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Music at the University of Northern Iowa Inside this Issue PANTHER CONCERT MARCHING BAND STUDENTS AND CHORALE PERFORMS IN FACULTY PRESENT TOURS SPAIN IRELAND BEETHOVEN’S NO. 9 Table of Contents From the Director Dear Friends, Rhythms I am very happy to share many of the great things going on in the UNI School of Music. Music at the University of Northern Iowa This past academic year was once again marked by some great events. We Volume 38, Fall 2019 inaugurated a new collaborative series of concerts with the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. Two concerts marked the anniversary of the end of World War I. The first, a performance by a faculty septet of Stravinsky’s full L’Histoire Published by the UNI School of Music du soldat (1918) complete with narrators and dancers, and the second featured for its alumni and friends 3 4 5 the UNI Varsity Glee Club and UNI Wind Ensemble in an ‘Armistice’ concert. Panther Marching Band Concert Chorale Beethoven’s Symphony Completing the series and really putting an exclamation point on the entire year , Tours Ireland Tours Spain No. 9 a Success Caroline Francis executive editor was a full performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with combined choruses of over 200 voices, four faculty soloists and the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra , Jeffrey Funderburk director performed to an audience of over 1,200. From the Director . 2 Melinda Boyd, associate director We celebrated the retirement of our longtime and greatly beloved flute faculty Panther Marching Band Tours Ireland . 3 Julia Bullard, associate director member, Dr. Angelieta Floyd. Angelieta’s 33-year career at UNI has produced an incredible number of fine flutists and music educators as well as no small number Concert Chorale Tours Spain . 4 Susan Grover, Tammy Hook, of memorable parties! There was a great celebration with friends and alumni to Michelle Kline, Gayl Pakala, mark the event that is described in this publication. Dr. Nancy Cobb also retired this Women’s Chorus Reunion . .5 contributing editors year. She spent only two years in the School of Music after she retired from the UNI Floyd Retirement Alumni Reunion . 6 Associate Provost for Faculty position, but in those two years, she endeared herself Funds for this publication are provided to faculty and students alike. She is a tremendous composer and top notch music GBPAC Collaborative Events . 7 by the UNI School of Music and the educator and will be greatly missed, though you’ll be hearing more about her and UNI Foundation. her new composition in the near future! Military Band Performances . 8 I am very excited for the coming year! Seven new colleagues will join us. They Due Gala: Opera and Orchestra . 9 Design assistance and project direction represent an amazing pool of talent, energy and diverse experiences. This is a for this publication was provided by remarkable influx and sure to have a tremendous impact. You can read more about Hall of Fame Awards . 10 Sarah Pauls and the College of this incredible group herein. Humanities, Arts and Sciences UNI Jazz hosts Hot Tamale Louie . 11 Promotions team. Photography The future looks The future looks bright for the UNI School of Music, thanks to the great students, provided by Carla Wehmeyer and “ staff and faculty that make up our school, but it is also due to the continued support Community Outreach . 12 the Office of University Relations. bright for the UNI of friends like you. Without the support of our alumni, donors and supporters, we Scholarship Benefit Concert . 13 could not achieve the many great things that you will read about in this newsletter. The School of Music resides within the School of Music, Student Awards and Honors . 15 College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Thank you for your continued support! John Fritch, Dean. thanks to the great Guest Artist 2018-2019 . 17 students, staff and All the best! Faculty Spotlight . 18 The University of Northern Iowa is an equal opportunity educator and faculty that make Faculty News and Activities . 19 employer with a comprehensive plan for affirmative action. up our school, but Retirements and New Faculty . 21 Jeffrey Funderburk it is also due to the Director & Professor Alumni News and Updates . 25 “ Emeritus Faculty News . 27 continued support Alumni Spotlight . 28 of friends like you. Leaving a Legacy . 29 Snapshots . 30 Spotlight Series 2019-2020 . 31 Opportunities to Give . 32 UNI School of Music | 2 Concert Chorale Tours Wisconsin, Travels to Spain The UNI Concert Chorale, under the direction efforts to help students have an international of John Wiles, traveled over spring break experience as part of their college training, to perform a series of concerts in Wisconsin the UNI School of Music was pleased to before their international departure to Spain. support the Concert Chorale on their tour The group performed at the University of this year. Students consistently report that Wisconsin Whitewater, Badger High School such international experiences are life altering and in collaboration with the Lake Geneva and have tremendous impact on their view Symphony Orchestra from March 14-16, of the world. Cooperating with friends and then headed for Spain with performances colleagues while sharing the gift of music in an at the Andalucia Music Festival in Granada, international setting is an amazing experience Parroquia de Santa Maria la Mayor in Ecija, and one that we are thrilled to offer to and the Auditorio de Tomares outside of students at the University of Northern Iowa.” Seville. Walking tours and visits to historical sites peppered the group’s itinerary between performances, before their trip home on Editor’s note: thank you to Jeffrey Funderburk March 23. for his contribution to this article. Jeffrey Funderburk, Director of the UNI Panther Marching Band: School of Music, stated, “In our ongoing Impress in Ireland UNI’s Panther Marching Band (PMB) was enthusiastically greeted by both audiences— many natural and historical attractions. On invited to perform in the St. Patrick’s Day both of which had several UNI alumni the night before departure back to the Parade in Dublin, and the City of Limerick’s peppered throughout, and represented UNI United States, the PMB students participated St. Patrick’s Parade. On March 17, the PMB and the United States very well. “Everywhere in a night of music and merrymaking at the marched through the streets of Dublin in front the PMB went, people would see the UNI logo Merry Ploughboy, a famous venue for folk of an estimated audience of 750,000 people and stop to talk about how much they enjoyed and traditional Irish music. Mertz stated, “It and millions more watching on television. the PMB in the parades,” PMB director Justin was a memorable trip that continued the Additionally, the PMB was featured on Mertz noted, “The students were treated PMB’s tradition of distinctive and high-level newscasts on Irish television throughout the like celebrities for several days after their international performance.” weekend. On March 18, the PMB traveled performances.” to Limerick where it was an anchor group in For the rest of the week, the students in the the St. Patrick’s Parade there, performing for Editor’s note: thank you to Justin Mertz for his PMB were immersed in Irish culture, traveling tens of thousands of onlookers despite some contribution of this article. the countryside and experiencing Ireland’s rough weather. The PMB was warmly and 3 | Rhythms Fall 2019 UNI School of Music | 4 UNI Women’s Chorus 130th Anniversary Celebration Floyd Flute Family Celebration: Alumni Reunite to Celebrate Floyd’s Retirement May 3-4 was a weekend of celebration for Nearly 100 alumni and friends returned for direction – teaching my own students and flute alumni and enthusiasts who cheered the events, traveling from as far away as still learning from the way she would help us on faculty artist Angeleita Floyd in her final California, Louisiana, and New York, to alumni grow and feel confident as performers. Her concert before retirement from UNI. The who have stayed right here in Cedar Falls. impact has been everlasting!” two-day celebration included an alumni and Alumni Amanda Barro reflected on The final concert was followed by a friends dinner, a Floyd’s Flute Family Feud Angeleita’s career, noting, “I am incredibly celebratory reception at the local restaurant game, sidewalk chalking at Russell Hall, thankful for all of Angeleita’s mentorship, Montage where students and friends from and the final Floyd Flute Family Celebration encouragement, and continuous support. Angeleita’s 33-year career at UNI celebrated concert. The concert served not only as She is more than a flute professor to all of us, her legacy and the culmination of a successful a farewell to Floyd at UNI, but also as a and we are so lucky to have her in our lives. weekend of farewell events. fundraiser establishing the Floyd Flute Family Every day, I find myself practicing and hearing Fund to benefit future music students at UNI. Editor’s note: thank you to Amanda Barro for 2018 marked the 130th Anniversary of the Women’s Chorus, the oldest current Women’s Chorus had the opportunity to sing with and learn from her voice with words of encouragement and her contribution to this article. ensemble on UNI’s campus. The Women’s Chorus was founded by Julia alumni, and hear more about what the chorus was like at different points Curtiss in 1888, when the institution was called the Iowa Normal School, in history, including some fantastic photos contributed by alumni.” The and the ensemble was originally named the Cecelian Glee Club. Ms. October event was also the official start of the UNI Women’s Chorus Curtiss went on to create several other choral ensembles on campus, Giving Society, which is a special fund that will help future generations of including a second women’s glee club, and was instrumental in starting the chorus with tour funding, commissioning works, and other projects the program that we now call the UNI School of Music.