numerous artists, including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Boyz II Men, Alumna Anna Le Mire Tony Bennett, Woody Herman, and the Bee Gees, to name a few. He also Turns 100 served as a music supervisor and contractor for syndicated television usic alumna Anna Le Mire, B.M. ’34, née shows. In the 1980s he formed his own Anna D’Arcy King, turned 100 on June 22, music production company and served M as the music and entertainment director 2011. Born in Corydon, Kentucky, her family moved to for the Diplomat Hotel. He later formed Miami when she was 8. She began playing the violin CK Entertainment, specializing in at 12 and was at the top of her class throughout high corporate and meeting entertainment. school. At the , she performed in Ken Keaton, B.M. ’74, M.M. ’75, D.M.A. ’81, performed Joaquin Rodrigo’s the Symphony Orchestra, the Glee Club, University Concierto Andaluz for four guitars and String Quartet, and the University Girls Trio. While a student she also performed orchestra with The Middle Earth as a soloist with the Miami Symphony, directed by Arnold Volpe, playing Lalo’s Quartet and the Florida Atlantic University Symphony in October 2011. challenging concerto, Symphonie espagnole. After graduation, Bertha Foster, the He also performed Mario Castelnuovo- founding dean of the UM School of Music, made arrangements for Anna to go to Tedesco’s Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D, New York and study with violinist Louis Persinger at Juilliard. Her sister Ellouise, Op. 99 with the Florida Atlantic who played the piano and accordion, joined her in New York, and they formed University Symphony in April 2011. Keaton is the author of The Mystery of a trio with a friend Margaret Brown on bass. The trio later returned to Miami Music (Kendall-Hunt) and a music critic and performed for years as “The Three D’Arcys” in the new Art Deco hotels on for American Record Guide and The Miami Beach. “Roll Out the Barrel” was the most requested song of the day. Palm Beach Daily News. Anna D’Arcy King married Eugene W. LeMire and raised two children, D’Arcy and Ron Miller, M.M. ’74, a pianist, composer, and author, is professor emeritus at the Jeanine. She returned to playing violin after her children were grown. , where he taught composition, advanced improvisa- tion, and jazz piano from 1974 to 2007. Some of his composition students Emmy-winning documentary year’s program, including premiere include (’73), Bobby Watson Something Magical. A 2012 documen- performances of his original Things (B.M. ’75), “T” Lavitz (’78, deceased), tary is in progress with the focus on We Do Each Christmas and his Bruce Hornsby (B.M. ’77), Mark Egan (B.M. her musical On the Other Side of the arrangements of Deck the Halls and ’73), Carmen Lundy (B.M. ’80), Jon Secada Fence. She is a member of The Believe, as well as his adaptation and (B.M. ’83, M.M. ’86), and Dramatist’s Guild, The Children’s re-orchestration of William Henry Fry’s (M.M. ’74). Miller’s compositions have Music Network, The International Santa Claus Symphony (1853). He is been performed and recorded by Pat Association of Theatre for Children also the artistic consultant and Metheny, , , Joe and Young People, and ASCAP. arranger for the Dallas Symphony Lovano, and others. A featured clinician Robert Sheldon, B.M. ’75, is a composer Orchestra’s Christmas Celebration and performer at the International of concert band and orchestral music, concerts. Fry’s Christmas music was Association of Jazz Educators Conven- with more than 200 publications in also performed by the Philadelphia tions and a founding member of the print. He has completed more than 120 Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, National Improvisational Composers commissions since 1984. Sheldon, a the Seattle Symphony, and others. Association, Miller’s books on 25-time recipient of the ASCAP Christen M. Pearson, B.M. ’77, is an composition are required texts at Standard Award, is the concert band associate professor of English schools around the world. editor for Alfred Music Publishing. linguistics & TESOL at Grand Valley Andrea Green, B.M. ’75, is a playwright, John Augenblick, M.M. ’76, D.M.A. ’78, is State University, Michigan. composer, lyricist, director, and music an associate professor of music and George Quinlan Jr., B.M. ’77, is the therapist. She is nationally known for the coordinator of choral studies at the president of her work creating Broadway-style Florida International University School Quinlan & Fabish musicals for children that entertain of Music, where he conducts the Music Company, while teaching tolerance. For 30 years, Concert Choir and Miami Master a school music Green has partnered children from Chorale, coordinates the choral retailer based in Germantown Friends School with program, and teaches undergraduate the Chicago area youngsters from the HMS School for and graduate conducting. with seven stores Children with Cerebral Palsy, using her Gary Fry, B.M. ’76, is the composer-in- in Illinois, musicals to encourage communication, residence for the Chicago Symphony Indiana, and understanding, and friendship. This Orchestra’s Welcome, Yule! Christmas Michigan. The company was a program was featured in the PBS concerts. He had 11 works on last recipient of a 2011 REX award (Retail

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