The Triad STUDENT, FACULTY, AND ALUMNI NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC music.nd.edu SUMMER 2006 How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? “Practice!” goes the old joke. But this year, Notre Dame students created a new punchline: Play in the Symphony Orchestra!

In March, the symphony engaged in a collaborative enterprise with the Irish traditional-music ensemble the Chieftains. In Music major Vanessa Ohlrich practices her fiddle solo with Seán Keane performances at the new DeBartolo Center for the Performing of the Chieftains. Arts at Notre Dame and at New York's Carnegie Hall (the latter on St. Patrick's Day, no less), the two groups presented a program exploring a wide range of Celtic styles. Among the highlights were a witty medley of Mozart and Irish jig tunes compiled by Chieftains leader Paddy Moloney and featuring orchestra hornist Rebecca Phillips, a law student, as soloist. Rock legend Elvis Costello joined the assembled musicians on the Carnegie Hall stage as surprise guest vocal soloist in the finale of "The Long Journey Home," a multi-part rumination on the Irish immigrant experience in America. Both concerts closed with a rousing reel in which orchestra violinist Vanessa Ohlrich, a music major, took a solo turn on the fiddle.

ND Student Rebecca Phillips plays the horn with the Chieftains in concert.

As part of the September festivities surrounding the inauguration of Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., as the University’s new president, pianist Leon Fleisher joined the orchestra for a performance of Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto.” In his rehearsals and in concert, as well as in a master class with undergraduate piano performance majors, Fleisher demonstrated his unique insight and personal warmth as both a teacher and player. The members of the orchestra thanked Fleisher for his generosity and spirit; he left Notre Dame also in possession of a pair of ND cufflinks he received as a gift from the ensemble, as he had forgotten to pack up his own pair at his previous stop in Asia.

The orchestra is grateful for the efforts of outgoing DPAC Executive Director John Haynes in making possible these unforgettable experiences. Pianist Leon Fleisher in concert with Photography provided by the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. Notre Dame Music Around the World Summer 2005 found seven members of the Notre Dame Marching Band (Katie Lawler, Katie Kimar, Trevor Gass, Courtney Lare, Isaac Ruiz, Tim Beaubien, and Kathleen Zadzora) in New Zealand. Each taught band and an academic subject at a boys and girls high school in Hastings, a community located about 200 miles south of Auckland. While exploring New Zealand, the students took courses in Maori Studies (the native culture), learning the music and chant rituals.

The Notre Dame Chorale toured New Zealand in May 2005, presenting four concerts in South Island. The tour was so successful that Director Alexander Blachly is planning another tour for late May 2007.

This year, the Notre Dame Glee Club toured the United States making stops in Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and California. This fall they will continue their stateside tour in the Carolinas and Southeast. For more Glee Club news and information about their upcoming alumni reunion in September 2006, visit their website at gleeclub.nd.edu.

Continuing the Department’s trek around the globe, the Notre Dame Concert Band toured Austria and the Czech Republic in May 2006 after Commencement. The band performed in many different venues, including the Mozarteum in Salzburg and Smetena Hall in Prague, in honor of the Mandy Mouton, Mike Siembor, Eric Sauer, and Lisa Bonkowski 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. Students took in the sights and from the Notre Dame Band pose with a Maori sounds as they explored the rich music history of Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Tribesman in Roorua, New Zealand. Munich, Innsbruck, and Kremsmünster.

Organists Invade the Netherlands Professor Craig Cramer, six undergraduate organ students, and two graduate students enrolled in the Master of Sacred Music program journeyed to the Nether- lands in June 2006.

"The Netherlands is an organ-rich country with one of the highest concentrations of pre-19th century organs in the world,” says Cramer, who led similar tours of historic European organs in 2001 and 2003. “These old organs are our best teachers. The music just comes alive under your fingers when you play antique instruments."

During the tour the students studied the case designs, organ-building techniques, and sounds of different instruments from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. They prepared pieces to match the instruments that they encountered during the tour. Students received generous support from Learning Beyond the Classroom (formerly known as the Undergraduate Intellectual Initiative), the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and the Graduate School. Housed in the College of Arts and Notre Dame graduate student Thomas Mueller Letters, LBC and ISLA provide funding to faculty and students in support of cultural plays the Purmerend organ of Koepelkerk. excursions, travel to conferences, and other activities aimed at enhancing teaching and student learning beyond the classroom.

"It is gratifying that the College of Arts and Letters supports travel and research for faculty and students,” Cramer says. “It was a fabulous musical and learning experi- ence for everyone in the group because there is no substitute for playing historic music on old organs."

The highlight of the tour was a visit to the 1696 Schnitger organ in Noordbroek. This organ served as the case model for the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center O'Malley organ, which was built by Paul Fritts and Company and has proven to be a magnificent addition to the musical and cultural life of the campus. Cramer notes "the new Fritts organ has transformed organ study at Notre Dame. Its lively wind system, sensitive key action, stunning appearance, and warm sound have The Schnitger organ in Noordbroek, the model completely captivated everyone who has come into contact with the instrument. for the O’Malley organ on campus. Notre Dame should be proud to own a masterpiece of the organ-building art." Photography provided by Eleanore Strong. Community Outreach

Notre Dame’s Department of Currently, six Notre Dame music Bandlink Music takes undergraduate educa- students give piano lessons to 17 In an effort to provide musical tion as its primary focus. By children at the Robinson Center. instruction for and foster musical allowing students to work closely Music professors Ethan Haimo and appreciation in students who with a faculty composed of world- Paul Johnson have also taught normally would not receive such class musicians and scholars, the piano there. Fees for the lessons are exposure, Bandlink pairs music Department nurtures their love of nominal or may be waived entirely majors and members of the Notre music and prepares them for depending on financial circum- Dame marching band with whatever paths they may choose. stances. The children have made students from two of South Bend's But this education doesn’t take tremendous improvements in their Catholic elementary schools, Holy place in isolation from the campus skills in the last two years to the Cross and Christ the King. The and local communities. Instead, point where they hope to play in a mentors and their pupils meet the Department looks for innova- small recital next spring. The twice per week for instruction and tive ways to bring its love of music Department of Music thanks on Sunday nights for ensemble to as many people as possible. Patricia Collins Jones for supervis- practice. The culmination of these ing the program over the past efforts can be seen in the concerts Robinson Community several years. performed at the end of each Learning Center semester. In 2005-2006, more than The Robinson Community Learning 40 Notre Dame students and 40 Center was created to strengthen young musicians made up the the relationship between South heart of Bandlink. Bend’s Northeast Neighborhood and the University of Notre Dame. Activities and educational opportu- nities surrounding health, culture, and faith are used to enhance each other’s quality of life and encour- age development and sharing of personal gifts.

Music & the DPAC Thanks to the growth of artistic venues on campus, the Department of Music can In September 2004, the DeBartolo host a greater variety of events. This timeline displays a sampling of the recent Performing Arts Center (DPAC) classical and educational music experiences enjoyed by music students and faculty. opened its doors with a grand community celebration. Home to Chamber music students participate in a master class with the Leighton Concert Hall, the Reyes 6 Abram Loft, Professor Emeritus of the Eastman School of Organ and Choral Hall with its new 00 2 Music, former member of the Fine Arts Quartet, and judge ay Fritts organ, the Philbin Studio M of the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Theatre, the Browning Cinema, and Competition. the Decio Mainstage Theatre, the DPAC has brought new visibility to The Notre Dame Chamber Players perform a program of 6 00 the variety of musical performances 2 Mozart and Schumann with guests from the string faculty ry on campus. The facility also houses ua of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. br the offices of music performance Fe American Guild of Organists Pedagogy Conference is held faculty members Alexander Blachly, 5 at Notre Dame and piano majors attend a master class Craig Cramer, and Daniel Stowe. All 00 r 2 with Leon Fleisher, internationally-known concert pianist. music department ensemble be m concerts are now performed in the te ep The Notre Dame Chamber Players perform the works of DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. S 5 Schubert, Chausson, Ravel, and Haydn with a variety of With a sound shell featuring panels 00 2 guest musicians in Leighton Concert Hall. ch that can be individually adjusted, ar the Leighton Concert Hall provides M the perfect acoustics for any size performance. Associate Professor Karen Buranskas is a critically acclaimed cellist who has performed throughout the United States and Europe as well as in Brazil and Japan. A member of the Notre Dame Chamber Players, she has recorded two compact discs for Centaur Records, featur- ing chamber works of David Diamond and Paul Hindemith.

Darlene Catello, adjunct instructor of harpsichord, directs Preparatory and Continuing Studies in Music for the Department. She is also a member of the Baroque ensemble Fleur de Lys, which performs music of the 17th and 18th centuries on period instruments.

Professor Craig Cramer produced a recording for the Naxos Organ Encyclopedia. Performed on the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ at Pacific Lutheran University in Visiting Assistant Professor Mark Beudert studied with Tacoma, Washington, the disc is a compilation of works Franco Corelli, by Dietrich Placido Buxtehude Domingo, and (c.1637-1707). Giuseppe di Stefano. His Professor international Kenneth Dye is career has the director of included operatic bands at Notre performances in Dame. He has Austria, Switzer- served as land, Germany, composer and France, and Italy. arranger for the In addition to his Sydney 2000 position as Olympic Band Director of Opera and as director Notre Dame, he of the Opening is the Director of Ceremonies of Bel Canto the U.S. Northwest Vocal Olympic Institute at Festival as well Portland State Professor Georgine Resick, soprano, sings with members of the Notre Dame Chamber Players as the All- University. (John Blacklow, piano; Karen Buranskas, cello; and Carolyn Plummer, violin) and guest artists. American College Band Professor Alexan- at Disney der Blachly is the founder-director of the internationally World. He also composed original music for the inaugura- acclaimed vocal ensemble Pomerium, tion convocation for Rev. John I. Jenkins, which is recording a series of compact C.S.C., in September 2005. discs of a cappella music of the Renais- sance. Currently, he directs the Notre Associate Professor Mary Frandsen studies Dame Chorale and Chamber Orchestra as the intersections of music, liturgy, and well as Schola Musicorum. spirituality in the Baroque era. Her book, Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Assistant Professor John Blacklow, pianist, Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in with violinist Jennifer Frautschi, was Seventeenth-Century Dresden, was chosen in an annual nationwide search published in April 2006 by Oxford Univer- by Carnegie Hall for the most promising sity Press. American musicians in 2004. He embarked on a six-country concert tour of Professor Ethan Haimo taught in Israel at several major European cities co- Bar-Ilan University, discussing the merits of sponsored by the European Concert Hall 20th-century composition during the 2006 Organization. Blacklow was on sabbatical spring semester. Cambridge University Press producing a record of 18th through will publish his new book, Schoenberg’s 20th-century piano literature. Transformation of Musical Language, in November 2006.

For more faculty biographies, accomplishments, and news, visit our website at music.nd.edu. Associate Professor Paul Johnson composed a tone poem for chamber orchestra titled “The Wild Swans at Coole.” It was released in June 2005 on Masterworks of the New Era, volume 6. It will be performed by the South Bend Symphony Chamber Orchestra in April 2007. His compo- sition for soprano and orchestra, “Spring in War-Time,” will be released on ERM records later this year.

Associate Professor Carolyn Plummer, violin, is one of the members of the Notre Dame Chamber Players. She lectured on Beethoven Violin Concerto for the South Bend Symphony League this spring. Plummer and her twin sister, Kathryn, also participated in a very successful performance over the Internet. You can watch this exciting performance at internet2.nd.edu/MakeConnectionswith Internet2.shtml.

Professor Georgine Resick, voice, has appeared on international stages and has earned public applause as David Banga, visiting instructor of music, teaches Musi- well as the respect of her colleagues, who have re- cianship and Gender, Sexuality in Pop Media. The course, engaged her season after season at the world's most which meets the Fine Arts requirement, looks at predeter- important opera houses, established orchestras, and mined gendered roles and sexuality in our culture as prestigious festivals. Recently, Resick released a new represented in popular media. When not teaching, Banga album with pianist Warren Jones called Men’s Songs, works on his musicology doctoral thesis with Professor Women’s Voices. The album was praised in the May 2006 Ethan Haimo. edition of Opera News. Päivi Ekroth, staff pianist for the Department of Music, Associate Professor Peter was invited by Maestro Valerij Gergijev to play a recital at Smith includes the instru- the Mikkeli Music Festival in Finland in 1997. She has also mental music of Brahms, performed in China, Estonia, and at the Settimane Musi- Schenkerian approaches to cali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore in Italy. analysis, and theories of form in his current Stefan Fiol, visiting instructor in music, teaches ethnomu- research interests. Indiana sicology courses for the Department. He is also an University Press published accomplished pianist and sitar player, having studied with his book Expressive Forms Sri Anand Pillay while attending the University of Illinois in Brahms’s Instrumental at Urbana-Champaign and Stanley Ramsey and Pt. Ajit Music: Structure and Singh in Varanasi, India. He is also an avid performer of Meaning in His Werther the mbira (lamellophone) of Zimbabwe, and has led an Quartet in the spring of African music ensemble in Urbana for a year-and-a-half. 2005. Artist-in-Residence Daniel Schlosberg focuses as much Besides directing the Notre time on collaborative performance in piano as on solo Dame Glee Club and recitals. Projects of note include recitals in France and Notre Dame Symphony Italy as a fellow of the La Gesse Foundation, performances Orchestra, Daniel Stowe is in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, and a recital at the Israeli a founding member of the plainchant ensemble Schola Embassy presented in conjunction with the Smithsonian Musicorum and director of the Collegium Musicum. His Institutions. The Department is honored to have him on research specialties include sacred and secular music of the faculty. the 16th century, and he has contributed articles on Renaissance, Baroque, and 20th-century Latin American composers to the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. In Memoriam Visiting Assistant Professor John Riley-Schofield, J.W. Van Gorkom Professor of Music Susan Youens voice and opera, was lost to us in a fatal car accident lectured at Carnegie Hall (with the famous baritone on September 12, 2005. The Department of Music Thomas Quasthoff and pianist Justus Zeyen) and Oxford wishes to thank all of those who participated in the University this spring. Youens has just completed her book memorial Mass and is grateful for the many thoughts Heinrich Heine and the Lied for Cambridge University and prayers from friends and colleagues. The faculty Press and two chapters for books of essays published by has planned a memorial concert for Princeton University Press and Böhlau Verlag in Vienna. September 24, 2006, featuring his students.

For more faculty biographies, accomplishments, and news, visit our website at music.nd.edu. NOTRE DAME BANDS Assistant Director Larry Dwyer has performed as a jazz pianist with such greats as Thad Jones, Clark Terry, Sonny Stitt, and Sarah Vaughan. His orchestral arrangements of the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and others have been performed and recorded by the South Bend Symphony, Houston Pops, Utah Symphony, and Rochester Philharmonic.

Assistant Band Director Kelly May has a vibrant interest in music therapy. This has led to a number of practical experiences that varied from working with psychiatric and geriatric populations to her primary focus on helping children with autism and at-risk youth.

Matt Merten, assistant band director, has performed with the St. Cloud Amadeus Orchestra, Minnesota Center Chorale, and Regis Philbin's Pop Orchestra. This summer, he performed in the quartet led by Billy “Stix” Nicks at the Elkhart Jazz Festival.

Emmett O’Leary studied euphonium and bass trombone before joining the Notre Dame Bands as an assistant band director. He was invited to participate in the "College All-Star Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble" at both the 1998 and 2000 International Tuba Euphonium Conferences.

Who creates all those magnificent halftime formations for the Notre Dame Band? Samuel Sanchez, assistant band director, is an initiative of the the mastermind behind the movement. He serves as the percussion coordinator, shares the conducting responsibilities of the ensembles, and specializes in areas of music ArtsEverywhere was launched in December 2004 by the technology and sound recording. Community Foundation of St. Joseph County to support the arts of the greater South Bend region. This past fall, the group took their mission to the web and to print. ArtsEverywhere.com and ArtsEverywhere magazine were created to be the ultimate ALUMNIguides to the region’s art and culture. Look online for upcoming events in theatre, art, and music as well as performances Nick Morrison, (M.M. ‘88, sponsored by the Department of Music. clarinet performance and literature), was recently appointed full professor at Utah State University. His teaching responsibilities include clarinet studio, chamber music, and symphonic band. He has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique Ste. Trinité in Haiti; with the Notre Dame String Quartet, The New World Quartet, and Arcata String Quartet; and with the Utah Festival Opera Orchestra. Morrison’s flute- clarinet duo Airfare, which he formed with flutist Leslie Timmons, recently received a grant from the Utah Arts Council to make a CD of works for similar duos.

Jacqueline Schmidt (B.A. ‘01, M.M. ‘03, piano performance) and Paul Appleby (B.A. ‘05, vocal performance) were featured soloists in the January 2006 South Bend Symphony Orchestra Chamber Concert. This concert is part of the recent collaboration between the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and Notre Dame. This partner- ship brings the Symphony’s Chamber Series to the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and larger performances of the ND Presents series to the Morris Performing Arts Center in downtown South Bend. Schmidt has been invited to perform in another chamber concert in April 2007. Appleby will be attending the graduate vocal program at The Juilliard School of Music.

Mark Thomas (B.A. ‘06, organ performance) and Nicholas Tonozzi (B.A. ’06, vocal performance) were jointly awarded the Outstanding Senior Award for 2006 by the Department of Music. This honor is granted to seniors for excellence during their years of undergraduate study. Tonozzi, a tenor, continues his vocal studies this fall in the graduate program at Northwestern University. Thomas has been accepted into the doctoral program in philosophy at Boston College.

2005-06 Concerto Competition Music & Culture The Department of Music has On November 18, 2005, Notre Dame music announced a new concentration students competed in the annual Concerto within the music major, Music and Competition. This year’s winners were: Culture, which will be offered for the first time in Fall 2006. Music •Nicholas Shaneyfelt, piano and Culture will be the third concentration available to music •Thomas Lee, violin majors. This degree allows •Audrey Marier, violin students to learn about the musical •Joseph Petros, piano expressions of many countries and cultures, including American and Director Daniel Stowe European non-classical music and non-Western music. In addition to Students prepare for this intense annual competition with many extra hours of studying music with historical, practice as well as extra lessons with their instructors. The competition takes critical, and musicological place before a panel of performance faculty headed by Notre Dame Symphony approaches, Music and Culture Director Daniel Stowe. also brings methods from ethnomu- sicology, the study of how cultures Winners perform with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra during its seasonal make use of music. These contexts concerts in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. include gender, race, politics, and First-year students Shaneyfelt and Lee gave brilliant performances of Schumann ways in which indigenous music and Beethoven on February 11, 2006. Marier and Petros dazzled the audience at has been disseminated and appro- the spring orchestra concert on April 28 with the music of Grieg and Chausson. priated by popular culture. In many cultures, musicality and spirituality are interwoven, so the concentra- tion invites students to explore the religious dimension of world A Wonderful Gift music. In 1999, R. Emmett Fitzgerald (B.A. ’50, J.D. ’52) presented the music depart- Joining the existing concentrations ment with the generous gift of a 1727 in Music Performance and Music violin. Crafted of dark red maple by the History and Theory, the Music and famous Tyrolean violin-maker Joseph Culture degree offers the opportu- Mathias Albani in Bolzano, Italy, this nity for students to bring their beautiful instrument had been in the related field studies of aesthetics, Fitzgerald family since the late 19th gender, critical theory, perfor- century. Since its arrival at Notre Dame, mance, anthropology, and political the violin has been made available to science into the study of music. For one student per year, most recently Leila students who desire to study music Tascheck (M.M. ’05, violin perfor- and liturgy, an Interdisciplinary mance). Minor in Liturgical Music Ministry (18 credits) is also available. For Four sons in the Fitzgerald family (Tim, more information on these new Mike, Pete and Dan) and one daughter (Kathleen) graduated from Notre Dame, and developments as well as the latest one daughter (Maura) graduated from Saint Mary’s College. course descriptions, visit our website at www.nd.edu/~music. This wonderful gift will enhance music for generations of students at Notre Dame.

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Interested in finding out Visiting Associate Professor of Music and Director of Opera Mark about our sponsored Beudert created a bit of a stir on campus with his Spring 2006 events? Check out our production of Orphée aux Enfers by Jacques Offenbach. concert series calendar at Beudert decided to shake the preconceived notions of opera and www.nd.edu/~congoers engage everyone in a more modern experience, believing it or the Notre Dame should relate to people on a very personal campus calendar at level. agenda.nd.edu. You can also subscribe to our free “Music is like anything else, you have some- e-mail reminders by thing to bring to it…opera is a part of life, it is sending your request to up to you to pay attention to it or not.” [email protected]. So how does one translate a tale of fighting Questions? spouses and a pantheon of gods and Comments? goddesses, nymphs, and bacchantes into the Please contact us! modern day? By placing it in Hollywood, of course. Taking a cue from current events Phone: 574-631-6211 involving Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, Fax: 574-631-4539 Beudert thought it would be great to have tabloid fliers posted to [email protected] create a “buzz” on campus about the opera. Emily Sladek and Eric music.nd.edu Petrucci, playing the leads of Eurydice and Orpheus, worked with Notre Dame Media Group to capture some paparazzi moments A fan of podcasts? for the posters. Download our music at web.mac.com/ndmusic/ The result? Opera Notre Dame sold out both nights of performances in iWeb Washington Hall this past April.

Auditions for the 2007 production of Opera Notre Dame will take place this September with title and cast to be announced shortly thereafter.

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