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Chinese drums await the fall concert season at Blair See pull-out, pages 10 & 11 Musicology scholars on a roll page 3 F A L L 2 0 0 8 Cover photo by John Russell The BLAIR QUARTER NOTE, the newsletter Global Music Archive of the Blair School of Music, is published twice a year in cooperation with Development and Alumni Relations Communications for alumni, current now “live” on the Internet students and other friends of the school.

The BLAIR QUARTER NOTE, Volume 32, he Global Music Archive recent- ister of culture and the director of the Number 2, Fall 2008 ly launched its first database, the National Theatre in Uganda in hopes of © 2008 by . Department All rights reserved. T Digital Collection of East creating a partnership with Makerere African Recordings, consisting of over University that would provide training Editor, Bonnie Arant Ertelt Art Director, Donna DeVore Pritchett 2,000 discrete musical performances for the project, so that the staff and fac- The musicology department at Blair is a place where scholars flourish Designer, Chris Collins recorded by Centurio Balikoowa, a ulty there can make local contributions ONRUSSELL JOHN Contributors, Jim Patterson, Kami Rice, musician from Uganda. Co-curators, t would seem that to be a musicolo- and Holling Smith-Borne Holling Smith-Borne, director of the gist, one must be a scholarly jack- Associate Dean for Development and Wilson Music Library, and Gregory F. of-all-trades,a proverbial “Renaissance” Alimni Relations, Virginia Payne RenaissanceI Director of External Affairs, Cindy Steine Barz, associate professor of musicology man or woman, for the discipline takes (ethnomusicology) at Blair, are pleased its direction from multiple viewpoints Precollege, adult and undergraduate alumni are encouraged to send their to provide free access to this digital and employs multiple modes of inquiry. professional or personal news to: library of field recordings from Uganda, Sociology,art history,literary studies, aes-

The BLAIR QUARTER NOTE completed after a peer-review process thetics, psychology—not to mention 2400 Blakemore Avenue that included other archivists, librarians musical performance—all inform what Nashville, TN 37212-3499 and curators from around the world. the Grove Music Dictionary defines as Or by e-mail to: The sound recordings, which vary in the “scholarly study of music.” [email protected] length from five minutes to over an The Blair School is fortunate to have Undergraduate alumni news now hour, can be streamed directly to a lis- many “scholars of music” who are con- appears in both Vanderbilt Magazine’s tributing to various specialties within class notes section and in The BLAIR tener’s computer using the RealPlayer QUARTER NOTE. Any news sent by application. the discipline. From how music informs undergraduate alumni is forwarded to AIDS education in east Africa to stud- Vanderbilt Magazine. Smith-Borne visited Uganda for two weeks this summer to collaborate with ies of how music was taught during Visit us on the Web at Balikoowa, the chief recordist for the medieval times, from the popular music www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/ archive, while continuing to collect field of the barrios of Los Angeles to the com- Vanderbilt University is committed recordings and witnessing the recording plete works of Carl Philipp Emanuel to principles of equal opportunity Bach—Blair’s musicologists are covering and affirmative action. process first-hand. “We traveled to rural parts of Uganda A local artist in Uganda listens to a recording of his new territory and contributing to intel- music. Most artists there had never heard them- lectual history at an astonishing rate where musicians welcomed us and selves on a recording, so time was spent allowing shared their music and dance. The them to listen to their music. through their scholarship and recordings. STEVE GREEN recording session would start early in the morning with one ensemble, then the to the archive without first sending the Greg Barz, associate professor of musi- word would get passed on to other musi- materials to Blair. cology (ethnomusicology), is known cians in the community, and several In late July, Steven Nordstrom, music for his studies of how music contributes ensembles would want us to record cataloger for the Wilson Music Library to education and healing, particularly them. It was amazing how quickly the and metadata specialist for the archive, in regard to HIV/AIDS in Africa. His recording session became a community gave a presentation to the International CD Singing for Life: Songs of Hope, Heal- Music, Medicine, and Culture: Medical Joy Calico, associate professor of musi- event. Most performances took place Association of Music Libraries in Naples, ing and HIV/AIDS in Uganda, released Ethnomusicology and Global Perspectives cology, has been awarded numerous outdoors where children would gather Italy, getting the word out to librarians last year through Smithsonian Folk- on Health and Healing, associate editor grants and fellowships for her research around us to hear the music and then and archivists worldwide that this is a ways, was nominated for a Grammy (B. Koen, editor) (NY: Oxford Univer- focusing on music and politics in for- ‘take over’ the instruments once the model for collecting and providing access Award this winter in the Best Tradi- sity Press, 2008); Shadows in the Field: mer Soviet-bloc countries, particularly adults had finished.” to indigenous music. tional World Music Album category. New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Eth- the former German Democratic Repub- During the visit, Smith-Borne met His most recently produced CD, God nomusicology, 2nd Edition, co-editor lic. An NEH summer stipend helped with faculty and administrators at To learn more, go to www. globalmusic- in Music City, accompanied a class with T. Cooley. (NY: Oxford Univer- support research for her most recently Dean Mark Wait Makerere University as well as the min- archive.org. offered through the transinstitutional sity Press, 2008); and Singing for Life: published book, Brecht at the Opera, Center for the Study of Religion and Music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (NY: released in August by the University of Culture. Recent publications include: Routledge, 2006). California (Berkeley) Press as volume

F a l l 2 0 0 8 3 2 BLAIR Quarter Note 9 in the California Studies in Twentieth many, forthcoming from University of well. He has had encyclopedia articles, Century Music series. She also was the Toronto Press, looks at the control women chapters and reviews in The Cambridge So Simple, Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the Amer- monastics had over their own intellectual Companion to the Musical, The Encyclo- ican Academy in Berlin, in support of life, identifying over 400 women scribes pedia of the Midwest (forthcoming), The the Brecht book. Two external fellow- and 38 women’s scriptoria. She has two Sondheim Review and The Kurt Weill ships are supporting her current book other books coming in 2009 for which Newsletter, and he is currently writing project, Musical Remigration: Schoenberg’s she is co-editor: Reading and Writing the South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten for Oxford Yet So Complex ‘Survivor from Warsaw’ in Postwar Europe Pedagogy of the Past: Studies in Musical University Press (2009). Prof. Loven- (also for the University of California Press): Learning in the Early Modern Era (with sheimer is the 2008 winner of the Ellen Blair precollege student Sarah Elizabeth Musgrave communicates an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residen- Susan Weiss of Peabody Conservatory and Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in through music with those for whom communication is a challenge tial Fellowship for which she will be a Russell E. Murray of the University of Classroom Teaching at Vanderbilt, one fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Delaware, Indiana University Press) and of only two faculty teaching awards given By Kami Rice Advanced Study at Harvard in 2009-10 Music, Dance and Society: Medieval and each year at Vanderbilt. and a Howard Fellowship from the George Renaissance Studies in Memory of Ingrid A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Founda- G.Brainard (with Ann Buckley of National Melanie Lowe, associate professor of recollege student and Myra Jack- instrument she’s been studying since she G.R. Davis, will attend Belmont Uni- tion for summer research in 2008-09. University of Ireland—Maynooth, Medieval musicology and chair of Musicology son Blair Scholar Sarah Elizabeth was six.“It’s like a blank palette, and I versity on a Presidential Scholarship.The Institute Publications). and Ethnomusicology, has contributed PMusgrave was introduced to autism can do anything I want with it.The dul- most prestigious scholarship Belmont Dale Cockrell, professor of musicology, articles and reviews to numerous journals when her young cousin was diagnosed cimer has a level of simplicity that allows offers, this award covers tuition, room and focuses on American musical idioms. He Douglas Lee, professor of musicology, and books, including the Journal of Musi- with the disorder.As a sophomore, Mus- anyone to play it, yet it can also be really board, books and fees.Accepted into both has written extensively on blackface min- emeritus, retired from teaching a number cology,American Music, Popular Music and grave, who performs and records as “Sarah complex.” the songwriting and honors programs, she strels and his book Demons of Disorder: of years ago, but his research on 18th cen- Society, Beethoven Forum, The Cambridge Elizabeth,” held one of her first full-length Musgrave’s work with the dulcimer will design her own major to incorporate Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World tury and modern orchestral music has Companion to Haydn (Cambridge Uni- dulcimer concerts to benefit the Autism choir has served as her senior project at performance, songwriting and music busi- (Cambridge University Press,1997) received continued. Most specifically,his work has versity Press, 2004), and Popular Music Society of Middle . Last year Merrol Hyde Magnet School in Hender- ness into one degree. she began teaching dulcimer Musgrave received the 2008 the Hugh Holman Award for best book focused on Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Scenes (Vanderbilt University Press, 2003). GREEN STEVE in Southern Studies for that year.His cur- the second son of J.S. Bach. Prof. Lee is Her book Pleasure and Meaning in the to a student with autism. So Award of Excellence in Lead- rent work includes The Pa’s Fiddle Proj- one of several contributing editors to Carl Classical Symphony was released last year when Sandy Conatser,adjunct ership, a national award, from ect, which, in collaboration with Butch Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works, by Indiana University Press. Prof. Lowe is teaching artist for dulcimer, VSA arts, for teaching these Baldassari, adjunct associate professor of published by The Packard Humanities a past winner of the Madison Sarratt Prize was approached last summer students. She plans to con- mandolin, has produced two CDs—Happy Institute of Los Alto, Calif., in coopera- for Excellence in Undergraduate Teach- by VSA arts Tennessee about tinue their instruction through- Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls tion with the International Bach-Archiv, ing at Vanderbilt. creating a dulcimer choir that out her college years. Conatser Wilder and The Arkansas Traveler: Music Leipzig; the Saechsische Akademie der would include students with has been assisting Musgrave from Little House on the Prairie. He has Wissenschaften zu Leipzig and Har- Helena Simonett, adjunct assistant pro- autism, she immediately with the students’ private les- published articles in academic journals, vard University.The work will comprise fessor of music literature and history,stud- thought of Musgrave. sons, and she, too, plans to such as The Bulletin for the Society for Amer- 114 volumes when completed for the ies ceremonial music making and dancing VSA secured funding and continue teaching students ican Music and Theatre Annual, and for 300th anniversary of C.P.E. Bach’s birth among indigenous people of northwest- 10 dulcimers for instructional with autism. reference works, such as the Encyclopedia in 2014. Prof. Lee has currently com- ern Mexico and also looks at indigenous use, and Blair provided teach- There’s much instant grat- of New England Culture,The Harvard Dic- pleted Sei concerti per il cembalo concer- cultural identity in contemporary Mexi- ing and meeting space. In Jan- ification in working with the tionary of Music, The New Grove Diction- tato (1772) (Series III, vol. 8, the first can society. She has published numer- uary, Musgrave began looking students says Musgrave.“It’s ary of Music and Musicians (second edition), volume in the series, which came out ous journal articles and book chapters in for students with autism in been so neat to see the inter- and the Encyclopedia of . in 2005), Arrangement of Orchestral Works publications such as Popular Music Stud- Sumner County, Tenn., who From left, Seth Link, Connor Crenshaw, Kevin Pittman, Preston Vienneau, David actions, to get a hug, or for showed a natural affinity for Roberts, Houston Goodrich, Morgan Vice, Chris Blakeslee, and Sarah Elizabeth the first time to have a stu- I (Series I, vol. 10.1, 2007) and the upcom- ies Reader,Transcultural Music Review, and Musgrave. Musgrave presented each of the students with their own dulcimer at Cynthia Cyrus, associate dean and asso- ing Keyboard Concertos in G and D,Wq. Historia Temática de Sinaloa, vols. 5 and the dulcimer or who had so a ceremony at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on May 3. dent respond vocally.” She ciate professor of musicology, takes an 44/5 (Series II, vol. 9.15, 2009). 6. Her books include Banda: Mexican Musi- much fun in group lessons describes a student who was approach to her scholarly work that com- cal Life Across Borders (Wesleyan Univer- that they wanted to continue spending sonville, Tenn. She also organized a ben- not very verbal but who, when he bines musical, historical and gender stud- Jim Lovensheimer, assistant profes- sity Press, 2001) and En Sinaloa Nací: more time with the instrument.A group efit concert held in March that raised strummed the dulcimer, broke into a big ies. Her most recent work focuses on sor of musicology, has worked in musi- Historia de la Música de Banda (Asociación of eight students emerged: four from Sum- enough funds to buy more dulcimers.As smile because he was so amazed that he women as writers, scribes and teachers of cal theatre as an actor,playwright, musical de Gestores del Patrimonio Histórico y ner County,three from Davidson County a result, the eight students currently in could do it. musical literacy in medieval and renais- supervisor and director, and dramaturge, Cultural de Mazatlán, 2004). She recently and the student with whom Musgrave the program were given their own dul- “I always knew music was a commu- sance Europe. Her book, The Scribes for so it is no surprise that his scholarly edited The Accordian on New Shores, which was already working.These students have cimers at a ceremony in May. nication tool,” notes Musgrave.“I see that Women’s Convents in Late Medieval Ger- research focuses on musical theatre as is forthcoming. been receiving weekly private lessons. This fall, Musgrave, student of the late it’s not a cliché, that music touches and Musgrave loves the versatility of the David Schnaufer and current student of communicates with everyone.”

4 BLAIR Quarter Note F a l l 2 0 0 8 5 Marianne Ploger appointed director teacher and I played this half-dimin- ished seventh-chord and I recognized of musicianship at Blair

Both Sides, Now RESERVED RIGHTS ALL SNOWBOUND; 2001 it!’ Suddenly theory and practice, two arianne Ploger, newly appointed senior artist teacher Lecturer Paul Deakin provides precollege students with a solid grounding in worlds that have been artificially sep- of musicianship and director of the musicianship music theory through innovative teaching methods arated, have come together—that’s Mprogram, is a specialist in musical perception and what it’s all about for me.” communication, a teacher, author, composer and pianist. By Bonnie Arant Ertelt Deakin is emphatic in his belief that She most recently directed the Institute for Musical Per- music theory is as important as per- ception through which she offered workshops and private ONRUSSELL JOHN sessions. She also has taught at the University of Michi- usic theory, accord- curriculum design, has taken formance and that both are indispen- gan’s top-ranked conducting program and is a sought-after the textbook and divided it into sable to becoming a well-rounded ing to Paul Deakin, clinician at workshops in the United States and Europe. eight divisions. Study materi- musician. Mthe Blair School’s Ploger earned piano performance degrees from the St. Louis purveyor of music theory to als for each division include “Virtuoso performance without an Conservatory of Music (B.M.) and at the University of Michi- students in the precollege and taped audio lectures and study understanding of what’s going on under gan (M.M.). Between degrees, she studied with Nadia Boulanger adult program, is the flip side guides that lead the students the hood, so to speak, is one that is, in Paris and through the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau. of practice.“It’s the nuts and through the main concepts in arguably, lacking in some important At Blair, she will teach Advanced Ear Training and Sight bolts of music, really,” he says. the book and highlight certain Singing and oversee a curricular review of the musicianship And Deakin is a true cham- features of the text.There are program. Ploger pion of the discipline. also extra tips, advice and “Basically, I’ll teach it to insights that elaborate on some anyone who will stand still of the more challenging aspects Basically, I’ll Hauser and Maiello join faculty of music theory. and listen.” “ ared Hauser joined the Blair faculty as assistant professor of “It’s interactive,” says Deakin Teach it he does, though teach it to anyone oboe in August. He has performed throughout North America and the means and methods he about his approach to teaching JEurope appearing as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. employs may surprise his stu- the subject. “For the most part Appointed principal oboist of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in dents at first. students work at their own pace, who will stand still 2002,he has been a featured soloist with the OPO and has also Deakin, who has been at completing self-tests at the end appeared as soloist with such diverse groups as Bella Baroque, the the Blair School since 2004, of each chapter, checking their and listen. Bournemouth Symphonette at the Isle of Wight International Oboe has taken a class that was once answers, and self-correcting if ” Festival, the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra, and the Chamber taught as a weekly classroom necessary. I’m always on hand Orchestra of Northern , among others. lecture and turned it into an to give extra assistance where Hauser received top prizes at the 2001 Isle of Wight International Oboe Competition (the only American prize winner in the competi- Hauser interactive learning experience it’s needed, to check over their tion’s history) and the 2000 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Bradlin where students,who may come work, or to spot-test them on aspects, and the reverse is also true,” Competition. He was appointed to the faculty of the Lynn University key terms and concepts.When says Deakin. “That’s what the program into the program at various Conservatory of Music in 2004 and also taught at the University of students finish a chapter I’ll give is about—raising theory to an appro- levels of knowledge, are able Central Florida in Orlando. Each summer he performs and instructs to work at their own pace. In them a practice test and then a priate level of importance, and making at the Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas and serves as a faculty this learning environment, self- more formal test under exam sure that when our precollege and adult member at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. paced study is combined with Deakin conditions.This allows me to students leave the program they do so Hauser holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the Ober- one-on-one attention and occa- see whether they’ve really mas- as well-balanced musicians and can lin Conservatory and Rice University. His principal teachers include sional front-of-the-class lectures during The precollege music theory program tered the material. It also gives me an demonstrate proficiency and excellence Robert Atherholt, Dan Stolper, James Caldwell,Alex Klein, Elizabeth any one of four 50-minute sessions held uses the same textbook that Blair’s col- opportunity to address any issues before in both theory and practice.” Camus, Harry Sargous and Mark Dubois. they move on. I will occasionally do small during the week, a format that makes lege students use. Starting off with pitch, Maiello scheduling easier for the students. scales, intervals and chords, the students teaching segments and cover something The Blair School’s precollege music the- James V. Maiello joined the musicology department as senior lecturer in music history and literature at the Blair School. “It’s proven to be very effective,” says are prepared for four-part writing in the in more traditional style if enough stu- ory program teaches students from age 12 Maiello was awarded the Ph.D. in musicology with an optional Deakin, “because each learner has his or style of J.S. Bach by the end of the first dents are working on a particular topic. to adulthood. Students are tested upon emphasis in medieval studies in 2007 from the University of Cali- I’ve also experimented with rolling in entry to determine their level of knowl- her individual needs and challenges, semester. Depending on how long they fornia, Santa Barbara. He holds a master’s degree in music history composition projects at the end of each edge and may enter the class at any time. and this method of instruction allows me elect to stay in the program, students con- from Bowling Green State University and an undergraduate degree in to work one-on-one with them and address tinue on through more advanced har- section so students have an opportunity Currently, 40 to 50 students are study- music education from the State University of New York, Fredonia. their issues specifically in terms and con- mony, moving into the Romantic Period to bring what they have learned out of ing in this self-paced program, which can His research is focused on liturgical music of the Middle Ages and cepts they can understand—rather than and then on to contemporary musical the realm of the purely theoretical and take up to eight semesters to complete. For Renaissance, specifically 12th-century plainchant in the Tuscan city addressing the students en masse from the practices such as graphic scores, electronic into a concrete project. more information on registering, contact of Pistoia. front of the classroom, which is a more and 12-tone music. “I’m delighted when a student comes Trisha Johns, registrar,precollege and adult He previously taught music at Stissing Mountain Middle School traditional approach.” Deakin, whose background includes to me and says,‘I was with my piano students, at (615) 343-3825. in Pine Plains, New York.

6 BLAIR Quarter Note F a l l 2 0 0 8 7 The Blair School of Music Patrons Society 2008 Commencement Honors and Awards

The Blair School of Music is Mrs. Lavelle T. Jones Ms. Karin Dale Coble The T & T Family Foundation Founder’s Medal: Martin Williams Award for most honored to receive the annual Mrs. Alyne Queener Massey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Cone Sr. Mr. Christian Teal Jr. unrestricted gifts of $1,000 or more Martha McCrory Foundation Inc. Mrs. Elizabeth Cormier The Rev. and Mrs. Timus G. Taylor Jr. Robert Patrick Tiedemann outstanding paper: Mr. and Mrs. John W. Poindexter Mrs. Walter R. Courtenay Mr. and Mrs. Hall W. Thompson Lindsay Alexandra Cunningham, voice JOHN RUSSELL from the individuals and companies Banner Bearer: Daniel Paul Jansen listed below between July 1, 2007 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Rich Mr. and Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Professor Cecelia Tichi and Mr. William J. Tichi Robin Nell Dickerson Award to and June 30, 2008. Dr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Shanks Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Student Marshals: Rachel Elizabeth Dr. and Mrs. Alexander S. Townes an outstanding voice major, for Dr. Mildred T. Stahlman Mr. and Mrs. Marty G. Dickens Mondl and Stuart Chapman Hill Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Street Anna and Walter Durham Mr. and Mrs. Cal Turner Jr. excellence in performance and The Chancellor’s Council Sweetwater Sound Inc. The Earthman Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Vaughan Jr. scholarship: Suranjan Matthew Sen, ($10,000+) In memory of Boots Randolph Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Eberle Mr. and Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. musical arts/voice BMI Mr. and Mrs. James L. Turner Mr. Michael K. Eldred and Mrs. Ann Harwell Wells DANIEL BUBOIS House of Bryant Publications LLC Mr. Thompson B. Patterson Sr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Ridley Wills II Delene Laubenheim McClure Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Byrd Directors Dr. Darrel L. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. William M. Wilson Memorial Prize in Opera: Gaylord Entertainment In memory of David Schnaufer Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Wylly ($1,500-$2,499) Preston Collier Orr, voice Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Genovese Mr. and Mrs. Lang Aston Mrs. Annette S. Eskind Anonymous Mrs. Landis Bass Gullett Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind L. Howard “Zeke” Nicar Award for Ms. Louise Heinz Mr. and Mrs. Del Bryant Mr. and Mrs. William W. Featheringill The Blair KeyBoard most outstanding woodwind or brass The Sartain Lanier Family Mr. and Mrs. Jim Foglesong Martha Rivers Ingram, Chairman Dr. and Mrs. Eric Chazen student: Jamie Kellndorfer, flute Foundation Inc. The Rev. Kim Maphis Early and Susan and Joel Fuller Mark Wait, Dean The Martin Foundation Mr. Robert L. Early Dr. Susan Gray and Del Bryant Music Teachers National Association Mr. J. Dawson F. Gray Nissan North America Inc. Mr. James H. Harris III and Marianne Byrd Ms.Leslie R. Boone Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman (MTNA) Student Achievement Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts Ann and Jim Clarke Dr. H. Carl Haywood The Honorable Stella L. Hargrove Recognition Award: Stuart Chapman Mrs. Wilma Ward* Karin Dale Coble Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Loventhal and Dr. Joel T. Hargrove Hill, musical arts/teacher education, Mr. and Mrs. Blair J. Wilson Emily Eberle Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Harman vocal-general Anonymous Marty Dickens In memory of David K. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. H. Rodes Hart Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Anonymous James S. Foglesong Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Moses Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Heard Elliott and Ailsa Newman Prize to Honor Society Class of 2008: Jennie Smith and James Gooch Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Nebhut Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Houghland a clarinet student for excellence in The Dean’s List Jim Harris Andrew Joseph Braddock Ms. Virginia F. Payne The Hudson Family Charitable performance: Emily Morell Kubitskey, Louis Gerrod Bede ($5,000-$9,999) Foundation Patricia I. Hart Mr. and Mrs. James E. Carlson Dr. and Mrs. W. Faxon Payne musical arts/teacher education, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ingram Bzur Haun Stuart C. Hill In memory of Robert Edwards Mrs. Jean Richardson Mr. and Mrs. James L. Johnson Samuel Loventhal instrumental Daniel Paul Jansen Mr. and Mrs. William G. Christie Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Roos AWARDS Dr. and Mrs. Martin Katahn Kevin P. McDermott Rachel Elizabeth Mondl Mr. Frederick J. Dawson Mr. and Mrs. John C. Schroeder Blair Composition Competition Prize: Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Robert M. Moses Jean Keller Heard Prize for excellence In memory of Boots Randolph The Songwriters Guild Foundation , musical Timothy John Strang Georgianna Paul in strings: Sophia Lim Arriaga (violin) Christopher Daniel Lyon Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Fyfe Ms. Joanne Bell and Dr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Lefkowitz Jr. Robert Patrick Tiedemann Ellen Jones Pryor (violin) arts/teacher education, instrumental Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Hayes Mr. Steven A. Steigerwald Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Lijoi Jennifer Rachel Estrin Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. May Michael B. Reid Class of 2009: Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram Dean and Mrs. Mark Wait Andrew Joseph Braddock (viola) Richard C. Cooper Award for campus- Norma Rich Mr. and Mrs. William B. King Jr. The Washington Foundation Mr. William McInnes Roberto Paolo Papi (viola) Julie Christine Aiken Kenneth L. Roberts wide leadership in music: Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kornblum Dr. Barbara Engelhardt and Dr. and Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod (cello) Kathryn Tierney Moreadith Mr. Justin P. Wilson Dominique Thormann Anne Louise Suda Paul May, composition/theory; and Mr. and Mrs. Roland Schneller Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McNeilly Jr. Christine Marie Smith Ms. Georgianna W. Russell and Judy Turner Robert Patrick Tiedemann, musical Mrs. Linda L. Sinsar Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Mifflin David Rabin Prize for excellence Mr. Eric V. Youngquist Blair J. Wilson arts/ teacher education, instrumental Mr. and Mrs. Murray F. Somerville Mr. and Mrs. Ross Clayton Mulford in musical performance: Mr. and Mrs. Steve Turner Drs. Jane H. Park and , violin Patrons Charles R. Park Jennifer Rachel Estrin Confroy-Lijoi Award for excellence in Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos Special Committee DANIEL DUBOIS and Ms. Lydia A. Howarth ($1,000-$1,499) Mr. Jack B. Piatt Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Presser Scholarship to a junior jazz performance: Kenneth Charles Beegie and Billy Adair In memory of Boots Randolph Stella and Joel Hargrove excelling in both performance Hildebrandt, percussion; and Robert Ms. Marcelle Guilbeau and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Pryor Jean and Alexander Heard , musical arts/ Benefactors Mr. David J. Baird and scholarship: Kathryn Tierney Patrick Tiedemann Drs. Nancy and Harry Ransom Jim Ed Norman ($2,500-$4,999) teacher education, instrumental Mr. and Mrs. John S. Beasley II Mrs. Sara W. Robertson Moreadith, composition/theory American Constructors Inc. Justin P. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Darryl D. Berger Mrs. Roscoe R. Robinson Mrs. Katrin T. Bean *deceased Sue Brewer Award for excellence Sigma Alpha Iota Collegiate Honor Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Borden Dr. and Mrs. John S. Sergent Dr. and Mrs. Steven Eskind Award: Devri Ann DePriest, musical Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Brown Drs. Margaret and Charles B. Rush in guitar or composition/theory: Mr. Gordon R. Galloway arts/teacher education, instrumental Top left: Dean Mark Wait awards this year’s Mr.* and Mrs. Monroe J. Carell Jr. Mrs. Ada Smith Molly Anne Jewell, composition/theory Founder’s Medal to Robert Patrick Tiedemann. The Rev. Dick Game and Dr. and Mrs. Robert Chalfant Mr. and Mrs. Lester D. Speyer For information about giving to Blair School graduates process Mrs. Anne Zipp Game Margaret Branscomb Prize to the Sigma Alpha Iota Scholastic Award: Right, above: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cigarran Street Dixon Rick PLC the Blair School, please contact behind the pink banner carried by Daniel Paul Mr. and Mrs. William M. Gandy Jamie Kellndorfer, flute Jansen. Drs. Ann N. and James H. Clarke Ms. Natilee Duning and the Blair Development Office at freshman who best exemplifies the Ms. Jennie Smith and Stuart Chapman Hill listens to Chancellor Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clay Mr. Ernest Frank Sutherland Jr. (615) 322-7650 or email spirit and standards of the Blair Bottom: Mr. James C. Gooch Nicholas Zeppos’ commencement address. Page and Bzur Haun Mr. and Mrs. G. William Coble Mr. and Mrs. Earl S. Swensson [email protected]. School: Madeline Sarah Myers, composition/ theory

8 BLAIR Quarter Note F a l l 2 0 0 8 9 2008 Fall Concert Season

The Blair Fall Concert Series promises to be a season of superb music from a variety of faculty, student and acclaimed guest artists. Below is a brief listing of a few of the featured events and favorite concerts. For more information about these and more concerts, lectures, master classes and special programs, visit the Web site Calendar of Events at www.vanderbilt.edu/blair.

NEW FOR 2008-09 Music on Film Sunday, January 18, 4 – 6:30 p.m., Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall A concert each semester featuring specially selected composers captured in action on a large screen format with 5.1 surround sound technology. Introductions and discussions by Vanderbilt University Orchestra conductor Robin Fountain. Presented free of charge and open to all. The first presentation was in September. FAVORITE SERIES OFFERINGS Presented free and open to all, except where noted

BLAIR SIGNATURE SERIES BLAIR PRESENTS SERIES John Johns and His Lady Friends, Part Deux Christian Teal – Complete Sonatas and Partitas Friday, September 26, 8:00 p.m., Ingram Hall for Solo Violin by J.S. Bach Guitarist John Johns performs with Carolyn Huebl, Friday, September 19, 7:30 p.m., violin; Jane Kirchner, flute; and Kathryn Plummer, Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville viola. Selections include works by Marais, Haydn, This second in a series of two very special concerts Paganini and Matiegka. is the completion of Christian Teal’s virtuoso perform- ance cycle for the “Sacred Space for the City Arts” Craig Nies, Piano Series – The Complete 48 series co-sponsored by Blair School and Christ Preludes and Fugues: The Well-Tempered Clavier Church Cathedral. THIS IS A TICKET EVENT. BLAIR NIGHTCAP SERIES by Johann Sebastian Bach To purchase tickets, contact www.christcathedral.org This popular series returns with offerings Friday, October 10, 8 p.m., Ingram Hall or call 615-255-7729. of informal talks by favorite faculty musicologists, Pianist Nies continues with performance No. 4 begun followed by one-hour concerts by faculty perform- Three Times Slow – Plus the Blair String Quartet in 2007 of an eight-concert series celebrating the ers, plus coffee and dessert treats. New this year Saturday, October 4, 8 p.m., famous works. an earlier performance time! Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall The Blair String Quartet All Nightcap Events are sponsored by Nissan North America Inc. Guest Artist Robert Mann, composer, founder and Friday, November 7, 8 p.m., Ingram Hall Monday evenings: first violist with the Juilliard String Quartet, joins the 7 p.m., Coffee and Dessert in Turner Lobby With Christian Teal, violin; Cornelia Heard, violin; Blair String Quartet for an evening of his music and 8 p.m., Lecture John Kochanowski, viola; Felix Wang, cello the music of Mozart. Sponsored by Wilma Ward in memory of Anne Potter Wilson 8:30 p.m., Performance in Steve and Judy and David K. Wilson 100 years of Elliott Carter Turner Recital Hall Tuesday, November 18, 8 p.m., Vanderbilt Opera Theatre and Vanderbilt University October 13 – Kathryn Plummer, viola, and Mark Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall Orchestra present Kurt Weill’s Street Scene Wait, piano, perform two rarely heard gems of the Friday, November 14, 8 p.m. Blair proudly presents a concert celebrating the repertoire: Mendelssohn’s Sonata for Viola and Piano Saturday, November 15, 8 p.m. 100th birthday of Elliott Carter, in an all-Carter in C Minor and Rochberg’s Sonata for Viola and Sunday, November 16, 2 p.m. program that will also include excerpts from films Piano. Michael Alex Rose leads the pre-concert talk. all shows in Ingram Hall by Frank Sheffer. This extraordinary guest artist concert features some of the finest performers in November 10 – Winds at Play allows the Blair Fully-staged with orchestra; Gayle Shay, Stage contemporary music: flutist Tara O’Connor, Woodwind Quintet solo spots away from their Director; Robin Fountain, Music Director. Friday’s clarinetist Charles Neidich, violinist Rolf Schulte, colleagues. Cynthia Estill, Jane Kirchner and performance features a pre-show talk by cellist Fred Sherry and pianist Steve Gosling. Cassandra Lee present sonatas for bassoon, musicologist Joy Calico. flute and clarinet, and the Blair School is pleased Sponsored by an anonymous friend of the Blair School to introduce its newest faculty member, oboist Jared Hauser. Collaborative pianists include The Blair Brass Quintet Charlene Harb, Jama Reagan and Melissa Rose Monday, November 17, 8 p.m., Ingram Hall present composers Saint-Saens, Etler, Muczynski With Allan Cox, trumpet; Pat Kunkee, trumpet; and Poulenc in music woodwinds play for their Leslie Norton, horn; Lawrence Borden, trombone; own pleasure and yours! Jim Lovensheimer Gilbert Long, tuba leads the pre-concert talk. Vanderbilt Music Académie Inaugerated in France new interdisciplinary music and French residency offered jointly by the Blair School and the Vander- A bilt-in-France program took flight this summer. Located in Aix-en-Provence, the new venture, called the Vanderbilt Music Académie, is centered around the weeks STUDENTS of the Festival d’Aix (June 25 through July 12) and included a variety of master classes with open rehearsals and a con- PLEASENOTE:CLASSNOTES cert performance at the end of each week.According to APPEARONLYINTHEPRINTED Thomas Verrier, artistic director of the program and asso- VERSIONOFTHISPUBLICATION. ciate professor and director of wind studies at Blair,“the goal is to empower students to experience music from the inside out, nurturing the creativity and inspiration of each participant’s ‘inner artist’ alongside the skill development of his or her ‘performer shell.’ Our focus is on developing GREEN STEVE each, all the while strengthening the bond between them.” The Vanderbilt Music Académie was offered along with other summer programs in conjunction with the Vanderbilt- in-France Center in Aix-en-Provence. In addition to the musi- cal experiences, participants were offered French classes, organized excursions and activities to explore the natural beauty of Provence. The Blair School sent a string quartet and a woodwind quintet to Aix-en-Provence for the inaugural residency.The string quartet included: Ben Hart, first violin; Esther McMa- hon, second violin; Dean Whiteside, viola; and Gareth Briscoe, cello. The woodwind quintet included: Jamie Kellndorfer, flute; Brittany Croley, oboe; Lauren Henry, clarinet; Daniel Ibarra-Scurr, bassoon; and Devri DePriest, horn.Along with Prof.Verrier as artistic director, Maité Monchal, director of Vanderbilt-in-France since 2003, served as executive direc- tor of the académie. Aix-en-Provence Master Class with guest violinist Kathleen Winkler, right, of Rice University included Blair students Ben Hart & Michelle Godbee. Dominique Thormann Joins KeyBoard ominique Thormann, senior vice pres- hattan Bank for 10 years, working in New ident of administration and finance York, Rome, Milan and Paris. Dfor Nissan North America, Inc., has Thormann holds a bachelor’s degree in joined the Blair KeyBoard.Thormann joined international relations from Johns Hopkins Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., in Tokyo in 1999 as University in Baltimore, Md., and a master’s deputy general manager. Before coming to degree in international relations from the Nashville, he was senior vice president of Hopkins’ School of Advanced International administration and finance for Nissan Europe. Studies in Washington, DC. He and his wife Prior to joining Nissan, he worked for Francoise, who is an anesthesiologist, have Renault in South Africa and The Chase Man- Thormann three children.

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Dame Evelyn Glennie, Grammy-winning percussionist, gave a percussion master class during the spring semester. She was in town to perform Corigliano’s Conjurer: Concerto for Percussion Soloist and Strings with Jim Foglesong, adjunct professor of music business, threw out the first pitch at the Vanderbilt vs. the Nashville Symphony. Here she works with senior Chrissy Smith. Kentucky baseball game on April 27.

14 BLAIR Quarter Note F a l l 2 0 0 8 15 TV GREEN STEVE Joy Calico, associate professor of musi- Allan Cox, professor of trumpet, and cology, received two major fellowships Lawrence Borden, associate professor of for her monograph project Musical trombone, performed with Sonus Brass Remigration: Schoenberg’s ‘Survivor From on the First Presbyterian Church of Warsaw‘ in Postwar Europe. She will use Columbia, Tenn., Concert Series in a Howard Fellowship to fund archive early March. Last summer Sonus fin- research in Warsaw, Oslo, Prague, Paris ished recording its second CD, Naked FACULTY and Vienna in summers 2008 and Thunder, which is expected to be 2009. Thanks to an ACLS Burkhardt released prior to a featured performance Residential Fellowship for Newly by Sonus on the Second International In January and February, the Blakemore Tenured Scholars, she will be in resi- Brass Chamber Music Festival in Trio presented concerts at the North dence at the Radcliffe Institute for October, 2008, at the University of Carolina School of the Arts Watson Louisville. Cox spent a week in Hall Series, the Lenoir Rhyne TV GREEN STEVE mid-March at the University of College Concert Series in Maine, where he performed a Hickory, N.C., the University solo recital and two solo per- of Tennessee in Knoxville, and formances with the University they closed their tour with a of Maine Singers that included concert at the Blair School. the world premier of Bess The Commodore Steel Drum Band, directed by Mat Britain, performed in Ingram Hall at the Blair School The program included the of Music in April. Wisemann’s On Time for flute, American premiere of Trio, trumpet, piano and choir. He Op.44 by Alfonso Montecino, performed this and other works who attended the concert in with the Maine Singers during Nashville. a May tour to Sicily and Italy. Gregory Barz, associate pro- In June, he attended the fessor of musicology (ethno- International Trumpet Guild musicology), produced a Conference in Banff, Alberta, CD for Lime Pulp Records Canada. (Nashville) titled God in Amy Dorfman, associate pro- Music City: Sounds of Religion fessor of piano, joined Edgar in Nashville. The second edi- Meyer, adjunct associate pro- tion of his co-edited volume fessor of bass, in recitals at of essays, Shadows in the Field:

EN MANDEVILLE JENNY the Oberlin School of Music, New Perspectives for Fieldwork the Southern Theater in in Ethnomusicology will be Columbus, Ohio, at Florida published by Oxford State University College of University Press this fall. Music in Tallahassee, and at Mat Britain, adjunct instructor the College of St. Benedict of music, can be heard playing Fine Arts Series in Minnesota. steel drums and percussion on Renowned trombonist Wycliffe Gordon joined the Nashville Jazz Jen Gunderman, senior lectur- superstar Kenny Chesney’s Orchestra during the spring semester for a concert in Ingram Hall. er in music history and litera- latest release, Just Who I Am; He also presented a master class prior to the concert. ture, performed regularly this Poets and Pirates. The album spring, including several shows with was number one on the Billboard Advanced Study at Harvard University Peter Cooper, senior lecturer in music Country Albums chart for a number in academic year 2009-10, during history and literature, in Washington, of weeks, and the Calypso inspired song which time she will devote her time to D.C., opening for Nanci Griffith. Guest “Shiftwork” reached number 2 on the writing the book. This spring she pub- lecturers in her History of Rock Music Billboard Country Singles chart. This lished an article in Opera Quarterly class this semester included rockabilly is his fourth multi-platinum recording and a book review in Modern Drama. legend W.S. “Fluke” Holland, Johnny with Chesney, adding an island flair to She also presented papers at national Cash’s only drummer and the man who hits such as “When The Sun Goes meetings of the American Historical This year’s Appalachian Celebration focused on the Pa’s Fiddle project, a program that draws on tradi- played on Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Down,” “Guitars and Tiki Bars,” and Association and the Modern Languages tional music mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. The project is led by Dale Shoes” and the Sun Records “Million Cockrell, professor of musicology and American studies, and Butch Baldassari, adjunct associate “Key Lime Pie.” Association. professor of mandolin.

16 BLAIR Quarter Note F a l l 2 0 0 8 17 Dollar Quartet” recording session, voice, appeared in a June concert at the served as guest conductor for the Rome which featured Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Vancouver (Canada) International Song Festival Orchestra concert series in July Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. Institute performing Link’s composi- and August. Wilma Ward, longtime supporter tion, Groundswell. This piece for sopra- Charlene Harb, senior lecturer in music no, speaker and computer generated Joe Rea Phillips, senior artist teacher theory, performed as pianist for the accompaniment features the texts of of guitar, was a guest performer at the of the Blair School, dies Classical Singer National Conference in poet and Vanderbilt English professor Tennessee Educators Association New York in May. She will also perform Convention as he appeared in a Mark Jarman. JOHNSON DAVID as principal keyboardist with the Graz concert with the Tennessee All-State ilma Tribble Ward, long a 2008, in Turner Recital Hall.A recep- Festival Orchestra in Austria. where she Jim Lovensheimer, assistant professor Women’s Chorale in Turner Hall of friend and generous sup- tion followed in the Ingram Lobby. also serves as coordinator of the piano of musicology, was named the 2008 the Schermerhorn Symphony Center W porter of the Blair School, Scholarship recipient Joseph Sifferd, faculty. Winner of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls in April. died at her home in Nashville, July BMus’99, Law’02, sang, and Betty- Award for Excellence in Classroom 23, 2008. A native of Bedford Ashton Mayo, BMus’01, also a schol- Carolyn Huebl, assistant professor of Teaching at Vanderbilt. Michael Slayton, assistant professor of County, she had resided in Nashville arship recipient, played the harp. violin, in addition to her performances music theory, had his piece Sonate since 1942 and worked as executive Colin Jones, BMus’02, another schol- with the Blakemore Trio, gave the world Bradley Mansell, adjunct artist teacher “Droyßig” premiered in March at the assistant to David K. Wilson for 49 arship recipient, attended. premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Trio of cello, served as a judge for the Young Historic “Castle Droyßig” in Droyßig, years until her retirement in 2003. Scholarship recipient Lauren for Violin, Horn and Piano at the Blair Texas Artists Competition in Conroe, Germany, by Ulrich Urban, distin- She provided scholarships for eight Denney Wright, BMus’00, wrote to School in April, along with Dean Mark Texas, in March. guished professor of piano, at the students who completed their say, “I was deeply saddened by the Leipzig Conservatory. In June his work ONRUSSELL JOHN degrees at Blair. They refer to her Le Soir Tombe was performed in Tours, news [of Mrs. Ward’s death]. I know France. In October the premiere per- fondly as “Grandmother Ward.” In that Mrs. Ward knew how much I formance of Sechs Miniaturen für Gitarre honor of her gifts to Blair,a courtyard loved her and appreciated everything und Klavier will be performed in the was dedicated to her in 2003, and her she did for me.” Schumann Haus in Leipzig, Germany, portrait, painted by Anne Street and Mrs. Ward’s body was donated to by the German duo Soundways. donated by David K. Wilson, hangs Vanderbilt Medical School. Memorial near the entry to the courtyard. A contributions may be made to Blair Deanna Walker, adjunct artist teacher memorial service was held at the School of Music, 2400 Blakemore of piano, had her song, “She’ll Believe Blair School on Sunday, July 27, Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212. Ward You” recorded by Kenny Rogers for his upcoming greatest hits collection. Her song cycle for soprano and piano, Love Taylor, Harb Retire Poems from God (text from Islamic saint Rabia of Basra), was performed at the UNK New Music Festival (a juried fes- tival) at Kearney, Neb., in April.

Felix Wang, associate professor of cello, performed in several venues in addition Student showcase winners at Blair this spring were (from left) Ben Hart, Dean Whiteside, Daniel Ibarra-Scurr, Benet Braun and Steve Riddle. to his duties in the Blair String Quartet and Blakemore Trio. In March he per- Vanderbilt’s Planned Giving professionals can help formed at the Governor’s Mansion in Wait, piano, and Leslie Norton, horn. Joshua McGuire, lecturer in aural stud- Bobby Taylor (left) enjoys his April retirement you create a lasting legacy of support for the Blair Little Rock with pianist Victor Asuncion, reception with Zaak Mostov, Leo Lichtman and This summer she returned to the facul- ies, presented guitar recitals at Georgia School of Music. You can support Blair in a tax- from the University of Memphis, and Britt Coley. Taylor had been at the Blair School ty of the Intermountain Suzuki Institute College & State University and on the since 1969. effective manner through various types of Dale Barltrop, principal second violinist in Utah. She has also been appointed to Sundays at Johns Concert Series planned gifts, including: of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In the faculty of the Brevard Music Center (Charleston, S.C.) in February. In March, April he performed at the University of as principal second violin. he read his paper, “Backwards & Forwards: Re-reading and Hearing Form Louisville, playing in the premier of Karen Ann Krieger, associate professor in Late Villa-Lobos” at the Experiencing Aaron Jay Kernis’ Ballad for 8 Cellos. of piano and piano pedagogy, per- Villa-Lobos International Festival at Performers included Paul York, professor formed Rhapsody in Blue in March with Virginia Commonwealth University. of cello at Louisville, and Keith Robinson, the Huntsville Youth Orchestra. It was cellist of the Miami Quartet. The piece If you’d like to join with fellow alumni and conducted by Joseph Lee, BMus’98. Carol Nies, adjunct senior artist was recorded the next day for release on friends of Vanderbilt in creating a planned gift, teacher of conducting, conducted per- Centaur Records. He also performed as please contact Katie Jackson in Vanderbilt’s Office of Stan Link, associate professor of the formances of Puccini’s La Boheme and principal cellist of the Iris Chamber Planned Giving at 615/343-3858 or 888/758-1999 or [email protected]. philosophy and analysis of music, and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Rome Orchestra in Memphis, and with the Charlene Harb (middle) at her retirement Gayle Shay, associate professor of Opera Festival in July in Italy. She also Nashville Ballet Emergence series. reception with Jessie Noble (left) and Sara Beutter Manus.

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he evening of April 14 saw the world premiere of a new work for horn trio by American composer Lowell T Liebermann written expressly for Leslie Norton, assis- tant professor of horn. Along with Carolyn Huebl on violin and Dean Mark Wait on piano, the piece was performed in the Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall, the first commissioned piece presented as part of The Blair Commissions, New Music for the 21st Century,made possible by support from the Blair Dean’s Office and funded by a gift from the James Stephen Turner Family Foundation. Composer Liebermann has seen his works performed inter- nationally by orchestras such as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Cincinnati Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony among others. Artists who have performed his works include James Galway, Mstislav Rostropovich, James Levine, Leonard Slatkin, Kenneth Schermerhorn and Joshua Bell. His Second Piano Concerto was premiered by the National Symphony with Stephen Hough, and his Flute Concerto was commissioned by James Galway From left, Leslie Norton, Dean Mark Wait and Carlyn Huebl premiered Lowell and premiered by him with the St. Louis Symphony and Liebermann’s Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, composed for Norton, in April at Leonard Slatkin. the Blair School.

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