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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><!Sed for a "very talented" undergraduate pianist as his ftnt "new music" experience. Richard Sorce is on the faculty of New York University's School of Education, Health, Nursing and Arts Professions, where he received his PhD and currently directs the undergraduate theory program. His compositions include Liberty, a ballet commissioned for the US Constitution Bicentennial, a Requiem Mass, and various works for chorus, piano and various ensembles. Many of his "pop" songs have .been recorded on such labels as Arista, Vanguard and CBS, and have appeared on the Billboard, Record World and Cashbox charts. He is currently completing a series of piano pieces and several new choral works to be published by HLH Music. As an editor, he has completed the operatic score of Robin Hood, various shorter works, and is compiling a volume of intermediate piano music by women composers. Sorce is a recent recipient of the "Esteemed Faculty Award" at New York University. Joe Utterback is a native of Kansas, and began his professional jazz piano career at age seventeen at the Golden Chance Saloon in Wichita. The Joe Utterback Trio performs throughout the United States and Europe, and Utterback has been a featured performer in major jazz venues in Kansas, San Francisco, Bridgeport (CT) and New York City. He has recently completed the ftnt of five concert improvisations for classical piano commissioned by David Allen Wehr, and Utterback'• works have been performed by such performers as Dr. Brenda Lynne Leach and the Sartory Trio. Last May Utterback was recognized at the Opera House in Palmerston North, New Zealand, following a performance of his Jau. S1d1t for piano. Utterback is currently on the faculty of the Department of Humanistic Studies at Sacred Heart University (CT). A bagatelle is a trifle -- something small - but generally indicating a playful, enjoyable thing. Joelle Wallach i1 a compaser based in New York City. Recent premieres and performances include From the Forest of Chimneys by the New York Philharmonic Ensembles in Merkin Hall, NYC, Orison of Ste. Theresa by the Minneapolis Chamber Symphony and Chorus at the World Theater, St. Paul, MN, and La musica, /os m11ertos y las estrella.s by the Turnpike Camerata at Sterling Hall in Ridgewood, NJ. The New York Choral Society has commissioned Wallach to compose a major work for chorus, soloists and orchestra to be premiered in Carnegie Hall during the winter of 1994. Music for Manda is a little duet for a young guitarist and teacher. 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
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