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JUNE 2005 A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI OF THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC FROM THE EDITOR

Loss, love, and legacies

Dear Eastman Alumni: More than any time since I began editing Eastman Notes, the winter and spring of 2004¬2005 was marked by a sense of loss, with the deaths of two inimitable NOTES figures in Eastman’s history: Frederick Fennell and Ruth Watanabe, who died in Volume 23, Number 2 December 2004 and February 2005 respectively. June 2005 It’s representative of their importance, not just to the School but to the musical world in general, that everyone reading this magazine, no matter when they at- Editor tended, knows who Frederick Fennell and Ruth Watanabe are. Both are indelibly David Raymond associated with two monuments of the School—the Wind Ensemble and the Sib- Assistant editor ley Library. Fennell built a new model for wind band playing—and a repertory— Juliet Grabowski pretty much from scratch; while Ruth Watanabe didn’t found the Sibley Library, Contributing writers she certainly developed it to its present eminence over a 40-year career. (See Martial Bednar Christine Corrado pages 6 and 8 for more Susan Hawkshaw on their remarkable ca- Contributing photographers reers.) Both continued Richard Baker to be generous with Kurt Brownell their time and talent Bob Klein well after retirement— Gelfand-Piper Photography Amy Vetter Fennell visiting Eastman numerous times to con- Photography coordinators Nathan Martel duct, Watanabe as the Amy Vetter School’s historian. Design These two people were Steve Boerner Typography & Design definitely respected as professionals, but they Frederick Fennell Ruth Watanabe Published twice a year by the Office of were also loved as people— Communications, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY, see the brief tributes to Fennell by his successors Don Hunsberger and Mark 14604, (585) 274-1050. Scatterday, or the letter about Watanabe from Beatrice Caro Roxin BM ’49 (page [email protected] 3). Sadness at their passing is tempered by the knowledge that they had long lives, well lived. Indeed, their lives are far from over; their intellectual and musical legacies can be seen and sensed, not just in this issue of Eastman Notes, but every day at the Eastman School. Notes welcomes all of your reminiscences of these two great figures in East- man’s history.

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FEATURES 4 Musicians on a mission For the past ten years, Eastman students CELEBRATED COMPOSER AND LONGTIME CONDUCTOR OF THE PORTLAND YOUTH have given their music to all 12 PHILHARMONIC, JACOB AVSHALOMOV CELEBRATED HIS 85TH BIRTHDAY IN 2004 6 A class act in every way Fred Fennell: 70 years of musical innovation and showmanship 8 The Ruth Watanabe Years In her 40 years at Eastman, the late Sibley Librarian left an unparalleled legacy 12 “Father of Peace” “An eternally youthful musician, teacher, colleague, friend” GRAMMY-WINNING COMPOSER 11 MARIA SCHNEIDER HAS A NEW MODEL CONVERSATION FOR MUSIC DISTRIBUTION 11 Making her garden grow: Maria Schneider How she took control of her music — FROM PICCOLOS and gave it back to her fans 4 TO TUBAS: 10 SHINING YEARS 2 COMING EVENTS OF MUSIC FOR ALL 3 LETTERS 15 SCHOOL NEWS 20 IN TRIBUTE A LIVELY OPERA 15 SEASON, AND 22 ALUMNI NOTES MUCH MORE EASTMAN 23 EASTMAN ALUMNI ON CD NEWS OF NOTE 32 SHOWING OFF 34 FACULTY NOTES 35 EASTMAN FACULTY ON CD 36 STUDENT NOTES

ON THE COVER: This issue’s cover design is by Eugenia Jeong ’08, a student of Nelita True. It was inspired ON THE WEB: More news about the Eastman School of Music, including by the phrase “Music for All,” and by words she says it suggested to her: “Harmony, powerful, close, live, the full text of Notes and expanded alumni information, can be found communication, connection, gift, share, interaction, healing.” online at www.rochester.edu/Eastman.

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Project number: 2004013 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2005 Draft: Web Date: July 5, 2005 �� Coming Events �� October 2, 2005 • Tribute to Ruth Watanabe, �� 2 p.m. Sibley Music Library �� October 8–16, 2005 • EROI Festival �� Opening event: dedication of Italian Baroque organ in the �� Fountain Court of University �� of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery (see ad opposite) �� October 22, 2005 • Dedication of Messinger Hall, �� new location for Eastman �� Community Music School, at 10 Gibbs Street

October 23, 2005 �� • Inauguration of University �� of Rochester President �� Joel Seligman �� November 3–6, 2005 �� • Eastman Opera Theatre: ��

Claudia Legare by �� Robert Ward (BM ’39) �� February 2006 �� • Composer Louis Andriessen �� visits Eastman ��

April 6–9, 2006 �� • Eastman Opera Theatre: �� Cendrillon (Cinderella) ��

by Jules Massenet �� Eastman Weekend �� October 20–22, 2006 �� Save the date and make your �� plans to return to Rochester. �� For the entire Eastman com- �� munity: alumni, students and �� parents, faculty and staff. �� Combining the best of Alumni �� Weekend, Reunion, Family Week- �� end, and Eastman Community Music School Open House. You won’t want to miss the music, the reconnections, and the fun!

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Her vitae was fairly well known: rescued by Dr. Howard Hanson from near-imprisonment �� in one of the horrid encampments set up for Japanese-Americans following Pearl Harbor, he invited her to begin study on a PhD at the Eastman School. She served as the director of the Sibley Music Library on Swan Street for four decades, with her usual grace and delicious sense of humor. Her History of Music course, a freshman Souzay celebrated requirement, would have been a highly Our last issue of Notes featured a photo of sought after elective had it not been a the great French baritone Gerard Souzay, who required subject. Here too, Dr. Watanabe died in the summer of 2004, during a master infused the subject matter with wit and �� class at Eastman. As the file photo was un- clarity which students could quote verbatim dated and the student in it unidentified, we many years later. asked readers if they could enlighten us— Ruth Watanabe’s last position with and they did. I am the student in the picture printed Eastman was as archivist for the School, on page 4 of the latest Notes. I must have and we are indebted to her for her ability The singer appearing in the photograph been the first singer that day, as that was to transfer the School’s history into a with Mr. Souzay is Jeff Fahnestock. Jeff and usually when Louis Ouzer was around to meaningful record for the future. I were in the studio of Seth McCoy. It was a take photos. In the general Rochester community, Dr. wonderful experience for all that were par- Gerard Souzay was coming from Toronto, Watanabe’s program notes for the Bravo guide ticipating and in attendance. Mr. Souzay pro- I think, and had a bad cold, hence the to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra vided us all with wonderful ideas and insights microphone. Somewhere in a box I have concerts were a compendium of must regarding the French art song repertoire. Dr. a program from that day; I sang Fauré’s reading. Her musicology background shone Ben King, who is now Chair of the Voice and/ “Prison,” not “Chanson Triste” of Duparc as through with scholarly insights as well as the or Music department at Houghton College, listed on the program. joy that the listener would soon encounter. impressed Mr. Souzay greatly. So much so that —Jeffrey Fahnestock (BM ’83) Speaking as one Eastman alumna, I am so he (Souzay) invited Ben, in front of all of us, Baltimore, MD proud of Dr. Hanson’s action in a shameful to come study with him in France. I do believe period of our country’s history. I am so glad that my recollections of that day are accurate. to have wonderful memories of Ruth on a Seeing this photo has brought back some very Watanabe remembered one-to-one basis, as well as to her connection pleasant memories of my time at Eastman. It was with a deep sense of loss that I with the Eastman family. —Christopher Jones (MM ’85) learned of the death on February 26 of one —Beatrice Caro Roxin (BM ’49) Rochester, NY of Eastman’s treasures, Dr. Ruth Watanabe. Rochester, NY

Free the Fennell Five!

In searching though the Frederick Fennell files in our office after his recent death, we found this photograph from (we assume) the early 1950s, showing Fennell with five other percussionists.

We recognize Fennell, at the far left, but would love to know who the other, unidentiﬁed men are. If you have a clue, please contact Eastman Notes.

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Project number: 2004013 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2005 Draft: Web Date: July 5, 2005 What’s in a brass quintet? Second graders at Rochester’s School Eastman Community Music School’s award-winning High School #15 found out — and got to peer into the depths of the tuba. Jazz Band (directed by Howard Potter) visited the Boys & Girls Hornist Juliann Welch and tuba player John Elliot are pictured. Clubs of Rochester. Pianist Nefetari Pinnock and bassist Jim Munch Note the good advice on the sign above the cupboards! play for a crowd in the bleachers. MUSICIANS ON A MISSION For the past ten years, Eastman students have given their music to all Music among the books: after the Destino Winds’ Barnes & Noble Storytime, preschoolers and parents got an up-close and personal By David Raymond look at the ﬂute (played by Hilary Abigana). This was one of nearly 50 free Music for All concerts this spring.

“We’ll show you how high we can play—get ready to cover your ears!” In 1985, Jon Engberg, then Associate Director, proposed that each Quartet in two “Music for All” concerts at Rochester’s Strong the spring semester, one for a school-aged audience and one for an Eastman student develop a project, “the intent of which would be Museum. On Tuesday, March 22, “Music for All Day,” Eastman cham- adult audience. “Bassoon players use their thumbs a lot. So if you play video games to initiate or foster an interest in music in an audience … which ber groups presented interactive programs at elementary, middle, This training begins with a seminar in January, as a young profes- all afternoon and your mom asks, ‘Why aren’t you practicing?’, does not normally attend concerts.” The presentation was to be held and high schools around Rochester, followed by nearly 50 more free sional chamber music group demonstrates the skills necessary to you can say, ‘I am!’ ” somewhere outside the confines of Eastman where concerts are not performances from March 26 to April 10 at non-traditional concert connect with audiences of all ages. In February, the student groups “While we’re playing, imagine a pirate story—this part has lots of normally held, and would have “as a significant element discussion sites: nursing homes, libraries, college campuses, and bookstores. It prepare their own school and community presentations under the churning waves and seasickness.” by the presenter about the music, the instrument(s), the performers, all added up to the most extensive and comprehensive music con- guidance of Eastman faculty members. They finally take their shows the composer, etc.” The mission: to help build a new and receptive servatory outreach program in the country. “on the road” in the spring. hese are not statements you usually hear musicians audience for classical music. “Eastman is currently the only conservatory that requires cham- Barnes & Noble may not be Carnegie Hall, but “playing down” to make during a concert. At an Eastman “Music for All” Ten years later, a pilot project was directed by Concert Manager ber music students to participate in community performances as a Music for All audience is no more an option than talking down to presentation, they’re not unusual at all. The audience Andy Green and Professor of Harp Kathleen Bride. “Music for All” part of their curriculum,” explains Elinor Freer, assistant professor it. The students’ playing is top-notch (of course), the patter is engag- could be teenagers in a school gym, senior citizens in (a name suggested by Professor of Viola John Graham), recruited of chamber music, who has coordinated the program since 2003. ing, and the music can be surprising; for example, the Destino Winds a hospital, or—in the case of the Destino Winds whose eight student chamber music groups to perform locally at a school “Other music schools and conservatories around the U.S. see ‘Music played very grown-up music by Paquito D’Rivera, Nielsen, and Villa- T members made all the above remarks in a recent “Music for All” per- or community site. For All’ as a model for training their students to play for new audi- Lobos, and the toddlers loved it. formance—toddlers and their parents at a Barnes & Noble store. The program grew steadily: last year, Music for All sent 42 cham- ences, and for giving them opportunities to practice their skills by “‘Music for All’ is designed to help build audiences, while helping In March, Eastman’s “Music for All” program celebrated ten years ber music groups out into the community, performing 84 concerts performing in the community.” our young artists realize that there is more to a great performance of bringing chamber music to—well, if not to all, at least to—people for 2,000 people, from preschoolers to senior citizens. All brass, harp, piano, string, and wind chamber music groups than just mastering the music,” says Freer. “It is a program well worth and places that seldom hear live classical music. The program’s tenth anniversary year kicked off with the Ying are required to perform two concerts in the community during celebrating.” And, as our photos prove, worth enjoying.

4 Eastman Notes | June 2005 PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD BAKER (TOP LEFT) AND GELFAND-PIPER PHOTOGRAPHY (TOP RIGHT AND OPPOSITE) June 2005 | Eastman Notes 5 By David Raymond n era in American music came to an end with the death of Fred- erick Fennell on December 7, 2004, in Siesta Key, Florida. Fennell was born July 2, 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the Eastman School of Music as a percussion major, receiving his BA in 1937, and joined the Eastman School’s conducting faculty after receiving his MS in 1939, remaining here until 1962. AFennell conducted the Eastman Opera Theatre and the Eastman Chamber Or- chestra, but will always be remembered as the creator of the Eastman Wind En- A CLASS ACT semble. In 1952, encouraged by Director Howard Hanson, Fennell developed a model for wind band performance with one player to each part, a “chamber music” approach that proved there was much more to band music than Sousa marches. IN EVERY WAY “The innovation that is the Eastman Wind Ensemble was in no way radical, “ he wrote; “it simply merged from the music that led “SINCE THE EARLY 1950S, THERE CAN me to it.” The Ensemble’s repertory included Sousa marches, to be sure, but also works by HARDLY BE A WIND PERFORMER OR European masters from Gabrieli and Mozart CONDUCTOR WHO HAS NOT BEEN to Schoenberg and Stravinsky, and many INTRODUCED TO OR AFFECTED BY THE works by Americans: Barber, Thomson, Han- INNOVATIONS OF FREDERICK FENNELL son, Schuman, and many others. Starting with American Concert Band Masterpieces AND HIS EASTMAN WIND ENSEMBLE (1953), Fennell and the Ensemble recorded APPROACH TO MUSICALITY IN THE 22 albums for Mercury records. In 1977, WIND BAND WORLD.” Stereo Review selected the Fennell/EWE recording of Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy DONALD HUNSBERGER as one of the “Fifty Best Recordings of the BM ’54, MM ’59, DMA ’63 Centenary of the Phonograph.” EWE DIRECTOR, 1965–2002 After he left Eastman, Fennell was As- sociate Music Director of the Minneapolis “FRED FENNELL CHANGED MUSIC. HE Symphony, then conductor in residence at WAS THE CONSUMMATE PROFESSIONAL the University of Miami and principal guest AND ENTERTAINER — AND A CLASS ACT conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy IN EVERY WAY. HE WILL BE DEEPLY and Dallas Wind Symphony. He was appointed Conductor of the Kosei Wind Or- MISSED, BUT NEVER, EVER FORGOTTEN.” chestra in 1984. MARK SCATTERDAY, DMA’85 During his lifetime, Frederick Fennell EWE DIRECTOR, 2002– received innumerable academic and professional honors, from induction into the Na- tional Hall of Fame for Distinguished Band Directors, to induction as an Honorary Chief of the Kiowa Tribe, to induction in the Classical Music Hall of Fame. In 1992, Frederick Fennell Hall was opened in Kofu, Japan. Frederick Fennell received an Eastman Alumni Citation in 1977, the Univer- sity of Rochester’s “Distinguished Alumnus” Award in 1981, and an honorary doctorate in music in 1988, describing him as “a man whose career and accom- plishments have enhanced the School’s reputation and the place of music in our times.” He visited Eastman frequently, conducting the Eastman Wind Ensemble A young but already dapper Fred Fennell one ﬁnal time on the newly renovated Eastman Theatre stage during Alumni leads a 1930s precursor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Weekend 2004. Frederick Fennell is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Ludwig-Fennell, and his daughter, Catherine Fennell Martensen.

6 Eastman Notes | June 2005 PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ARCHIVE June 2005 | Eastman Notes 7 TheRuth Watanabe The late Sibley Librarian left an unparalleled legacy Years

Ruth Watanabe, librarian of the Sibley Music Library for nearly four decades, died on February 26, 2005. During those years, she built the Sibley Library into one of the world’s great collections of musical scores and research materials. Current Sibley Librarian Dan Zager details “The Ruth Watanabe Years, 1947¬1984”, in a chapter from A World Treasure, published by the Sibley Though she traveled widely Library to celebrate its centennial in 2004. to enrich the Library, Ruth Watanabe was never long away from the Sibley stacks. By Daniel Zager

f [Watanabe’s predecessor Barbara] Duncan was the great builder of Sibley’s rare books collection, Watanabe was the architect of the book, score, and recordings collections … Watanabe recalled that Hanson once told her: “You will buy everything, I mean everything.” By Watanabe’s own admission “it wasn’t quite ev- For Sibley Music Library’s erything,” but it clearly was impressive development of the collections. In a “Remi- centennial in fall 2004, Eastman niscence” written in the year of her retirement, Watanabe recalled that until the produced a historical overview early seventies she took advantage of favorable exchange rates and traveled to Europe sum- entitled A World Treasure. Imer after summer “to rummage happily … among the shelves of precious books and scores The handsome volume, with in France, England, Scandinavia, Germany, and particularly Austria. … While I knew the text by Daniel Zager, includes shelves would soon overﬂow and the cataloging backlog would grow in proportion, I also 30 photographs of select Sibley knew the bonanza could not last, and future research had to be provided for. I bought and holdings. It is available from the bought and bought. There were riches to be had and it was simply delightful beyond words Eastman School Bookstore. to spend the University’s money for such a magniﬁcent cause!” CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

PHOTOGRAPH BY LOUIS OUZER June 2005 | Eastman Notes 9 wrote that “The only solution was storage, and the library’s overﬂow was housed in ﬁve different places in the Eastman School building and at Rush Rhees Library. …” Renova- tions of the Sibley Music Library building took place during a series of projects extend- ing from 1974 to 1977, providing some relief in space needs. Only the next decade, however, would provide the new building that would resolve more completely the various requirements of collections, staff, services, and library users.

s the collections grew, Wata- nabe led efforts both to share and to preserve the content of the Li- brary. The Sibley Music Library AMicroprint Service was for decades one of the best ways for other libraries to purchase copies of important primary source docu- ments (such as music theoretical writings) that had been acquired by Sibley. Particu- larly in the days before the proliferation of reprint and facsimile publishing in music, Sibley was often the only place outside of Europe to make these sources available in Not only did Ruth Watanabe “buy everything” for the Sibley Library, she also saw that it microform. Further, during the last few years was properly (and cheerfully) catalogued. of her administration Watanabe took impor- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 tant steps toward implementing a preserva- While the Sibley collection tion program for the Sibley Music Library. numbered 55,000 volumes when In 1982 she created a full-time position to Watanabe was named Librarian, oversee the conservation program. She also by 1962 the collection included provided time and money to support training 120,000 volumes of books and and education of staff and to purchase nec- scores, in addition to 12,000 essary supplies. Building on this foundation, LP recordings. By 1984 Wata- Sibley continues to devote staff and financial nabe had once again more than resources to preserving collections built over doubled the number of books the past century; in fact, Sibley is the only and scores and increased the re- music library in this country to maintain its cordings collection by a factor own conservation lab, headed by a full-time of four. Such impressive growth conservation librarian. was achieved in part through the The legacy of Ruth Watanabe is a distin- View from the second floor of the new Sibley Library. use of “blanket-order” plans es- guished one: massive building of collections, tablished directly with American and European music publishers. continued attention to special collections and archives, and the in- Implemented particularly in the 1960s, this acquisitions practice ception of a preservation program (which is, of course, really the brought the Library nearly complete coverage of the most prominent final step in the process of building collections—preserving them for music publishers. Burgeoning growth of the Sibley collections meant posterity). But apart from all of these achievements, and more than that the 1937 building was rapidly becoming inadequate. Watanabe anything else, one simply hears from students of the time how fondly Ruth Watanabe was regarded by her contemporaries—students and ON THE WEB A complete biography of Ruth Watanabe is available faculty alike. In 1996 the Library celebrated Ruth Watanabe’s eighti- at www.rochester.edu/Eastman/news; check the February 28, 2005 eth birthday by officially renaming Sibley’s special collections depart- news release. ment the “Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections.”

10 Eastman Notes | June 2005 PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY EASTMAN SCHOOL ARCHIVE (TOP) AND BY DON COCHRAN

Project number: 2004013 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2005 Draft: Web Date: July 5, 2005 CONVERSATION Making her garden grow: Maria Schneider

By David Raymond Tell me about your early years and training. of being really warm, without force. Very demanding, but you wanted to please him. Windom, Minnesota, where I was born, is And such a brilliant musician: I remember a typical agricultural town. When I was five him in sessions with the studio orchestra, years old, a woman came from Chicago to pointing out some tiny mistake in an inner live here with her daughter. She played jazz part in the back of the orchestra, that piano and really put her personality into her nobody else heard. music. Hearing her play was like a magnet for me. I really knew nothing about jazz, or Can you tell a bit about your involvement improvisation, or jazz history. A kid in the in ArtistShare? Is it a new model for the dorms at the University of Minnesota used music business? to play through his record collection for me, In the old distribution system, if you sell a and that was how I discovered modern jazz. CD at a record store for, say, $16, first the I eventually became a theory major — I really record store takes a cut, then the distributor, Maria Schneider (MM ’85) has wanted to be a composer, but it seemed the credit card company, the manufacturer — built an impressive reputation presumptuous of me. Then someone saw the and the artist gets paid last. Selling my music as composer and arranger, high- theory exercises I was working on and told exclusively through the Internet, I am really lighted earlier this year with a me, “You’ve got a flair for writing music; why in control, and my piece of the pie is much Grammy Award for Best Large don’t you become a composition major?” bigger. Records have exploited musicians’ Ensemble Jazz Performance, for I understand you did not make it into desperation to be noticed. With older musi- Concert in the Garden. Eastman on your first try. cians, there’s often an ego thing about a con- Maria also made a splash recently tract with a major label. The Internet gets rid I applied and didn’t get in. But I really by joining the roster of musicians of that whole idea — it’s very powerful. thought Eastman was the place to go on ArtistShare, a web platform because I had read Inside the Score, by I always hear people say, “Oh my God, the that offers a new model for Rayburn Wright [legendary Eastman jazz business is so bad!” It’s always gloom and music distribution, bypassing professor], and admired that book so much. doom time. Well, I think it’s a much better the middlemen of retail sales. Even though I didn’t get in, Ray wrote me a time for the business, because you don’t In fact, Concert in the Garden personal letter, suggesting that I come and have to depend on record companies to get won its Grammy without a single study during the summer session. Of course your music out. And there are no anonymous retail sale — all were online, and I was thrilled that he wrote! sales — I know the name and e-mail address the recording was financed com- of everyone who buys one of my CDs. If you pletely by participants in Maria’s That first summer at Eastman was heaven and don’t abuse it, this is a tremendous tool in site. As Maria explains here, Art- hell all at once, three sleepless weeks of fear building an audience. istShare also give her the chance and ecstasy. The pressure was enormous, but to offer something less tangible I was so impressed by the place. I originally Your site on ArtistShare offers much more to her fans: the experience of planned to go on to Berklee, but realized I’d than just downloadable music. seeing how an artist conceives, be starting again from scratch, so I went to Participants can find scores, lectures I have writes, and interprets music. the University of Miami instead. That was prepared about exactly how to rehearse a great, but I realized I needed a more tradi- Downbeat recently described piece, interviews, and session photos. I have tional, historic approach — I lacked rooted- Maria as “articulate, intriguing, mix versions of pieces without the solos, so ness and understanding. So I came back to and always ready to talk about you can play along. The site has expanded Eastman, for a year and a half. music.” After talking to her for to be about much more than just music — it’s Notes this spring, we agree. Did you remain close to Ray Wright? sharing the process and the artist’s experience. People have said to me, “But you’re With all the demands of my first semester, putting all your ideas out there!” My ON THE WEB I was ready to bail, but Ray was almost like a response was, “Well … why not?” For more information, father to me — so kind and so generous, and visit www.mariaschneider.com. he was like that to everybody. He had a way

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Project number: 2004013 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2005 Draft: Web Date: July 5, 2005 JACOB AVSHALOMOV “Father of Peace” Observing the 85th birthday of a pioneering composer and music educator—with praise from some distinguished fellow alumni

By Susan Hawkshaw

hether it was the singsong voice of a Today Avshalomov (BM ’42, Jacob Avshalomov and O’Bedlam (on the story of a wandering mad beggar), which won the something one did naturally to start the day. And so in my own mo- storyteller accompanied by the three- MA ’43), who celebrated his his wife, Doris, with their New York Critics Circle Award. ments of quiet I set down something. In imitation of father, I used stringed, plucked sanxian, the passing 85th birthday in 2004, is a re- dog Birdie, hold music and Robert Ward (BM ’39), composer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning the pentatonic scale and 2/4 time. That also just seemed natural.” sounds of winds and percussion ac- spected composer who has pro- poems they composed opera The Crucible (1961), calls Avshalomov “a fine composer of Aaron wrote a very successful opera called The Great Wall, which was companying a funeral procession, or duced an important body of together and printed at vocal and large instrumental works—handsome soundscapes of sponsored by Madame Sun Yat-Sen, second wife of the Chinese political the song-like cries of street merchants, large-scale works, songs, and home in Portland, Oregon. great originality.” Avshalomov is also recognized as the conductor, figure active in the founding of the Chinese Republic, and her younger composer and conductor Jacob Avsha- chamber pieces which bear the for forty years, of the country’s first youth orchestra—the Portland sister, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the leader of the Chinese Na- lomov’s childhood in China was filled with local music. stamp of Chinese history, poetry, and music, and, after he emigrated Youth Philharmonic, founded in 1924. Ward adds, “In his long tenure tionalists. After Aaron immigrated to the United States in 1947 to es- WHe recalls, “In a way, the most telling to me and the most lasting in to this country in 1937, draw on American folk song and geography with his group in Portland, Oregon, Avshalomov also developed and cape unrest between Nationalist and Communist forces in China, his my memory were the cries of the street vendors. Some of them were to create a sense of place. maintained perhaps the finest youth orchestra in the world.” music was conducted by Serge Koussevitzky and Leopold Stokowski. so songful and so musical. I remember, for example the knife grinder. Avshalomov’s music was championed by Leopold Stokowski, who Jacob is the son of Aaron Avshalomov (1895¬1965), a Russian com- Jacob’s recent book, Avshalomovs’ Winding Way (XLibris Books), He says, “I sharpen scissors; I sharpen knives.” And Avshalomov sings conducted The Taking of T’ung Kuan, about the fall of a pass crucial posing in China who pioneered the synthesis of Chinese and West- chronicles his and his father’s careers, as well as those of his two sons, it, in authentic Mandarin Chinese. Growing up in Tiensin (now to the protection of Emperor Hsuan Tsung in 755, and Robert Shaw, ern musical elements. “I remember being enchanted by waking up David and Daniel. Following in his father’s footsteps, David is also a called Tianjin) in a foreign enclave, he also heard Western music, who commissioned Phases of the Great Land, a symphonic work about to the sounds of father improvising and testing his compositions at composer and conductor. Daniel, who gave a master class at Eastman including a performance of Verdi’s Aida in Beijing at age six. Alaska. Shaw also gave 125 performances of his choral work Tom the piano, early in the morning,” he recalls. “It seemed like a ritual, CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

12 Eastman Notes | June 2005 PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL KITAGAKI, JR./THE OREGONIAN June 2005 | Eastman Notes 13 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 He continues: “I found that often if you have the enthusiasm for some- in 2002, has been the violist of the American String Quartet for 28 thing and believe in the beauty and importance of a work, you can im- years. Three Generations Avshalomov, an Albany Records compact disc part that to students and help them transcend their own limitations.” issued in 1996, features one of David’s compositions, as well as Dan- He has been skilled and imaginative in involving the community. iel playing the music of his grandfather, father and brother. When the orchestra performed Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, he Jacob’s life, like his father’s, has followed the “winding way” in the says, “The original pictures by Victor Hartmann had been reproduced in title of his book. After his birth in Tsingtao in 1919, his family moved the San Francisco Symphony’s program and we were able to borrow the to Tientsin, then to Beijing. When Beijing was attacked by warlord cuts to do likewise. I then invited students from the Portland Art Mu- Chang Tso Lin, Jacob and his father found the way home blocked by seum to make their own drawings prompted by the music, which they soldiers. Jacob recalls, “Nothing daunted, I engaged several of the listened to at our rehearsals. Some forty student pictures were shown soldiers in my fluent Mandarin, and they were so charmed by this in the lobby at the concert, for all to compare with Hartmann’s.” six-year old foreign devil explaining that Avshalomov invited musical luminaries we were within a few feet of our front door, to inspire the young musicians. Isaac Stern that they let us by.” “Jacob Avshalomov has an evenness of temper did a working rehearsal of the Beethoven When Jacob was twelve, his father left the which comes from an innate sense of grace, Violin Concerto, Claude Frank performed family to pursue his musical career in Shang- humor, and precise observation more on the Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 1, and Aaron hai, and his parents subsequently divorced. In positive side, balanced (his Russian heritage?) Copland came to celebrate the 40th anni- 1935 Jacob began a correspondence with his against the unavoidable negatives experienced versary of the orchestra, playing, lecturing, father, sending him compositions to critique, in his life. His composing has often heroic, and conducting his Red Pony Suite. but in 1937 mother and son forsook China be- epic proportions, but I also enjoy the smaller, No less important are Avshalomov’s dis- cause of the Japanese invasion and relocated tender, poetic pieces, too. In his conducting, he semination of American music and his aid to to the United States, where Jacob met Edgard recreates works of other composers, making a emerging American musicians. Avshalomov Varèse and studied with Ernst Toch. successful and deeply valuable contribution to commissioned six works from contemporary After initial study at Reed College, Jacob next-generation players, leading them in his composers—besides Robert Ward, William entered the Eastman School, working at ‘other-life work,’ the Portland Youth Symphony.” Bergsma (BM ’42, MM ’43), David Diamond the Sibley Library to make ends meet. He —Doriot Anthony Dwyer, (BM ’43) (x ’37), Roy Harris, Benjamin Lees, and Gof- profited from the many opportunities for fredo Petrassi. In 1994, Avshalomov com- performance in Howard Hanson’s Ameri- “For almost 60 years, Jacob Avshalomov has posed his Symphony of Songs for the Portland can Music Festivals, and for his master’s been a great inspiration to me. As a young pro- Youth Philharmonic’s 70th anniversary. thesis wrote The Taking of T’ung Kuan—the fessor at Columbia University, as coach of his He is still actively composing. The choral piece later performed by Stokowski. own chamber music, as ‘father’ and conductor piece When Summer Shines was premiered of the Portland Youth Symphony, as commit- by Volti in November 2003. He also recently fter eight years of teach- tee chairman at the National Endowment for completed a piece for mezzo-soprano and ing, composing, and perform- the Arts: his expertise, taste, acuteness, and string quartet. His wife Doris, with whom ing at Columbia University, eloquence have been extraordinary. Jacob he celebrated a 60th anniversary in 2003, Jacob went to Portland in 1954 Avshalomov is an eternally youthful musician, is a poet whose texts he has set (as have his Ato assume the directorship of the Port- teacher, colleague, friend.” father and his son David) at several points land Youth Philharmonic, then called the —Claude Frank in his career, including the 25th anniversary Portland Junior Symphony. The orchestra, concert of the youth orchestra; their 50th which celebrated its 80th anniversary in wedding anniversary, with a work which he 2004, has had many triumphs, including a 60th anniversary con- called Songs in Season; and again in 1996 with Doris Songs. cert in which it performed jointly with Leonard Bernstein and the David Oppenheim (BM ’43), respected clarinetist and Dean Emer- New York Philharmonic—which was also celebrating the 60th an- itus of the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, to whom niversary of its Young People’s Concerts—and six highly acclaimed Avshalomov dedicated his Evocations, says: “The name means ‘father international tours. of peace,’ which describes him well. He is deserving, richly so, of his Most significant, the orchestra introduced generations of young name, being a deeply caring and peaceful person, and he is an inspi- people to classical music. Avshalomov recalls, “For over a decade, the ration to those who know him. He is intelligent beyond smart, warm enrollment in school music groups had declined, not just in Portland, and giving. I respect and love him.” but nationwide. In many states school instrumental groups were dropped from the curriculum and relegated to before- and after- ➤ Susan Hawkshaw is Assistant Director of Yale University’s Oral school voluntary periods. Students and their parents found youth History American Music Project. Quotes from Mr. Avshalomov are orchestras to be their musical salvation.” taken from a 2003 interview.

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In Charles Strouse’s Nightingale, the Emperor (Sam Haddad) is revived by the music of the Nightingale (Laura Rosen Puzio) and the love of his Maid (Kathryn Cordelia Davis). Eastman Opera: Season of contrasts

East and West, Baroque and Broadway, light unite for soul searching and a few surprises— and dark, ancient and modern: Eastman and since Strouse has written an opera à clef, Opera Theatre’s 2004¬05 season ran the they also recall several real-life Broadway gamut musically and dramatically. composers, directors, and choreographers. East and West, performed last November East and West received national attention in Kilbourn Hall, brought composer-librettist in American Record Guide, whose reviewer Charles Strouse (BM ’48) back to Eastman for a stated: “We forgot we were watching stu- double bill combining his 1985 one-acter Night- dents … great singing coupled with solid ingale, set in China (the “East”), with a brand- character development paved the way for a new companion piece commissioned by the cohesive ensemble performance.” Hanson Institute for American Music—The “The Eastman School was where it all began Future of the American Musical Theatre (a subject for me,” says Strouse. “With the performance on which the composer of Bye Bye Birdie and of East and West at Eastman, a lovely little Annie has some well-informed opinions). circle is completed.” The “Western” setting is a new performing Eastman Opera followed Strouse’s dy- arts center in Tallahassee, hosting the 25th an- namic double bill with a studio produc- Emperor Nero (Pamela Terry) and Poppea niversary of the landmark Broadway musical, tion of Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea in (Mary Elaine Stefanec) create some Roman The Grass is Greener. The show’s creators re- CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 scandal in Monteverdi’s masterpiece.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 February. Ted Christopher’s interpretation of this Baroque masterpiece made overt paral- lels between ancient Rome, where Poppea intrigues her way into the Emperor Nero’s affections, and the rise of Fascism in Italy before World War II. Christopher’s stage direction combined ancient and 20th century costumes, and was forthright in portraying the opera’s amoral characters. What better way to wind up an opera season than with Puccini? For the spring Eastman Theatre production, however, stage director Steven Daigle and musical director Benton Hess chose a Puccini rarity, La Rondine (1917). A simple, romantic story of doomed love between a Parisian courte- san and a young man from the country, La Susan Conkling led the Eastman Women’s Chorus in Roxanna Panufnik’s Olivia. Rondine has been described as La Traviata without the tragedy. Puccini’s light-textured score uses the orchestra sparingly, but this intimate love story also calls for many sec- A week of musical discoveries ondary characters and a full chorus. The sets and costumes handsomely conjured up 19th- Eastman’s first Women in Music Festival artists involved were Tony Caramia (piano), century Paris and Nice, and the large cast was presented, with support from the music Christel Thielmann (viola da gamba), Susan sang—and danced—wholeheartedly. publisher Universal Edition, from March Conkling (leading the Eastman Women’s 21¬25. Over 100 Eastman students and faculty, Choir), and Ruth Cahn (leading the Eastman male and female, and guests, performed daily Percussion Ensemble). concerts in the School’s Main Hall, Schmitt “This new Festival is a celebration of Organ Recital Hall, or Miller Center Atrium. women involved in all aspects of music— The Sibley Music Library complemented the composition, performance, and scholarship,” festival with a special exhibit said Sylvie Beaudette, assistant highlighting achievements of professor of chamber music, women in music. who coordinated the festival It was a week full of musical with graduate student pianist discoveries: chamber, keyboard, Sophia Ahmad, and who also vocal, and choral music by performed on two programs. women ranging from Barbara “There is an amazing body of Strozzi (1619¬1664) and Clara Schumann musical works by women that is rarely per- (1819¬1896) to such contemporary compos- formed or talked about. Our goal is to show- ➤ A PUCCINI HEROINE ers as Libby Larsen, Joan Tower, and the Fes- case some of them.” Magda, the leading role in Puccini’s La Ron- tival’s featured composer, Roxanna Panufnik dine, isn’t usually considered a star-making (the daughter of Sir Andrzej Panufnik). Not ➤ Sylvie Beaudette asks Eastman alumnae opportunity, but soprano Jennifer Gliere to mention Eastman students Abigail Aresty, composers to send published scores and/or (DMA ’05) was front-page news after her Winnie Cheung, Sarana Chou, Beata Golec, commercial recordings of their chamber, vocal, performance in Eastman Opera Theatre’s Vera Ivanova, Rachel Kincaid, and Ching-Mei and instrumental music for consideration in spring production. Democrat and Chroni- Lin—and two Eastman alumnae, Pauline Alp- next year’s Women in Music Festival. Please cle critic John Pitcher called Jennifer’s voice ert (BM ’27) and Katherine Hoover (BM ’59). limit the number of pieces to three; most “sumptuous, silvery, and splendid,” and the Each concert had a theme, such as “Poetic selections are less than 10 minutes long. Send singer “a sensitive artist who knows how to Women” or “Yesterday Meets Today,” and to: Sylvie Beaudette, Artistic Director, Women turn a phrase while giving urgent meaning each selection was introduced by the reading in Music Festival, Eastman School of Music, to the text.” of a female poet’s work. Among the faculty 26 Gibbs St., Rochester NY 14604.

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Unlocking secrets: Modern music icons visit Eastman

“It’s like having one of Bach’s sons here to talk about his music,” said assistant professor of conducting Brad Lubman about the late November visit by Nuria Schoenberg Nono—daughter of Arnold Schoenberg, for many the central ﬁgure in 20th-century music, and widow of the Italian modernist composer Luigi Nono (1924¬1990). The focus of her visit was on the life and music of her The daughter of the man who changed 20th-century Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Brad Lubman famous father; she talked about music: Nuria Schoenberg Nono. at a rehearsal of Secret Theatre. Schoenberg’s relationships as a musician and teacher in an informal Birtwistle took part in rehearsals and master classical mythology, and pre-history. In the conversational format with her fellow visitor, classes, but the highlight of his visit was a performance of his 1984 Secret Theatre, 12 pianist Stefan Litwin—who also performed performance of his celebrated work Secret student musicians performed an esoteric the solo piano version of Schoenberg’s Theatre by Musica Nova, conducted by Brad “ritual,” with soloists playing “roles in a seminal Chamber Symphony no. 1. Lubman before an enthusiastic crowd in hidden drama” on one side of the stage, next In early February, Eastman was honored Kilbourn Hall. Lubman had also conducted to the seated ensemble. For all its dramatic to host another prominent ﬁgure in modern two Birtwistle works at Carnegie Hall’s effect, it is a meticulously planned work music: the British composer Sir Harrison Zankel Hall on January 31. on all levels; as Birtwistle commented in Birtwistle, who celebrates his 70th birthday Birtwistle frequently draws inspiration a master class, “my intuition can only take in 2005. During a three-day residency, for his music from contemporary art, me so far.”

Hendl’s homecoming The distinguished American conductor Walter Hendl, director of the Eastman School of Music from 1964 to 1972, returned to the School — and the podium — in April, leading the Philharmonia in Rach- maninoff’s Symphony no. 2 — his ﬁrst appearance here since 1982. “Walter Hendl accomplished some great and enduring things at Eastman,” said Dean James Underco- ﬂer in introducing the 88-year-old On the podium in 1964 conductor, “inviting such prominent composers as Stravinsky, Khatchaturian, and Penderecki, establish- ing the Musica Nova ensemble, encouraging innovative curricula in accompanying, conducting, jazz, and electronic music. But he will always be remembered as one of the outstanding American conduc- tors of his generation.” In rehearsal, Hendl confers with timpanist Colin Tribby.

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Project number: 2004013 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2005 Draft: Web Date: July 5, 2005 During a rare bit of free time, EWE members experienced “The Gates,” the renowned Christo-Jeanne Claude installation in Central Park. An EWE celebration at Carnegie Hall

On February 26, 2005, the Eastman Wind Jeff Tyzik (BM ’73, MM ’77), and Robert Si- homage to Fennell and “one of his signature Ensemble, directed by Mark Scatterday erra and Karel Husa (who both attended), pieces,” according to Mark Scatterday. (DMA ’89), performed in one of the world’s presented in tribute to the memory of EWE The festive weekend also included an great concert venues—New York’s Carnegie founding director Frederick Fennell (BA ’37, alumni brunch with guest Maria Schneider Hall—as part of “A Celebration of the Con- MS ’39, HNR ’88). (MM ’85). The week before, Maria won temporary Wind Band,” presented by the Trombonist Mark Kellogg performed a “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance” 2005 College Band Directors National As- as soloist in the concerto written for him Grammy for her CD Concert in the Garden, sociation Conference. by Tyzik. so naturally there were attentive ears for her The demanding program of contemporary Preceding all these on the program was words! (See “Conversation,” p. 11 for more music included works by David Maslanka, the Bach chorale “Come, Sweet Death,” an from Maria Schneider.)

Hitting high notes Four gifted Eastman School singers hit the high notes in the fourth annual Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition, held November 20, 2004 in Kilbourn Hall. From left to right: Munenori Sugetani, student of Robert Swensen — second prize; Margaret Gawrysiak, student of Carol Webber — honorable mention; adjudicator Robert L. Larsen, artistic director of Des Moines Metro Opera; Annamarie Zmolek, student of Robert Swensen — third prize; and Marc Webster, student of Carol Webber — Lynne Clarke Vocal Prize.

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Caramia Arlen Gettin’ happy with Harold 2005 marks the centenary of one of Amer- ica’s great composers of popular music, Har- old Arlen. February 15 was a red-letter day for the composer of “Over the Rainbow,” recently named Number One Song of the Cen- Sixty years in the business and counting: Clark Terry played several Bill Dobbins tury, as well as such standards as “Blues arrangements in his Eastman Theatre concert. in the Night,” “Get Happy,” and “Stormy Weather.” In New York City, Mayor Bloom- berg declared February 15 “Harold Arlen Day”; in Rochester, Associate Professor of Terry jazzes up February Piano Tony Caramia presented a multimedia centennial tribute to Arlen. “I have always been a huge fan of Clark 84-year-old jazz trumpeter did indeed make Besides playing and commentary by Car- Terry,” says professor of jazz studies Bill it back to Eastman in February, perform- amia, the show included vocal performances Dobbins, who calls Terry “A great source of ing with the Jazz Ensemble and with fac- by ESM alumnus Jody Graves (DMA ’93) and encouragement and support to me, and to ulty members Dobbins, Harold Danko, Jeff former faculty member Thomas Paul, and countless aspiring jazz musicians. Since re- Campbell, and Rich Thompson. Also along a guest appearance by faculty trombonist turning to Eastman in 2002, one of my top for the ride was Terry’s regular saxophone so- Mark Kellogg. Besides the sterling musical priorities was to arrange for Clark to return loist since 1995, Dave Glasser (MM ’86). performances, Caramia’s tribute included once again, and I was really excited to give “It was an absolute honor and a thrill to rare photographs and ﬁlm clips of Arlen, and the Eastman community the priceless oppor- welcome Clark Terry to Eastman, and for our such interpreters of his songs as Tony Ben- tunity to experience his unique gifts as both students to have the chance to play alongside nett and Barbra Streisand. musician and human being.” The legendary him,” said Danko.

A princely award In April, junior Jonathan Michie won the ﬁrst prize of $7,500 in the Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers, held annually in Kilbourn Hall. Jonathan (shown here as Anthony in Eastman’s 2003 production of Sweeney Todd ) is, at age 20, the youngest person ever to win the Lenya Competition, established in 1998 by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (directed by ESM Professor of Musicology Kim Kowalke) to recognize young singer/actors who can perform convincingly in a broad range of musical theatre styles. Jonathan’s blue-chip judges were Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom, singer/actress Angelina Réaux, and — in his ﬁrst visit to Eastman — Hal Prince, the original director of Sweeney Todd and many other musical theater classics.

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with other prints and negatives, they form “In addition to collegiate piano teaching,” Gladys Leventon the Leventon Collection. says Eastman School Historian Vincent The Eastman Community was saddened to “I have vivid memories of returning to Lenti, “Gladys taught an elementary theory learn of the recent death of Gladys Leventon, Eastman in 1955 after serving in the mili- pedagogy class which was, for many years, a long-time faculty member. tary as a Korean veteran. I was looking for a a requirement for Eastman piano majors. Gladys Leventon studied at the Eastman place to stay and met Gladys Leventon, who In the Preparatory Department, she taught School, receiving a Bachelor of Music de- informed me she rented rooms to Eastman piano and theory, and coordinated the theory gree in 1929. students and had an extra program for many years. Former community After graduation, she served room available,” writes Joseph students, however, would best remember on the Eastman faculty from Scianni (MM ’53, DMA ’59). her for a class called ‘Listening to Music.’ It 1929 until her retirement in “I remember the rent was $25 was a marvelous theory and music apprecia- 1974. Mrs. Leventon also taught a month. What a great deal! tion class which was thoroughly enjoyed by at the National Music Camp in And she let me use her piano and countless numbers of high school seniors.” Interlochen, Michigan, for sev- the kitchen. eral summers. “Every so often I made a pasta Mrs. Leventon’s husband sauce for dinner, and once Janice Naccarella Alexander Leventon (1896¬1950) painted the kitchen for her. One This year, the Eastman community Leventon was the concertmaster of the room was a gallery of her hus- mourned the death in July 2004 of Janice Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1923 band’s photographs. There was a great pic- Naccarella, who served the School as an ad- to 1944, and also a notable photographer. ture of a young Leonard Bernstein, whom I ministrative assistant for a remarkable 42 In 1984, Mrs. Leventon gave 42 original pho- later worked with at Columbia Records. years, from 1956 to 1998—starting as a sec- tographs by Alexander Leventon, of such “My years at Eastman were the best years retary for Howard Hanson, and concluding great musicians as Jascha Heifetz, Fritz of my life, and knowing Gladys and being her with the Institute for American Music (now Kreisler, Charles Munch, and Sergei Rach- friend at 61 Milburn Street helped make this the Hanson Institute) under Robert Freeman maninoff, to the Sibley Music Library. Along possible. She will be missed.” and James Undercoﬂer.

In memoriam

Loretto W. Leonard Terry L. Martin 1920s (BM ’34), January 2005 (BM ’41), May 2004 Gladys Leventon Margaret Stallman Donald Morrison (BM ’29), April 2005 (BM ’34), January 2005 (MAS ’42), January 2005 Doris Waterman Ruth (Mulkey) Muller (BM ’30), October 2004 (MM ’46), February 2005 1930s William Henry Presser Theodore Applebaum (PhD ’47), August 2004 (BM ’30, MM ’31), April 2005 1940s Ruth Ralston Grace Baas Eugene Cunningham (BM ’48), January 2005 (BM ’36), December 2004 (BM ’42, MAS ’49), May 2005 Milton Sandel Hoyle D. Carpenter Virginia D’Amours (x ’40), January 2005 (MM ’32), April 2005 (BM ’47), January 2005 John J. Silber David Leo Diamond Charles Doherty (BM ’44, MAS ’47), March 2005 (x ’37), June 2005 (BM ’42, MAS ’43), September 2004 John A. Spurgeon Nellie Clarke Douglas Arline Feder (BM ’40), December 2004 (BM ’35), March 2005 (BM ’40), December 2004 Pauline Evans Jean Hawk (x ’31), April 2004 (BM ’48), October 2004 1950s Frederick Fennell Samuel Krachmalnick James Ray Burnett (BA ’37, MS ’39, HNR ’88), December 2004 (x ’47), April 2005 (x ’54), November 2004

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Remembering Faini Maria Luisa Faini, ESM Professor of Piano from 1966¬1982, who passed away during retirement in Rome in the autumn of 2003 (see Eastman Notes, December 2003), is being honored by alumni, friends, and colleagues at a memorial website created by former student Timothy Mueller (BM ’73, MA’ 75). Personal remembrances may be posted directly to the site at www.rochester. edu/Eastman/faini. Visitors are also encouraged to post their e-mail addresses in the interest of facilitat- ing communication for the future creation of a more lasting tribute to Faini’s important teaching legacy at Eastman. Scanned photographs or memorabilia may be sent to Mueller Maria Luisa Faini taught piano at Eastman from 1966 to 1982. for consideration for posting to the “Album” section of the site at tjmueller@mindspring. ESM Archives (recently established to receive of sender), to David Peter Coppen, Special com. General queries may also be sent to materials donated by surviving family members Collections Librarian and Archivist, Eastman former Faini student Gregory Galligan through longtime friend and colleague Vin- School of Music Archives, Sibley Music Library, at [email protected]. cent A. Lenti, Lecturer in Piano and Eastman Room 407, 27 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY, Persons wishing to donate Faini-related pa- School Historian; [email protected]), 14604; [email protected]. pers or photographs to an archival file in the may mail such materials, certiﬁed mail (at risk —Gregory Galligan, BM ’82

Sister Mary David Callahan Ruth Watanabe Hyacinthe Tlucek (BM ’52), March 2005 (PhD ’52), February 2005 (BM ’64), December 2004 James A. Frankus Judith Workman (BM ’50, MM ’51), December 2004 (BM ’64, MM ’89), February 2005 Phyllis S. Grant 1960s (MA ’50), November 2004 Jerry L. Bowder Herbert Hawk (PhD ’60), February 2005 1980s (x ’53), November 2004 Larry Lee Cortner Emily Bernstein (MM ’81), January 2005 Margaret Schoﬁeld (MM ’67, DMA ’78), March 2005 (BM ’53), January 2005 Fred B. Gary Peter Synnestvedt (MM ’61), November 2004 1990s (BM ’57, MM ’59), July 2004 Judith Ann (Colip) Riggin William Bomar Anthony Taffs (BM ’60), February 2005 (BM ’93), January 2005 (MAS ’52), February 2005 Herbert Spencer James Coleman Marjorie Van de Poel (BM ’64), April 2004 (BM ’95), March 2005 (BM ’54), November 2004 James F. Stuart David Grifﬁoen (DMA ’69), March 2005 (MA ’90), April 2005

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Lewis Rowell (BM ’55, PhD ’58) 1930s presented “Gesture in the Musical Send your news! Languages of India” at the Eighth Dorothy Eshelman (BM ’30) writes International Conference on Musical that at the age of 97, “I am still using Do you have an announcement you’d like to share with your Signification at the Sorbonne in my music and hope to be playing the fellow alumni? Send your personal and professional news to October 2004. His article “Musical day I leave the earth … I still play ‘Icons’ and the Semiotics of Notes, Office of Communications, Eastman School of Music, piano three times daily in our din- Familiarity” was published in spring ing room at Beechwood Residence 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY 14604. 2005 by the International Semiotics (Getzville, NY), and four or five Institute (Imatra, Finland), and he times on Sundays (including another Fax: 585-274-1089 delivered the keynote address at the dining area and church service). I E-mail: [email protected] May 2005 meeting of Music Theory do not mean to boast nor brag—just Midwest. Lewis retired from Indiana to let you know that I am still sing- Deadline for the December issue of Notes is November 22, 2005. University at the end of the 2004- ing Eastman’s praises (or playing) 2005 academic year. proudly daily!” News of your upcoming events such as concerts and lectures can be posted live on the Eastman alumni Composer Nancy Van De Vate Carolyn Raney (BM ’38) sends website: www.rochester.edu/Eastman/alumni. (x ’52) is the subject of a new notice of her second collection of book, Journeys Through the Life poems, Portals and Portents (Xlibris). and Music of Nancy Van De Vate, by Carolyn has served as dean of Laurdella Foulkes-Levy and Burt J. the Graduate School at Schiller (MAS ’56) was celebrated with In April, Syd also heard his Symphony Levy (Scarecrow Press). The book International University, and has a grand concert at the National no. 9 … epiphanies performed by includes an audio CD containing five had a notable career Theatre, Bangkok, the Symphonic Band of Stetson Van De Vate works and portions of as a musicologist, par- featuring solo sing- (FL) University, where he is profes- lesser-known compositions. ticularly in research on ers, groups, and choirs sor of composition. The 1993 work women composers. who have been trained was written in memory of composer George Walker (DMA ’56, ’57) was or influenced by her. Stephen Albert. recently commissioned by the Las Khunying Malaival Vegas Philharmonic to compose a 1940s has tutored Thailand’s In January, tenor Earnest Murphy work in honor of the orchestra’s cen- royal princesses, and is (MM ’55) was heard in concert at tenary. He was also a guest composer In December 2004, recognized as a pioneer Stetson University (FL) with harpsi- for Hawaii Public Radio’s recent flutist Doriot Anthony of the art of choral chordist Boyd Jones. Murphy’s career “New Music Marathon” live concert. Dwyer (BM ’43) took singing in Thailand. has included work with New York Pro (See “Alumni on CD,” p. 24.) part in a program Musica and the Robert Shaw Chorale. of Alea III, Boston Wally Comfort University’s contempo- (BM ’56), bassist in the Dorothy Payne (BM ’56, MM ’67, 1960s rary music ensemble, performing the Roberts Wesleyan College Community DMA ’74) was recently awarded world premiere of Study for Flute by Orchestra, was featured in a pro- the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize The Picasso Ensemble of Cabrillo longtime Eastman composition profile of the orchestra in the March 21 for Lifetime Achievement in Music College, including cellist Karen fessor Bernard Rogers. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Theory Teaching and Scholarship. Andrie (BM ’65), performed in When asked to describe Comfort, The $10,000 prize is awarded a recital in April at the College’s Prolific theater composer Charles director Paul Shewan (MM ’83, every two years to an outstanding Sesnon House. “The group per- Strouse (BM ’47) is having a busy DMA ’04) said, “The words that come music theory pedagogue; Dorothy formed with clarity and fine musical year. In fall 2004, Eastman Opera to mind are ‘consistency,’ ‘loyalty’.” received it at the annual meeting understanding,” said the Watsonsville Theatre produced his East & West (see of the Society for Music Theory in (CA) Register-Pajaronian. “School News”); on January 7, his new Walter Hartley (BM ’50, MM ’51, November 2004. musical Real Men opened at Miami’s PhD ’53) was honored with a pro- Conductor Donald Barra (BA ’61) Coconut Grove Playhouse; and in gram of chamber compositions The Percussive Arts Society inducted celebrated one of his mentors in April, Trinity Playhouse in Providence, performed by Buffalo’s Friends of Gordon Peters (BM ’56, MM ’62) “A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein,” RI presented another musical, You Vienna on November 21, 2004. The into the PAS Hall of Fame on an April concert of excerpts from Never Know. Strouse wrote music and compositions included two from November 12, 2004 in Nashville, Bernstein’s Candide, West Side lyrics for all three shows. 2003: My Shepherd’s Sacred Throne TN. Peters and fellow inductee, for- Story, and Mass with the San Diego and Fantasy Pieces for Alto Saxophone, mer Tonight Show drummer Ed Chamber Orchestra and San Diego Cello, and Piano. Performers included Shaughnessy, joined such Hall-of- Master Chorale. This was Barra’s 1950s Patricia Chiodo, trumpet (MM ’75), Famers as Lionel Hampton, Gene finale as music director of the SDCO; and Paul Hartley at piano and organ Krupa, Tito Puente, Buddy Rich— he plans to guest conduct, and to Ronald T. Bishop (BM ’56) joined (BM ’57, MA ’60). and Peters’ teacher at Eastman, the finish his second book, to be called his colleagues in the Neotuba legendary William Street. Shaping Music. Quartet (two tubas and two eupho- In November 2004, Sydney niums) for an April 14 recital at Hodkinson (BM ’57, MM ’58) was Flutist Margaret Redcay (BM ’57) Percussionist Bill Cahn (BM ’68) Cleveland State University. awarded two prizes at an inter- was joined by her daughter, Andrea visited Eastman for a residency from national concert band competi- Graves, for an April concert enti- December 1-9, 2004, consisting of The sixth cycle (72nd) birthday of tion in Harelbeke, Belgium, for tled “A Festival of Flutes” at Harral the workshop “What to Listen for Khunying Malaival Boonyaratavej Monumentum pro Umbris (2003). Memorial Auditorium, Plainview, TX. CONTINUED ON PAGE 25

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One of the first clas- For ordering information, visit www.summit fourth SNMNMNM’er is drummer/vocalist sical releases of 2005 records.com or www.promusicacolumbus.org. Matthew Vooris.) “Treat your ears to 11 songs came from pianist that you won’t be able to get out of your Eastman is well represented on a recent CD Thomas Lanners head,” says the group; “Your brain will thank of chamber music by Lowell Liebermann (MM ’89, DMA ’91), you.” We liked the booklet pictures too. (Albany 684); the performers include the whose CD of The Ying Quartet, violinist William Terwilliger Donald W. Stauffer Completed Pub- (BM ’84, MM ’86, DMA ’90) and violist Erika (BM ’41, MM ’42), who lished Piano Music of Leonard Bernstein was Eckert (BM ’87), who team up in Lieber- led the U.S. Navy released on January 2 (Centaur CRC 2702). mann’s Two Pieces for Violin and Viola, op. 4; Band from 1969 to The disc of mainly short pieces includes Terwilliger is heard in a violin sonata, two 1973, sent us From the Bernstein’s first published work, a piano tran- trios, and (with the Yings) a Concerto for Commander, a CD scription of Copland’s El Salón México Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, op. 28. of original composi- of legendary difficulty. tions and arrangements of such composers as Pianist and com- Raymond Egan’s (BM ’67) recent CD of origi- Franck, Chabrier, Bach, and Haydn recorded poser Walter Saul nal choral and vocal music, Ancient Partners, live with the Navy Band in the early ’70s. It (MM ’79, DMA ’80) is available at www.RaymondEgan.com. is available from Walking Frog, Barnhouse, recently released Oskaloosa, Iowa, who also handle Stauffer’s Andrea Kapell Loewy (BM ’75) announces two CDs of his work. published works for band and orchestra, or the release of Apparitions and Whimsies Out of the Darkness from Stauffer Press (205-951-3881). (Centaur CRC 2689), a collection of contem- Into His Marvelous porary flute works that includes first record- Light (Tarsus 1001), includes several works ings of pieces John Heiss and Jindrich Feld, as for different media, including the piano solo well as music by Toru Takemitsu and Charles Cry of the Untouchables, inspired by the Koechlin — and flute duets by Robert Muc- ministry of Covenant House to street chil- zynski, with fellow flutist and alumna Leone dren. From Alpha to Omega (Tarsus 1002) is Buyse (BM ’68). Apparitions and Whimsies a series of 24 preludes and fugues in all the has received outstanding reviews in Ameri- major and minor keys, inspired by J.S. Bach can Record Guide and Flute Talk. and by Saul’s mentor George Rochberg. For Soprano Melissa Fogarty (BM ’91) can be information on the CDs, write to Walter at heard on two recent CDs: Alessandro Scar- Speaking of Leone [email protected]. latti cantata Agar et Ismaele Esiliati (The Buyse, the versa- Exile of Hagar and Ishmael), with mem- tile flutist can also Arthur Frackenpohl (MA ’49) reports a new bers of Seattle Baroque including baritone be heard with her CD of his brass music: The ART Collection, by Nathaniel Watson (BM ’80) (Centaur 2664); husband, clarinetist the Carolina Brass (Summit 406). It contains and Forbidden Dance: Dances and Dimi- Michael Webster two quintets, two pop suites, and a fanfare nutions of the Italian Baroque (Musicians (BM ’66, MM ’67, by Frackenpohl, as well as music by Joplin, Showcase 1073), a collection of songs and DMA ’75), on World Wide Webster (Crystal Poulenc, Handy, Berlin, and others. dances with Ensemble for the Seicento 357), a delightful collection of arrangements True fans of “liber- (www.seicento.org). Classics Today.com gave including Debussy’s Petite Suite, dances by tine lyrical liberal- the Scarlatti CD a 9/9 rating, stating, “Melissa Dvorˇàk and Brahms, and several pieces by ism” will want to Fogarty … delivers her arias with a marvel- Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Robert Moeling pick up the new CD ous range of color and nuance.” Early Music is the pianist. by SNMNMNM, As America called Forbidden Dance “racy good Soprano Carmen Pelton (MM ’80) is the Best As We Can fun,” and Fogarty’s singing “emotional and soloist in a new recording of Barber’s peren- (Unschooled 015). cavalier.” For more news from Melissa, see nial Knoxville: Summer of 1915, with the Pro Three-fourths of SNMNMNM has an Eastman “Alumni Notes,” p. 35. Musica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus pedigree: Seamus Kenney (BM ’98; vocals, The Far Field, a CD of music for voice, cham- (Summit DCD 1023). The CD, titled American accordion, trombone); Matthew Kennedy ber orchestra, and chamber ensembles Originals, also includes music by Michael (BM ’99; electric guitar/vocals, trumpet); and Daugherty, Peter Schickele, and David Noon. Mark Daumen (amplified tuba/vocals). (The CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 HNR ’88) can be heard on Famous Voices of a concerto by Emma Lou Diemer (MM ’49, the Past: William Warfield (Preiser 93438); PhD ’60); Cedille 79, 20th-Century Oboe by Clement Reid (BM ’77), is available at the mono recording includes performances Concertos, features soloist Alex Klein in luteworld.plu.edu. Reid currently teaches of songs by Loewe, Schumann, and Brahms. works by Martinu, Pawel Sydor, and Marco composition at Pacific Lutheran University, Aurélio Yano; Cedille 80 comprises wind Tacoma, Washington. Bill Cunliffe (MM ’81) recently appeared on concertos by Cimarosa, Molique, and Mos- Tomo (Torii Records) as pianist and arranger Gordon Johnson cheles, with Klein and flutist Mathieu Dufour. in music by Reed Cotler. AllAboutJazz.com (BM ’74) has pro- admired Cunliffe’s “ability to play bebop In May 2005, violinist Madeleine Mitchell duced three jazz piano as a soloist or feeder, and … fine sense (MM ’81) gave a concert to launch In Sunlight piano trio CDs over of shading in his arrangements.” (NMC D098), a new CD of recent works the last decade: written for her by contemporary British Trios (1996), Trios V. 2 Violinist Jean composers, including Michael Nyman, James (2002), and Trios Ver- Rayburn (BM ’48, MacMillan, and Nigel Osborne. In Sunlight sion 3.0 (2004). Among the Eastman alumni in MM ’50) sent us his was released by the Royal College of Music, the series are pianists J. Thomas “Biff” Han- latest CD, Just a where Mitchell has been a professor since non (MM ’93) and Phil Markowitz (BM ’74), Little More. The pro- 1994. For information, visit www.nmcrec.co.uk. and percussionists Steve Gadd (BM ’68) and gram of 47 standard David Mancini (BM ’75). All three CDs are tunes, performed by Drummer Ted Poor (BM ’03) and his Quar- available from www.tonalities.com. Jean and a combo at the historic Bevo Mill tet — which also includes bassist Ike Sturm (BM ’00, MM ’03) and tenor saxophonist Soprano Susan Marie Pierson (BM ’74), who Restaurant in St, Louis, ranges from “Unfor- Matt Blanchard (BM ’01) — just released their has impressive Wagnerian credentials in gettable” to a Cole Porter medley. For more first CD, All Around (Trier). In a favorable Europe and America, headlines a new live information, call Bevo Mill at 314-481-2626. review, AllAboutJazz.com commented, “This recording of the most demanding female Composer Ted recording is filled with creative compositions role of them all, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde Frazeur (BM ’51, and a highly adventurous spirit … This is one (Titanic 261), joined by tenor Marc Deaton as MM ’56) has just record by a drummer who is not afraid to Tristan and the Bulgarian Festival Orchestra released Fearful drive the bus.” Eric Biondo (BM ’00) is guest and Chorus conducted by Glen Cortese. For Symmetry: The trumpeter on one track. more information of this fascinating joint Musics of Ted American-Bulgarian production, visit Frazeur (Mark 4798), One of America’s dis- www.tristanundisolde.com. a collection of choral, instrumental, and tinguished composers, George Walker Rick DiMuzio vocal pieces, including a setting of William (DMA ’56, ’57), was (MM ’89), associate Blake’s The Tyger (hence the title). For more recently honored professor at Berklee on the CD, visit www.markcustom.com. by Albany Records College of Music in Violinist Kate Stenberg (MM ’88) writes that with the release of Boston, has released the Del Sol Quartet, of which she is a mem- George Walker: Composer-Pianist (Albany his first solo CD, ber, just released a CD of the complete string TROY 697). Walker, a notable pianist, per- First Offerings. It quartets by George Antheil (1900–1959), the forms on many tracks of this collection showcases Rick’s skills as saxophonist and “Bad Boy of Music” of the 1920s. For more of songs, chamber music, piano and organ composer, and also includes alumnus John information, visit www.otherminds.org/ music, as well as in solo pieces by Chopin Hollenbeck (BM ’90, MM ’91) on drums. For shtml/Antheilcd2.shtml. and Liszt. Among the instrumentalists on the more information, visit www.rickdimuzio.com. disc is violinist Calvin Wiersma (MM ’85). “Global Maestro” Gary Bordner (MM ’77), first trumpet of the Paul Freeman St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, has just released (BM ’56, MM ’58, ➤ Do you have music or performances on a a CD of virtuoso trumpet works, including PhD ’63) conducts recent or forthcoming CD? Notes wants to popular concertos by Vivaldi and Telemann, three recent CDs know! Send promo copies to Eastman Notes, Hovhaness’ Prayer of St. Gregory, and Persi- with the Czech Office of Communications, Eastman School chetti’s Hollow Men. It is available from National Symphony of Music, 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY www.artegra.com. Orchestra, of which he is music director. 14604; or just alert us that it is available. The much-loved and still fondly remembered Albany Records 706 features organ soloist voice of baritone William Warfield (BM ’42, Marilyn Mason in a program that includes

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22 is principal second violin of the Michael Webster (BM ’66, MM ’67, Buffalo’s Slee Sinfonietta performed in Cymbals,” private lessons with Austin Symphony, and concertmaster DMA ’75) and Leone Buyse (BM ’68) Jonathan Golove’s The King in Yellow, percussion students, and rehears- of the Laredo (TX) Philharmonic. are in their eighth year at Rice for solo bass trombone and chamber als and the premiere of his new University’s Shepherd School of orchestra, based on a 1930s novella work Wright’s Lessons, for percus- In January, bassist Tony Levin Music, where Michael teaches clari- by Raymond Chandler in which a sion, string quartet, and children’s (BM ’68) joined the California Guitar net, Leone teaches flute, and both trombonist/bandleader is found mur- chorus, with the Eastman Marimba Trio for two shows in Poughkeepsie, coach wind chamber music. Michael dered in his yellow silk pajamas. (Jim Ensemble and the Amadeus Chorale. NY. The trio is known for its wide- also serves as artistic director of notes that he merely wore a yellow The 20-minute composition is based ranging repertoire; Tony likened the Houston Youth Symphony, and tie for the performance.) on the 1846 reading and spelling the experience to playing with in March hosted and performed in book, Wright’s Primary Lessons. a chamber ensemble. For more on recital with Berlin Philharmonic Vince DiMartino (BM ’70, MM ’78) Tony’s performances, visit principal clarinetist Karl Leister. was named CASE Kentucky Professor Pianist Constance Carroll (MM ’62) www.tonylevin.com. This summer, Michael will perform of the Year in November 2004. performed Mozart’s Concerto at the Skaneateles Festival and the DiMartino is Matton Professor no. 21, K. 467, with the Louisiana In October, Bob Ludwig (BM ’66, International ClarinetFest in Tokyo. of Music at Centre College, and Sinfonietta and Dino Constantinides, MM ’01), president of Gateway Leone recently performed for the Distinguished Alumni Professor at the First Baptist Church, Baton Mastering and DVD, won his unprec- New York Flute Club, and during the of Trumpet at the University of Rouge, LA, on April 17. In January, edented 12th Technical Creativity summer will return to the Sarasota Kentucky. Said DiMartino, “The she gave a solo recital at Mississippi and Excellence (TEC) Award for his Music Festival and Domaine Forget in reward for teaching is knowing what State University. Constance is mastering of Radiohead’s album Hail Quebec. After appearing with Michael you’ve done has made a difference in Barineau Professor of Keyboard to the Thief (Capitol). in Tokyo, she’ll appear at the National the future of your students.” Studies at Louisiana State University. Flute Association Convention in San On April 12, the General Board of Diego. (See “Alumni on CD”, p. 23.) Michael Drapkin (BM ’79) recently Mezzo-soprano and New York Global Ministries of the United published Symphonic Repertoire for City Opera mainstay Joyce Castle Methodist Church commissioned the Bass Clarinet: Volume 2 (Roncorp), (MM ’66) spent the fall and early Lee Dawson Manns (BM ’68) 1970s a compendium of difficult passages winter performing three very French, as a Deaconess. She will serve St. and important solos for the instru- very different roles. She played Andrew’s Methodist Church, Cherry Susan Avery (BM ’76, PhD ’02) pre- ment taken from works by Bartók, the Mother Superior in Poulenc’s Hill, NJ, as a Parish Support Worker, sented “The Faculty-Staff Chorus: Copland, Mahler, Shostakovich, and Dialogues of the Carmelites at NYCO and will serve the United Methodist A Win-Win-Win Scenario” at The many other composers. Volume 3 in October; a character based on the Women as the Gateway South Music and Lifelong Learning will be released in Summer 2005. turn-of-the-century Parisian chan- District Coordinator for Membership, Symposium, held April 14¬16 at the teuse Yvette Guilbert, in Martha Nurture, and Outreach. University of Wisconsin at Madison. Robert Gant (PhD ’76) played a Clarke and Charles Mee’s theater recital on the restored 1800 David piece Belle Époque, which opened Annette Stanton (MAS ’66), vocal Roger Briggs (MM ’76, PhD ’78) Tannenberg organ at the Old Salem November 21 at Lincoln Center’s music teacher at East Irondequoit’s was recently awarded a Goddard Visitor Center, Winston-Salem, NC, Mitzi Newhouse Theater; and in Laurelton-Pardee Intermediate Lieberson Fellowship from the in April. January sang the role of Geneviève School, received the Rochester American Academy of Arts and in the U.S. premiere of the original Philharmonic Orchestra’s Classroom Letters, given to mid-career compos- In February, Tiiu Haamer (MM ’75) version (with piano accompaniment) Specialist Award for 2005. Annette’s ers of exceptional gifts. Goddard took part in the 24th annual Kiwanis of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande by fourth-grade chorus was treated to a Lieberson (BM ’35, HNR ’74) was Music Festival of Guelph, Ontario, L’Opéra Francais de New York. guest rehearsal with RPO music direc- director of Columbia Records Canada. Tiiu was junior piano adjudi- tor Christopher Seaman. Annette Masterworks Division in the ’50s cator, and has her own piano studio Joseph Henry (BM ’52, MM ’53, plays French horn in the Eastside and ’60s, and a legendary producer in Burlington. DMA ’65) is in his 20th season as Brass with her husband Harry. of Broadway cast albums. Music Director of the Missoula In June, Transcontinental Music Symphony Orchestra, which cel- In January, Max Stern (BM ’69) was Ken Brown (BM ’75) reports, “This Publications, NY, the largest pub- ebrates its 50th anniversary this invited as a guest composer from is my 34th year of teaching in the lisher of Jewish music, will publish year. Soloist for the opening con- Israel to participate in the 60th anni- Fairport, NY school district as director The Michael Isaacson (PhD ’73, ’79) cert was violist Maria Lambros versary of Auschwitz on European of the Fairport High School Orchestra Songbook II, containing Nos. 51¬100 Kannen (BM ’85), playing Berlioz’s Holocaust Day by the Jewish com- and instructor of violin for the dis- of his sacred music settings. The Harold in Italy. In the final concert, munity of Gothenberg, Sweden. The trict.” Ken also sends news about his songbook includes a CD of 27 of the Allen Vizzutti (BM ’74, MM ’76) interfaith program included per- daughter Amanda—see “2000s”. musical works in the book. Volume I teamed with his early mentor, formances of Max’s Terezin Songs sold out its first edition, and will be Doc Severinsen, for a Trumpet by soprano Monica Danielsson and Ronald Caravan (MM ’73, DMA ’75) re-released in the fall. Spectacular. Margaret Nichols pianist Bernt Wilhemsson. Max is presented a recital of music for clari- Baldridge (BM ’87, DMA ’95) is Associate Professor at the College of net and saxophone to celebrate the Carolyn (Rodgers) Kessler (BM ’74) MSO concertmaster; Fern Glass Judea and Samaria, and music critic Year of the American Composer at announces her graduation on Boyd (BM ’75) is principal cellist. for the Jerusalem Post. Syracuse University, where he is a May 14 from Catholic University, faculty member. Ronald’s program Washington, DC, with a DMA in Richard Kilmer (BM ’61, MM ’64) Pianist Carolin Stoessinger included Liquid Ebony by Dana violin performance. Carolyn also performed a duet recital with pia- (MM ’60) joined bass-baritone Terry Wilson (PhD ’82). has an MA in Jewish Studies from nist Eugene Rowley at Southwestern Cook in a performance of Schubert’s Baltimore Hebrew University. College (KS), of violin sonatas by Winterreise at the Newberry (SC) On March 1, trombonist Jim Daniels Mozart, Prokofiev, and Fauré. 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Project number: 2004013 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2005 Draft: Web Date: July 5, 2005 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25 breathing art form that needs to be In January 2005, Hay Group, a practiced and not just discussed.” global organizational and human resources consulting firm, appointed Bradley Nelson (MM ’75, DMA ’76), John Larrere (MM ’75) as General whose choral music has been widely Manager of its Metropolitan New performed, won the 2004 Choral York office. Composition Competition sponsored by the California American Choral Geary Larrick (MM ’70) has pub- Directors Association for his Gladde lished his eighth book, Annotated Things (see www.GladdeMusic.com/ Bibliography of Percussion Music gladde.htm for Brad’s entire choral Publications (Edwin Mellen Press), catalogue). Brad was commissioned and is working hard on his ninth, An to write a new work for 50th anni- Interdisciplinary Study in Percussion versary of the Fresno Community Music. His Theory and Composition Chorus in 2006. of Percussion Music (2004), contains profiles of fellow Eastman alumni Alvin Parris III (BM ’73) and Steven Wasson (BM ’69, MM ’71) Debra Bryant Parris (BM ’76) send and John Beck (BM ’55, MM ’62). word of a January performance A symphony to bring people together: David Harman Geary continues to perform percus- with the Greensboro Symphony: rehearsing Beethoven’s Ninth with Eastman, University sion and piano freelance in Stevens Touched by the Gospel, which com- of Rochester, and community musicians. Point, WI, including a musical cel- bined hymns and spirituals (sung ebration of Black History Month in by more than 200 choristers from February and a tribute to African local churches) with Copland’s American composers in April. Lincoln Portrait. Alvin was the cho- Golden opportunities rus master and arranger; the con- A clarinetist who received his performance DMA from Lt. Kenneth Megan (BM ’73) ductor was Isaiah Jackson, longtime has welcomed several alumni to assistant conductor of the Rochester Eastman in 1975, David Harman has also become one concerts by the United States Philharmonic Orchestra. very busy conductor. In his post as Director of Orchestral Coast Guard Band, of which he Activities at the University’s became music director in 2004. In Clement Reid’s (BM ’77) Adventure River Campus, Harman is cur- November, soprano Nicole Cabell for String Orchestra was commis- (BM ’01) sang in a tribute to George sioned and premiered in June 2004 rently leading the University Gershwin; and saxophonist and band by Matthew Underwood and the Symphony Orchestra, founded alumnus Chris Vadala (BM ’70) per- Stadium High School Chamber in 1954, in its golden anniversary formed in a Saxophone Conference Orchestra. His Morrell Variations season. In February, Harman led a in April. for Piano and Toy Piano was premiered in September 2004 by free community performance of Manny Mendelson (MM ’79) has Walter Kovshik (BM ’77) and the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in retired from music after 18 years composer on the Seattle Composers the Eastman Theatre, with cho- composing and orchestrating music Salon at Soundbridge-Benaroya Hall. David Harman ruses from the UR and Nazareth for almost 5,000 television com- Clement has taught composition at mercials. In that time he won three Pacific Lutheran University since Colleges and soloists from Eastman. In October, Harman Clios, two Ad-age Awards, 4 Mobius 2002. (See “Alumni on CD, p. 24.) will lead the URSO in the first performance of a work Awards, and was best known for over commissioned for the orchestra’s anniversary. 100 arrangements of Gershwin’s Jeff Renshaw (MM ’77, DMA ’90) Rhapsody in Blue for United Airlines. conducted the University of “This concert shows our mission to bring together groups He also served as CEO of Com/ Connecticut Wind Ensemble and and individuals from the University and across the com- track, one of the Midwest’s larg- Chamber Orchestra in a perfor- est producers of music for TV com- mance of new music at Carnegie Hall munity who enjoy performing,” said Harman before the mercials, a connection first made on November 3, 2004. concert. “We all share a profound dedication to and love thanks to Professor Rayburn Wright of symphonic music.” at Eastman. Since 2001, Manny has Walter Saul (MM ’79, DMA ’80) is entered the field of trading system now Academic and Co-curricular Harman brings his dedication not only to the UR’s design and programming. Chair of the Music Department and orchestras and chamber ensembles, but also to the Chair of the Humanities Division Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Edward “Ted” Moore (BM ’73), at Fresno Pacific University (CA). Director of Jazz Ensembles at the Tadeu Coelho presented the pre- Penfield (NY) Symphony Orchestra, not to mention University of California at Berkeley, miere of Walter’s Come, Amazing numerous guest-conducting gigs. Not surprisingly, the was profiled in the January 26 issue Grace for alto flute at the Slippery Monroe County School Music Association recently chose of UC Berkeley News. Ted, who Rock Flute Festival in November Harman as the 2005 recipient of the Richard H. Snook has performed worldwide, directs 2004; his new piece for flute choir, six part-time teachers and 70 stu- Wings of the Dawn, was premiered in Award for significant contributions to music education in dents. “I think jazz teachers ought February at FPU. (See “Alumni on the Rochester community. to be players,” says Ted. “It’s a living, CD,” p. 23.)

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In March, Kimberly Schmidt College (IN) as assistant professor Heather Buchman (BM ’87) guest University (OH). Bruce has taught at (BM ’72, MM ’75) was soloist with of education. He previously taught conducted the brass section of the Cedarville since 2001. the Grand Rapids Symphony in at Indiana University (2001¬04) United States Coast Guard Band in a Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto and Indiana Wesleyan University “Holiday Brass” concert of sacred and Violinist Melanie Dexter (BM ’84) no. 1—given its American premiere (2003¬05). secular music on December 5, 2004 gave a recital with harpsichordist in 1934 by Schmidt’s teacher at at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Victor Hill on January 23 at Clark Art Eastman, Eugene List (then 16 years Organist Terry Yount (MM ’75, In March, she presented Brainstorm! Institute, Williamstown, MA. The old), with Leopold Stokowski and DMA ’80) gave a recital at the First An Exploration of Music and Nature program consisted of sonatas by J.S. the Philadelphia Orchestra. Presbyterian Church, Lake Wales, FL, with the orchestra of Hamilton Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel. in January. Terry is currently music College, where she is assistant pro- John Serry (BM ’75, MM ’90, ’91) director of St. Paul’s Presbyterian fessor of music. Paul Dickinson (BM ’87) writes, “I performed a concert of original Church, Winter Park, FL. was awarded a $10,000 commission solo and duo-piano compositions at Clarinetist John Cipolla (BM ’84), from the Fromm Music Foundation Covent Garden Opera House, Floral assistant professor of music at to compose a string quartet for the Hall, on January 23. It was recorded 1980s Western Kentucky University, was a Quapaw Quartet of the Arkansas and broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Jazz guest soloist with Wayland Baptist Symphony Orchestra.” Paul is Legends Live in April. John’s many Brady Allred (MM ’87, DMA ’90) University’s concert band in April, Assistant Professor of Music Theory London appearances included the conceived and conducted Children performing in a tribute to Benny and Composition at the University of Italians of London Jazz Festival at of Abraham, a concert celebrating Goodman. John has been part of the Central Arkansas. Earl’s Court, on April 10; read more music from the Jewish, Islamic, and Radio City Music Hall at www.johnserry.com. Christian traditions, with his Utah Orchestra since 1985. William Eddins Choral Artists in May, (BM ’83, MM ’86) was Marcia Sheremeta in Salt Lake City. Brady Richard Cohn named artistic direc- (BM ’72, MM ’77) was is currently director of (PhD ’87) was recently tor of the Edmonton named Teacher of the choral conducting at appointed to a tenured (Alberta, Canada) Year by the Hilton the University of Utah. professorship in the- Symphony Orchestra (NY) Central School ory at Yale University. after a two-year search. District, and honored Diane Belcher For the last 20 years, Bill is former resi- at an April 7 Rochester (MM ’83) gave the Richard taught at the dent conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra 24th annual Carroll University of Chicago. Chicago Symphony concert. Marcia has Henshaw Hendrickson Eddins Orchestra and princi- taught vocal music Organ Recital at Donna Coleman pal guest conductor of for 22 years at Merton Sheremeta the Mercersburg (DMA ’87) recently published a the National Symphony of Ireland. Williams Middle School, (PA) Academy personal tribute to Charles Ives “Eastman graduates are welcome to leading 10 choruses and 442 singers. Chapel in February. in the Australian Financial Review. come up and spend some time,” says When told as a student that Ives’ Bill. “Just bring your long johns.” The Nevelson Duo—violinist John Bodinger (MM ’89, DMA ’91) two piano sonatas were “too hard Elizabeth Reed Smith (BM ’79, recently moved to Spokane, WA, as to play,” she decided she would Ferdinand the flower-loving bull is as DMA ’83) and pianist Leslie Petteys— organist and interim choir director master them, encouraged at Eastman popular with kids as ever, as violin- gave a recital at Brown Chapel, of Manito Presbyterian Church. by her teacher, former professor ist Sarah Briggs-Cornelius (BM ’83) Muskingum (OH) College. The of piano David Burge; she is now discovered when she and narra- duo, named after the American art- Paul Brantley (MM ’88) has a recognized interpreter of both tor Keith Smith performed a piece ist Louise Nevelson, is committed to received recent commissions from works. You can hear excerpts from by English composer Alan Ridout, performing music by American com- Slee Sinfonietta, St. Mary the her recordings of Ives’ sonatas on based on Robert Lawson’s story, at posers. Both Smith and Pettys teach Virgin (at Times Square) Choir, and www.donnacolemanpianist.com. the Ketchikan (AK) Public Library’s at Marshall University. Golliard Ensemble. Recent per- Story Time in February. formances include: On the Pulse Pianist Craig Combs (MM ’85, In March, Michael Walsh (BM ’71) of Morning by the University of DMA ’88) has relocated to London Bradley Ellingboe’s (MM ’83, ’84) lectured on “Arts in the Real World” Michigan Symphony; dux, comes by and recently performed with a vocal choral piece Be Music, Night, written at the University of Kentucky. Music of the Spheres; My Dream of duo in Amsterdam and Northern for the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, was Michael is writing a screenplay based the Lost Schumann Romances (which Ireland; he also started a chamber featured on NPR’s Performance Today on his award-winning novel And All Clara burned) and Jew’s Harp and music series/association in his home on March 18, 2005. the Saints for MGM. Arabesque, performed by Paul on his town of Bristol, TN. Manhattan School of Music faculty Tenor Jonathan English (BM ’82, Janice Weber’s (BM ’74) recent cello recital in January. Paul appears Tim Conner (BM ’85) is now on the MM ’84) performed a recital of concert appearances have included on the recent CDs Little Worlds (Béla full-time faculty at the Miami Frost “Songs From America” in March at a performance of Mozart’s Piano Fleck) and Bloom (Jeff Coffin). See School of Music, where in addition the Marlborough (MA) Public Library. Concerto no. 21 on November 7 in a www.paulbrantley.com. to teaching the trombone studio, he Jonathan recently relocated to “World of Wellesley” concert, and a directs the UM Trombone Choir. Syracuse, where he teaches with the recital with former Eastman profes- Jeremy Brown (MM ’82) was This appointment follows 18 years Syracuse Children’s Theatre, is music sor of violin Ilya Kaler at the Boston profiled in a recent edition of as principal trombone of the Florida director of Northminster Presbyterian Conservatory on February 8. La Scena Musicale Online. Jeremy Philharmonic. Church, North Syracuse, and serves teaches saxophone and is chair of the on the boards of Civic Morning Paul Worfel (MM ’79) recently music department of the University Bruce Curlette (MM ’81) received Musicals and the Ernst Bacon Society. joined the faculty of Huntington of Calgary. promotion and tenure at Cedarville CONTINUED ON PAGE 28

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 27 (BM ’93), joined forces with a vio- piece “rich and gorgeous,” and praised La Dame de Monte-Carlo by Francis Organist Douglas Frew (BM ’80) linist and a pianist to form Neo Claron’s “crystalline, high-flying col- Poulenc and Jean Cocteau. was recently appointed to the faculty Camarata, a chamber group that plays oratura.” Claron is also heard on a of the Wausau (WI) Conservatory original music by Landson in unusual recent release of Mozart’s early opera Glenn D. Price (MM ’81, DMA ’86), of Music. venues like Baltimore’s Funk Box. Ascanio in Alba (Brilliant Classics). Professor of Conducting at the “My greatest dream,” says Landson, University of Calgary, will return to Darrell Grant (BM ’84) and Anne “is to figure out how classical music Music at the First Congregational Rochester in December 2005 to con- McFall (BM ’85) are pleased to can fit into popular culture.” Neo Church, New London, CT, has duct the New York All-State Wind announce the birth of their first Camarata will record a CD this sum- been transformed since the arrival Ensemble in the Eastman Theatre. child, Malcolm Sterling Grant, on mer for Well-Tempered Productions. of Mary Morreale (MM ’81). As Upcoming engagements include the December 11, 2004, in Portland, OR. Director of Music Ministries, she 50th anniversary of the California All- Pianist Thomas Lanners (MM ’89, saw an increase in the choir from 15 State Wind Ensemble, where he’ll pre- Marek Harris (BM ’83) heard the DMA ’91) presented his New York adults to 50, and added a bell choir. miere a piece by Michael Torke (BM premiere of his New Angels with solo debut in Weill Recital Hall at With her organization Empower ’84). As a percussionist, Glenn recently the Austin Symphony Orchestra Carnegie Hall in October. Thomas Innovations, Mary also leads work- recorded the Concerto for Timpani in March. The soloist was a friend presented a master class at the shops and retreats in music therapy and Wind Orchestra by Ney Rosauro from Eastman School days, David University of Colorado-Boulder in and spirituality. with the composer conducting. Brickman (BM ’83), principal February, and a lecture-recital ses- second violinist of the Rochester sion at the Music Teachers National Composer Maria Newman’s Tenor Andrew Richards (BM ’87) Philharmonic Orchestra, who has Association Conference in Seattle in (BM ’84) chamber work Pennipotenti received rave reviews from Miami performed the premieres of a dozen April. (See also “Alumni on CD,” p. 23.) was first performed at a Pacific critics for his performance as of Marek’s compositions. The piece Serenades concert in Pasadena, Pinkerton in last December’s Florida is a reflection on the terrorist attacks The director of the Annual CA, in January 2005. As a violin- Grand Opera production of Puccini’s of September 11, 2001, but also is Augustana Arts/Reuter National ist and violist, she is heard on the Madama Butterfly. A few months focused on healing. Undergraduate Organ Competition is soundtracks of the recent films The later, Andrew sent Notes the good Cindy Lindeen-Martin (DMA ’88), Incredibles and Meet the Fockers, and news that he will be joining Daniel In February, Mark Hierholzer who was interviewed in the April on TV’s Alias and American Idol. Barenboim at the Berlin Staatsoper (MM ’84) heard the first perfor- 22 Denver Post to observe the next season, singing Don Carlos, Don mance of his Missa Brevis by the Competition’s fifth anniversary. Also William Chapman Nyaho (MM ’84) José, Cavaradossi, Macduff—and Ambleside Choir, a group of third- interviewed was the 2002 winner, gave a free public concert on Pinkerton. “My wife and three chil- though sixth-grade singers, in Christian Lane (BM ’04), who was February 20 at the University dren (ages 12, 9, and 6) will be mov- Fredericksburg, TX. Mark is cur- recently hired as assistant organist at of Mississippi, as part of the ing to Berlin this summer (and) get rently director of music at Zion St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in University’s Black History Month to have some semblance of a home Lutheran Church, teaches piano, New York City. Celebration. The program of music life … My son’s name is Seth, after and directs the Arion and Hermann by black composers included a piece Seth McCoy.” Andrew will be back in Sons Choirs. Prolific comp0ser Dan Locklair by Nathaniel Dett (MM ’32). Miami as Radames in Aida in 2006. (DMA ’81) recently celebrated two Paul Hunt (DMA ’89) was the solo- premieres: The Gift of Music, with Roger Nye (BM ’86) writes: “My Evan Rothstein (BM ’82) was ist in Rota’s Trombone Concerto with text by North Carolina Poet Laureate wife, Caroline Park (BM ’85), and appointed Chargé de mission the Black Hills (SD) Symphony in Fred Chappell, performed by the I are the proud parents of Jonathan (Project Director) of training pro- March. Paul is professor and head Winston-Salem Children’s Chorus on Esekia Nye. He turned 2 on April grams of ProQuartet-Centre euro- of the music department at Kansas Mother’s Day 2005; and, the month 9, and we adopted him from Samoa péen de musique de chambre. State University. before, his Harp Concerto, with in the fall of 2003, when he was six ProQuartet has been organizing soloist Jacquelyn Bartlett and the months old. Esekia is the Samoan the highest levels of master classes John Kramar (BM ’85) performed Western Piedmont Symphony under form of Ezekiel; we call him “Zeke” and concerts in order to promote in recital with pianist John Keene at John Gordon Ross. for short. Caroline and I have been string quartet playing in France Louisiana State University in January, members of the Omaha Symphony since 1987; the CEMC, which will in songs by Brahms, Chausson, Eric Mandat (DMA ’86) was for over 10 years, but we will soon be open in 2007, will be a chamber Thomson, and Sidney Homer. John is recently named Professor of moving to the New York City area. In music center with a highly interna- assistant professor of voice and opera Music and Distinguished Scholar February of this year I won the sec- tional profile. Evan has been teach- at East Carolina University. at Southern Illinois University ond bassoon position with the New ing music history at the University at Carbondale. He received a York Philharmonic, and will join fel- of Paris since 2001, and chamber Ann Margaret Lamoureux (BM ’81) 2005 Illinois Arts Council Artist low alums Judith Leclair (BM ’79), music interpretation in the sum- writes that she has served as Fellowship for Composition, and per- principal bassoon, and Mindy mer at the String Academy of the Staff Accompanist at the Boston formed with the Chicago Symphony’s Kaufman (BM ’78), piccolo, in the University of Indiana (Bloomington). Conservatory, the University of MusicNOW Ensemble, Pierre Boulez, wind section.” Rhode Island, and the New Bedford conducting, as part of the CSO’s cel- Gene Scheer (BM ’81, MM ’82) is Ballet. She also teaches 40 students ebration of Boulez’s 80th birthday. Soprano Nicole Philibosian the librettist for Tobias Picker’s An at the JPB Piano Studio in Swansea, (BM ’81) was a guest soloist in the American Tragedy, based on Theodore MA, and has been Minister of Music Soprano Claron McFadden (BM ’82) Dick Johnson Concert Series in Dreiser’s novel, which has its pre- at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in sang the UK premiere of Henri Traverse City, MI, in November miere at the Metropolitan Opera on South Dartmouth since 1995. Dutilleux’s Correspondances with 2004. Accompanied by Donna December 1. The A-List cast includes the City of Birmingham Symphony Brunsma, Nicole sang songs by Patricia Racette, Susan Graham, Violist Mark Landson (BM ’89) and Orchestra under Sakami Oramo in Rachmaninoff, Dvorˇàk, Bernstein, Nathan Gunn, and Jennifer Larmore; his brother, cellist John Landefeld February. Andante.com found the and Rorem, as well as the monologue James Conlon will conduct.

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Half of the world’s only profes- Conductor. In January, he conducted as Gabrielle in Offenbach’s La Vie Hwaen Choque (BM ’97, MM ’01), sional flute-and-tuba duo is Eastman the Chicago Symphony in a family Parisienne in October, a Merkin who was known as Jeff Tomlinson trained: in 1989, tubist Patrick concert series, and he has upcom- Concert Hall recital in February, the when he studied at Eastman, gave Sciannella (BM ’86, MM ’88) ing dates in Pittsburgh, San Antonio, role of Dorlinda in Handel’s Orlando a piano recital in Manheim, PA in teamed with his wife, Amy Ridings, Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville, at New York City Opera in March April that included the first perfor- to form Double Play, which performs and Rochester. In January, Chelsea and April, and the role of Euridice in mance of his Piano Sonata no. 1. music from Bach to Broadway. was joined by baritone Ivan Griffin the Berlioz version of Gluck’s Orphée (MM ’86) in Copland’s popular Old et Eurydice at Carnegie Hall in May. Oboist Johanna Cox (BM ’95) gave a Kristin Shiner McGuire (MM ’83), American Songs. recital at the University of Oklahoma Director of Percussion Studies at Jonathan G. Bayley (MM ’92) pub- on April 3 with pianist Stephanie Nazareth College (Rochester, NY), Peter Whorf (BM ’83) is the new lished articles in three refereed Shames. Johanna is a member of was guest conductor, composer, and program director for Chicago’s clas- journals: “Howe’s School for the the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. performer at Eastman in December. sical radio station WFMT-FM. Peter Clarionett: A mid 19th-century instru- Kristin performed two of her own was previously program director mental tutor,” in Journal of Historical Leonard Day (MM ’90), associate compositions, Declaration, Song, and for New York City’s WNYC-FM and Research in Music Education; “The professor of voice at New Orleans Dance for timpani and ‘Dis is How Columbia, MO’s KBIA-FM, and most instrumental selection process,” in Baptist Theological Seminary, gave a Her Songo for drum set quartet (KSM recently managing producer of the Canadian Winds/Vents canadiens; and recital at the First Baptist Church of Publishing). She also conducted the weekday newsmagazine Eight Forty- “The procedure by which teachers New Orleans on February 13, singing Eastman Percussion Ensemble in Lynn Eight on Chicago’s WBEZ-FM. prepare students to choose a musical arias from Messiah and The Creation, Glassock’s No Exit, as well as teaching instrument,” in Update: Applications spirituals and sacred songs. private lessons and a master class. Pianist Robin Williams (MM ’86, of Research in Music Education. DMA ’90) gave a varied recital Violinist Aaron Farrell (BM ’94) per- In December 2004, Gretchen of Frank Bridge, Gershwin, and In December, Matthew Bickel (BM formed one of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Shyne (BM ’86, MA ’91) coordinated Brahms at Christ Episcopal Church, ’99) won the trumpet vacancy in the with the Acadiana (LA) Symphony TubaChristmas at Aviation Mall in Covington, LA, on February 20. United States Air Force Band, Bolling Orchestra in March. Aaron earned Queensbury (NY)—a holiday musi- Robin is a professor at the University Air Force Base, Washington, DC. his doctorate last year at Louisiana cal event in which massed tubas of New Orleans. State University. play arrangements of Christmas Andrew Boysen, Jr. (DMA ’98) carols. Shyne initiated the event Ivan Wittel (MM ’81) is one-third was guest composer-conductor Harpist Betsy Fitzgerald (BM ’99) in Queensbury two years ago, but of “No Tenors Allowed,” with fellow at Western Michigan University’s writes, “Here are some notes from the first TubaChristmas was in bass-baritones Christopher Austin Spring Conference on Wind and my life in Japan … In December, I 1974, in Rockefeller Plaza’s Ice Rink, and Michael Borton. The three Percussion Music in April. Andrew is was a featured soloist representing with arrangements by none other recently performed at the Church currently on the music faculty of the the United States in a Friendship than Alec Wilder. This season, 203 of the Apostles, Lancaster, PA, in a University of New Hampshire. Concert in Asaka City. In March, I TubaChristmases were performed program of music from opera and performed in and managed a ben- throughout the United States and in Broadway. Ivan has sung Falstaff, Cynthia (Ross) Briggs (BM ’92) efit concert in Fussa for the Red four other countries. The Barber of Seville, and Mozart’s is happily back to teaching in the Cross Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund. Figaro—all definitely baritone roles— Newark (NY) Central School District Finally, I was selected as “Woman of Mark Stewart (BM ’84) is a mem- with the Lancaster Opera Company. after a 2½ year absence, at home the Year 2004” at Yokota Air Force ber of the Bang on a Can All-Stars with her 3-year-old twins and 1½- Base for my dedication to the Vivace and Steve Reich and Musicians—and In November, Laura Zaerr (MM ’86) year-old daughter. Cindy is teach- Performing Arts Program.” also of Polygraph Lounge, a pair of appeared as soloist with the Rogue ing in the Intermediate and Middle “musical pranksters” in which Mark Valley (OR) Symphony Orchestra in Schools in Newark, where her Guitarist Peter Fletcher (MM ’95) is joined by Rob Schwimmer on such a rarity: the Harp Concerto (1901) by husband also teaches. She is also gave recitals this spring in Leesville homemade instruments as the daxo- the noted French harpist and teacher Principal Horn in the Hochstein and Atlanta, GA. His CD, A Peter phone and uboingee. Their reper- Henriette Renié (1875¬1956). Laura Music Educators Wind Band at the Fletcher Recital, was released tory includes a Moby-Dick medley, is currently on the faculty of the Hochstein School in Rochester. March 29, and later this year an operetta based on the Nutcracker University of Oregon-Eugene. Centaur will release his album of Suite, and “50 Ways to Blow Your The American Composers Orchestra’s transcriptions of music by Erik Nose Flute,” in which Mark and Rob “Orchestra Underground” series con- Satie (www.peterfletcher.com). were joined by Paul Simon. 1990s tinued on January 21 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall with a concert fea- Soprano Melissa Fogarty (BM ’91) Trumpeter Byron Stripling Craig Arnold (DMA ’91) will join turing four world premieres, includ- announces “I was married in Ottawa, (BM ’83) is having a festive sea- the faculty of Luther College (IA) as ing Algunas metáforas que aluden al Canada to opera director Jennifer son: in November 2004, he played director of choral activities and con- tormento, a la angustia y a la Guerra by Griesbach on August 28, 2004. We at a fundraiser for the Ottawa ductor of the Nordic Choir in August Carlos Carillo (BM ’94). The work just closed on an apartment in the International Jazz Festival, and in 2005. While on the Luther College for four percussionists and orches- historic district of Jackson Heights January at Marshall University’s faculty in the 1980s, Craig established tra featured the group So Percussion, in New York City.” (See “Alumni on Jazz Festival. In April Byron joined the “Christmas at Luther” Celebration including Jason Treuting and CD,” p. 23.) vocalist Patti Austin and conduc- and four vocal music ensembles. Lawson White (both BM ’99). New tor Chelsea Tipton II (BM ’86) for York Times critic Anthony Tommasini Todd Frazier (BM ’92) was recently A Tribute to Ella and Satchmo with In November, soprano Jennifer called Carillo’s work “fetching … named the Texas Music Teachers the Toledo Symphony. Chelsea is in Aylmer (BM ’94) was profiled in The alive with undulant rhythms and Association’s Commissioned his second season with the Toledo New York Times. Recent career high- tart, high-pitched harmonies,” and So Composer for 2006. 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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 John is pursuing a career in film In February, pianist Marina Lomazov and Andre also created a 30-minute These Truths, a work based upon the composition and recently joined (BM ’93, DMA ’00) appeared as multimedia presentation for elemen- Declaration of Independence for vio- Dream Artists Studios (www.dream- soloist with the South Carolina tary schools about the connection lin, tenor, and orchestra, will be pre- artists.com). Kari is building her own Philharmonic Orchestra in Mozart’s between prose writing and compos- miered by the Texas Music Festival business as a professional organizer Concerto no. 27 and Shostakovich’s ing music. He completed his DMA Orchestra in June. for home and business owners in Concerto no. 2. Marina is assistant in composition at the University of New Jersey. We are so proud of our professor of piano at the University of Michigan in 2005, and begins work Eric Fung King-hei (BM ’97, two-year-old son, Andrew!” South Carolina and artistic director as assistant professor of music at MM ’99, MA ’99) was profiled in of the Southeastern Piano Festival. Occidental College in August. the South China Morning Post in Jin Kim (MM ’95), director of the December 2004. Eric, who has Hingham (MA) Symphony Orchestra, Jesse Lowry (BM ’94) performed Mauricio Nader (MM ’93) had degrees in piano performance and in was profiled in a recent article in the original rock compositions at the a typically busy concert life this music theory, is currently a student Patriot Ledger. A recent winner of the New York Music and Film Festival year, including several recitals, at the Juilliard School. Robert Shaw Conducting Fellowship, in April. He’s been performing baroque and contemporary music Jin not only conducts the orches- roles with the West Virginia Public concerts, and a performance of Rachelle Gerodias (MM ’98) was tra’s subscription concerts, but also Theatre for three years, and married Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 soprano soloist in the Philippine brings solo musicians to local bars his best friend, Diana, in a “medieval” with the Symphony Orchestra of the premiere of Tippett’s oratorio and clubs to perform and mingle fashion in summer 2004. Polytechnical Institute, Mexico City. A Child of Our Time on April 8 at with the audience. St. Scholastica’s College, Manila. Payton MacDonald (MM ’98, Kathleen (Hartnagel) Nasuti She also sang in the Manila Daniel Koontz (BM ’92) has been DMA ’01) recently began a ten- (BM ’91) and her husband Tony Philharmonic’s Operissimo! Concert awarded the 2005 Scott Commission ure-track job as assistant professor announce the birth of their first in March. by the music department of of new music and percussion stud- child, Emma Rose, on July 2, 2004. Swarthmore College—a $4000 award ies at Willam Paterson University, “Emma weighed 9 lbs., 1 oz, and was Soprano Janet Hackett (MM ’94) perfor an original 15-minte composition Wayne, NJ. He just released his first 20 inches long,” writes Kate. formed in Oregon State University’s for string quartet, to be performed at CD, Super Marimba, a unique proj- Music à la Carte concert series in the college in February 2006. ect for acoustic marimba with delay An andante.com review described January, in a program of Bach, Vivaldi, pedals and looping machines. Payton pianist Marilyn Nonken (BM ’92) Purcell, and Scarlatti. Janet is a vocal Fred Krug (BM ’99) and his fel- continues to perform with fellow as “one of the foremost musicians music instructor at OSU. low teachers at the Woodbury (CT) Eastman alums in Alarm Will Sound, currently championing the contem- Guitar Studio were the subject of an and will spend summer 2005 study- porary repertoire,” adding that her The annual Figure Show at Lynden article in the November 11 Litchfield ing tabla with Pandit Sharda Sahai October 30 recital in Milwaukee Gallery (Elizabethtown, PA) on County Times. The article described (see www.paytonmacdonald.com). “lived up to her reputation.” Marilyn February 11 featured classic nudes the studio, founded early in 2004, as played Tristan Murail’s Les Travaux in various media, chocolates, cham- a place “where the teaching philoso- Baritone Thomas Meglioranza et les jours; Michael Finnissey’s pagne—and music from Break City, phy is more Sgt. Pepper than drill (MM ’95) sang Schubert’s Winterreise Verdi Transcription no. XXII, “I Vespri a jazz quintet directed by Brandon sergeant.” It already has almost 100 cycle at St. Vincent College, Siciliani”; Echoes’ White Veil, by her Hollinger (BM ’97). students of all ages and skill levels. Latrobe, PA. He was a 2003 win- husband Jason Eckhardt; and Ives’ ner of the “Franz Schubert and “Concord” Sonata. Chris Jentsch (MM ’93) and his Trumpeter Tage Larsen (MM ’93) Music of Modernity” International Jentsch Group Large gave the first played a guest recital at Truman Competition in Graz, Austria. On November 16, 2004, Robert performance of Chris’s Brooklyn Suite State University in Kirksville, MO in Paterson’s (BM ’95) Sextet had its for large jazz orchestra on February February. He has been fourth/utility The Hobart and William Smith New York premiere at Merkin Concert 27 in Manhattan. The band includes trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Colleges Chorale performed a new Hall. In April, American Modern Eastman’s Dan Willis (reeds), Jon Orchestra since 2002, and previously work with guitarist Kenneth Meyer Ensemble presented all-Paterson con- Owens (BM ’80) and Jon Sneider played with the U.S. Marine Band (MM ’96, DMA ’00) on its 2004 certs at Tenri Cultural Instutue of New (trumpets), and Kurtis Pivert and the St. Louis Symphony. spring tour. York and Sarah Lawrence College; his (MM ’92, trombone), as well as Quintet of the Americas was premiered Chris on guitar. Pianist Kwiran Lee (MM ’97, Robert Moody (MM ’91) was at Merkin Hall on April 19. DMA ’03) performed a lunchtime recently named music director of Clarinetist Melissa Johnson-Lander recital of Mozart and Brahms sona- the Winston-Salem (NC) Symphony Eric Plutz (MM ’91) was named (BM ’95) returned to her native tas with violinist Jan Tawroszewicz Orchestra. He was previously resident principal University organist at southeastern Wisconsin this spring in April 2004 in Christchurch, New conductor of the Phoenix Symphony. Princeton University, and played his on a tour with the U.S. Army Field Zealand. Reviewer David Sell called first Sunday in the University Chapel Band and Soldiers’ Chorus. Melissa, it “a brilliant concert.” Andre Myers (BM ’96) recently on February 6. Eric was organist and who performed in the band for seven concluded a year as Composer-in- director of music at the Church of years, will leave the Army this sum- Organist and pianist Peter Lewis Residence with the Plymouth (MI) the Epiphany, Washington, DC, mer to have a baby; she’ll continue (BM ’90) was joined by “artistic Symphony Orchestra’s CLASSical since 1995. to give lessons and perform in the whistler” Hans Martin Werner for music outreach program, complet- Washington, DC and Baltimore areas. a January concert at the United ing the PSO’s first commission: an David Pope (MM ’97) and his fam- Church of Marco Island (FL). Peter adaptation for narrator and orches- ily welcomed baby Maya Skye to the Kari (BM and BA ’99) and John accompanied Werner in pieces by tra of Holling C. Holling’s classical world on March 29, 2004. Kaefer (BM ’99) write: “We pur- Bach and John Baston as well as pop- children’s book, Paddle-to-the-Sea. chased our first home in 2004 and ular songs; on his own, Peter played The piece premiered in March 2005 Debbie Rohwer (MM ’94) pre- are really enjoying South Orange. works by Bach and Lübeck. before an audience of fourth graders, sented “Improving Instruction Based

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Project number: 2004013 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2005 Draft: Web Date: July 5, 2005 on Research on Adult Learners: Can director at Michillinda Presbyterian Old Dogs Learn New Tricks?” at Church and a staff organist at the The Music and Lifelong Learning Crystal Cathedral; Marija is organ- �� Symposium, held April 14-16 at the ist at Grace Episcopal Church in University of Wisconsin at Madison. Glendora. They frequently perform solo and joint recitals in California, �� Harpsichordist Kraig Scott (MA ’93, Nevada, and Europe. Last summer DMA ’93) was one of several musi- they performed in the Cathedral of cians taking part in the premiere of a Dubrovnik, and were featured on �� new play, The Coachmaker’s Legacy, in Croatian TV and radio. In January Spokane, WA in January. The play, by 2006, they take on Fifth Avenue, �� Sandra Hosking, tells of six genera- NYC, with back-to-back recitals at St. tions of a royal coachmaking family Patrick’s Cathedral and St. Thomas �� whose descendants leave the respected Episcopal Church. They also have family trade to become musicians. The more than 50 private piano students. music ranged from the Renaissance Lawrence also works as an organ �� through the time of Mozart. technician, and was involved in the building and tonal finishing of the �� The Millennium Collective, an Walt Disney Concert Hall organ in improvisation-based group consisting Los Angeles. �� of Eastman alums Peter Silberman �� (MA ’96) and Anton Machleder Coming soon to an orchestra �� (DMA ’01), and students Jason Titus near you: Rainbow Body by Chris and Colin Tribby, performed in Theofanidis (MM ’92), which was �� March at the UR Interfaith Chapel. the most performed piece by a living Peter and Anton are the remaining composer by American orchestras in �� original members of the Collective, the 2004¬2005 season. As previously which started in 1999. reported in Notes, Rainbow Body won �� Masterprize 2003 and was recorded Greg Smith (BM ’97) was nomi- by the Atlanta Symphony and Robert �� nated for a 2004 Emmy Award for Spano—who introduced Theofanidis’ �� Outstanding Sound Editing for Non- choral-orchestral work “The music � Fiction Programming for his work of our first meeting” in May and � �� on a PBS American Masters program, recorded it for Telarc. Chris was pro- �� Judy Garland: By Myself. Greg cur- filed in the May/June Symphony mag- �� rently resides in New York with his azine. To hear a bit of Rainbow Body, wife of almost one year, Katie Wong. and many other excerpts from Chris’s �� music, visit www.theofanidis.com. Mariusz Smolij (DMA ’99) led the �� Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra in Peter Throm (BM ’90) was pro- its United States debut in Trenton filed in the March 2 Cincinnati Post, �� (NJ) in April. On the program was in his dual roles as the Cincinnati �� another American premiere, of Symphony Orchestra’s Pops Manager Wojciech Kilar’s Mass for Peace. and manager of government relations. �� Pipedreams Live!, a special edition of Kiri Tollaksen (BM ’92) very hap- �� the popular NPR organ-music show pily married Ronald Gaynier on given at Meyerson Symphony Center September 19, 2004. They met in a in Dallas, included two performances theatrical improvisation class in 2001 by Damin Spritzer (MM ’99), of Joel in Ann Arbor, MI. Kiri maintains Martinson ‘s Last Trumpet and Gerald a private teaching studio, and fre- Near’s Passacaglia—both “elegantly quently performs trumpet and cor- assured,” according to the Dallas netto. Her 2004 highlights include Morning News. master classes, concerts, 2 CDs, and a featured article in the June 2004 Lawrence Tudor Strohm (BM ’98) Journal of the International Trumpet currently lives in Pasadena, CA, with Guild (see www.KiriTollaksen.com). his wife, Marija Loncar Strohm. Both of them received their MMs Michelle (Guadagnino) Urzynicok in 2003 from the Thornton School (BM ’94) and her husband Frank of Music at the University of South announce the birth of their daugh- California, Los Angeles, in the stu- ter, Anne-Katrin, on April 5, 2005. dio of Dr. Ladd Thomas, and are Michelle has been a clarinet player active organists in the greater Los in “The President’s Own” U.S. Angeles area. Lawrence is music CONTINUED ON PAGE 32

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 31 Shreveport Symphony and Texarkana Marine Band since 2000, and was Regional Chorale featured two recent recently appointed to the position of Eastman graduates: mezzo-soprano E-flat clarinet. Alta Boover (MM ’02) and baritone Oliver Henderson (MM ’03). Sachiko Watanabe (BM ’99, MM ’02) married Justin Endo on A recital by guitarist Aaron Brock December 19, 2004 in Omaha, NE. (DMA ’03) and flutist Stephen Tam Sachiko taught violin at the Omaha was broadcast on CBC Radio Two’s Conservatory of Music, but the cou- Young Artist Series on December 5. ple moved to Madison, WI. The duo played pieces by J.S. Bach, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Piazzolla, and Silagh White (DMA ’97) was Bartók. In March, Aaron won first recently hired by Lehigh University prize in the Allentown Symphony’s (PA) to become the first Director of Schadt String Competition; the prize ArtsLehigh. included $5,000 and a 2005¬06 performance date with the orchestra for Showing off Richard Wyman (BM ’92) was Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. appointed Assistant Director of the There’s even more to the Eastman Experience than is United States Coast Guard Band in Leah Brockman (BM ’01) writes, contained in Notes! Each month, the “Eastman Showcase” October 2004. He had been play- “After playing a season (2002¬03) section of our website shines a light on a different ing baritone saxophone in the Band as principal horn with the South since 1998. Dakota Symphony, I returned to my Eastman alumnus, faculty member, or current student. masters degree, having received an Recent showcases include: MM in Horn Performance from the 2000s University of Southern California in • Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins (BM ’93) and friends May 2004. Also that spring I won a make beautiful music for some of New York City’s Daniel Bara (DMA ’01) conducted position in China. I’m now living and homeless the combined choirs of St. Mary’s working there. I’m the principal horn Episcopal and First Presbyterian of the Shenzen Symphony Orchestra • Important premieres for composer Kevin Puts Churches, Kinston, NC, in Vivaldi’s in Shenzhen, China—just north of (BM ’94, DMA ’99) Gloria in December. Daniel is direc- Hong Kong.” • Saxophonist Shirantha Beddage raises money tor of choral activities and instructor for new homes for Sri Lankan of conducting and choral literature The Hyperion String Quartet—vio- at East Carolina University. linists Amanda Brown (BM ’02) and tsunami victims her sister Rachel Brown Englander, • Pianist Tom Rosenkranz (MM ’01) Nathaniel Bartlett (BM ’00) gave violist Jamie Arrowsmith and cellist brings American tunes to a solo marimba recital at Boston’s Jonathan Brin (both BM ’02)—won Tunisia — and takes something Longy School, including the local the Coleman-Barstow Award at the premiere of Eastman faculty com- 58th Annual Coleman Chamber valuable away poser Allan Schindler’s Precipice. Ensemble Competition in April 2004. • It takes five to QuinTango, and Nathaniel studied at London’s Royal The Quartet will be the young artist pianist Jeffery Watson (MM ’88) Academy of Music last year. quartet-in-residence at Colorado’s is one of them Watson Bravo! Music Festival in July. Pianist David Berry (BM ’04) cur- There are several earlier showcases, and the rently studying at Juilliard, returned Jeffrey Brown (MM ’01, DMA ’04) site is updated each month, so keep visiting to his hometown of Syracuse, NY in is Director of Keyboard Studies at March for a recital at The Redhouse Christopher Newport University in www.rochester.edu/Eastman/experience/showcase.php including music of Haydn, Chopin, Newport News, VA. Recent engage- (and reading Notes, of course). Ravel, and George Walker (DMA ’56 ments include the world premiere of and ’57). the Concerto for Piano and Winds by Brian Hulse at the Kennedy Center Trumpeter Eric Biondo (BM ’00) in April, and a faculty position as has performed with the Monkees, pianist and vocal coach at La Scuola Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, and Italia’s summer opera festival in Teo Macero’s Big Band—but he Urbania, Italy. returned to his hometown of Buffalo, NY in April, helming his avant-garde Janinah Burnett (MM ’02) was jazz/pop boy band Beyondo. The Violetta in the National Lyric Buffalo News called Eric “decidedly Opera production of La Traviata Zappa-esque … raucous, funny, and this spring. Janinah is also featured bizarrely musical.” on the “Future Voices” page of the Afrocentric Voices website, A November 2004 performance of devoted to African Americans in Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass by the classical music.

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Pianist Lisa Campi (DMA ’02) in New London, CT. The concert, joined her fellow Fort Lewis College conducted by Lt. Kenneth Megan (CO) faculty member, violinist (BM ’73), included a piece familiar Mikylah Myers McTeer, in a January to many Eastman wind students: recital that included sonatas by Fauré Howard Hanson’s Dies Natalis. In and Bartók. February, Megan also appeared in a concert by the Coast Guard Eric Dudley (BM ’01) led his first con- Chamber Players. cert as Cincinnati Youth Symphony Orchestra director in December, in Violinist Simeon “Moni” Simeonov an “old school” program of short (BM ’04) was heard as soloist in the pieces and symphonic movements Lisa Dixon (BM ’03, left) and Rachel Roberts Hermanson (BM ’03, “Winter” Concerto from Vivaldi’s by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, center) — both alumni of the Arts Leadership Program — and Vanessa Four Seasons in a holiday concert Wagner, and Bizet. Before the concert, Rose (BM ’98, right) were awarded three of the five fellowships at the Idyllwild (CA) Arts Academy Eric was profiled in the Cincinnati Post, in the American Symphony Orchestra League’s (ASOL) Orchestra in December. citing Eastman Musica Nova director Brad Lubman as his main influence Management Fellowship Program. Lisa held a 2004¬05 ALP Post Brunilda Soto (BM ’00) is finishing in becoming a conductor. Graduate internship with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Artistic her MM in voice at the University Operations and Education; Rachel is Artistic & Production Assistant of Miami. Out of 1000 auditioners, High-profile engagements in 2005 for the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Vanessa was most recently in Brunilda was among 40 singers cho- for tenor Anthony Dean Griffey sen to compete in Placido Domingo’s (MM ’01) include Schoenberg’s the Development Department of the ASOL. Operalia in Madrid, Spain, from June Gurrelieder with Esa-Pekka Salonen 3 to 11. and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and selections from Gershwin’s Porgy University in Bangkok. Sean also Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with and Bess arranged by Heifetz. taught at the South East Asia Youth This spring, Sara Traficante Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Orchestra and Wind Ensemble con- (BM ’02) taught more than 130 Francisco Symphony, and the title Ilan Levin (MM ’01) was recently ference in October, and welcomed Grade 5 and 6 students at Elmdale role of Britten’s Peter Grimes in his hired as Visiting Professor of Piano Professor John Marcellus, who came Public School the basics of play- Santa Fe Opera debut this summer. at Bucknell University (PA). to the conference as a soloist. ing the flute in four lessons, in a program sponsored by Ottawa’s Amelia Hollander (BM ’01) moved In May 2000, Astrid Lindell Gregory Ristow (MA, MM ’04) has Suzuki Music School. The students to Tel Aviv in February to join the (MM ’02) won an audition for the finished his first year as music direc- rewarded her by playing a solid ren- Israel Contemporary String Quartet. cello section of the Swedish Radio tor of Montgomery College (OH). dition of “Hot Cross Buns” at the “We’re planning a spring 2006 U.S. Orchestra. He teaches chamber choir, concert school assembly. tour, but don’t have our website up choir, music theory, and ear training. yet, so stay tuned. I miss my Eastman Pianist Nathanael May (MM ’01) is In the fall he will direct the new col- Elissa Wagman (MM ’04) stud- family! If there’s anyone out there in one of the directors of, and perform- lege-community choir. ied violin in the studio of Charles this area, please get in touch.” ers in, the Cortona Contemporary Castleman, but this year she held a Music Festival, June 18-25 in Lots of good news from Philip Ross fellowship in the journalism depart- In April, Nicole Kenley (MM ’00) Cortona, Italy. The festival features (BM ’00): “After playing English ment of Northwestern University, sang the soprano lead in the pre- new music for the combination of horn in the Alabama Symphony and had her first professional review miere of the opera Larkspur, at violin, guitar, and piano, along with Orchestra for two seasons, I began published in the Chicago Tribune on the restored Paramount Theatre master classes and workshops. designing and manufacturing EH March 21. in Abilene, TX. The opera’s libret- bocals through my father’s oboe tist (and Nicole’s husband), Edward Irina Mueller (BM ’03, MM ’04) business. They are being played in Katherine Wilcox (BM ’02) Crowell, sang the tenor lead in this is enrolled in the Soloist’s groups including the Chicago and was featured in a March 2 story of Hermon and Maye Gregory, Diploma Program at the Staatliche Atlanta Symphonies. I can’t keep Wall Street Journal article about the a minister and his wife who estab- Hochschule für Musik, Trossingen, up with the demand! I was recently United States Military Academy lished the city of Odessa, TX dur- Germany. In May, she took part in appointed second oboist of the St. Band, the oldest active band in the ing the depression. Nicole is artistic all-Brahms concerts in Romania with Louis Symphony. Fortunately for me, U.S. Army. Katherine is in her third director of Lakehouse Opera of the Freiburg Student Orchestra, and the oboe auditions took place before year playing oboe and English horn Houston (www.lakehouseopera.com), played the Brahms Violin Concerto the lockout! I begin work next sea- in the band and the West Point which jointly presented Larkspur in Freiburg on May 7. son in September, assuming manage- Woodwind Quintet. with Abilene Collegiate Opera. ment and the players agree on a new In January, J. Christopher Pardini contract by then! I got engaged in Lee Wright (BM ’03) is the admin- Violinist William Knuth (BM ’04), (MM ’00) joined the staff of Shadyside October to an amazing girl. Believe istrator of Downtown Arts Link, the a Fulbright Grant winner, contin- Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA, it or not, she’s an oboist also. I know, new umbrella organization for music ues to study in Vienna. He has per- as Director of Music and Organist. I’m a huge dork. We got married May and arts at Rochester’s Downtown formed at the German Fulbright Christopher had been Senior Organist 29 aboard a yacht on Table Rock Lake United Presbyterian Church. Under Conference and at the 100th birth- of the Crystal Cathedral, Garden in the Missouri Ozarks!!!” Lee’s direction, Arts Link launched day commemoration of Senator Grove, CA since 1998. three concert series this spring: Arts William Fulbright, and gave a recital Musician First Class Megan Sesma and Lunch; Eastman Artists; and in Vienna’s Bösendorfer Saal on June Sean Scott Reed (DMA ’04) moved (BA, BM ’02) was harp soloist in a Evening Spotlight. Not surprisingly, 16, performing sonatas by Beethoven to Thailand in October, where he holiday concert by the United States Eastman students, alumni, and faculty and Copland, Schoenberg’s Phantasie, is Trombone Instructor at Mahidol Coast Guard Band in December members are generously represented!

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Antonova Goluses McHugh Krysa At the January 2005 faculty meeting, Fox, earned a Parents’ Choice Award the following faculty members were from the Parents’ Choice Foundation. recognized for ten years of service: The book and accompanying CD, not Assistant Professor of Piano Natalya to mention stuffed toys of “Mozart Antonova; Assistant Professor of Mouse” and “Beethoven Bear,” are Guitar Nicholas Goluses; Assistant suitable for children aged 4¬6. Professor of Humanities Ernestine McHugh; and Professor of Violin This spring, Instructor of Musicology Oleh Krysa. Clay Greenberg sang one of the three solo parts in Michael Gordon’s Assistant Professor of Chamber Van Gogh at Merkin Hall in New John Graham Music and Accompanying Sylvie York, and conducted Schoenberg’s Beaudette (DMA ’93) and soprano Pierrot Lunaire at New Music Festival Eileen Strempel (BM ’88) pre- Heidelberg. Clay was invited to be a miered a new song cycle, Moments of Visiting Artist for the Asian Studies Change, by Elisenda Fàbregas (poems Department at Cornell University by Margaret Atwood), in April at the during 2005¬2006. “There is no division here” Syracuse New Music Society. Tracks from their ﬁrst recording, With All Professor Emeritus of Conducting At the 2004 Convocation, Professor of Viola John My Soul, were included in the com- Donald Hunsberger took up the Graham was presented with the University’s Eisenhart panion CD to the New Historical baton as guest conductor for two Award for Excellence in Teaching. This brief excerpt Anthology of Music by Women (Indiana open rehearsals and a concert by from a recent interview with Graham, by his former stu- University Press, 2004). Sylvie and the United States Coast Guard violinist Pia Liptak (DMA ’92) Band, April 8¬10, New London, dent, Laura Rooney, printed in the February 2005 issue received a Chapin Grant from the CT. The program included music of American String Teacher, gives some idea why. New York State Music Teachers by Mendelssohn, Bach, Vaughan Association supporting their research Williams, Shostakovich, and (of In partnership with his performing, Graham has been on Canadian music for violin and course) Sousa. active as a teacher since his days with the Beaux Arts piano. They are also preparing a CD Quartet. Teaching and performing is a balance that works of Danish, Canadian, and American In December 2004, Professor of music for violin and piano. Violin Oleh Krysa observed what well for him. Many performers feel a distinction, even a would have been the 70th birthday division, between the two, but a pivotal experience in Professor Emeritus of Composition of the contemporary Russian com- 1983 of teaching a semester in Beijing, China conﬁrmed Warren Benson sends word of a new poser Alfred Schnittke (1934¬1998), to Graham his identity as a teacher. “It was a very emo- Bio-Bibliography of Composer Warren who was a friend and personal hero Benson, by Alan D. Wagner (Edwin of his. Other Eastman faculty mem- tional experience, to have people so hungry for it. And Mellen Press). Warren’s musical man- bers joined Krysa for a Kilbourn that experience, of being a teacher on that fundamental uscripts were recently deposited in the Hall concert including Schnittke’s level, turned it for me, and I realized there is no division Archive of the Sibley Music Library. Violin Sonata no. 2, String Trio, and here. I’m as much a teacher as I am a performer. Concerto for Three. Professor of Violin Charles Castle- “Ever since I started teaching, it would immediately man is having a very busy year. Assistant Professor of Saxophone funnel back into playing … and then there’s the whole Starting with an unaccompanied Chien-Kwan Lin made his Carnegie all-Bach concert in Kilbourn Hall on recital debut on March 5 at Weill human issue of having an outlet for verbal articulation. February 6, he performed and taught Recital Hall, sponsored by the To be able to talk to someone and transmit your enthu- in Vienna, the University of Iowa, Formosa Chamber Music Society. siasms, to participate in the dynamic of the give-and- Melbourne, Wellington (NZ), and will With his wife, Pi-Lin Ni, at the take between you and the student — I have gained this play the Brahms Double Concerto piano, Chien-Kwan played music of with cellist Nathaniel Rosen in Japan Debussy, Berio, and David Maslanka, through teaching.” in October. (See also p. 35.) as well as the premiere of Shih-Hiu Chen’s Plum Blossoms. ➤ Reprinted with permission from American String Classroom Music for Little Mozarts Teacher, Volume 55, Number 1, February 2005. Laura (Alfred Publishing), a new book for Professor of Musicology Ralph teaching musical fundamentals to Locke was quoted in a BBC Radio Rooney is ABD towards a DMA degree in Music Educa- small children by Eisenhart Professor feature on people who commission tion from Eastman. of Music Education Donna Brink contemporary compositions with

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their own money. “It’s important to Assistant Professor of Musicology realize,” he said, “individual patrons Martin Scherzinger presented at Eastman faculty on CD tend to be great music lovers and the recent Festival of African Dance often have very well-established Symposium at Tufts University. Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media Bill taste; posterity decides that their Martin spoke on the music of the Dobbins joined bassist John Goldsby and drummer Peter taste is often pretty reliable.” Zimbabwean mbira; he also directs Erskine for the trio album Cologne (Fuzzy Music), which Eastman’s mbira ensemble, which includes a couple of standards (including “Danny Boy”) Impressing The New York Times’ gave its first public concert last May. Anthony Tommasini is not eas- but is mostly originals. AllAboutJazz.com called the trio ily done, but Assistant Professor of Instructor of guitar Bob Sneider “a meeting of equals,” and praised Dobbins’ inventiveness Conducting Brad Lubman did it in was profiled in the Guelph, Ontario, and rich sense of harmonization. March, when he subbed at very short Mercury, before making his Canadian notice for Oliver Knussen at a London debut at Manhattan’s in that city. Pianist and Assistant Professor Sinfonietta concert in Carnegie Hall’s Bob recalled his days playing with of Chamber Music Sylvie Zankel Hall. Brad arrived in New Chuck Mangione (BM ‘63) and York with 30 minutes to study Charles praised his all-Canadian backup Beaudette (DMA ’93) teamed up Wuorinen’s 25-minute piece Cyclops band: “The great thing about jazz is with soprano Eileen Strempel before its first rehearsal. Marveling that no matter where you’re from … (BM ’88) for a recently released at his mastery of a difficult program, there is a common vocabulary.” collection of three song cycles Tommasini ended his rave review “All hail Brad Lubman!” Brad also heard In December 2004, Professor Emerita by Libby Larsen entitled Love the premiere of his Quartet no. 2 for of Musicology Kerala Snyder visited Lies Bleeding (Centaur 2666). It includes the premiere Strings and CD at a Musica Nova con- the town of Kollam (formerly Quilon), recording of Try Me, Good King, and the first recording cert on February 2. India, where she was born and which with piano of Sonnets from the Portuguese. American she had not seen for 63 years. Her Part-time instructor of clarinet Jon return was the subject of an article in Record Guide enjoyed the songs and the performances, Manasse recently appeared with TheHindu.com, the online version of calling Strempel’s voice “rich and brilliant” and noting that the Evansville (IL) Philharmonic India’s National Newspaper. Beaudette “brings immense oomph and ease to her part.” Orchestra as soloist in the Copland Concerto. Jon is also principal clari- In April, Professor of Trumpet James The Ying Quartet has included works by three Eastman netist of the American Ballet Theatre Thompson appeared as one of the alumni on its new LifeMusic CD (Quartz 2003), inspired by Orchestra, plays in the Mostly soloists in Stephen Paulus’ Concerto the Quartet’s series of commissions for music about the Mozart Festival Orchestra, and will for Two Trumpets with the New be heard on the soundtrack of the Bedford (MA) Symphony Orchestra; complexity of American life. Kevin Puts’ Dark Vigil was movie version of Mel Brooks’ The the other soloist was NBSO principal written after the Columbine High School shootings; Carter Producers, due out at Christmastime. Stephen Banzaert. Pann’s Love Letters is inspired by the “Intimate Letters” quartet of Janácek; and Michael Torke’s Corner in Manhat- tan evokes just that — a morning, noon, and night of activ- ity just outside his apartment. The fourth piece is Paquito D’Rivera’s Village Street Quartet (Greenwich Village, that is, reflected in multiethnic musical influences). Gramophone praised the music and the Yings’ “exemplary performances.”

The Yings recently joined the Turtle Island String Quartet on 4+four (Telarc 80630). The program includes music by John Lennon, Oliver Nelson, and TISQ members Mark Summer, David Balakrishnian, and Evan Price, and a string arrangement of the original “classical jazz” piece, Milhaud’s La creation du monde. The two quartets, who have worked together in the past, got along swimmingly Professor of Piano Nelita True gives recitals “just enough times a year in the recording sessions at Bard College; see the March to keep me satisfied.” One took place in March at Rochester Institute 2005 issue of Strings. of Technology. She was interviewed beforehand by the Democrat and Chronicle’s John Pitcher, who quoted current Piano Department Charles Castleman is heard on a new Music & Arts CD chair Douglas Humpherys: “Nelita True has been my great inspiration (1164), a tribute to the Hungarian violinist-composer Jeno … every time I give a lesson, I hear her voice resonate in my inner Hubay (1858–1937). He plays two pieces with the Eastman ear.” Nelita’s tremendous standing among her peers was certified Chamber Orchestra under Mendi Rodan, and keeps some this year, when she received the National Association of Keyboard excellent fiddling company: other CD tracks include Pedagogy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. It will be presented at the historic recordings by Joseph Szigeti, Emil Telmányi, 2005 NAKP Convention in Chicago this August. Jelly D’Arányi, and Hubay himself.

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Eastman students did their share to Cheung, Jennifer Volmer, and “Improvisation and Adult Learners” Freshman composition major raise money for relief efforts after Sunny Yang), coached by John at the Music and Lifelong Learning Hiroyuki Sakurai’s Sonata for the South Indian tsunami disaster of Graham; and Reverie Winds (Leslie Symposium, April 14¬16 at the Violin and Piano won first place in December 2004. In February, jazz Skolnik, Jennifer Guhl, Kate Denny, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Chamber Music Rochester’s first saxophonist Shirantha Beddage Lynn Grossman, and Andrew Young Composer’s Competition. The returned to his hometown of North Stephenson), coached by Kenneth Brad DeRoche, DMA candidate in sonata was premiered on December Bay, Ontario, to give a concert in sup- Grant. Student groups prepared pro- guitar, played a recital at his alma 12 at the Memorial Art Gallery by port of Sri Lanka Lions Club home- grams and auditioned on “Music for mater, Central Michigan University, violinist Shannon Nance (BM ’92, building projects. Also in February, All Day,” March 22, 2005 (see p. 4). in January. The program included MM ’94) and Eastman faculty mem- tenor Kevin Park and soprano Halley music of the 19th century guitarist ber Elinor Freer. Gilbert, both students of Robert A Christmas Eve concert in Carnegie Julian Arcas, the subject of Brad’s McIver, sang in a benefit recital at Hall by the New York String doctoral studies. Soprano Erica Schuller, a stu- Rochester’s Third Presbyterian Church. Orchestra, Jaime Laredo, conduc- dent of Kathryn Cowdrick, won And on March 19, students from tor, included Eastman students Ari Carl DuPont, Jr., a junior voice the Helen Boatwright Award in the Eastman’s Community Music School Streisfeld and Jihyun Yun, violinists, student of Robert Swensen, was Syracuse Civic Morning Musicals took part in Teens for Tsunami Relief at and David Gerstein, cellist. With the winner of the 2005 Links Vocal Competition in November Rochester’s Hochstein Performance soloist Gil Shaham, the orchestra Scholarship and William Warfield at Syracuse University. One of the Hall, benefiting the Red Cross. played pieces of Bach, Dvorˇàk, Saint- Scholarship. Carl was profiled in judges was alumnus Carl Johengen Saëns, and Wagner. the April 22 edition of the Rochester (DMA ’02). The Rochester Philharmonic Democrat and Chronicle. Orchestra hosted six Eastman Good guitar news! In February, Doctoral student Brian Shaw won students in its Rising Stars con- undergraduates Justin Zamm and Backbeat lovers found advocates in second place and a $5000 prize in cert on February 6 in the Eastman Adam Larrison took first and third senior percussion majors Ian Fry the Ellsworth Smith International Theatre: pianist Iejin Rhee played prize, respectively, in the D’Addario and Michael Chiavaro, sponsors of Trumpet Solo Competition, held Rachmaninoff’s Concerto no. 1; mezzo- Classical Guitar Competition at Backbeat Awareness Week, which in November at the University soprano Margaret Gawrysiak sang Ithaca College. In November 2004, occurred in various ESM and non- of Alabama at Birmingham and an aria from Verdi’s Trovatore, and doctoral students Ben Gateno and ESM venues in February. “We’re sponsored by the International soprano Mari-Yan Pringle one from Corey Harvin received first prize as a showing we can play all the styles Trumpet Guild. Puccini’s Turandot; oboist Andrea guitar duo in the Boston Classical gui- well and really have passion for it Overturf played the Mozart Concerto; tar Society Competition. This spring, and not just be lame about it,” said Deirdre “Flippy” White was Tatiana Vassillieva played Prokofiev’s Ben received a Belgian-American Fry in Rochester’s City Newspaper. soloist in the first performance Piano Concerto no. 3; and the RPO Foundation Grant of $20,000. of Richard D. Lake’s Concerto for performed Daniel Pesca’s Apollonian Lindsay O’Neil, sophomore voice stu- Harp, Percussion, and Strings by the Hymns and Dances. All were con- Jocelyn Crawford, student of Peter dent of Constance Haas, was crowned Peabody Conservatory Camerata in ducted by Jeff Tyzik (BM ’73, MM ’77). Kurau, was appointed second horn Miss Greater Rochester 2005 in November 2004. of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra January. The contest, sponsored by the This year’s winners of the (Ithaca), playing her first concert on Rotary, is an official preliminary of the Pianist Hong Xu, student of “Developing and Performing Educa- February 12, 2005. Miss America scholarship pageants. Douglas Humpherys, was chosen as tion Programs with Young Audiences Lindsay will represent Rochester at Eastman’s recitalist in the Kennedy Rochester” are the Matryoshka William Dabback, PhD candidate the Miss New York Pageant this sum- Center’s Conservatory Project, held String Quartet (Grace Lee, Kitty in music education, read a paper on mer in Watertown, NY. on May 24.

Outgoing—and incoming

In April, Eastman Ambassadors in the Class of 2005 said goodbye, while welcoming new Ambassadors into the fold. Eastman Ambassadors, guided by Alumni Rela- tions Director Christine Corrado and Assistant Dean for Student Life Ben Ojala, put their best faces forward throughout the school year, helping at Alumni and Fam- ily Weekends, giving tours, and much more. Pictured left to right are: Julie Barnes BM ’05 (harp), Mary Counts BM ’06 (harp), Tom Vendafreddo BM ’08 (voice), Elli Die- ner BM ’05 (ﬂute), J. Greg Miller BM ’06 (horn), Jeff Goble BM ’07 (voice), Jeff Willy BM ’05 (percussion), Kathryn Withers BM ’05 (voice), Dominique Paliotta BM ’05 (harp), Chris Lyons BM ’05 (voice), Elizabeth Munch BM ’08 (harp), Gillian Bell BM ’05 (voice), Diana Owens BM ’05 (oboe).

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Each year, Eastman observes the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther (BM ’73), and backed by a unison groove provided by 19 student King, Jr., with a public performance of some kind in Kilbourn Hall. and faculty percussionists — including Tribby himself, John Beck, This year it was a new work by an Eastman student, percussionist Ruth Cahn, Rich Thompson, and Howard Potter. The combination Colin Tribby’s Let Freedom Ring. The piece, inspired by Max of inspiring speech and driving rhythm was galvanic, underlining Roach’s album “The Dream,” consisted of excerpts from King’s King’s warning against complacency and evocation of “the ﬁerce 1963 “I have a dream” speech, read by the Reverend Alvin Parris urgency of now.”

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