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NEWSLETTER for ALUMNI & FRIENDS September, 2008 Vol. XX, No. 2 Ledger Lines — Special Events — is the biannual newsletter of the University of Oregon School of Music Homecoming Weekend and Dance. Letters, photos, and contri- butions from alumni, friends, and faculty Friday, Oct. 10: are always welcome. • UO BANDS TO CELEBRATE Address correspondence to: 100th ANNIVERSARY LEDGER LINES The UO School of Music and Dance School of Music and Dance and the Oregon Alumni Association invite 1225 University of Oregon all former UO band members to attend a Eugene OR 97403-1225 special 100th anniversary celebration din- EDITOR: Scott Barkhurst ner during Homecoming Weekend, Oct. [email protected] 10–11. The Friday dinner, featuring a special ASSISTANT: Carol Roth program and performances, will be at Val- ley River Inn at 7 p.m., preceded by a 6:30 CONTRIBUTORS: George Evano, Bob Keefer, Amy Stoddart, DeNel Stoltz reception. The centennial event is open to all former UO band members, including PROOFREADERS: the concert bands, jazz bands, and march- Laura Littlejohn, Carol Roth ing bands. The evening’s program will feature live performances, band memorabilia, and speakers. Cost is $35 per person. Reception and COVER PHOTO by Scott Barkhurst: registration details are available on-line at the Alumni Association’s Construction on the new Leona DeArmond Academic Wing nears completion website: uoalumni.com

MUSIC & DANCE Saturday, Oct. 11: ADMINISTRATION • Ducks vs. UCLA at Autzen Stadium. Alumni Band members can register for the DEAN: Brad Foley weekend’s rehearsal and activity schedule [email protected] by going to: www.oregonalumniband.com ASSOCIATE DEANS: Ann Tedards–Graduate Studies [email protected] Jeffrey Williams–Undergraduate Studies [email protected] School of Music & Dance ADVANCEMENT COUNCIL

DANCE DEPARTMENT: Chair: Al King, ’76, vice president/ David Hilton, Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.; Jenifer Craig, chair investment officer, RBC Dain Rauscher; Eugene, OR [email protected] Springfield, OR Marilyn Kays, arts patron; Eugene, OR DEVELOPMENT STAFF: Vice-Chair: Niles Hanson, NW Stamping & DeNel Stoltz, director Natalie Giustina Newlove, arts patron; Precision Co., Rosen Products Sunvisor [email protected] Eugene, OR Amy Salmore, program assistant Systems; Eugene, OR [email protected] Jay O’Leary, M.D., arts patron; Eugene, OR PAST Chair: Mira Frohnmayer, ’60, MAIN OFFICE: professor emerita, Pacific Lutheran Mary Glass O’Leary, ’55, arts patron; University; Eugene, OR Eugene, OR Phone: (541) 346-3761(music) (541) 346-3386 (dance) Jenifer Craig, ’71, ’73, Associate Professor Mia Hall Savage, ’72, ’73, Pacific Youth Fax: (541) 346-0723 Choirs; Portland, OR Web: music.uoregon.edu and Chair of Dance, UO; Eugene, OR John Wells, violinist; Springfield, OR Mary Ann Hanson, President, Eugene Symphony Association Jeffrey Williams, Professor and Associ- and arts patron; Eugene, OR ate Dean of Music; Eugene, OR 1

sound-isolation properties featured FROM THE TOP in those new spaces. ChamberMusic@Beall Brad Foley, Dean As we launch the 41st annual season of the university’s chamber s we approach the beginning music series, you will note that A of a new academic year at the we adopted a new name and have University of Oregon School of Mu- undergone a leadership change. In sic and Dance, we eagerly anticipate March, we saluted Janet Stewart the move into our $19.2 million new for leading the series for the past and renovated MarAbel B. Frohn- fourteen years, continuing the excel- mayer Music Building by the end of lent traditions of Edmund Cykler fall term. and Steve Stone before her. Janet’s Thanks to the generosity of lead leadership was marked by her dedi- donors Lorry Lokey, Bob and Leona cation, love, and passion for music DeArmond, Thelma and Gilbert as she invited the highest quality Schnitzer, and Kathleen Daughterty of performing artists to our series Richards Grubbe as well as numer- over the years. She brought the elite ous others, more than $11 million from the world of chamber music, from private funds and $7.6 million including such groups as the Tokyo, from state bonds have made this Emerson, Juilliard, and Amati ensembles; Christopher Olin, choral project a reality. string quartets. She concluded her music education; Laura Wayte, It has been an exciting process to leadership of the chamber series to voice; and Larry Wayte, music his- observe the day-to-day activities of help with the transition as well as to tory. In the coming year we will the construction crews over the past serve as our music building project launch a search for a new assistant year, and I have enjoyed working manager, prior to retiring next sum- professor in ethnomusicology to with an exemplary team of construc- mer. Janet’s retirement, along with succeed Professor Emerita Anne tion managers whose work will John Evans joining the UO’s Oregon Dhu McLucas, and another assistant culminate in an incredible new and Bach Festival, led me to consider a professor search in dance to replace improved facility for our talented new partnership opportunity and a former Associate Professor Amy students, faculty, and staff. rebranding of the series as Chamber Stoddart, who left us this summer. The true success of the construc- Music@Beall. Across campus, we welcome tion phase of our project is in large We have a great season in store new provost James Bean (former part due to the hard work and perse- for the community, opening with dean of the Lundquist College of verance of Janet Stewart and George the Academy of St. Martin in the Business), Jill Hartz, new director Bleekman from the university, and Fields on October 19. Appearances of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Brad Tindall and Shaun Nestle from by pianist Jeffrey Kahane (Nov. 9), Art, and new permanent leadership John Hyland Construction. I appreci- and the Portland Baroque Orchestra in the dean’s offices of the College of ate the great care and attention to (Feb. 22), serve as connections to the Education and College of Arts and every detail that has gone into mak- 2009 Oregon Bach Festival lineup, Sciences. And we await with great ing our project the best it can be. as both will return in the summer as anticipation the outcome of a search We will move into the new a part of next year’s 40th anniversary for a new president of the University spaces in December in time to begin festival. of Oregon. winter term of 2009 in our new facil- Time of Transitions Meanwhile, we begin our ten- ity. We plan to invite our various As we begin the new academic year NASM Self-Study process for constituencies to a grand opening year, the university anticipates a sig- renewal of our music accreditation, celebration during the first week of nificant enrollment surge across the as well as a new assessment plan March in 2009. I hope that many campus and we also expect a larger and campus-wide Strategic Academ- of you will plan to join us for the than usual entering class in music ic Planning process. All in all, we ribbon-cutting ceremony and/or an and dance. have a busy and exciting year ahead open house and tour of the facilities, We anticipate numerous other in addition to our usual myriad of so that you may observe first-hand changes and transitions as we wel- 200-plus concerts and programs. I the caliber of new spaces we are cre- come new faculty: Assistant Profes- hope you will pay us a visit in the ating. Besides the new construction sors Molly Barth, flute; Nicholas coming year. itself, our music students will enjoy Isherwood, voice and opera; and an enriched quality of education due Shannon Mockli, dance; as well as to the state-of-the-art acoustical and Instructors Andiel Brown, gospel 2

B. Frohnmayer Music Building. DEVELOPMENT A schematic of the courtyard and building plans can be viewed at: http://music.uoregon.edu. Click on The Final Bricks “Make a Gift,” then “Buy a Named Brick.” Fundraising shifts to furnishing and equipping Bricks are still available for $250 the new $19 million music building and $1000. The first installation of By DeNel Stoltz, Director of Development bricks will be in fall 2008. The next installation will be in summer 2009. even years of anticipation. All proceeds from our “Buy a Leave a legacy and become a part of Nineteen million dollars from Named Brick/The Last Bricks” ini- UO music history today! u visionS to completion, and $10.4 mil- tiative in the Penny Vanderwicken lion from private sources to make it Duprey Courtyard will be put For more information on making a a reality. The waiting is nearly over toward furnishing and equipping gift, contact DeNel Stoltz at (541) for faculty, staff, students, music the new spaces in the MarAbel 346-5687 or [email protected]. patrons, and community musicians. For some, actually thirty years of anticipation—since 1979—which was when the last additions were constructed for the music facilities. The expanded and renovated MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building will open for classes in January 2009, providing new state- of-the-art, acoustically isolated teaching studios, rehearsal/perfor- mance spaces, classrooms and prac- tice rooms that will add half again The new instrumental as much space as the existing music rehearsal room, part facility. Mark your calendar for the of the new Thelma grand opening celebratory events Schnitzer Performance during the first week in March 2009. Wing at the north end The Oregon Legislature ap- of the music building. proved bonding for $7.6 million of the music building project in 2001 —at the time, half of the expected capital project. Due to runaway WHICH BRICKS ARE MISSING? steel and concrete costs, the project ballooned to $19 million. Thanks $100,000 Steinway Model D grand piano (3 needed) to generous donors, the additional needs to complete the project were $60,000 Steinway Model B or O grand piano (10 needed) met by private sources, enabling Equipment for new recording studio and connections $40,000 the construction of a wonderful, to new rehearsal spaces functional facility that will last for generations of faculty, students, and $25,000 Furniture for Club Room (newly renovated reception room off Beall Hall lobby) audiences. The excitement among the $10,000 Upright piano (10 needed) faculty, students and staff is pal- $8,000 Audio/visual equipment for each new classroom (5 needed) pable. Fundraising for the MarAbel

B. Frohnmayer Music Building is $1,700 iMac computer for renovated computer lab (10 needed) not yet complete, however. The immediate focus is on furnishing $1,000 6 Wenger rehearsal chairs (87 needed) and equipping the new spaces with State-of-the-art music-specific software for computer lab (10) pianos, rehearsal chairs and equip- $300 ment, classroom desks, risers, music Two classroom chairs with arm tablets (185 needed) $250 stands, etc. or 5 music stands (170 needed) 3

school and university. Two New Scholarships Endowed Mira Frohnmayer, Exine’s close friend and former student, suprised Emerita voice professor Exine Bailey honored with her with the announcement that the newly renovated lounge and endowed scholarship and new lounge in her name; reception area in the MarAbel B. piano scholarship endowed by Madelon Petroff ‘52 Frohnmayer Music Building will be named for Arthur and Exine Bailey, A special afternoon reception on be one of the top priorities for our in honor of Exine’s many years February 10 reunited two important school, and endowments provide a of service to the School of Music friends of the School of Music and wonderful source of funds in perpe- and Dance, and her late husband’s Dance—and close friends of one an- tuity to help us attract the finest and dedication to vocal instruction and other for more than sixty years. Mira most talented students, who will performance. Frohnmayer ‘60 and Marcia Baldwin become tomorrow’s top educators The former student lounge has hosted the surprise celebration hon- and performers,” Dean Foley noted been renovated to serve as the new oring Madelon Petroff, a 1952 piano in his remarks. “Madelon’s gift reception area and lounge. Mira, alumna, and emerita voice professor endowed the voice scholarships along with Marcia Baldwin and Exine Bailey. that Exine has been making possible Lynette Schenkel, spearheaded the “It was a delightfully fun event through her annual generous gifts fundraising effort among Exine’s to plan and host. Both Madelon and each year,” Foley added, “and Exine former students to raise $50,000 Exine thought that the event was a has made a provision in her estate to to name the space, and were major celebration for the other one, and further build her vocal scholarship donors to the project. both were surprised and pleased to endowment.” The reception brought together be honored,” said Frohmayer. UO President Dave Frohnmayer more than 50 friends of the School Petroff made a generous thanked Petroff for her generous of Music and Dance, including $100,000 gift that established two gifts and then surprised her by pre- many of Exine Bailey’s former UO new endowed scholarships: one in senting her with a crystal duck wel- colleagues, students, and members piano and one in voice. The Mad- coming her into the Irene Gerlinger of her PEO and Phi Beta chapters. elon Petroff Piano Scholarship will Society of the University’s Founders Entertainment was provided by this assist in recruiting talented piano Society, which recognizes donors for year’s Exine Bailey Graduate Voice students, and the Exine Anderson their significant lifetime gifts to the Fellowship recipient, Marie Lan- Bailey Vocal Scholarship will do the University of Oregon. Frohnmayer dreth, and Exine Bailey Undergradu- same for the best voice majors. also had many accolades for Exine ate Voice Scholarship recipient, “Scholarship funds continue to for her four decades of service to the Maggie Lieberman. Pianists Nathalie Fortin and Corey Battey accompa- nied the two sopranos. The event ended with a song, of course. Mira Frohnmayer led the gathering with special lyrics that she wrote, sung to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” as a tribute to Exine. u

Is the School of Music and Dance in your will? Let us know! Thank you. UO Office of Gift Planning (541) 346-1687 (800) 289-2354 [email protected] Madelon Petroff and Exine Bailey (right) enjoy the festivities at the special Feb. 10 reception held in the Knight Library Browsing Room. Piano and Equipment Needs for the New Building: Two Recent Gifts Kick Off the Initiative

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echoed that sentiment in 1985, TRIBUTE saying that Rider did “a splendid job in a period of financial pinch for the whole university. He made it possible for us to keep the quality Memories of Morry of the school without suffering more severe loss, even while suffering Former Dean Morrette Rider is remembered reduced staff and budget. He’s an for his cordiality and administrative skill outstanding administrator and a hard act to follow.” orette Rider, dean of the Another highlight from Rider’s School of Music from 1975 tenure at Oregon was in 1984, when toM 1986, passed away in January; he brought the prestigious Interna- a memorial service was held in tional Society for Music Education Eugene, attended by numerous faculty, friends, and family. His wife, Wanda, passed away in May 2007. “I don’t know that we Rider began teaching at Hope could have had a better College in Michigan in the late 1940s, eventually becoming Provost dean through the hard after completing his doctorate at financial years” Columbia University. He toured and —Exine Bailey taught for many years as a profes- sional violinist and conductor. For conference to Eugene. The Hult three years he hosted a musical Center was brand new, and with the talk show for Time-Life Television Hilton next door, it made a perfect as well as several radio series. He venue for the large and successful studied conducting with Pierre conference gathering. Rider also Monteaux, Sir Adrian Boult, and presided over the construction of Leonard Bernstein. Morrette Rider, 1921-2008 the first major addition to the music The defining moment of Rider’s school since the late 1950s: the east 11-year tenure at the University eliminated altogether. Rider knew wing of studios and practice rooms of Oregon was his valiant—some he had to take action, and began and the north wing of large rehearsal would say heroic—defense of the amassing statistics and supporters, rooms and suites. School of Music during a particu- including a letter sent in the spring Rider also founded and con- larly difficult budgetary period on of 1981 to alumni and friends of the ducted the University Sinfonietta campus in the early 1980s. music school. and oversaw the establishment of In the letter, he noted that elimi- a jazz program. Two new doctoral nating the music school would not degrees—the Ph.D. and D.Ed—in The School of Music only result in lost jobs, but would music education were accredited had been living on a disrupt the education of 450 music during his tenure, as were master’s students. Cancellation of the Oregon degrees in choral conducting and shrinking budget for Bach Festival (then preparing for piano pedagogy. years, and some were its 12th season) and more than 200 Rider was very active in in- eyeing the school as annual concerts would remove ternational education, serving as a “frill” that might be significant revenue from the local administrator or faculty member for economy. The demand for music programs in Yugoslavia, Germany, eliminated altogether. teachers would remain, but the Austria, and England, and as a school would no longer be there to guest lecturer in Germany, Finland, During the 1981 recession, Or- provide them. South Korea, and England. He also egon had a shaky state economy and The response to Rider’s letter was a member of Eugene’s Cultural a state legislature that was cutting was significant, and the school Affairs Commission, the Board of the budgets of colleges and universi- weathered the budget storm. “I don’t Governors, and chair of the long- ties. The UO School of Music had know that we could have had a bet- range planning committee of the UO been living on a shrinking budget ter dean through the hard financial Museum of Art. He also served on for years, and some were eyeing years,” said Exine Bailey at the time the Board of Directors of the Eugene the school as a “frill” that might be of Rider’s retirement. Peter Bergquist Symphony and the Eugene Youth 5

MORRETTE RIDER, continued UO Chamber Music Series gets Symphony. Speaking at Rider’s memorial new name, new artistic management service were three emeriti faculty The UO Chamber Music Series, be in partnership with the School members: which completed its 40th anniversary of Music and Dance to ensure that Gary Martin gave a summary season with appropriate celebrations Chamber Music@Beall is every bit of Rider’s professional life prior to and gratifying ticket sales this past as successful in the years to come arriving at the University of Oregon, year, will have a slightly different as CMS has been in the recent past and noted that the Riders’ daughter, face next season. under the inspired leadership of Rhonda, had become an excellent With the impending retirement Janet Stewart,” said John Evans. “An cellist with a very successful career of manager Janet Stewart (after 14 expansion of the subscription series, in performance and in teaching. years of devoted service) the series closer links with Bach Festival Mary Lou Van Rysselberghe, will sport a new name—Chamber themes and artists, and sustaining who was hired by Rider, spoke of Music@Beall—and will get its artis- a roster of top-ranking international Rider’s legacy of cordiality and hu- tic direction from Dean Foley and artists will, I’m sure, secure the series mor. “So much was hidden behind John Evans, with support from staff well into the future for all lovers of that inimical smile of his,” she said. of the Oregon Bach Festival and the great chamber music.” “He was a man who accomplished School of Music and Dance. On the financial side of the much. He was a teacher who The series will expand to six series, Director of Development branched into so many directions, concerts next year (see box below), DeNel Stoltz announced that an administrator during hard times and all the concerts will be held at 3 “Thanks to many generous donors, at the university; an accomplished p.m. on Sundays, but otherwise will we have reached $93,000 toward string performer, lecturer on a broad retain the same elements that have the $100,000 endowment campaign breadth of topics, including jazz. made it so successful over the years. begun last fall.” Morry even supported our forming “As the UO chamber music To make a gift to the series, con- a softball team of willing and some- series enters its fifth decade, the tact DeNel Stoltz at (541) 346-5687 times able faculty—the Red Riders.” Oregon Bach Festival is proud to or e-mail [email protected] u Steve Stone, who joined the faculty one year after Rider became st dean, characterized Morry’s admin- 41 SEASON istrative style as “very quiet and un- obtrusive ... he never spoke critically about anyone to other people ... the hamber music @ BEALL same was true of his wife, Wanda. C In fact, their daughter Rhonda Sunday, Oct. 19 Sunday, Jan. 25 remembers that that was the way it ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN BORODIN QUARTET was in their family life as well. You In THE FIELDS CHAMBER This world-renowned, Grammy- just didn’t spend time disparaging ENSEMBLE nominated quartet will perform anyone. Period.” Music by Dvorak, Shostakovich, music by Beethoven, Shebalin, Stone added that “his door was and Mendelssohn. and Borodin. always open, no matter how busy he might have been. He always main- Sunday, Nov. 9 Sunday, Feb. 22 tained this policy, whether or not PORTLAND BAROQUE you had an appointment—no matter JEFFREY KAHANE, Piano One of the Oregon Bach Festival’s ORCHESTRA how important or trivial the subject Music by Couperin, Handel, u most popular soloists performs matter.” here. Others in the group Rameau, and C.P.E. Bach. made certain that he came in music by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Memorial gifts in Morette Rider’s and Rachmaninoff. Sunday, March 8 memory may be made to the Univer- ALTENBERG TRIO VIENNA Sunday, Dec. 7 sity of Oregon Foundation/School Music by Haydn, Mendelssohn, of Music and Dance. Efforts are THE AULOS ENSEMBLE and Krzysztof Meyer. underway to endow scholarships in with Julianne Baird, soprano the Riders’ names. To make a gift, A special holiday program featuring For season subscription brochure contact DeNel Stoltz, Director of one of the leading early music or more information, call (541) 346- Development, at (541) 346-5687 or ensembles and Julianne Baird. 5666 or (541) 682-5000 [email protected] 6

stage managers and all-around tech- DANCE NEWS nical support. UORDC co-directors Jenifer Craig, Rita Honka, and Walter Kennedy were all in attendance, Spring tour successes for providing much needed support to ensure a smooth residency and per- formance. The North Bend High ad- Repertory Dance Company vanced dancers opened the concert on Saturday evening with a dynamic By Walter Kennedy work choreographed by Higgins. rom Cottage Grove to Coos Bay, An exciting end to the season for all F the intrepid dancers and sup- involved, this is also the beginning port staff of the UORDC 08 brought of an exciting new presence for UO modern dance to the region this past Dance in the bay area. spring with great energy and talent. Another highlight of the UORDC In addition to the annual “at-home” 08 spring tour was another new concert in Dougherty Dance Theatre relationship forged in the com- and teaching workshops at several munity from our alumnae in dance. local high schools, the on-tour con- This year included the first of many certs provided entertaining contem- future interactions with the new porary dance and some wonderful Springfield Academy of Arts and artistic and educational outreach Academics, otherwise known as activities for Oregon audiences. 3A, where Dorene Carroll (B.A. Especially exciting this year Dance UO 2007, and last year’s was the company’s first extended SOMD Commencement flag-bearer) residency in the Coos Bay/North is a teaching artist along with Keri Bend area. The Hales Performing Davidson. The UORDC dancers Arts Center at Southwestern Oregon provided an in-depth series of Community College was the per- workshops for the school’s dance formance venue, and the residency students, delving into choreographic activities were based at North Bend processes after the students attended High School, which has had a mod- the concert at Dougherty Dance ern dance department since 1955. Theatre in April. UO alumna and director of ARI BY DENISONPHOTO This year’s UORDC 10th an- North Bend’s Modern Dance Dept. niversary tour and at-home activities Kathy Morin along with guest UORDC dancer Rebecca Stiehl in brought exciting contemporary instructor and choreographer Sara Rita Honka’s “Oyá” dance to many hundreds of people Eklund Higgins (B.S. in Dance in several from UO, 2000) were the company communities hosts, and Sara was the residency throughout the coordinator. The dancers and staff state, and at were housed in the Oregon Institute the same time of Marine Biology cottages in nearby offered UO Charleston, and had great fun being dance students near the beach. This year’s company, invaluable made up of graduate students Gina opportunities Bolles and Carrie Goodnight (both to practice and M.F.A. 2008) and undergraduates communicate Jessica Goodburn, Karta-Purkh PHOTO DENISON BY ARI through their Khalsa, Sara Parker, Rebecca Stiehl, chosen art and Lilli Tichinin, taught several form, the pow- master classes over the three-day erful and beau- residency at North Bend High, and tiful discipline an open community class the morn- of dance. u ing of the concert. Undergraduate students Kate UORDC dancers Lilli Tichinin, Rebecca Stiehl, and Jessica Ashworth and David Johnson were Goodburn in Sarah Franco’s “The Lineage of Eve” 7

received, inspired throughout by OREGON BACH FESTIVAL music-making of the highest order, we succeeded.” Aside from its music, the OBF Bach Festival Soars honored its past in both the opening and closing nights at the Hult Cen- Ticket sales and critical acclaim make the 39th season ter, launching the Festival in Eugene with a Founders’ Concert honoring the most successful in the Festival’s history its founding fathers, Helmuth Rilling and Royce Saltzman, and preced- ing the final performance of theSt. Matthew Passion with a ceremony in which Rilling presented the Saltzman Award to UO President Dave Frohnmayer and his wife Lynn. Named in honor of Royce Saltzman, (now the OBF’s Director Emeritus) the award is the Festival’s highest honor, given to those who have made outstanding contributions over the eyers years. The Frohnmayers have been Festival participants since 1971. In recent years Dave Frohnmayer has hristopher M overseen significant growth in uni- versity support for the Festival. Evans’ view was echoed by

PHOTO BY JON BY C PHOTO Helmuth Rilling, the Festival’s artistic director, who hailed both Maria Jette and Garrison Keillor whoop it up with Festival musicians. the Festival’s high standard of ith a second straight year of in Evans’ view, was the consistently performances and a new sense of W sales growth, besting its previ- high level of the performances, as energy emanating from both sides ous high revenue mark by 12%, and witnessed by the extraordinary press of the footlights: “We have many staging night after night of sold out the Festival received this year. times performed the great works of concerts, the Oregon Bach Festival “The standing ovations, the Bach but never, as we have this year, enjoyed one of the most successful capacity audiences, and the tremen- performed all the major pieces in seasons in its entire history. dous collaborative energy of our mu- As the curtain closed on the St. sicians speak volumes for what the Matthew Passion on July 13, OBF OBF now represents,” he reflected, Opening in Portland re- President and Executive Director citing the five-minute standing ova- engaged the Festival with John Evans announced that this year tion for the opening night B Minor grossed $502,696 in ticket sales, Mass, the crowd-pleasing residency an extraordinarily eager exceeding its previous high mark of the Shanghai Quartet (which audience and opened a of $448,408 in 2004, surpassing by captured popular imagination in a door that had been closed 20.2% its 2007 total, and bettering totally revamped chamber music its 2008 budget goal by $26,296. series), the capacity crowds for Gar- for almost 30 years Reflecting an influx of new audi- rison Keillor, The Five Browns, and ences from the Eugene 08 Olympic Sarah Chang, and the profundity of one festival, and at such a very high Trials and the Festival’s opening Rilling’s closing performance of the artistic level. We had many new art- night venture in Portland, the OBF St. Matthew Passion. ists and audiences who had a lot of achieved its broadest ever geo- “Our goal from the outset was to enthusiasm for our music. This was graphical reach, with ticket-holders honor the past and the values that a real joy for me.” from 39 states as well as Australia, have made this Festival great, while Concerns that this year’s Festival Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, celebrating the future and the diver- would run concurrently with the US South Korea, and the U.K. Its total sity of programming we can stage Olympic Trials for ten of its seven- attendance edged 32,300—one of the and the audience we can attract. teen days were allayed, Evans said, highest figures in its 39-year history. And judging by the enthusiasm of by an overlap in attendance and two Equal to this great achievement, our audiences and the press we have key resultant benefits. “From the 8

BACH FESTIVAL, continued conductor, clarinet master classes); FACULTY adjudicated SOMEA Orchestra start we saw this as an opportunity. Festival, Spokane Music and Arts Many Trials visitors made their way Tyler Abbott: performed at Aspen Festival, and Vancouver BC Heritage to the Hult Center, particularly for Music Festival and Oregon Bach Music Festivals. the concert in which we honored Festival, and with Eugene Sym- track legend Bill Bowerman, a long- phony, OSU/Corvallis Symphony, Jack Boss: reviewed book by time Bach Festival supporter. But Salem Chamber Orchestra, Eugene Michael Cherlin, Schoenberg’s Musi- perhaps of more lasting benefit was Concert Choir, Eugene Opera Orch., cal Imagination, Cambridge Univ. the relocation of the opening night and Eugene Ballet (Nutcracker); Press, 2007, commissioned by Jef- to Portland. It re-engaged us with an jazz performances included Ax frey Perry of Music Theory Online. extraordinarily eager audience and Billy Grill, Oak Street Speakeasy, opened a door that had been closed Sweetwaters at Valley River Inn, Jor- Steven Chatfield: published meeting to us for almost 30 years.” dan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Jazz proceedings and articles, including In addition, Evans said, the Station, OFAM’s Shedd Institute, Jo Chatfield et al. (2007), “A descrip- OBF’s partnership with Eugene 08 Federigo’s, Pleasant Hill Jazz Festi- tive analysis of kinematic and also resulted in a beneficial partner- val; featured soloist in Lynn Seaton’s electromyographic relationships of ship with Nike, which contributed Jazz Bass Workshop, and part of Jeff the core during forward stepping in-kind design of Bradetich’s Elite Soloist Master Class in beginning and expert dancers,” eye-catching festi- (U. North Texas); sectional work Journal of Dance Medicine & Sci- val branding and with Eugene Youth Symphony and ence 11(3); and Nemecek & Chatfield marketing materi- Oregon All-State Orchestra; coach- (2007), “Teaching and technique in als, including the ing with Salem Youth Symphony; Dance medicine and science: Find- exciting new OBF master classes at South Eugene and ings for future applications,” Journal logo. West Salem HS, and jazz bass and of Dance Education 7(4); presented Evans and Rill- rhythm section master classes at at the Int’l Assoc. for Dance Medi- ing are now eagerlyLOGO FOR STANDARD APPLICATIONS Pleasant Hill Jazz Festival. cine and Science, 2007 (Canberra, looking forward to the 40th Oregon Australia) including Chatfield et Bach Festival, June 26-July 12, 2009. Barbara Baird: performed at St. al., “A descriptive comparison of Celebrating four major composer Bartholomew Episcopal Church expert and novice dancers’ electro- anniversaries, the scheduled high- (Beaverton OR), with Julia Brown for myographic responses to varying lights include a program of theatre the Regional Convention of Ameri- conditions during weight shift” music by Purcell, Handel’s Messiah, can Guild of Organists, First Con- (paper); and Chatfield et al., “Is what Haydn’s Creation (in Portland and gregational Church, for Oregon Bach we think is happening really hap- LOGO FOR SMALL REPRODUCTION APPLICATIONSFestival, Pipescreams fundraiser pening? What can electromyography Eugene), and Mendelssohn’s(APPROX. .5 INCHES A OR LESS) Midsummer Night’s Dream, in a for Eugene AGO, Central Lutheran (EMG) tell us about how we move?” theatrical staging with Eugene Bal- Church, and Faith Lutheran Church (panel presentation); choreographic let. Following the success.5 INCHES of this (Castro Valley CA); conducted work- presentations in 2008 included We year’s chamber music residency by shop Baroque Performance Practice the People of the United States…, A the Shanghai Quartet,.375 INCHES there’ll be the for Corvallis OMTA. Little Story, Subject to Change, and welcomed returnUSAGE of BELOW pianist .375 INCHES Jeffrey SHOULD BE AVOIDED Dances that Tell a Story: Daphnis & Kahane as artist-in-residence. Wayne Bennett: editor of College Chloe. Of course, the music of J.S. Orchestra Director’s Assoc. Journal, Bach will not be neglected. Rilling’s vol. 1:1-2; performed at Sunriver Christian Cherry: prepared Perspec- Discovery Series will be devoted to Music Festival, Harold Owen Trib- tive/Perspective Shift (electronic the six cantatas of Bach’s Christmas ute, Eugene Symphony, Hammer- dance score), Simuan Tiga (elec- Oratorio and the Portland Baroque winds, and the Oregon Wind Quin- tronic/collage score), Craze’s Jam Orchestra will give a complete cycle tet; chaired a panel on Large Univ. (hip hop score), displaced (vielle of the Brandenburg Concertos, both and Conservatory Orch. Programs at electronique, six-string electric in Portland and Eugene. The much- the College Orch. Directors Assoc. violin), and Vantage (vielle electro- anticipated centerpiece will be the Nat’l Conf.; clinics in Eugene with nique and KoassPad performance world premiere of a new setting of the Timberline HS Band from Boise, structure); research presentations Handel’s Messiah text from Swedish and the Pacific Academy Band from included “How the Mighty Have composer Sven David Sandström—a Vancouver BC; awarded the College Fallen: The Demise of the Piano in joint commission between the OBF Orch. Directors Assoc. award for the Dance Studio,” Int’l Guild of and Rilling’s Bach Academy in Distinguished Service; residency at Musicians in Dance Conf., 2007 (U. Stuttgart. u Baylor Univ. School of Music (guest Illinois, Champaign/Urbana). 9

Jenifer Craig: activities included company director, concert direc- tion, and lighting design for the UO Repertory Dance Co. 2007-08 tenth anniversary season; performances held at the Dougherty Dance The- atre, Springfield HS (A3 workshops), Cottage Grove HS and Cottage The- atre, North Bend HS (classes), and Southwestern Oregon Community College; lighting design for A Musi- cal Showcase in Celebration of the 25th Anniv. of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts (Silva Hall, 2007).

David Crumb: performed Vestiges of a Distant Time (Oregon Mozart Play- ers), September Elegy (premiered with Utah Symphony, with Gerald Elias, violin, and performances with the Utah Symphony, Brigham Young Univ.), and Awakening (Percussion Guest artist Velvet Brown (center) poses with UO tuba-euphonium students Plus Project, DePauw Univ.). of Michael Grose (standing behind Brown).

Alexandre Dossin: performed in Freeze (marimba) performed; con- and competitions for Seattle Youth Eugene, Salem, and Monmouth ducted Oregon Percussion Ensemble Symphony Concerto Competition OR, and in Lexington (Washington at Northwest Percussion Festival; and the Fischoff National Chamber & Lee Univ.), Winchester (Shenan- continues as principal timpanist Music Competition. doah Univ.), and Richmond VA at with Eugene Symphony and as a the Experiencing Villa-Lobos Int’l member of the Int’l Orchestral Com- Michael Grose: performed in 68 Festival, and in Washington, DC at mittee of the Percussive Arts Society. venues, including Brevard Music the Annual Festival of the American Center, Oregon Bach Festival, Liszt Society; judged solo state con- Brad Foley: saxophone perfor- Eugene Symphony, Cascade Festival test OMEA; cover and feature article mances with Eugene Symphony, of Music, Oregon Symphony, Oregon in Clavier Magazine (Summer 2008). Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 and Ballet Theatre, Eugene Opera, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Ballet; Oregon Brass Quintet; adjudicated Charles Dowd: principal timpanist Music and Dance Fest (Bend OR); in Redmond (District Solo Contest) and/or solo vibraphonist/multiple- chaired College of Education search and in Portland (State Solo Contest). percussionist with six orchestras committee (new dean), and member and ensembles in 52 performances; of the Eugene Symphony search Rita Honka: new choreography played principal timpani in Theresa committee (new music director); for Two—duet, and for UO Reper- Mass (Rilling-Hänssler); hosted member of board of directors of tory Dance Co., Oya—a dance for David Friedman (Berlin vibraphon- Eugene Symphony and Oregon Bach seven; co-directed UORDC on tour, ist) and Dave Samuels (Boston Festival; acquired new scholarship including classes and performances marimbist) known as Double Image; grant from the Liberace Foundation; at Dougherty Dance Theatre, Spring- performed jazz duo music with accreditation team member for Nat’l field HS, Springfield A-3, Coos Tracy Freeze at Emporia State Univ. Assoc. of Schools of Music. Bay/North Bend, and Cottage Grove; (Kansas) and on UO Faculty Artist African dance teaching residencies Series, from their recent CD bus dust Fritz Gearhart: presented paper included Mabiba Baegne, Mondjou, & dogs (SONY); assembled sixteen at the Texas Orch. Directors Conf.: and Salif Kone; hosted master alumni from Dowd’s percussion pro- “Rhythm Pedagogy for String Orch.” classes in all levels of African dance gram for a 33rd anniversary reunion (Ludwig Pub., sponsor), featuring and African drumming. concert in Beall Hall, where PAS Rhythm Session for String Orch. Hall of Famer Anthony J. Cirone (his recent publication), and for Walter Kennedy: visiting artist gave a keynote address, Dr. Steve music education students at U. New residency at the Randolph Col- Owen (U.S. Marine Band) was the Mexico; judged state and district lege (Lynchburg VA); guest artist featured timpanist, and Dr. Tracy contests (Eugene OR, Boise ID), Continued next page 10

FACULTY, continued at Banff Arts Centre, Canada. Arts Ensemble Plays the Music of Britton Theurer (and produced the at the American School (Taipei, Dean Kramer: performed and album for this recording on 8bells Taiwan); panelist for discussion of lectured with Claire Wachter for Records), Gheorghe Costinescu: Daphnis and Chloe (part of Eugene OMTA’s Bend District, Debussy’s En A Live Retrospective 1952-2002 Symphony’s Discovering Daphnis Blanc et Noir for two pianos. with Ensemble Sospeso (Capstone Festival); choreographed perfor- Records), and appeared on Lively mances of First, I was Afraid (Ran- Steve Larson: faculty member of Arts Series (Stanford Univ.); co- dolph College), In Evening Stillness the Mannes Institute for Advanced wrote and performed a chamber (SOMD showcase concert at Hult Studies in Music Theory-Jazz and opera titled Jews in the Desert: From in 2007, and Dance 2008 Faculty Popular Music (Eastman School of Jesus to Oppenheimer, at the Int’l Concert), Strauss Songs (restaging Music); published “Composition Trumpet Guild Conf.; and performed of ballet choreography), Fields of Versus Improvisation,” Journal of more than 50 concerts, including Play (restagings for Taipei American Music Theory 49:2; presented Circu- with the Eugene Symphony, Merid- School Advanced Dance Co. and lar Thinking–A Roundtable on “Blue ian Arts Ensemble, Beta Collide, and for UORDC), Eclipse (restaging for in Green” and “Nefertiti” (joint pre- Oregon Bach Festival; continues to UORDC), and Wild Oats (choreog- sentation with Henry Martin, Steve coordinate Sound-Bytes; presented raphy for an 18th century English Strunk, and Keith Waters, annual research on Experimental Music at country dance, Hult Center). meeting of the Music Theory Society the Osher Lifelong Learning Center; of the Mid-Atlantic at Library of and adjudicated the Sheldon Jazz Toby Koenigsberg: performed in Congress); invited presentations in Festival Big Band Competition. Eugene at Jo Federigo’s Restaurant Ireland, including “Musical Forces & Jazz Club, Ax Billy Grill 7 Sports and Music Analysis: Chopin’s Eric Mentzel: performed Lost Songs Bar, Papa’s Soul Food Kitchen, The Nocturne in D-flat major, Op. 27/2” of a Rhineland Harper (BBC Proms, Jazz Station, and A Little Knight (National U. Ireland); and “Inten- concert with Ensemble Sequentia, Music (UO Browsing Room), at St. tion, Improvisation, and Inevitabil- London, England), Salon Medievale Olaf College, U. Iowa, U. Northern ity–The Courante of Bach’s French (recital of medieval songs in early Iowa, Feeniks-Klubi, Sibelius Suite in C Minor” (Univ. College, 20th-century arrangements, Cologne, Academy (Helsinki, Finland), Royal Dublin). Germany), Heloise and Abelard Academy of Music (London), SUNY, (soloist with Medieval Women’s Cornell, Rutgers, Bebop Coffeehouse Don Latarski: completed The Guitar Choir, Town Hall, Seattle), Fleurs (Bend OR), UO Jordan Schnitzer Scale Picture Book (Alfred Pub.), de vertus, fleurs du monde(14 th- Museum of Art, and a live radio Acoustica Funkus (CD), and TUO century songs in the ars subtilior broadcast (KMHD-FM Portland); (collaborative jazz CD with John style, Case Western Reserve Univ., research presentations included Stowell); performed in Eugene at Cleveland, and repeated at the Park- SUNY-Oswego, Rutgers (twice), U. Luna, Oregon Wine Warehouse (with McCullough House, Bennington); Iowa, and the Royal Academy of Steve Larson, Sonja Rasmussen), taught and coached at Amherst Early Music (London). Tsunami Books, Autzen Stadium, Music Festival (Connecticut College, UO Bookstore, the grand re-opening New London), Schola Cantorum Amy Goeser Kolb: presented master of KLCC radio, Joe Federigo’s, Koho (Basel, Switzerland), Parisian motets classes at U. Wisconsin-Madison and Bistro, and opening of Crescent Vil- of the 13th century (workshop, Royal Cal Arts-Los Angeles; advisor for Mu lage; performances in Bend (Mason Conservatory, The Hague, Nether- Phi Epsilon; performed at Chamber Williams group), Corvallis (with lands), Lute Society of American Music at The Barn (Wichita KS), Tom Bergeron), and in Romeo MI. Summer Workshop (Cleveland); Cascade Music Festival (Bend OR), adjudicated OMEA District Solo and Oregon Bach Festival, principal in Anne Dhu McLucas: College Music Ensemble Competition (Corvallis). Honegger’s King David, UO Chamber Society, 50th Anniv. meeting: 2007 Music Series 40th Anniv. events, “Music of the Hollywood Indian,” Steve Owen: performed at U. Kansas Eugene Symphony, Oregon Wind for CMS national meeting outreach Jazz Festival 2008 (tenor sax soloist Quintet, Hammerwinds/Oregon program (Salt Lake City). with festival big band), Nebraska Wind Quintet, Eugene Opera Orch., Music Educators Conf. 2007 (All- five solo recitals (Milford NH, Berk- Brian McWhorter: presented master State Jazz Ensemble director), Con- lee College MA, Middletown CT, classes and clinics at Stanford and necticut Music Educators Conf. 2008 Salem and Eugene OR, with pianist Willamette Univ.; performed on (All-State Jazz Ensemble director); Laura Kennedy), Oregon Ballet recordings, including Meridian Arts presented paper at OMEA District Theatre, Octava Chamber Orch. in Ensemble: Timbrando (Channel 4 Teacher In-Service Day 2007 (Jazz Seattle, and the Int’l Trumpet Guild Classics), Americantus: Meridian Rehearsal Methods Clinics); 2008 11

Oregon Jazz Ensemble performances Rehearsal”); clinician at Three Riv- Performance Evaluation,” at the included OMEA Conf., Reno Jazz ers Choral Festival (Milwaukie OR); MENC Nat’l Convention (Milwaukee Festival Concerts, and high school conductor of Eugene Symphony WI); held offices in professional concerts in Bend, Sisters, and Klam- Chorus (Orff’s Carmina Burana and organizations, including Execu- ath Falls; presented 2008 Downbeat Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe). tive Committee of the Society for Magazine Awards, including College Research in Music Education of Outstanding Performance (Oregon Timothy Paul: conducted at Qual- MENC, and Int’l Society for Music Jazz Ensemble), and 2008 Reno ity Music Session: Northwest Div. Education Steering Committee for Jazz Festival Awards, including of College Band Directors Assoc. New Commissions (2007); served on Outstanding College Jazz Ensemble (Reno NV), Hillsborough County the editorial boards of Int’l Journal (Oregon Jazz Ensemble). Honor Band (Tampa FL), Washoe for Music Education, and Research Honor Band (Reno NV), Shasta Band Studies in Music Education. Timothy Pack: article accepted for Invitational (Eugene), Rosemont publication, “Form-Delineating MS (Eugene); research presentation, David Riley: received Errol Williams Elements and Harmonic Language “Assessment: Practical tips for the Filmmaker Award from Silver Wave in Hugo Distler’s In der Welt habt music classroom” (OMEA District Film Festival, ihr Angst, Op. 12/7 (1936),” Choral 12 In-Service Conf.); office holder in 2007, for Journal 48 (Sept. 2008); research OMEA (District 12 Collegiate Rep.), The Mari- presentations included “Searching Northwestern College Band Direc- time Violin for a Star: Melodic, Harmonic, and tors Nat’l Assoc. (treasurer), and (best music, Rhythmic Structures in Olivier Mes- Oregon Band Directors Assoc. (task best sound siaen’s O sacrum convivium!” (First force for Small School All-State design, best Int’l Centenary Conf. of Messiaen Groups); adjudicated at George Fox documentary, Studies, U. Southern Queensland, Band Invitational (Newberg OR), best cinema- Australia), and “Form-Delineating and OMEA District 12 Solo and tography), Elements and Harmonic Language in Ensemble Festival (Springfield OR). and Canadian Hugo Distler’s In der Welt habt irh Independent Angst, Op. 12/7 (1936) (Conf. “The Steven Pologe: research article Music Awards, Favourite Classi- Motet from Inception to the Pres- accepted for publication, “Pitch cal CD, 2008 (Oskar Morawetz: ent,” University of Oregon). and Space Maps of Skilled Cellists: Complete Works for Violin and Accuracy, Variability, and Error Piano); performed in Astoria OR, Phyllis Paul: published two journal Correction,” with Chen, Wollicott & and at Stanford Univ., Willamette articles, “Aesthetic experiences with Moore, in Experimental Brain; per- Univ., Musical Arts Concert Series music: Children versus musicians,” formed with the San Francisco Early (Lancaster PA), Suzuki Convention in Update: Applications of Research Music Society and at the Grand (Salt Lake City UT); guest artist at in Music Education, and “Using ver- Teton Music Festival; solo and Oregon Bach Festival 2008, and the bal reports to investigate children’s chamber concerts with Primo Libro Dusseldorf Chamber Music Festival aesthetic experiences with music” in Ensemble in Corvallis and Eugene, 2008 (Germany). Journal of Music Therapy; awarded and with Trio Pacifica in Eugene; $10,000 research grant as principal recruitment activities and adjudica- Stephen Rodgers: presented conf. investigator by Stewart Foundation, tions included visits to Crescent paper on “Voice, Rupture, and for Using Music to Support Emer- Valley HS, Eugene Youth Symphony Trauma in Film Music” at Music gent Literacy in Head Start Students. cello sectional, Oregon All-State and the Moving Image (New York Orchestra, Corvallis and Eugene Univ.), and pre-concert lectures for Sharon Paul: presented workshop solo & ensemble competitions, and Bach Festival chamber music pro- for Salem-Keizer School District coaching at high schools and middle grams; paper accepted for Society (“Rehearsing for Retention: Beyond schools in southern Oregon. for Music Theory (Nashville TN) on the Notes—Breathing Life and Style “Emotional Imitation” and “Physical Into Choral Music”); conductor for Harry Price: published journal Imitation” in Berlioz’s Roméo au District 12 Metro Festival (rehearsed, article with E. K. Orman, “Content tombeau; served as session chair at adjudicated, and performed with analysis of four national music West Coast Conf. of Music Theory eight local high schools); conduc- organizations’ conferences” (Journal and Analysis (Topic: 20th-Century tor for Honor Choir of Southern of Research in Music Education, 55); Form and Structure). California Vocal Assoc.; presented presented research results with S. session at ACDA Northwest Div. J. Morrison, C. G. Geiger, and R. A. Doug Scheuerell: performed in Conf. (“From Warm-Up to Cool Cornacchio (2007), “The Effect of Eugene with Charles Dowd and Down: Keeping Singers Engaged in Conductor Expressivity on Ensemble Continued next page 12

FACULTY NEWS, continued proceeding article, “Bodystory: An Steve Vacchi: performed more than Historical and Analytical Examina- 75 times during the year, including Tracy Freeze (Perugino’s), with tion of Balanchine’s Choreographic as principal with Oregon Ballet Laura Barron (Jordan Schnitzer Periods” (Congress on Research in Theatre and Eugene Opera, and with Museum of Art), and tabla accom- Dance: 2006, Conf. Proceedings); the Oregon Symphony, Cabrillo paniment for vocalist Gurumukh performed Strauss Songs (Hult Cen- Contemporary Festival, Oregon Bach Khalsa (First Christian Church). ter and Dougherty Dance Theatre). Festival, and Oregon Wind Quintet; selected as principal bassoon by Idit Shner: local jazz performances Jeffrey Stolet: residency at Central Oregon Ballet Theatre. included the Shner Jazz Concert Conservatory of Music (Beijing, (original compositions), Detrick/ China); lectured at Tokyo Denki Lydia Van Dreel: coached and pre- Swigart Jazz Orch., a tribute to Univ. (Saitama, Japan), and Int’l sented master classes in California Charles Mingus at the Shedd, Jazz Academy of Media Arts and Science (Mountain View, Palo Alto), Oregon at the DAC, Swing Shift, Wildish (Ogaki, Japan); public performances (South Salem, Ashland, Newberg, Theater, the Daddies at W.O.W. Hall, and presentations included: (a) McKay, Willamette Univ.), and a Duke Ellington Birthday Tribute Things I Do with My Fingers 2007 South Dakota (Freeman Academy, with Carl Woideck, and a jazz (sound and video in an interactive Sisseton HS, Dakotah Reservation concert with Tom Varner at Cozmic performance environment controlled School), U. South Florida; outreach Pizza; classical performances by two Nintendo Wii Remote Con- concerts with the Oregon Brass included the Eugene Symphony, trollers) at MusicAcoustica 2007 Quintet at local high schools (South Little Tricker Meets Big Double (bal- Festival (Beijing, China), Tokyo Eugene, Thurston, and Churchill); let), Buddhist-inspired recital (UO Denki Univ. (Saitama, Japan), Int’l performed in Salem OR, Neur- Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art), Academy of Media Arts and Science ripin, Germany, Quadre recitals Eclectic Sonorities, recital at Meth- (Ogaki, Japan), Hong Kong Baptist (New Haven CT, Palo Alto CA, San odist Univ. (Fayetteville NC), North Univ., Society for Electro-Acoustic Francisco, Mountain View CA, American Saxophone Alliance Music in the United States (SEA- Willamette Univ., Sioux Falls SD, Conf. (U. South Carolina), and the MUS, Nat’l Conf., Salt Lake City Freeman SD, Soprano Saxophone Concerto (new UT), 17th Annual Florida Electro- Sisseton SD), composition by John Mackey with acoustic Music Festival (U. Florida, and performed the Oregon Wind Ensemble); profes- Gainesville); (b) Light 2007 (custom with Ham- sional service included a saxophone interactive performance environ- merwinds quartet visit to West Albany HS. ment, real-time video analysis, and (with Alex- two flashlights) at Hong Kong Bap- andre Dos- Marian Smith: presented “Ivor tist Univ.; (c) A Prayer Before Dying sin), Oregon Guest and the Paris Opéra” (Int’l 2002 (multi-channel digital audio Mozart Play- Meeting, Society of Dance His- work) at Hong Kong Baptist Univ.; ers, Eugene tory Scholars, Paris); accepted and (d) Caminos Terribles, Desier- Symphony, for publication, “La Sylphide/Les tos Crueles “Wicked Paths, Cruel Florida West Sylphides,” to be published in Deserts” (extended media work for Coast Symphony, Sarasota Opera, Opera and Cultural Transfer, ed. mezzo-soprano, Yamaha Disklavier, and Eugene Opera; awarded 2008 Fauser & Everist (U. Chicago Press); computer-generated sound and com- Summer Faculty Research Award book manuscript review, Ballets puter animation created in collabo- for CD recording project, Quadra: of Richard Strauss (U. Rochester ration with Ying Tan) at CYNETart the voice of four horns; recruitment Press); member of Editorial Board, 07 (Dresden Germany). activities and visitations in high Dance Chronicle. schools included appearances at Leslie Straka: principal viola for South Eugene, Thurston, Churchill, Amy Stoddart: collaborated with Eugene Opera Orchestra; opening Newberg, McKay, South Salem, Walter Kennedy and Robert Ponto ceremony and primary clinician/ and Ashland; member of Eugene on a new work, In Evening’s Still- instructor at “Brats Day” 2008 Int’l Symphony Music Director search ness (Hult Center and Dougherty Viola Congress (Tempe AZ); coached committee. Dance Theatre); created Jazz Suite string sectionals, All-State Orches- (commissioned by Eugene Youth tra, viola coach at Camerata Camp Marc Vanscheeuwijck: participated Ballet, a new work for the Regional (Corvallis OR); performances and in recording of concertos by Johann Dance America Festival, perfor- presentations at South Medford HS, Christoph Pez with Belgian Baroque mances in Long Beach CA and Hedrick MS, Ashland HS, Ashland chamber orchestra. Les Muffatti regional tours in Eugene and Port- MS, and Grants Pass HS. for CD label Ramée 0705 (released land), Practica (restaging); published 2007); performed with Les Muffatti: 13

Oratorio: San Nicola di Bari (Con- Developments in Piano Pedagogy” dicated in Provo UT and Seattle WA, certgebouw in Bruges, Grandezze (Roseburg OR); lecture-performance at BYU Marching Band Festival, and Meraviglie festival in Modena, with Dean Kramer for OMTA, Heritage Festival (twice), and Music and Antwerp Augustijnerkerk for “Claude Debussy’s En Blanc et Noir in the Parks; recruiting efforts at AMUZ with radio recording for for two pianos” (Bend OR); concert high schools in South Salem, North Belgian Nat’l Broadcast System for Central Oregon Symphony, Salem, Southridge, and Beaverton; KlaRa); concerts at St. Patrick’s “From Bach to Brubeck”; performed instructional staff for the 2008 Bei- (Walla Walla WA), and with baroque Bach D Minor Concerto with the jing Olympic Orch. (a 2008-piece violinist Jaap Schröder in Eugene; Obsidian Chamber Players; adjudi- band performing in and around the lectured on historical performance cated MTNA SW Div. Piano Compe- Olympic campus in Beijing, China, practice at the Baroque cello sum- tition (Las Cruces NM). including twelve students from the mer workshop in the medieval Oregon Marching Band). castle of Frontone (Pesaro-Urbino, Sean Wagoner: conducted at the Italy); published chapters in three NW Percussion Festival (Cheny Carl Woideck: performed in Eugene books: “Teaching Petrarch through WA); performed as percussion- at the Shedd Institute, Carl Woid- Music,” in Approaches to the ist/timpanist at the Hult Center 25th eck Jazz Heritage Project (music Teaching of Petrarch’s Canzoniere Anniv. Concert, and with the Eugene of Charles Mingus & Thelonious and the Petrarchan Tradition, ed. Symphony, Oregon Mozart Play- Monk), and at the Downtown Ath- Christopher Kleinhenz and Andrea ers, Eugene Opera, Eugene Concert letic Club and Jo Federigo’s night- Dini (invited and refereed article), Choir, Oregon Festival of American club (eleven performances); received “Una crisi in ambiente musicale Music (Babes in Arms and South Summer Research Award from Bolognese: la polemica fra Giovanni Pacific), and Cascade Festival of UO Office of Research and Faculty Paolo Colonna e Arcangelo Corelli Music. Development to study Miles Davis (1685),” in Barocco Padano 4, ed. at the New York Public Library’s Alberto Colzani et al., in AMIS Jeffrey Williams: performed with Schomburg Center. Como (article in proceedings), and the Oregon Bach Festival, Eugene “Antonio Vandini and Tartini’s Con- Symphony, Eugene Concert Choir/ Laura Zaerr: released CD, Dream- certos for ‘Viola’” in Performance Oregon Mozart Players, and Eugene land (Rosewood Music 2007, Practice Review (on-line publication Ballet (four performances); pre- original lullabies for soprano, flute at http://ccdl.libraries.claremont. sented concert/clinics with the Ore- and harp); performed “Aaron Boat edu/col/ppr/, invited and refereed); gon Brass Quintet at South Eugene, Song,” “Pibroch Dunhill,” and research was presented in Bologna, Thurston, and Churchill HS. “Buzzy Chanter” (original arrange- Italy (La musical Cinque-Seicentesca ments of Celtic tunes for harp dal Museo della Musical alla Basil- Eric Wiltshire: composed Flyer ensemble, in collaboration with Kim ica di San Petronio), Rovereto, Italy Casting (commissioned by the U. Robertson); presented workshops (Giuseppe Tartini e el violoncelle, Dayton, Univ. Jazz Band; premiered at Dusty Strings Harp Shop (Seattle invited paper for performance prac- at the 2008 MENC Nat’l Conven- WA); organized and taught at High tice symposium of the Accademia tion); presented workshop at Nat’l Cascade Harp Retreat (for Celtic and Roverentana di Musical Antica and Collegiate Marching and Athletic pedal harps); performed at Corvallis Premio Bonporti, in Italian), and Band Symposium (CBDNA, Seattle; Pro Musical (West Coast premier Brussels Conservatory (Violone— “Feeding the Band: A realistic look of Appalachian Concerto for Folk Violoncello—Viola da spalla—etc., a at what our students eat and how Harp with String Orchestra); judge at one-day seminar in English, Dutch, we can help them make choices that NAIA state championship. u French, and Italian). lead to better performances”); adju-

Milagro Vargas: recorded “Homage to the Breath” by Stephen Jaffee, Harpists fill the Beall Hall stage at the conclusion of Harp Day with 21st Century Consort, Chris- topher Kendall, conductor (Bridge Records 9255); taught at the Astoria Music Festival.

Claire Wachter: solo recital, “Fifty Years of American Music,” and lecture, “Beginning Piano Peda- gogy” (Linfield College, OR); OMTA lecture for Roseburg District, “New 14

Machaut’s Ma fin est mon com- Student Awards & Activities mencement and the Gothic Archi- tecture of the Reims Cathedral.” Mark Samples, Ph.D. student in The University of Oregon had three The award included a $100 voucher musicology, received one of the winners in DownBeat magazine’s for publisher AR Editions. University Club Foundation Fel- 31st Annual Student Music Awards, lowship Awards for 2008. The UO (college division) announced in its Maggie Lieberman, a vocal perfor- nominated three graduate students June issue: mance major who graduated this for this award, which recognizes and • Jazz Soloist Winner: Josh Deutsch, spring, received the UO Career Cen- encourages trumpet ter’s Outstanding Student Employee scholarship, • Big Band Outstanding Perfor- Certificate of Excellence. leadership, mance: The Oregon Jazz Ensemble and potential • Jazz Arrangement Co-Winner: Dylan Girard, a senior trumpet societal contri- David Swigart for Dog Years player, was offered a full ride at butions among Yale, but will accept a scholarship to students pur- Tyler Kinnear (master’s student, mu- the Manhattan School of Music. suing graduate sicology) received an award for Best education in Student Paper at the annual meeting Rachel Walker, freshman piano Oregon. The of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of major studying with Claire Wachter, Foundation the American Musicological Society, was a winner in the Sun River Mu- annually awards $7,500 merit-based held in April at the University of sic Festival’s Scholarship Competi- scholarships to one qualifying British Columbia. His paper was tion in Bend. u graduate student from each of five titled “Symmetric Similarities in universities in Oregon: Oregon Health Sciences University, Oregon State University, Portland State Ben Corbin named first UO Liberace Scholar University, the University of Oregon, and University of Portland. Samples The UO School of Music and Dance was named a recipient in its first also received a $2400 University of attempt at receiving grant funding from the Liberace Foundation for the Oregon Laurel Scholarship, and a Performing and Creative Arts, located in Las Vegas. One of the missions of $1600 Datatel Scholars Foundation the foundation is to help talented students pursue careers in the Arts. Dean Scholarship. Both scholarships are Foley and Associate Dean Jeff Williams, in consultation with piano area given on general academic excel- chair Claire Wachter, selected senior piano major Ben Corbin to be the first lence, demonstrated contributions to recipient of this $2,000 grant. The award will be matched 1:1 by additional the community, and personal goals. School of Music and Dance scholarship funding, for a total award of $4,000. Born and raised in Poway, CA, Corbin studied with Cecilia Bao, a gradu- Alison Altstatt (Ph.D. candidate ate of the Beijing Conservatory, until moving to Eugene to attend the Univer- in music history/historical perfor- sity of Oregon. Corbin was previously awarded a Dean’s Scholarship, and mance practice) received the Center has also been awarded the Lotta Carll Scholarship, a private donation from for the Study of Women in Society’s Cathy Behm (a former student of Dr. Dean Kramer), the Robert Richards Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship Piano Prize from Phi Beta National Professional Fraternity for the Creative for $12,500 to be used in 2008–09. and Performing Arts, and recently received Alison is on leave this academic the $2000 first prize in the Oregon Music year in Germany studying on a Teacher’s Association Piano Competition, prestigious DAAD grant (German collegiate division. government exchange grant, similar Corbin has also performed in an all- to a Fulbright). Liszt recital for reknowned Liszt scholar Dr. Alan Walker and an all-Sibelius program Kanako Ishihama took second prize for Dr. Hui-Ying Liu-Tawastjerna, chair of in the OMTA Piano Competition, the Sibelius Academy’s Piano Department. collegiate division. Ishihama is a Corbin has taken master classes from Steve senior piano major, studying with Doane, Laura Kennedy, Kelly Kuo, Dr. Claire Wachter. Tawastjerna, and John Kamitsuka. Corbin is a student of UO professors Dean Kramer, Seth Horner, master’s tuba student, Claire Wachter, and David Riley. He is was chosen as the Aspen Tuba Fel- working towards a career in collaborative low for 2008 and renewable for 2009. piano. u Ben Corbin 15

ties, he made a perfect focus for this genre.” An Olympic Portrait “This genre” is what Oswald Rebecca Oswald’s symphonic biography of Bill Bowerman calls a “symphonic biography.” It’s a musical composition that traces connects the Bach Festival with the Olympic Trials episodes in Bill Bowerman’s life. By Bob Keefer, The younger Bowerman had giv- The Register-Guard Rebecca en Oswald a list of music that had Oswald been part of his father’s life, from the When most people think of a general, such as “a ’30s dance tune,” portrait, they imagine a painting or to the specific, such as the Oregon photograph — something you can Ducks Fight Song [Mighty Oregon]. hang on the wall. He also provided her a chronol- But when Jay Bowerman wanted ogy of the elder Bowerman’s life, a portrait done of his late father, Or- from his early days in Fossil to his egon track icon and Nike co-founder marriage in Medford, his service in Bill Bowerman, his mind turned first World War II, his arrival in Eugene to music. and retirement back to Fossil. Jay Bowerman, after all, is a mu- Oswald, a 49-year-old graduate sician himself. He plays stringed in- of the UO School of Music and struments in a bluegrass band called Dance [M.Mus. 2001], jumped into Quincy Street, which performs the project with enthusiasm. regularly in Bend. More to the point, She read Kenny Moore’s biog- his father had been a clarinet player raphy, Bowerman and the Men of as well as an athlete. Bill Bowerman Oregon. In the fall of 2006 she trav- was a man who so loved music that Bach Festival Orchestra on July 1 at eled the state. She visited Barbara he gave almost three-quarters of a a gala tribute to Bill Bowerman. Bowerman, Bill’s widow, in Fossil. million dollars to the Oregon Bach Jay Bowerman selected Eugene She contacted family friends in Festival in 1993 alone. composer Rebecca Oswald to write Medford. She photographed places “I think the thing that got me the music. She had been recom- important in the Bowermans’ life thinking about it was, I believe that mended by the Oregon Humanities and tacked the resulting images up there was a mass written in memory Center, for which she had done on a large poster in her home office of Rossini,” Jay Bowerman said. other work [including the recent for inspiration. (That was the Messa per Rossini, History of the University of Oregon]. “I did, I think, about three in which Giuseppe Verdi asked So he listened to samples of her months of research, and then I de- 12 composers to create a mass in compositions and then asked to clared it time to write,” she said. memory of the Italian composer meet her. She set out to create music that Gioacchino Rossini a year after his “She is a bright, talented lady,” would be contemporary but still death in 1868.) he said, “Whatever age she is, she’s would have been as comfortable to So Bowerman, with perhaps going on 16: She has this youthful, Bill Bowerman as a well designed a mass on his mind, approached bubbly personality. She would sit running shoe. Royce Saltzman, co-founder of the there and be very serious about “I wanted to write a piece that Bach Festival. the whole discussion and all of a would express his personality,” “I knew that my dad’s involve- sudden she would break into this Oswald says. “And a piece he would ment and relationship with the big smile and sort of giggle. She was have liked—not high art, but some- Bach Festival was very strong,” very excited about doing the piece.” thing really accessible.” Bowerman said. “I asked, ‘Would So she was hired in 2006. The She included the quoted musical it be inappropriate to think about $18,900 commission was funded by references that Jay Bowerman sought doing some kind of memorial com- the Bowerman family through the but composed original themes as position?’ Royce said, ‘That sounds Oregon Community Foundation. well. The composition’s foundation interesting to me.’” For her part, Oswald found is two complementary musical mo- Flash ahead a decade. Bill Bowerman a natural subject tifs that recur again and again—Bill’s The mass idea was dropped as for a composition. “The cool thing theme and Barbara’s theme. perhaps too ambitious, but Jay Bow- about Bill was, he was a character Bill’s theme is a riff on the erman commissioned a 23-minute and a worthy human being, and he clarinet, the instrument he played. symphonic piece, Man of Oregon, absolutely loved music. With all his that was performed by the Oregon other accomplishments and quali- Continued next page 16

BOWERMAN, continued performance, and was responsible ALUMNI for Quincy Jones recently receiving Barbara’s theme—calmer and more an honorary USC degree. He has per- soothing—is played by flutes. David Simpson (B.A. 1969) has been formed master classes and concerts Not surprisingly the two themes teaching violin privately at World of at dozens of harmonize perfectly. Strings in Long Beach, CA the past universities, Oswald’s composition also three years. One of his students is a colleges, and includes a stirring trumpet fanfare in gifted eleven-year old girl, who he academies honor of Nike; a dissonant percus- says has the potential as future solo- around the sive section, marking the tragedy of ist with the symphony or chamber world, as the 1972 Munich Olympics, where orchestras at Long Beach City Col- well as at the Bowerman was the U.S. track coach; lege, in which he still plays violin Los Angeles and a humorous reference to Johann and viola, respectively. Simpson Music Center, Sebastian Bach’s “Sheep May Safely continues to produce music educa- The National Graze,” to mark Bowerman’s retire- tion videos for the local public ac- Academy ment to sheep and cattle raising as cess station, including a program on of Record- well as his support for the festival. the music of Luigi Cherubini. ing Arts and Sciences, and several Jay Bowerman originally com- International Association of Jazz missioned the piece for chamber Allan Konrad (B.Mus. 1974) is a Educators conferences. His students orchestra. He wanted music that staff scientist and principal investi- are working with the likes of the Los could be performed around Oregon gator for Comprehensive Epidemio- Angeles Philharmonic, Oliver Stone, by smaller musical groups, and logic Data Resource in Berkeley, CA. B.T., Mark Anthony, Snoop Dog, Oswald agreed. Blink 182, Beck, the Back Street Last fall, that chamber version— Robin Collen (B.A. Dance, 1976, Boys, Josh Grobin, Clay Aiken, and with a longer title, Bowerman, Man M.S. Dance, 1984) is chair of the Madonna. of Oregon—was performed in Bend Department of Theatre and Dance by the Central Oregon Symphony. at State University of New York, Tim Ryan (M.S. Dance, 1989) and “It was great fun,” Jay Bower- Potsdam. She teaches courses in Sherie Blankenship-Ryan (M.A. man said of the performance. “It was contemporary dance, choreography, Dance/Arts Administration, 1990) incredibly warm. Rebecca did a mar- Pilates, and dance history. She also celebrated the tenth anniversary velous job of capturing all the little choreographs concert works as well year of their Center for Movement things I could hear in my mind as we as operas for the Crane School of Arts in Portland, Oregon. They were creating the outline for this.” Music Opera Ensemble. She writes, added a children’s performing group Then Oswald re-orchestrated “I continue to draw on the words this year, for which Tim says they the chamber composition for full or- and inspiration of my teacher, Janet are “hoping for a road trip to Eugene chestra for the Bach Festival perfor- Descutner.” some day.” mance in July. In order to keep track of royalties, the new version is titled Barbara Sellers-Young (M.S. Dance Tiffany Mills (B.A. Dance, 1992) and Man of Oregon, without the name 1983), who received our Distin- her Tiffany Mills Dance Company “Bowerman” in the title. Either way, guished Alumna Award earlier this partnered with the Fireworks En- Jay Bowerman is delighted with the year, is the new Dean of the College semble (led by UO music grad Brian family portrait. of Fine Arts at York University in Coughlin) in building a solo work “It is a very programmatic piece. Toronto. for Petra van Noort. The music was That was part of the intention,” Richard Strauss’ Dance of the Seven Bowerman said. “To tell a story. Richard Smith (B.S. 1984) recently Veils, and the performance was in Not to turn her loose and say write signed with Artisty/Mack Avenue the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater a piece of contemporary music. Records. His tenth contemporary in New York City on March 7. An- Rather to write a piece of music that jazz recording will be called L.A. other new project was “Tomorrow’s talks about Bill’s grandparents and Chillharmonic and features Greg Legs,” which was supported by two his relationship with Fossil and his Adams, Jeff Lorber, Brian Bromberg, residencies: a one-month fellowship relationship with Barbara and his Eric Marienthal, Vinnie Colaiuta, by the Bogliasco Foundation to con- relationship with Eugene.” u and Alex Acuna. Smith is a full duct research in Genoa, Italy, with professor and former chair of the additional support from the Jerome Copyright © 2008 studio/jazz guitar department at the Robbins Foundation; and a year-long The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR Thornton School of Music at USC. residency granted by The Joyce The- (reprinted by permission) He started the world’s first doctoral ater in New York City. program in contemporary guitar 17

Kelly Kuo (B.A. 1996) will make Records, and ERMMedia, including schools and universities. Constan- conducting debuts in the 2008-09 a recording of his piano concerto by tine also is principal timpanist for season at the Lyric Opera of Chi- the Kiev Philharmonic with pianist the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic cago (Porgy and Bess) and Madison Dmitri Tavnets. His article, “A sym- and the Terre Haute Symphony Opera, leading Così fan tutte from metrical property of rotational arrays Orchestra. He performs regularly the harpsichord. He returns to in Stravinsky’s late music,” was with the Owensboro Philharmonic, Lyric Opera San Diego to conduct recently published by the Indiana Camerata Orchestra, and is an ac- the world premiere of Rumpel- Theory Review, and he has two tive recitalist and clinician. He has stiltkin and Gilbert and Sullivan’s other forthcoming articles accepted performed throughout Western Trial by Jury and will also conduct for publication by Music Theory Europe and the U.S. as a soloist. He performances of Porgy and Bess Spectrum and Mathematics and co-founded the APEX Percussion at the Staatsoper Hamburg. Kelly Computers in Simulation. He gave Duo, which has been performing in will be music director of Opera a presentation at the 2007 Rocky the Midwest states since its incep- International’s Bel Canto concert Mountain Society for Music Theory, tion in 2006. and serve as repetiteur for Kentucky and has an upcoming presentation at Opera’s production of Verdi’s Otello. the 2008 Indiana University Gradu- Dave Camwell (D.M.A. 2006) is Currently assistant conductor of the ate Theory Association Biennial getting great reviews on his CD Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Kelly Symposium. In June 2007 he was a Aeterna, released on Teal Creek recently conducted Copland’s Appa- fellow at the Atlantic Center for the Records. He recorded with the Oasis lachian Spring with that ensemble Arts. He recently received an Ameri- Saxophone Quartet (Camwell, James and a collaboration with Madcap can Composers Forum Encore Grant Bunte, Jim Romain, Nathan Nabb) in Puppet Theater, which included to have his music performed by the late June; four of his transcriptions Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture East Coast Composers Ensemble. For will be on the recording, as well as and Haydn’s D Major Cello Concerto the 2007-08 academic year, Lombar- works by Gotkovsky, Pousseur, and with cellist Coleman Itzkoff. The di was the Interim Theory/Composi- others. Funding for the project came past season’s engagements included tion coordinator for the University through a Research and Creativity Kelly’s European conducting debut, of New Mexico, where he has been a Grant from Simpson College. Cam- leading numerous performances member of the faculty since 2003. well premiered a new work, Urban of Porgy and Bess at the Deutsches Impressions by Ron Albrecht, at the Theater in Munich, and also his re- David Constantine (M.M. 2005) a 2008 NASA national conference in turn to Oregon to conduct Madama graduate student at Indiana Univer- South Carolina. For more informa- Butterfly for Eugene Opera. sity, was awarded second place at tion, check his website: www.dav- the 2nd International Timpani Com- ecamwell.com Nichole Spates (M.S. Dance, 2000) petition in Lyon, France. Constan- has lived in New York City since tine also received the “audience’s Heather Cairns (B.Mus. 2007) won graduating from the UO. In March choice” prize and the prize for the the principal flute chair in the Civic 2008, she started a new job in best inter- Orchestra of Chicago; she is current- fundraising for New York Univer- pretation of ly working on an M.M. at DePaul. sity’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. an imposed Nichole continues to study dance work, Louis Olenick, (B.Mus. 2007) was and choreograph in NYC, and has Gesanglos chosen to participate in the trom- recently discovered the Argentine II by Gilles bone section of the Pacific Music Tango. She enjoyed travelling to Schuehm- Festival in Japan; he is working on a Buenos Aires recently with her acher. Con- master’s degree at Northwestern. teachers to soak up the Tango cul- stantine is ture and to take classes with native an associate Luke Storm (B.Mus. 2007) tuba, teachers. Nichole is also an amateur instructor of recently performed a quintet recital photographer and was thrilled to percussion in Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, have one of her photos printed in at Indiana University, where he is and it was reviewed by a critic from Metro New York daily newspaper. pursuing his doctorate in percussion the LA Times. Luke is working on a performance, and is caption head master’s degree at Cal-Arts. u Paul Lombardi (Ph.D. 2004) has had of marching percussion at Emporia more than a dozen performances of State University in Emporia, Kansas. his compositions in North America, He regularly teaches percussion South America, and Europe this camps and master classes at high past year. His music has been re- schools in Oregon and Indiana, and corded on Capstone Records, Zerx is also an invited clinician at public 18

ultimately to the San Francisco area, owned Pietka IN MEMORIAM where they lived until 1965. Frances Music Studio in played piano and organ for churches Eugene for 40 Frances Jordan Woodin (B.Mus. and a variety of musical organiza- years, and was 1932) died Feb. 3, 2008, after a short tions. In 1965 the Woodins moved to fondly regarded illness. Born in Portland, she gradu- Michigan, where Frances was the or- as a warm, ated from the UO with a major in or- ganist at several churches, and gave talented, caring gan performance. She was a member private piano lessons. Following her person and the of Alpha Xi Delta sorority and Mu husband’s death in 1975 she moved dean of Eugene Phi Epsilon. She married Charles back to Portland, where she again accordionists. Woodin (a fellow Oregon Duck) in became active in musical organiza- In recent years Manila in 1934, and put her music tions, as well as PEO International, he played for the Polish Festival in degree to work immediately, teach- Meals-on-Wheels, and the First Portland, enjoying his Polish heri- ing music at United Methodist Church. Memori- tage. Remembrances may be sent to the American als may be made to the American the Northwest Accordion Society’s School in Heart Association. Chester Pietka Scholarship Fund Manila and or the Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp for as an organ Chester Pietka died July 27 of special needs individuals. demonstrator liver cancer at age 88. He attended for the Ham- Portland public schools and earned Dr. Hugh Cardon (D.M.A. 1970), mond Organ a bachelor’s degree in music from passed away on January 8 at the Company. the UO in 1947. He was a sergeant age of 75. His career was long and She returned in the U.S. Army, serving as a tank distinguished. He was director of to Portland commander in World War II. He was the Vocal Music Department at the in early 1941 wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, University of Texas at El Paso from as the Japanese invasion of Manila earning the Purple Heart. Chester 1972 to 2005, and retired as profes- was imminent. Following Charles’ was an avid accordion player during sor emeritus in 2007. While at the return from the Philippines in 1945, his teenage years and taught accor- University of Oregon his advisor, the couple moved to Seattle and dion and performed for dances. He Dr. Jim Miller, suggested he do a dissertation on “Twentieth Century Mexican Art Songs.” This led to Cardon becoming a nationally and HAVE WE HEARD FROM YOU LATELY? internationally known expert on Hispanic mu- sic. He toured 9/08 UO School of Music & Dance Alumni throughout WHAT’S UP? the United States and NAME______Class of ______Mexico Degree______giving lec- Comments______ture-recitals, ______including ______one commis- sioned by the ______U.S. State Department. He also was ______founder and conductor for “Zarzuela ______El Paso.” For five years, he was My current address: (please print) This is a change of address the governor of the Great Plains Address______District of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Among his City______State______Zip______many awards was the Image Award Phone (day)______(eve)______in 1998 from the El Paso Association for the Performing Arts, and the ____ I have more news to share! Call me for a more complete update. Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas at El Paso in You may also send your alumni news for Ledger Lines via e-mail c/o editor 2007. A scholarship fund has been Scott Barkhurst: [email protected] established in his name at UTEP. 19

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Jan Dayton-Penrod ‘85 and Thomas Penrod ‘75 Kelley Lehman ‘92 and Raymond Todd ‘91 The Performance Technology Group Dorothy Gangnath Peterson ‘50 Kathryn Torvik Thoits Love Hershberger Nancy and David Petrone ‘66 Kazuko and Masato Toshima Thomas Boardman, Attorney At Law Alan Phillips Allice Hoffman Tower ‘40 Timothy R. Borman, DO. Vida ‘60 and James Phillips ‘63 Jeffrey Turay ‘63 TMS Joan Mimnaugh Pierson ‘50 & Stanley Pierson ‘50 Ellen Wachtel Turner ‘40 Tykeson Family Charitable Trust Barbara Menke Pinckney ‘70 Willie and Don Tykeson ‘51 United Way of Lane County Mary and Robert Porter ‘56 Diana Atkinson Tyson ‘77 and Glenn Tyson Camilla Pratt Bernice and Jack Ullom ‘78 Greta Kaufman Pressman and Ernest Pressman Steven Urman ‘76 Harry Price Steve Vacchi MaryBeth ‘76 and Francois Puton Lydia Van Dreel Diane ‘54 and Jack Pyle ‘53 Mary Gribble Van Horn ‘53 Carole and Clyde Quam ‘62 Janet Vance Ann Stearns Ramseyer ‘57 and Hugo Kapelke Margaret and Gordon Vanwylen Carolyn Rayborn ‘58 Margaret ‘64 and Lyle Velure ‘63 Sedate Holland Redfield Wanda McCuistian Vinson Leslie and Eric Redman ‘80 Josephine and Peter von Hippel Ralph Reisbeck Marjorie Waller ‘65 Kenneth Richards ‘65 Carolyn Cox Walter ‘50 Anna Ralston Richart ‘83 and Robert Richart ‘82 Karen and Charles Warren ‘62 Betty Rinck Frances Watzek Warren ‘37 Lonnie and Donald Ritchie ‘71 Margaret Adkins Warrick ‘49 and Harry Warrick Barbara Robben ‘57 Donn Wassom Ron Robbins Jeffrey Kahane, piano FESTIVAL OF BANDS COMING EVENTS Chamber Music@Beall, Nov. 9 November 1

FACULTY & GUEST ARTISTS: Gabriel Chodos, piano HARP DAY Guest Artist, Nov. 17 November 1 contact Laura Zaerr: [email protected] Dean Kramer, piano Oregon Brass Quintet Benefit Concert for Mt. Pisgah, Oct. 2 Faculty Artist Series, Nov. 18 Maria Guinand Kabile: Bulgarian Folk Music Lydia Van Dreel, horn Trotter Visiting Professor, World Music Series, Oct. 10 Faculty Artist Series, Nov. 20 residency Nov. 10–14 Trombones de Costa Rica Husberger-Wilson Trio Guest Ensemble, Oct. 15 Guest Artists, Dec. 1 For more information about Laura Wayte, soprano Aulos Ensemble with UO School of Music and Dance Faculty Artist Series, Oct. 16 Julianne Baird, soprano programs, events, and faculty, Chamber Music@Beall, Dec. 7 check our web site: Beta Collide music.uoregon.edu Faculty & Guest Artists, Oct. 18 SPECIAL EVENTS: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble PORTLAND EVENT The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, Chamber Music@Beall, Oct. 19 October 3 UO faculty perform at the affirmative action institution committed to cultural Grand Opening of UO Portland White diversity and compliance with the Americans with Octubafest Stag Facilities, 70 NW Couch Street Disabilities Act. This publication will be made available in accessible formats upon request. UO Ensembles & Guests, Oct. 29 Accommodations for people with disabilities will UO BANDS REUNION be provided if requested in advance. Elizabeth Richter, harp October 10 (details, inside front cover) Harp Day Guest Artist, Nov. 1

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