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North Texas WINTER 2OO3 t, ¡I _-ê o I E à LTNT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND GRAND CHORUS bring Mahler's Symphony l{o- 2 to life o r\qunterpoint \gzþfarc from^ North rexas Winter 2002 Administration Piano Composition Theory James C. Scott, Dean Joseph Banowetz Thomas Clark Gene Cho Klein Thomas Clark Thornas S. Clark, Steven Harlos Joseph Letter from the Dean AssociateDean,AcademicAf..............fairs Victoria Lington Cindy McTee Paul Dworak Jon Christopher Nelson, Befhe Odnoposoff Jon Christopher Nelson Joán Groom-Thomton Associate Dean, Operations Pamela Mia Paul Alan Oldfield Jacquelyn Hale New Appointments John C. Scott, Jack Roberts Joseph Rovan Frank Heidlberger rùr'insor I Associate Dean, Admissíons and Gustavo Romero Philip Timothy Jackson Scholorship Services Vladirnir Viardo R. Fred Kem Choral Reunion Joán Groom-Thomton, Adam Wodnicki Wind Studies Dale Peters Phipps D i.rec I or Undergra dua rc Sndies Eugene Migliaro Corporon Graham Graham Phipps, Piano Pedagogy & Group Piano Dennis Fisher Carol Pollard Faculty News Director, Graduate Sludies Bradley Beckman Alfredo Vélez David Schwarz R. Fred Kem Stephen Slottow In Honor of Shelly Manne Strings Opera Thomas Sovík Igor Borodin Organ David Cloutier Jeffrey Bradetich Jesse Eschbach Stephen Dubberly Ethnomusicology Meet Anshel Brusilow Julia Bushkova Joel Martinson Paula Homer Gene Cho per- William Clay Lenora McCroskey Steven Friedson Members of the UNT Alumni Trombone Choir Susan Dubois Dale Peters Choral Eileen M. Hayes forming at the International Trombone Association's Cindy McTee Premieres New ìØork Thomas Johnson Henry Gibbons Thomas Sovik annual conference held at UNT in 2002. Paul LeBlanc Chamber Music Jerry McCoy Report on Giving Philip Lewis Mark Ford Music Education Eugene Osadchy Eric Nestler Voice Donna Emmanuel Ellen Ritscher Eugene Osadchy Jolyne Antista Hildegard Froehlich Alumni News George Papich Stephen Austin Warren Henry Woodwinds Pamela Mia Paul Rose Marie Chisholm Margaret Hudnall Mary Karen Clardy Kathleen Reynolds Linda Di Fiore Karrell Johnson In Memoriam Daryl Coad William Schamberg Lynn Eustis Alan McClung Cody Gamer Darhyl Ramsey Deborah Fabian From the Archives Oscar Garza Early Music Harold Heiberg Debbie Rohwer James Gillespie Joyce Alper Julie McCoy Ouida Taylor Eric Nestler Leonard Candelaria Laurel Miller Roger Wamer Kathleen Reynolds Lynn Eustis Juanita Peters James Riggs Sara Funkhouser Jeffrey Snider Instrument Repair John Scott Kevin Hall David Sundquist Ann MacMillan Terri Sundberg Lee Lattirnore Charles Veazey Lenora McCroskey Music History Lyle Nordstrom Lester Brothers Brass Patricia Nordstrom Deanna Bush Tony Baker Cynthia Roberts J. Michael Cooper Brian Bowman rù/illiam Schamberg Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner Leonard Candelaria Bemardo Illari John Holt Jazz Lenora McCroskey Counterpoint is published bi-annua.lly by Mark McKnight J. Keith Johnson Tony Baker the University of North Texas College Jan Kagarice Rosana Eckert Lyle Nordstrom of Music. Vem Kagarice Dan Haerle Margaret Notley Donald Little Frederick Hamilton Terence Reynolds Terry Hankins Editor William Schamberg Noel Johnston Rachel Clarke Stefan Karlsson Percussion Joseph Lee Editorial Assistance Gideon Foli Alorwoyie John Murphy James Gillespie, Kristy Hall, Linda José Aponte James Riggs Strube, Elida Tamez, Mignon \Øendove¡ Harrell Bosarge Paris Rutherford Cenler for Conlemporory Sludies in Music Educollon Christopher Deane Akira Sato Julie Scolf, direclor Mark Ford Jay Saunders Design Concept Henry Okstel Lynn Seaton Emily Bryant Cenler for Experimenlol Music qnd lntermedio Coll Nathan Ratliff Neil Slater Joseph Rovon, director Paul Rennick Edward Soph ., 1 Daniel Robins Michael Steinel I for Schenkerion Sludies Robert Schietroma Cenler Timolhy Jockson, UNT College of Music Edward Smith Orchestra direclor Attil Coilnterþoint Edward Soph Anshel Brusilow Poovalur Sriji Clay Couturiaux Texos Cenler for Muslc ond Medlclne PO Box3n367 Lyle Nordstrotn Kris Chesky, reseorch ond educotion director Denton, TX 76zq-467 [email protected]. edu Wlnter 2003 I Õ (r, t'e 11 åþ. -z'$--: ¡" We're not just... Donna Emmanuel Alan C. McClung # Assistant Professor-Music Education Assistant Professor-Music Education A native of northwest Florida, Emmanuel received her McClung conducts the Concerl Choir and teaches under- The University of North Texas System has a new Chancello4 Lee Jackson, who .F bachelor's degree from the University of West Florida, her graduate conducting, seconda¡y choral methods, and has impressed everyone with his quickly developed insight into our large and maste¡'s in music education from the University of supervises student teachers in secondary choral music, He complex university. At a talk earlier this fall, he said one themes Michigan, and her Ph.D. in music education from holds a Ph.D. in choral music education from Florida that of his Donna Emmanuel would be "UNT is not just..." His point is that the University's reputation has Michigan State University. She is the founder, director, State University, Tallahassee; a master's degree in choral been so closely aligned with the arts that it becomes necessary to work actively to let people know and instructor of a Yamaha Music School, has experience conducting from the University of Illinois, Urbana; and a teaching in public school, has seled as a church musi- bachelor's music education from West Virginia we're not "just" music and art. While continuing to affirm the quality and importance of what we of cian, and also has worked in the music ¡etail business. Her University, Morgantown. He taught previously at the do, he knows that other aspects of the University need to be widely proclaimed as well. specialties include: immersion field experiences; teaching University of Missouri, St. Louis; Georgia State lu in urban areas; interculfural competence; elementary gen- University; and WoodwardAcademy, Atlanta, Georgia. In As I reflected on his talk, I realized that we might well adopt the same theme in the College of eral music; integrating arts and academics; music industry addition to the presentation of his choirs at a variety of Music. Those who are associated with one part of our college or another know the high quality asso- : $f, and policy issues; musics of Southeast Asia, Africa, and ACDA and MENC conventions, he has presented at music ciated with that particular segmen! and Mexico; and gr:oup piano instruction. conferences and conducted honor choirs around the coun- some parts of the College such as our preeminent jazzpro- -'ú gram are well known by the national and international music communities. However, as we work try. Present research efforts are focused on the publication 1 Eileen M. Hayes of a new textbook, By the Numbers: 45 Sequential Steps to spread our reputation and have constantly increasing numbers of people know about what we ; Assistant Professo¡-Ethnomusicology to Sight Singing. do, it is important to emphasize the wide array of strengths that characterize our College. / Hayes received her bachelor's in music from Temple just E,ileen M. Hayes University, her master's in folklore-ethnomusicology from Gustavo Romero We have released a new sampler CD, entitled Collaborations: The College of Music øt the Indiana University, and her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology Assistant Professor-Keyboard Studies Millennium. Thirteen tracks demonstrate the excellence of various performing ensembles covering from the University of Washington. Prior to coming to Romero most recently served for five years on the faculty the span of our activities, but we're not "just" performance. Historical research from our Center for LINI she taught at The George Washington University in of the University of Illinois , and nine years on the facul- Schenkerian Studies led this fall to the Dallas Symphony's world premiere full performance of Washington, D.C. Research for her dissertation, entitled ty of the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, Nofth Klezki's Second Symphony, one of a number of works rediscovered through the Center that had "Black Women Performers of Women-Identified Music: Carolina. He graduated from The Juilliard School with a been lost during the Holocaust. But we're not "just" historical research. Our Texas Center for Music They Cut Off My Voice; I Grew Two Voices," was sup- bachelor's of music in 1988, and a master's of music in ported by a Danforth-Compton Fellowship for 1997 . ln 1989, he was the winner of the prestigious Clara and Medicine just won a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to develop and host an Dissertation Writing, as well as a Minorities Teaching and Haskill International Piano Competition in Switzerland. international conference on musicians' health, which will explore, among other things, means by Dissertation Writing Fellowship from GVy'U. Her analy- Other major awards include the Avery Fisher Career which schools can provide appropriate instruction to meet NASM's recently established guideline sis of black women's participation in the predominantly Grant, Musical America Young Artist of 1988, Austin, TX on injury prevention. But we're not "just" involved with improving music teaching. Professor white-lesbian social field of women-identified music will "Key to the CityAward," and the Maurice BraunAward of Darhyl Ramsey's project to provides instruction on donated band instruments to elementary appear in the forthcoming Anthology of African- the San Diego Historical Society. Since 1999, Romero has schools students in the disadvantaged Owsley Community, and Professor Karrell ]ohnsory