music (IFCM), to Europe for the IFCM meetings. That Estonia, where we stayed for two days, attended and helped organize the World gives us more time to do face-to-face and heard numerous choirs. The Paul Friedlander was elected member- Symposium last summer in Sweden, planning for the Bach Festival, at nominal conference concluded in Helsinki, ship secretaryltreasurer of the Interna- - Estonia, and Finland. Other UO music expense. Another big plus is the spin-off Finland, where Kryzsztof Penderecki Barbara Baird directed a one-week tional Association for the Study of Popular faculg who ti-aveled to Europe for- the contacts with choral directors, singers, and conducted his Polish Requiem. Summer Workshop for Pipe Organists Music, American Chapter. He recently symposium included associate professors choirs from all over the world, some of with Dr. Jim Moeser as master teacher. submitted a Fulhright proposal for a Doris Allen, Richard Clark and Randall whom have or will attend the Oregon LL: Dramatic changes have taken place She performed an All-American Organ Southeast Asian Regional Research Moore, senior instructor Mary Lou Van Bach Festival. For example, this past in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union Recital on July 4 and a Brass and Organ Program Grant to study western- Rysselbe~.ghe,and dean emeritus Morrette recently. Tell us about the Estonians. year I heard a marvelous 36-voice choir recital at Central Lutheran Church in influenced popular music in Thailand, Rider. Ledger Lines talked with Saltzman from Latvia, and they are planning to Eugene on July 5. Later in July, she Malaysia, and Singapore. about IFCM and the summer's events: come and perform at the 1991 Oregon Saltzman: It is very obvious that choral Bach Festival. I have stacks of tapes and music has been the Estonians' vehicle to performed in "Brandenburgs and Brew" LL: You are now starting your third recordings of various artists and express their independence while under with the Oregon Coast Summer Music John Gainer completed a recording term as president of IFCM. Tell us ensembles, but to actually meet and hear Soviet domination. For over 100 years Festival in Coos Bay. In September, she project with gospel artist Marguerite about the Federation and its mission. them in person is an enormous advantage, Estonians have expressed their cultural played an organ recital in Eureka, CA, Rainey of Long Beach, California. His and it has given the Bach Festival's sponsored by the American Guild of community choir, Inspirational Sounds, Saltzman: The IFCM has membership in international flavor a big boost. Organists. She appeared in the Faculty performed background vocals on the approximately 70 countries. Membership one out of every three persons actively recording. Gainer was responsible for the Royce Su1f:mun Musicale at UO during orientation week includes conductors, choirs, and national LL: This year's symposium took place sings in a choir. In Tallinn I heard a choir and performed an organ dedication recital vocal arrangements on this project, and the choral organizations. The IFCM's in three countries. Tell us what you saw of 5,000 perform for the IFCM delegates. at Emrnaus Lutheran Church in Eugene in album was due for release on a major mission, besides organizing the world 3ur international programs, and we don't and heard. I had the feeling that when an Estonian December. gospel label in December, 1990. symposium every three years, is to have enough money to meet all the baby comes into the world, it is singing, facilitate exchange and cooperation requests. The job really requires a full- not crying; and when an Estonian leaves Saltzman: We started in Stockhohn Edward Kammerer was appointed acting between countries in areas of research, time commitment, almost a missionary where we heard choirs from Sweden, this world, it is with a song, not a sigh. Tim Clarke (GTF) was awarded $200 by choral publications, recordings, and zndeavor. Estonia's national Song-Fest took place a the Jazz Society of Oregon in August to Associate Dean of the School of Music seminars. month before the IFCM conference. On study with noted jazz trumpet player Gary and elected to Friars, a UO honorary that occasion, a choir of 30,000 sang to an Barone. In November, Clarke was society. He performed as part of the 5th LL: What have been your responsi- audience of 400,000 in an outdoor commissioned to compose a work for the Street Noon Concert Series with flautist bilities as president of IFCM? amphitheater built specifically for singing Oregon Jazz Ensemble to be performed in Alice Burke in the BurkeIKammerer (see photo). And this is a country of only January as part of a University of Oregon Electronic Duo, and performed duo-piano Saltzman: I work w~thlocal organizing 1.5 million people! conference honoring Dr. Martin Luther works for the Eugene Opera Benefit. committees in the host country (or King, Jr. Other ensemble performances include the countries) to organize the World LL: You have often talked about music Kammerer-Dowd Jazz Quartet at the Symposium, and attend several executive being an international bridge. Was that Eugene Celebration, the Northwest meetings a year, often in Belgium, where spirit present at the IFCM conference? David Doerksen has published his book, the IFCM has its International Center for Guide to Evaluating Teachers of Music Creative Orchestra backin,0 j azz saxo- Choral Music. Other meetings have been Saltzman: You know, people talk about Peformance Groups. phonist Oliver Reed, and the Oregon Jazz in Moscow, Venezuela, and Israel. the Olympics being the medium of Quartet at a recent Faculty Artist Series Perhaps even more important, I represent international good will. But the winter Charles Dowd was timpani soloist for the concert that featured Kammerer's com- IFCM to business and government leaders and summer Olympics are a competition, west coast premiere of Endgame by Philip position, "Mass at McDonalds." His around the world, working for increased while music is not. When we gather as Glass at Glass's August recital in recent solo jazz piano performances cooperation and funding for international choral conductors and singers-ideology, California. Dowd continues as principal include the Mayor's Art Show at the Hult choral activities. One of our current culture, language, geography-none of timpanist of the Oregon Bach Festival and Center and Christmas music at the UO projects is to secure corporate funding for that matters; we truly become a global the Cabrillo Music Festival, and was Portland Alumni Pittock Mansion a World Youth Choir, a new ensemble of family. The music unifies people in a way Musicale. He also gave a presentation on 90 singers, ages 17-23, from 24 countries. acting principal timpanist of the Peter Britt that does not happen with any other the uses of MIDIIcomputer-driven Unfortunately, the demand for programs is medium or discipline. To be involved Music Festival in August. Dowd far greater than our current resources. We with an artistic expression such as this has conducted the west coast premiere of synthesis to TAG students visiting the UO have choirs from all over the world- been and continues to be enormously David Gompper's Do Not, Go Gentle Into campus. Kammerer has recently received some Black African choirs, for example- satisfying. H That Good Night with the O~egon an Equipment Grant from the Voldyne who want desperately to be involved in Percussion Ensemble in November. He Corporation. The errormolu anipliiih~~urrrin Tallinn, Estonia, wher-e a 30,000 voice choir sang to an continues his jazz vibraharp work with the ~rudiencei~f400.000.

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Bergquist Publishes New Edition Gary Karpinski chaired a presentation on translated by the reknowned American addition, Paul will co-chair a session with Seattle, was sponsored by the Early Music Theory Pedagogy at the Octoher meeting poet, W. S. Merwin. David Doerksen of our faculty on the Guild of Seattle. Ann also received a of Music by Orlando di Lasso of the Association for Technology in music education department's pre-student 1990 Summer Research Award from the Music Inshuction in Washington, D.C. In Don Latarski has been busy with a major teaching examination, which they jointly University of Oregon Faculty Research The Seven Penitential Psalms and Laudate Dominnm de Caelis, Recent Researches in November he presented a paper, "The studio expansion that includes a new vocal developed. Appointed this fall as Director Committee. the Music of the Renaissance, Vol. 86-87 (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., 1990). Interval Cycles in the Music of Claude isolation booth suitable for voice-over of Bands at the UO, Paul now conducts xxviii, 200 p. Debussy" to the Society for Music Theory work, vocalists, and acoustic instrument the Oregon Wind Ensemble, teaches Robert Trotter was named vice- and the American Musicological Society recording. The addition of professional graduate conducting courses, and team- chancellor of the North Carolina School of A major monument of Renaissance music has recently national conference. He published an preamps, compressor~limiters.mics and teaches the undergraduate music education the Arts, a campus of UNC. He was also a appeared in a new edition prepared by UO professor Peter xticle, "Hypercard: A Powerful Teaching effects devices will now allow DoLa conducting lab. delegate to the American Association of Bergquist: Orlando di Lasso's The Seven Penitential Psalms Tool" in The Music and Computer Music to broaden its client base. Latarski University Professor's Conference on and Laudate Dominnm de Caelis, Vol. 86-87 of the series, Educator, Volume 1, No. 8. He also has recently written and produced two Morette Rider (dean emeritus) gave a Artistic Expression and Academic Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, published puhlished a review article, "Ear Training commercial spots: a rap jingle for the Lane paper titled "The Importance of Music and Freedom, held at Wolf Trap in Virginia. by A-R Editions in Madison, Wisconsin. and Integrated Aural Skills: Three Recent County ice rink and a Christmas spot for the Arts in the Higher Education Lasso is one of the two or three greatest composers of the Texts," in the Journal of Music Theo~y Valley River Center. He is also Curriculum of the Future" and participated Mary Lou Van Rysselberghe provided late 16th century. He was hornin 1530 or 1532 in Mons, in the Pedagogy, Volume 3, No. 1. collaborating with Chris Stevens on a spot in a panel at another session on the topic clinics and consultation visits to Fern French-speaking area of what is now Belgium. As a child he for Sun River Sports. He has signed a "Planning and Evaluating" at the 1990 Ridge and Rosehurg public schools. She was three times kidnapped because of his beautiful voice; the Dean Kramer gave a piano concerto publishing contract with Columbia ISME conference in Helsinki, Finland. presented a paper, "Training Child Care third time his parents allowed him to join the musical senrice performance for Marin Alsop's conducting Pictures Puhlishing/Belwin for all six of Workers to Teach Music in a Related Arts of his kidnapper, and he spent his formative years in Italy. His debut with the Eugene Symphony in Environment" in Los Angeles for the Peter Bergquist his hooks on guitar instruction: Scale Victor Steinbardt played Mendelssohn's early madrigalsandothercompositions were highly successful November, 1989. His 1990 performances Patterns for Guitar, Moveable Guitar C minor. Trio as part of Chamber Music International Early Childhood Creative there, and in 1552 he becamemaestro dicappella at St. JohnLateran inRome, aremarkably included chamber music with violinist Chords, Chord Embellishments, Northwest in Portland and Gershwin's Arts Conference. She also participated in prestigious position forone so young. In two years, however, hereturnednorth, and in 1557 Gary McGlaughlin in Coos Bay and Introduction to Chor-d Theory, Chord Rhapsody in Blue at Bend's Cascade the culminating celebration for Head he became a member of the chapel of Duke Alhrecht V of Bavaria in Munich. After a few Brookings, OR, a Faculty Artist Series Orbits, and Arpeggios for Guitar. The Music Festival. At the Oregon Bach Start's 25th anniversary. years he becameKapellmeister of the ducalchapel, and he held this position until his death recital in April; solo recitals in May in books are slated for release early in 1991. Festival, he performed Zarebski's Piano in 1594, serving both Albrecht V and his son and successor, Wilhelm V. Boston and at the Philadelphia Museum of He is also producing three new Quintet with the Penderecki String Quartet Jeffrey Williams was bass trombonist in "Lasso composed the Penitential Psalms around 1559 at Alhrecht's command," Art; a faculty recital with Herbert Eckhoff educational play-along tapes to he and Schumann's Davidsbundlertanze with the orchestras for the1990 Oregon Bach noted Bergquist. "The duke had the music copied into a large manuscript (412 pages in at the OMTA convention in June; a distributed by Jamey Aebersold. These the Eugene Ballet. He played the Festival and the Eugene Festival of two volumes, the pages about 24 by 18 in.) which was lavishly illuminated by the court concerto performance with the Cascade new tapes are part of the Sittin' In series of Schumann again at the Oregon Coast Musical Theater. He performed and painter and hound in red velvet with golden clasps; it was undoubtedly one of the most Festival in Bend in June; and a chamber instmctional tapes from DoLa Music, Music Festival in July, and traveled to taught at the Red Lodge Music Festival in expensive music manuscripts ever produced. Albrecht kept the Penitential Psalms for music program with the Penderecki String aimed at the beginning jazz student. southern Oregon for three performances of Montana, the Oregon Summer Music his own private use and would not allow them to be puhlished or otherwise circulated." Quartet during the 1990 Oregon Bach Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Institute, and the Britt Chamber Music Only in 1584, five years after Alhrecht's death, was Lasso able to publish them, Festival. He also gavemaster classes for Marsha Mabrey was guest conductor and the Rogue Valley Symphony. Academy. He continues as principal seizing the oppommity to make some small revisions. Several modem editions of the visiting students from Korea during the clinician in October for the 1990 Utah trombone of the Eugene Symphony, music have appeared in the last 150 years, but none has been a full critical edition that Bach Festival, and was on the faculty for Music Educators All-State Orchestra. The Jeffrey Stolet received a 1990 Summer trombonist in the Oregon Brass Quintet, compares hoth sources and gives full details about the differences between them. The the UO's summer piano camp. Kramer performance was in the Mormon L.D.S. Research Grant for Computer Music from and became the conductor of the edition for A-R is also fully usable for performance, and Bergquist said he hopes that the was on sabbatical leave fall term, complet- Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. the University of Oregon. University Brass Choir in September, music will now be heard more often as well as studied more easily. ing his requirements for the DMA from 1990. "I began to he involved with Lasso's music in a scholarly way some fifteen years the University of Texas at Austin. His Harold Owen was on hand to hear the Leslie Straka performed a guest recital ago when I reviewed a few recordings for Musical Quarterly," said Bergquist. "I was lecture-recital, "Schumann's Carnaval: a premiere of his commissioned work, with Barbara Palmer at Willamette Rick Wolfgang (GTF) received his DMA surprised to find a lack of reliable editions of some of his most important compositions; Study in Interpretation," was also presen- Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble at University on October 17 and repeated the in Music Education in December, 1990. the collected edition of his music is still not complete, and in 1975 it was even less so .ed in Helsinki, Finland, in November. Cal State-Fullerton, last year. program as part of the UO Faculty Artist He served as guest clinician at the district than today. Lasso's music has always had great prestige but surprisingly little serious Series on Octoher 29. She is currently state in-service day in Pendleton, Oregon, study, especially in English, and I have worked to remedy hoth the lack of editions and Rober Kyr was awarded a commission Stephen J. Paul was elected President of president of the Oregon unit of the in Octoher. He was recently appointed the lack of studies. I was able to bring out an edition of his two settings of the cycle of From the Annual New Works Fund for the Northwest Division of the College American String Teachers Association. conductor of Divertimento, a Baroque Readingsfrom Jobat A-R in 1983, and now they have brought out the Penitential lbamber Music America Ensembles-in- Band Directors National Conference Chamber Orchestra in Eugene. Psalms. Residence, administered by the Lila (CBDNA), and National Chair of the Ann Tedards performed The Classical "When I was on sabbatical in 1985, I spent seven months in Munich and was invited Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. He Instructional Strategies Special Research Lied, a solo recital with harpsichordist at that time to contribute four volumes to the collected edition of Lasso's works that sill compose a hook of madrigals and Interest Group of the MENC. In February Spencer Carroll, for the Festival Music B&enreiter is publishing in Germany. Those are nearly complete now, and I plan to notets for the Ensemble Project Ars Nova, he will present a session at Northwest Society in Indianapolis during July. In continue my work on Lasso with a full-scale study of his motets, which I expect to make 1 group specializing in the performance of MENC jointly with UO alumnus Bmce October, she performed as a guest artist a substantial beginning on during my sabbatical in 1991-92. This is another big project Medieval and contemporary music. Kyr's Gutgesell, Director of Bands at Juanita with the Classical Consort of Seattle, an that will take some years to finish, however, and I can imagine that it will keep me busy :ollection of music for the project is titled High School in Redmond, WA. They will ensemble dedicated to the performance of on into my retirement, which is still several years away." H iongs of the Shining Wind, featuring do a clinic/demonstration on developing classical music on period instruments. iettings of texts from around the world, tone quality in the junior high hand. In The concert, at Davidson Galleries in 13 -- - -. 1- . ALUMNI NOTES' I Note: Alumni notes received after our Directors Association, Oregon MEA, Part 1, in December, and will do the his partner. He and Stan McMahon play at times it seems to be "the best job in the production deadline will be published in LMEA and MENC. He was a Lt. Col. Mozart Requiem this spring. guitar, wiolin, and keys with the local world." On the more challenging side, she the next issue of Ledger Lines. serving four years in the US. Air Force band Duke Fame. notes there are many "exercises in during World War 11, and received the A Pat H. Chauffin, Jr. (1965), Beaumont, patience when dealing with passengers," Ada Mathews MacKenzie Andrews Force Commendation Medal in 1972. TX, has been teaching orchestra in public Lisa Ann Baker Stevens (1988). and notes that the only musical problems (1918), Eugene, OR, turned 94 last schools in Louisiana, Florida, and now Clackamas, OR, teaches middle school occur during storms, when it's "like September. She continued her music Barbara Bentley Bahlburg (1945), is Texas. He has been teaching strings in vocal, instrumental, and general music for playing a harp while riding on horseback." career until 1979 when she became ill. retired and living in Bend, OR, with her grades 6-12 in Beaumont since 1973 and Portland public schools. She recently Although confined to a wheelchair, she husband of 43 years. has also worked two years in conjunction married Kenneth Stevens (UO '89), and Shawne Melvin (1989) is studying on a still enjoys hearing good music, and her with the band. attends Lewis & Clark College to earn a full tuition scholarship at the Cincinnati ; stereo is often playing when she falls Wilma Jeanne Wilson Swarts (1948). Master of Arts and teaching degree. College Conservatory of Music. asleep. She is looked over by her Muskegon, MI, headed up the computer Larry Whaley (1968), Grants Pass, OR, guardian, Helene A. O'Connor. room at the state of Michigan's MTA built a new 4,000 square foot music store a VickiLehrerBaker (1989), Tigard, OR, Kenneth L. Stevens (1989), Clackamas, Convention in Flint, Michigan, on Octot year ago called Lany's Music. married Mark Baker (BA Journalism '85) OR, works for Quikprint of Portland, and Lois Tuttle Campbell (1929). Forest 21-23, 1990. She gave a workshop on on June 30. She currently leaches private recently married Lisa Ann Baker (UO Grove, OR, is retired, hut still plays in a music education via computer for the Hugh Cardon (1970), El Paso, TX, clarinet lessons and works at the UO '88). He freelances and composes for handbell choir. During her career she Grand Rapids Piano Forum on Decembe perfoimed a lecture-recital of twentieth Michael Harrison (1983), New York Portland Center for the Alumni piano collections. taught music in public schools in Ashland, 7, 1990. century Mexican art songs and Spanish City, did a Northwest tour of solo piano Association. OR; Foi-ks, WA; and Parkdale, OR. After Zarzuela arias for the Texoma Region concerts in the Fall of 1990, sponsored by Karen Brown (1990) completed her her marsiage to Don Campbell, she taught David Van Zandt (1949), Seattle, WA, Annual Conference in Austin, Texas, on the Oregon Arts Commission. Harrison Martha Maxwell (1989) has spent the Doctorate in the spring of1990 and is now private piano at home. went "back to the future" last year. Whe November 2. He is married to UO has captured a national audience with his past two years as harp soloist for the teaching music theory at Elizabeth City he began piano lessons in 1932 his teach graduate Virginia Correia. piece "In Flight," which sold over a Royal Viking Cruise Line, traveling to State University in Elizabeth City, North John Gilfrey (1939). was inducted into was Helen Jackson Bestel, who still quarter million copies as the lead cut from such places as Argentina, Japan, the Carolina. the Louisiana Music Educators Hall of teaches in Portland. Last year she invite, Alan Minor (1970), Eugene, OR, spent Windham Hill Records' Piano Snmpler. Amazon, Monaco, Casablanca, and the Fame in 1988. Gilfrey taught band and David to perform in her students' recital, several years in computer-based His album In Flight (Fortuna Records) has ruins of Pompeii. She wrote an article on Keith Dwiggins (1990) is working in orchestra in Oregon public schools before which he did-playing Scarlatti's Cat businesses and now works as an office received excellent reviews in Keybonrd, her life aboard ship in a recent issue of music and educational sales for Light's for moving to Louisiana where he retired as Fugue. administrator at Unity of the Valley Jnzziz, and New Age magazines. American String Tencher, where she says Music in Springfield, OR. band director and professor of music at Church in Eugene. He produces audio- Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette. He Kareen Bishoprick Messerschmidt visual productions for presentation and Christopher Knight (1984). Studio City, played professionally in theater orchestras (1963, MM 1968) is hack in Kathmandu occasionally performs as a percussionist in CA, is the owner-director of the Los and symphonies in the west and in Nepal, with her family. She has once Eugene and elsewhere. Angeles Recording Workshop, which was Louisiana. His professional affiliations again organized the Kathmandu Chorale recently accredited by the Accrediting include Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Kappa, presently with 60 members from many Jill Wood Gambill (1978), Tualatin, OR, Council for Continuing Education and Phi Mu Alpha, American School Band countries. They performed the Messiah, is a private music instmctor of 65 piano, Training. flute, clarinet, and saxophone students. She also plays flute in the Cedar Mill Kris Guuld (1985), Santa Monica, CA, is Philip Frohnmayer (MM 1972), New Orleans, Bible Church orchestra. currently studying and performing in Los LA, has recently made a recording with his wife, Angeles, this year soloing in performances soprano Ellen Phillips, and pianist Logan Skelton Lynne Eisert Finch (1980) and Kenneth of Beethoven's Mnss in C,the Messiah, The disc, The Flowering of English Song, was Finch (1981), Beaverton, OR, are the and in a Venician polychoral concert held released in March, 1990, by Centaur Records anc proud parents of a son, Andrew Marshall, at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She is the is distributed worldwide by Ha~moniaMundi. "V born June 30, 1990. They are both soprano soloist at Westwood Hills spent a couple of years looking forjust the right currently members of the Oregon Congregational Church and is studying mixture of material to record," he says. "The solc Symphony. Kenneth soloed with the with Kari Windingstat White. She also songs by Bax, Vaughan Williams, Ireland, and Symphony on Haydn's D mnjor Cello occasionally sings backup for bands on Holst were easy to find, but quality duets for Concerto last June and Haydn's C major recording projects. In June, she will soprano and baritone required lots of trips to Cello Concerto with the Rogue Valley complete work on a Master of Social libraries in this country and in England. We mad Symphony in November, 1990. Work at UCLA. one real find-two unpublished duets of Vaughal Williams which the composer's widow, Ursula Malcolm Lynn Baker (1981) was Paul Chandler (1988), Springfield, OR, Vaughan Williams, allowed us to perfo~mand recently appointed Lecturer in Saxophone is working at Scanners Microservices (a record." The Frohnmayers are ailist faculty at the University of Indiana School of computer firm) and scoring a film members at Loyola University in New Orleans. Music in Bloomington, Indiana. produced by the owner of the company, Last summer their concert activites took them to John Perrine. He played in a recent John An early photo of Benll Concert Hnll, long before the stage was redesigned, the Soviet Georgia and to the south of France. Lennon tribute at the W.O.W. Hall with windows were covered nrzd the Jiirgen Ahrend 01-gnu was instnlled Alumni Band HAVE WE HEARD FROM YOU LATELY? Let us and your fellow alumni know of your activities by filling out Packs 'em in ... and sending us the form below. Please give us your current address, It mav-.- be ~artlvbecause of the UO particularly if you have moved recently. football team's good fortune in recent years, but the Alumni Band has become an ,-"""""""""'""" 1 extremely popular Homecoming event for 1 1/91 University of Oregon School of Music Alumni former UO band members. IN MEMORIUM: I Registration at this year's gathering on I WHAT'S UP? I November 3 exceeded 180. Though most Lavina R. Honey (1928), Corvallis, OR, I I of the band was made up of alums from died October 7, 1989, in Corvallis, where I NAME Class of 1 the past 20 years, there was a healthy she had recently moved to be with her son, I I representation of players from other Charles. decades, even as far back as the 1930s. I Comments I Alumni renewed old acquaintances I I over coffee and pastries from 9-10 a.m., Dr. Walter C. Martin (19641, Redlands, I I followed by a brief rehearsal for the CA, passed away on March 29, 1987. I I football game. Springfield High band director Gene Slayter (UO '51) once again Mark J. Sandberg (1985), Seattle, WA, I I handled the conducting chores, as he has died of diabetes complications on June 12, I- -I done for more than 10 vears. 1989, in Seattle. He was the producer and My current address: (please print) This is a change of address 1 Steve Paul, directorhf UO bands, Room 186 wasfilled to capacity as Gene Sluyter rehrurseil the Aliri~iniBmd. The nest artistic director of Sound View Cabaret, a I Address 1 Homecoming game is scheduledfol- Novemhn- 2, u,yuii~.srStu~jfird officially welcomed the alums back to musical theatre company he formed two city State Zip campus, and shared some memories of the years ago. 1 UO Marching Band's trip to the Phone (day) (eve) 1 Independence Bowl in Louisiana last year. I I have more news to share! Please call me for a more complete update. I The camaraderie of UO band members Douglas L. Butler (DMA 1973), I coming together from many eras was Anderson, SC, died July 1, 1990, in evident throughout the day, and seeing the Seattle at age 46. A native of Atlanta, Ducks come from behind to beat UCLA GA, he was the winner of the 1969 28-24 was a sweet bonus. Southeastern Regional AGO Playing RECOMMENDED STUDENTS The Alumni Band is open to all former Competition and earned his BMus degree UO band members. Anyone who has not from Stetson University. He also held the Please help us identify outstanding young musicians who might be been receiving notice of Alumni Band MEd degree from the University of interested in attending the University of Oregon. Feel free to make registration may contact the UO band Florida, and the DMA degree in organ and copies of this form if you have several students to recommend. office at (503) 346-5670 to be put on the music history from the University of r"""""""""'""" mailing list. Oregon. Substantial portions of his 1 dissertation, The Organ Works of Felix 1 1/91 Prospective Student Information I Mendelssohn-Bartholady, were published I -I UO Marching Band in a series of articles which appeared in I Name of Student I The Diapason during 1978 and 1979. I I Members Look Sharp Although he performed music of all eras, he specialized in German Romantic organ in Goodwill Games . Even if you watched the Goodwill music and was instrumental in reviving I City State Zip 1 Games, broadcast from Seattle by the many little-known works. Dr. Butler I I taught on the faculties of Portland - Turner Network last summer, you may I Instrument/Voice/Area of Interest 1 not have known that a large number of Community College, Reed College, Oregon musicians were on the field. Portland State University, the University I High School Attending I The 260-piece marching band, which of Portland and Jefferson Center for the I Graduation Date 1 performed at the opening ceremonies, Performing Arts, and held church music I .I contained over 90 musicians from the positions in Portland and San Francisco. I Comments I University of Oregon, more than any He was the recipient of several grants for other school. research on Romantic organ music. A Participants were selected from six memorial service was held on July 5 at St. colleges and 30 high schools from the western states. Mark's Catherdral, Seattle. Dr. Butler is survived by his father. I Your Name I. Over $100,000 in music scholarships, including the Ruth Lorraine Close awards, are given annually. General UO scholarships, financial aid, work study, and student loans are also available. Auditions are required both for Music Blooms admission to the School of Music and for scholarship award determination. A single audition will serve both purposes. Final deadline for priority consideration for in Oregon. 1991-92 School of Music scholarships and financial aid is March 1, 1991. At the University of Oregon, the growth Please note: the deadline for application to of musical excellence is nurtured by innovative the Universtiy of Oregon for incoming freshmen teaching and enriched by the beauty and is March 1,1991. To be considered for Fall admission in 1991 the UO Office of Admissions matchless qua lit^ of life in Oregon. must have your application by that date.

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