MONTCLAIR STATE School of Fine and Performing Arts Department of Music and the Music Preparatory Division

Society of Composers, Inc. Region II Conference

"Contemporary Music and the Young Musician"

McEachern Recital Hall

May 8. 1993 PROGRAM I 2:00 pm

Opening Remarks: Elliott Schwartz, Bowdoin College

Paper Presentations

"Cage's 'Dream' dreamed" Daniel Goode, Rutgers University, NJ

"Bringing Composers and Young Performers Together Through Commissioning" Sy Brandon, Millersville University, PA

"Why Are There Small Town Composers? (Someone's Got To Take Notes)" William Matthews, Bates College, ME PROGRAM II 4:00 pm Music for Manda Joelle Wallach Loren Fortna, Tom Harney*, guitars

Four Daydreams for Piano Kari Henrik Juusela Zita Friedland*, piano Bagatelles Ulf Grahn · Playful Chase Bagatelle Jack and Jill Bagatelle - Scherzando

Peggy Hsiao*, piano Jazz Bagatelles Joe Utterback Lorraine Butterfield*, piano A Tune for Stanzi Richard Sorce New Beginnings The Busy Weaver Ethel Kratz*, piano Out of the Blue Richard Sorce Candice Chung*, piano Pour mon Chien Ken Madell Meanest Sheep in the World Ken Madell, piano Cycles Mikel Kuehn Marina Stern*, piano P.T. Destroys the Light Eating Machine C. B. White Joshua Grayson and Lorraine Buttefield*, pianos DUN KIE William Matthews Duncan Cumming, piano

*Music Prep Faculty composer's dog playing the piano. The sentimental dolcc recalls how sweet she can be, sometimes. The Meanest Sheep in the World is a fantasy drama of a sheep portrayed by short vanations combining "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "The Worst Sounding Chord in the World .•

William Matthews received his education from Oberlin College, the University of Iowa, lnstituut voor Sonologie/Rijksuniveniteit, Utrecht, Netherlands, and the Yale School of Music. Grants and awards include a Charles Ives FellowJhip from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an ITT International Fellowship, composing grants from the NEA, BMI Awards to Student Composers, ASCAP Young Composer Award, Oberlin Alumni Fellowship, American Compoacn Alliance Recording Awards, ASUC recording award, and Meet-tho-Composer grants. Matthews is currently Professor of music at Bates College in Lewiston, ME, where he has served as chair of the Division of Humanities. DUNKIE, a three-movement composition for piano and tape, was comf>

Ren Weidenaar, born in 1945, is a composer and video producer. He began composing electronic music upon taking the first factory seminar on the Moog synthesizer, and remained to found the Independent Electronic Music Center with Robert Moog, and to become editor of Electronic Music Review. He worked in Cleveland as a recording engineer, and served in that capacity in the weekly concerts of the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell. Receiving his education from the Cleveland Institute of Music and New York Univenity, Weidenaar's video works have received numeroua awards, including the Grand Priz.e at the Tokyo Video Festival. He baa received an NEA Composer Fellowship, and Fulbright and Gufgenheim Fellow1hip1 in video. He has taught at the Cleveland Institute o Music and the New School (NYC), and is currently on the faculty of N YU'• Tisch School of the Arts. The Stillness begins with the image of a young woman waiting in a lonely subway station which is manipulated through video image proceuing and enhanced by a soundscape of voice--lilc.e alto and soprano saxophones and the sounds of different voices, ambient electrical buzzes and cavernous hums of the station. C. B. White lives and works in Evanston, IL, where she freelances as editor, writer, composer, arranger and English teacher. She has served 81 General Manager and Editor for the International Society of Bassists, previously holding various positions with the Cincinnati Composers' Guild. Winner of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship, the Rosenberger Family Memorial Commiuioning Competition and several granta, White has won ASCAP awards annual since 1990. Current commissions include works for woodwind quintet, organ and guitar. P. T. Destroys the Light Eating Machine is part of a larger set of adventures which will eventually be set for Houston's Picardy Players as a work for woodwind quintet with puppet theatre and optional speaker. PROGRAM Ill 8:00 pm

The Still~ Ren Weidenaar Marla Meissner*, alto saxophone

Robin Hood Suite Sy Brandon

Sinfonia No. 2 Ting Ho

Wind Symphony Daniel Goode

Pastorale ·Elliott Schwartz

Prep Advanced Orchestra Karen Pinoci *, conductor

*Music Prep Faculty Prep Advanced Orchestra .ElWes Second Yioljrui Jenny Conroy Leena Gilbert, principal Lisa Giannotti• Emily Berman Sanchita Dasmahapatra .Qhoe Derek Knight Jordan Lev Jason Lee Ushma Mehta Clarinet Aneeta Saxena Patrick Bums• Sara Worden

Bassoons ~ Chris Buechler Liz Meier, principal Dominic Ferrara• Patrick Byrne Rebecca Pisana French Hom Donald Spaulding• Yiolgncellos Marc Kim, principal Trnmpel Sharon Bjomdal Scott Tomlin"' Jean Chang First Violins Cecilia Kwok Heather Manalili, principal Andy Lee Cliff Bemzweig Paul Vanderwall Jonathan Hong Liz Keller ~ Dan Feiszli, principal James Lee Previn Ready Joanne Lee Johnny Lee Kathleen Missal! Pamela Saxena Carrie Walsh

"'Music Prep Faculty Elliot Schwartz has produced more than 100 compositions, five books, a dozen recordings and 15 awards from ASCAP. His works have been performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, and orchestras in Cincinnati, Houston, Milwaukee and Minnesota, at such venues as Tanglewood, the Batth (England) Festival, Amsterdam'• Gaudcamus Festival and the Leningrad Spring Festival. Schwartz has been on the music faculty at Bowdoin College (ME) for 28 years, with visiting appointments at Trinity College of Music, London, Ohio State University and Robinson College of Cambridge University. Residence fellowships have included the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center (Italy), Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, and Yaddo. Schwartz has served as National Chairman of the Society of Composers, Inc., and President of the College Music Society, and has toured the world as composer and concert pianist.

Sy Brandon is a Professor of theory-composition and low brass at Millersville University, Millersville, PA. He received his education at Ithaca College and the University of Arizona, with composition teachers Warren Benson, Elie Siegmeister and Robert McBride. Brandon has received numerous honors and commissions including those from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Composer's Assistance Program, the Symposium Ill for New Band Music and the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra. During 1973-74, he was composer-in-residence at Boise State University and is presently a member of the Society of Composers, Inc., and ASCAP. His music has been recorded by the Contemporary Record Society and Trutone Records, and his music is published by Tenuto Publications, Needham Music, T.U .B.A. Manuscript Press, Trombone Association Publishing and Co-Op Preas. Robin Hood Suite is an adaptation for string orchestra of three sections from the composer's opera for middle school perfonnen, The Ballad of Robin Hood. Daniel Goode, composer and clarinetist, was born in New York and studied philosophy al Oberlin and Cornell and then music with Henry Cowell, Otto Luening, Pauline Oliveros and Kenneth Gaburo. Goode has been a performer and composer with Gamelan Son of Lion since 1976, with works recorded on Follc.ways label. His output includes a book of writings, From Notebooks, and a book of pieces, One l'ag·e Pieces. Solo, ensemble and intermedia works have been performed al The Kitchen, Experimental lntermedia, Roulette, Whitney Museum, Real Art Ways, ~entral Park, Lincoln Center outdoors, and in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and elsewhere in the United States, Vancouver (at the First International Gamelan Festival), England, Australia, Western Europe, Hungary and Japan. He has received grants from the NEA and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Since 1971, Goode has been Director of the Electronic Music Studios of Rutgers University, and he is currently co-director of the DownTown Ensemble of New York. Wind Symphony was composed for the Wind Band in 1980, and was first performed on the Staten Island (NY) Ferry for its Diamond Jubilee.

Ulf Grahn studied music at the Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm and at the Stockholm City College, where his principal composition studies were with Hans Eklund. Grahn also holds advanced degrees from Stocltholms Musiltpedagogislta lnstitut and the Catholic University of America. In 1973 Grahn founded the Contemporary Music Forum, Washington, DC, and has served u Artistic and Managing Director of the Music at Lake Siljan Festival in Sweden. He has been Director of the Electronic Music Studio at George Washington University, and currently teaches Swedish language and culture at the Foreign Service Institute. Grahn'• music has received numerous awards, and is published by Seesaw Music Corp., Edition Succia and Edition Nglani. His music is recorded on Opus One, Orion and Caprice Records .. Each or the four Bagatelles UICI a freely applied twelve-tone row technique lo derive its own flavor and character.

Ting Ho, born in Chungking, China, has received composing grants and awards from the NEA, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the American Music Center and Meet-the-Composer, and is the recipient of the Louis Lane Prize. His works have been pcrfonned al Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City, and in concerts and new music festivals in the United States and Europe. One of his works was foaturcd in a Voice of America broadcast lo the Orient, and in 1988 he was awarded a Distinguished Artist designation by the State of New Jersey. He is a member of the executive committee of the Society of Composers, Inc., and is presently on the faculty of Montclair State (NJ), where he is the coordinator of music theory and composition and director of the electronic music studio. Ho also teaches for Montclair State's Music Preparatory Department. Sinfonia No . 2 was composed specifically for the Advanced Prep Orchestra, and written under a creative arts grant from Montclair State.

Kari Henrik Juu!iela is presently teaching theory, composition, electronic music and low strings at Montgomery College and Frederick Community College in Maryland. He has also taught in the American University Prep program and the Montgomery College Prep program, and has conducted the Montgomery County Elementary Honors Orchestras. Juusela 's compositions have won such awards as Finl Prize in the GAST A High School String Quartet Composition Contest and prizes in the Composers' Guild's Children's Music Division. Fo11r Daydreams was written for intennediate level pianists, and recalls bittersweet childhood memories of the piano playmg of the composer's father.

Mikel Kuehn holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas and is currently completing Master's and PhD degrees in composition at the Eastman School or Music. His teachers have included Cindy McTee, Phil Winsor, Robert Morris, Samuel Adler and Joseph Schwantner. Recent awards have included an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers, a BMI Award to Student Composers, a commission from the Hattiesburg Children's Chorus, and performances at the Festival of New Music and Art from Bowling Green University, and at SCI Region VI Conferences.

Ken Madell is completing a graduate degree from Montclair State. Previously an author of educational home computer software, he started composing as an extension or his piano studies. As an undergraduate, Madell was a drummer with the MIT Festival Jazz Band, which perfonned with Clark Terry at the Monlreux Jazz Festival. Pour mon Chien has a simple scale tone theme and accompaniment figured in seconds. These are the characteristics associated with the The Society of Composers, Inc., wish to thank Montclair State for hosting the 1993 Region II Conference. In particular, the support of the following individuals have been particularly appreciated:

Geoffrey Newman, Dean School of Fine and Performing Arts Edmund Battersby, Chair, Department of Music Ruth Rendleman, Director, Music Preparatory Division Oscar Ravina, Director, Prep Advianced Orchestra Lorraine Butterfield, Coordinator, Piano Program Music Preparatory Division

Thanks are also due to the following for their valuable assistance in the organization and production of this conference: Caroline Lindert Marla Meissner Theresa Roccanova Melody Vanderwall Jonathan Witte The brothers of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Iota The Media Center, Montclair State