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LlFETlMB FRIENDS Alan T. RubellSOn John Lansdale Cheater and Marion BealB Mrs. John S. Robinson Laurence and Rosalie Lang Renee C. Ries and Richard T. Black Toby Saka and Manin Oreen Byron and Sharon Lapin Joel Salsman, piano The Boelns Company Tom and LorraIne Sakata E. Keith and Joan O. Larson Brecbemin Family Foundation Irwin and Barbara Saraaon Jobl! and Julia Liebe8kind Naney A. Cleminaha.. Gordon and lillian Somerville Thomas and Susan Lind Edward J. Conlon Samuel Stroum Charlotle Lilt David and Jane Davia Naomi S. Wilson Oary LouIe performing works by Emeritus Composers Meade and Debcnh Emory William P. Malin Rlehard and ludlth BVlW CONTRIBuroRS ($!lO-$249) Sally Mann William and Ruth Oerberdin& Georae and Lorna Aagaard CorneU and Virginia Mucu Mrs. Charles T. OriCfes Oeogce H. AIIiaon Marino Inlemational L. P. and Barbara Himmelman Phillip and Ruth Backup Simon R. Mauro Mrs. Ward D. Ingrim Oeorge and Barbara Hannula Charles and Alice McGregor November 19. 1997 8:00 PM Brechemin Auditorium Eswe of Demar Irvine Sean BeMel! Ann Cheri McLaugbiin Lutber and Caml Jones Lisa Bergman and Dayid F1uhany Donald and Renale McViuie Hans and Thelma Lehmann rol Margaret Bonltam Roger and emily Moe Ed and Charissa LiuJer.. ld wman Elaine and Joseph Monsen Barry Charles McCord George Bozarth Manin and Bemice Rind Donald and Linda Miller Ruben and Flo",""" Bridgrortb Jon R. Nelson PROGRAM Aura BoneIl Morrlson Marilyn Brockman Emanuel M. Papper Bernlce Mossafer-Rind Foundation Marshall and Jane Brown Julian Patrick (There will be no intermission) ArIhur and Helen Neaa RubertK.Brown Stolt and Jane Petel!ion Mrs. John F. Newland Martha Ann Cardell Fevrel W. Pratt *WorldPremiere CornellllS and Oloria Peck Rubert and Mary Oeland Helen T. Prillaman Donald and Camlyn Rowland Daniel and Susan Cook Carl and Marlan Pruzan - ~".,1Z5- Rvj)/vr Mc.~b.e.. (-r;;p....) Dale and Alicia TbompllOn lohn and B1canor cowen Jean Fosler Radford Rlchnrd and [);ana Thompaon Carl and Katherioe Crosier Bli1.8betb A. Raleigh *Sonatine for Piano (1962): .• ;1' ...... George Frederick McKay Ruth S. Waters Ale. Jr and Norma Cujin; Dale and Calherine Reynolds David Wilcox William and Helen Dahlberg Juanita RIchards Allegro (intense. animated" %;2.11 ) (1899-1970) Marilyn Daniels Randall and WiD. Jane Rockblll SPONSORS ($1.000-$\1.999) lohnDarbY Fred and Francea Rogers Andantino espressivo Mrs. William Bergsma Clyde and Alvaro Deal Oyde and Moreland Rollu Dr. Roherta Brockman Ernest and Barbara Dietrich Cornelius and Penny Rosse Allegro moderato. brioso e ritmica Dr Olenna Bunner Stuart L. Du Pen Ralph and Colleeft Roslnbum Alfred and nllie Shemanski Fond EasIalde FederalCd Mosie Oub l'IIOmas and Charlotte Roaier Rame.sh and Shanta OanlOUi John S. Edwards Waller and Lida Roublt Ann and Oordon Oeuy Foundation Ralph and Fredell Eichhorn Kenneth Rudolf ,; *Suite for Piano (1995 ..( ...... Gerald Kechley Karen Koon and Brad Edward. Helen O. Bisenbers Clara Ryan Theodore L. Marka Roben Elwood Caml R. Scon-Kassner Prelude 16 ;31-) (b. 1919) lames and Dorothy McArlhut Harold and Oeraldine Fardal Seattle Opera Association John and Jessie Paterson Bruce and Mary Ann Flynn Daniel and Sbennalayne Szuz Sarabandel MelviUe and Mary Price lohn and Jerol·Ann 0aI1U
This evening the School of Music honors four emeritus faculty composers ard GERALD KECHLEY, a Seattle native, studied composition with George Freder alumnus Joel Salsman, whose determined wish to have these works heard ick McKay and Aaron Copland. He taught at the University of Michigan ard inspired this program. The three world premieres on the program speak of the was Director of Music at Centralia Junior College before joining the School of ongoing energy and creativity of these musici~ns. We celebrate the extended, Music faculty. His honors include two Guggenheim Fellowships and several rich associations between faculty and student, and their musical achievements ASCAP Serious Music Awards. Our honored emeritus faculty all combined a that speak eloquently of our purpose. teaching schedule with continuous creative work. Kechley's compositions in The four composers on tonight's recital.are among the most influential clude two symphonies, works for chorus and orchestra, chamber works for vari sources of the vitality of contemporary music in Seattle. The wealth of knowl ous combinations, a large number of sacred and secular choral works, and a ma edge assembled in the School of Music's composition faculty in its formative jor opera, "The Golden Lion," premiered by the University of Washington Opera years was extraordinary in its breadth, depth and vitalitY. The climate created by Theater under Stanley Chapple. Kechley's music has been performed throughout the quality of teaching and creative output enabled, among other· things, the the United States and abroad. Seattle musicians are additionally aware of the School's First International Webem Festival in 1961. A spectacularoocasion at unique legacy ofGerald Kecbley and his wife Betty: Three sons who have dis the time, it attracted national and hltemational attention. ' ..".! tinguished themselves musically as composers and teachers ofmusic . .. ;: '''The Suite for Piano" was inspired by the baroque French suites for key Distinguished Nurrlnus in Recital, JOEL SALSMAN, received his Bachelor ard board. Having taught modal and tonal counterpoint for years, Kecbley remains Master of Musical:Arts degrees from the University of Washington in 1963 ard intrigued by two-part writing and the devices of imitation and inversion. This 1966 where he was awan:led Brechemin and Seattle World's Fair Scholarships. contemporary version is freer than the original Baroque suite while still retaining As a School of Music student, Salsman had no classes with these composers, its true spirit. but was indelibly impacted by performances of their music. After graduation, a . New Yot:k:w:~lleY Foundation grant enabled his ~ver year stu,dy. in p~& .:with • JOHN VERRALL joined the School of Music faculty in 1948 after teaching at Raymond Tfu1fatd;,F~ilcb pianist and conduCl6r:LitUreate in fiveintemationaf:~: Hamline University and Mount Holyoke College and acting as music editor at " -,. ',.. .. '" , : .,.;". "', ,1,; ,t),"} :. ;"'i: .1', ,.,',:,,~. competition1>~. ~J~lq "dour-year French ;Gq,v~rn~~ Scholanmip' g~;y~~~~e~i' G. Schirmer and WiHis Music Companies. Study at London's Royal CoUege of certs thr.Q,&tu~IlH~uro~:~· Ie:..",' ; ": ','",'1 ". ' ;;,=' Music, the Minneapolis College of Music, and the Liszt Conservatory in Buda Sin~"liis'~hm1;;~SalSman has bOOn'wtaetive'pen-ormer with Ii soio reCital" pest culminated with his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in repertoire of over sixteen'different progriuns and two dozen concerti for piano ard 1934. He worked under Roy Harris at Colorado College, Aaron Copland at Tan orchestra including several works written for' him. As a composer he was glewood, and Frederick Jacobi at Juilliard. Verrall's compositions have been selected as Artist-in-the-City and composed a ballet, "Ballet for Baba," for the:! performed world-wide and in the United States by the Minneapolis and Seattle First Chamber Dance Company and the Northwest Chamber Orchestra. Heidso Symphonies and the New York Philharmonic. A Guggenheim Fellow, he also composed "A-U-M" for Musicians Emeritus, Seattle's senior symphony, Per received a D. J. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico, the formed under the direction of Dr. Stanley Chapple at the Seattle Opera House. first for a composer. Previously the award had gone only to creative writers. His "C.E.T.A. Piano Concerto," a special commissIon, was premiered by the Verrall retired from teaching in 1969 and continued to actively compose, work Northwest Chamber Orchestra. '.' ing in many genres and varied combinations. In "Four Pieces for Piano", the "Dance" is based on one twelve-tone row, never changed, easily undetected. GEORGE FREDERICK McKAY, Eastman's first graduate in composition (B.Mus. 1923) arrived in Seattle to become the first University of Washington JAMES BEALE joined the University of Washington music faculty in 1948, faculty member in composition. He was considered the doyenne of northwest following his education at Harvard and Yale, having studied composition with composers during his tenure here, winning awards from the American Guild of Aaron Copland and Walter Piston. "Symphony No.2," written while in Europe Organists (1939), and the Harvey Gaul Prize in 1961, among others. McKay on a Guggenheim Fellowship, was performed by the Seattle Symphony under was a superb colorist who incorporated American folk idioms and direct quota Milton Katims. Among his compositions for solo instruments are nine piano tions in his music. Known as a master orchestrator of his generation, he was sonatas, regarded by Joel Salsman as "one of the finest series of piano sonatas by the author of the textbook Creative Orchestration (1963) which had several print a contemporary composer." Beale's "Fourth Piano Sonata" is dedicated to ings and a second edition. Upon hearing Salsman's performance of Messian on School of Music faculty member at the time, Theodore Norman. All the piano his Master's recital, Dr. McKay gave him a copy of his "Sonatine for Piano." sonatas are dedicated to pianists associated with the School, including the "Ninth As Salsman planned this program, he found the work was a perfect fit: an ideal Piano Sonata" to Joel Salsman. A dedicated teacher of theory and composition opener. who awed many of his students with his pianistic ability, Beale was an .. . /I . IiIiII . " e . 4 " ,
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