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Features by Shannon Norton Richards and Jaime Fogel
No. 102 November 2019 www.gcna.org Newsletter of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America 2019 Congress Report Features by Shannon Norton Richards and Jaime Fogel ok Tower Gardens hosted the 77th Congress of The Guild 2019 Congress Bof Carillonneurs in North America from June 10-14, 2019 Report 1 in Lake Wales, Florida. This year, Congress was dedicated to From the President's longtime Bok carillonneur Milford Myhre. The beautiful Sing- Corner 3 ing Tower was featured not only in the carillon recitals but also on the exterior of an awesome insulated metal water bottle and Festivals and the front cover of the Program Guide. The program book’s front Symposia 6 cover artwork, “Reflection of Bok Tower in the Koi Pond Be- Overseas 16 hind Shady Trees,” was done in acrylic and watercolor by Sa- mantha Eady, a high school student from Harrison School for Towers and the Arts in Lakeland, Florida. Her work was selected from a Excursions 19 number of other competitive submissions by other student art- Announcements 20 ists. Plus Edward W. Bok, a highly successful publisher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, immigrated from the Netherlands at the Calendar 3 age of six. Through hard work and determination, he succeeded in both business and philanthropy, living by the words of his Take Notes: Awards, Exams, Bok Tower, the centerpiece grandmother, “Make you the world a bit better or more beau- Education 11 of Bok Tower Gardens tiful because you have lived in it.” Residing in Pennsylvania, the Boks visited their winter retreat near Lake Wales, where Reviews 22 the beautiful location inspired Bok to build a tranquil garden in which people could relax and commune with nature, in “a sanctuary for birds and people.” Bok’s 205-foot Art Deco/neo-Gothic Singing Tower is an in- spiring work of art reflecting, primarily, Florida’s flora and fau- Congress honored former na. -
22Nd International Festival of Women Composers
Iowa State University Department of Music & Theatre The Margaret Zach International Women Composers Library, and polytekton.com present a Concert in the 22nd International Festival of Women Composers Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, March 23, 2018 - 7:30pm 20th-21st century American Composers and Pulitzer prize-winning Poets Pealing Fire for Carillon……………………………………………………………………..Libby Larsen Sarah Reger, carillon Air from Suite No. 1 for Organ………………………….…….………………….………Florence B. Price Miriam Zach, organ Twelve Chairs (poetry by Rita Dove)…………………..……………….……..…………..…….Jodi Goble First Juror Second Juror Third Juror Fourth Juror Fifth Juror Sixth Juror Seventh Juror Eighth Juror Ninth Juror Tenth Juror Eleventh Juror Twelfth Juror The Alternate Chad Sonka, baritone & Jodi Goble, piano Night Sun Journey………………………………………………………………………….……Meg Bowles Lucas Yoakam, trumpet Songs from Fünf Lieder……………………………………………………..…………………Alma Mahler Bei dir ist es traut (poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke) Ich wandle unter Blumen (poetry by Heinrich Heine) David Bowles Edwards, tenor & Jodi Goble, piano Song Cycle (poetry by Mary Oliver)…………………………..……..………………………Lori Laitman I – Last night the rain spoke to me II – Blue iris III - Early Snow Beth Deutmeyer, soprano & Jodi Goble, piano ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Welcome to today’s program that features music created and performed by Iowa State University Department of Music and Theatre faculty, students, and alumni. For information about and to participate in the annual International Festivals of Women Composers that are crossroads for networking among women composers and their advocates, please go to www.iwclib.org or contact Dr. Miriam Zach ([email protected]). In 1997 she founded and became Creative Director of the International Festivals of Women Composers and the Margaret Zach International Women Composers Library in Gainesville, Florida. -
9.6.19 C-HOP Eastern European Organ:Harpsichord Music By
Iowa State University Department of Music and Theatre C-HOP Festival 2019 Eastern European Organ & Harpsichord Music by Women Composers during Soviet Socialist Realism (1932-1988) Recital-Lecture by Dr. Miriam Zach, ISU Organ & Harpsichord Faculty Friday, September 6, 2019, 6:00pm Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall PROGRAM Praeambulum from Hat Orgonadarab Erzsébet Szönyi (b.1924) Preludium na Valasskou Písen: Preludio sul tema di un canto morave Vitezslav Novák (1870-1949) Preludium ut minore Jan Zach (1699-1773) Trivium (III.) Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) hell und dunkel Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) Im Salon der Rahel Levin (harpsichord) Ruth Zechlin (1926-2007) HISTORICAL CONTEXT INTERWEAVING CULTURES & LANGUAGES Soviet Socialist Realism - refer to Zhdanov memo was the contextualist official style of idealized realistic art developed in the Soviet Union as well as other socialist countries 1932-1988. All composers on today’s program came from countries in the Warsaw Pact, signed in 1955, that included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Romania, Poland, and the Soviet Union. 1. Identify gender of composer by listening 2. How did, or didn’t each composer conform to Soviet Socialist Realism? ABOUT THE COMPOSERS Hungarian composer and professor of teachers, Erzsébet Szönyi (b.1924) celebrated her 95th birthday on April 25, 2019. She studied with Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) and Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) in Paris, then returned to Budapest to teach the Kodály method developed by Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) at the Liszt Academy. Russian troops were stationed in Hungary from the end of World II until 1991. In 2014 A Tear in the Curtain: The Musical Diplomacy of Erzsébet Szönyi by Jerry Jacquard was published about her life and creative work. -
NAACP Branch President Ousted
1A SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY Friends of Music to Rountree Moore EDITION continue concert to introduce new series in Live Oak. 3A Nissan showroom. 1C NAACP branch president ousted firmed Friday. A reporter for the is now president. Patricia Brady is now Bernice Presley removed Dale R. Landry, president of the Lake City Reporter was first vice president and Debra White is after less than a month in Tallahassee branch NAACP and fourth vice present at the NAACP second vice president. president of the Florida State Conference meeting during which it Presley declined comment. office; no reason given. NAACP, said during a telephone call that is believed Presley was Thomas did not return calls seeking Lynda Thomas has been named president removed on Thursday, comment. By TONY BRITT of the local branch. but was ordered to leave Calls to the national NAACP headquar- [email protected] He declined to say why Presley had by Thomas before the ters on Friday regarding Presley’s removal been removed from office less than a meeting began. Presley as local branch president were not imme- Bernice Presley has been removed as month into her term, referring additional Thomas, who was diately returned. the Columbia County NAACP branch questions to the NAACP national head- elected first vice president during the orga- president, a state NAACP official con- quarters. nization’s bi-annual election in December, NAACP continued on 6A Flu has peaked, Girls on wheels but still packs a punch Fewer cases here lately, says local health dept. -
25Th Int'l Festival Program 3.27.21
Iowa State University Department of Music & Theatre (music.iastate.edu) and the Margaret Zach International Women Composers Library (iwclib.org) or (miriamzach.com) present the 25th International Festival of Women Composers Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall (MET) 27 March 2021 - 1:30pm webcast Welcome to 500 years of music composed by women. Ego flos campi (I am the Rose of Sharon)………………Caterina Assandra (c.1590-after 1618) (Italy) “Air” from Suite No. 1 for Organ………….………………Florence B.Price (1887-1953) (USA) Miriam Zach, organ Addison’s Song (2020)………………………………………Annette Butters (England) The Trees Unfold (2019).……………………………..…………Judith Weir first female Master of the Queen’s Music (b. 1954) (Scotland-England) Stephen Smith, organ David’s Lament for Jonathan………….…………..…..……Muriel Herbert (1897-1984) (England) Text by Helen Jane Waddell (1889-1965) based on poem by Peter Abelard (1079-1142) Lincoln Klopfenstein, tenor Jodi Goble, piano Dance: Beaulté (Beauty)………….…….……………Marie de Bourgogne (1457-1482) (Belgium) Miriam Zach, organ Stephen Smith, bellows with Orgelkids USA = 2-rank positive pipe organ (only one in Iowa) from Central Iowa American Guild of Organists (ciaago.org) PRE-RECORDED “Recovery” & "Final Questions” from Such A Thing Again (2020)…. Texts by Melanie Faith ……Jodi Goble (USA) Chad Sonka, baritone Jodi Goble, piano Sonata for Violin and Piano, opus 34 (1896)…….……Amy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) (USA) I Allegro moderato II Scherzo: molto vivace III Largo con dolore IV Allegro con fuoco Jonathan Sturm, violin Michael Banwarth, piano The County Mayo (1949)……….……………..………………Joan Trimble (1915-2000) (Ireland) The County Mayo Peggy Mitchell Inis Fál In the Poppy Field Nolan Brown, baritone Jodi Goble, piano Miriam Zach, piano Sonata for Viola and Piano (1919)…………………………Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) (England - USA) I Impetuoso II Vivace III-IV Adagio—Agitato Jonathan Sturm, viola Michael Banwarth, piano ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND COMPOSITIONS Caterina Assandra (c.