CONTEMPORARY MUSIC COMPETITION The Fourth Annual Chancellor's Festival of Music April 20-21, 1980 M;ssoud Contempomy Mus;, Raymond Luedeke, $125; and Steven Medley, $75. TCompetition is sponsored jointly by the Music Performances of the winning compositions Department of the University of Missouri­ during the Fourth Annual Chancellor's Festival of Columbia, the Missouri Public Radio Association, Music will be recorded by KBIA-FM for airing Discwasher Inc. of Columbia, Missouri, the on the 16 stations of the Missouri Public Radio Missouri Arts Council, and KBIA-FM. Association: KBFL, Buffalo; KCUR, The 1979-80 competition for chamber music City; KUMR, Rolla; KCMW, Warrensburg; was made possible with grants from the University KLUM, Jefferson City; WSIU, Carbondale, of Missouri-Columbia Graduate Student Illinois; KCLC, St. Charles; KANU, Lawrence, Association and the Subcommittee on University Kansas; KBIA, Columbia; KXCV, Maryville; Lectures. KSOZ, Point Lookout; KWMU, St. Louis; Lukas Foss, Ray Luke of Oklahoma City KWPB, Liberty; KSMU, Springfield; KCFV, St. University and Merrill Ellis of North Texas State Louis; and WSUI, Iowa City, Iowa. University judged the 93 entries from 24 states, the Plans for the 1980-81 Missouri Contemporary District of Columbia, and Canada. Music Competition are to continue the Unable to choose one of the two top competition for instrumental chamber music compositions over the other, the judges decided while expanding to include a "Music and to split the $1,000 Discwasher National Prize Technology Symposium and Competition" between Walter Winslow of Berkeley, California, exploring the relationship between music and and Michael Ludwig of St. Louis. The Missouri laser technology, video art and synthesis, and winners of awards provided by the Missouri Public other forms of music/electronic art incorporation. Radio Association are Mr. Ludwig, $300;

Lukas Foss-composer, conductor, pianist, teacher-has been a moving force in the world of music for over thirty years. To date there are some 75 compositions in the Foss catalogue. He has conducted many major orchestras. He is an indefatigable champion of modern music (Ditson Award 1974) and in five years as conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonia, he has made Brooklyn a vital part of the New York musical scene. "Foss never had to choose music, music chose him." (Piatigorski) He studied with Hindemith at Yale, Reiner at Curtis and Koussevitsky at Tanglewood. His earliest published compositions date back to his fifteenth year. At nineteen he composed an oratorio based on Carl Sandburg's "Prairie". The work brought him immediate recognition. "He cannot fail to raise the standard of music of his generation" wrote Virgil Thomson (Herald Tribune). The next years found Foss gradually moving from neo-classicism to aleatoric techniques. "Foss 'neo-classicises' the avant garde" wrote the Saturday Review. His experiments in Ensemble Improvisation were the first of their kind. When his invention became the order of the day, he turned his back on it. At the time Foss was Professor of Composition at UCLA, succeeding Arnold Schoenberg. In 1960 the New York Philharmonic premiered his 'Time Cycle'-a unique occasion in the history of the Philharmonic in that the orchestra performed it twice that evening. There followed a number of works which fit into none of the prevalent "schools of new music", notably 'Baroque Variations' which had a marked influence on the younger generation of composers. In 1974, Aaron Copland wrote: "His compositions are among the most original and stimulating composed in America." And in a recent article "Lukas Foss Works on the Cathedral" Tom Johnson writes: "Little by little he is knitting together a body of work which may actually speak for contemporary culture as a whole more eloquehtly than any other."

Ray Luke is Professor of Composition and Conducting at Oklahoma City University and is Principal Guest Conductor of the Oklahoma (City) Symphony Orchestra. He holds B. Music and M. Music degrees from Texas Christian University and the Ph.D. degree from the Eastman School of Music. A prolific composer, Mr. Luke's composition prizes include PREMIERE PRIX, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium International Competition (PIANO CONCERTO); First Prize, New England Conservatory-Rockefeller Foundation Competition (opera - MEDEA): and the Annual ASCAP Award for contributions to serious music in America. He was a Resident Fellow at The McDowell Colony (1965, '69, '70); was named "Oklahoma Musician of the Year" by Governor Bartlett (1970); and was named Distinguished Alumnus by Texas Christian University (1973).

Merrill Ellis, composer and Director of the Electronic Music Center at North Texas State University in Denton, has appeared throughout the Central and Southwest United States in numerous performances of his compositions for synthesizer and has given many lecture-demonstrations at colleges and universities. He is predominantly interested in the advancement of "New Music", including electronic and mixed media. At the Center, he carries on research in new compositional techniques, development of new instruments, and the exploration of new notation and techniques for scoring and performing this music. Recent honors include an ASCAP award in 1979 for outstanding contributions to serious music; N.T.S.U. Faculty Research grant "to develop new methods and concepts of artistic communication", 1977; a commission by the American Federation of Musicians in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation to compose NOSTALGIA for an orchestra of strings, percussion, electronic tape and theatrical events, premiered by the Congress of Strings, Cincinnati, Ohio on August 15, 1975. Mr. Ellis' KALEIDOSCOPE has been recorded by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra and several of his works have been published by Carl Fischer, Inc. Recent concerts of his music have occurred in many cities in Texas as well as in Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Washington, D. C., Tennessee and London, England.

Lowell Cross holds undergraduate degrees from Texas Tech. University and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Music and Musicology from the University of Toronto. Dr. Cross, described in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of M11sicia11s as "a pioneer in astromusicology ... (who) created the Selen ogeodesic score LUNAR LASER BEAM, broadcast via Leningrad, reflected off the Sea of Tranquility on the moon, to the Ciudad de la Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles in California", enjoys an international reputation as an authority on audio-visual linkages and display, and as a composer of electronic music. He has been Artist-in­ Residence at the Center for New Performing Arts at the University of Iowa since 1971. Dr. Cross is just completing work on Video/Laser IV which will be installed at the Adler Planetarium as part of the celebration of its 50th Anniversary Year. The-winners.

MICHAEL LUDWIG WALTER WINSLOW Michael Ludwig is currently a Walter Winslow, Assistant composition student at Washington Professor of Music at the University University in St. Louis where he of California-Berkeley, holds the B. studies with Roland Jordan, Assistant Music and B. Arts degrees in Russian Professor of Music. He received a from Oberlin College and the M. Bachelor of Music Education degree Music and Ph.D. degrees in from the University of Missouri-St. Composition from the University of Louis. He attended high school in St. California-Berkeley. A pianist, Charles, Missouri. percussionist, and conductor, Dr. His ILLUSTRATIONS­ Winslow is extensively involved in MEDITATIVE was composed around seven engravings by the performance of contemporary music on the West Coast. 19th-century illustrator Gustav Dore from an edition of Dr. Winslow received a Regent's Faculty Fellowship Dante's lllfemo. which enabled him to complete his latest chamber work UNIFIED FIELD and to visit centers of new music activity throughout the United States.

RAYMOND LUEDEKE STEVE MEDLEY Raymond Luedeke was born in Steve Medley holds the B. Arts 1944 in New Jersey. He attended the degree in Music from Columbia Eastman School of Music and Catholic College and is a candidate of the M. University and received his doctorate Music degree in composition at

1 from Northwestern University. He UMC. Mr. Medley is a student of now teaches clarinet and composition Dr. W. Thomas McKenney. at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The Symposium.

Sunday, April 20 3:00 PM Jesse Auditorium SCENSISAURAL LASER SPECTACULAR "A Celebration of Contemporary Music"

ME ASURE FO R MEASURE ...... Lukas Foss (An H omage to Shakespeare) O RPHEUS ...... Lukas Fo ss PROMETHEUS: T H E POEM O F FIRE ...... Scriabin Lukas Foss, gues t conductor Waldie Anderson, tenor Jesse Levine, viola Janice Wenger, piano Lowell Cross, laser projecti ons University Singers Charles Nick, director University Philharmonic Hugo Vianello, conductor

Monday, April 21 10:40 AM Fine Arts Recital Hall

Lecture: "The Relationship of Poetry and Music" Lukas Foss

Supportl'd by "A Mid-America Sha kcsp<.·,m.·an C hautauqua", \\ hich !us b1..·c n madl' possibh.· by a grant fro m th1..· Natio nal Endowme nt for t he Humarntll'S. 1:40 PM Fine Arts Recital Hall Composition Master Class

The Echo of a Sigh ...... Steven Medley String Quartet #1 ...... Richard McDonald Mvt. II Theme and Variations ...... Randall Holmes Epic for Woodwinds ...... Lisa Webb Mvt. I - Quest Mvt. II - Triumph Ray Luke Merrill Ellis 2:30 PM Coffee Break 3:00 PM Individual Conferences with Ray Luke, Merrill Ellis, Lowell Cross

Missouri Contemporary Music Competition Concert 8:15 PM Fine Arts Recital Hall SEPTET ...... : ...... Ray Luke *John McLeod, violin *Steve Geibel, flute *Carolyn Kenneson, viola **Ann Knipschild, oboe *Carleton Spotts, cello *Susan Hicks, English horn *Barbara Wood, bassoon * Alexander Pickard, conductor UNIFIED FIELD ...... Walter Winslow *Eva Szekely, violin ttChristopher Hills, clarinet Carleton Spotts, cello ttMarshaJohnson, piano tWilliam Hibbard, conductor

ILLUSTRATIONS-MEDITATIVE ...... Michael Ludwig Steve Geibel, flute *George DeFoe, trombone Christopher Hills, clarinet Carolyn Kenneson, viola Alexander Pickard, trumpet Carleton Spotts, cello *Peter Kurau, French horn Marsha Johnson, piano William Hibbard, conductor

- intermission -

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS Bruce R. Maier, Ph.D., President, Discwasher, Inc. Tim Jones, President, Missouri Public Radio Association

A DREAM FANTASY ...... Merrill Ellis tttRichard Shanley, clarinet tttLarry Vanlandingham, percussion

CAVE OF THE WINDS ...... Lukas Foss Missouri Arts Quintet Steve Geibel, flute Richard Hills, clarinet Susan Hicks, oboe Barbara Wood, bassoon Peter Kurau, French horn

*Music Faculty, University of Missouri-Columbia **Music Student, University of Missouri-Columbia tDirector, Center for New Music - University of Iowa ttPerformer, Center for New Music - University of Iowa tttMusic Faculty, Baylor University