American Composers Forum New Board Members for FY 2008 The Forum welcomes these two new directors National Office Dr. Leaetta Hough was a founder of Personnel Decisions John Nuechterlein, Research Institute, and later President and CEO, 651. 251. 2811 founded The Dunnette Group, Annual Report 2007 Craig Carnahan, a research and development Vice President of Programs, 651. 251. 2833 firm based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been an Jewell Arcoren exceptionally active contributor to the scien- FNCI Administrative Assistant, 651.251.2812 Board of Directors FY 2007 tific and professional literature, publishing Philip Blackburn, dozens of papers in refereed journals, book e s Director of Artist Services, 651. 251. 2823 Mary Deissler, Chair chapters, reviews, and conference proceedings. r Chris Campbell, Carol Heen,Vice Chair She is co-editor of the four-volume Handbook ® r innova Operations Manager, 651. 251. 2820 Anthony Tansimore,Vice Chair of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and o innova e Composers ® Wendy Collins, Sam Hseng-Hung Hsu,Treasurer senior author of the most recent personnel c n Datebook Senior Program and Member Services Steve Heitzeg, Secretary selection chapter of the Annual Review of Recordings n Manager, 651. 251. 2824 David Ranheim, Past Chair Psychology, as well as the personality assess- t John Nuechterlein, Ex Officio r E Paul Hanson, ment chapters in the Comprehensive Handbook s Finance Manager, 651. 251. 2813 of Psychology and the Handbook of Work, t p Meredith Alden a h Kelli Hirsch, James N. Berdahl Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Her ® i g h P Development Associate, 651. 251. 2815 contributions have been recognized by her BandQuest r Harry Brull i s John Michel, election as a Fellow in the Society for e Richard Cisek n s Director of Media Projects, 651. 251. 2817 Raphael Cung Industrial and Organizational Psychology w h K (SIOP), the Association for Psychological o Carey Nadeau, Cary John Franklin o t c l National Program Manager, 651. 251. 2814 Science (APS), the American Psychological p l Ken Freed i Julie Stroud, Association (APA), and APA’s Division Five – M Mary J. Greer e Continental m Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics. a Development Director, 651. 251. 2822 Jennifer Higdon F Jay Walters, Leaetta previously served on the American o Jerome Louis Hill Harmony F Administrative Assistant, 651. 251. 2810 Nancy Huart Composers Forum Board from 1997-2003 C Composers Georgia Wettlin-Larsen, Hella Mears Hueg and we are delighted to have her back. Commissioning FNCI Program Manager, 651. 251. 2825 Daniel Kunin First Nations Program Anne LeBaron Nancy J. Uscher was Greg McNeely appointed provost of CalArts Composer Initiative Regional Chapters Evans Mirageas in 2004. She was formerly R. Carlos Nakai associate provost of the Los Angeles: John Orenstein University of New Mexico, Halie Rosenberg, 323. 388. 7111 John Paulson where she also was a profes- subito Minnesota: Martin Shampaine sor of music. She has been Craig Carnahan, 651. 251. 2833 Noel Zahler the violist for various ensembles and orches- New England: tras, including the Jerusalem Symphony David McMullin, 617. 373. 7412 National Advisers Orchestra and the American Composers Philadelphia: July 2006-June 2007 Orchestra. Uscher has written the books The Jim Jordan, 267. 639.2518 Marilyn Bergman Schirmer Guide to Schools of Music and San Francisco Bay Area: John Cacavas Conservatories Throughout the World and Your Tod Brody, 415. 864. 0400 Bobby McFerrin Own Way in Music:A Career and Resource Washington, D.C.: Meredith Monk Guide. She has given masterclasses and recitals Jonathan Morris 202. 715. 3779 Peter Schickele David Shifrin in Europe, Latin America,Asia and Africa, has Stanislaw Skrowaczewski participated in such festivals as the Casals Leonard Slatkin Festival in Puerto Rico,The Spoleto Festival, Stephen Sondheim and The Kennedy Center Mozart Festival and Tom Voegeli has recorded for the radio stations through- out Europe including the BBC. As Director of the Center For The Arts In Society at the AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM University of Mexico, she founded an Arts-In- Prisons program and produced a series of 332 Minnesota Street, Suite E-145 community concerts and recordings focusing Saint Paul, MN 55101-1300 USA on arts, identity and pluralism. She earned a AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM Tel.: (651) 228 -1407 • Fax: (651) 291-7978 B.M. from the Eastman School of Music, an M.M. from The State University of New York www.composersforum.org [email protected] at Stony Brook, an A.R.C.M. from The Royal www.ComposersForum.org College of Music in London and a Ph.D from New York University 12 Photo: Steve Schneider A Letter from John Nuechterlein President and CEO National Forum President and CEO John Accomplishments Nuechterlein by a wall display of FNCI Advisors (seated, left to right): Liz Jaakola (Ojibwe), George innova Recordings CD covers. in Fiscal Year 2007 Quincy (Choctaw), Georgia Wettlin-Larsen (Assiniboine/Nakota); Hearing the Future and (standing, left to right): Joanne Shenandoah (Oneida), Joy In the past ten years, through nationwide Harjo (Muscogee), Jennifer Kreisberg (Tuscarora), R. Carlos In its 32-year history, the American Composers The sheer number of composers who received opportunities for commissions and professional Nakai (Navajo/Ute), John Nuechterlein (President and CEO, Forum has continually shown that there are funding, assistance and encouragement from the development workshops, the Forum has expanded American Composers Forum), Raven Chacon (Navajo), Barbara many ways to integrate the work of living Composers Forum during the past year is services to thousands of composers, performers Croall (Odawa, Giniw dodem). composers into the fabric of our culture. staggering. What is harder to see is the even and communities. The Minnesota Chapter is part Faith Partners was active in 10 churches and synagogues in the We mark our success by the advancement of larger number of people who heard something of the national office and is included in the region. Included were congregations in Edina, Detroit Lakes, composer careers and the increasing new by one of those composers and stopped to Alexandria,Willmar, and Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, and Minot, N.D. commitment of communities to their work. listen more intently. Hearing the future means national activities. You will read in these pages a long list of listening a bit harder right now. We can make it Continental Harmony residencies were completed in Homer, accomplishments for the organization this past enjoyable too! Highlights of the year include: Alaska; New Britain, Connecticut; Battle Creek, Michigan; UCross, year, but the real story of the Forum is in how Wyoming; Chicago, Illinois; New York City and Geneseo, New The Forum is part of a seven-member cohort of national York.There are three more projects underway in Ada, Oklahoma; well it can – and will – hear the future. We must say a warm and heartfelt thank you to organizations participating in the Indigenous Knowledge and Keene, New Hampshire; and Modesto, California. all of our generous donors who believe in the Expressive Culture portfolio at the Ford Foundation. Our goal is The ecology of new music is changing. Smart important work we’re doing. We were delighted to provide leadership in support of American Indian composers Community Partners projects connect composers with and talented composers can self-produce, to exceed our annual fund goal by 11% in and performers so their work will be more widely heard. community organizations across the country. Most recently, the self-publish, and self-promote quite effectively in FY2007, and look forward to proving again in We also received several grants to run the Composer Apprentice Forum’s Transposing Voices program paired composer Maura today’s economy. Technology has created social 2008 that such confidence is deserved … National Outreach Endeavor (CANOE). Through CANOE, Bosch with the Tubman Family Alliance’s south Minneapolis site to networks of artists who meet online, without a and rewarded with interesting new music. American Indian composers teach formal composition skills to create an original piece of music that highlighted healing from moderator or convener. Culturally specific Native students. The program is serving schools in Minneapolis, domestic abuse within the Tubman community. The three- music is becoming more widely heard, and the Fond du Lac Reservation in Northern Minnesota, and movement piece – “The Turning” – was premiered by Cantus Los Angeles. in March, 2007 at Ted Mann Concert Hall. audiences are now far more likely to be found 7 outside the traditional concert hall than in it. Composers Datebook 0 Renowned composer Gunther Schuller is proud to be part of the , launched in March 2000 and co-produced 0 2 None of this could have been imagined in 1975 BandQuest® Forum’s acclaimed series. His new work,“Nature’s with Minnesota Public Radio, celebrates contemporary composers e and their historical counterparts. The two-minute, daily radio n when the Forum began its work, but adapting to Way,” was published, launching a new category in the series called u J BandQuest Advanced change is now critically important to our future. show can be heard on 280 stations nationwide. A daily email - 6 newsletter is delivered to over 12,000 inboxes. 0 0 2 The Forum partnered with the software company MakeMusic, Inc. What has not changed for composers is the y l table of to produce a technology-based composition curriculum called The Forum’s innova® Recordings label continues to release u J need for a support system: the need to find Music by Kids for Kids • someone to perform their music, or someone Contents . It has been published and is being approximately 25 recordings annually, all available both as 7 7 distributed nationally. traditional CDs and also as MP3 downloads direct from the 0 0 0 0 to help them write a grant that funds ongoing 2 2 internet.The label has also partnered with the Independent Online National and Regional t t innovation; the need for a first chance, or to Photo: Robert Conway Measure for Measure r r ,a Distributors Alliance (IODA).