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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Oregon Scholars' Bank LEDGER LINES SCHOOL of MUSIC and DANCE The KUM Dance Company visits UO. See story, page 7. NEWSLETTER for ALUMNI & FRIENDS September, 2007 Vol. XIX, No. 2 LEDGER LINES — SPECIAL EVENTS — is the biannual newsletter of the University of Oregon School of Music Saturday, Oct. 13: and Dance. Letters, photos, and contri- butions from alumni, friends, and faculty Homecoming are always welcome. • Ducks vs. WSU at Autzen Stadium. Alumni address correspondence to: Band members can register for the weekend’s LeDGer LiNeS rehearsal and activity schedule by going to: School of Music and Dance www.oregonalumniband.com 1225 University of Oregon eugene Or 97403-1225 Sunday, Nov. 4 • 4 p.m. eDiTOr: Scott Barkhurst [email protected] Music & Dance at the Hult aSSiSTaNT: Carol roth The University of Oregon School of Music and Dance joins Eugene’s celebration of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts CONTriBUTOrS: Christina elmore, th George evano, Walter Kennedy, amy 25 Anniversary by presenting a wonderful program featur- Stoddart, DeNel Stoltz ing our premiere ensembles: the UO Chamber Choir, Repertory Dance Company, UO Symphony, PrOOFreaDerS: Laura Littlejohn, Carol roth University Singers, and the Oregon Wind Ensemble. General admission COVer PhOTO by Michael Brinkerhoff; tickets are $10, $5 for KUM Dance Company story on page 7. students, available at the door. MuSic & Dance aDMiniSTRaTion (For more events, see back cover, DeaN: Brad Foley or check our website at [email protected] music.uoregon.edu) aSSOCiaTe DeaNS: ann Tedards–Graduate Studies [email protected] Jeffrey Williams–Undergraduate Studies School of MuSic & Dance aDVanceMenT council [email protected] Chair: roberta hall, ’60, ’81, Umpqua David hilton, Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.; DaNCe DeParTMeNT: Symphony Association; Roseburg, OR Eugene, OR Jenifer Craig, chair [email protected] ViCe-Chair: al King, ’76, vice president/ Marilyn Kays, arts patron, Eugene, OR investment officer, RBC Dain Rauscher; DeVeLOPMeNT STaFF: Springfield, OR Jay O’Leary, M.D., arts patron, Eugene, OR DeNel Stoltz, director [email protected] Dana Clark, assistant development officer PaST Chair: Mira Frohnmayer, ’60, Mary Glass O’Leary, ’55, arts patron, [email protected] professor emerita, Pacific Lutheran Eugene, OR amy Salmore, program assistant University; Eugene, OR [email protected] Mia hall Savage, ’72, ’73, Pacific Youth Jenifer Craig, ’71, ’73, Associate Professor Choirs; Portland, OR Main office: and Chair of Dance, UO; Eugene, OR John Tachouet, ’64, retired owner, Phone: (541) 346-3761 Mary ann Orchid hanson, Eugene Symphony The Equity Group; Portland, OR Fax: (541) 346-0723 Association; Eugene, OR Web: music.uoregon.edu John Wells, violinist; Springfield, OR Niles hanson, NW Stamping & Precision Co., Rosen Products Sunvisor Systems; Jeffrey Williams, UO Professor and Associ- Eugene, OR ate Dean of Music; Eugene, OR 1 the prestigious Thomas F. Herman FROM THE TOP teaching award. • $10,000 Oregon Community Cred- Brad Foley, Dean it Union Fellowships were awarded to three of our music faculty for ooking out my office window, their successful research proposals L it is rewarding to think about that focused on the Arts and Hu- the many successes achieved by our manities. Lori Kruckenberg and Eric school over the course of the past Mentzel co-authored one winning academic year. Today the Hyland proposal and they will share the Construction crew is hard at work prize, and Jeffrey Stolet authored an- preparing our building site for the other successful proposal. Each will creation of the new building founda- be recognized at an official awards tions. Throughout May and June the program during fall term. site was cleared and prepared, a new access roadway was created behind Chamber Music Series the building connecting to 18th The 2007-08 academic year Avenue, and bedrock was cleared marks the 40th anniversary season of in preparation for a new elevator in the University of Oregon Chamber the north wing. At the conclusion Music Series that began in 1967 of spring term, the north and south under the guidance of Professor $1 million); we have brought in wings of the older portions of the Edmund Cykler. Since that time, the $1,005,598 in dollars and in-kind building were closed for renova- series has evolved into a program support of equipment and instru- tion work and the installation of a that annually presents some of the ments and have established an new fire and safety alarm system finest internationally acclaimed additional goal of $1 million throughout the facilities. It is excit- performing artists in the world (see towards this category to assist us in ing to see all of the work finally story, page 3). Through the generos- equipping the new facilities; and happening. You may read about ity of the Boekelheide Creativity we have received $197,998 towards our progress and see photographs Endowment Fund, we are able to a $500,000 goal to support guest of the project as it moves along via present the America’s Dream Cham- artists and scholars, including the our website: http://music.uoregon. ber Artists in a weeklong residency Chamber Music Series. (We also edu/About/construction.htm that will enrich the lives of student have received a $750,000 irrevocable and community musicians with a bequest towards this goal.) Faculty Achievements number of outreach activities and With the receipt of a new The successes of our talented master classes during the Chamber Charitable Remainder Trust valued faculty were celebrated this spring Music Series. at more than $579,000, we have in a number of important ways. surpassed our revised $15 million • Professors Anne Dhu McLucas, Campaign Oregon goal, but our work is not yet done. Robert Kyr, and Jeffrey Stolet As the University of Oregon Fundraising continues for recently received campus-wide research enters the final year of “Campaign established priorities, including a innovation awards along with Oregon, Transforming Lives,” I am $1.5 million endowment to support eight colleagues from the School of pleased to announce that overall the building operations, $1 million Architecture and Allied Arts and the University of Oregon has reached for 29 additional new pianos, and Humanities division of the College $524 million of its $600 million $600,000 for furnishings and other of Arts and Sciences. goal, and the School of Music and equipment for the new facilities, in The music and dance faculty Dance has met not only its original addition to an ongoing need to add recipients were selected following goal of $10 million, but also has to our scholarship endowments. a review by our school’s elected surpassed its revised goal of $15 Our school appreciates the faculty advisory committee and the million. enormous support from our alumni school’s three senior administra- Thanks to a myriad of generous and friends, and I hope you can join tors, in addition to my own review. donors, we have raised $10.3 mil- us for one of our many outstanding Clearly, their works over the past de- lion towards our building project programs throughout the year. cade have established each of them (the original goal being $7.6 million as leaders in their disciplines. to match state bonds legislated • Associate Professor Marian Smith in 2001); we have reached $2.16 was honored for her outstanding million for scholarships in music achievements in teaching with and dance (the original goal being 2 DEVELOPMENT HOW TO ORDER To make a tax-deductible gift to purchase a named paver, contact Dana Clark, Assistant Development Puttin’ up the bricks Officer, School of Music and Dance, Reserve your named legacy in the new courtyard 1225 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1225; phone (541) By DeNel Stoltz, Director of Development 346-5695; e-mail daclark@uoregon. edu or go to http://music.uoregon. onstruction is well underway be located just outside of the new edu/Giving/choices.html for the new building additions, Leona DeArmond Academic Wing, Cwith the new Penny Vanderwicken most of which will be covered by Duprey Courtyard to follow. Show the building overhang. For more information on making a your support for the School of Music • When will the pavers be installed? gift, contact DeNel Stoltz at (541) and Dance and leave a legacy for Late summer 2008. 346-5687 or [email protected]. yourself or a loved one by purchas- ing a personalized paver in the courtyard. EW TEINWAY CONCERT PIANOS The pavers N S D The Jones can be en- Generous gifts from Jackie Giustina ’43, and Bob ’52 and Leona DeAr- Family graved with mond ’51, will transform the quality of performances in Beall Concert Hall. the name(s) Their gifts will enable the purchase of two new Steinway Model D Concert of your grand pianos to replace two of the three presently used in Beall Hall. choice. Jackie Giustina’s gift made possible a new Concert D grand piano from Proceeds from the pavers will the Steinway Factory in Hamburg, Germany. Piano professors Alexandre help purchase furnishings and Dossin and David Riley, and piano technician Alan Phillips traveled to equipment for the new wings, such Hamburg to make the selection in April; the piano arrived in June. as classroom and rehearsal chairs, On the occasion of Leona’s birthday last spring, Bob DeArmond made music stands, risers, pianos, and a generous gift that will enable the school to select a new Concert D grand faculty teaching studio furnishings. piano at the Steinway Factory in New York in October of this year. Frequently asked questions: Fundraising continues for the $1 million goal to purchase at least 29 • What is a paver? additional pianos to meet the immediate needs of equipping the faculty A paver is a concrete brick that teaching studios, classrooms, and performance and rehearsal rooms in the you walk on.