The following is apartial list of concert Feh. 2VAnOpera Sampler" March 5-7-Danceability Workshop activities for February and March. For Three-day workshop in Gerlinger more information, call our Community Feh. 21-"Old Wine &New Spirits" Annex; dance concert by Steve Paxton and Relations Ofice weekdays at 346-5678. Anne Tedards, Barbara Baird, Robert Joint Forces Dance Co. on March 6. Hladky and J. Robert Moore. FEBRUARY (Faculty Artist Seris) March &Music from Far-Away Lands Feb. 3-Robert Kyr & Steve Owen (Children's Concert Series) (Faculty Artist Series) Feb. 23-Composers Forum Concert March 7-Victor Steinhardt, piano Feb. 5-Lawrence Maves & Barbara Feb. 25-Oregon Gospel Ensemble (Faculty Artist Series) GonzAlez-Palmer: Phi Beta Benefit - (Faculty Artist Series) Feb. 27-Bacb's "Musical Offering" March %-Oregon Vocal Jazz Ensemble (Faculty Artist Series) Feh. 6--Gerald McBoing Boing and March 9-Collegium Mnsicum Carnival of the Animals Feb. 28-Univer~itj' Symphony (Children's Concert Series) March 9-Oregon Wind Ensemble & Feb. 28-Chamber Music at Tea Time Oregon Symphonic Band Feb. 9-Jazz Combos I MARCH March 10-UO Men's Ensemble & Feb. 10-Oregon Wind Ensemble & March 2-Rhonda Rider, Lois Shapiro UO Women's Chorus Oregon Symphonic Band (Vanguard Series) March 11-Da Capo Chamber Players Feb. 11-Quartet Sine Nomine March 3--Oregon Percussion Ensemble (Chamber Music Series) (Chamber Music Series) March 4-University Singers & UO March IkEdward Kammerer, horn Feb. 16-Pacific Rim Gamelan Chamber Choir (Faculty Artist Series)

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Newsletter for Alumni & Friends- February, 1993 vol. V, No. 1 MUSIC TODAY FESTIVAL-April 7-30, 1993 UO School of Music-Schedule of Events Wednesday, April 7 Tuesday, April 20 The Dean's Desk UO Faculty Artist Series: Vanguard Concert Series: Violinist Joseph Genualdi & Friends Lecture (4 p.m.) and concert by Sally Pinkas, piano Anne Dhu McLucas, Dean

Thursday, April 8 Wednesday, April 21 Six months later-and after attending Eugene Symphony Orchestra ; UO Faculty Artist Series: some thirty or forty concerts, many music by Saint-Saens, Faure, and Charles Dowd and Oregon Percussion Ensemble; classrooms, countless committee meet- American composer Stephen Smith music of Xenakis; with Spencer Carroll, harpsichord LEDGER LINES is the official ings, having read many letters and newsletter of the University of Oregon questionnaires from all of you, and having Thursday, April 22 Friday, April 9 School of Music, and is published had lots of profitable interactions with UO Faculty Artist Series: New Music for Horn and Horn Ensemble; twice a year for alumni, faculty, and performed bv students of Ed Kammerer community groups of various sorts-I am June Schock, tubist Richard Frazier, friends of the music school. Your more "tuned in" to the School of Music guest hornist Jack Herrick Chimera: comments are always welcome. (DancelTheater work with Pacific Rim Gamelan) and to the arts in this community than when I first wrote for Ledger Lines. Saturday, April 10 Friday, April 23 Address all correspondence to: The School of Music, of course, can be "Crossing Cultures: An Evening of Music & Dance from University Singers perform contemporary choral music LEDGER LINES Eastern Europe Central , and the Near East" a world unto itself, as I began to discover Chimera School of Music with the Oregon Ethnic Dance Theater, Slavej, at the height of the concert season, when University of Oregon two or three concerts would be held on the and UO East European Folk Music Ensemble Saturday, April 24 Eugene, OR 97403-1225 same evening! What has been a great services and community outreach dramati- Celebrating the life and music of John Cage, or call (503) 346-3761. Monday, April 12 plus poetry readings by Northwest poets pleasure to me is to discover the generally cally, highlighting our quality and our "A Concert of Post-Romantic Music for Flute" Chimera high quality of the offerings here, both readiness to provide musical offerings to UO flute students of Richard Trombley ANNE DHU McLUCAS those of the students and of the faculty, any and all who want them. Sunday, April 25 Dean whose performances often vied with some Students will he encouraged to provide Tuesday, April 13 World Music Series: SCOTT BARKHURST of the best I heard in Boston. When our community service in various ways, and UO Faculty Artist Series: Klezmer music by Brave Old World Newsletter Editor students and faculty get into the swing of there will he programs and courses that Soprano Ann Tedards and Con Brio; Chimera music by Vaughan Williams and Hal Owen the year, there seem to me to be no more will help them to envision ways of BARBARA H. GOODSON productive people-a nice answer to the interacting with the community once they Monday, April 26 Assistant to the Dean for Development legislature that worries about professorial Wednesday, April 14 UO Symphony; leave the University. Among the most UO Jazz Concert music by John Adams, Robert Kyr, Ellen Taafe Zwilich productivity. exciting of these prospects is a new degree SARA JONES BRANDT A prime example of this productivity Director of Development, offering being worked out with the Thursday, April 15 Tuesday, April 27 Oregon Bach Festival will be displayed in April, when the entire program in Arts Administration, which Electronic music by the UO Electronic Music Studio Oregon Composers Forum; music school-along with our dance will provide courses in Performing Arts music by emerging West Coast composers KAREN ENGELS department, theater department, and many Management, both at the undergraduate Friday, April 16 Contributing Writer exciting guests-will unite in a month- level and for a new master's degree. Add George Rochberg: Lecture (4 p.m.) Wednesday, April 28 long festival of the arts called Music this to many of the exciting ideas that UO Faculty Artist Series: Chamber Music Series: JANA ADAMS Today (see story, page 3). And when came out of the Curriculum Review (see Pianist Claire Wachter and the Lafayette String Quartet; Student Assistant measured by standards of the world at UO Contemporary Music Ensemble. music by Alastair Hood, Mozart, Mendelssohn, the report on page 4), and the prospect of Conferences: Assn. of West Coast Music Theorists and UO student composer COVER: Among the featured mists at the large, we clearly make the grade-witness new faculty members in violin, cello, jazz and College Music Society, NW Chapter (April 16-18) upcoming Music Today Festival are the winning of the National Associ- piano, and piano pedagogylperformance, Thursday, April 29 (clockwise): Con Brio, George Rochberg, ation's competition by our very own Opera and we will have no dearth of new ideas Saturday, April 17 Eugene Symphony Orchestra; Lafayette Quartet, and Sally Pinkas. Workshop, a story featured on page 2. and people to work with in the future. Faculty Artist Series: music by Ravel, Shostakovich, and Ginastera But there are things for us to tackle. This is all happening, of course, in a Pianist Sally Pinkas; music by George Rochberg, The School of Music, after all, is not the time of impending austerity measures, and Friday, April 30 Roger Sessions and Frederic Rzewski only world, and both faculty and students Iam cognizant of the threat to ongoing as Kronos String Quartet; need to work to get themselves and their music by Zorn, El Din, Golijov, Benshoof, and Gorecki well as new programs. However, it is not Sunday, April 18 music out into the world. We are finding in my nature to he a pessimist; we will Oregon Mozart Players; ways to do this-the time-honored ways survive whatever cuts have to he made, music by Honegger, Rossini, Mozart & Telemann TICKET INFORMATION: UO Opera Workshop: Tobermoty(West Coast premiere) Tickets for Eugene Symphony, Oregon Mozart of concert-giving and recruitment visits- and we will continue to plan ahead for a Players, and UO Chamber Music Series available at the but we also need to make recordings vibrant future, in which the School of Monday, April 19 Hult Center Ticket Office (687-5000). available, get hooked up with television, Music will become better known for the UO Faculty Artist Series: Tickets to Chimera available at University Theatre and reach the people who both need and fine work that goes on here. Pianists Dean Kramer & Victor Steinhardt, with guest Box Office (346-4191). want entertainment and education who artist Art Maddox; music by Hindemith, Steinhardt, All other tickets available at Beall Hall Box Office on the The University of Oregon is an equal may not have heard of us: TOthat end, we and Messiaen day of the concert. opportunity, affirmativeaction institution are working on upgrading ouf recording For more information, contact the Music Today Festival office (503: 346-5680) committed to cultural diversity. Gonzrilez-Palmer and June Schock Eugene Symphony Orchestra, the UO Opera Workshop deserve tremendous credit for their fine Music Today Festival Oregon Mozart Players, Oregon work. Both the musical and dramatic Percussion Ensemble, University presentation were excellent." Symphony, and University Singers. ~riumphsin San ~rancisco The UO School of Music will receive a Premieres April 7 . several Faculty Artist Series concerts, UO Ensemble Wins First Place in Competition small amount of funding from the NOA to UO Pioneers a Unique Three-Week Offering of Music, Education including performances by Charles Dowd make the trip to New Orleans, but will (percussion), Richard Frazier (tuba), Joe need to raise enough money to send 23 ne of the most ambitious and remarkable diversity of artistic activities Genualdi (violin), Dean Kramer (piano), people, 20 of whom are student singers comprehensive events ever that are thriving here." J. Robert Moore (oboe), June Schock and instrumentalists. This is an important mounted by the UO School of The festival will spotlight a diverse (soprano), Victor Steinhardt (piano), opportunity for both the School of Music Music will make its debut this April: the range of events to suit the interests of Anne Tedards (soprano), Claire Wachter and University of Oregon to showcase the Music Todav Festival, under the direction virtually every listener: (piano), and the Con Brio Chamber opera program to a nationallinternational of Associate Professor Robert Kyr. 1 a hos; of superb guest artists, including / Players. audience. Music Today is an The UO Opera Workshop will be international, multicultural presenting the West Coast debut of festival which, in featuring Tobermory this coming April 18 in the several 20th century works on music school's new Music Today each program, will give listeners Festival. Those wishing to make a a living connection to the contribution to the Opera Workshop's trip concert music of our century. to New Orleans should contact the dean, The festival will be presented Anne Dhu McLucas, at the music school from April 7- 30, 1993, at the (346-5661). 4 UO School of Music and at other locations throughout Eugene, including the Hult Ifyou'd like to help the UO Opera Center for the Performing Arts. Workshop get to New Orleans for Kyr notes that the Music this exciting national pe$ormance, Today Festival is far more than just a series of concerts. It will contributions may be sent to: incorporate a wide range of Opera Workshop players (Srom left) Sandy Naishtat, Kristina Kuckartz, Alika Borsting cultural activities (pre-concert andMartin Tobins in a scene from Tobermory). Photo by Scott Barkhurst University of Oregon talks, master classes, and "Meet Opera Workshop Travel Assistance the Artist" receptions) in order he University of Oregon School of June Schock, visiting professor of School of Music to educate students and the Music's Opera Workshop returned voice and Opera Workshop director, Eugene, OR 97403 listening public about 20th victorious from San Francisco in provided the lively and comic stage century music from around the November, placing first in presenting one direction for the production. Both Please make checks payable to world. One of the goals of the of three chamber in the finals of the undergraduate and graduate vocalists University of Oregon Foundation, festival is to make the less National Opera Association competition. from the UO music school participated, with an enclosed note or memo line familiar into the more familiar, Music director, project coordinator, and including Mary Jo Simonds-Huneger, indicating the Opera Workshop. and this will give audiences pianist Barbara Gonzrilez-Palmer, who Laural Workman, Kristina Kuckartz, Thank you! the opportunity to enjoy some joined the UO music faculty in 1988, Martin Tobias, Alika Borsting, Sandy of the finest music of our time, stated that this was one of the first opportu Naishtat, and Robert Kohl. One of the all within a period of three nities in the history of the School of Music most exciting prospects of their first-place weeks. As such. Music Todav that the Opera Workshop was able to make finish is that they have the privilege of will be one of the longest andmost the Lafayette String Quartet (University a presentation at a national convention, anc presenting the international debut of extensive festivals in the country. of Victoria, Brit~shColumbia), Brave Old by doing so received considerable praise Tobermory at the National Opera Kyr, an associate professor of World (Klezmer group, New York City), and national attention. The UO Opera Association's next convention in New composition and theory, says the festival the Kronos String Quartet, and pianist Workshop performed Tobermory by New Orleans in November, 1993. represents a first: "a comprehensive, Sally Pinkas (Dartmouth College). A complete schedule of the York composer Jorge Martin ( by Robert Tbieme, chair of the chamber multicultural festival celebrating the two concerts focusing on music by the Music Today Festival Andrew Joffe), an opera based on a story opera competition, praised the UO music of our time, which also has a strong eminent American composer George appears on the by Saki about a cat who learns to speak, performance in a letter to Anne Dhu educational component and unites the Ruchberg (Professor emeritus, University front inside cover and subsequently creates quite a bit of McLucas, dean of the UO School of university and the community. It is a of Pennsylvania), who will be the of Ledger Lines trouble for its owners and their dinner Music. Thieme cited "the exemplary festival that demonstrates the uniqueness composer-in-residence of the festival. guests. work" of the ensemble, and said "Barbara of Eugene's cultural climate and the concerts by local groups such as the 5 - .: WHAT'S NEW.. I --. . .T ...... I==L:_. k-.. .- UPDATE 1 carefully studied and incorporated in the Curriculum Review review process. UO Ensembles on Bach Festival CD The committee forged all of this mater- Patriotic CD Gets A+ Review Gets Into High Gear ial into a preliminary report following a Under the direction of new dean Anne retreat in late November. Much work The University Singers and the UO The Oregon Bach Festival's first CD, Dhu McLucas, the School of Music remains to he done, but a great deal of Brass Choir are among 14 ensembles from recorded on the Hanssler Classic label initiated an intensive cumculum review information has been processed and there all across the country appearing on a during the 1991 season, has received a this past fall term. The review will serve is general agreement that the proper recently released compact disc titled rave review by Kevin Bazzana in Fanfare as a major component in the more compre- questions and issues have been addressed Sounds ofAmerica. -the Magazine for Serious Record hensive review of the entire School of for the upcoming comprehensive review. The CD, produced by Cornerstone Collectors. The CD contains the Bach Music program to be conducted by the Achievements of Wolfeboro, NH, is a Orchestral Suites No. 3 and No. 4 (BWV university winter and spring term, 1993. collection of traditional, patriotic and 1068 and 1069). - Our students need to be inspirational songs, including "An The cumculum review has added Said Bazzana, in part: "This is an significance given the critical state of prepared to join a global AmericanTrilogy," "Battle Hymn of the excellent recording ... Rilling offers funding for higher education in Oregon economy, and to bring Republic," "This Land is Your Land," confident, no-nonsense readings of these "American Medley," "Down By the due to Measure 5, the property tax humane values into the arts... two suites. There are no quirky interpre- limitation measure passed by voters in Riverside," and "Freedom is Coming." tive mannerisms, no fuss and bother about The University Singers and Brass Choir's expression. He performs this music styl- 1990. As a result of the measure, funding "At a time when all programs at the for education and other government selection is "America the Beautiful," and ishly, elegantly, with insight and authority; University are in question, this process has was recorded by UO recording engineer :ver) thin; ~~OLIIIJ.;n.uursl and riyhr ..In programs in Oregon has been significantly helped us establish priorities and identify reduced, with further cuts looming ahead. Jim Rusby. The University Singers are .;bun. th~~udufi~l- :id beautiiul ncrlor~~~an- strengths and weaknesses in the program," directed by associate professor Richard ces that rival any currently in tie catalog, Addressing the faculty, Dean McLucas said Gary Martin. "This will, in the long proposed several ways our cumculum Clark, and the Brass Choir is directed by whether by traditional orchestras or early- run, help the School of Music reinforce its Jeffrey Williams. music specialists ...Highly recommended." should prepare our students: to be able to reputation for excellence in the state and join a global economy, and to live and Other ensembles on the CD include the If your local record store doesn't have Jazz Celebration Survives the nation." Kentucky State University Concert Choir, this gem, it should. In any case, the Bach work in any community; to be ready to That reputation has grown steadily over defend music and bring humane values The Vocal Majority of Dallas, TX, Festival office has copies, and are avail- the years, and was validated last year as Syracuse University Oratorio Society, The able to UO alumni and friends for $15 plus Crisis, Ready for Co-Host into the arts; to be able to handle changing the National Association of Schools of technology; and to make them eager to Village Vocal Chords of Chicago, and the postage. Call (503) 346-5666 if you're Eugene's Hult Center to becon; partner in annual festival Music renewed the UO School of Music's Jackson State University Chorale. 4 interested. learn more! accreditation in all degree areas. The he fifth annual Oregon Jazz everyone would take a turn as a featured Specific questions asked in the University of Oregon remains one of the Celebration got the usual high player. The Oregon Jazz Ensemble, curriculum review included: marks for content and artistrv, but already scheduled to perform, albeit with few music schools on the west coast named Classical Station of the year the .. How well are we preparing.. - our nnder- by anxiety levels for Jazz Studies Director the now-missing Daniels, made adjust- offering a full slate of degree programs National Assn. of Broadcasters. The graduate and graduate music majors to through the doctoral level. 4 Steve Owen and his staff hit new highs as ments in its portion of the program. participate in musical life of the 21st Oregon Bach Festival is one of a select well. group that has a promotional affiliation When the dust had settled, everything century? Another stellar group of guest artists came out beautifully, and the audience with KDFC, and as a result our CD will he What new courses-elective or and jazz educators settled into Eugene for . heard on all of KFDC's syndicated stations seemed delighted with the jerry-rigged required-are needed to bring added the two-day series of clinics, workshops, program. One gentleman, who had across the country! 4 vitality to the degree? and concerts. And, as usual, the School of initially accepted the reduced-ticket price Which courses deserve to be Music was a beehive of activity as some when Daniels' absence was announced, preserved intact, and which ones are 50 high school jazz ensembles filled every returned to the box office at intermission redundant or expendable? Danceability available rehearsal room and large with the extra money: "great concert," he Which courses should all music classroom for the various activities. said. "It's worth the full price!" majors take, and why? Bassist Rufus Reid and saxophonist Workshop set Jazz Celebration to Grow What courses should be offered to Billy Pierce headed the Friday evening general campus students? In a particularly exciting development, The curriculum review committee, for March 5-7 Steve Owen announced that the next chaired by Associate Dean Gary Martin, The UO Department of Dance will be second half. Oregon Jazz Celebration will be a coop- involved extensive discussions with every sponsoring a unique three-day workshop All well and good. erative venture between the music school, department within the music school, winter term, designed for able-bodied, The excitement began Saturday the Hult Center for the Performing Arts including music history, theory, composi- disabled, or visuallylhearing impaired morning, when Steve Owen got a call from and the City of Eugene! Tentative dates tion, performance, performance pedagogy, persons who want to experience the dance Saturday night headliner Eddie Daniels, for the festival are March 10-12,1994. jazz studies, ethnomusicology, music form known as Contact Improvisation. who was snowed in at his residence in Details of this exciting new partnership education, and dance. The workshop will be held in the New ; even the airports were shut are still being worked out, but we have Input from staff, undergraduates, and Gerlinger Annex, and also includes a down, with no way of getting out. hopes that it will help move the Oregon graduate students was also solicited, and dance concert by guest artist Steve Paxton That set off a flurry of activity among Jazz Celebration into the ranks of major questionnaires were sent to recent music Recording engineer Jim Rusby adjusts the new Soundcraji mixing console, the center- and Joint Forces Dance Co. on March 6. Owen and his staff. Within a couple jazz festivals! Mark your calendar, and alumni for their comments. A large viece ofseveral new items ofbadlv-needed recordina euuiument, inclndina a Lexicon One-day attendance is acceptable, and hours, Reid, Pierce, Owen, and virtually plan to he with us in 1994! 4 number of questionnaire responses were first-time participants are welcome. For all of the guest artist-clinicians had put received, and those recommendations were more information, call 346-3386. 4 together the outline of a show where 6 f- -- OREGON-EACH FESTIVAL -4 New Staff Members UO Jazz Saxophonist Oregon Bach Festival Join Bach Festival Makes National Finals Scott Hall, a UO junior in Saxophone Readies for 24th Season The Oregon Bach Festival welcomed Performance from Corvallis, OR, was one two new staff members at the close of 3f three jazz saxophonists selected as a ontinuing a tradition of musical 1992: George Evano, Director of Market- finalist in a national competition sponsor- excellence and variety, the Oregon ing, and Anne Bargar, Director of :d by the North American Saxophone Bach Festival opens its 24th season Membership Services. Alliance. on Friday, June 25,1993, and continues Evano, who officially started with the The final competition will be held this through Saturday, July 10, presenting Festival on January 4, 1993, was most winter at the National Saxophone Sympo- more than 40 concerts, lectures, and recently director of marketing for both sium, sponsored by the US. Navy Band, at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. informal discussions during the fifteen- CitiArts Theatre in Concord, , The preliminary competition was open day period. Festival artistic director and and Saint Mary's College Performing Aas to all US. saxophonists under the age of conductor Helmuth Rilling returns for his Program in Moraga, California. A former 26. Three finalists were selected in jazz, 24th year from Stuttgart, Germany, to journalist, he holds a B.A. degree in and three were selected in classical. For conduct works primarily from the English from West Virginia Wesleyan the final competition, Hall and the other Romantic period. Rilling's choice of The season opens with Rilling leading College. In his new position, Evano will finalists will perform 15 minutes of music exemplifies composers who the Festival orchestra, chorus, and soloists oversee marketing of Festival activities material at the symposium; the winner will succeeded Bach and were influenced by in Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seasons. He which currently serve an annual audience receive $1,000 plus a concert appearance will also conduct Johannes Brahms' his creative genius. of 30,000 in concerts and educational Brian Scott rehearses for the John Cage memorial concert. Photo by Juretta Nidever. with the US. Navy Jazz Band. The Festival features 15 evening magnificent work, A German Requiem, programs, as well as many more listeners ~~ ~ ~ ~ Hall studies jazz saxophone with concerts consisting of major choral- and two Mendelssohn works: Midsummer through broadcasts and recordings. Evano Associate Professor Steve Owen, director orchestral works, chamber music, and Night's Dream and his dramatic oratorio, replaces Henriette Heiny, who left in recitals; six lecture-performances on Elijah, the latter of which will close the September to become the new director of Oregon Percussion Ensemble Festival. "He's a great student," says Owen," and Bach's Weimar cantatas (composed from the University of Oregon International deserves the recognition because he's an Featured Performers 1714-1716) in the Discovery Series; the Institute for Sport and Human Performance. Maintains Busy- Beat exceptional performer, and because he's International Earport, comprised of Guest performers for 1993 include the Native Oregonian Anne Bargar served harles Dowd and the Oregon Cage, composed for prepared piano by worked so doggone hard." + three educational and entertaining pro- innovative vocalist Bobby McFerrin with the University of Oregon College of Percussion Ensemble rarely get local musician Arthur Maddox. grams for children; and more than a dozen performing with the Festival Orchestra; Arts and Sciences Development Office time to savor their performances The Percussion Ensemble also pre- free events, including five Inside Line the Swedish Choir led by Fred Sjoherg; before joining the Festival on December 1, Department of Dance these days; they're already setting the beat sented a special children's concert titled lectures, six On the House noon concerts, the Billy Taylor Jazz Trio with the Turtle 1992. Her arts career includes work as for the next in a never-ending string of "The Exciting World of Drums." The ~niouncesAwards and four meet-the-artist events in the Let's Island String Quartet; world-famous production manager for The New York concerts around the Northwest. program was a showcase of percussion The Department of Dance has announ- Talk series. organist Anthony Newman; Spanish City Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Last March, Dowd and the Percussion music from around the world, including ced its 1993 National Dance Association guitarist Gallardo del Rey; the Bartok Oregon Ballet Theatre, and Santa Fe Ensemble premiered percussion works by African drums, Cuban Salsa, Brazilian Outstanding Student awards. Quartet (Hungary); Jeffrey Kahane, piano Opera. She has a B.A. from Portland State Robert Greenberg and Robert Capanna, Samba, British rock, and jazz from the Julie Manchester, a dance major from (New York); and Dean Kramer, piano University with a major in Music Compo- and gave a lecturelperformance, "Thc . Whittier, CA, will receive the undergrad- (University of Oregon). sition. In her new position, Bargar will + Dynamic World of Timpani and uate award, and Rita Monasterio of Vocal soloists include Maria manage the Friends of the Festival donor Percussion," for the Eugene Eugene, OR, will receive the graduate Jette (United States) and Christine Schiifer membership program, raising $100,000 award. Symphony Guild. (Germany); alto Ingeborg Danz (Ger- annually and producing special events. Manchester, in only her second year at In May, Dowd conducted the many); tenor Michael Schade (), She replaces Cheryl Crumbley, who the university, was acknowledged for her ensemble in a Eugene and and baritone Richard Zeller (United resigned from the Festival staff in Septem- performance talent, intelligence, and Portland performance of Lou States). her to take a position with the Western artistic abilities. Harrison's early percussion Since its inception in 1970, the Oregon Rivers Girl Scout Council. + Monasterio's exceptional involvement Bach Festival master classes have been the music. Harrison attended the in education was cited; she volunteered to heartbeat of the Festival. Students have Portland concert, which was a perform for a term in a touring lecture come from around the world to study with Concerts and events are held in Silva 75th birthday tribute. In demonstration, and has shown adminis- trative excellence as a GTF and excep- Helmuth Rilling. Central to the master Concert Hall, Studio I, and the lobby of November, Dowd led the ensemble in a special memorial tional research work in the Motor Control :lasses are seminars in conducting, choral the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Laboratory. + and orchestral performance, and interpre- and in Beall Concert Hall. Concerts occur tribute to the late American tation. In addition to the master class in daily at noon, 5:00 p.m, and 8:00 p.m. For composer John Cage-a concert zonducting, the Festival offers group and ticket information, call the Hult Center at that drew a large and apprecia- private instruction for piano and voice to (503) 687-5000. For master class infor- tive crowd of Cage- devotees. The concert also featured the Bobby McFerrin will be featured with the advanced students at the collegeluniversity mation, or to receive a ticket brochure, call Yom~gsteixget ri hrmrls-on inspection ofpercussion Festival Orchestra on June 26. level and above. the Oregon Bach Festival at 346-5666. + premiere of In Nomine John ir~srrninei~isj'o11owi11g a childr~n'sconcert. batteries for the hand cassette recorders Festival day, they really strut their stuff. recognizes its members who graduated Festival of Bands Puts judges use to tape comments during fromparticipating high schools. Mean- performances are stocked for the long day. 1:12p.m. In the press box, Muller happily while, the press box clamors with staff 8:17a.m. Lori Cameron, OMB clarinetist, reports that things are back on schedule. tabulating scoring sheets. Students in Driver's Seat makes sure T-shirts andprograms for the Security workers Jeremy Scheetz and 4:59p.m. Steve Stone, retired School of Festival souvenir table are ready. The Chris Denzer, both four-year OMB Music faculty and longtime Behind the scenes: The Oregon Marching Band logs hundreds of scoreboard displays the name of thefirst veterans, keep an eye outfor seating "Fessssssstival" announcer, reads names hours organizing ajirst-rate competitionfor high school bands of 25 high schools topeform today. problems andpotential crowd dificulties. of thefinalists from the morning's round School buses begin to arrive in the by Karen Engels 2:53 p.m. In the tunnel, Arron Leverman, of competition. Ten of the original 25 esprit de corps of the group. parking lot as walkie talkies buzz from afirst-year OMB'er, guides his assigned groups will perform again after dinner. , Photographs by Juretta Nidever The Festival began 14 years ago as an field to parking lot to tunnel to press box. band to the field. He reflects on how he OMB members run completedpackets hey perform faithfully at all Duck annual high school marching band The judges and OMB crew are ready for a has wanted to be in the UO band since his with judges' comment tapes and scoring games every year, but the Oregon competition during halftime at a Duck long day. Band parents arrive and are first Festival visit as a high school sheets to individual band directors. Marching Band's biggest annual football game. Eleven years ago, Steven guided to their group's assigned seats. freshman. A security worker meanwhile show takes place in the press box and on J. Paul, then OMB director, converted the shoos people sitting in the stadium aisles Each of the 170 OMB members is the sidelines. event to a student-run, full-day competi- Steve Paul's tradition of a student-run which can create a hazard. Concession required to do something for the Festival: Their "show" is the annual Festival of tion and fundraiser. Now the Festival has Festival is still going strong. It's more workers get a rush of customers between selling tickets or souvenirs, working Bands high school marching band become the largest of its kind in the state. than a marching competition for them. It's band performances. security, tabulating scores, guiding bands competition, completely organized and This year 25 high school bands from three a superb training exercise for many who 3:52 p.m. A trailer loaded with a band's to their proper warm-up and performance planned by OMB members. The event, states competed. Paul, who took a may go on to direct their own high school show equipment tips over in the tunnel just sites, working concessions, or assisting the which is also an effective recruiting tool position with the University of Oklahoma marching bands. Some OMB'ers OMB drum major Tom Muller uses walkie- before their performance, but Jeff Edom, nine judges. These and the 1001 other for the School of Music, simply wouldn't in 1991, was back on familiar Autzen turf currently work as marching, directing or talkie to relay message to on-field crew. former OMB member (seven years) and details handled with aplomb keep the exist if it weren't for the countless this year as one of the Festival's nine color guard instructors in high schools, so Festival evening announcer, quickly Festival from becoming a logistical volunteer hours of band members and the judges. Festival day is a double pleasure for them; staff with walkie talkies, and makes reports the problem. OMB members from nightmare. they not only see their bands competing periodic double checks on the movement various work assignments exit quietly to Rod Harkins, who joined the UO music 6:15 a.m. Autzen but perform for them. of groups from parking lot to warm-up put on uniforms for their 4:30perfor- faculty this year as OMB director and Stadium waits quietly "It's always our best show," said area to tunnel to field and off again. mance. Muller verifies which band is on Associate Director of Bands, served as under dark, drizzly skies. Maretta Muller, Festival Student Manager, 12:01 p.m. An OMB member on the deck and leaves to direct the OMB, this Festival director. Although he said it's Kelly Coutant, music Vice President of Band Council, and four- sidelines helps lift a high school bass time on the field for their own show. "fairly atypical" to see students in charge school band secretary year OMB veteran. Because OMB'ers drummer who fell while exiting after a 4:30p.m. Hundreds of high schoolers' of a day like this, he was pleased with the and former Oregon hold marching near and dear, they are performance. The OMB drum line eyes are riveted to the field as the Oregon results. "It's one of the best run events of Marching Band drum particularly enthusiastic about cheering on provides a drum clinic for all high school Marching Band performs. They are silent its kind that I've seen," he said, adding major, arrives with high school students who may follow in percussion groups. "Five hours down, 11 while the band sings the Oregon Pledge that it wouldn't have been possible photocopier and com- their footsteps at the University of Oregon. to go," smiles a fatigued Festival volunteer. Song a cappella. Cheers abound as OMB without the student organization. Harkins puter in tow. Coutant "I never realized how much of a recruiting also credited GTF Neal Wiley for his will input scores on a tool it (the Festival) was until this year," The Festival's core crew consists of the instrumental role in putting all the parts in spreadsheet program to Muller said. 25 band council members, elected by the place. The individual responsibility verify the hand-tabulat- UO marching band each fall for the fosters a sense of pride and makes for a ing of scores and to make 9:15 a.m. Security workers attempt to following year. Their work begins months great Festival, added Harkins, and he the photocopied results move bands andparents sitting in another in advance. These 25 serve as supervisors plans to continue that tradition. more legible for bands band's assigned seating area. Heavy rain for assigned tasks. They invite bands, sell Aside from the leadership training it and directors. begins to pour on the performing Willam- advertising, design a T-shirt and program, provides and the public relations benefits 7:45 a.m. Autzen cleanup ette High School band. OMB band guides plan and coordinate schedules, prepare the to the music school and the university, the from the previous night's are busy in the parking lot shepherding announcer's script and recruit fellow band Festival of Bands also serves as an football game is in arriving bauds. members to help with all the above and important fundraiser for the UO Marching process. The field is 10:23 a.m. Schedule is lagging 10 minutes more. "This is our favorite gig of the Band. Monies raised from tickets, empty but the press box is behind, Tom Muller, head dram major, year," said Mikki Renzoni, OMB piccolo concessions, program and t-shin sales help already abuzz with OMB informs sta8 T?y to pick up the pace, if player whose Festival job was to solicit pay for such things as instrument repair, members performing oossible, he urges via wakie talkie from advertising for the Festival program. truck rental for transporting equipment, their assigned tasks. the press box. Brian Gr~fiths,assistant These months of prep work culminate and uniform cleaning, among other things, Press box staff discusses drum major and "Festival Gofer," as he in a whirl of a day where a small army of according to Harkins. scoring sheets. The calls himselJ; is checking up on people OMB members shows what they're made judges' booth is prepped with walkie talkies and asks ifanyone in of with a tightly run and high quality Former OMB director Steve.Pau1, now at 7:29p.m. Back on task after a brief dinner Band secretav Kelly Coutant confers with OMB alumni and staffed. Coffee, the press box needs bathroom relie5 competition. When they go "on stage" Oklahoma, chats with UO students during break, Eric Howington, head of security Pat Harzson and Bruce Coutant in the control booth. donuts, and spare Muller takes coffee orders from chilled both literally and behind the scenes on a break in the competition. for the day, reflects on the Festival. At FESTIVAL OF BANDS, cont. published by Biirenreiter in Germany. The Oregon Bach Festival. He played The first volume is Lamentationes multiple jazz percussions with jazz pianist1 Autzen since 7:00 a.m., he has performed Phrophitae Jerimiae, SWNR vol. 22. TWO composer Andrew Hill in the world in the drum clinic at noon, with the entire more volumes in the same series are premiere of Hill's American Nikkei band at 4:30, and will play again at 9:45 expected to be published in 1993 and a Symphony with The Northwest Creative p.m. with the Green Garter Band. He fourth probably in 1994. Orchestra. Dowd continues to play guesstimates he'll arrive home at I:00 a.m. vibraharp with the KammererDowd Jazz 8:45p.m. The steady thrum of a drum line Jenifer Craig (Dance) was invited to be a Duo and Quartet, and his own Goodvibes warming up outside of their assigned time speaker in October at Willamette Univer- Jazz Trio. Dowd presented a lecture1 is heard outside the stadium. The sound is sity in Salem. Her lecture commented on performance on jazz drumming at the 1992 bleeding irzto the stadium, creating a Doris Allen announced the re-publication the school's production of the play Are You Oregon Jazz Celebration, and last April distraction during finals. Numerous As musicians and music educators, we are currently facing an array of challenges, of her text for piano study: Creative or Have You Ever Been?, relating its gave a performancenecture on classical runners and walkie-talkie messages are both internal and external. In addition to the internal challenges (developing our own Keyboard forAdult Beginners, Kendall- expose of the House Un-American timpani performance practice at Portland relayed from the press box to quiet the musical literacy and skills, and developing our own teaching methods and "human Hunt, publishers. The first edition was Activities Committee to another of its State University for the Oregon Chapter of offenders. skills" in order to maintain the respect of parents, school administrators, and published by Prentice-Hall in 1983. victims, dancer Bella Lewitzsky. She the Percussive Arts Society. Dowd and 9:33p.m. Heidi Thompson, seven-year professional colleagues), we now face the greatest single external challenge of all time: presented the "Invitation to the Dance" percussionist Brian Scott performed OMB member, begins to cut and paste the the justification of our professional existence. Lisa Arkin (Dance) delivered a paper, address at the Hult Center prior to the classical marimba selections for a Eugene announcer'sfinal script as winners are It is this problem of justifying our existence that I would like to address. We no "Spanish Seductress or Sublime Stylist- appearance of the Paul Taylor Company gathering of the MTNAIOMTA in tabulated. Earlier in the day she loaned longer possess the liberty of describing our work and goals to people outside our Elssler's Performance of La Cachucha," on on November 18. Craig also designed the December. In March, Dowd presented a her clarinet to a high schooler. Drizzle profession in the language of sweeping generalizations that might have done very well in October 14 at the Dance Reconstruction lighting for "Portables," the concert of jazz drumset performance lecture "The Art and Festival T-shirtprices both begin to the past. (''Music is good for our children." "To be exposed to culture and art is a fine Conference at Rutgers University. Another guest artist Claire Porter in the Dougherty Of The Groove" based on his ongoing fall as the evening competition winds thing.") The people we are talking to now are trying to decide which programs to paper, "Bronislava Nijinska and the Polish Dance Theater on November 14. work on two manuscripts he is writing, down. eliminate: music, library, or gym. We must use stronger, more precise definitions of who Ballet, 1937-1938: Missing Chapter of the composing and arranging for Columbia 9:54p.m. The UO Green Garter Band sets we are and what we have to offer. We are living in the age of the ultimate bottom line Legacy," was published in the Fall 1992 Dennis Davenport (GTF) spent much of Pictures Media Group. In June, Dowd up to entertain the crowd while final question: what do I get for how much money? issue of the Dance Research Journal. July as composer and music director for taped an interview with William E scores are verified. Spirits are high in the To survive at all, we must become the ultimate salesman and discover the precise Arkin also appeared as a guest lecturer at the drama program at the Tennessee Ludwig, Jr., documenting Mr. Ludwig's control booth. The Festival day is nearly "sales pitch" that will encourage parents and non-parents to support our programs with the Oregon International Council in Governor's School for the Arts at Middle drum and marimba manufacturing. Dowd done and has run smoothly. their dollars. Then we must tailor our teaching to deliver the goods. November, speaking on the music and Tennessee State University, writing music was also an adjudicator for the state 10:34p.m. After the awards presentation, In my opinion, the most eminently marketable product that we have to offer is the dance of the former Soviet Union. for an original production, The Game, percussion solo contest. concept that performing arts in schools teaches "the formula for success" more students and parents clear the stands. based on Lewis Carroll's Through the Coutant, who still faces hours of work efficiently and with more purity and integrity than anything else in public and private Barbara Baird presented a workshop for Looking Glass. In August he was assistant John Gainer and his gospel group, ahead along with other volunteers, smiles education. Music education teaches children to have sound images-cells of pure the OMTA, Rogue Valley Chapter, in conductor and chorus master for Carlisle Inspirational Sounds, performed at the a fatigued smile and says, "I'm sleeping imagination unencumbered by vocabulary and thereby free of all the confusion, Grants Pass in October on "Performance Floyd's opera Of Mice and Men, produced 25th Silver Anniversary National Gospel tomorrow. We all get tired from being arbitration, and prejudice brought on by language. In that sense, music education is Practice for Late Baroque and Early by the Cumberland County Playhouse in Music Workshop of America convention in here so long, but our main goal is to give remarkably similar to the efficient learning ability that occurs naturally and so Classic Periods." Her Faculty Artist Series Crossville. In November he returned to Chicago last August. The group was also them (high school students and directors) beautifully in pre-language infants and toddlers. harpsichord recital in October featured Tennessee to play synthesizer in the invited to perform at Expo '92 in Seville, good feedback and for them to have a That fact, presented with clarity and enthusiasm, should bring our customers to the Dean Anne Dhu McLucas as guest harpsi- premiere of composer Robert Jager's Spain. The group's additional performan- good time."+ showroom. But the real persuader is when we tell them that performing arts in education chordist. At the OMTA Jr. Bach Festival, opera Lysistrata at Tennessee Technolo- ces included a television Christmas special teaches our children not only to have those pure thoughts hut to make those thoughts "Bach in the 90s, Part 11", a September gical University, Cookeville. This fall at on KEZI-TV, which aired both Christmas come alive in the real world. To do so, studentdpe~formersmust put aside all negative (Karen Engels is a 1989 UO graduate in workshop featuring Laurette Goldberg as the U of 0 he was music director for the Eve and Christmas Day, and a concert with thoughts and focus their mental energies on the one thing that counts: the positive image journalism. She minored in music and lecturer, Baird co-hosted and performed in Department of Theater Arts' production of Mason Williams and The Eugene of the product. This is the "formula for success," and once learned can be applied to performed with the OMB color guard in the opening recital, which was held at the the Stephen Sondheim musical, Assassins. Symphony for the Symphony's annual many other life situations (job, marriage, parenting). Living thus becomes a performing '86 and '87. She counts OMB among her UO music school. Baird was adjudicator concert in December. In September art. This experience elevates our lives, and by learning more about ourselves we become best experiences at the University.) for the OMTA's Classic Festival at the UO Charles Dowd spent a month in New York Gainer was a guest vocalist for a Gospel more tolerant of others. What we as music educators are really selling is the opportunity in November. Baird has had two articles City last year working on percussion Songfest of the Central District Churches for young people to take that inward journey of self-discovery and acceptance. We have accepted for publication by Clavier sound tracks for a Global E Productions of God in Christ in Phoenix, AZ, and bas the resources within our choirs, bands, and orchestras to teach young students the same Magazine: "The Benefits of Harpsichord motion picture to be released by Universal also had inquiries to conduct master life lessons that many older people are so desperately attempting to leam through Study for Pianists" and "Avoiding Injury it Studios. While in New York, he attended a classes in Central Europe on the perform- counseling and analysis, as they try to piece their lives back together. Harpsichord Playing." In July, Baird was Cuban and Brazilian music festival, La ance of spirituals and gospel music in the I am convinced that this is the only "sales pitch" that the public will listen to. Music the featured harpsichordist at the Tillamook Fieston de Nueva York, and the New York African-American tradition. educators must all become salesmen and saleswomen, and then we must all work at Renaissance Faire. Electronic Music trade show. In July he delivering the product: the formula for success. was timpani soloist with The Lancaster Barbara Gonzilez-Palmer was a Peter Bergquist proudly displayed the Festival in Ohio. Dowd also continued as concerto soloist with the Oregon Mozart Richard Frazier is on the UO brassfaculty, and is principal tuba with the Eugene first of four volumes he has edited on the principal timpanist with The Cabrillo Players last May. Other performances Symphony. His comments are based on his observations from years of teaching, plus collected works of Orlando di Lasso, Music Festival in Santa Crnz, CA and with included a Chamber Music Series benefit touring this country and abroad with the Chicago Chamber Brass. concert with Milagro Vargas and Michael Music Today Festival in April. In October Society, and will continue on the organi- nnder the direction of James DePriest this Another recent gift has come from Anderson in October, the Con Brio Levy assisted Mobility International USA zation's Executive Committee as past past fall, and toured with the orchestra for $100,000 Gift Eugene City Councilmember Kaye Chamber Players concert in November, in a project involving a three-week visit of president for one year. She also finished a a week of concerts at the Hollywood Robinette, who has set up a fellowship to and the UO Faculty Musicale in Septem- 20 disabled Bulgarians to Eugene. This term as a Review Editor for Ethnomnsi- Bowl. He continues as principal percus- Announced support opera studies abroad. One of the ber. She also performed frequently as staff year Levy is also the Development cology, the official journal of the Society sionist of the Eugene Symphony and by Barbara H. Goodson, conditions of the award is that the student Director of the Eugene-based European pianist of the American Institute for for Ethnomusicology, where she edited timpanist of the (Portland) Oregon Ballet Assistant to the Dean for Development return to Eugene to "give back" his or her Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, last Folklife Center, a non-profit organization over 100 reviews. McLucas has had Orchestras. In December he conducted an expertise to the community. We can summer. Gonztilez-Palmer was on the which sponsors two week-long residential several articles published recently: "A evening of percussion music with the hen I was recently asked to make a hardly wait to hear our next opera star! piano faculty of the Korean Masterclass Balkan Music & Dance workshops every Critique of Current Research on Music and University Percussion Ensemble, and pledge toward an endowment drive I am also happy to report an anony- program of the Oregon Bach Festival, and summer at Medocino, CA, and Buffalo Gender" for The World of Music (a journal composed the music for a recent UO at my alma mater, I thought to mous gift of $2,000 to start a Music ; was project coordinator, musical director, Gap, WV. This coming year the published in Berlin by the International recruitment video, to be seen nationally. myself, "I'd love to make a significant Education lecture series, coordinated by and pianist for UO Opera Workshop's first workshops will be available for college Institute for Traditional Music); "Black Peyton has been hired as staff composer of gift, but I just don't have the means right Professor Randi L'Hommedieu. This place performance at the National Opera credit through the UO Summer Session. Sacred Song and the Tune-Family Independent Video Services of Eugene, a now." Then I chuckled, remembering my series will bring nationally recognized Assn.'~biennial chamber opera compe- Concept" for New Perspectives on Music: nationally recognized production conversations with many folks who felt music educators to campus for a lecture tition in San Francisco (see story, page 2). Randi L'Hummedieu's article, Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern; and company, where he will write music for the same way. Now it was my turn to look each term, beginning in the Fall of 1993. "Regression-Based Research Design," was "Nineteenth Century : From A commercials, documentaries, and promo- at the creative ways I might give, but not Professor L'Hommedieu hopes the Julia Heydon continues to sing, play published in The Handbook of Research Tale ofMystery to Monte Cristo" for a tional videos. He has been commissioned put aside important financial consider- lecturers will not only enhance music fiddle, guitar, and recorder with Skye, a on Music Teaching and Learning, Richard special issue of The HarvardLibrary by the EugeneYouth Symphony to write a ations. I decided to make a three-year students' knowledge of the field, but bring Celtic folk band from Eugene. The group Colwell, editor. The book, sponsored by Bulletin titled "Bits and Pieces: Music for concerto for percussion and orchestra, to pledge, thus giving more than I would be new ideas and provoke thought on the part completed its first album last summer, a MENC and published by Schirmer Books, Theater." She also wrote pieces for The be premiered next fall. able to in one year, yet making a gift of faculty as well. Please feel free to 50-minute cassette titled Lightning and is the first comprehensive view of music New Grove Dictiunary of Opera (Dec., which was significant. contact me if you would like to help Thunder, and opened for Scottish singer- education combining American, British, 1992), including "melodrama," "mono- June Schuck sang Verdi's Requiem with The University of Oregon School of support this exciting lecture series. songwriter Dougie MacLean at his UO and Canadian expertise. drama," "duodrama" and "John Bray." the BismarkMandan Symphony conduc- Music has recently received a gift made in Great things are happening here at the concert last October. Other members of ted by Thomas Wellin in Bismark, Noah much the same way. An anonymous School of Music, and you can be a part of the ensemble are Michael Bardossi, Anne Dhu McLucas finished her 1990-92 Jeffrey Peytnn (GTF) performed full time Dakota last May. The performance was donor has made a $100,000 bequest to the these exhilarating times! If you have any Michael Kevin Daly, and Lexy Wellman. term as president of The College Music with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra recorded and shown on Prairie Public School in the form of a trust. Planned questions about ways to support the music Television in the upper Midwest. Schock gifts such as these benefit everyone, for school, I'd be more than happy to provide David Paul Johnson (GTF) spent two was stage director for the UO Opera they provide a gift to the School, as well information over the phone, by mail, or in weeks in October at Yaddo, an artist Workshop's first-place finish in the NOA's as income for those who give them. We person. Again, my number is 346-5687, colony at Saratoga Springs, NY. While chamber opera competition in San can even find ways to put your children or and I'd be happy to tell you about all the there, Johnson composed an adagio Francisco (see story, page 2). grandchildren through the University of fantastic happenings here at the University movement for three saxophones and a Oregon this way! If you are interested in of Oregon School of Music. + setting of three Japanese poems from The Victor Steinhardt conducted a piano the different ways planned gifts can be put Road of Dreams, (translated by Jane master class at UC Sauta Barbara in together, please do not hesitate to give me Hirschfield and Mariko Aratani) for November, and presented a recital in a call at 346-5687. soprano and piano. Montecito, CA, with brother Arnold Steinhardt, a violinist with the Guarneri Milagro Vargas' performance at the 1992 Mark Levy got the music school's new String Quartet. He performed Beethoven's Bard Music Festival moved Bernard Mu Phi Chapter World Music Series off to an impressive Piano Concerto in B-flat Major with the Holland of the New York Times to write: To Plan Celebration beginning fall term with a lecture- Eugene Symphony in September. His "One remembers especially Milagro demonstration and concert of North Indian busy performance schedule also included Vargas's splendid singing of Hindemith's All Mu ?hi Epsilon members in the classical music. Winter term will have a Mohawk Trails concerts in Massachusetts, small masterpiece Die Junge Magd. . ." Eugene-Springfield area are invited to help lecture-demonstration and concert of featuring his own composition Running Vargas also sang the role of Charlotte in celebrate Nu chapter's 75th anniversary traditional music and dance of Ghana, with Blue for violin, piano, and clarinet, plus the Teldec recording of Zimmerman's Die with a gala event to be planned later this Obo Addy and his group Okropong, and two concerts at the Bloch Music Festival Soldaten, which received the Internation- year. The local chapter has been relatively spring term will feature a lecture- in Newport, OR, and several appearances alen Schallplattenpreis Franert award inactive for the past few years, but is demonstration and concert of East at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland. in 1992. building up a new head of steam nnder the European Klezmer music. Levy has been leadership of faculty adviser Claire collaborating with Lisa Arkin, Department Richard Trnmbley's incidental music to Mary Lou Van Rysselberghe has Wachter. of Dance, on a number of events: a suite of Christopher Hampton's play, Dangerous received a new appointment as member of Anyone interested in joining the Bulgarian Folk dances with musical Liaisons, was heard in a Charleston, SC, MENC's editorial committee for Update: planning process should contact Sharron accompaniment for Dance '93, a multi- THE EARLEY MUSICK PLEYERS, a faculty ensemble, poses in 1976. From left: Don production directed by Jean Cutler, Applications of Research in Music Smith, president of the alumni chapter, at cultural concert for the UO Children's Horner (DMA 'SO), Robert Hurwih Randy Moore, Gary Martin, and Hal Owen. The formerly of the UO theatre faculty, and Education, and is also thenew coordinator 1657 Rosy Turn, Eugene, OR 97404, or Concert Series, and a concert of multi- latterfour are still on the UO music faculty, albeit with a few changes in hair style. with whom Trombley has collaborated on of the Summer Session of the.UO School phone (503) 688-2778. + cultural music and dance as part of the Photo courtesy of UO Archives. four previous productions. of Music. + Dorothy Bales (1938) is still active as a Arizona Symphonic Winds, an adult its touring company, Western Opera IN MEMORIAM: concert violinist, teacher, and contractor- concert band. He has received the Theater, on its national tour. He also HAVE WE HEARD FROM YOU LATELY? concertmaster, living in Weston, MA. She Excellence-in-Teaching Music Award performs in San Francisco clubs with Elneta Cooper (D.Ed 1971) died Let us and your fellow alumni know of your activities by filling out was in Eugene last year and dropped by from the Arizona Music Educators Escola Nova de Samba, which plays September 5, 1992, after a long struggle and sending us the form below. Please give us your current address, the UO music school for a brief visit. Association and the Outstanding Brazilian Samba Music. with cancer. She was 56. Dr. Cooper's particularly if you have moved recently. Photographs are welcome. Community Service Award from the music teaching career included the Detroit Arnold Martin (1950; MMus 1956), Arizona Parks and Recreation Association. Philip and Jeannine Cansler (both public schools, the University of Calgary, formerly a music director for the Pleasant Veres held the position of principal clarinel DMA, 1984) are trumpet and organ . and, since 1972, the University of Wash- 2/93 University of Oregon School of Music Alumni Hill schools, recently devoted many hours with the Tucson Symphony for 16 years. recitalists who recently returned from a ington, where she was an associate profes- i I to researching the historical roots of He also founded the Philharmonic performance tour of Europe. The duo sor until she retired last August for health I WHAT'S UP? I teaching music in the Pleasant Hill Orchestra of Tucson and has appeared as a performed recitals in ~n~iand,Holland, reasons. In addition to her academic I I ; schools. His document, "Music Education guest conductor with the Tucson and Switzerland. During the past year degrees, she received an advanced training I NAME Class of I in Pleasant Hill-Trent Schools 1848 to Symphony, Tucson Pops Orchestra, and they have presented recitals and ceaificate in the Kodaly Method from the 1992," was added to the state's Musical the Southern Arizona Symphony. workshops at universities in Dallas and Esztergom University of the Arts in Hun- I I Education Historical Archives. San Francisco, as well as in several gary. She was a member of Phi Lambda I comments I Gene Newton (1974; MM 1978), Camp communities in Washington and Oregon. Theta and Phi Kappa Lambda, and was Charles "Bucky" Steele (MS 1953), Sherman, OR, teaches vocal music and cited in the 1981 edition of Who's Who in formerly a band director at Cottage Grove theater arts at the new high school in Richard Smith (1984) is currently the Education. She also was a board member High School in Oregon, recently retired Sisters, OR. He is also pursuing interests chairman of the StudioIJazz Guitar of New Horizons for Learning, and a - from the faculty of Tucson High School in in computer-based music composition and Department at the University of Southern founding member of the Canadian Music I Arizona, but will continue as director of hopes to release his first CD this summer, California. His five-guitar ensemble Research Council. I the Tucson Pops Orchestra, which presents titled Eternity's Gate. recently placed second at the Pacific Coast I My current address: (please print) [7 This is a change of address a series of summer concerts each year. College Jazz Festival. He is currently Roberta (Wilcox) Robnett Roe (1929) Barbara Gill (MM 1975) completed her diedoctoher 12, 1992. In 1956, she Address Glenn W. Jaquith (1959; MM 1963) Ph.D. at the University of Saskatchewan in completed her MA at National College in city State Zip retired in 1992 after 33 years of teaching August, 1992. She is now an associate five on major jazz polls. He is touring and Evanston, IL. She taught in Chicago area I Phone (day) (eve) vocal music to grades K-12 in Eugene, professor in the Division of Educational recording regularly with saxophonist elementary schools until 1966, then moved I Foundations at the University of New I have more news to share! Please call me for a more complete update. Cottage Grove, and Corvallis, OR. He Richard Elliot. He recently married to Princeton, NJ, where she resided for 22 I - remains active as director of the First Bnmswick, where she teaches graduate vocalist Lynn Scott and they live in L.A. years. As a widow, she resided in Hender- United Methodist Folk Choir in Corvallis, courses and does thesis advising. sonville, NC, and was a resident of Chest- which he has directed for 23 years. He is Casey Christopher (1990) began nut Hill, MA, when she passed away. also playing the role of househusband Diane (Roberts) Richards (MM 1975) graduate studies at Arizona State Univer- RECOMMENDED STUDENTS while his wife, Judy, continues to work at has been teaching elementary music in five sity in 1992. He mmied Julianne Marie Lora Teshner Ware died September 15, the Oregon State University bookstore. schools in Ridgecrest, CA, for the past two Edgar in 1991 and they plan to stay in 1992, of natural causes. She was 95. She Please help us identify outstanding young musicians who might be years. She recently joined the faculty of Arizona until his degree is completed. attended the University of Oregon for interested in attending the University of Oregon. Feel free to make John Drysdale (1953; MMus 1965), a Cerro Coso College as a music instructor, three years before joining a traveling copies of this form if you have several students to recommend. 1943 graduate of Sunnyside High School and teaches beginning and advanced Tonda Kemmerling (MM 1990) lives in women's orchestra. In 1926 she was r""""------"'""" (WA), was honored by being selected as piano. Her husband, Rev. Ken Richards, Munich, Germany, with her husband, awarded a scholarship to attend Juilliard 1 Sunnyside's 1992 "Wall of Fame" (UO '65), is rector of St. Michael's Bruno Graef. She attended the American School of Music in New York. She contin- 2/93 Prospective Student Information I recipient-the first music educator so Episcopal Church in Ridgecrest and is Institute of Musical Studies Opera Train- ued her studies in Seattle and Portland, i chosen. Drysdale's portrait, with the rural dean in the local diocese. Diane and ing Program in Graz, Austria, during the helping to organize The Portland Trio and I I notation "Noted Music Educator," will be Ken met aboard a ship going to Germany summers of 1990 and 1991. She has been playing with the Portland Symphony until 1 Name of Student I hung at the school next to 37 other famous with Dr. Edmund Cykler's first year studying for most of the past two years her marriage to Ivan Ware and subsequent I I graduates of Sunnyside. Drysdale, a (1963-64) of graduate study of Music Ed. with Professor Ena Thiessen. + move back to Eugene. Ware was on the I Address I former orchestra director at Medford High abroad in Oldenburg, Germany. Ken was faculty of the School of Music at the -I I. School, is currently conducting the already attending U of 0, and Diane had University of Oregon until 1942. The Southern Oregon Men's Symphonic Band. just graduated from the Cincinnati Wares retired to Pacific Grove, CA, in I City State Zip I Conservatory of Music. Upon returning 1968, and Lora returned to Eugene in 1985. I I Katheryn Smith (MA 1972) was promo- from their year in Germany, she moved to 1 InstrnmentNoicelArea of Interest 1 ted to professor at Webster University in Eugene to complete her master's degree. Edris Woods died November 11,1992, of I High School Attending I St. Louis, MO. She is the Director of The Richards were manied seven months natural causes. She attended the UO Choral Activities and the Music Education later with most of their German/music School of Music where she was a member 1 Graduation Date I programs, and is president of the Midwest group attending. They celebrated their of Mu Phi Epsilon honorary. She was a -I I. Kodrily Music Educators of America (the 27th wedding anniversary this year and cellist with the UO Symphony, Salem I Comments 1 Midwest division of OAKE). have many wonderful memories of Ed and Symphony, and the chamber music group Marian Cykler and their dear friends at the in Dallas, OR. She earned a teaching Lbsz16 Veres (MM 1972) has been a high UO Music School. certificate at Southern Oregon State school music teacher for 24 years, and is College and taught music and elementary presently Director of bands at Tucson William Bowles (1983) works for the San school in Dallas. High Magnet School and the conductor of Francisco Opera Company as manager of Earn Your

at Oregon. Over $100,000 in music scholarships, including the Ruth Lorraine Close awards, are given annually. General UO scholarships, At the University of Oregon, you get it all: financial aid, work study, and student loans are the natural beauty and'qunlity of life in Oregon's also available. Auditions are required both for Willamette Valley, and n superb music faculty admission to the School of Music and for scholarship award determination. A single to prepnrc you for n successful career. audition will serve both purposes. Dates and locations for 1993-94 Admission and Scholarship Auditions:

January 29,1993--Eugene, Oregon February 26,1993--Eugene, Oregon

For information regarding specific times and locations, contact: Office of Undergraduate Admissions School of Music University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 or call: (503) 346-3761

Completed applications for each audition date should be received by the School of Music at least one week before the audition. Auditions may also be arranged by special appointment.

Please note: the deadline for application to the University of Oregon for incoming BA in Music freshmen is March 1, 1993. BS in Music To be considered for Fall admission in 1993 EM in Performance the UO Office of Admissions must have your BM in Composition application by that date. Early application is EM in Music Ed suggested. Students applying after March 1, EM in Theory 1993, lose priority consideration for scholar- ships and other financial aid. MA in Music History MA in Music Theory MM in Composition MM in Music Ed MM in Performance MM in Conducting MM in Piano Pedagogy

DMA in Performance DMA in Music Ed DMA in History DMA in Composition The University of Oregon is an equal DMA in Theory ~pportunity,affimzative action institution PhD in Music Ed zommitted to cultural diversity.