Pearls of Delta Omicron: a Conversation with Phyllis Conrad By, Michelle Worthing
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Editor ELIZABETH RUSCH FETTERS Winter 2020 Editorial Assistant Volume CV MICHELLE WORTHING Number 1 FOUNDERS Lorena Creamer (Mrs. James A. McClure) ...................................................................................d. 1977 Mabel Dunn (Mrs. Earl Hopkins) ................................................................................................d. 1955 Hazel Wilson (Mrs. Edward Bowsman) ........................................................................................d. 1920 DELTA OMICRON BOARD OF DIRECTORS President—Kimberly Martin-Boyd................................................................................ Omicron Omega [email protected] First Vice President—Augusto Gil .................................................................................... Alpha Gamma [email protected] Second Vice President—Stephanie Thompson...................................................................... Alpha Theta [email protected] Music Adviser—Brenda Dannewitz ................................................................................................Sigma [email protected] Editor—Elizabeth Rusch Fetters ............................................................................................Delta Sigma [email protected] Treasurer—Laura Thuirer ..........................................................................................................Alpha Phi [email protected] Director of Extension—Andrea Stumpf .................................................................................... Delta Nu [email protected] Executive Office — ................................................................................................................... Synergos [email protected] http://www.delta-omicron.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Director of International Chapters—Dr. Janine Tiffe ......................................................................... Mu [email protected] Director of Alumni-At-Large—Stephanie Thompson ........................................................... Alpha Theta [email protected] Advisory Council President—Carol Anne Koehl .................................................................Alpha Kappa [email protected] The Wheel (ISSN 0043-4752) is published in February, and July, at P.O. Box 30558, Indianapolis, IN 46230 as the official educational publication of Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity, founded September 1909, and incorporated under the laws of the state of Ohio on December 13, 1909. Executive Office: P.O. Box 30558, Indianapolis, IN 46230 Subscription price $5.00 a year, single copies $1.25. 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Jefferson City, MO 65101 Contents Letter from the Editor .................................................................... 4 Letter from the International President ........................................... 6 Letter from the International Second Vice President ....................... 8 Letter from the Music Adviser ........................................................ 9 Letter from the Treasurer .............................................................. 10 Apply for Educational Grants ....................................................... 11 Executive Board Meeting .............................................................. 12 Lost D.O.s .................................................................................... 14 In Memoriam ............................................................................... 16 Obituaries ..................................................................................... 17 Rotating Grant Recipients ............................................................ 26 Chapter Awards ............................................................................ 27 Collegiate Awards ......................................................................... 28 Star of D.O. ................................................................................. 29 Senior Honor Pin ......................................................................... 30 Summer Scholarship Winners ....................................................... 31 An Evening In Time ..................................................................... 37 D.O. Day at the Opera ................................................................. 38 International Chapters .................................................................. 40 Bringing Diversity to Music Theory .............................................. 42 Call for Conference Performers ..................................................... 45 Composition Competition ........................................................... 46 Delta Iota Chapter Celebrates 75 Years ......................................... 48 Upcoming Due Dates ................................................................... 50 Perry County Band Partnership .................................................... 52 Chapter News in Highlight .......................................................... 57 Save the Date, Triennial Conference 2021 .................................... 65 Individual Honors ........................................................................ 66 A Conversation with Phyllis Conrad ............................................. 70 Collegiate Spotlight: Abbey Davis ................................................. 74 Joan Frey Boytim Inducted into Hall of Distinction ..................... 77 Cheryl Godley Publishes First Book .............................................. 79 From the Editor….. Dear Brothers and Sisters in and Orpheus could not look Delta Omicron, back until they had reached the I’m a huge Broadway musicals upper air. Hermes sang, “You got nerd. I’ll freely admit it. I also live a lonesome road to walk/It ain’t dangerously close to New York, along the railroad track/It ain’t so I get to see a lot of shows when along the black-top tar/You’ve they first arrive on Broadway. walked a hundred times before/ Over the summer a friend and I I’ll tell you where the real road went to New York to catch the lies:/Between your ears, behind show that won the Tony Award your eyes…” What really haunts for Best Musical: Hadestown. The Orpheus so that he turns to look show is by Anaïs Mitchell and at Eurydice? Doubt. He doubts retells the two stories of Hades that she is really behind him. and Persephone and Orpheus Doubt: that human condition and Eurydice. Naturally, I was that separates us from loved intrigued. The show was very ones, from the perfect job, from good, but the part that caught performing at our best, even from me was in the penultimate scene. God. We like to think of the tale Hermes, guide of souls to the of Orpheus as a tale of love, or underworld, was cleverly serving perfection in music personified, as a narrator to the story, to guide but at the end Orpheus is like all the audience through. You know morals. He is subject to doubt. the tale. Orpheus had found The worse road to travel is the one Eurydice in the underworld, in our minds, isn’t it? No wonder Hades had allowed them to Orpheus personifies music. I go with the stipulation that don’t know of any other discipline Eurydice would follow Orpheus that leads its practitioners on 4 The Wheel of Delta Omicron, Winter 2020 such a harrowing road. We walk weren’t lining up with The Wheel that road of doubt as teachers, publication. News items of performers, arts advocates, and interest were getting in, but it conductors. We walk it with our meant that sometimes we were students, in our ensembles, or reading about December events alone in a practice room. Music in May. So, we decided to slide demands perfection. We don’t the publication timeline ever so often get there; seldom do we get slightly to attempt to get more there. It’s our doubts that throw timely news into your hands. up the road blocks. And isn’t that Please forgive this issue, as it is why, in Delta Omicron, we are our transition issue. You might continually striving? be reading all kinds of things. Have no doubt! The Wheel is The goal is for the winter issue here! Your national board meet to arrive to you in February and this summer in Norfolk, Virginia the summer issue to arrive to you to hold our board meeting, and to in July. Continually striving, we tour the facility that will host our attain. 2021 conference. It’s gorgeous. The Marriott Waterside is being completely renovated. We’ll be Love, in D.O., enjoying modern, new rooms and a newly renovated conference center. Our conference will be all Elizabeth Rusch Fetters on one floor and it is attached to the hotel. There’s easy parking and lots of interesting restaurants on a nearby street. Did I mention my favorite part? The bookstore that is right next door to the hotel. It’s Archives Note: a great location and we’re looking Archives can be sent directly to forward to welcoming you to Ann Jones at: 3024 Belltown Norfolk in 2021. Road, Bedford, VA 24523. At the board meeting we discussed our beloved Wheel of Delta Omicron. I was noticing that our due dates for forms The Wheel of Delta Omicron, Winter 2020 5 From the President….. Dearest Members, all things D.O. I am writing you this One of the largest decisions letter through the exhaustion of we had