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Javier Alvarez, Composer Samuel Ramey, Bass-Baritone Peter Bagley, Conductor Sandra Rivers, Jay Batzner, Composer Gail Robertson, Euphonium Shawn Bell Quartet Christine Salerno and ZIJI Fred Hersch, Piano and Composer Justin Benavidez, Tuba Mauricio Salguero, Janet Hilton, Clarinet Gene Bertoncini, John Sampen, Saxophone Edith Hines, Baroque Violin Alex Brown, Piano San Francisco Collective Jon Holden, Clarinet Mark Bunce, Composer and Engineer Nina Schumann and Lúis Magalháes, Piano Pat Hughes, Horn Roger Chase, Dan Scott, String Education Specialist Naoko Imafuku, Piano Larry Clark, Conductor Kendrick Scott, Drums JaLaLa Evan Conroy, Bass Trombone Mira Shifrin, Lia Jensen-Abbott, Piano Mike Crotty, Multi-instrumentalist Alan Siebert, Trumpet Mayumi Kanagawa, Violin Vocal Coach and Piano Composer Vera Danchenko-Stern, (Stulberg Silver Medalist) Mark Snyder, Joel Davel, Percussion Jack Stamp, Conductor and Composer Christopher Kantner, Flute The Quincy Davis Project Elizabeth Start, Kontras String Quartet Alissa Deeter, Soprano John Chappell Stowe, Organ and Harpsichord Massimo LaRosa, Trombone Detroit Symphony Orchestra Brass Players Mihai Tetel, Cello Dan Levitin, Neuroscientist Piano Piano Ron DiSalvio, and Cognitive Psychologist Yu-Lien The, Paquito D’Rivera, Clarinet, Saxophone, Walter Thompson, Soundpainter and Composer The Dave Liebman Group and Composer Trollstilt Andrew List, Composer John Duykers, Tenor Dan Trueman, Composer Paul Loesel, Piano and Composer Euclid Quartet Verdehr Trio Donny McCaslin, Saxophone The Fisk Jubilee Singers Lauren Veronie, Euphonium ® Anthony McGill, Clarinet Matthew Fries, Piano Mihoko Watanabe, Flute Miranda Sings! NPR’s From the Top Glenn Welch, Euphonium Deb Moriarty, Piano Cheryl Greene, Soprano John Wojciechowski, Saxophone Orchid Ensemble Groove for Thought Jacqueline Wright, Flute Christopher O’Riley, Piano Gary Hammond, Piano Mialtin Zhezha, Violin Phil Palombi, Stefon Harris, Vibraphone Gail Zugger, Clarinet PEN Trio Raymond Harvey, Piano and Conductor Thomas Zugger, Trombone In 2012–13 we begin to celebrate the 2012 100th anniversary 99 Years and Counting �������������������������������4 New Faculty and Staff ���������������������������� 40

of the School of Music. What’s New...... 24 Faculty News ...... 42 Listed below are the special centennial World Class...... 28 Recent Retirements �������������������������������� 48 Western Wind Quintet – 1967 events featuring our students, faculty, and alumni. Student Achievements �������������������������������32 2011 Honor Roll ...... 50 Numerous guest composers have been commissioned to write new music to commemorate this significant milestone. Please see Alumni News...... 36 Remembering ...... 55 the WMU School of Music website (www.wmich.edu/music) for more details of times and venues. Dear Friends,

• Saturday 6 October (Homecoming game) • Wednesday 20 February During the preparations for this issue of The Perfect Pitch, I recently BRONCO MARCHING BAND DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI SERIES Halftime salute to the School of Music’s Red Sea Pedestrians attended our 658th program of the regular school year—it was the 100th Year 53rd Annual Concerto Concert, our final concert of the spring semester. • March It’s hard to believe we have completed yet another cycle—graduating • Saturday 6 October MERLING TRIO DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI SERIES Featuring a new work by Peter Lewis, students depart and new students begin planning their arrival for the Barbara Lieurance, Piano Guest Composer fall semester.

• Friday 12 October • Friday 15 March and 2012–13 marks the advent of the School of Music’s 100th anniversary. DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI SERIES Saturday 16 March Yes, in 1913 Harper C. Maybee was named the first chairperson of Kate Reid, Jazz Singer and Pianist SCHOOL OF MUSIC & FONTANA CHAMBER ARTS the Department of Music at what was then Western State Normal School. • Wednesday 14 November Stravinsky’s “A Soldier’s Tale” KALAMAZOO LAPTOP ORCHESTRA D. Terry Williams, Director You will notice inside these pages that we have reduced our regular features in order to give you a (KLOrk) & BIRDS ON A WIRE Soovin Kim, Violin comprehensive history of the School of Music in words and pictures. Who better to write this than our Featuring new works by Dan Trueman Featuring a WMU faculty ensemble good friend and colleague Carl Doubleday. He has spent half of these hundred years at the WMU and alumnus John Griffin, Guest Composers • Wednesday 20 March School of Music either as a SEMINAR student, university student, faculty member, or administrator. • Wednesday 30 January WESTERN WIND QUINTET I knew when I asked Carl to do this article that he wouldn’t refuse, and as could be expected, he WESTERN BRASS QUINTET Featuring a new work by Andrew List, attacked this project with his typical focus and passion. We hope you will enjoy having a copy of this Featuring a new work by Pierre Jalbert, Guest Composer Guest Composer history, which demonstrates the unquestionable commitment and dedication of those who precede us. • Wednesday 3 April • Thursday 7 February UNIVERSITY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE As the 100th anniversary begins to unfold we’ll keep you up to speed with the many events designated BIRDS ON A WIRE Featuring a new work by alumnus Dennis to celebrate this important milestone. Carl Ratner, Baritone Soloist DeSantis, Guest Composer Featuring a new work by Robert Patterson, Guest Composer • Sunday 7 April UNIVERSITY CONCERT BAND Best wishes, • Sunday 17 February Featuring a new work by alumnus UNIVERSITY SYMPHONIC BAND Scott Boerma, Guest Composer Featuring a new work by Kathryn Salfelder, Guest Composer David Colson, Director Design by Newhall Klein, Inc . Photo credits: Mark Niskanen, Mary Whalen, Luciano Moreas, WMU Archives & Regional History Collections

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iWESTERN ESTABLISHEDj years 1903 99 and Established in 1903 as a teacher training institution, Western State Normal School began its first regular term on September 27, 1904. “Within two weeks of the opening of the Fall counting Term, a chorus was organized by Miss Martha The First Century of Music Sherwood, the director of the training school.” at Western Michigan University Given the ongoing debate on the importance of the arts in public education, it is interesting to note that music seems to have been considered iIntroductionj a basic subject in the preparation of teachers at the turn of the last century. In that first regular A primary source for the early information (1903– Bordering this article is a listing of music faculty/ fall term, “The training school, the library, and 1953) included in this article is a 40-page staff members who either retired from their careers the department of music began to function.” manuscript compiled by Ethel Green Adams, or passed away during their tenure at Western. They That term included only 107 students, yet in The orchestra of 1913 was Professor of Music from 1946–1973. A major are presented in order by beginning appointment January of 1905, “A seventh new teacher” (Miss quite different than the current ensemble. reference for her work was a book titled The First year. Service years and primary assignments are Florence Marsh) had “organized the department Fifty Years: Western Michigan College 1903– included. A plus (+) indicates those who are now of music” in the new training school. 1953 by James O. Knauss. Quoted material for deceased. This tribute is duplicated on brass plates During 1905, the first orchestra was organized Harper C. Maybee + In 1904–05 tuition was $3/term 1913–1945 this period comes from one of these two sources. in the rehearsal room hallway on the first floor of (all of eight members), and a Choral Union Choir / Dept Head (12 weeks). Total expenses for one term Information referenced from 1968 to the present Dalton Center, a tradition which began in 1987. organization was formed to attract guest artists H. Glenn Henderson + comes from documents generated by School of Additional faculty names are mentioned throughout and the music involvement of local citizens. A were estimated at $52, which included 1914–1956 Organ / Piano / Theory Music officials in the course of their work, this article in an effort to kindle reader memories. women’s glee club was established in 1910, tuition, room (with heat and light), Leoti C. Britton + as well as quotes from emeriti faculty and the first recorded evidence of an attempt to meals, books, stationery, laundry, 1919–1951 members. Most narrative is arranged organize a band was recorded in 1911. and incidentals. Music Education in chronological order. Dorothea Sage Snyder + The Normal’s administration building, eventually 1925–1962 called East Hall, was opened in the fall of 1905. Voice / Women’s Glee Club Music classes met in a classroom in the south end George Amos + 1925–1945 of the second floor. Eventually three classrooms Band / Orchestra

in this same area served the music program until Mary P. Doty + 1946. By 1913, the Normal’s enrollment had 1930–1953 Music Education increased from 107 to 670. Also in 1913, Harper C. Maybee was hired to assume duties as Head of the Music Department, and during that year the music faculty was enlarged to four people, including H. Glenn Henderson.

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its roots to the 1935 May Festival and was in In 1940–41 tuition was $15/semester Owen Berger + iHarper c. maybee eraj its current format by 1936. Interrupted only by (18 weeks). Additional fees for one 1947–1966 Piano 1913-1945 World War II, plans are now under way for the semester were $19.25. A student could 75th SWMVF in 2013. Ada E. Berkey + attend two 18-week semesters for 1947–1975 Music Librarian Curriculum developments were ongoing, and $68.50. This bargain, however, included The arrival of was hired as the instrumental music director. Daniel A. Kyser + the 1936 college catalog began to include neither meals nor a room Harper C. Maybee His 1925 band included 35 members; it grew 1947–1981 elective music courses for non-specializing (with or without heat and light). Clarinet gave rise to using to 70 by 1930. At that time, the marching students. Becoming Western State Teacher’s Holon Matthews + 1913 as the traditional band’s membership was all male. The orchestra 1948–1973 College in 1927, the first Master’s degree (in As the Maybee era drew to a close, it should be Composition / Music History date for the beginning numbered 50 players in 1927 and 60 in Education) was inaugurated in 1939. That was noted that the formidable years from 1930 to of an organized music 1939, but the orchestra also included faculty Marcella S. Faustman + also the year music ensemble participation first 1945 were spearheaded by the tireless service 1949–1977 members and spouses as well as community Voice program at what was appeared in a curriculum outline as a requirement instrumentalists and some of the better high of just six full-time faculty members: Harper C. to become Western with credit. (Previous participation had simply Russell W. Brown + Maybee, H. Glenn Henderson; Leoti C. Britton, 1951–1986 Michigan University. school players from the campus school. been expected.) That credit, however, applied Dorothea Sage Snyder, George Amos, and Trombone It also marked the It must be noted, however, that choral singing neither to certification nor graduation. Imagine Mary P. Doty. Their good work was continued Tom R. Fulton + beginning of an era was the dominant musical force during the first 1953–1983 that. In 1942, shortly after the United States by the next generation of dedicated faculty Music Theory which extended to the half of the last century, and under Maybee’s entered World War II, music majors and minors members hired soon after the world emerged, end of World War II. direction Western State Normal exemplified this appeared in the music department section of the yet again, from global warfare. Maybee began at dominance. Several choral groups thrived under college catalog. once to organize a his direction, and their number and enrollment music curriculum to increased after Dorothea Sage Snyder was succeed the two-year added to the faculty in 1925. She was Harper C. Maybee served as life certificate in public school music plan which assigned the Senior Glee Club (women) which the chief music administrator iProgram developmentj from 1913 to 1945. began in 1905 and was revised in 1909. she conducted from 1925 to her retirement His efforts were made easier in 1918 when in 1962. Equally successful was the Men’s Elwyn F. Carter + 1945-1970 1945–1978 teacher training schools were authorized by the Glee Club, which Maybee conducted until Voice / Choir / Dept Head State Board of Education to develop B.A. and his retirement in 1945. Larger all-school mixed Leonard V. Meretta + B.S. degree programs. A four-year course in choirs also thrived under their direction. 1945–1988 The post-war era produced a dramatic Director of Bands / Trumpet music first appeared in the school catalog in These large choirs were also commonplace at increase in Western’s enrollment, and this was Julius Stulberg + 1924, but it was still attached to the teacher high schools and churches. This is what 1945–1972 accompanied by the next generation of music training program. inspired Florence Marsh to begin her ambitious Violin / Orchestra faculty members. Three of them (Elwyn Carter Choral Union in 1905 (Haydn’s Creation was Ethel Green Adams + The first evidence of a uniformed marching band choir, Leonard Meretta band, Julius Stulberg 1946–1973 appeared in 1917, but the effort was soon presented in 1908), and Harper C. Maybee Music Theory orchestra) were recruited in 1945 almost to continue organizing large choral festivals disbanded because of World War I. Student single-handedly by Paul V. Sangren, Sam B. Adams + including annual Messiah performances and 1946–1973 contributions were used to purchase uniforms Western’s second president. Elwyn Voice May Festivals involving hundreds of singers. for the 1917 group, and one of the local “Doc” Carter was named to Elmer Beloof + newspapers reported that “the Normal Band The 1916 May Festival featured the New York 1946–1971 succeed Maybee as head of the Symphony conducted by Walter Damrosch, Music Education will appear in their new uniforms consisting of music department and would serve with Josef Hofman as piano soloist. Later festivals Margaret Felts Beloof + caps and coats; trousers will be added later.” in that capacity for 20 years. 1946–1971 featured the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Piano They must have been quite entertaining! Chicago Symphony. This tradition eventually Under the leadership of Carter, faculty Carter By 1920 the marching band was performing gave rise to the venerable Southwestern growth moved ahead with Ethel Green Meretta fully uniformed and twenty members strong. It Stulberg Michigan Vocal Festival (SWMVF), which traces (Adams) theory, Sam Adams voice, Elmer was to improve in 1925 when George Amos Beloof education, and Margaret Felts Beloof

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piano in 1946. Twelve Western’s now nationally regarded music more full-time positions therapy program began in 1958; its first student were added by 1960: graduated in 1961. Speaking on behalf of Owen Berger piano, Ada the therapy program, its current director, Brian Berkey library, Daniel Wilson, writes, “With support from Doc Carter, Kyser clarinet, Holon Carol Collins certainly deserves all of the credit Matthews composition, for her efforts in developing and nurturing the Russell Brown trombone, program in the early years.” Harper C. Maybee Music Hall Tom Fulton theory, Thomas Hardie voice, (now Western Wind Quintet). Oboist Robert In 1967 the weekly Convocation Series of Robert Fink horn, Charles Humiston (Professor of Music 1961–1999) programs for music majors was established; it Joyce R. Zastrow Osborne flute, James 1962–1990 was a founding member of the wind quintet. is now in its 45th season. The first convocation Voice Hause education, Carol In 1961-62 resident tuition and He notes, “Having full-time faculty specialists on September 13 of that year was presented Donald P. Bullock + Collins therapy, and fees for two 18-week semesters 1963–1988 on all of the instruments of the quintet by pianist Phyllis Rappeport (Professor of Herbert Butler cello. was $215. Non-residents were now School Director / Trumpet made our school tours much more effective Music 1966–1996) who has a humorous paying a whopping $445. Joseph T. Work Music program and for recruiting.” memory of the occasion: “I played some of 1963–1993 Carol Collins was the first curricular growth during this period was both Viola music therapy faculty Also in 1966, Robert Holmes succeeded the Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano member hired. immediate and impressive. The Bachelor of As its academic programs expanded, Western by John Cage. The piano preparation took Robert M. Davidson + Elwyn Carter as chair of the music department. 1964–1983 Music degree was offered in 1945 and first Michigan College of Education became Percussion / Jazz Band Twenty years later, in 1985, Carter’s tireless me around an hour. Imagine my horror to go Thomas C. Hardie awarded in 1949. The first high school band Western Michigan College in 1955, and finally 1957–1986 and historic dedication to the development of to Kanley [Chapel] to practice and find the William C. Appel Voice / Choir day at a home college football game in Western Michigan University in 1957. 1965–2001 Western’s music program was preserved by piano completely empty of all the hardware! Voice / Charles E. Osborne Michigan (according to Leonard Meretta) Later I discovered that our organist, Boggs his family in the naming of the Elwyn Carter Marilynn Y. Heim 1957–1990 took place in Waldo Stadium in 1946. Flute Rehearsal Room in Dalton Center. Up to 1966, Ryan, thought [all of that stuff in the piano] 1965–1991 The Harper C. Maybee Music Library Progression of School Names Music Education Herbert G. Butler + Western’s music program had been guided by was a prank!” 1960–1983 was established in 1948. That same 1903–1927 Western State Normal School Olive G. Parkes + Cello / Orchestra only two individuals for over a half century. Also in 1967, under new director William 1965–1976 year, Western’s Delta Iota chapter of Phi Violin 1927–1941 Western State Teachers College Appel, Western presented its first fully-staged Robert G. Humiston Mu Alpha Sinfonia was chartered, and 1961–1999 1941–1955 Western Michigan College of Education opera in collaboration with theatre director the Beta Eta chapter of Sigma Alpha 1955–1957 Western Michigan College Robert L. Smith. Appel (Professor of Music Jack J. Frey Iota followed in 1949. The brand 1957 Western Michigan University 1965–2001) writes, “It was opera’s good 1962–1989 new Harper C. Maybee Music Hall Music Education fortune that this collaboration continued was dedicated in October of 1949 3 Willard Hahnenberg annually for many years and continues 1962–1983 and was touted to be “One of the Chief Music Administrators Music Education occasionally to this day.” Appel feels that most up-to-date music buildings belonging to any In recognition of Western’s maturity to a full 1913–1945 Harper C. Maybee this kind of cooperation between music and Alexander Boggs Ryan + teacher training institution in the country.” The university, new school songs were written in 1962–1974 1945–1965 Elwyn F. Carter theatre is “a rare phenomenon in universities.” Organ NPR radio studios of WMUK were located on the 1959–60. The music for both our current 1966–1972 Robert W. Holmes The most recent such collaboration was a top floor, and Maybee Hall was crowned by its fight song and alma mater was composed by 1972–1978 Robert R. Fink production of Copland’s The Tender Land in broadcast tower. physics major Walter J. Gilbert, BA’60, who 1978–1988 Donald P. Bullock February of 2012. also penned the fight song’s words. The alma In 1950, the first music programs were 1988–1992 Don Gibson mater lyrics came from engineering major James Western’s Beta Sigma chapter of Pi Kappa accredited by the National Association of 1992–2007 Richard N. O’Hearn Bull, BS’57, MA’63. The first Master of Music Lambda was chartered in 1968, the same Schools of Music. The first summer high school 2007– David J. Colson degree was awarded in 1965, and in 1966 year Miller Auditorium and Shaw Theatre music camp was held in 1952. Now called two now nationally regarded resident faculty opened. “The Little Theatre” on east campus SEMINAR, its 50th year was celebrated in ensembles were established: The Western Brass was then remodeled to become Oakland 2001, and its 61st session is in July of 2012. 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Joan Boucher + continued as a performance venue, the recital the most successful. Thriving on numerous gifts 1966–1975 Music History / General Ed hall on Oakland Drive was the first concert hall of all sizes from its faithful alumni, friends, music

Audrey J. Davidson + specifically designated for the music program. major parents, and patrons, annual giving has 1966–1993 Music theory/history faculty and classes also virtually enabled the music program at Western Music History / General Ed moved to Oakland. Six campus buildings to sustain its various programs during times of Phyllis J. Rappeport 1966–1996 now sheltered portions of the rapidly growing economic downturn and budget reduction. Piano music department. In addition to Maybee Hall, The fund received nearly 800 individual gifts David A. Sheldon Kanley Chapel, and Oakland Recital Hall, in 2009. 1966–2004 Musicology music education and music therapy classes

Robert L. Whaley were in East Hall, organ instruction was in Miller 1966–2001 Auditorium, and several voice faculty members Tuba New Faculty | 1961–1969 m now taught in Steers House, a dilapidated old Curtis Curtis–Smith Robert Humiston oboe, Jack Frey education, Willard 1968–2011 home on west campus. Traveling to classes on Hahnenberg education, Alexander Boggs Ryan Piano / Composition both campuses caused music majors to lose one organ, Joyce Zastrow voice, Donald Bullock trumpet, valuable hour daily. Ah, the good old days. Joseph Work viola, Robert “Bobby” Davidson percussion, William Heiles piano, William Appel 1968 also marked the beginning of the Concerts voice, Marilynn Heim education, Olive Parkes presenting concerts in one of the finest new Above all, Miller Auditorium made possible the Office and its role in centralized scheduling, Miller Auditorium opened violin, Joan Boucher history, Phyllis Rappeport piano, auditoriums in the nation. Our first Christmas presentation of major works. These ranged from to a full house and a concert publicity, and public/alumni relations for music. by the University Symphony David Sheldon musicology, Gerald Lloyd theory, Concert there in 1968 featured portions of the (1970) to a Orchestra on January 12, 1968. By 1970, the resources of that new office made Robert Whaley tuba, Curtis Curtis-Smith piano, Handel’s Messiah, historically chosen because staged production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and possible the inauguration of an annual giving Robert Ricci theory, William Allgood , Neill that work had been presented regularly under Gretel (1973); from Beethoven’s ninth symphony campaign specifically for music. This effort was Sanders horn Harper Maybee’s direction in the first half of the (1971) and the Brahms Requiem (1977) to fully one of the first of its kind for an academic unit century. Attendance was 3,000. staged, costumed, and danced performances at Western, and it remains to this day as one of Miller Auditorium inspired Director of Bands Carl of Orff’s Carmina Burana (1979). Western’s Bjerregaard to establish Western’s nationally internationally recognized Gold Company regarded Spring Conference on Wind and vocal jazz program has presented its annual iIMPACT OF MILLER AUDITORIUMj Percussion Music: To promote the performance, Miller Show since 1979. There is even room understanding, and composition of quality wind on stage for the Bronco Marching Band, and it 1968 and percussion music. The first conference was has been featured there each fall since 1969. in 1969; the 44th was presented in 2012. Bill Appel recalls the circumstances surrounding the decision to perform Britten’s War Requiem in Carl W. Doubleday The Knauss history noted an honor James W. Miller, Western’s third president. The Southwestern Michigan Vocal Festival of 1968–2010 1970. “I, as director of our Grand Chorus, had Director of Concerts appropriation in 1915 for the construction Even after 40 years, as per its website, “Miller high school choirs, inaugurated by Maybee in suggested [it] as a title for our December concert Robert J. Ricci of four major buildings at Western Normal, Auditorium is still ranked as one of the top ten 1935, moved to Miller Auditorium from Read 1968–2011 at Miller. Other faculty thought it was too much including an “auditorium and conservatory,” facilities in the United States, and is the third Fieldhouse. The mission of this festival remains Theory / Composition / Jazz too early for us, and it was rejected. However, but all was set aside when the United States largest theatre in Michigan.” unchanged: To offer an experience in mass Neill Sanders + the killing of students at Kent State University 1969–1982 entered World War I. A mere half century later, It would be difficult to overstate the significant singing of quality repertoire under the direction motivated department chair Robert Holmes to however, construction began on an impressive role Miller Auditorium has played in the of an inspiring and distinguished conductor. The Celia Yonkers 74th festival was presented in 2012. grab me by the lapels and declare that we 1969–1988 3,500-seat edifice initially called University development of Western’s music program. Receptionist Auditorium. It opened to a full house and a While not part of any academic unit, the The Southwestern Michigan concert by the University Symphony Orchestra professional and technical staff at Miller soon Vocal Festival was housed in Read Fieldhouse from 1958 on January 12, 1968. A week later, the WMU became an integral part of our artistic capability. to 1967. Grand Chorus performed with the Detroit Our large music ensembles went from performing Symphony. The auditorium was soon named to in gymnasiums and student center ballrooms to

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Ramon Zupko would do the War Requiem.” Furthermore, In February of 1972, less than six months before 1971–1997 Composition because our horn professor, Neill Sanders, had the creation of the College of Fine Arts, another icollege of fine artsj Trent P. Kynaston been the solo hornist for the original recording, Robert Holmes project came to fruition: A three- 1972 1973–2012 “Ben Britten had written us a letter encouraging day Detroit Symphony residency at Western Saxophone / Jazz us to do his work.” A total of 4,400 people Michigan University. Two evening concerts James F. McCarthy Joan D. Bynum 1975–2005 came to the performance. Overflow seating was were conducted by Sixten Ehrling. The first WMU’s Board Artistic collaboration began at once. In In November of 1971, 1977–2010 Education provided next door in Shaw Theatre. featured English pianist Clifford Curzon; the of Trustees unanimously approved the December of 1972, music, dance, and art Director’s Secretary Valerie J. Warren second included the WMU Grand Chorus and creation of its College of Fine Arts – the first successfully staged Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Kathryn K. Loew + 1976–1997 Six years later, 5,500 people came to Miller 1977–1990 Faculty Secretary Prokofiev’s cantata Alexander Nevsky. Over the Hodie in Miller Auditorium. An impressive during two performances of a multimedia in Michigan – effective July 1, 1972. The Organ three days, 14 principal DSO players conducted brainchild of Cornelius Loew, associate dean visual impact was created by the art faculty, extravaganza by faculty composer Ramon Zuko Richard J. Suddendorf the University Symphony and costumed (Professor of Music 1971–1997). Created as nearly 50 seminars, coaching sessions, and for fine arts and humanities, the concept 1979–1991 Grand Chorus presented the score, and Director of Bands part of the University’s sectional rehearsals for our music students. was supported by President Miller as well as original faculty choreography was laid on celebration of the Russell Seibert, vice president for academic student dancers. Joyce Zastrow (Professor nation’s bicentennial, affairs. The departments of music and art of Music 1962–1990) remembers Hodie Proud Music of the were transferred from arts and sciences, and fondly: “Many faculty were involved, and I Storm was based on dance changed from being part of physical was pleased to be the soprano soloist.” She the writings of Walt education to becoming its own department recalls Dean Holmes saying, “This production Whitman. It featured in the new college. The first dean was former symbolizes the beginning of a new era in 75 minutes of music department chairperson Robert Holmes. the arts at Western Michigan University.” original music, a full His replacement in music was Robert Fink. Attendance was 3,600. symphony orchestra, The department of theatre moved to the new a brass band with college from the communications department Robert Holmes left WMU in 1980. He is percussion, a in 1976. recognized for fostering the maturity and woodwind band The College of Fine Arts – now known as a sophistication of Western’s music program with percussion, a “College of Distinction” – has been a success from a primary focus (music education) to a costumed chorus story for both its units and the University. It is well-balanced, multi-disciplinary unit which of 60 voices, now one of only 14 in the nation encompassing became the cornerstone for the university’s ten dancers, two music, theatre, dance, and the visual arts; it is new College of Fine Arts (1972) and its first The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with Sixten Ehrling conducting, professional school (1980). His immeasurable narrators, film, slides, a complete stage setting, performed on campus in 1972 as part of a three-day residency. one of only eight in which all four disciplines electronic and taped sounds, and special are nationally accredited. Its 40th anniversary contributions were recognized in 2007 when lighting. Described at the time as “the most is being celebrated this year. donations from former colleagues and friends significant artistic production ever undertaken New Faculty | 1970–1979 m made possible the naming of the Robert W. in the history of Western Michigan University,” Ramon Zupko composition, Steven Hesla piano, and Grace Holmes Room in it involved some 25,000 hours of preparation. Stephen Jones trumpet, Donald Para theory, Gerald Dalton Center. Zupko himself spent 18 months creating the Fischbach violin, Mel Ivey choir, Trent Kynaston A significant music program change – the saxophone, James McCarthy education, Brian work prior to rehearsals. He writes, “The College of Fine Arts Deans Core Curriculum – appeared in the 1973 Wilson therapy, Eddie Green band, Larry Hutchinson cooperation I enjoyed with all of the participants university catalog. Beginning study for double bass, Kathryn Loew organ, Candace Greer 1972–1980 Robert W. Holmes in the production was my greatest reward for voice, Michael Varner percussion, Judith D’Arcangelis 1980–1999 Robert H. Luscombe all Bachelor of Music degree candidates this project, in spite of the fact that many of the therapy, Gregory Talford band, Stephen Zegree jazz, 1999–2000 Janet E. Stillwell would now commence with Core Course students involved [...] dubbed the work ‘Loud Richard Suddendorf band 2000– Margaret M. Merrion Requirements in performance, theory, aural Music of the Dorm.’ God bless ‘em!” skills, music history, conducting, and class piano. The plan allowed two years for each student to cover the basic knowledge required

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of any musician, evaluate his/her own potential for a endowment for the horn studio. The Robert R. and Ruth J. specific professional/vocational major, and obtain faculty Fink Horn Studio was dedicated in the fall of 2005. ischool of music era beginsj counsel before committing to a major area of concentration. Donald Bullock succeeded Fink as music chairperson. He 1980 The Western Jazz Quartet was established in 1975. It has was destined to oversee the construction and occupation become the most internationally traveled of our resident of what was to become – after its dedication – one of the as Schools of Music. We are grateful for faculty ensembles. That same year the Western Brass most celebrated music buildings in the nation. The Bachelor On April 18, 1980, the university’s this recognition, and we look forward to the Quintet made its Carnegie Hall debut. The Western Wind of Music degree in jazz studies was added in 1979. Trent Board of Trustees created the School of Music benefits that may accrue in the form of student Quintet performed at the National Association of College Kynaston (Professor of Music 1973–2012) remembers being at Western Michigan University. In making and faculty recruitment and additional funding Wind and Percussion Players convention in Atlantic City part of the effort to create the Western Jazz Quartet and to this recommendation to the board, Philip S. through private and government sources. the following year. A regular music newsletter also made offer jazz courses. “We began by offering classes in jazz Denenfeld, acting vice president for academic its debut in 1975. Over the next quarter century, each of arranging, improvisation, and history under the independent affairs, remarked: “The department of music has 70 issues of The Musical Offering was distributed to over study number.” He then worked with colleagues “to write for many years met all the criteria for being a 8,000 destinations including alumni, music major parents, the syllabi and course descriptions to get these classes professional school – size, complexity, structure, New Faculty | 1980–1989 m concert goers, NASM schools, and public school music officially on the books. That led to the establishment of our program, and quality – so the name change Maurita Murphy Mead clarinet, Judy Moonert educators in Michigan and beyond. One issue each year [undergraduate] jazz studies program.” to School of Music is simply recognition of an percussion, Elizabeth Patches voice, James Wright featured alumni news. Modeled after components of both the established fact.” The board named Donald band, Anthony Elliott cello, Johnny Pherigo horn, During 1980, the Music Therapy Clinic opened, and David Pocock piano, David Updegraff violin, Spring Conference on Wind and Percussion Music and the Bullock as the first Director of the School of two new festivals were established: The Western Bradley Wong clarinet, Richard O’Hearn education, Southwestern Michigan Vocal Festival, the Western String Music. He issued this statement: Invitational Jazz [band] Festival and the Gold Marion Pratnicki voice, Matti Raekallio piano, Mary Festival for high school orchestra strings was established in Company Invitational Vocal Jazz Festival. In creating a School of Music at Western Scovel therapy, Lee Seibert bassoon, Matthew Steel 1977; it continued for 25 years. Most significantly, however, the second Michigan University, the Board of Trustees musicology, Marc Satterwhite double bass, Lisa Derry WMU’s first horn specialist and music chairperson Robert School of Music at a Michigan has recognized the qualitative development theory, Steve Wolfinbarger trombone, John Campos Fink (Professor of Music 1957–1978) left WMU in 1978 university was established with of the music department which identifies us – recording, Patrick Dunnigan band, Renata Artman Knific violin, Thomas Knific double bass, David to become Dean of the College of Music at the University of great celebration. through the diversity and professionalism of our Little voice, Bruce Uchimura cello, Dee Gauthier Colorado in Boulder. Among his accomplishments programs – with the other 100-odd music units across the country which have been designated education, Charsie Sawyer voice, Silvia Roederer as chair, Bob Fink is “most proud of leading piano, Scott Thornburg trumpet the planning effort for the Dalton Center.” A quarter century later, he and his wife, Ruth, decided to make a commitment to the School of Music by establishing an idalton center opensj 1982

In 1982, after nearly 15 years of planning 10,000 square feet in Dalton. The total cost of $16,234,000 was impressive at the time, and Tuition was now priced by and 30 months of construction, a new music facility became a reality. Replacing Maybee that amount included $1,374,000 in music credit hour. 1980–81 was Hall, Dalton Center was occupied in early June equipment. One of the easiest equipment stats the last year a beginning and dedicated on October 1. It became home to remember was 88 new (just ask a undergraduate student to the entire School of Music, the Department of pianist). Its useable space was 157,000 square could enroll in two 15 credit Dance, the administrative offices of the College feet, yet it included only four traditional desk-and- hour semesters for less of Fine Arts, and the Harper C. Maybee Music chairs classrooms. Earlier that year, the Board of than $1,000. and Dance Library. The library expansion Trustees had named this new “fine arts building” alone was from 900 square feet in Maybee to to recognize beloved Kalamazoo citizen and

14 Ramon Zupko with SEMINAR 1975 composition to DorothyDedicated UpjohnDalton 15 students in the electronic music studio. 99 Years 99 Years

John Campos, director of the Western Sound Studios, at the console in 1987. philanthropist Dorothy Upjohn Dalton. The Dalton Center came the Dalton Series of guest able to raise some $300,000 for its support. In In 1987 the Western Brass Quintet toured the economy was not so good in the early 80s, artist events and the Western Sound Studios. 1988, recognizing Bullock’s many contributions People’s Republic of China. In 1988 the 50th and Mrs. Dalton had made a significant gift that (During the opening of Dalton Center, student to the School of Music, College of Fine Arts, annual Southwestern Michigan Vocal Festival kept the building project alive. employees in the Concerts Office became and University, the Board of Trustees approved was celebrated with a chorus of 1,700 singers, In his State of the University address that fall, known as “Trolls.” Their significance has even the naming of the Donald P. Bullock Music Don Gibson succeeded Donald Bullock as School President John T. Bernhard declared 1982–83 been lauded in an official NASM accreditation Performance Institute. of Music director, and Maybee Hall (and all its a “Fine Arts Year of Celebration.” His address report.) Also in 1985, the Michigan Youth Arts Festival asbestos) was was presented in the new Dalton Center Recital Conducted by Richard Suddendorf, the relocated to WMU where it remains today. demolished to Hall, and most State of the University addresses University Symphonic Band performed at the The cluster combination of Dalton Center, make way for a have been presented there ever since. The 1983 national convention of the College Band Miller Auditorium, the Irving S. Gilmore Theatre new computer School of Music branded the academic year Directors National Association in Atlanta. Complex, and now the Richmond Center for center. The as one of Fanfares & Celebration. Along with Visual Arts makes Western Michigan University first computer the perfect home for this impressive state-wide lab for music festival, which brings over 1,000 talented high applications school students from multiple arts disciplines to opened in our campus each spring. Dalton Center in 1989. i PROGRAM SOPHISTICATION CONTINUESj Cellist Bruce Uchimura joined the faculty in 1987. Some ten years later, he was named The University Symphony conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra presented the 53rd 1983-2000 annual Concerto Concert in His appointment brings this distinguished list up April 2012. to the present day. New Faculty | 1990–1999 m Carol H. Schreiner Richard O’Hearn (Professor of Music Education Area worked [toward] a field based 1982–1994 Christine Carlton voice, Betty Pursley organ, Linda Concerts Assistant methods program. The goal was to have our 1984–2007) recalls school director Don Bullock Trotter voice, Susan Uchimura piano, Barbara students graduate [...] looking more like second- Richard N. O’Hearn charging him with two NASM mandates Orchestra Director Legacy Hong non-Western, Craig Arnold choir, Stephen 1984–2007 year teachers than entry [level] teachers.” These Education / School Director when he was hired in 1984. “The first was to Grugin band, Jeffrey Renshaw band, Christine Smith bring the student teaching [mentor] supervision music education improvements have been very 1925–1945 George Amos flute, David Loberg Code theory, Thomas Kasdorf Alene Markillie 1988–2002 program from the College of Education into the successful. 1945–1968 Julius Stulberg education, Wendy Rose bassoon, Robert Spradling Receptionist School of Music. The second was to update the A Music Performance Institute was established 1968–1983 Herbert Butler band, Diana Spradling jazz, Sunny Wilkinson- Newman jazz, Karl Schrock organ, John Lychner music education programs to make them more in 1985 to “plan activities and opportunities 1983–1987 Anthony Elliott education, Grace Mannion music theatre, Eric current and more independent of the College which attempt to develop a closer artistic and 1987–1990 Richard Suddendorf Shumsky viola, David S. Smith education, Susanne of Education.” In 1985, the supervision of our 1990–1995 Robert Whaley personal relationship between guest artists and Armbruster voice, Daniel Jacobson musicology, 1995–1998 Eric Shumsky student teachers was, indeed, transferred to the their audiences.” One of Don Bullock’s many Richard Adams composition, Lori Sims piano, Karen School of Music. Continuing to quote O’Hearn, visions, he was the primary motivator behind the 1998– Bruce Uchimura Wicklund voice, Igor Fedotov viola, William Pease “Then, over a four-year period, the Professional institute’s creation, and over the years he was band, Joe Miller choir, Michael Miller oboe

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Gail Otis Birch In 1990, Western’s fourth resident faculty In 1992, Richard O’Hearn succeeded Don 1989–2010 Business Manager ensemble was established. The Merling Trio Gibson as School of Music Director. The 25th

Linda Trotter (violin, cello, piano) made its Carnegie Hall annual Spring Conference on Wind and 1990–2006 debut just three years later. Also in 1990, Percussion Music was celebrated in 1993 with Voice the Western Brass Quintet performed at four of the five living WMU Director of Bands Christine Smith 1990– 2009 the Kennedy Center in our nation’s capital, present: Jeffrey Renshaw, Leonard Meretta, Flute and a 4-summer graduate program in music Richard Suddendorf, and conference founder Corky O’Rourke Thomas education was inaugurated. The cycle of Carl Bjerregaard. Robert Spradling became 1993–2000 Advising Secretary courses for this reorganized Master of Music Western’s seventh Director of Bands that fall.

Karen Wicklund in music education degree falls entirely in the One year later he established the Graduate 1997–2011 summer months, and it is structured so that all Winds Program. This new unit of our master’s Voice coursework, minus the culminating project, can degree curriculum embraces ten teaching be completed in four consecutive summers. assistantships intended to create both graduate “What stands out most in my memory are my wind and brass quintets, as well as provide years as Graduate Coordinator.” These words assistance to the corresponding faculty studios. from David Sheldon (Professor of Music 1966– Spradling’s arrival completed another important 2004) are shared to represent the dedication list of conductors. and pride of the several distinguished faculty members who guided the development of Director of Bands Legacy The Bronco Marching Band graduate studies in music since the first Master has grown from 20 members in 1917 to over 300 in 2011. 1925–1945 George Amos of Music degree was awarded in 1965. A truly auspicious event happened on September Sheldon is particularly proud of Music’s 1945–1972 Leonard Meretta 15, 1999, when attendance at Dalton Center Marching Band Directors graduate assistantship growth. “By the time I 1972–1976 Carl Bjerregaard events passed the one-millionth concert-patron stepped down in this capacity (2002), there 1976–1979 Eddie Green 1916–1920 Lloyd Manley mark! The Concerts Office had a sharp eye on were 48 graduate assistants in our program, 1979–1991 Richard Suddendorf 1920–1922 Virgil Altenburg this approaching statistic. It took place during a more than double the number when I began in 1991–1993 Jeffrey Renshaw 1922–1923 C. Z. Bronson weekly convocation program. The unsuspecting 1993.” Bradley Wong is the current graduate 1993– Robert Spradling 1923–1925 A. B. Castle patron was David Proulx, an undergraduate program coordinator. 1925–1944 George Amos piano major from Grand Rapids. What a fitting 1944–1945 Harold Barlow & statistic for the end of a millennium. The Bronco Marching Band (BMB) has come MSG Phillip Proud a long way since the 20-member Normal 1945–1972 Leonard Meretta New Faculty | 2000–2012 m 3 Band of 1917 appeared in uniforms consisting 1972–1977 Carl Bjerregaard & Edward Roth therapy, Scott Cowan jazz, Current Graduate Degree of caps and coats. Uniforms purchased after Richard Swinsick Elizabeth Cowan voice, Andrew Miller tuba, Programs World War II were replaced in 1966, 1975 1977–1978 Michael Williamson Carl Ratner voice, Julie Evans theory, Monica (think cowboy hats), 1979, 1985, 1993 and M.M. in Music Education 1978–1983 Greg Talford Griffin voice, Yu-Lien Thé piano, Lin Foulk horn, 1999. A landmark budgeting decision was M.M. in Music Therapy 1983–1987 Jim Wright Keith Hall jazz, David Montgomery band, made by university officials that last year, when M.M. in Performance 1987–1991 Patrick Dunnigan Stanley Pelkey musicology, Ken Smith education, a set-aside fund for the orderly replacement M.M. in Composition 1991–1997 Stephen Grugin Deanna Swoboda tuba, Alice Pierce voice, of uniforms (circa every seven years) was M.M. in Conducting 1997–1998 Chris Ward James Bass choir, Ken Prewitt voice, Gregory established. The current BMB juggernaut M.A. in Music 1998–2004 William Pease Lee Harrell music theatre, Martha Councell- numbers 300 members, and its website 2004– David Montgomery Vargas flute, Duane Davis jazz, Stephanie (wmubroncoband.com) includes a wealth of Hovnanian clarinet, Kimberly Dunn Adams choir, history including this honor role of directors. Christopher Biggs composition, Vincent Yi voice, Andrew Rathbun saxophone, Karen Kness voice, Lisa Coons composition 18 19 99 Years 99 Years

A campaign to make the WMU School of Showcase Spectacular is staged in Miller Music an All-Steinway School was launched Auditorium. Attendance at this impressive in 2007, and significant progress has been collage production doubled from the first year made. At a cost of $1,386,345, a total of 89 to the second. Also in 2010, the first 100 years Steinway pianos have been purchased thus far. of a women’s chorus at Western was observed The most recent delivery, in January of 2012, by our award-winning Cantus Femina chorus. included 29 new instruments. Director David The appointment of Dr. Kimberly Dunn Adams Colson writes, “We hope to complete this drive in the fall of 2011 brings the final honor roll of by 2013–14 when [Western] will become the principal ensemble conductors up to date. first university in the State of Michigan to be an All-Steinway School.” Western’s Mu Delta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi was chartered in 2008, and the first issue of an annual School of Music magazine – The Perfect Pitch – was published. The University Symphony Orchestra staged its 50th annual concerto concert in 2009, the Western Wind Quintet iA NEW MILLENNIUMj presented a four-day residency in Belgium, and the Western Brass Quintet enjoyed a week-long 2000-2012 tour in Russia. Also in 2009, Music approved a new academic program. The Accelerated Degree Path makes possible the completion of College of Fine Arts Dean A recent delivery of Steinway Western’s two jazz festivals were held for the In the summer of 2001, Western’s both a B.M. or B.A. in music and an M.A. in Margaret Merrion (far left) and pianos take up temporary As 2012 began, the School of Music hosted a School of Music Director David residence on the Dalton successful SEMINAR high school music camp 25th year in 2005. The growth and success of music in five years. The program had its first Colson (center) with “From the Center Recital Hall stage. © the jazz studies program has been repeatedly show taping for NPR’s celebrated From the Top was held for the 50th year. The only two-week graduate in 2011. Top” performers. 2012 MLive Media Group/ program series (#244) hosted by concert pianist Kalamazoo Gazette. All cross-disciplinary program of its kind remaining recognized by DownBeat magazine. rights reserved. Used with In an effort to bolster its music scholarship funds, Christopher O’Riley, and the Western Wind permission of MLive Media on a college campus in Michigan, a total of According to the WMU Jazz Studies website, the School of Music introduced admission fees Group/Kalamazoo Gazette. 4,878 different students attended from 1968 its ensembles and individual students have Quintet added to our international presence for its popular holiday concert series, and a through 2011. “... amassed over 100 [DownBeat] awards with a week-long residency in Honduras. since 1984, ranking it among the top three major scholarship fundraiser was inaugurated During 2003–04, Western Michigan University During the second half of Music’s 100-year collegiate award winners in the nation since in 2010. Held at the end of the first month observed its centennial. The School of Music was history at Western, its national and international that time.” of classes in the fall semester, the WMUsic at the center of several major centennial events footprint has grown exponentially. Since the on-campus, and the Western Wind Quintet In 2007, David Colson succeeded retiring Concerts Office was established in 1968, its Richard O’Hearn as School of Music Director. meticulous record keeping has documented and Western Brass Quintet took a celebration Director of Choral Studies Legacy concert to New York’s Carnegie Hall. In recognition of O’Hearn’s significant music faculty/student performances/presentations contributions during his distinguished 1913–1945 Harper C. Maybee in the District of Columbia and all states of the union except Rhode Island and Vermont. Conducted by Joe Miller, the University 23-year career, alumni, family, 1945–1959 Elwyn Carter Events have also been documented in these Chorale performed at the 2003 national colleagues and friends created an 1960–1973 Thomas Hardie nations: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, convention of the American Choral Directors endowment to honor him with the 1973–1990 Mel Ivey Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Association in . naming of the Richard N. O’Hearn 1991–1998 Craig Arnold Conference Room in the School of Music. 1999–2006 Joe Miller Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Under the direction of Stephen Zegree, At his request, the funds earned by this 2006–2010 James Bass Ecuador, England, Estonia, Finland, Fiji, France, Gold Company performed for ACDA’s 2011 endowment are dedicated to support 2011– Kimberly Dunn Adams Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, national convention in Chicago. faculty travel and creativity. Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy,

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Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Luxembourg, Western’s music major enrollment has been In the fall of 2009, the average high school Student services in the School of Music are Mexico, Mozambique, The Netherlands, New stabilized by an orderly audition and testing GPA for incoming music students was 3.70, and equally noteworthy. Centralized music advising, Zealand, Norway, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, process. Some 350–400 undergraduate those same students averaged a composite score for example, was established by Robert Holmes Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, candidates audition annually, and circa 90 of 26 on their ACT exams. At this same time, in 1971. Early advisors included Donald Bullock Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, beginning students are admitted each fall. 20 percent of all music majors were enrolled and Donald Para. Margaret Hamilton has served Uruguay, and Yugoslavia. At present, the School of Music enrolls 387 in Western’s Lee Honors College, giving us the as undergraduate advisor since 1987. This Robert Whaley (Professor of Music 1966– undergraduates and 82 full-time graduate second largest university-wide number in spite one-stop service for both music and non-music 2001) recalls a wide variety of tour experiences students. Additionally, 28 more graduate students of our relatively small unit size. In 2011, 63 coursework advising is, perhaps, the best such with the Western Brass Quintet: “I remember an are involved in the 4-summer master’s in music music majors were enrolled; this tied Music with operation on campus. Music students are blessed. audience of 1,500+ in Nanning, China.” This education degree program. These music majors Biomedical Sciences for the most honors college can be contrasted by one of the quintet’s high are served by 40 full-time faculty, 30 graduate students across the university. school tours when: “The band director wanted assistants, and 11 professional staff. The school us to do a formal evening program. So, in is accredited by the National Association of full white tie and tails, we performed for one Schools of Music and the National Council for student, the band director, his wife, and their Accreditation of Teacher Education. Programs in music therapy are certified by the American ithe Next celebrationj baby!” Whaley was a founding member of the quintet and the first full-time tuba professor hired Music Therapy Association. 2013-2014 in the state of Michigan.

The expansion of on-campus events is also Current Undergraduate Degree Plans are under way to celebrate the the faculty], many teachers were still being hired impressive. Student degree recitals increased Programs First One Hundred Years of Music at Western for a specified yearly salary which included from 24 in 1968–69 to 151 in 2005–06. B.M. in Music Education Michigan University during the 2013–14 teaching two semesters each school year plus From 1968 to 2011, the Concerts Office has B.M. in Music Therapy academic year. This history is but a prologue. two summer sessions out of each three years. accumulated five file drawers of guest artist B.M. in Performance It also gives us the opportunity to express our It was also not unusual at that [time] to have a folders representing nearly 1,100 visiting artists teaching schedule of over 20 hours in the class B.M. in Composition appreciation to the many constituencies which during that period. After the opening of Dalton room or over 28 hours of applied teaching. B.M. in Jazz Studies are a part of this success story. Thousands Center, outside client use of music facilities Academic equation of teaching loads according B.A. in Music of former students have become dedicated, increased from zero in 1968 to a peak of 108 faithful, and generous alumni. The WMU family to semester hours of credit was possible, but it in 1996–97. and arts community of Southwestern Michigan was largely ignored by an enthusiastic faculty have enjoyed, appreciated, and generously who were interested in building the reputation supported “music as an art form that elevates and size of the school. Our talented music majors also excel the lives of all who experience it.” They did just that. Representative Growth of academically. Medallion Scholarships are Music Presentations the most prestigious freshman scholarships at Above all, this presentation attempts to recognize ______the dedicated service and optimism of music Year Events Attendance WMU. In 2007, seventeen of these four-year Carl Doubleday, BM’66, MM’68, established the Concerts faculty/staff members and administrators who 1968–69 231 56,575 $40,000 awards were presented. Eight of Office in 1968. He was a music administrator at WMU for have given of themselves tirelessly throughout 1970–71 268 88,395 the seventeen (almost 50%) went to College of 42 years before retiring in 2010 as Director of Concerts this history. How fortunate we are that Professor and Associate Director of the School of Music. (Kevin West, 1974–75 379 107,285 Fine Arts freshmen, and five of those went to intended music majors. Hence, in that round Ethel Green Adams provided these words 35 BBA‘91, MPA‘10, Doubleday’s colleague since 1994, 1980–81 474 124,512 was appointed as his replacement.) To honor his four of this annual academic competition, incoming years ago to recognize her colleagues and 1985–86 541 126,865 decades of service, the naming of the Carl W. Doubleday music majors picked up 30% of these university- appreciate this same tireless dedication: 1990–91 644 161,004 Concerts Office Suite in Dalton Center was made possible wide awards. In those early years, the enthusiasm of the faculty 1997–98 651 176,740 by gifts from over 400 alumni, faculty/staff colleagues, was so great that they accepted the burden of 2005–06 836 199,950 university/community patrons and family members. At teaching long hours without question. Even as his request, these funds will serve as a Concerts Office late as 1946 [when I became a member of operations endowment.

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Entrepreneurial Extravaganza on these instruments). Symphony orchestras continue to The inaugural Entrepreneurial Extravaganza was held be important institutions in artistic culture. However, the Feb. 24 in the WMU Dalton Center. The one-day diversity of their brass sections has significantly lagged workshop for music students and faculty was an immersion behind that of other cultural institutions. in entrepreneurship, creativity, and networking – all tools The International Women’s Brass Conference was NEW necessary for the success of a 21st century musician. founded in 1990 by Susan Slaughter (former principal The Extravaganza featured four guest entrepreneurs: trumpet, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra) to support What’s David Cutler (author of The Savvy Musician), Jeff Nytch women brass musicians. The organization’s major public (Director of Music Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder), event, the IWBC Conference, is held approximately Javier Alvarez (Mexican composer and entrepreneur), every three years and features amazing brass artists, BRAIN Lab Founded in the summer of 2011 by Professor of Music and Jeff Nelsen (Get Fearless!). WMU School of Music exhibitors, the prestigious IWBC competition, new Therapy Ed Roth, the primary mission of the BRAIN Lab The Laboratory for Brain Research And Interdisciplinary faculty presented panel discussions on the topic of pieces composed by female composers, and a chance is to explore the neuroscientific underpinnings of how Neurosciences, otherwise referred to as the BRAIN entrepreneurship with tips for creating a successful life in for all participants to perform and network. music influences our abilities to think, speak, feel, and Lab, is an interdisciplinary center founded to pursue the music business. In addition, the Haworth School of move and how that knowledge can be utilized to create various neuroscience driven methodologies. Its primary Business offered a workshop on “Business Plan Basics.” more effective clinical strategies for people diagnosed Saturday Music Lab membership is comprised of faculty from the colleges of A noon concert was presented by the Kalamazoo Brass with various neurologic disorders. The lab is engaged Arts and Sciences, Fine Arts, and Health and Human Collective, a WMU alumni brass trio. It’s 8:45 a.m. on Saturday, and the Dalton Center lobby in the early stages of establishing an ambitious 3-study Services – representing the departments and schools quickly fills with parents, grandparents, guardians, sequence to ask the following questions: Following lunch, students had the opportunity to network of Psychology, Music, and Occupational Therapy – and children anxious to make music. Music Education at the Arts Career Fair, which featured several Kalamazoo as well as a neurologist currently in private practice. Can similar activation patterns be produced with non- undergraduate students scatter around the lobby, arts organizations and entrepreneurs including Fontana Affiliate members represent the colleges of Education musicians; can similar activation patterns be produced greeting children who, for the next two hours, will be Chamber Arts, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, The and Human Development, Health and Human Services, in individuals with alexithymia (the inability to use speech students in kindergarten through fifth grade groups. Gilmore, Legends Drum and Bugle Corp, musician and represent the departments and schools of Exercise to express emotion typically resultant from trauma); can Families have driven from far and near, responding to Keith Hall, Kalamazoo Brass Collective, and Kids in Physiology and Social Work. External partners at McGill music improvisation be effectively implemented in the an invitation from WMU Music Education faculty to Tune. Students had the opportunity to talk with local (Dr. Daniel Levitin) and Johns Hopkins (Dr. Charles Limb) treatment of individuals diagnosed with alexithymia and participate in a free music enrichment program. arts organizations and entrepreneurs about internships, universities are also engaged in collaborative work other trauma related disorders? To learn more about the creativity, networking and designing a career in music. By 9 a.m., Music Education undergraduates organize with the lab. BRAIN Lab go to: www.facebook.com/WMUBRAIN The Entrepreneurial Extravaganza was made possible assigned groups of children and walk to classrooms or www.wmich.edu/brain. BRAIN Lab members with guest by Music Graduate Students (MuGS), who organized where they themselves have spent countless hours as Daniel Levitin, and David Colson the one-day event for the School of Music under the students. But on these Saturdays, the rooms become mentorship of Professor Deanna Swoboda. their own teaching space, with tables and chairs pushed against walls to make way for xylophones, drums, ukuleles, and children making music. International Women’s Brass Conference Begun in Fall 2011, the Saturday Music Lab is held The WMU School of Music hosted the seventh four times a semester in classroom space at the Dalton International Women’s Brass Conference. WMU music Center. The two-hour experience involves singing, professors Lin Foulk and Deanna Swoboda produced movement, and instrument-playing activities designed by this event in the Dalton Center on June 6-9, which Music Education students under the supervision of faculty brought together the best female and male brass players and practicing music educators. These experiences not from all over the world to educate, develop, support, only enrich school-based curricular instruction for K–5 and inspire all women brass musicians. students, but also provide opportunities for WMU Currently women hold less than three percent of the Music Education majors to refine their instructional and positions in the trumpet and low brass sections of the top leadership skills in a real-world environment. For more 22 orchestras by budget size (even though a much larger information go to www.wmich.edu/music/saturday. percentage of women receive diplomas and degrees 24 25 Whats New

Soundpainting – What Is It? All-Steinway School Update When Soundpainting is first mentioned to most people, This past spring the School of Music took delivery every seat tells a story they respond with a puzzled look. Some ask if it means of 29 new Steinway pianos. This brings the total to using sound waves to move paint on a canvas. As 91 new pianos purchased since the School of Music fun as that might sound, Soundpainting is actually a determined to become an “All-Steinway School.” multidisciplinary gestural language used to compose This status requires that 90% of the school’s piano and improvise in real time. Created by New York- inventory be Steinway instruments. based composer Walter Thompson, Soundpainting At this time, the School of Music only needs slightly consists of more than 1,200 gestures and can be used more than a dozen Steinway pianos to complete the with any combination of visual, dance, theatrical and project. This represents about $275,000 remaining musical artists. out of a nearly 2 million-dollar total. School of Music Soundpainting gestures are signed by a “conductor,” Director David Colson hopes the new status as an “I know that the School of Music known as the Soundpainter, and interpreted by All-Steinway School will be reached by Fall 2013, cares about its students ensemble members. For example, the Soundpainter in time for the 100th anniversary of the WMU music because they were there for might sign: Whole Group-Long Tone-Play. This program. me, every step of the way – sequence of gestures, called a phrase, allows each whether providing scholarships member to choose a pitch and dynamic for their long tone. With a large group, such phrases often result in or promoting confidence, thick cacophony, but consider that there are still over the School helped make my 1,000 gestures left. master’s degree a possibility.” In April 2012, the School of Music Soundpainting Ensemble, under the direction of School of Music Ellizar Abalos student Rachel Gasper, hosted a residency and set of workshops by Soundpainting’s creator, Walter Thompson. This event included rehearsal time with MyWMU.com /som100 Thompson, which culminated in a concert in the Dalton Center Recital Hall on April 9. For more information on Soundpainting go to www.soundpainting.com.

Soundpainting with Walter Thompson

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Ramey holds the distinction of being the most recorded bass in history. His more than 80 recordings include complete , arias, symphonic works, solo recital programs and popular crossover on every major label. His recordings have garnered three Grammy World Awards, Gran Prix du Disc Awards, and citations from CLASS journals including Stereo Review and Opera News. He is frequently seen on television in appearances with “Live from the Met” and “Live from Lincoln Center.”

Nine-time Grammy winner Paquito D’Rivera gave master classes and performed with WMU’s vocal jazz ensemble, Gold Company, and award-winning Paquito D’Rivera with Gold Company University Jazz Orchestra as part of a five-day residency As host of the popular NPR music program “From Nov. 1-5. the Top,” O’Riley is well known for his eloquent and compelling musings on music and popular culture. He A multi-talented clarinetist, alto saxophonist, composer has performed with the world-famous Academy of St. and bandleader, D’Rivera is the only artist to have Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra; the orchestras won Grammies in both the Classical and Latin Jazz of Los Angeles, New York, Moscow, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Each year the School of Music hosts nearly 100 visitors. Listed below are just a few artists and categories. His numerous recordings include more than Baltimore, Philadelphia and San Francisco; and the experts who have added value to our WMU music students’ education. The distinctive student 30 solo albums, and in addition to his performing career Royal Philharmonic. opportunities presented by these guests is one that can only be described as WORLD CLASS. as an instrumentalist, he has rapidly gained a reputation as an accomplished composer. He is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award American composer and fiddler Dan Trueman visited Roger Chase, a violist Metropolitan Opera star Samuel Ramey performed with 2005 and the National Medal of the Arts 2005, as the WMU School of Music as part of the Contemporary known the world over for his the Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra well as the Living Jazz Legend Award from the Kennedy folk duo Trollstilt, which performed at the Dalton Center teaching and performances, and Collegiate Singers in a concert on Feb. 5 at Miller Center in 2007. Recital Hall on March 22. Joining the performance was visited WMU to lead Auditorium. The concert featured Mahler’s Symphony WMU’s Kalamazoo Laptop Orchestra. master classes and act as No.1 in D Major as well as scenes by Giuseppe Verdi, Acclaimed pianist Christopher O’Riley presented both a Trueman has performed his music with many, judge for the 53rd Annual Giacomo Puccini and American composer Carlisle master class and recital of classical works and inventive including his own Trollstilt and QQQ, the American Concerto Competition. Floyd. It was part of Ramey’s three-day guest residency arrangements of popular music on Jan. 13. On Jan. 15 Composers Orchestra, So Percussion, the Crash Chase has performed as at WMU, during which he interacted with music students O’Riley hosted a taping of NPR’s “From the Top” at the Ensemble, and the Brentano String Quartet. He soloist throughout Europe, through master classes and private coaching. Dalton Center Recital Hall. is the co-founder and director of the Princeton South Africa, the United Since the 2003 release of True Love Waits, O’Riley’s Laptop Orchestra, the first ensemble of its kind. States, Canada, Australia, Roger Chase reimagining of works by Radiohead, Elliott Smith and New Zealand, Japan, the Middle East, India, China Nick Drake have garnered critical accolades and and Scandinavia. He is violist and faculty member at international acclaim, including the only four-star review Christopher O’Riley Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing ever given by Rolling Stone to a classical pianist. His Arts and has been a member of many ensembles latest White Tie Classics/Mesa-BlueMoon release, Out including The Nash Ensemble, Sinfonietta, Of My Hands, includes the music of R.E.M., Portishead, Esterhazy Baryton Trio, Quartet of London, Hausmusik, Cocteau Twins, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, The Bad Plus, The and the London Chamber Orchestra. Samuel Ramey Smiths, Tears for Fears, Radiohead and Elliott Smith.

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His compositions explore the rhythmic tension between performances of many works written especially for her, Leone Buyse presented a recital and master class as Vera Danchenko-Stern, Collaborative Pianist, presented traditional dance music and machines, the unusual and the Scandinavian premiere of John Corigliano’s part of the School of Music’s Flute Fest on Feb. 18 at the master classes and a recital with WMU faculty member phrasings and counterpoint of traditional Norwegian Concerto for Flute. Ms. Sandvik holds a professorship Dalton Center Recital Hall. Carl Ratner, Baritone, on Nov. 18 at the Dalton Center music, and the influences of composers like Bach, in music performance at the Grieg Academy, University In 1993 Ms. Buyse relinquished her position with the Recital Hall. Stravinsky, Reich, and Cage. Trueman’s work has of Bergen. Her articles on flute playing in wind bands Boston Symphony Orchestra to pursue a more active Ms. Danchenko-Stern is sought after worldwide as a been recognized by the Guggenheim and MacArthur are widely recognized, and she is a sought-after guest teaching and solo career after 22 years as an orchestral judge, master teacher, Russian diction coach, and Foundations, among others. He teaches composition lecturer and flute educator. musician. She has appeared as soloist with l’Orchestre collaborative pianist. Her recent master classes were and electronic/computer music at Princeton University. de la Suisse Romande, the Boston Symphony, the Boston presented at Princeton University and at Michigan Pops, the San Francisco Symphony, the Utah Symphony, State University. Since moving to Washington, D.C., The School of Music’s new music ensemble, Birds on the Rochester Philharmonic, and the New Hampshire in 1990, Ms. Danchenko-Stern’s concert appearances a Wire, performed Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Festival, of which she was principal flutist for ten include accompanying Pavel Pekarsky’s Kennedy Center with guest artist John Duykers March 28 at the Dalton years. Buyse has performed with the Boston Symphony debut, the Washington debut of Ilya Kaler (triple prize Center Recital Hall. The program also included the Chamber Players throughout Europe and Japan, with gold medal winner of the Tchaikovsky, Paganini, and premiere of a new work by John’s son, composer Max the , Juilliard and Muir String Quartets, the Boston Sibelius competitions), and voice recitals with Medea Duykers, featuring guest percussionist Joel Davel on Musica Viva, Da Camera of Houston, and in recital with Namoradze, Mikhail Manevitch, Sergei Leiferkus, Marimba Lumina. Jessye Norman and Yo-Yo Ma. Jerome Barry and Nikita Storojev, to name a few. In Internationally acclaimed tenor John Duykers made his 1997, she accompanied soprano Carmen Balthrop Vera Danchenko-Stern professional operatic debut with the Seattle Opera. singing Rachmaninoff’s romances at the Carnegie Hall Music Therapy student Eric Busch with Dan Levitin Since then, he has appeared with many of the world’s gala in honor of the 850th anniversary of the founding In November 2011, more than a dozen Western music leading opera companies. He is particularly known for of Moscow. therapy students visited Dan Levitin and his Laboratory his performances of contemporary music, having sung for Music Perception, Cognition and Expertise in in more than 100 contemporary operas including more Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In April 2012, Levitin than 50 world premieres. Among these, he created returned to the WMU School of Music where he met the role of Mao Tse Tung in John Adams’ Nixon in with music students and WMU’s BRAIN Lab. China, which he performed throughout the world. He can be heard on numerous recordings of opera and A prominent American cognitive psychologist, contemporary music including the Grammy Award- neuroscientist, and writer, Dan Levitin is currently winning CD of Nixon in China. James McGill Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at McGill University, with additional Gro Sandvik appointments in music theory, computer science, and Flutist Gro Sandvik was education. He has published scientific articles on Visiting Professor of Flute absolute pitch, music cognition and neuroscience and during the spring semester. is more widely known as the author of two best-selling Tenor John Duykers, Ms. Sandvik has served percussionist Joel Davel, books, This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a and Birds on a Wire as solo flutist in the Bergen Human Obsession, and The World in Six Songs: How (new music ensemble) Philharmonic since 1967. the Musical Brain Created Human Nature. Prior to his Her exceptional versatility academic career, he worked as a producer and sound is evidence of an intense designer on albums by Blue Öyster Cult and Chris interest in communication Isaak; as a consultant to Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder through music at all and Michael Brook; and as a recording engineer for levels. She has an active Santana and The Grateful Dead. career as soloist and chamber music performer, which includes premiere

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Student Cantus Femina in Colorado ACHIEVEMENTS Cantus Femina (Women’s Chorus) performed at the Brenna Halpin was awarded the 2011–12 All-University National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award. She national conference in Fort Collins, Colo., on November also received the School of Music Graduate Award for Trombonist Kirsten Schaffert has been named a finalist Bass trombonist Evan Clifton has been named a finalist 5, 2011, and on March 8, 2012, performed at the Excellence in Academics/Scholarship and completed a in the International Trombone Association’s Larry Wiehe in the 2012 International Trombone Association’s American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Central Master of Arts in Music as part of the Accelerated Degree Solo Competition. Kirsten was selected as the School of George Roberts Bass Trombone Competition. He will Division conference in Fort Wayne, Ind. Path Program. This past summer, she traveled to Ecuador Music’s Presidential Scholar for 2012, WMU’s highest be competing in July in , France, for the top prize in order to research the authenticity, commercialization, academic award. As one of 46 Presidential Scholars against students from The Juilliard School and the United Horn major Jancie Philippus received the School of and invented traditions of indigenous flute vendors and throughout the entire university, President Dunn honored Kingdom. Music Graduate Award for Excellence in Leadership/ musicians in Otavalo. This research became the basis of Kirsten in a special reception in March. Service and finished the Master of Music degree in horn her thesis, “, Festivities, and Fragmented Tradition: Last summer Thalea Davis spent two weeks in Chengdu performance. Jancie made significant contributions to A Study of the Meaning of Music in Otavalo.” She The Drs. John E.N. & Dede Howard Instrumental Music (Sichuan Province), China, where she conducted the School of Music through her outstanding leadership details how indigenous Otavalans construct their own Scholarship was established to encourage young people interviews regarding her research of traditional ethnic and service activities. She served as Treasurer with the identity around music, as it is increasingly intertwined with a gift for music and the drive to be a musician minority music. She then travelled by train to Lhasa, Music Graduate Student organization (MuGS) and was with trade and success in a global market. to continue with their formal educations. Established in Tibet, where she visited various temples and had several the lead student organizer of the two-day Entrepreneurial 1996, this scholarship has made college possible for musical encounters, particularly with Buddhist monks. Extravaganza that was held on campus in February, a Ben Schmidt-Swartz received the 2011–12 Senior Jazz so many students and has helped train future musicians Finally, Thalea travelled to Yinchuan (Ningxia Province) collaboration with WMU’s School of Business. Jancie Award. This award comes with a financial commitment and instructors. The 2011 recipients included WMU to study the Hui ethnic minority’s music. applied for and received over $10,000 in funding to help fund a worthy project. Ben is making a CD with students Alexandra Berndt, Rachael Eid-Ries, Heather through several different campus organizations for this Nelson Oliva and School of Music colleagues. Ewer, Josephine Isaac, Deborah Larsen, Ariele Graduate conducting student Ellizar Abalos was event. She was also helpful in her work on the local Macadangdang, Kristyn Macqueen, Jonathan Reed, awarded the 2011–12 All-University Graduate planning committee of the International Women’s Brass Bass trombone performance major Derek Lyp took home Megan St. Amand, Sara Sulecki, and Molly Zebell. Teaching Effectiveness Award. He also received the Conference, which the School of Music hosted in June first prize in the International Trombone Association’s School of Music Graduate Award for Excellence in 2012. This fall, Jancie will be a Graduate Assistant at George Roberts Bass Trombone Competition, a Gold Company has accepted an invitation to give two Teaching. Ellizar earned the Master of Music degree in the University of Illinois School of Music, where she will competition that attracts the best bass trombonists in the showcase performances at the 2012 World Choir conducting in spring semester. As a graduate assistant begin work on a doctoral degree. world age 18 and under. Derek competed against the Games July 4–14 in Cincinnati. This represents the with the Bronco Marching Band, he assisted in the other two finalists, from Northwestern University and the first time the World Choir Games are being held in teaching of drill and musical rehearsal, and he had the The Advanced Jazz Combo, under the direction of University of Alabama. the USA, and they are expecting over 17,000 singers opportunity to write and teach drill that was performed Dr. Scott Cowan, performed as part of Monterey Jazz from approximately 50 countries. WCG Artistic Board by the band at a home football game this past season. Festival’s Next Generation Jazz Festival held March 30 Nominees for the Outstanding Senior Awards must have attended Gold Company’s performance at the American He simultaneously was appointed to the position through April 1 in Monterey, Calif. These same students at least a 3.5 grade point average, have earned at Choral Directors Association National Convention of Graduate Assistant Conductor for the University gave a command performance at the Jazz Education least 56 credit hours, and be enrolled at WMU for at in Chicago last year and decided they wanted Gold Concert Band. Network Conference in Louisville, Ky., during the Fall least three semesters prior to the commencing date of the Company to represent “the best” in vocal jazz to the semester. award. Those who qualify receive faculty consideration world. Gold Company will perform two sets on July 5 at regarding their academic/artistic excellence and promise. The Blue Wisp and will be part of an evening concert on July 6 in the Aronoff Center. 32 33 Student Achievements Student Achievements

Graduate student Erik Dancy has won the second In the summer of 2011, Patrick Muehleise studied alternate (fifth place) recognition in the International at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Trombone Association’s Larry Wiehe Solo Competition. Austria, where he performed under the direction of The Sigma Alpha Iota College Honor Award is awarded world-renowned conductors Eduardo Muller and Joseph on the basis of leadership, fraternity service, campus Colaneri and was a finalist in the annual Meistersinger activities, and scholarship. The SAI Scholastic Award International Vocal Competition. This summer, Patrick will is presented to the graduating senior with the highest be singing with the Santa Fe Opera and the Santa Fe grade point average. Desert Chorale. Patrick is also a member of the up-and- College Honor Award: Kristen Jansens coming Spire Chamber Ensemble, based in Kansas City, Scholastic Award: Kari Caretti Mo., and is entering his third season with the Grammy- nominated ensemble Seraphic Fire, the professional

From left to right, 2012 Concerto Winners violinist Honorary citations are available for graduating seniors choir based in Miami, Fla. Ishtar Hernandez, soprano Kirsten Schaffert of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. The Collegiate Honor Award and pianist Sowon Kim is given to a graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding musicianship, scholarship and service to the Finalists are interviewed by an administrative committee, Trombonist Alyssa Madeira was awarded a graduate music department or university. The Scholastic Award is after which the scholarship awards are determined. assistantship at the University of Massachusetts. given to the graduating senior with the highest grade Theodore Presser Scholar: Cassandra Kaczor; Beulah Alyssa has been working for the Detroit Symphony point average. & Harold McKee Scholar: Molly Zebell; Harper C. Orchestra’s Marketing Department while completing her Collegiate Honor Award: Paul Cunnington Maybee Scholar: Skye Hookham; William & Fiona undergraduate degree. Scholastic Award: Alexander Armstead Denny Scholar: Melissa Taddie; and Monsour-Shobeck Scholar (CFA): Youyang Qu The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Eric Bowman has received a full tuition waiver to attend Regional Auditions were held in March at Grand Valley the University of Miami, Florida, where he will major in For the second year in a row, WMU graduate student State University. First Place awards went to Kirsten Jazz Studies for a master’s degree. He was selected as Nate Musch has been selected as an honorable mention Schaffert, Chelsea Helm, Shelby Bishop, and Matthew a finalist in his 2nd International Trombone Association selection in the International Trombone Association’s Gifford. Second place awards went to Alexandria competition for 2012, the J. J. Johnson Jazz Competition, Lewis Van Haney Philharmonic Prize Competition. Shiner, Renee Macdonald, and Bridget Cappel. Third and in the ITA’s Frank Smith Solo Competition. Eric will Mica Trupiano and Libby Spinniken received an Patrick Muehleise place awards were presented to Kevin Taylor, Kyle travel to Paris, France, to compete in July along with Honorable Mention and scholarship award from the These outstanding scholar-musicians have been offered Ball, Danae Picklo, and Matt Hazel. In addition, Kirsten Schaffert and Evan Clifton. National Federation of Music Clubs. The NFMC Pi Kappa Lambda membership this year: Ellizar Shelby Bishop won the John Vickers Award for the most scholarships are part of a national competition in Abalos, Alexander Armstead, Sean Brennan, Thalea promising undergraduate in the first and second year Erik Johnson has been awarded a Graduate Assistant which three awards are given to music therapy Davis, Naomi Droge, Rachael Eid-Ries, Bradley of college, and Chelsea Helm and Kirsten Schaffert position in the clarinet studio at the Ithaca College students annually. Hatfield, Paul Hendrixson, Lynn Hodorek, Skye won Jessye Norman Awards for most promising School of Music beginning Fall 2012. Hookham, Mark Kleyn, Charlotte Munn-Wood, undergraduate in the third and fourth year of college. Caitlyn Bodine, a graduate student in music therapy, Ayako Nakamura (alumna), Courtney Neff, Jason School of Music students Sandra Fernandez, Jared received a scholarship award for the 2012–13­ Ostrander, Jancie Philippus, Kirsten Schaffert, Corey DownBeat Student Music Awards were announced in the Small, Nicholas Lieto, Danny Mui, Paul Clifton, academic year from the Birmingham Musicale, Shotwell, Jarred Small, Evan Snyder, Emily Solomon, June 2012 issue of DownBeat magazine. Undergraduate and Marco Juarez travelled with their wind faculty a chapter of the Michigan Federation of Music Clubs. Deanna Swoboda (faculty), Melissa Taddie, Benjamin college winners include Melissa Taddie (classical mentors to Central America, where they gave inspiring Werne, Ross Wixon, Molly Zebell, and Sarah Zegree. soloist category), Matthew Landon (blues/pop/rock performances and were exceptional representatives Ann Armbruster teaches general music at soloist), Gold Company (large vocal jazz ensemble). of Western Michigan University. This was a part of Northeastern Elementary in Kalamazoo Public Three outstanding soloists were named winners in The graduate college winner is Gold Company Sextet the College’s Student Investment Projects, designed by Schools and is a part-time music teacher with a new, the 2012 Concerto Concert Competition and were (vocal jazz group). College outstanding performance Music faculty to create a musical and cultural exchange grant-funded program called Kalamazoo “Kids In Tune,” featured with the University Symphony Orchestra on awards include Desolation Row (blues/pop/rock between the Western Michigan University School of an after-school music program that is being piloted at April 22. They are pianist Sowon Kim, violinist Ishtar group category) and Good Night Mr. Max (blues/ Music and La Escuela Nacional de Musica (ESM) in Woods Lake Elementary in Kalamazoo Public Schools, Hernandez, and soprano Kirsten Schaffert. pop/rock group category). Tegucigalpa, Honduras. inspired by El Sistema in Venezuela. 34 35 Alumni News

ALUMNI of Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor and supporting roles in three other operas there.

Peter Breithaupt (BA’10, MA’11) is a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois.

Tim Buchholz (BM’05) and Taylor O’Donnell (BM’10) are members of the Dolphins Voices, the professional News vocal group for the NFL’s Miami Dolphins. Katie Campbell (BM’04) released her debut CD, End of the Beginning, which also includes Music alumni Justin Waldir Bertipaglia (center) with his former teacher Tom Knific (right) Avery and Jeremy Bieber. Laura Dubin (BM’11) and Denis Shebukhov (MM’09) perform in a jazz trio on a cruise ship touring the Sean Carney (BM’11) sings in an a cappella quartet on Mediterranean and the Caribbean. In February, Laura Celebrity Cruise Lines. launched her website: www.lauradubin.com.

Beth Clark (MM’07) won the 2011 American Music Matt Falker (BM’95) is Piano Instructor at MiraCosta Therapy Association’s Arthur Flagler Fultz Research College and Director of Frequency Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Award, the organization’s largest research award, for which hosts the Oceanside Jazz Festival each year. her study titled “Music therapy as a pain modifying intervention in children with life-limiting neurological Brett Farkas (BM’02) played in a band called Lord Nate Adams (BA’08) sings with The Cat’s Pajamas, an Justin Avery (BM’04) is part of a new venture called impairments and metabolic disorders.” Huron at Lollapalooza in August. The band was a cappella quintet based in Branson, Mo. In February The Radio Project: www.theradioprojectmusic.com. mentioned by name in Rolling Stone magazine’s review the group toured the Midwest, with a performance at Evan Conroy (BM’09) was selected as the new full time of Lollapalooza. WMU in February. Nate’s arrangement of “What Songs Chris Beckstrom (BA’06) released two new albums: bass trombonist with the Louisiana Philharmonic. Were Sung” was performed by the St. Charles Singers. Beckstrom Holiday Extravaganza Volume III and Disk Derek Fawcett (BM’00) launched www.facebook.com/ Too Slow. Deb Cordell (MM’00) was appointed last fall to the derekfawcettmusic and released The Winter Clothes, a Tonya Adams (BM’10) was hired in November to be music therapy faculty at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. new and collaboration with Chicago visual artists a Life Enrichment Coordinator at Heritage Community Shawn Bell (BM’06) received his master’s degree from and Chicago charities. of Kalamazoo. Northern Illinois University. He released his debut album, Tracy Cowden (BM’93) is an associate professor of Things Yet Unknown, in the fall of 2010. His big band piano and vocal coach in the Department of Music Matt Feltner (BM’08) plays woodwinds in a Ryan Andrews (BM’09) won a 2012 ASCAP writing has been published by Walrus Music Publishing. at Virginia Tech. She commissioned a song cycle by jazz band for Royal Caribbean. His website is: Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award. He will internationally renowned composer Daron Hagen to the www.mattfeltner.com. receive his master’s degree from the University of Miami Waldir Bertipaglia (BM’99) won a double bass position poems “Vegetable Verselets.” The cycle was premiered in Florida. in the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in Rio de Janeiro. at Virginia Tech in April and will be featured in a New Maura Foley (BM’11) was hired as the new general York City premiere in the 2012–13 season as part of music teacher at Maple Valley Elementary in Sandusky Justine Aronson (BM’09) graduated in May 2011 Joe Beutel (BA’07) earned his master’s degree from the Phoenix Concerts. Community Schools, Mich. with a Master of Music degree from Westminster Choir Indiana University. He had a very successful summer as College. She has been singing with The Crossing, a an apprentice at Santa Fe, where he was the understudy Carl Doubleday (BM’66, MM’68) was named a Funktion, a band featuring music alumni Andrew Philadelphia professional choir. In January 2013 she will for Mephistopheles in the mainstage production of Faust 2011 Signature Sinfonian by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Schrock (BA’06), Hugh Little (BM’09), Terrence Massey be premiering a work by composer Daron Hagen with and sang Sparafucile in the Rigoletto Trio on their scenes Fraternity. The award is given to those who bring honor (BM’08), Randy Gist (BM’09), Sean Hill (BM’09), and the Philadelphia Lyric Festival, and she recently launched program. He will be a Resident Artist at the Minnesota to Phi Mu Alpha through their professional, musical, or Brittany Waddell (BA’09), released a new album, Step her website: www.justinearonson.com. Opera in the fall of 2012, singing the principal bass role philanthropic endeavors. Into It, in May 2011.

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David Gailey (BM’10) was hired as the new choir Sammy Kestenholtz (BM’02) is busy performing and Kate (Prather) Reid (BM’92) was featured in the Adam Smale’s (MM’09) e-book, New Approach to director at Eaton Rapids (Mich.) High School. He and recording in Los Angeles and beyond and was hired as December issue of the American Federation of Scales for Guitarists: A Practical Modern Direction, Katherine Rohwer (BM’09) performed as the sole U.S. the Drum Set Instructor at Yamaha’s Music For All Camp. Musicians’ International Musician magazine. She also received written praise from GuitarInternational.com. representatives in the World Youth Choir for a ceremony released a new CD, The Love I’m In, and performed at honoring the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners Ashley (Kirby) Kimbrough (MM’11) has been hired as the Jazz Educators Network Conference in Louisville, Ky., Logan Thomas (BM’07) and his trio presented a in Norway. an adjunct professor of jazz voice at Middle Tennessee and the West Coast Jazz Party in Newport Beach, Calif. feature performance at the 2012 Gilmore International State University, where she also assists Cedric Dent with Keyboard Festival in May. His band Manner Effect Christine (Helferich) Guter (BM’93) was one of the the vocal jazz ensemble. Johnny Rodgers (BM’98) is mounting productions released its debut album, Abundance, in April 2012. pre-recorded vocals on T-Mobile’s “Home for the of his musical (“well, it’s partially mine, at least”), Holidays” video. Paul Loesel (BM’92) returned to Kalamazoo in September Motherhood The Musical, in various cities throughout Andy Van Allsburg (BM’11) is performing on Celebrity to see the musical he co-wrote, The Extraordinary the U.S. Johnny and his band toured the Middle East Cruise Lines. Scott Hamilton (BBA’08) was one of “The Boys” (a Ordinary, be presented at Farmer’s Alley Theatre. under the auspices of the U.S. State Department and singer/dancer) behind Rosie O’Donnell on one of the traveled to Malaysia to perform at the Kota Kinabalu Wendy van Gent (BM’80) earned her Ph.D. in August final Oprah Winfrey shows in May 2011. In October, André Mika is a contributing author on Jazz Festival in June. 2011 and is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Scott performed in the touring production of My Fair TheBleacherReport.com and Senior Vice President– Northern State University, S.D. She was featured in an Lady that made a stop at Miller Auditorium. Creative of TBA Global. Gretchen Ross (BM’04, MM’11), MT-BC, was hired article by the Aberdeen News in December 2011. in March to be a music therapist with Hospice of Nayanna Holley (BM’07) released her debut album, Kelly Ann Nelson Southwest Michigan. Christopher Van Hof (BM’06) has finished his first year On Love & Fear, in December. (BS’91, MA’97) is of doctoral degree work at the University of Wisconsin Director of Education & The Martez L. Rucker Core-Tet, an ensemble as a University Fellow. Keith Horn (BM’99) released his new song, “Too Cool Outreach with the composed of music alumni Martez Rucker (MM’10), for Cupcakes,” on iTunes in October. Cincinnati Boychoir Chris Beckstrom (BA’06), Randy Gist (BM’09), Sam Emily Verdonk (BM’11) accepted a choral music and Managing Artistic Weber (BM’10, MA’11) and Jay Sawyer (BM’09), director position at Nekoosa High School in Wisconsin. Evan Hyde (BM’11) is a graduate assistant at William Director of the Young performed in May at the prestigious and historic Jazz Paterson University. Professionals’ Choral Showcase in downtown Chicago. Matt Warnock (MM’05) Collective of Cincinnati. is a Senior Lecturer at Several jazz alumni were featured at the January 2012 John Russell (BM’99) is the new Director of Choral Leeds College of Music, Jazz Educators Network conference. Kate (Prather) Activities at Albion College. . Reid (BM’92) performed as the leader of her own Kelly Ann Nelson group. Keith Hall (BM’99) performed with the Ron Di Manna Nichols (BM’07) performed the role of Princess Brittin (Radcliffe) Schumaker (MM’10), MT-BC, Shijiao Zhang (MM’09) Salvio Trio. Jennifer (Shelton) Barnes (BS’96), Daniel Tuptim in The King & I in Boston and Philadelphia. started a new job in January at Bronson Lakeview won a double bass Gregerman (MM’91), and Jeremy Fox (BM’99) led Hospital as a Music Therapist. position in the National clinics or interest sessions. Kathleen O’Donnell (BM’11) is a volunteer music Performing Arts Center therapist at the Riley Mother and Baby Hospital and Zechariah Shrum (BM’11) is the new choral director Orchestra in Beijing. Matt Jensen (BM’08) is Operations Manager with Sally Test Pediatric Center in Eldoret, Kenya. She recently at Plant High School in Tampa, Fla. Auto Truck Transport, reporting to the Vice President was awarded a grant to provide Kindle Fires for use Lisa (Barnhart) Ziemelis of Operations. with pediatric patients she serves at the hospital. To read Ron Slabbinck (BM’94) and Holly (Shaw) Slabbinck (BM’11), MT-BC, was more details, visit her blog at http://runningwithkenyans- (BM’94) team-teach eight choirs in a high school hired last summer as a Life Aubrey Johnson (BM’07) launched her new website in kathleen.blogspot.com. program in Sacramento. They also have five textbooks Enrichment Coordinator March: www.aubreyjohnsonmusic.com. in print with KJOS Music Publications. In addition, at Seminole Shores Vance Okraszewski (BM’98) performed in Grand Holly released her debut solo CD, Flying Easy, which Assisted Living Center in Hiromi Kato (BM’11) was recently hired as a contractual Rapids at DeVos Performing Arts Center with a group features many of the finest players in Sacramento. Muskegon, Mich. music therapist for Leaf Music Therapy Center in called Under the Streetlamp, which is made up of the Matt Warnock Tokyo, Japan. former Chicago cast of Jersey Boys.

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Before coming to WMU, Coons was a Jackie McLean Fellow and Visiting Professor of Composition at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford. Recent awards and fellowships include a 2011 Composer Fellowship from the Other Minds Festival, a 2012 WELCOME ICElab Fellowship from the International Contemporary KNESS Ensemble, and multiple ASCAP Morton Gould new and Young Composer Awards. Recent commissions and collaborations include works for The California E.A.R. Unit, The Machine Project for the Hammer Museum FACULTY of Los Angeles, the Violin Futura Project, the Navitas Ensemble, Dither Electric Guitar Quartet, and Iktus Percussion Quartet. Her current project, an evening- staff length work for dance created in collaboration with the International Contemporary Ensemble and The Troupe,

will premiere at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC RATHBUN during the 2012–13 season. Andrew Rathbun, Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies, has recorded or performed with Luciana Souza, Eddie Meredith Bradford joined WMU in October 2011 Gomez, John Abercrombie, Reggie Workman, Ingrid as Concerts Assistant. Her responsibilities include Karen Kness, Assistant Professor of Voice, Jensen, Jay Anderson, Kenny Wheeler, and Jerry preparing all School of Music news releases, printed received her Doctor of Music degree from Bergonzi. He has studied with Pat LaBarbera, Jerry programs, calendars, and advertising, as well as Indiana University, where she served as Bergonzi, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Jim McNeeley, posters and fliers promoting special events. She is also coordinator for the Department of Secondary Lewis Spratlan, and George Garzone. His latest release the school’s Webmaster and registrar for SEMINAR, the Voice and was an Associate Instructor. Before is Idea of North, a sextet exploration, which finds the annual summer music camp for high school students.

coming to WMU, she served on the faculties at the radio work of Glenn Gould as its inspiration. As a Meredith holds a B.A. in liberal studies from Arcadia COONS University of Nebraska at Omaha and Doane College. sideman, Rathbun has appeared on over 25 recordings. University. Prior to her position at WMU, she was She is a member of the faculty and a performer for Rathbun earned a master’s with Academic Honors and the exhibitions and operations assistant for the Bemis Opera Maya in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Distinction in performance from Boston’s New England Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Neb. Kness’ recent oratorio repertoire includes Mozart’s Great Conservatory. Other awards include grants from the

Mass in C Minor, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. Ontario Council for the Arts, the Canada Council, and Deb O’Keefe joined WMU in June 2011 as Business Johannes Passion, Vaughn Williams’ Hodie, Haydn’s the American Music Center. He has served as a fellow Manager for the School of Music. Her responsibilities Creation, Faure’s Requiem, John Rutter’s Magnificat, at the Aspen Music Festival, an artist at the Banff Center in the business office are to support faculty, students Brahms’ Eine Deutsches Requiem and Handel’s Solomon. for the Arts, a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and a and staff with a variety of activities that range from Kness’ opera roles include Queen of the Night in The woodwind studio instructor on faculty at the University business processes to budgeting. Deb brings to her Magic Flute, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Monica of Maine. He has taught at Kingsborough College in role a broad array of skills in business, accounting, BRADFORD in The Medium, Lucy Honeychurch in the Midwest Brooklyn and the Manhattan School of Music, where he finance, project management, marketing and human premiere of A Room with a View, Madame Herz in received a doctorate in jazz arts. resources. She has an entrepreneurial background Der Schauspieldirektor, and Miss Titmouse in Edwin giving her in-depth experience in many aspects of Penhorwood’s Too Many Sopranos. She has been a Lisa R. Coons, Assistant Professor of Composition, the business environment. She has developed start- soloist with the Omaha Symphony Chamber Orchestra, received her Ph.D. in composition from Princeton ups and consulted in the private sector and non-profit

Lincoln Symphony, the Mozart Festival Orchestra in University in 2011. Prior music degrees include a organizations with strategic development. Deb holds a Indianapolis, the Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra, and master’s from SUNY Stony Brook and a bachelor’s from Bachelor of Science degree in finance from California the Bethany Messiah Festival Orchestra. the University of Missouri in Kansas City. State University Long Beach and will continue to work on her graduate studies in business at WMU. O’KEEFE 40 41 Faculty News NewsFACULTY

Christopher Biggs had five premieres of his thrilled to welcome her first baby, Alma Susana Vargas, compositions, including a premiere of a work for born April 13, 2012. cello and digital media at the Thailand International Composition Festival, and a work for toy piano and live Scott Cowan was awarded a sabbatical for the 2012– electronics at the Symposium on Arts and Technology. 13 year. He will be writing a book titled Tension and Scott Cowan CD release concert As a result of winning the MACRO/Truman State Release: An Analysis of Three of the Most Important Jazz International Composition Award, Biggs served as the Trumpeters of the 20th Century. He is in the final stage piano at the International Alliance for Women in Beijing, where she presented a week of master guest composer at the Truman State New Music Festival, of consideration for a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Music Congress at Northern Arizona University in classes and a solo/duo recital with bassist Tom where their Wind Symphony premiered his work. Biggs Award at The School of Creative Arts at The University September 2011. TubaCOR was a featured ensemble Knific. Professor Knific presented over 30 concerts adjudicated for the 2012 SEAMUS Conference in the of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Ireland. Cowan recently at Kalamazoo’s New Year’s Fest, and the ensemble and master classes with The Merling Trio in North audiovisual category and was a guest composer at recorded his second album, Jack’s Place, with a presented a full recital at the Women in Music Festival Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Colorado, Utah, Montana State University. He collaborated with other generous grant from WMU. The album features eleven at the Eastman School of Music in March 2012. Foulk Ohio and Michigan. She also appeared in recital at WMU faculty on Jinsha, an intermedia project involving original compositions. Members of NYC based trio and Deanna Swoboda will host the International San Francisco State University for the International dance, projection, digital audio, singers, and sculpture. TRI-FI are featured along with Chicago saxophonist Women’s Brass Conference on the WMU campus June Society of Bassists convention. John Wojciechowski. 6–10, 2012. David Colson performed as a percussionist in the Tom Knific was artist-in-residence at The China premiere of Pierre Jalbert’s Klang with piano duo Curtis Curtis-Smith’s cantata/melodrama Gold are my John Griffin was chosen as a Finalist of the International Conservatory, the 7th International Festival of Music Quattro Mani at Colorado College in October. Flowers was broadcast on September 9 on WMUK. Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011. In in Maputo, Mozambique, and the International Colson and Quattro Mani will record the new work for The work was released on CD September 1 by Albany recognition of his achievement, he was honored with Society of Bassists convention in San Francisco, where Bridge Records in August. He recently completed two Records, which also includes the composer’s A Civil a Diploma in Music Composition, awarded by the he performed a recital of his own works and gave compositions: Flying Backwards, a commission from the War Song Cycle. Gold are my Flowers was heard in National Academy of Music. The competition saw master classes. Knific also performed throughout the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, and a commission its entirety, preceded by a short interview with Cara more than 210 compositions from entrants from all U.S. with the WJQ, at the Jazz Educators Network from the College of Fine Arts in celebration of its 40th Lieurance. The following School of Music faculty are over the world, with more than 1,000 evaluations convention, and continues as Music Director at the anniversary titled Many Minds. In 2011–12, Colson heard on this recording: Renata and Tom Knific, Christine submitted by the members of the academy’s Artistic Midland Michigan Jazz Trails Festival, where he led Birds On A Wire (New Music Ensemble) in three Smith, Brad Wong, Scott Thornburg, Judy Moonert, Silvia Committee. conducted and performed with John Pizzarelli. He performances including the premiere of Brooklyn Roederer, and Conductor Joe Miller. Guest performers released the CD The Muse on Azica/Naxos Records, composer Max Duykers’ Apricots of Andujar featuring are soprano Carmen Pelton (University of Michigan) and Renata Knific was an artist-in-residence at the Orfeo with pianists Fred Hersch, John Knific, percussionist tenor John Duykers. baritone Jan Opalach (Metropolitan Opera). Festival in Italy, where she taught master classes and Jamey Haddad, and several WMU alumni. performed solo and chamber concerts with piano Martha Councell-Vargas performed solo recitals and Lin Foulk, pianist Helen Lukan, and WMU horn students artist Gilles Von Sattel and premiered a new work by Trent Kynaston was honored at the 32nd annual master classes at Ball State University and University of Jancie Philippus, Kelsey Anthon, and Molly Zebell Richard Cionco. Knific was artist-in-residence for the Western Invitational Jazz Festival on the occasion of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in the fall of 2011. She is also presented Ann Callaway’s Four Elements for horn and second time in three years at The China Conservatory, his retirement at the end of the 2011–12 academic

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In July 2011, Judy Moonert and Greg Secor (Coalescence and Kalamazoo. In February, Ratner was instrumental Percussion Duo – coalescencepercussionduo.com) were in bringing Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone Samuel guest artists for the “V Festival de Percusion” hosted Ramey to WMU to give master classes, individual by La Escuela Nacional de Musica in Tegucigalpa, coachings and a concert with the University Symphony Honduras. In September, Moonert researched African Orchestra and Collegiate Singers. In May, Ratner drumming styles at the Magbana African Drum Retreat in participated in Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin with Rhinebeck, N.Y., where she studied with Ibrahima Kolipe Opera Naples in Florida. Camara, M’Bembe Bangoura, and Famaro Dioubate from Guinea, Africa, and Michael Marcus, founder of Silvia Roederer made her Magbana Drums in NYC. In December, Moonert visited thespian debut in a Civic Havana, Cuba, to further research African influences in Auditorium production of 33 the traditional music of Cuba. Variations at this year’s Gilmore International Keyboard Festival! Alice Pierce attended the National Opera Association More traditional performances Convention in Memphis in January. There she included trio concerts in participated in the annual Cabaret event with the Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, songs of Arthur Schwartz. In September, Pierce and Lima, New York City, and

Trent Kynaston directs the University Jazz Orchestra on March 17, 2012, performing “The Great Divide,” the her students from WMU presented excerpts from La Washington, D.C. Fontana same piece he directed with the orchestra during his first year at WMU 39 years earlier. Traviata in cooperation with the Kalamazoo Symphony Chamber Arts performances Orchestra at several area high schools including this year included The Carnival year. The Festival’s closing concert featured remarks High School in Marietta, Ga., a top string program Kalamazoo Central, Portage Northern, Portage Central of the Animals with WMU by WMU Provost Tim Greene and Kalamazoo Mayor in the Atlanta area, the trio coached several chamber and Vicksburg. Pierce and pianist Gunta Laukmane also colleagues and her husband, Bobby Hopewell, and the announcement of an music groups and worked with the orchestra. In performed excerpts from La Traviata for the Kalamazoo pianist Leslie Tung, and a endowed scholarship bearing Kynaston’s name. Mankato, Minn., they worked with the Minnesota State Symphony Orchestra League’s September meeting. collaboration with violist Abhijit University Orchestra. The trio also worked extensively Sengupta. Roederer was also John Lychner served on the Executive Board for the with the venerable Itasca Orchestra and Strings In October 2011, Ken Prewitt presented recitals at a presenter of the lecture recital “Vive la femme” at Silvia Roederer Michigan Music Conference and was a presider Program at the Reif Center in Grand Rapids, Minn. Coastal Carolina University (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), the 2012 national conference of the Music Teachers for four sessions. He was invited to be the guest At InConcert Sierra in California, the trio presented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and National Association in New York City. conductor for the Michigan Home School Music a clinic for young chamber music performers, while gave master classes at Coastal Carolina, Virginia Tech, Network Honor Band, as well as guest lecturer at at the Community College of Baltimore County, they and North Greenville University (Greenville, S.C.). In Wendy Rose had a vibrant performance schedule with Wayne State University. Lychner hosted the National gave individual master classes to college students. addition, Prewitt, Karen Wicklund and Alice Pierce the Western Wind Quintet, appearing in Evanston, Home School Music Ensembles Advanced Band for presented Mozart’s opera, The Impresario, in recognition Ill.; Cleveland, Ohio; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; and an afternoon clinic, as well as the 4th Annual Joy In March of 2011, Michael Miller performed with of Wicklund’s retirement. At the end of February, Prewitt Chengdu, China. Rose organized and carried out a of Middle School Band Conference, featuring guest the Western Wind Quintet in the Bullock Concert returned to the Carolinas to present master classes Bassoon Ensemble recruiting tour in fall 2011, visiting composer and conductor Larry Clark. He also co- Series with such works as “Maladi” and “Shop at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Saline High School, Churchill High School (Livonia), hosted the Suddendorf All-Star Repertory Band Chorus” for Woodwind Quintet. Also in March, the Brevard College. and Plymouth-Canton High School. She was featured with David Montgomery during the annual Spring quintet provided numerous outreach performances in in a clinic for bassoonists at the Michigan Music Conference on Wind and Percussion Music. In May, western Michigan for recruiting purposes. In June of Carl Ratner toured as baritone soloist with the Bach Conference in Grand Rapids, accompanied by students Lychner completed his two-year term as President of 2011, Miller was hired to play English horn for the Ensemble of Naples, Fla., to Germany and the Czech from the WMU bassoon studio. In January, Rose began the Michigan Music Educators Association. Fort Wayne Symphony’s Summer Season. In August, Republic in July of 2011. In September he performed to conduct auditions via Skype with students in China he traveled to the Eastman School of Music to do Verdi’s La Traviata with the Kalamazoo Symphony and Greece. Rose coordinated the annual School of The Merling Trio (Susan Wiersma Uchimura, Bruce some research on a sabbatical proposal regarding Orchestra. He then completed a 14-city recital tour Music Chamber Music Festival on April 1, featuring the Uchimura, Renata Knific) had a busy year of an early 18th century collection of oboe sonatas by of songs by Russian, American, and Russian-American theme “Music of the Americas.” performance and recruitment activities. At Walton Giuseppe Sammartini. composers, with performances in St. Paul, Wheaton (Ill.),

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One of the highlights of Robert Spradling’s became the first jazz group invited to appear at the “Sesame Street” and “Knock Me a Kiss.” He also fall semester was the opportunity of spending International Festival of Music in Maputo, Mozambique. hosted the 32nd Gold Company Invitational Vocal a week in residence at Kansas State University, The WJQ appeared at the gala opening in the capital’s Jazz Festival and the 9th Steve Zegree Vocal Jazz where he taught rehearsal techniques and city hall for international dignitaries, in recitals, and Camp at WMU. His ensemble, Gold Company, error detection to undergraduate conducting with American opera stars. Trent Kynaston and Steve gave a featured performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center classes, worked with graduate conductors Zegree also performed at the in NYC. in individual and class sessions and guest home of U.S. Ambassador Leslie Professors Ed Roth and Ken Smith in Montreal conducted their Concert Band and Wind Rowe to a packed audience Margaret Hamilton, with music therapy students Ensemble in rehearsals and a performance. of international diplomats and College of Fine Arts Ed Roth traveled in November with Ken Smith and Spring highlights included a Symphonic Band tour African artists. The WJQ also Advising Director undergraduate students interested in music cognition to the east side of Michigan and hosting Jack Stamp made a repeat performance and School of Music to Dr. Dan Levitin’s lab at McGill University and the as the guest composer at the 44th annual Spring at The Marly Room series at Assistant Director, Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research Conference on Wind and Percussion Music in April. The Museum of Fine Arts in was selected for (BRAMS) at the University of Montreal. Professor Roth Spradling has also been invited to adjudicate the St. Petersburg, Fla. a WMU Make- was also awarded another grant through the 21st Florida Bandmasters Association High School Band A-Difference Century Program of Communities in Schools funded Performance Assessments being held in Tampa. Bradley Wong gave a Award this past by the U.S. Department of Education. The award has performance at the Vandoren Western Jazz Quartet fall. Hamilton was provided support for the continuation of his Promise In 2011, Matt Steel was selected by publisher Pearson Clarinet Ensemble Festival at Michigan State University, recognized for her outstanding service to students Project, which delivers Music Therapy services to five Prentice Hall to be a chief consultant for the new edition along with colleague Stephanie Hovnanian and WMU and faculty. In the School of Music she is responsible elementary schools, four middle schools, and both of Mark Evan Bonds’ widely used music history text, students. He made an appearance with the Holland for undergraduate music students, scheduling music Kalamazoo Central and Loy Norrix High Schools in Music in Western Culture. On March 8, Steel presented Symphony, playing the Mozart Concerto. With the classes and rooms, and coordination of New Student Kalamazoo. the paper “Restoring Faith in the Manuscript: A Copy Western Wind Quintet, Wong performed at a festival Audition Days and Freshman Summer Orientation. of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo virtutum” for the 18th in Honduras and a concert presented by the Rocky Her professional affiliations include membership Lori Sims played with the Ohio Valley Symphony Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and River Chamber Series in Ohio. He also coordinated in the Kalamazoo Symphony and the Lehigh Symphony Orchestra. She performed Renaissance Studies in Sarasota, Fla. “Western Winds in the Windy City,” a program Orchestra; the Kalamazoo Bach’s Goldberg Variations at several Michigan including the Western Wind Quintet and the Graduate Musicians Union, Local 228; colleges, culminating with her performance at the As a conductor/educator, Bruce Uchimura guest Wind Quintet at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols and Pi Kappa Lambda 2012 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. She will conducted high school orchestra festivals in St. Joseph, Hall. Wong continues to perform with the Southwest honor society. Hamilton release two new solo piano CDs on the Naxos label, Jenison, Forest Hills, Walled Lake, Hudsonville, and Michigan Symphony and the Chamber Music Festival first worked in the School one CD with Romantic favorites and the other with Wayland, Mich. He also served on the jury of the of Saugatuck. Guest clarinetists Wong helped bring of Music after receiving a American masterpieces. distinguished William C. Byrd String Competition to WMU this year included Paquito D’Rivera, David Master of Music degree 2012 held by the Flint Institute of Music. He was a Shifrin, Janet Hilton, Phil Paglialonga, Gail Zugger, from Western. David Smith and his co-author of an article titled faculty member at the Sleepy Hollow Chamber Music and Mauricio Salguero. Margaret Hamilton “Community Music Activity in the United States: An Festival and taught at the Calvin College String Summit. Overview of Origins and Evolution” were recently He also became a charter faculty member of “Cello: Steve Zegree gave clinics and workshops at state contacted by the editors of the International Journal of An American Experience” held at St. Olaf College in music educator conventions in New York, Michigan, Community Music for permission to reprint the article in Northfield, Minn. Uchimura also taught at the ARIA Connecticut and Indiana, and at the ACDA Eastern a special focus issue. A recent community music related International Summer Academy at Mt. Holyoke College Division Convention in Providence, R.I. He conducted presentation at the 2012 Michigan Music Conference in Massachusetts. the all-state vocal jazz ensembles in Nebraska and was titled “Music Educators: A Vital Force in Community Missouri, and served on the jury of the World Choir Music.” Other recent presentations included sessions at The Western Jazz Quartet had an exotic year, Games in Cincinnati. Zegree wrote four new choral the 13th Annual American Music Therapy Association performing around the U.S., in the WMU community arrangements published by Hal Leonard: “Bring Him Conference in Atlanta, Ga. and also appearing on two hour-long episodes of Home,” “More I Cannot Wish You,” Theme from WMUK’s Jazz Currents. In May 2011, the WJQ

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As a composer, Dr. Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards. Dr. RECENT Ricci has written Wicklund’s performances have included a Messiah at for a wide variety DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids, recitals in St. Petersburg, of media including Russia, at the Sheremetyevsky Palace, Carmina Burana symphony orchestra, in Austin, Texas, and solo appearances with the string quartet, clarinet, WMU Orchestra and Grand Chorus in Beethoven’s solo voice, chorus, Ninth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem. Retirements jazz ensemble, wind ensemble and various chamber combinations. Steve Zegree, the Bobby He has also composed McFerrin Distinguished Professor Curtis Curtis-Smith joined Kynaston has performed with such notable jazz artists Robert several works for solo of Music, retired from Western the WMU faculty in 1968, as Art Farmer, Red Rodney, Billy Hart, Bobby Shew, piano. His compositions Michigan University after 34 where he has taught piano, Mark Murphy, Kenny Werner, and Randy Brecker. have also received years as director of Gold music theory, and composition. His recordings with the Western Jazz Quartet include RICCI awards, and among Company, and an instructor of An internationally recognized Live at the Akwarium Jazz Club, Firebird, Blue Harts, his commissions is one by the Rockefeller Foundation piano and jazz theory. composer, he is the recipient Sabine’s Dance, Turtles, The Waning Moon, and (Summer Music for Woodwind Quintet, 1967). of over 100 grants, awards, Mayan Myths. Kynaston also attained the coveted Internationally recognized as and commissions, including gold Medaille d’Honeur in saxophone and chamber As a performing artist, Dr. Ricci regularly plays as a a vocal jazz conductor and a Guggenheim Fellowship, music from the Conservatoire National de Musique de solo pianist and with groups such as the Ken Morgan educator, Dr. Zegree is also the Koussevitzky Prize at Bordeaux, France. Jazz Unit, the Frank Silva Quartet, the Kalamazoo Big active as a pianist, arranger, Band, and the Neal Collection. and producer. As pianist with Tanglewood, the Prix du Salabert, In addition, Kynaston is Steve the Western Jazz Quartet he Curtis and grants from the American the recipient of Down has recorded four CDs and Academy of Arts and Letters, Beat magazine’s annual Karen Wicklund began ZEGREE performed throughout the world. CURTIS-SMITH the Rockefeller Foundation, the Achievement Award for teaching voice in the Zegree’s choral arrangements have been published National Endowment for the Jazz Education, and the School of Music in by Hal Leonard, Warner Bros., Alfred Publications Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and most Outstanding Service 1997. She was also a and Shawnee Press, and he has produced several recently commissions from the Barlow Endowment and Award, and the Dean’s Clinic Supervisor at the recordings, including Mark Murphy Sings the Nat the Harvard University Fromm Foundation. His music Outstanding Teaching Van Riper Clinic, part King Cole Songbook on Muse Records. His students is published by Theodore Presser, Marks Music, and Award from the WMU of the WMU College are among today’s leaders in the field of jazz and Editions Salabert. At age 38, he was the youngest College of Fine Arts. of Health and Human pop performance, Broadway, studio production, faculty member ever awarded WMU’s Distinguished He received the Services, where she arranging, and music education. Faculty Scholar Award, the university’s highest Trent Distinguished Teaching served as a speech- academic honor. In 2001, his Twelve Etudes for Piano Award in 2007, and language pathologist. Steve Zegree will join the faculty of Indiana University were selected for the repertoire list for the Eleventh Van was WMU’s 2008 Karen Dr. Wicklund is the in fall 2012 as the Pam and Jack Burks Professor of Cliburn International Piano Competition. KYNASTON “Professor of the Year.” winner of numerous Music and director of the Singing Hoosiers. WICKLUND awards, among them As a faculty member at Western since 1973, Trent Robert Ricci was Professor of Composition and Jazz the First Place Winner Kynaston taught not only hundreds of classical and Studies at WMU since 1968. He has been published of the San Francisco Opera Center Auditions, jazz saxophonists, but founded and led the University by the Music Educators Journal, and is a frequent Metropolitan Opera Regional Semi-Finalist, National Jazz Orchestra. Along with Professor Robert Ricci, contributor to the Keyboard Classics and The Piano Finalist in the American Opera Auditions and Emma Kynaston helped to create the School of Music’s Jazz Stylist magazines with articles pertaining to jazz Roe Award Winner, Ragland Opera Fellowship at Studies program. harmony and composition. Northwestern University, Emma Roe and Union League Awards, and National Finalist in the 1981 National

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27 Bowersox, Kathlyn 41 Christian, Daniel and Jill 1 Dailey, Kathleen 1 Dzwik, Mark and Niki 7 Bowman, Jean 1 Ciejka, Jan and Teresa 9 Daneman, Marc 10 Edgerton, Janice 15 Bradfield, James 1 Cioe, Greg and Sally and Linda 6 Edwards, Michael B. and Mildred 5 Clevenger, Robert 2 Dauw, Louis and Beverly 24 Edwards, William 1 Bradshaw, Candyce and Pamela 21 Davidson, Clifford 20 Ehrle, Nancy 2 Breu, Marlene 11 Closz, David and Clare 1 Davidson, Louise 15 Elder, J. Stewart 24 Briere, A. Robert 5 Clough, Donald 4 Davis, Robert and M. Irene and Betsy and Pamela and Barbara 1 Elkus, Robert and Robin 36 Brill, Marilyn 1 Clouse, Janelle 2 Decker, Larry and Debra 2 Ellis, Donald and Lois 2011 5 Bristol, David and Mary 24 Colgren, Joan 24 DeDee, Bruce 34 Ellis, Jack and Joellyn 1 Brooks, Rena 24 Collins, William and Dorothy 24 Emerson, Ted and Helen 2 Brown, Kurt D. and Carol 11 DeForrest, Maxine 1 Endias, Robert 5 Brown, Larry 1 Combie, Christopher 35 Dehn, Roger and Eileen Stryker and Cynthia 27 Combs, William and Barbara 35 Engelke, Hans Honor 1 Brown, Sherri Jo and Marie 14 DeLaney-Lehman, 13 Evans, Julie Roll 25 Bruce, Barbara 1 Conaton, James Maureen 1 Ewers, Landon This Honor Roll recognizes those persons and agencies who contributed to the School of Music in 2011. 3 Bruner, Karen and Carolyn 5 DeLaney, Robin M. 6 Facktor, Matthew The number of years since 1970 that each donor has contributed is indicated to the left of each name. 5 Bullock, Andrew 31 Conly, Lisle and Anita 1 Della Pia, Joyce Diane 15 Facktor, Michael Western Michigan University and the School of Music express sincere appreciation to all who have and Barbara 27 Connable, Tenho 6 DeRubeis, Paul and Carolyn made the Annual Fund Campaign a success. Your generosity and support reflect pride and confidence 35 Bullock, Mary 1 Cooley, Robert and and Darlene 30 Farrand, James C. in what we are doing, and we appreciate that very much. Thank you! 22 Bunda, Mary Anne Sarah McFerran 1 DeRuiter, Ronald 12 Farris, Barbara 19 Burkey, Jeff and 3 Corak, Robert and Susan and Carol 40 Faustman, Marcella Every effort has been made to ensure that all listings are as complete and accurate as possible. Occasionally, however, errors do Merrikay Oleen-Burkey 6 Cordier, Sherwood 37 Detgen, Corbin 1 Ferguson, Stephen occur. Please report any errors to the School of Music at (269) 387-4671. 2 Busch, Ellen and Mary and Dixie and Constance 1 Bush, Terry and Lori 3 Cornhill, Harold 19 Detter, Larry and Diane 3 Fischer, David 33 Bussard, Leonard and Barbara 1 Diewald, Leo and Janet and Mary Ellen and Sharon 4 Courtney, Bob and Laura 17 Doerr, Robert 2 Fisher, Kenneth 17 Buttermore, Margaret 1 Covault, Maureen 7 Dolan, James 32 Fisher, Marilyn 1 Cafagna, Carl 9 Cox, Steven and Janice 42 Doubleday, Carl 2 Fitzpatrick, Heather 15 Adams, Mary L. 8 Anne, Loretta 3 Beauregard, Patrick 4 Cafaro, John and Beth 4 Crippin, Judith 17 Douglas, Fred 2 Fitzwater, Milton 4 Ajibade, Oba 29 Appel, William and Jean and Christina 7 Cake, Peter and Marilyn 12 Crocker, Sandra Larson and Nancy and Karin and Jamila 1 Archer, Ronald 1 Beck, Benjamin 14 Carr, David and Deana 11 Cron, Kenneth 28 Dundas, Michael 1 Flynn, Patrick 1 Alario, Mark and Anne 1 Aronson, Justine 20 Beech, George 1 Carter, Cameron Craig and Jolene and Pamela and Rennee 3 Allison, Marie 5 Artist, Jim and Beatrice 23 Carter, Sara 3 Cropsey, Susan 2 Dunham, Malcolm 35 Fonken, Gunther 18 Altermatt, Robert 6 Atkinson, James E. 1 Bell, Leatrice 8 Casebeer, Karen L. 13 Cuddeback, Bruce and Nadine and Agnes Hughes and Kristen Gilbert and Loretta L. 3 Benedict, Barbara 4 Cavis, Anthony 8 Culley, Jim and Kathy 2 Dunn, John and Linda 2 Formsma, Carolyn 1 Amos, David and Lori 16 Avery, John D. 11 Bennett, Jack and Elsie and Janelle 4 Curry, Edwin 19 Dvorak, David 5 Fornarotto, Carmine 13 Anderson, Margaret 12 Azkoul, Robert 1 Bennink, James 1 Ceru, Victor and Barbara and Audrey A. 2 Dyer, Michael and Marie 1 Anderson, William 4 Bailey, Jennifer 1 Betz, Michael 5 Chormann, Richard 24 Curtis-Smith, Curtis and Theda 6 Frank, Lawrence 11 Andert, Jeffrey and Diane 1 Bailey, Richard and Connie and Carolyn 1 D’Arcangelis, Judith 2 Dyl, Sandra and Kenneth and Mary Louise 5 Andrews, Thomas and Gudrun 1 Bild, Stephen and Laurel 4 Baker, Bernard 39 Bjerregaard, Carl and Carol Ann and Marcia 1 Ballen, Harold 1 Black, Carla 1 Balz, Alice 4 Blanchard, Dale 2 Barr, Thomas 1 Blashill, Mary Gail 1 Bartel, Candace 4 Blickle, Peter 25 Bate, Sherry 18 Bluett, Maureen 18 Baxter, Terry 16 Boelkins, Paul and Mary and Stephen Jefferson 1 Boersma, Teresa 4 Beal, Pamela 5 Bothwell, Donald and William Walma and Betty

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14 Friedman, Franklin 8 Hamlin, Dixie Lee 2 Johns, Elaine 3 Levenburg, Nancy 5 McCullough, Brian T. 2 Mueller, Paul and Sharon 35 Papakhian, Mary 12 Ritchie, William and Rae 7 Hamm, Howard 1 Johns, Suzanne 11 Lewis, Angela 2 McGee, Harrison 2 Murdoch, Nancy 19 Park, Melba and Patricia 2 Frizzell, Guy, Jr. 11 Hamner, H. Nicholas 33 Jones, Stephen and Linda 1 Lewis, Sandra 3 McHugh, James and Greg 12 Parker, Derek and Nancy 15 Rizzo, Ronald 1 Frost, Michael 1 Harrington, Rev. Sally Kay 2 Jose, Lawrence 5 Lewy, Jane 15 McKindley, Homer 7 Murphy, Daniel 1 Paul, Douglas and Susan 13 Rodenhouse, Robert H. Jr. 24 Frost, Paul and Mari 3 Harris, Douglas 4 Jung, Norman 6 Liechty, Douglas 35 McKindley, Jack 7 Murphy, Michael 16 Perez-Stable, Maria 3 Rohs, Henry, Jr. and Carol 5 Gadwood, Robert 2 Hartwell, Brian and Barbro and Diana and Nancy and Mary 1 Persky, Brian 5 Rohs, John and Elizabeth and Kathleen 12 Harvey, Beverly 3 Kaczor, Jeffrey 6 Lincoln, Joyce 3 McKinley, Marilyn 8 Murphy, Violet and Danielle 26 Rolfe, James 17 Gagie, Joe and Sandra 1 Hayes, John and Janice and Shannon 1 Lindeman, Edward 15 McNally, Joyce 1 Murvay, Mark 1 Peterman, William and Margaret 1 Galer, Mary 2 Hayes, Ruth 2 Kahn, Wilma Jean and Carole 8 McNamara, Mary Alice 13 Musgrove, George and Debra 14 Roosa, Douglas 5 Gamble, Clara 17 Hearron, Martha 41 Kasdorf, Thomas 31 Loen, Orlin and Helen 5 Mellema, Douglas C. and Adeline 18 Petersen, John and Karen and Nancy 12 Gardner, J. Alex 1 Heath, Harry and Nancy and Gail 16 Longnecker, Josephine and Robin Marie 35 Myckowiak, Scott 6 Phillips, Linda 2 Rosenbaum, Louis and M. Arlene 1 Heavey, Allan and Shirley 1 Kasperski, Rich and Judy 25 Lorch, Glenn and Claire 12 Melson, Karen and Barbara 4 Pierce, John and Alice 3 Rounds, James 20 Garrett, Andree A. 2 Heckler, Jay and Diane 2 Kempe, David and Karen 19 Lower, John and Lucy 1 Melvin, Timothy 3 Namenye, Steven 11 Pierce, William 1 Roush, Pam 15 Garrett, Christopher 10 Hegel, Robert and 6 Kenney, Daryl and Denise 31 Lund, John 24 Meretta, James and Kristy and Linda and Ann Paulson 1 Rowe, Charles and Sally and Dawn Margaret 8 Kerr, Kathleen 18 Lundgren, Dennis 5 Merkel, Anne and Tim 1 Neis, William and Amy 30 Pikaart, Marilyn 2 Rozelle, David and Sandy 16 Geil, Robert and Marilyn 24 Heinig, Edward and Ruth 17 Kessel, Constance and Colleen 12 Merrion, John 4 Nelson, Sarah 1 Pinkster, Michael 12 Rudlaff, Harold 9 Geis, Michael 5 Heintz, Richard 1 Ketchum, Laura Jane 3 Luther, Marjorie and Margaret 2 Newton, Tyler Scott and Nancy 40 Russell, Freeman and Barbara 1 Hendrix, Renee 22 King, Charles III 5 Lyster, Linda 2 Meskauskas, Ann and Susan Hoeker 1 Ploughman, Theodore 21 Russell, Richard and Lynn 13 Gettel, Mary and Charles 6 King, James 1 MacDonald, Judy 6 Meyer, Christopher 15 Nickora, Robert 15 Porter, Ann Mason 10 Russell, Scott 8 Gianakaris, C.J. 11 Heng, Melissa 14 Kirk, Vonda 39 Machowski, Thomas 8 Meyer, Michael Dean and Sandra 16 Pregler, Martha and Carol Bullock and Ann 27 Hester, Jackson 1 Kirsten, Marc 1 Macknosky, Dee and Karen Ruth 10 Nielsen, George M. 5 Prouty, Ronald 30 Ryan, Thomas 24 Gilson, Catherine 1 Heyboer, Douglas and Georgienne 12 MacNellis, Paul 31 Michelson, David and 8 Niessink, Catherine Ann and Christine 31 Ryden, Thomas and Linda 11 Giovannini, Dorothy and Diane 14 Kirton, Kenneth and Gail Diane Weiss-Michelson 31 Nodievs, Valdis 19 Pula, Barbara 6 Salerno, Christine 3 Gist, Nancy 26 Hickok, Joyce and Marlena 10 Madden, I. Charles 1 Migliaccio, Michelle 1 Nordstrom, Nancy and Nick Ostrosky 34 Sandelin, Joyce and Karl 36 Glinski, Patricia Gustine 4 Hill, Rodney and Arlene 16 Klein, Leo and Marcia and Susan 10 Milakovich, Richard 19 Nosotti, Gerald and 18 Putney, Mark Timothy 8 Sanford, Victoria 12 Goldsberry, Barbara 7 Hoger, Phyllis 1 Kraai, Rev. Mark 3 Madeira, Jay and Kathy and Katherine Margaret Carravetta and Sally 1 Savage, Maureen 6 Goodman, Gregory 17 Holmes, John and B. Lyn 5 Kramer, Richard 9 Mailhot, Michelle Mary 2 Miller, Gordon and Tonya 20 O’Hearn, Richard 1 Randell, Robert and Mary 1 Sayles, Harold and Karla 1 Holmes, Robert and Pamela 19 Malewitz, Mary 9 Miller-Adams, Michelle 14 O’Reilly, Sharon 1 Rapp, Jason and Susan and Elizabeth 21 Graczyk, Dennis and Grace 1 Krell, Marjorie and Stephen 19 Minert, Paul and Ruth 3 Obed, Martin 25 Rappeport, Phyllis 4 Schaffert, Lee and Nancy 3 Grandstaff, Russell 23 Hong, Yat-Lam 5 Kreuzer, Barbara 1 Mally, Dennis 2 Moore, Ronald L. and Pamela 11 Rasmussen, Lawrence 33 Schaffhauser, Maureen and Anne and Barbara 8 Krupiczewicz, Edward 3 Mancuso, Debra 2 Morgan, Rayleen 11 Oliphant, Judith and Sharon 2 Scheibner, Walter 17 Grapes, David 27 Hood, Patricia and Mary 1 Mansager, Pamela and Richard 14 Oppenlander, Richard 3 Ray, Harold and Shirley 35 Schippers, Eleanor and Dawn 12 Hoogerheide, John 33 Kuch, John and Martha 7 Marcotte, Carrie E. 1 Morison, Elizabeth 6 Orr, Harrison G. 23 Reed, Gerald and Jeanne 19 Schma, William 14 Gray, Robert and Jane 17 Kulesza, Joanne 5 Marrison, Roger 2 Morison, William and Gloria 3 Reeve, Barbara Thomas and Geraldine and Barbara 2 Hook, David and Kim 9 Kunitzer, Daniel 1 Martin, Patricia and Judy 12 Osborne, Oliver 30 Richmond, Thomas 6 Schoendorff, Edward 5 Greanya, Sharon Kay 42 Horton, Victor and Kristin and Catherine 1 Mason, Dorothy 1 Morley, June and Marilyn and Audrey and Suzanne 4 Griesbach, Donald 10 Howard, Royce 12 Kus, Christina 28 Mason, Larry and Nancy 8 Morong, Stephen 12 Oster, Robert 8 Riepma, Randall 15 Schosker, Brenda J. and Catherine and Barbara 1 Kusku, John and Jessica 41 Mason, Philip and Thana 5 Osterwald, Helen B. and Annette 3 Schreibman, Eric 12 Griffin, Mary Alice 24 Hsieh, Philip and Emmy 4 Lambert, Thomas and Coral Lee 27 Morris, William 2 Ostrowsky, Stuart 18 Rikkers, James and Diane and Janice 14 Griffin, Robert 5 Hunter, Cynthia and Amy and Donna 7 Massingill, Dennis and Carol and Tamara 2 Rinker, Lowell 21 Schreiner, Carol and Christina 3 Hyde, Earl and Nancy 2 Lamborn, James and Sandra 4 Morse, Judy 8 Overton, David and Kathleen 1 Schulze, Mark and Lisa 33 Griffin, Tim 2 Irving, Merle and Sheila and Marilyn 9 Mastin, Cal and Alice 1 Morton, Olivia and Carol and Susan Drow 2 Issa, A.D. and Dulce 10 Lams, Theresa A. 17 Mathews, Julie 19 Grys, Edward 21 Iversen, Evelyn 3 Landig, Jeremy 1 Matthews, Rev. Dale and Gloria 13 Jacklich, Joel 9 Lang, Antone and Catharina 12 Haenicke, Carol 4 Jacobs, Jo and Deborah 4 Matuszek, Peter 17 Hagemann, John 2 Jacobs, Thomas 12 Larson, Lee and Pamela and Heather and Cora Lee and Leslie 3 Laslie, Douglas 20 Maxey, B. William 24 Hahnenberg, Willard 4 James, Andrew and Nancy and Jeannette and Donnita 22 Jarvie, Joseph 2 Lay, Robert and Maxine 11 Maxey, Benjamin 1 Halpin, Brenna 2 Jayme, Mari Anne 10 Leftwich, Delores and Sandra Sims 23 Hamilton, Margaret 25 Jennings, Robert 10 Lehman, Louis 2 Maxwell, Yvonne and Rodney Carpenter and Geraldine 17 Lepak, Elizabeth 2 McAvoy, Christine Carol

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4 Schwartz, Scott 11 Steel, Matthew 7 Waddington, Lori K. 24 Working, Dale and Kendra Rose and Rebecca 1 Waldburger, Keith and Marcia 3 Schwarzwalder, Monte 30 Stein, William and Susan 3 Yamaguchi, Katsuhisa and Rebecca 10 Stewart, Marilyn 5 Walker, Douglas and Eri 20 Scott, Donald 1 Stillwell, Vern and Lyda and Genevieve 33 Yarger, Kathryn 2 Scovel, Mary 26 Stock, Daniel and Diane 25 Walser, James and Joyce 1 Youells, Rev. Richard and Rev. Ward 1 Sudduth, Steven 5 Walter, Marsha and Carol 21 Sears, Kingsley and Shawn 30 Wank, Jean Carol 19 Yuda, Kayleen Remembering 5 Seaver, Peter 8 Swoboda, James and Lori 24 Warren, Cheryl 29 Zastrow, Joyce and Elizabeth 4 Szkody, Amy 1 Warren, Diane 1 Ziemelis, Lisa 5 Seiler, David and Linda 12 Takeda, Mary Ellen 27 Warren, Valerie 7 Zimmer, Margaret Ann 18 Seiter, Marcia 3 Talaga, Stephen and Jean 2 Waters, Sarah E. 13 Zito, Vito F. and Kathryn 9 Sell, Alan 1 Taurins, Pat 1 Weaver, Rex Albert Marcella Faustman, professor emerita of music at Western Michigan 11 Serne, Patrick and June 4 Taylor, David and Susan and Mary Ann Organizations and Corporations University, died May 1, 2011. She was 104. Marcella was born on April 20 Sexton, Gary and Susan 40 Tennant, William 25 Wechter, Rose 14, 1907, in Moberly, Mo. She married Philip F. Faustman III on August 27, 3 Shales, Michael and John and Joianne 1 Weddon, Todd 4 Burdick-Thorne Foundation 1950, who preceded her in death on September 15, 2008. Her career at 21 Shamu, Robert and Judith 1 Tesar, Timon 24 Wedell, Steven 7 Carroll Haas Foundation 13 Shaw, James and Virginia 35 Thees, Gerald and Emilie and Beverly of Mendon WMU spanned nearly three decades, joining the faculty in 1949 as a vocal 7 Shaw, Margaret 17 Thole, Nola Matthews 14 Weidner, Raymond 11 Fetzer Institute instructor and retiring in 1977. She was a member of the National Honor 18 Shea, Eric 1 Thomas, James and Margaret 2 Fidelity Charitable Society, Actors Equity, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Sigma Gift Fund 39 Sheldon, David and Marie 2 Weirich, Kyle and Tracey Alpha Iota and the American Association of University Professors. Marcella and Barbara 9 Thompson, Anne Marie 1 Wells, Dale and Dawn 1 First Presbyterian Church, enjoyed 30 years of boating with her husband, cruising the Great Lakes 17 Shook, Christopher 9 Thompson, Danny 26 Wentworth, Thomas Kalamazoo and Katherine and Shirley and Carolyn 31 IBM Corporation during the summer months on their Trawler, “Spray.” 2 Shoup, Nancy 30 Thompson, James 3 Westmacott, 2 Kalamazoo Community 2 Shugars, Glen and Lola Margaret Yost Foundation Robert W. Holmes, founding dean of the Western Michigan University 1 MEEMIC Insurance and Janice 21 Tillman, Don and Dianne 9 Wetherbee, William College of Fine Arts, died Oct. 10, 2011, in Oregon. He was 82. A resident 23 Simonds, Robert 29 Tindall, Charles and Linda Company of Lake Oswego, Ore., Holmes came to WMU in 1966 to serve as chair of and Beverly and Susan 2 Whaley, Philip 7 Nancy M. Hamilton 27 Sluiter, Marla 12 Todd, Robert and Frances Living Trust the Department of Music. In 1972, he was selected as the first dean of the 13 Sluyter, Anne and Anne Margaret 22 Whaley, Robert 1 North American newly created College of Fine Arts, combining the departments of art, dance, 3 Small, David and Karen 11 Tolhuizen, Peter and Judith Choral Company music and theatre. Near the end of his tenure as dean, ground was broken for 36 Pharmacia Foundation 1 Smith, C. Edward and Cheri 9 Wheaton, Harold what would become the Dalton Center, home of the WMU School of Music and Louise 7 Tomlinson, Richard and Bonnie 33 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Department of Dance. He also was historian and program annotator for 20 Smith, David E. 3 Torrance, M. Edward 8 White, Arthur Delta Iota Chapter 32 Smith, Fay and Marilyn and Elizabeth 1 R. B. Wiser & Associates the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. 4 Smith, James 5 Toth, Renee 1 White, Constance 1 Robert Z. Cortes 18 Smith, R. Ann 1 Tracy, Brent and Carla 1 White, Helen Memorial Fund Robert “Bobby” Davidson, professor emeritus of music at Western Michigan 1 Schupan & Sons, Inc. 3 Smith, Richard 1 Ulrich, Wendy 1 Whitehead, William University, died on June 3, 2012. He was 94. Born in Traverse City, Mich., and Connie 27 VanDecar, Barbara and Nancy 13 Sentry Insurance Bobby lived in Kalamazoo from the age of ten. After returning to Kalamazoo 1 Smith, Robert 2 VanderMeulen, Pamela 17 Whitten, James Foundation, Inc. 15 Smith, Robert L. 6 VanderMolen, Kenneth 36 Widener, Barbara 1 The Berghoef/Boyle (from WWII) in late 1945 he formed the Bobby Davidson Orchestra, which and Carol Payne and Anne 1 Wienir, Paul and Linda Foundation provided the musical accompaniment for many visiting celebrities including 1 Smith, Shirley 7 VanNess, Ross 37 Wiersma, Rose M. 1 The JP Morgan The Hi Lows, Pat Boone, The Four Freshmen and Bob Hope. Bobby taught Chase Foundation 4 Snyder, Carole and Harlean 2 Wiley, Kathy at WMU beginning in 1952 and founded the University Jazz Lab Band. In 1 Snyder, Jennifer 21 Varpa, Mara 11 Williams, D. Terry 8 Tyler-Little Family 1982 the Jazz Lab Band was invited to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival 18 Soga, Michitoshi 6 Verdonk, Chris and Sylvia and Sharon Foundation 25 Spencer, Marilyn 1 Vince, Alycia 2 Williams, James 2 Vanguard Charitable in Switzerland. That same year the WMU School of Music honored him 3 Spring, Casey Y. 1 Virgil, Sanita and Elaine Endowment Program as the “Godfather of Jazz” in recognition of his 35 years of service to the 20 Stafford, Dixie 31 Vitale, William V. 8 Wiltse, Richard A. 1 William Wrigley Jr. university. Bobby was the recipient of the 1991 Irving S. Gilmore Community Company 6 Stang, Michael 5 Vliek, Gerald 13 Wise, Carl Medal of Arts Award for his lifelong contribution and commitment to the arts 1 Start, Elizabeth and Virginia and Helen Dolan in the community. 16 Statler, Geraldine R. 2 Vreeland, Charles 4 Wood, Jay and Linda 12 Woodworth, Nettie 54 55 2012

2011–2012

Javier Alvarez, Composer Samuel Ramey, Bass-Baritone Peter Bagley, Conductor Sandra Rivers, Piano Jay Batzner, Composer Gail Robertson, Euphonium Shawn Bell Quartet Christine Salerno and ZIJI Fred Hersch, Piano and Composer Justin Benavidez, Tuba Mauricio Salguero, Clarinet Janet Hilton, Clarinet Gene Bertoncini, Guitar John Sampen, Saxophone Edith Hines, Baroque Violin Alex Brown, Piano San Francisco Jazz Collective Jon Holden, Clarinet Mark Bunce, Composer and Engineer Nina Schumann and Lúis Magalháes, Piano Pat Hughes, Horn Roger Chase, Viola Dan Scott, String Education Specialist Naoko Imafuku, Piano Larry Clark, Conductor Kendrick Scott, Drums JaLaLa Evan Conroy, Bass Trombone Mira Shifrin, Flute Lia Jensen-Abbott, Piano Mike Crotty, Multi-instrumentalist Alan Siebert, Trumpet Mayumi Kanagawa, Violin Vocal Coach and Piano Composer Vera Danchenko-Stern, (Stulberg Silver Medalist) Mark Snyder, Joel Davel, Percussion Jack Stamp, Conductor and Composer Christopher Kantner, Flute The Quincy Davis Project Elizabeth Start, Cello Kontras String Quartet Alissa Deeter, Soprano John Chappell Stowe, Organ and Harpsichord Massimo LaRosa, Trombone Detroit Symphony Orchestra Brass Players Mihai Tetel, Cello Dan Levitin, Neuroscientist Piano Piano Ron DiSalvio, and Cognitive Psychologist Yu-Lien The, Paquito D’Rivera, Clarinet, Saxophone, Walter Thompson, Soundpainter and Composer The Dave Liebman Group and Composer Trollstilt Andrew List, Composer John Duykers, Tenor Dan Trueman, Composer Paul Loesel, Piano and Composer Euclid Quartet Verdehr Trio Donny McCaslin, Saxophone The Fisk Jubilee Singers Lauren Veronie, Euphonium ® Anthony McGill, Clarinet Matthew Fries, Piano Mihoko Watanabe, Flute Miranda Sings! NPR’s From the Top Glenn Welch, Euphonium Deb Moriarty, Piano Cheryl Greene, Soprano John Wojciechowski, Saxophone Orchid Ensemble Groove for Thought Jacqueline Wright, Flute Christopher O’Riley, Piano Gary Hammond, Piano Mialtin Zhezha, Violin Phil Palombi, Double Bass Stefon Harris, Vibraphone Gail Zugger, Clarinet PEN Trio Raymond Harvey, Piano and Conductor Thomas Zugger, Trombone