Sound Investment A Report from DePaul University School of Music10 2009–10 letter from the dean Contents september, 2010 Donald E. Casey Dean of the School of Music Of Note: 2009-2010 Highlights 4-5 Dear Friend of our School of Music, Faculty News 6-9 It has taken us 98 years to get here. Ninety-eight years to have built the strength and New Faculty Members reputation of the DePaul School of Music to where it can confidently stand toe-to-toe Applause with the most celebrated schools in the country, and yet we believe that our best years Community Music Division are still to come. Master Classes This past year has been wonderful in almost every way, including hundreds of exciting performances, some stellar recordings, several noteworthy collaborations, and a vast and Student News 10-11 impressive array of student accomplishment in virtually every program. We hope you’ll Honorary Degree Recipient, Samuel Magad come to campus often to hear for yourself the music that we are making here. Our School remains a very special place—one that is at once ambitious and humane—and as we strive Class Notes 12-13 to serve every student to the best of their and our ability, we also hope to make you, our alumni and patrons, proud of what we are creating here. Advancement Report 14-15 On the near horizon are two milestones. First, we’ll be celebrating our centennial in 2009-10 2012-2013 with a grand array of commissions and special events culminating in a jubilee 2010 Spring Concert & Gala 16-17 performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the world premiere of a new orchestral overture by Augusta Read Thomas in Orchestra Hall in May of 2013. You’ll want to be Donors for 2009-10 18-23 there for that, we trust. And, starting in 2012, the University will begin construction of all new superb and purpose-driven facilities for the school right here in Lincoln Park, helping Alumni & Friends to ensure the vitality of this wonderful place for the next century or more! There will be Cortelyou Heritage Society some ribbons to cut and some champagne to drink, but also more funds to raise. We hope Endowments you’ll be with us on each step. Most significantly, we celebrate our friends—those who are helping us to yet better serve the next generation of Chicago’s musicians and thereby helping to ensure the strength of our art forms. We are always grateful for what you have done, as we will be for what you may yet do. From all the students, staff, and faculty of DePaul School of Music – thank you. Donald E. Casey, Dean Judy Bundra, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Robert Krueger, Associate Dean for Administration sound investment editors: Rita Mannelli, Donald E. Casey, Dean Pat Mikos, Stephanie Oberhausen and Elizabeth Soete DePaul University School of Music DePaul University School of Music 804 West Belden Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60614 music.depaul.edu 3 1 1 Of Note for various middle and high school groups that 1. Winter Study Abroad to 4. Stan Kenton Project are in the Chicago area. This year our faculty Budapest and Vienna The company that worked with students from Winnipeg, Manitoba; owns the rights to Minnesota; North and South Dakota; Nebraska; In December 2009, 13 School of Music students acclaimed jazz pianist, Illinois; Ohio; Michigan; and California. Not and faculty members Clayton Parr, Cathy Ann composer and ar- only do the high school students benefit from the Elias, Linda Hirt and Alan Salzenstein took a ranger Stan Kenton’s expertise of our faculty, these clinics are also an two-week long study abroad trip to Vienna and works engaged the opportunity for our music education students to Budapest. While in Vienna the group toured DePaul Jazz Ensemble gain experience working with different ensembles Mozarthaus, Schönbrunn Palace, and The Vienna to record works by and groups of students. State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper), performed at the the Kenton band and 15 other tunes that have never chapel at Hofburg Palace, and saw productions been recorded. This recording, the second CD on a 8 of Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow. In 8. Summer Workshops 3 double CD release, will include a dozen never before Budapest, highlights included a private tour and released works by the Kenton band. lecture at the Bartok Museum and Archives and In June and July 2009, music educators took part an evening of Hungarian dancing. in Kodály Levels 1 & 3 and Orff Levels 1 & 2 workshops. 2009 marked the 44th year that the 5. DePaul Jazz Ensemble Wins First school offered summertime workshops for teachers 2. Margaret Atwood Comes Annual “Clash of the College Bands” for which the educators received graduate or to Campus and Performs with Ira Sullivan continuing education credit. During the last week 2009-10 of June, 26 music managers from across the country Acclaimed Canadian DePaul Jazz Ensemble, directed by Bob Lark, attended the Music Management and Recruitment author Margaret won the first annual “Clash of the College Bands” Workshops taught by Dean Donald Casey, Associate Highlights Atwood narrated a hosted by AllAboutJazz.com. The “Clash” Deans Judy Bundra and Rob Krueger, and Director theatrical reading from began with 12 big bands from colleges and of Admission Ross Beacraft. The intensive, week- her newest novel, “The universities that were nominated by fans. In the long program covered topics including management 7 Year of the Flood,” at final round, DePaul won 58% of the online vote concepts, planning in the music unit, curriculum, DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre Nov. 6, 2009. The over University of North Texas’ One O’Clock budget, legal issues and external relations. only Midwest performance of her international book Lab Band. The Jazz Ensemble also had the honor tour featured School of Music faculty member Marc of performing with jazz legend Ira Sullivan at a 9. Ethnomusicology Conference Embree and Theatre School senior Loresa Grigsby as weekend full of gigs at the Jazz Showcase in May. characters from the post-apocalyptic novel with an Howard Reich, in the Chicago Tribune wrote that In April, the environmental theme, and a group of School of Music the DePaul band was “…one of the more ferocious School of Music 5 choral singers. The performance attracted nearly units the school has produced in many years.” was pleased to 1,000 people, the largest crowd of the tour. host the Annual Meeting for the 6. Student Center Performances Midwest Chapter 3. Ensemble 20+ Celebrates its On Wednesdays during the fall, winter and of the Society Inaugural Season spring quarters, School of Music small ensembles for Ethnomusicology. Organized around the gave free, noon-time concerts at the Lincoln theme “Ethnomusicologists Working Together,” The School of Music established a new ensemble Park Student Center. Produced by Performing the three day event included presentations of this year – Ensemble 20+. With Michael Lewanski Arts Management students and presented in new research in ethnomusicology, roundtable as conductor, the group focuses on living composers’ collaboration with the Student Center, these discussions with local experts on Music in music and 20th century masterpieces. Comprised of concerts raised awareness for the School of Music Multicultural Education, Presenting World 6 8-25 string, woodwind, brass, keyboard, and percus- among the entire DePaul community. Musics to the Public, and Alternative Careers in sion players, this new group studies and performs Ethnomusicology, and a keynote address “The works from Stravinsky up to the present day. Cultural Politics of Globalized Salsa Dancing in Compositions performed this year included works by 7. Clinics for High School Students Chicago” by Frances Aparicio (The University of Augusta Read Thomas, Stravinsky, Kaaija Saariaho, Illinois at Chicago). Faculty and students from Charles Ives and faculty member Kurt Westerburg. Throughout the school year, School of Music across the Midwest were in attendance. faculty facilitate and teach clinics and workshops 4 DePAUL SCHOOL OF MUSIC Applause Faculty News At the 2009 University Convocation, awards were given to two members of the faculty and staff of the School of Music: Pat Mikos, executive assistant to the dean, Tom Miller, chair of the Department of Lucerne Festival and is a frequent guest with World Music faculty member Kate Brucher received the Ken McHugh Quality Service Professional Studies, received the Spirit of the American Chamber Players. Ms. Sung was co-chaired the symposium “Wind Bands in DePaul School of Faculty Award, given to individuals who have DePaul Award, given to recognize members of chosen by Leonard Slatkin as the recipient of the Cross-Cultural Perspectives” and presented for a enhanced university initiatives by promoting the DePaul community for their leadership and Passamaneck Award, for which she performed at panel on competition at the School of History and collaboration and teamwork to support the service in the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul. Music Welcomes Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Music Hall for the Y Music Accomplishments Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast (UK). institution’s mission. Society Concert Series. A winner of the Aspen She also presented her paper “Music of Empire: John Pianist Aglika Angelova performed several Three New Faculty Music Festival’s Nakamichi Violin Competition, Philip Sousa’s Musical Borderlands” at the annual concerts for the Stradivari Society, playing she has also been awarded other top prizes and meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in with prize-winning cellist Wendy Warner and grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mexico City in November, 2009. Larry Combs was inducted into the West Virginia Musicianship faculty member Gregory Hutter Members violinist Kristof Barati as well as with Grammy- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Music Hall of Fame.