The following is apartial list of coming Feb. 21 - Composer's Forum Mar. 6 -Choral Spotlight events at the School of Music. For more information, call our Community Relations Feb. 22 -Bones &Brass Mar. 7 - Collegium Musicum Ofj'ice weekdays at 346-5678. Feb. 23 -University Gospel Ensemble Mar. 7 - Oregon Wind Ensemble & FEBRUARY Eugene Symphonic Band Feb. 1 -Oregon Wind Ensemble Feb. 24 - Lab Bands II & III Mar. 9 - New York Woodwind Quintet Feb. 2 -University Symphony with Feb. 26 - at Tea Time with Gilbert Kalish, EUen Campbell, horn (Chamber Music Series) Feb. 28 - Durufle Requiem with Feb. 4 -Sounds of the Symphony University Singers & Symphony Mar. 10 - UO Percussion Ensemble ' (Children's Concert Series) MARCH APRIL Feb. 5 -Lawrence Maves, ; Mar. 1 -Symphonic & Campus Bands Barbara Gonzrilez-Palmer, piano April 1 - ApriUe Foole Concert (Faculty Artist Series) Mar. 2 - Oregon Brass Quintet April 6 -May 1: (Faculty Artist Series) Feb. 7 -Alexander String Quartet MUSIC TODAY FESTIVAL (see inside cover for calendar) (Chamber Music Series) Mar. 4 -The World of Drums (Children's Concert Series) Feb. 10 - UO Electroacoustic Music MAY May 4 -University Symphony Mar. 4 - Danceability Concert Feb. 14 - Milagrovargas, mezzo-soprano (Department of Dance) Victor Steinhardt, piano May 16 -Oregon String Quartet (Faculty Artist Series) (Faculty Artist Series) Mar. 4 - Oregon Jazz Ensemble (Chamber Jazz Series) Feb. 17 -Irish Music & Dance with May 23 -Oregon Percussion Ensemble Moloney, Sands, & Ivers Mar. 5 - Gil Cline, baroque trump6 SCHOOL of MUSIC ( Series) May 25 - Concerto Concert Barbara Baird, organ and DEPARTMENT of DANCE (Faculty & Guest Artist Recital)

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Newsletter for Alumni & Friends February, 1995 Vol. VII, No. 1 UO SCHOOL OFMUSIC MUSIC TODAY FESTIVAL CALENDAR: LEDGERLINES The Dean's Desk APRl L6-MAY 1 is the official newsletter of the Anne Dhu McLucas, Dean University of Oregon School of The ups and downs of the School of Saturday, April 22 Music, and is published twice a year Music over the past six months have Seventh Species Concert Series, Unitarian Church for alumni, faculty, and friends of the reminded me of how much we are like a music school. Your comments are family, complete with the emotional Sunday, April 23 always welcome. turbulence that caring about one another Stravinsky Day brings. Address all correspondence to: Thursday, April 6 Eugene Concert Choir (Symphony of PsalmsJ**' Early in the Fall we were saddened - LEDGER LINES by the death of a dear colleague, Dean Cuarteto Latinoamericano *** .. . School of Music Oregon Wind Ensemble Emeritus Robert Moore Trotter, who died 1225 University of Oregon Saturday, April 8 featuring Dean Kramer (Concerto for Piano and Winds) on September I after a long illness (see Eugene, OR 97403-1225 page 11 for a memorial tribute). With his Eugene Ballet: Skinwalkers: *** or call (503) 346-3761. A World Premiere based on Native American Themes Monday, April 24 passing and the wonderful memorial Toni Pimble, choreographer Music by Northwest Composers service that commemorated it, I was struck including new works by Victor Steinhardt, Hal Owen, DEAN: Anne Dhu McLucas by how much his ideas and actions have Sunday, April 9 Arthur Maddox, and Thom Bergeron shaped the School of Music, despite the phant family celebrations-the Eugene Ballet: Skinwalkers matinee*** ASSOCIATE DEAN: Gary Martin many years intervening since his deanship. certainly was one of those! With the major Tuesday, April 25 He and his wonderful wife Claire have role played by the Oregon ... DEVELOPMENT STAFF: New Music from Eastern Europe been good friends and mentors since my and the Green Garter Band, the School of Master class and lecture by Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano Barbara H. GoodsonSchool of Music Music Now Ensemble, Prague (concert and lecture) coming to Eugene. I, along with many Music was deeply involved, collecting our Sara Jones Brandt- Monday, April 10 others worldwide, will miss him deeply. In share of stories in local and national news Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano Thursday, April 27 EDITOR: Scott Barkhurst honor of his commitment to music of the media about the high quality of the band, Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer, piano University Singers and UO Dept. of Dance whole world, a memorial fund has been the amazing acquisition of new uniforms, Menotti's The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore CONTRIBUTORS: George Evano, set up in his name for the purpose of and the sheer logistics of managing all the Tuesday, April 11 and Davenport's The Celtic Seasons Barbara Goodson, Robert Huwitz, Robert bringing more world music into our appearances the band made in Los Wynton Marsalis *** (repeated April 28 and matinee on April 29) Kyr, Anne Dhu McLucas, Bill Moore curriculum and conceri series. Angeles during their week there. It was ... As in a family, we both lose and like a cottage industry at the School of Thursday, April 13 Eugene Symphony with Dav~dJolley, horn *'* ASSISTANT: Karen Pederson gain people. Besides greeting new faculty Music, with work groups doing everything Eugene Symphony with Carter Brey, cello *** members Ellen Campbell (horn) and Frank from assembling special Rose Bowl "duck Saturday, April 29 COVER PHOTO by Jack Liu. Heuser (music education), we gained in lips" (those wonderful noisemakers that Friday, April 14 Music by Gershwin The and UO Rally number of students enrolled-a happy fact are sold at games with proceeds going to Jeffrey Peyton, percussion Eugene Symphony Orchestra *** Squad appeared at Disneyland for a in these times of tuition-based funding at band scholarships) to sewing the UO featuring a new work by UO composer Jeffrey Stolet with Jeffrey Kahane, guest pianist and conductor parade and concert during Rose Bowl the University of Oregon. But, just as with patches on the front of the new uniforms. Week. See story, page 2. new babies in large families, our new It was all worth it-for despite the final Saturday, April 15 Sunday, April 30 additions have brought the realization that $core, Oregon triumphed in spint and Hessen Youth Symphony An Afternoon of Javanese Shadow Puppet Theater space is at a premium in the School of exuberance, and our musical presence was Lewis and Clark Gamelan Music. More students need more practice part of the emotional glue that held the Monday, April 17 Midiyanto Putro, dalang (puppetmaster) rooms, more time in Beall Hall for their whole occasion together. Jazz Originals with Michael Titlebaum, saxophone, and (matinee concert and lecture/demonstration) recitals, more staff time, etc., etc. We had Losses, additions, celebrations- Gary Versace, piano (master classes and concert) a record number of concerts in Beall Hall they are all part of the normal cycle of our Monday, May 1 this Fall term-a sign of health, and a School of Music family-along with the Wednesday, April 19 Oregon Composers Forum source of concern! Despite the fact that we jay-to-day routine that consumes us all in Avant-Detente with Charles Dowd gained a few office spaces from the move zaring for the development of both Percussion Chamber Music of of the Oregon Bach Festival to Agate Hall, -TICKET INFORMATION students and faculty. And, like the distant Edison Denisov and Meyer Kupferman - which was accomplished this summer, we relatives that form an extended family, we Tickets for events with asterisks (**") are available in continue to be short of office space, hope that you will feel included by reading Thursday, April 20 advance at the Hult CenterTicket Office (503) 687-5000. classroom space, and, most especially, sf some of the many activities that form T~cketsto other events available at the Beall Hall Box Office Pacific Rim Gamelan The University of Oregon is an equal practice room space. We are looking for sur family life. on the day of the concert. opportunity, afirmative action institution solutions to these problems; meanwhile, Friday, April 21 For more information on events, or a Festival brochure, call committed to cultural diversity we are all treading carefully 'and being Future Music Oregon the School of Music at (503) 346-5678, or leave a mes- and compliance with the patient with one another. '' . ' (UO Electroacoustic Music Studio) sage at the MusicToday Festival office (503) 346-5680. Americans with Disabilities Act. And, of course, there are the trium- transport the band to and from all their Beverly Hills. New Year's Eve was activities, getting special insurance for the especially challenging for the band, Rose Parade and rehearsals, and trying to according to Harkins: "We did a concert wade through the Rose Bowl's official 50- and parade down Santa Monica's Third page "Participation Manual," covering Street Promenade, followed by four everything from press conferences to alumnihotel performances. When the police escorts. band sang the Oregon Pledge Song at the Band members, friends, and even Century Plaza Hotel, 1,300 alumni stood some parents were enlisted to help with up, and there were plenty of moist eyes in computer updates, photocopying, and the house." collating all the material; other volunteers Another highlight was the official were enlisted to help sew the UO logo on UO pep rally on Sunday afternoon, when the front of the new uniforms and to nearly 15,000 Duck fans from all over the assemble and package 20,000 Duck Lips country converged on Century City Plaza that were sold in Pasadena as a fundraiser for "The Quack Heard Round the World." for the marching band. The Green Garter Band led off the festivi- On to La-La Land ties, and when the entire marching band The Oregon Marching Band flew made its appearance in the new uniforms, out of Eugene Wednesday morning, Dec. the duck calls and cheers were deafening. 28, on one of several charters loaded with The big day, of course, was January OMB members join the "Quack Heard alumni and boosters. They didn't have 2, and for OMB members it began at 3:30 Round the World." much time to relax; that afternoon they a.m. for an early breakfast and a 5:00 a.m. had a rehearsal at Brea High School's bus departure for Pasadena and the Rose Fairchild, a junior from Klamath Falls The Oregon Marching Band, in snazzy new unqorms, PI-oudly marches in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena. stadium, and the next morning they board- Parade. Lack of sleep and the grueling who plays in both the OMB and Green ed buses at 7:30 to arrive at Disneyland for five-mile parade route were more than Garter Band, said "It's a thrill just running an 8:30 a.m. parade and an 11 a.m. concert. compensated by the thrill of being there out on the field at ; but to Show Time for Marching Band in Pasadena! One woman spectator at Disneyland said and hearing the enthusiastic cheers from see half of that huge Rose Bowl filled with Oregon Marching Band dazzles fans and alumni at the Rose Bowl "My goodness, those are the cleanest Duck fans all along the parade route. Duck fans and yellow pom-poms, it was a - white pants I've ever seen," (not knowing With the baggage of five non-stop real rush." LTHOUGH the primary focus was ordered, and even then it was a scramble As one Duck fan aptly put it, "It sure beats that was the first time they'd been worn). iays on their backs, no one would have With 102,000 fans in the Rose Bowl on the football team, the Oregon to find a company that was willing and going to Shreveport!" The next few days were a combina- been surprised if the band had run out of and millions more watching on TV, it was Marching Band got plenty of well- able to produce the uniforms by Christ- Getting Ready tion of rehearsals, sight-seeing and gas by the time the football game came the greatest exposure imaginable for the deserved attention with its first trip to the mas (normal lead time is 150 days). But before all that could happen, the performances at various alumni functions around at 1:30, but pride and adrenalin band, the School of Music, and the Rose Bowl since 1958. The classy new cadet-style uni- UO Band staff, led by OMB Director Rod and pep rallies around Santa Monica and were in command at that point. Jill University of Oregon. And though the OMB has been to forms generated a lot of local media Harkins, Director of Bands Robert Ponto, When the band returned home on three other bowls in recent years, making interest as well. The Register-Guard ran a and Band Secretary Paige Lawlor, had January 3, KEZI-TV was at the airport, the trip to Pasadena was on a completely couple stories, including a tongue-in- weeks of paperwork, staff meetings, and interviewing band members and weaving different level-more appearances, more cheek survey of local clothing store planning to get ready for the trip to Pasa- highlights of the Rose Parade and Rose planning, more logistics, and more media owners about how they would design new dena. To say that the midnight oil was Bowl into a story that aired that evening. attention. And, oh yes, new uniforms, band uniforms. When the new uniforms burning in the band offices during Decem- On January 4, KVAL-TV featured the which had to be designed, ordered, and actually arrived, newspaper and TV ber doesn't even begin to describe the band in part of a one-hour show of Rose fitted for 200 band, color guard, and cameras were in Room 178 as band workload. Bowl Week highlights. jazzline personnel, all on a crash 30-day members came in for their fittings. "The paperwork was the biggest Director of Bands Robert Ponto deadline... more than eight months earlier That was just the beginning of thing," said Lawlor, who joined the band shared some of his pride in the UO than the original target date. several weeks of radio, television and staff in October. "You'd get three things musicians after returning home: "The When the UO football team clinched print coverage of Rose Bowl activities. done, and then twelve more would take thing that impressed me was their ex- its Rose Bowl berth by beating OSU on By the time the band returned to Eugene their place, and those would generate tremely. hirh- level of urofessionalism- November 19, officials from both the UO on Jan. 3, they had been profiled in at another ten things. It got crazy, there was not only in their performance, but in their administration and athletic department least four local newspaper articles and so much to do." preparation, their attitude, and their were in full agreement that the ten-year-old been the subject of several television The band's itinerary, six pages long, conduct during the entire six days." "Zorro" uniforms, threadbare and out of news stories in Eugene, Portland, and Los went through twelve revisions in three And is everyone ready for a return date, would not do for the kind of national Angeles. And, of course, there was the weeks. Among the staff's "to do" list were trip to the Rose Bowl? "The preparation visibility that was awaiting the band. The network coverage of the band at the Rose such things as preparing a detailed flight just about buried us this year:' said Ponto, athletic department, in fact, advanced the Parade and the Rose Bowl halftime show, manifest for all the band members and "but now we know what to expect. Yeah, OMB $65,000 to get the new uniforms seen by hundreds of millions of people. equipment, arranging for charter buses to spars with UO announcer Don Essig at the Sunday pep rally. we'll be ready." + .. .. -.. . . t--- .. - WHAT'S 'NEbY ...... I Music Recruiting Wars: UO Music School Two New Degree Options to be Offered Now on the Internet The faculty of the School of Music aspects of the music profession, from Technology course requirements (such as Oregon Goes Video The School of Music has set up has established two new options for composition and pedagogy to academic Electroacoustic Literature, Electroacoustic residence on the internet. Thanks to UO undergraduate music majors, one within support, record keeping, research, and Composition, Electronic Music I, 11,111) Recruiting music students is faculty-rather than a slick narrator- sound engineer Jim Rusby's love of the Bachelor of Arts program and the other publishing. Specialists in Music Technol- are spelled out in detail, along with becoming more and more like recruiting speaking in their own words about various exploring on the cumng edge of electronic in the Bachelor of Science program. Each ogy will be greatly needed in the years to various group options, such as Concepts of athletes, it seems. Gone are the days when aspects of the mnsic school. This had the technology, browsers on the World Wide reflects the perception that student needs come. The School of Music's new option Computing and Physics of Sound and a simple brochure or a university cata- additional benefit of giving the video a Web (the fast lane on the information are changing in an ever-changing world. in the B.S. degree allows students to Music. The new B.S. option still has the logue would automatically lure a talented more personal touch and reinforcing the superhighway) can encounter what is Bachelor of Arts Option specialize in this vital area of music same ensemble requirements, but, like the ' student to your classroom. Today's young "family" atmosphere at the UO School of called a web "home page" for the School The first of the new degree options training. new B.A. option, reduces the minimum musicians are shopping: they are looking Music-something our students have of Music. On this page, readers are greeted was created for the Bachelor of Arts The new B.S. option alters the performance proficiency level from 171 to not only at price, but location, quality of mentioned frequently over the years. by a photograph of the school taken in program. It was prompted by the desire of Senior Project requirement, with the 140. + faculty, ensembles, and performance The video has been sent to approxi- front of Beall Concert Hall. They can learn the School of Music to encourage students student enrolling in Reading & Confer- opportunities. mately 60 high school directors, mostly in a bit about the music school's history and who have a broad knowledge of music as ence (MUS 405), in consultation with the Though the University of Oregon Oregon, plus a few in Washington and accreditation, and choose to explore such a liberal art-but whose ability as per- student's adviser; in addition, Music has long had one of the ,. In-state categories as the Oregon Bach Festival, a formers might not he well developed-to top music programs in the students still are the UO's Calendar of Events, information about the undertake a major in music which focuses western , it primary source of music Dance Department, other music resources on music history, theory, and literature. Gamelan Receives Prestigious Grant remains a secret to many majors, and a special on the internet, and the School of Music's A comparison of the two options high school students music recruiting commit- recording studio. They can even listen to within the B.A. program highlights the The UO's Pacific Rim Gamelan and' "It's really exciting to combine outside the boundaries of tee drew up a preliminary digitized recordings of the Oregon Fight small, but significant, differences between Robert Kyr, founder and director of the state-of-the-art technology with an ancient Oregon-and even to list of schools to receive Song while they browse. the two options: the new option has a ensemble, have been awarded a major tradition," commented bassist Robert some native Oregonians. the video on the first Rusby, who is a member of the UO lower proficiency requirement in perfor- national commissioning grant from the Black. "The resulting sound is not tradi- How to get the word to year's mailing. If next campus committee that provides guidance mance studies (at least three terms, the last Meet The ComposerReader's Digest tional or modem, but rather, something those students? For a year's budget allows for and advocacy on the university's setup on of which is at the 140 level, rather than Commissioning Program. The program is somewhere in between, beyond time." number of mnsic schools additional cooies to be the internet, says the best may be yet to three terms at the 171 level), but nine funded in partnership with the Lila This year's other awards from Meet around the country, video made, more schools from come. Plans on the drawing board for our hours of upper division seminars may be Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the The Composer, now celebrating its 20th is now the recruiting tool of choice. Washington, California, and Oregon will web page include information about our substituted for a Senior Project. All other National Endowment for the Arts. mniversary, include a triple concerto by After a year of planning, scripting, be added to the mailing list. graduate and undergraduate degree requirements remain unchanged. The UO commission is for one of a Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellen Taaffe and filming, the UO School of Music now "The video does a pretty good job of programs, and an in-depth description of Bachelor of Science Option set of three new works for Balinese Zwilich, an opera by John Adams, a song has an eight-minute recruiting video showing quality-of-life aspects of the the school, including its facilities, aca- The second of the new degree gamelan and electronic duo (bassist zycle by Pulitzer-Prize-winner John covering a variety of UO ensembles, class- campus and the fact that Eugene has a demic departments, and faculty. It will options is in the Bachelor of Science Robert Black and percussionist Amy Harbison, a chamber ensemble piece by room shots, music education programs, vibrant arts community beyond the music also provide admission and audition degree program. This option was created Knoles of Basso Bongo). The other Philip Glass, and extended trio composi- and performance studies. Filming and school itself," said Barkhurst. "That's policies and procedures. For those who are for a very different purpose. The School of commissions were awarded to Evan tions by three of today's greatest jazz editing was done by Intervision of Eugene, important for out-of-state recruits to know, interested in the School of Music, the web Music faculty recognizes the phenomenal Ziporyn for the MlT Gamelan, and Elaine musicians: saxophonist Oliver Lake, which has also done other work for the particularly those from California." page will contain a means for them to send growth of, and importance of, technology Barkin (UCLA) and I Nyoman Wenten for bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer University of Oregon; GTF Jeffrey Peyton Music faculty are already taking a an electronic message requesting further within the profession. Technology has the Cal Arts Gamelan. Andrew Cyrille, who will perform the a~angedthe introductory music. Funding copy of the video with them when they information or an application packet. become an indispensible component of all The gamelan commissioning project pieces together. for the project came from the generous make high school visitations; the string Statistics kept electronically on our actually began as part of the UO's "Only in the U.S.A. could you have donation from the Alan Richards family, faculty visited half a dozen schools in the current home page indicate that thousands UO to Host Northwest Vanguard Concert Series. Robert Black such an extiaordinary range of composi- mentioned in the last Ledger Lines. area this year, and others of people from around the world have and Amy Knoles were invited to perform tions from composers representing the vast Publicity director Scott Barkhurst have taken trips to Washington and already explored this information site, and Ethnomusicology on the series in 1992 and to give composi- geography and variety of ethnic back- supervised the production, which began Oregon high schools. Furthermore, the UO as of January, 1995, as many as 700 tion workshops for the Oregon grounds of this remarkable land," said with the 1993 Homecoming concert, and Admission Office has a copy to take with people a day are checking us out. The Conference Composer's Forum. During their resi- John Duffy, Director and President of concluded during the 1994 Oregon Bach them to college fairs around the country. potential to "display our wares" to pros- The Northwest Chapter of the dency they performed and recorded new Meet The Composer. "These new commis- Festival. "Our goal was to show both the Those attending the Northwest pective students is huge. As more and Society for Ethnomusicology will be works composed for them by the members sions will reach into untold numbers of quality and the diversity of the School of MENC in Spokane this February should more people grow familiar with the elec- holding its annual meeting at the UO of the forum, and they created a large- homes. We applaud the Lila Wallace- Music," said Barkhurst. "There are lots of stop by the UO booth to have a look. Plans tronic world of the internet, many of them School of Music on Fehmary 18. All scale piece, Ringing Bright, with Robert Reader's Digest Fund for helping build exciting things happening at this school, are to have a booth at California's confer- will be using it to seek out information interested individuals are encouraged to Kyr and members of the Pacific Rim audiences for American music." + and we tried to show as much of that ence in early March as well. about academic programs. Thanks to the attend. The meeting is being coordinated Gamelan. The standing ovation that energy and enthusiasm as possible in eight High school music teachers wanting head start provided by Rusby, the School by chapter President Mark Levy and greeted this premiere helpedto inspire minutes." to be on next year's video mailing list of Music is in a good position to take Secretary-Treasurer Don Addison. Black and Kyr to develop the proposal that One way of doing that was to use should contact undergraduate admissions advantage of the possibilities that this For more information, call Levy at was submitted to the Meet The Composer voice-overs from both students and director Marilyn Bradetich at 346-1 164. 4 technology bas to offer. + (503) 346-2852. + commissioning program. to feel. And it's even more than that. It's Music Today Festival Returns realizing that music is embraced, just the Three-week journey celebrates 20th century music way that people are embraced, and the emptiness that one feels when one exper- the opportunity to hear 20th century music great composer and performer Wynton Why I Care If You Listen iences the parting of a friend, for no matter from America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Marsalis; influential New York critic by Robert Kyr, Director, Music Today Festival how long-for just a minute or an hour or , and within a three- Stanley Crouch; and New York saxophon- a week-is similar to the emptiness that week period? Our second festival demon- ist Michael Titlebaum. S WE PREPARE to leave the music. I have spoken with hundreds of one can feel at the end of a phrase, section, strates the strong and unique collaboration two European ensembles: the Hessen 20th century, one of the questions them about what they need in order to movement or any musical part, including of the university and the community, as Youth Symphony (from near Frankfurt, that haunts many composers is better understand new works. Without fail, the work in its entirety. The need to have well as an approach to concert program- Germany) and the Music Now Ensemble why the music of our time has been so listeners have remarked, "If only I could A - more, to prolong, to connect ..." ming that en~phasizes20th (from Prague). disregarded by the general public. Apart have known more about the composer. I wholeheartedly agree with Donald century music from a a "Stravinsky Day," from the unexpected success of a few Why did he or she compose that music? Martino, who was one of my composition global perspective." featuring the masterwork media-hyped works-Gorecki's Symphony How did it relate to his or her life, or to his teachers. As a composer, I care if you One of the goals of The Symphony of No. 3, aPolish export, is the most recent or her ideas about music?' listen because the joy and wealth of the the festival is to make the Psalms, performed by example-the public seems largely These comments have impressed me music is there for the taking. Listening is a 1993, the Music Today ~estival less familiar into the more the Eugene Concert unaware that concert composers have been so much that I am currently writing a hook creative pursuit, and in realizing that, the returns this April, offering another rare familiar, so in addition to Choir (Diane Retallack, writing a more consonant and accessible -American Composers Speak Out: listener takes an active role in the birth of banquet of musical delicacies from around concerts, the Music Today director) and Concerto music for at least the past two decades. In Changing Voices, Changing Times- a new work (or in any work which a per- the globe. Festival incorporates a for Piano and Winds America, the so-called "reign of musical comprised of twenty interviews with son is hearing for the first time). Through The biannual festival is an interna- variety of pre-concert performed by Dean intellectualism" is all hut over, and a more composers who are major figures in the listening, new connections are forged tional, crosscultural series of events which, talks, master classes, and Kramer and the Oregon lyrical, expressive music rules the day. If area of contemporary music. The hook is between the artist, the performers, and the by featuring several 20th century works on Meet the Artist receptions, Wind Ensemhle. you have any doubt about it, witness the an opportunity for them to discuss listeners-in fact, between all those who each program, gives listeners a living designed- to educate . an afternoon of creation of a string of labels to describe important cultural, aesthetic, and ethical touch or are touched by a work in any way connection to the concert music of our students and the listening- Phyllis Bryn-Julson Javanese Shadow Puu- the progress toward increased comprehen- issues which are rarely addressed in print. whatsoever. In this sense, to listen is to century. The festival runs April 6 through public about 20th century music from pet Theater (Wayang kulit) performed by sibility: "Neo-romanticism" or "The New The volume of interviews is intended to be become part of an ever-expanding May 1 at the UO School of Music and at around the world. an acclaimed dalang (puppetmaster) from Simplicity" or "Minimalism." And yet, an oral history of 20th-century American community which possesses a common other locations throughout Eugene, includ- The festival will also spotlight a Java with the Lewis and Clark Gamelan. while American concert composers have composers as told by those who created knowledge of a given work or repertoire. ing the Hult Center for thePerformingArts. special presentation: the University of premieres of works by UO faculty made some inroads into the public heart the music. It is my hope that the book will In other words, music connects us to From its inception two years ago, Oregon Creativity Award to Toni Pimble, composers Harold Owen, Jeffrey Stolet, and mind, not one of them has ever inspire its readers to explore the extraordi- ourselves and to each other. And perhaps the Music Today Festival bas been choreographer of the Eugene Ballet. The and Victor Steinhardt. exerted the kind of influence wielded by nary wealth of concert music which has this is why, on occasion, one reads that the designed to he much more than just a award was created through the Boekel- a dancelmusic collaboration (the Madonna or the latest country western idol. been composed in our period. arts are a great "humanizing" force within biannual concert series: heide Endowment Fund University Singers under the direction of What happened to the American One of the composers who I inter- culture and civilization. The greatest works Festival Director Robert and is given to a chemist, Richard Clark with dancers under the "Art" composer along the thomy path of viewed, Donald Martino (Pulizer Prize- of art inspire us to seek the creative Kyr, who joined the UO a dancerlchoreographer, direction of choreographer Lisa Arkin) of the 20th century with its twin global wars, winner and professor emeritus at Harvard potential within oarselves and within our music faculty in 1990, and a composer in alter- Menotti's The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and its numerous recessions and depressions, University) made the following comments own lives. For some individuals that quickly recognized the nating years. As part of the Manticore and the world premiere of and its soul-destroying ambivalence toward when asked about listening to new music: means seeking entertainment and enjoy- vitality of Eugene's the award, Pimhle was GTF Dennis Davenport's The Celtic education and intellectualism? Why did an "...I'm aware of all the miseries and ment, for others it provides an oppor- cultural climate and the commissioned to choreo- Seasons. obscure Polish composer (with a name agonies around us ...but I don't feel as tunity for contemplation or to explore the remarkable diversity of graph Skinwalkers, which concerts by other ensembles such as most people mispronounce to this day) though my role is to go out and lecture nature of the spiritual dimension of art. the artistic activities that will be premiered at the the Eugene Ballet, the Oregon Percussion inflame American musical passions in a people about what they should do. I don't The diversity of "meanings" will he as thrive here. By including Music Today Festival. Ensemble, the Pacific Rim Gamelan, the way that our own composers have not? Is have the time or energy for it. All I can do extensive as the number of listeners. a wide range of local The three weeks UO Electronic Music Studio, and the there a future for our artists and the culture is try to heal those wounds by writing my As we fast approach the millenium, ensembles and arts will spotlight a diverse Oregon Composers Forum. that is their context? pieces. At the same time, I can be sympa- I'll take a moment to prophesize. It is my organizations-the range of events to suit the several concerts featuring UO Don't expect this essay to provide thetic to other artists who try to deal with conviction that the twentieth century will Eugene Symphony, Quaneto Latinoamericano interests of every listener, faculty artists: percussionists Charles any easy answers. Listening to a wide these issues in a more direct way. I sense ~. ~ be remembered as a century of great music Eugene Ballet, the Hult Center-the including: Dowd and GTF Jeffrey Peyton, and range of music (and listening well) is itself the interconnection between the lack of -yes, great-contrary to the opinions of Music Today Festival has become a true a host of superb guest artists, pianists Barbara Gonzilez-Palmer, Dean the answer. As a composer, writer, teacher, morality everywhere, at every level of doomsayers. Why do I care if (and how) community celebration of 20th century including the Cuarteto Latinoamericauo Kramer, Victor Steinhardt, and Gary and concert presenter, I care ifyou listen. what we do, and the lack of it in listen- you listen? I care because I cannot verhal- music, rather than simply a university- (artists-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon); Versace. And, in particular, I care if you listen to ing ..." ly convey the meaning of the works that I sponsored event. renowned American soprano Phyllis Bryn- A Calendar of Events is printed on the music of our own time. Later in the interview, Martino love most. It is valuable to discuss the In truth, the Music Today Festival is Julson; and Eugene Symphony Orchestra the inside cover of Ledger Lines. For As the director of the Music Today considered issues related to learning about cultural context of a given work, hut only one of the longest and most extensive guest artists Carter Brey, cello, and additional information about the Mnsic Festival, I am impressed by the manner in music, "I sometimes think that the educa- you can experience the music, which is festivals of its kind in the country. As Kyr conductor-pianist Jeffrey Kahane. Today Festival, please call the festival which most listeners make a sincere effort tion we should he talking about is not wen more powerful than words. put it, "In how many cities does one have iazz and music influenced bv it: the office at (503) 346-5680. + to find some essential meaning in new education in music, but education in how I urge you to listen. + Oregon Bach Festival Funds Still Needed for Oregon Bach Festival to Commemorate Receives National the End of World War 11 thatcance. gives Like it universal,the mother permanent of a slain soldiersignifi- Award for Excellence New Band Uniforms N COMMEMORATION of the who gradually comes to terms with her The Oregon Bach Festival's Cre- Rose Bowl fever has gripped the A fund bas been established in 50th anniversary of the end of grief, the Stabat Mater begins with cries ative Journeys project has received the Oregon Marching Band, who were able to memory of Robert Trotter, former dean of 0 Worldwar 11, the 1995 Oregon of despair and progresses through bitter 1994 Dawson Achievement Award, the obtain new uniforms in time for the big the School of Music. Lead donors to the Bach Festival will explore the theme reflection, calm hope, sympathy and help nation's highest award for innovation and game. The good news is that $65,000 was fund are David Syre and Joan Tahb, and , "War, Reconciliation, and Peace." The for the suffering, new-found inner excellence in arts administration. The made available from Rose Bowl funds by gifts are still being accepted. Interest from , 26th annual Festival takes place June strength, and at the end, a celestial amen. Dawson award is given by the Association the UO Athletic Dept. to outfit current this endowment will support world music 23-July 8, 1995. of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) and band members. But another $70,000 is studies at the University of Oregon. Given the breadth of interna Other major works on the was announced in a ceremony at the APAP needed to complete the inventory for Jean Sanesi of Keizer has made a tional collaboration in the 1995 Oregon Bach Festival national conference Dec. 19 in New York. future, larger bands. Several donors have very generous pledge to the School of Festival's history, this year's schedule: The Creative Journeys project already pitched in to the band fund: many Music for scholarship funds. Thanks, Jean! theme is especially significant, giving Schubert's Symphony No. 3 consisted of a series of lectures, publica- thanks to UO Foundation Trustee Tom Finally, thanks to the Lee family for audience and performers the opportunity and Brahrns' Alto Rhapsody. tions, and events centered on the theme Stewart of Portland, as well as Gary their establishment of the Ira and Gertrude to mark passage of the defining event of Ingeborg Danz, soloist; Helmuth "Spirituality.in Music" and was designed Schaefer of Grants Pass, Roger Gahls- Lee fund. A very generous gift was made the 20th century. As the cornerstones of Rilling, conductor; June 28. to prepare the community for the world dorf of Portland, and trustees Craig recently by Catherine Lee, and this this commemoration, Artistic Director Britten's Serenade for Tenor; premiere of Litany by Arvo Part, a choral- Moore and Arthur Moshofsky. If you are supports a student. Helmuth Rilling has chosen four inspiring is a remarkable parallel to the conflict and Horn and Strings and other works. orchestral work that was performed by interested in helping with the marching If you would like to make a contri- choral-orchestral works that explore what resolution of war. Festival Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Helmuth Rilling and Festival musicians on band's uniform drive, please don't hesitate bution for scholarship funds, to the it means to emerge from conflict and Kahane, guest conductor; July 3. June 26, 1994, at the Hult Center. to contact Development Director Barbara Oregon Marching Band or to another embark on the tenuous course of reconcili- War Requiem by Benjamin Britten . The Discovery Series, which com- In announcing the award, APAP Goodson. program here at the School of Music, ation and hope: Saturday, July I bines lecturelperformances led by Rilling Vice President Tom Tomlinson said that If you've attended a performance in please use the envelope provided in this Laszlo Heltay, guest conductor and on-the-job experience for the Festi- the impact of the Creative Journeys Beall Concert Hall the past five months, newsletter. Or you may write or call: St. John Passion by J. S. Bach The heart of the 1995 Festival val's conducting master class; explores the project was deep. "Thousands of people you may have noticed how bright and Barbara Goodsnn (503) 346-5687 Friday, June 23 repertoire is Britten's epic oratorio, which theme through six Bach cantatas that deal were touched by some aspect of the beautiful it has become. This is courtesy of School of Music Helmuth Rilling, conductor interweaves the liturgical requiem text project," he said. "A world premiere was Gordon and Zdenka Tripp, who funded 1225 University of Oregon In his musical setting of the Gospel with the profound and profoundly disturb- met with stunning enthusiasm. The lighting renovations in the hall. Not only Eugene, OR 97403-1225 according to John, Bach created dramatic ing poetry of Wilfred Owen, a British BWV 26, BWV 39, BWV 75, BWV 149, Festival garnered attention in the interna- can you now see the gorgeous woodwork Checks may be made payable to the musical contrasts and an unyielding inten- soldier who was killed one week before BWV 29) tional press, and downward attendance on the walls and ceiling, you can read your School of Music/UO Foundation, with a sity which subsides only in the final the 1918 armistice. Symbolizing fifty The Composer's Symposium, under trends were reversed." program as well! Thanks to the Tripps for note to which fund or program you'd like chorale, when Christ is laid to rest. In its years of peace between three principal the direction of UO Associate Professor The Festival set attendance records their outstanding penerositv. it to go. Thanks for your support! + magnitude, the St. John Passion summons nations of the war, the War Requiem will Rob Kyr, gathers emerging composers to in 1994 and had its second best year in images of the struggle between Jews and unite in performance the Rostock Motet- work with composer-in-residence Judith ticket revenue. But according to Sylvia book, commissioned works, and a Gentiles, between Christians and unbeliev- tenchor of the former East Germany, the Weir and have their music performed by Sycamore, president of the Oregon Bach collaborative administration project. ers, and between man and sin. In the Kyoto Bach Choir of , the Salem the Verdi Quartet. Festival Board of Directors, the success of Major funding for Creative Journeys humility of a God who sacrifices his son, Boys Choir, and the Festival Chorus and . Popular Festival features such as the Creative Journeys should not be measured was contributed by the Arts Partners and finally, the promise of eternal rest, the Orchestra. Laszlo Heltay, whose accom- Beall Hall Chamber Music series, free in ticket sales but in the partnerships that program of the Lila Wallace-Reader's work also acknowledges the hope of plishments include directing the choir of noon concerts, and the Children's Interna- were forged within the community. Digest Fund. The Arvo Part commission reconciliation and peace. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields tional Earport will return. "Hundreds of volunteers had a part in was funded in part by the Hult Endow- for the soundtrack of Amadeus, will he the The Oregon Bach Festival begins shaping the project, from University of ment Fund. Requiem by Mozart guest conductor. accepting ticket orders in April. To receive Oregon faculty to various churches, The Oregon Bach Festival's Cre- Sunday, June 25 a brochure, call (800) 457-1486 or (503) businesses, social groups, artists, and ative Journeys project was also cited as Helmuth Rilling, conductor Stabat Mater by Antonin Dvor6k 346-5666. students," she said, "and their support one of four models of audience develop- Peter Shaffer's play and movie Saturday, July 8 fostered involvement across the commu- ment in the new book Audience Develop- Amadeus dramatized the mysteries of this Helmuth Rilling, conductor nity. More people took part in Festival ment: A Planning Toolbox published this piece, which was incomplete when Mozart Dvorik completed the Stabat Mater events than ever before." month by APAP. died. But the degree of controversy in 1877 following the deaths of three of Prior Dawson award recipients The Association of Performing Arts surrounding the Requiem is surpassed only his children. Its text describes the anguish include the Kennedy Center in Washing- Presenters has a national membership of by its haunting beauty and lasting popular- of Mary at the foot of the Cross, and ton, D.C., the Sheldon Arts Foundation of more than 1600 organizations. The ity. The text, with its descriptions of a Dvoriik's musical setting undoubtedly St. Louis, and Purdue University. Winning Dawson award is named for William M. Piano technician Alan Phillips built two fiery judgment day, the forgiveness of sins, stemmed from his personal grief. But the projects in the past have included an arts Dawson, who directed the &r&anizationfor of these unique grandpiano ticket recep- and the promise of the Lord's eternal light, work also has an abstract, mystical quality education series, an arts advocacy hand- 14 years. + taclesfor ushers at Beall Hall concerts. - --F;ACULTY NEWS -- --I Danceability Project Workshop UO Dance Ensembles Music School Mourns Death ofBob Trotter Back at UO for Third Year Explore Cultures Former music dean leaves legacy of innovation, energy, and ideas Two UO dance ensembles are For three days this winter (March 3- ed by an introductory lecture-demonstra- actively exploring the repertoire of Africa HE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, came to Oregon. David Geppert, a class- 5) the dance studios of Gerlinger annex tion. March 3 from 7-9 p.m. and Eastern European cultures. and indeed, the music world, lost a mate and friend of Trotter's at Northwest- will be filled by the participants of the two days of experiential workshops Dance Africa, formed in 1993, great friend when Robert Trotter em, recalled a "typical Trotterism": "A eighth annual Danceability Project Work- in movement, dance, and Contact Impro- performs a diverse variety of African dance died September 1 after a lingering bout player from India became very popu- shop. The Workshop is co-sponsored by visation. Saturday and Sunday, March 4 traditions, including those of Togo, Sierra with hepatitis. Hundreds of friends, lar. I remember thinking that this guy could colleagues, and former students attended a never be considered in the same class as ;the UO Department of Dance and Joint and 5 (one day attendance is acceptable). Leone, and South Africa. The company is a Forces Dance Company, and is open to all The workshop tuition is on a sliding scale, collective of 14 dancers and musicians nearly three-hour memorial service in Johann Sebastian Bach. Bobby told me interested able-bodied, physically dis- from $25-$100. from the UO, Lane Community College, Beall Concert Hall, filled with music, 'that's just because you have a bias. We abled, and visually or hearing impaired the Danceability concert, featuring and the Eugene-Springfield Community. anecdotes, and remembrances. really can't say.' It gave me pause." individuals. Alito Alessi and Emery Blackwell of Joint Co-directors are two UO alums: Rita Trotter served as dean of the UO Paul Setziol, a UO graduate student Joint Forces founded the Forces Dance Company, solo artists, and Honka (M.S. Dance '92) and Kouessan School of Music from 1963-1975, leaving in the 1970s, wrote of another telling Danceability Project in 1988 with the local and national dance groups. March 4 Abaglo (M.A. Business '93). a unique and indelible mark on the music memory: "When [former UO choral purpose of creating, through improvisa- at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $4 for general The Oregon Ethnic Dance Theatre, school. During his career he also had director] Max Risinger died, there was an tional dance forms, a common ground that admission and $2 for students and seniors. under the direction of Assistant Professor teaching positions at Yale, Southern Meth- open coffin funeral for him at the Congre- could help dismantle the barriers between The public is invited to both the Lisa Arkin, performs a repertoire of folk, odist, UCLA, Shanghai Conservatory, and gational Church, just a few blocks away able-bodied and disabled people. Since March 3 demonstration-discussion and the character, and social dance forms from the North Carolina School of the Arts. He from the School of Music. I sat in the front that time the Danceability Project has performance on March 5. For further Eastern European cultures, including served as president of the College Music row in the balcony, and as the funeral came grown into an international network that information about these events or partici- Slovakia, the Ukraine, and Bulgaria. The Society, was a founder of Oregon College to a close and people started filing past the encourages artistic expression through pation in the Danceability Workshop, ensemble's 1994 season toured a lecture- Music Administrators, served on numer- coffin I completely broke down sobbing, movement, dance, and Contact Improvisa- please call the Department of Dance at demonstration format that featured a 25- ous national commissions and committees, gasping for breath, and even calling out tion, by people of diverse abilities. The 346-3386 or Joint Forces Dance Company minute concert followed by a 90-minute and authored an array of scholarly articles. 'Max' several times in a feeble, choking Danceability Project Workshop has been at 342-3273. + master class. OEDT was invited to do a But a resume doesn't begin to define "Bob further introduced the idea of voice. As many of us got back to the music in residency at the UO Department of residency in Arizona and a weekend who Robert Trotter was and what made preparing our doctoral students in two school I was still by myself and still at it. I Dance each winter term since 1993. workshop in this past year. him tick. different fields: a primary one, perhaps in sat down in a chair and bent over, my mind The 1995 Danceability Workshop Dance Africa and the Oregon Ethnic Associate Professor Dick Trombley history, and a secondary one, possibly in still messed up, spinning and going on and will include: Dance Theatre have each produced popular recalled that he and Trotter both came to performance. This made our doctoral on with the forming of words that I should an evening showing of Common programs for the UO Children's Concert Eugene in 1963-be from New York City, students not only better rounded musi- have said to Max but didn't or couldn't. I Ground, an award-winning documentary Series in the past two years. + and the Trotters from L.A.: cians, but it also made them more felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Robert's. on the 1988 Danceability Project, follow- "Bob had just come from being dean appealing to the job market. He said: 'At the risk of your considering of the School of Music at UCLA, and it "Bob offered another attitude me obtrusive... Yuk.' I guess I expressed was clear that he had come to the Univer- toward college music teaching that was 'huh?' with body language because, sity of Oregon with a strong desire to equally as innovative and important as his without my saying anything, Robert said improve the profile that the School of D.M.A. program in music pedagogy," 'Yuk' again and then explained by telling Music presented at that time ...His vision Trombley added. "As early as 1970 he me that what I was doing wasn't Max. resulted in developing a larger perfor- began talking about the need to include Then a pause. This was done in his typical mance, history, and theory faculty, and the study of world music in our curricu- disarmingly friendly, for-what-it's-worth, culminated in his introducing a Doctor of lum, rather than simply dwelling on the fatherly, encouraging way. It completely Musical Arts program that was aimed at past merits of western civilization. And changed what and how I was thinking. I preparing our students for the successful lightened up on my murky, even self- teaching of music at the college level. "He was always open to new indulgent vein and thought about and "Doctorates at that time were ideas, and ifthey weren't celebrated Max without the slightest hint directed toward immersing students in the of the chains of my own guilt draped on study of music theory and history, but they regularly forthcoming, he any of the thoughts. Of course, by this time had little to do with the practical side of hatched them himse lf..." Robert had long since disappeared- teaching these areas:' said Trombley. having gone off to do or think about who "Being a product of this attitude, and since none of us really understood what knows what." perceiving its weakness, Bob saw to it that he was talking about at that time, he took Trotter's down-to-earth manner and the School of Music offered our doctoral it upon himself to develop classes in what disarming informality were constants to all 1931: Early modern dancers from the UOform a heroic tableau 1994: A post-modem echo with Michelle Bloom surrounded by students classes in pedagogy, so that when he called 'world music.'" who knew him. Professor Emeritus John infront of a brick alcove near Gerlinger. (Photo from the grad student Lisa Sherry, adjunct instructors Ruth Heller, they entered the job market it was with That fascination with m'usic of other McManus remembered Trotter's wonderful collection of Dr. M. F. Dougherfy) Elizabeth Wartluft, and Jean Nelson, and student Janna Johnson their eyes open, rather than shut. cultures was with Trotter years before he Continued on page I2 TROlTER, continued choreography for Chimera from the 1994 John Gainer acted as consultant and for Two in E Major with the Woodruff Gymnasium in December, command of the English language. "We Kennedy Center American College background vocal arranger for two M. Oregon Mozart Players and conductor Apo attended by over 150 participants; dances always knew his brain was in high gear Theater Festival. She performed Fred Jacobs Furniture commercials last year; Hsu. In November, they shared a solo and were taught and live music was provided before he started to speak," said Barbara Baird joined the summer faculty Strickler's Excursions (music by Samuel Gainer chose the background singers, duo program in a henefit recital for the by the UO East European Folk Ensemble, McManus, "and then he chose his words of the Sacred Music Workshop at the Barber) in Northwest Tap Consort's conducted and arranged the vocals, and Russian River Chamber Music Society in Eugene accordionist Chester Pietka, and from his enormous vocabulary with care Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, September concert at the Echo Theatre in Gainer himself is featured as a tenor Northern California. In January, Kramer the folk orchestra Zhivo from Portland. and then phrased his thought with sophis- CA, to teach Baroque Repertoire and Portland. In celebration of the centennial background vocal and ad lib vocalist on gave a solo henefit recital for the UO tication and eloquence. He could as Worship Service Playing. She also served of Doris Humphrey's birth, Descutner the spots. On Thanksgiving weekend, Chamber Music Series titled "The Ten Anne Dbu McLucas was nominated Vice equally explore a subject in specific detail on the harpsichord faculty during Southern reconstructed Humphrey's 1931 piece Two Gainer participated in a live recording Most Difficult Solo Piano Pieces." The President of the Sonneck Society for as dispatch a triviality with good-humored Methodist University's summer session at Ecstatic Themes from the Labanotation with the Mass Choir, performance, which featured finger-busters American Music and elected to serve on , brevity, e.g., the time during a faculty Taos, NM. Baird hosted the UO Baroque score for UO alum Mae Chesney, who was composed of 300 vocalists from Oregon, by Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Schumann, the American Musicological Society meeting when he instructed a recalcitrant Music and Dance Workshop in Octoher, a guest artist for Dance '95. Descutner Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Brahms, Ravel, and Czerny, received a Council for 1994-97. McLucas was also staff member to 'just say one great big co-sponsored by the Oregon Music was accepted in Narope Institute's study Members of Gainer's Inspirational Sounds standing ovation from the sold-out house. chosen as the new editor of The College God-damn and then go do it!' ... and we all Teacher's Association, the American Guild abroad program in Bali, where she will Gospel Choir and theUO Gospel Ensemble Music Symposium for 1995-98. felt like cheering." of Organists, and the School of Music. She study meditation, Balinese gamelan and sang on CD, cassette, and video record- Don Latarski recently completed writing But it was Trotter's penchant for presented a Humanities Center lecture on dance. She will be on sabbatical leave ings of this performance, which were and recording music for several video J. Robert Moore performed three oboe new ideas and his holistic approach to "Humor in American Women's Music" for through 1995. produced in Tacoma and which will be projects, including a promotional piece for recitals in , including one at the music that remain his primary legacy. their Works in Progress series last summer. released on SavoyIMalaco Records Rexius Forest Products, an industrial National Recital Hall in Taipei. His "He was always open to new ideas," She also gave workshops on Baroque and Charles Dowd was a voting adjudicator sometime in the spring of 1995. video for a computer firm, and the record- accompanist was Dr. Li-Chin Lai, Profes- recalled John McManus, "and if they Classic Performance Practice for the for the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. He ing for the new UO School of Music sor of Piano at the National Taiwan weren't regularly forthcoming, he hatched OMTA in Roseburg and Corvallis. Baird auditioned for voting participation via his Barbara Gonzilez-Palmer was pianist recruiting video. As a , Normal University. In November, he was them himself and was not reluctant to try also performed in a henefit concert for recordings on Black Saint-Soul Note, for a February master class given in Latarski contributed guitar tracks to a CD- guest artist on the UO Chamber Music something for fear of failing." Eugene public school music programs, Musicmasters, Hanssler, Columbia Portland by world-renowned flutist Jean- ROM computer game. He recently com- Series, appearing with the Leonardo Trio. No surprise that Trotter welcomed and played in the 1994 Oregon Bach Pictures Media /Warner Brothers, and Pierre Rampal. She also performed in pleted two years of performing in Oregon He continues as solo and principal oboist the computer age with a sense of adven- Festival. In August, she gave a harpsi- KM-Los Angeles. In October, he was Faculty Artist Series concerts with fellow Electric Station's jazz lounge and is with the Oregon Mozart Players this ture rather than dread or scorn. His latest chord recital at the historic Fort Burgwin soloist in Concerto for Percussion by faculty members Richard Frazier, Leslie looking forward to his third year there. season. Moore will be on sabbatical leave projects, in fact, included the development in Taos, NM, and received a standing Darius Milhaud with Michigan conductor Straka, Milagro Vargas, and Lawrence Latarski continued his work on two hook during winter and spring terms of 1995, of computer software for producing ovation for her organ recital at St. Mark's David Katz and the Oregon Mozart Maves. She and Frazier repeated their projects: Reading Music on Guitar, and writing on a research project which took synthesized sounds, and a program called Episcopal Church in Berkeley. This fall, Players. Dowd continues as principal recital for a noon-time series at Portland Beyond Scales. him to Hungary during the summer of Earplay, which demonstrates Hindustani Baird played in the Faculty Musicale and timpanist with the Oregon Bach Festival, State University. In May, she returned to 1991. The project, which deals with a ragas, or melody patterns. Appropriately, in a Baroque Music and Dance concert. Eugene Symphony, Oregon's Festival of Sunriver, OR, with violinist Phillip Ruder, Mark Levy coordinated a three-day Hungarian folk instrument (the tarogato) a was part of Trotter's She gave an Advent Organ Recital at American Music, and California's Cabrillo where they performed a benefit recital for residency of the Darpana Dance Company has been the subject of six lecturelrecitals eclectic memorial service. Eugene's First Christian Church and was a Music Festival. At Cahrillo he performed the Sunriver Music Festival. After giving a for the World Music Series at the UO in presented by Moore over the past two "Bob was a true personification of a featured harpsichord soloist with the with composers-in-residence John Adams, scholarship henefit with soprano Tonda October, featuring dancer and choreogra- years. He is scheduled to present the life-long learner," said McManus. "His Oregon Mozart Players in January. Baird Christopher Rouse, Libby Larsen, William Kemmerling in June, the two traveled to pher Mallika Sarabhai. The troupe per- lecture again at the University of Indiana constant curiosity and yen to learn led recently took on additional duties as Kraft, George Tsontakis, and conductor Munich, Germany, to perform in the formed classical and contemporary music in April 1995. Claire and him all over the country and Music Director at First Congregational Marin Alsop. In November he attended the prestigious International Music Competi- and dance of South India, as well as a world to explore, to photograph, to learn Church, where she has been organist since Percussive Arts Society International tion of the ARD. This fall, she performed number of lecture-demonstrations for the Randall Moore presented a research and teach, and then come home and share." 1982. Baird is also in her second year as Convention, participating in committees in the School of Music's Faculty Musicale public and for Music, Dance, and Interna- paper that he co-authored with Brotons, In a sense, Bob Trotter never left the coordinator of Summer Session at the UO on mallet keyboard, , multiple with Wendell Eitelman, the Octubafest tional College classes. Coming events in Fyk, and Frega, "Influences of Culture, classroom. He embraced the world as his School of Music. percussion, and drumset curriculum. with Richard Frazier and Ellen the World Music Series include a concert Age, and Melodic Intervals on Interval library, and approached each day with a Dowd conducted the Oregon Percussion Campbell, and in two Faculty Artist of traditional Irish music and step-dancing Matching Skills of Children from Argen- new thirst for knowledge, probing and Sherrie Barr (Dance) attended the Labad Ensemble this fall in the Northwest Series concerts with Steven Pologe and February 17, and a Javanese shadow- tina, Poland, Spain, and the United questioning all the while. Even as he lay in Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies premieres of Rune (1994) by Toronto Anne Tedards. In January, she accompa- puppet play with gamelan orchestra April States," at the International Society for his hospital bed, the classroom metaphor National Conference in Minneapolis in :omposer James Tenney, Amicus (1990) nied guest tenor Mark Beudert and 30. Levy presented a paper at the national Music Education Research Commission enveloped him; knowing the end was Octoher, where she presented a paper by Richard Kvistad of San Francisco, and performed in two concerts with the faculty meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicol- meeting in Miami in July 1994. In Novem- drawing near, he turned to the friends and titled, "Wearing the Student Link: Funda- the world premiere of his own Bang On A chamber group, Con Brio. ogy in October, titled "Regional and ber he presented a study co-authored with family seated nearby and, with that mentals and Dancing." With her dance Can (1994), featuring canons and fugues National Mnsic in Socialist Bulgaria: Standley and Gladstone titled "Effects of mischievous smile in his voice, said "I've partner, Mary Seereiter (UO '78), Barr ierivative of John Cage. Dowd continues Dean Kramer and Claire Wachter Identity and Adaptation in Two Gaida Music, Maternal Voice, Intrauterine completed my assignment." + performed a new work, Call Waiting, in an to perform on vibraharp and compose for appeared as soloists with the Oregon (bagpipe) Traditions." The paper will be Sounds, and White Noise on the Oxygen Informal Performance at the same his Goodvibes Jazz Quartet. During a Symphony in November, performing published soon as part of a collection of Saturation Levels of Premature Infants," at Gifrs in memoiy of Robert Trotter may be conference in Minneapolis. recent Eugene Symphony wage negotia- Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals with writings on various aspects of Bulgarian the Orlando conference of the National made to UO Fnundation/Schnnl of Music ion lockout, he played drumset with a Peter Schickele, narrator, and Norman culture, history, and language. Levy and Association for Music Therapy. Moore's with a memo line or note: "In memoiy of Janet Descutner (Dance) received a .ock hand performing covers of ZZ Top, Leyden, conductor. In November, Kramer Lisa Arkin organized an evening of article, "Selected Research on Children's Robert Troffer." Meritorious Achievement Award in mong other repertoire. and Wachter performed Mozart's Concerto international folkdancing in the UO's Continued on page 14 - .- =y ---- AM1NOTES I Royce Saltzman Receives "Music preferences of the elderly: Reper- Charlemont, Maine. Steinhardt also Dan Bochard (B.Mus. 1968) a profes- toire, vocal ranges, tempos, and accompa- performed in the memorial concert for sional trombonist, soloist, clinician, and niments for singing" (co-authors: M. J. ~erman~'sHighest Honor Robert Trotter, appeared in the UO adjudicator in the Los Angeles area, Staum and M. Brotons) and "Effects of Faculty Musicale, and played with the Del Aebischer (B.S. 1957; M.S. 1959; received the 1994 Southern California H. Royce Saltzman, co-founder and executive director emeritus of the Oregon music to aid memory of Alzheimer's University Symphony in its November D.E.D. 1967) recently retired after serving School Band and Orchestra Association's patients in a nursing home" (co-author: C. Bach Festival, received the highest honor bestowed by the German government in a performances of Gershwin's Concerto in 25 years as Oregon's State Music Consult- "Distinguished Member Award." Over the December ceremony. A. Prickett) in Research in Music Therapy: E Steinhardt joined with violinist ant. He was the second individual to hold years, Bochard has recorded more than The Bundesverdienstkreuz -the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the A Tradition of Excellence (J. M. Standley Kathryn Lucktenberg and cellist Steven the position, appointed in 1969 when Jerry 400 television sound tracks. Federal Republic of Germany-is bestowed by the President of the Federal Republic of and C. A. Prickett, editors.); and "Nation- Pologe to form a new UO faculty en- Weseley Hanis left the position to return Germany in recognition of outstanding efforts and achievements in the political, ality influences on children's perception semble, The Pacific THO, which per- to teaching. Aebischer and selected teach- Paul Piersall (D.M.A. 1971) is Director ' economic, and cultural arenas. The Order of Merit award was presented to Saltzman by and performance of intensity modulations" formed in Honolulu recently. er participants published an enormous of Choral Activities at Abilene Christian (co-authors: J. Fyk and M. Brotons) in the Dr. Manfred Birmelin, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Seattle amount of practical pamphlets and hook- University, Abilene, Texas. At the end of Consulate. Bulletin for the Council for Research in Mary Lou Van Rysselberghe participated lets that are used throughout the state, the 1994-95 school year, Piersall plans to In announcing the award, Dr. Birmelin said that Saltzman "has been able to Music Education. in the 1994 ISME Early Childhood Music including the Music Curriculum Bulletin, relinquish his choral duties and concen- establish rewarding and far-reaching connections to German organizations and musi- Seminar in Columbia, Missouri, last July. Sound Planning for Music Facilities, Love trate on teaching voice and singing. Since cians. He has initiated a cultural exchange- that has brought together the musicians and George Recker spent the 1993-94 year on The following week in Tampa, Florida, That Keyboard, Classroom Instruments: a leaving Portland in 1979, Piersall has had musical heritage of Germany and America." sabbatical, during which he performed she was elected to a six-year term as the Sequential Plan, Self-Evaluation Check- the oppormnity to study with Giorgio three world premieres, two New York Saltzman co-founded the Oregon US. Commission member on the ISME's lists for School Music Programs, and Tozzi for over a year in Malibu, coach Bach Festival in 1970 with conductor premieres, and seven West Coast pre- governing board. Rysselberghe served as a Music Common Curriculum Goals and with Armen Guzelimian (Thomas Helmuth Rilling. The Festival has since mieres. He gave two recitals with clinician for the Salem Public Schools in Music Comprehensive Goals. For 25 Hampson's primary accompanist), and do grown into an internationally-recognized Anthony Plog in Germany, performed October; her topic was "Multicultural years, Aebischer wrote a column in the a master class with Birget Nilsson. He has event that attracts musicians and audiences Rostropovich's last concert series with the Music in Elementary Music Classes." Oregon Music Educate?; and with eight sung in operas with Cesare Siepi, Jerome from around the world. Its educational National Symphony in Washington, D.C., others edited the MENC publication used Hinds, Richard Stillwell, and performed program for choral conducting has served and played with the Utah Symphony and nationally called The School Music with the Nurnberg Symphony, the Dallas Mormon Tabernacle Choir under Robert NEW FACULTY: as a model for Bach Academies that Rilling Program: Description and Standards. His Symphony, and the Pacific Symphony and has created and conducted in his native Shaw. While in Germany, Recker studied Ellen Campbell, assistant professor of article "Oregon Calls the Tune" received Chorale. He has also performed the Verdi Baroque trumpet with Ed Tarr, and visited Stuttgart, Germany, and other countries. horn, has been on the faculties at South- recognition in a 1977 Oregon Association Requiem with the William Hall Chorale In a letter to the German foreign the Eiger Baroque trumpet factory in west Texas State University and the Uni- for Supervision and Cumculum Develop- and Orchestra. Piersall received excellent ministly recommending that the honor be Base1 Bad. Recker was a featured soloist versity of New . She has performed ment publication. Aebischer holds the reviews in the Los Angeles Times for his granted, Rilling said Saltzman's work in with Marin Alsop's Concordia Orchestra as principal horn with the Santa Fe Sym- Ed.D. in Music Education and Counseling performance in the US. premiere of in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, gave forging a long-lasting cultural tie with phony, Kalamazoo Symphony, and Austin Psychology. He pursued his undergraduate Dvorak's St. Ludmila with the Chorale Germany has been of particular importance. master classes at Idaho State and Missis- Chamber Orchestra. She has also played studies at Seattle Pacific College and the Society of Southem California and "The spirit of excellence Royce Saltzman sippi State University, and did recording with the Houston Symphony, Grand Rapids University of Oregon, and his graduate Downey Symphony. At the regional NATS has embodied in the Oregon Bach Festival demos for the movie Renaissance Man, Symphony, Lansing Symphony, and studies were at the University of Califor- conference at Rice University in October stamng Danny DeVito. Recker's festival has created an imoortant relations hi^ with Michigan Opera Theater. In the summers nia at Berkeley and the U of 0. Continued on Daae 16 Germany that has lasted for 25 years and Royce Saltzman appearances included the Oregon Bach she is a member of the Fontana Ensemble still continues," noted Rilling. Festival, Cabrillo Festival, and Marin in Shelbyville, Michigan. She is a former Fundraising flashback: At the ceremony, Saltzman attributed the honor to the support of the Eugene Alsop's Festival of American Music; he faculty member and regular guest artist/ also continued as principal trumpet in the community. "The ties we created with Germany would never have been forged if it clinician at the Interlochen Arts Camp. So You Need to Raise Some Money?. wasn't for the support of the artists and audiences who believed in the Festival. This Eugene Symphony. Recker also helped Back in 1970, Elwood Rickman (B.S. 1949; MS. 1968) and his South Eugene honor is theirs as much as mine." facilitate a major acquisition for the UO Frank Heuser, assistant professor of High School Band raised a net sum of $5,000 in one of the most creative fundraising Saltzman stepped down from his post at the Oregon Bach Festival in July, music library; the gift, from a Chicago music education, holds degrees in music efforts of all time. Having spent two seasons working on the building of the Alcan following the Festival's 25th anniversary. During the 1994 Festival his achievements donor, includes 583 brass quintets and 90 from California State University at Los Highway in and Alaska handling heavy construction equipment, Rickman was were recognized by President Bill Clinton, Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts, and UO trumpet solos, concertos, and sonatas. Angeles, Yale, and USC. He has taught equipped with the know-how to submit a bid on some projects for the Bureau of Land President Dave Frohnmayer. Saltzman continues to serve the UO School of Music as instrumental music at all levels in the Management in Western Lane County. The BLM awarded contracts to Rickman and his professor emeritus and the Oregon Bach Festival as executive director emeritus. Doug Scheuerell played tabla and sang at schools of southern California, including student volunteers to open a fire trail on BLM land in the Walton area, and to build the Starlight Mountain Festival in Wash- the Anaheim Union School District, and at improved fish spawning beds on five streams, tributaries of the Siuslaw River. The fish FACULTY NEWS, continued ington in August. He also performed at the East Los Angeles College. Heuser's habitat improvement projects involved construction of 15 small dams designed to help the national children's choral festival in September memorial service for Robert research interests include the study of stabilize over 1,000 cubic yards of special spawning gravel. Student work parties joined Singing Skills," appeared in the book Corvallis last summer. Several of Moore's Trotter. motor control issues in musicians and the in on the fun on Saturdays, while Rickman and a small volunteer full-time student crew Onchi and Singing Development, pub- writings were published in 1994, includ- understanding and prevention of perfor- worked during the week. The BLM and the community were helpful and cooperative as lished in August by Fulton Publishers of ing: "Effects of age, sex, and melodic/ Victor Steinhardt kept up his busy mance problems in wind players. He has the work progressed throughshe summer. The Eugene Sand and Gravel Company helped London. Moore's Oregon Children's Choir harmonic patterns on vocal pitch-matching performing schedule with five perfor- published several articles in the Medical with bonding and insurance, as well as assuming the contract risk and providing engin- performed in the Oregon Bach Festival's skills of children 8-1 1 years old" in the mances with Chamber Music Northwest in Problems of Performing Artists. eering consultation. After alibills, wages, and fees were paid, the band netted $5,000-- St. Matthew Passion and participated in Journal of Research in Music Education; Portland and two August performances in not a paltry sum in those days. -Story courtesy of The Retired Oregon Music Educator '94, Piersall presented a concert of bass Goldberg Variations was noted in the April private practice in massage therapy. Smith duets with colleague Charles Nelson. In '92 issue of Keyboard magazine. Salm continues his work in the field of choreog- December, he performed Beethoven's performed with five other composers in raphy with his partner, Julie Sinnott Symphony No. 9 with the Abilene Philhar- the Seventh Species concert series in (MS. 1983). monic. In the Summer of '93 Piersall sang November '94. He founded and facilitates the role of Sulpice in Daughter of the a group of artists in Eugene called A.R.T.E. Gary D. Long (B.Mus. 1985) and Becky Regiment with the Abilene Opera Associa- Salm will promote the acclaimed North- Marsh Long (B.Mus. 1985) became new tion, and this past summer took his choir west pianist Mark Westcott in February parents when they welcomed Madeline on tour throughout the Czech Republic, '95 at Eugene's Hult Center. Salm per- Jane into their home in Redlands, CA, in Poland, and Hungary. Piersall says that forms his keyboard music in the North- September. Gary is principal timpanist he's not singing as much as he would like, west and teaches privately in Eugene. with the Long Beach Symphony and but that he hopes to do more "once the principal percussion with the Inland choral monkey is off my back." Helene M. (Holly) Conway (B.S. Dance, Empire Symphony and Bakersfield 1975) has been with the Juilliard School Symphony. He received a master's degree Roy Roth (M. Church Mus. 1972) is a for the past five years and is now Assistant in performance from the Juilliard School retired Siletz Schools vocal and instrument Director of the Concert Office. Her sister, in 1987. Becky, a freelance cellist, music teacher (1959-70), and one of a Flo Conway (M.A.1967), also a UO performs with the Bakersfield Symphony handful of Oregon's retired music educa- alum, is a writer and lives in New York. and the Walker Piano Trio. She also tors who served as president of a college. teaches elementary music in Redlands. Roth was president of Hesston College in Aaron Smith (B.S. Dance, 1977) returned Becky received a master's degree in cello Kansas from 1951-59. to Eugene last spring to teach master performance from the University of classes at UO and LCC. In addition to his Redlands in 1993. Rene Salm (B.A. Mus. 1973) penned an UO dance degree, Smith holds a master's article titled "Electronic Orchestration" for degree in dance from the University of Johnathan E. Mansfield (B.Mus. 1986) the September '91 issue of Electronic Illinois (1978). Smith is also a licensed is practicing law at Covington & Burling Musician magazine. The same article massage therapist. He now lives in Seattle, in Washington, D.C. appeared in the book Music and Your where he is a faculty member of the Brian Computer. Salm's performance of Bach's Utting School of Massage and has a Sean Paul Rivera-Mills, D.M.A. (B.Mus. 1988; M.Mus. 1989) recently relocated to Flagstaff, AZ, after his wife, Susana, HAVE WE HEARD FROM YOU LATELY? received a full-time faculty position in the Let us and your fellow alumni know of your activities! Please give us your current Modem Languages Department at North- address, particularly if you have moved recently. Photoarauhs are welcome. ern Arizona University. Together, they have opened the Ponderosa Violin Shop i 2/95 UO School of Music & Dance Alumni where Sean specializes in the repair and WHAT'S UP? restoration of violin family instruments as I well as sales of accessories and instru- I NAME Class of I ments. Both Sean and Susana received I Degree I their shodans (black belts) from the Japan I Comments I Karate Association and are in the process I I of developing the Northem Arizona Karate Association. Sean and Susana are cur- rently collaborating on several articles relating to both music and the martial arts.

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