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The following is apartial list of coming Feb. 23-The Beaux Arts Trio Mar. &Chamber at Tea Time events at the School of Music. For more ( Series) information, call our Community Relations Mar. 7-'s Forum Ofice weekdays at 346-5678. Feb. 24-Oreeon Gospel Ensemble Mar. &Collegium Musicum FEBRUARY Feb. 25-Electronic Music Concert Feb. 1-Composer's Forum Concert Mar. 8-The Ying Feb. 260regon Wind Ensemble (Chamber Music Series) Feb. 3-Universiw Feb. 27-Oregon Percussion Ensemble Mar. 9-Choral Concert Feb. 5-Kentucky Rose (Children's Concert Series) Feb. 2&Leslie Straka, Marc. 11-12-Oregon Celebration (Faculty Artist Series) (Special Event) Feb. 6Steven Pologe, (Faculty Artist Series) MARCH Mar. 29-Charles Dowd, percussion Mar. 1-Men's &Women's Chorus (Faculty Artist Series) Feb. 8-Cheryl Marshall, soprano Caroline Almonte, Mar. ZSymphonic & Campus Bands Mar. 31-Victor Steinhardt, piano (Vanguard Series) (Faculty Artist Series) Mar. 3-University Symphony Feb. 11- Workshop Concert APRIL Mar. 4--Vocal Jazz Ensemble Apr. 8-11-Percussion Arts Conference Feb. 12-Jazz Combos Mar. 5-"Gotta Dance!" Apr. 14--Trio di Milano Feb. 1LBones& Brass (Children's Concert Series) (Chamber Music Series) Feb. 15-Pacific Rim Gamelan Mar. 5-Danceability Concert Apr. 20-Oregon Quartet (Faculty Artist Series) Feb. 17-20-OMEA Conference Mar. 5-~ila~ro~ar~as,mezzo-soprano UNIVERSITY of OREGON SCHOOL of MUSIC Barbara GonzBlez-Palmer, piano Apr. 21-ACDA College ChoralFestival and DEPARTMENT of DANCE Feb. 20-Univ. Percussion Ensemble (Faculty Artist Series)

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Newsletter for Alumni & Friends February, 1994 VOL VI, NO. 1 LEDGERLINES The Dean's Desk is the official newsletter of the Anne Dhu McLucas, Dean University of Oregon School of new calendar year always brings a Music, and is published twice a year chance for new goals--or at least the for alumni, faculty, and friends of the refurbishing of old ones. Since my coming music school. Your comments are to the University of Oregon a year and a always welcome. half ago, we have tackled many things: a top-to-bottom review of the cumculum, an Address all colrespondence to: outside review of the overall program, LEDGER LINES many searches for new faculty, several School of Music promotion and tenure cases, successfnl 1225 University of Oregon new initiatives in development, and the Eugene, OR 97403-1225 launching of a student forum series. On or call (503) 346-3761. the light side, we had a School of Music hike and have created a new School of DEAN: Anne Dhu McLucas Music logo, which now appears on our printed materials and special t-shirts. On getting them through the undergraduate I 1 ASSOCIATE DEAN: Gary Martin the proud side, we sent our opera work- cumculum in a timely fashion. Our I t shop production to New Orleans as prize- Undergraduate Committee, made up of 1 1 DEVELOPMENT STAFF: winners of the National Opera Associa- students and faculty, is hard at work 1 Barbara H. Goodson-School of Music tion's contemporary chamber opera tackling both of these problems. We are I I Sara Jones Brandt-Oregon Bach Festival competition, and many other students and committed to finding a way to help i faculty have also won awards during the students finish their degrees in a timely I EDITOR: Scott Barkhurst year. We also suffered a temble loss in the fashion without a sacrifice in quality. CONTRIBUTORS: untimely death of Ed Kammerer this fall. Development efforts continue apace, George Evano, Barbara GonzAlez-Palmer, It is time now to take stock and renew and with the recent generous gift of Barbara Goodson, Anne Dhu McLucas, our initiatives, especially in the areas of $500.000 by the Richards family, matched John McManus, Jim Olsen, Alan Phillips, recruiting, productivity, and development. by the state to bring a total of $1 million Royce Saltzman, Stephen Stone, Claire We have a new and active recruitment into our endowment, we are much further Wachter committee; several school appearances along than I had dreamed of being at this have already been made by our Oregon stage. There is much more to do, however, I ASSISTANTS: , and other faculty and and here again, alumni can he of immense Jana Adams, Rebecca Hinman student groups. . will he going. - out to make help in hosting musicales and benefits, in the School of Music increasingly visible letting us know of possible fruitful COVER PHOTO by Scott Barkhurst: and desirable among talented high school contacts-and, if able, in giving whatever Assistant Professor Claire Wachter adjusts the setting on a Clavinova keyboard for music students. A new recruitment video you can. Our scholarship funds, just as one one of her students. See story, page 4. is in the making, and this will soon be example, are in desperate need of help available to interested counselors and before we can do much about recruiting. music teachers. School of Music alumni are not as a group School of Music alumni are often our the richest people , but they best salespeople in recruiting. We will be may be some of the most generous in contacting many of you for help in talking spirit. Here the person to contact is our to students in your area who are interested development officer, Barbara Goodson. in attending the University of Oregon. We Things have in most respects gone hope you'll respond enthusiastically-and well in the past year and a half; we all if you wish to volunteer, you should have a school of which we can be proud- contact our undergraduate admissions and we all need to express that pride by director, Marilyn Bradetich, at 346-1 164. helping out. The University of Oregon is an equal Productivity is the new watchword opportunity, afimzative institution around the University of Oregon (and in committed to cultural diversity state institutions in general). Like other and compliance with the parts of the university, we suffer from two Americans with Disabilities Act. major problems: retention of students, and Oregon String Quartet: Student Music UO Mourns the Loss of Ed Kammerer ~e~ ~lood,~ew Life Forums Added educator andpe8onner loses battle with leukemia on November 12 , Following a successful trial run of A Remembrance by Steve Stone A Remembrance by Jim Olsen Two new members and a busy agenda signal new era music forums in early 1993, DeanMcLucas wo days after Ed Kammerer's death hinking back on it, after the initial has formally instituted a regular series of a memorial service was held in shock of the news had passed, I the weekly sessions at the School of Music. Beall Concert Hall. The hall was realized that it had been 16 years The forums begin at 1 p.m. each 0 0 filled with some 500 people, including since I had met Ed Kammerer. Sixteen Thursday in Beall Concert Hall and last 50 many musicians who had, on a day's years since I first wandered up to his minutes. Attendance is required for fresh- notice, volunteered to perform in a office to audition for a spot in the jazz men, and all music students are encour- beautiful program celebrating Ed's life. combo. Sixteen years since we had first aged to attend. The subject matter is It was a very moving service. I was played together. Sixteen years. A long time. intentionally diverse, focusing on in-depth struck by the obvious high level of We only played for a few minutes that topics, guest speakers, or areas not emotional involvement of the audience, as first time-a and "I Can't Get covered in the regular cumculum. great as any I have ever experienced at Started," if memory serves-and then we Fall term subjects included an address such an event. And it was a diverse group; talked about backgrounds and the univer- by Eugene Symphony conductor Marin faculty, students, symphony musicians, sity and the possibility of finding musical Alsop, a faculty-staff-alumni panel jazz musicians, townspeople, relatives and work in the area. And he explained discussion of opera, a presentation by friends, all of whom obviously cared a Eugene to me in a way that still holds true, music librarian Leslie Bennett on the new great deal about Ed Kammerer. All 16 years later: "Eugene," he said, " is a resources at the Knight Library, an alumni seemed to want to define what it was town that loves amateurs." And then he presentation by guitarist Richard Smith about Ed that they found so special. laughed that sharp, knowing laugh. (see story, p. 13), and tips on publicity and One thing often mentioned was the Remembering one line from that promotion by staff members George incredible scope of his musical skills and utilized. They were virtuoso perform- long-ago meeting might seem odd to - - Evano and Scott Barkhurst. + From left: Lawrence Maves, Leslie Straka, Kathryn Lucktenberg, Steven Pologe. talents. He could function equally well ances without the label being on display. some, hut it would have appeared perfect- both as a performer and as a composer on In 1982 Ed was named Oregon's Musician ly natural to Ed. His own memory was he newly-energized Oregon String top music schools, and the days of simply , piano and a whole range of elec- Laureate by Governor Victor Atiyeh; prodigious and quirky enough that he not Quartet has one of its busiest sending a brochure to a few music tronic keyboard instruments. His areas of nobody deserved that honor more than Ed. only knew hundreds of tunes, every horn agendas in years, thanks in large teachers and hoping to get the top Heidi Ames, freshman student of Dean expression ranged across the hoard from Ed was also a natural leader, hut not transposition there was, and thousands of part to its two newest members-violinist students are long gone. Wayne Bennett, Kramer, won the Columbia 's to experimental music to because he sought out leadership roles. Hi: other bits of musical arcana, but he was Kathryn Lucktenberg and cellist Steven director of orchestral studies at Oregon, Competition in Portland last jazz. It was in the latter area that he often intelligence and perceptiveness about situ- also able to remember the one tavern in Pologe. says the reception of the quartet at the October. She will play the John Fields elicited the most awe, with an uncanny ations and issues led others to almost auto- Astoria with good food and 1950s-vintage Lucktenberg and Pologe came to the high schools has been excellent: "We E-flat with them in March. ability to remember any tune he had heard, matically seek him out. People trusted him pictures of Richard Nixon on the walls, University of Oregon this past fall from want to he the central force in helping Senior Kelly Kuo performed Rachman- to transpose immediately to any , and and his judgment. At the School of Music, the entire "See the USA in a Chevrolet" Hawaii, where she was concertmaster and keep string programs alive in the state and inoff s Variations on a Theme of Paganini to adapt to any style and to any other Ed's name was always among the first jingle, and an offhand comment on the he was principal cellist with the Honolulu region." with the Portland Youth Philharmonic in performers of whatever skill level. mentioned for special assignments. His possible proclivities of a particular student. Symphony; both were also on the music A typical recruiting visit includes a November. Kuo is a pupil of Dean Kramer. In utilizing these abilities, Ed terms as Acting Associate Dean andunder- There were some heavy sighs when I faculty at the University of Hawaii. brief concert by the quartet, followed by GTF Johnson's piece, Ozone, performed for every conceivable situation graduate Coordinator attested to this trust. phoned friends that Ed had lost his battle The Oregon String Quartet has been the members sitting in the school's was recorded by the Australian Broadcast- with unfailing aplomb. No performance Ed had a marvelous sense of humor, with cancer,,hut there was always a one of the flagship ensembles at the School for a , led by Bennett. ing Corp. for possible broadcast on John was ever beneath his dignity. In fact, he which contributed considerably to the trusl moment or two of laughter as well, when of Music since it was founded in 1982, but The input and interaction from the faculty Crawford's "Random Round" program. brought dignity to many situations that others felt about him. This sense of humor one of us would recall some typical "Ed lack of a second violinist to participate members accomplishes two goals: to Graduate student Benji Tomassetti had probably didn't deserve it. That was Ed. found its way into his music as well, story;" the time he called up The Rites of full-time in its concert schedule has limited introduce the new faculty to the students a paper accepted for the 1994 Society for Unfailing charm and grace. Some of his especially during improvisations, when Spring at a jazz gig, or the time that he the group's exposure in recent years. and gain a higher profile among the Electro-Acoustic Music in the United most memorable solo performances were quotes of all kinds would pop up. took a solo on two quarter-tone to Now, however, the quartet is not only leading high school music programs on States (SEAMUS) national meeting. Title: at the annual holiday parties at the Pittock But above all, people considered Ed a the befuddlement of some high school performing regularly (two Faculty Artist the West Coast; and to develop along- "Timbral and Spatial Modulation: Contem- Mansion in Portland, where he would play friend. That's not as automatic as it sounds music camp students, orjust the way he winter and spring term), but is term relationship with these schools by porary Compositional Development in jazz interpretations of Christmas carols as Many people have what Clifton Fadiman would manage to cram all of those making an aggressive presence on the offering support and instruction. + Electronic Music." Also to be performed long as anyone wanted to listen. Those refers to as "locker-room friendships," the unlikely quotes into every solo, or... well, road, performing at ten Oregon high at the SEAMUS conference are GTF performances were unique, and they were kind that depend upon time and place. Ed you get the idea. schools just this past term. Future plans Jeffrey Peyton's Precipice for vintage Ed Kammerer. transcended that limiting definition. But mixed in with those recollections are to visit schools in Washington and and tape, as well as Paved in Skin by His musical skills were presented so Everyone I talked to truly regarded Ed as a of a happier time was the sobering reali- California as well. undergraduates Tanner Vnlz and Laird naturally and so effortlessly that one was friend, and that is his most lasting legacy. zation that now there was no chance to Recruiting has become a reality for Sheldahl. + often unaware that they were being We'll miss you, Ed. + Continued on page 4 Technology report: by themselves, practiced through prior to departure to do some last-minute or plugged into an exterior Tobermory Rated a Big polishing; the title role of the cat was sound system for performance on stage. played by Robert Kohl, now a master's Have You Done the Clavinova? Assistant Professor Claire Wachter, degree student at the University of Color- who uses the Clavinova with a number of Success in New Orleans ado, who likewise came in to Eugene less ew technology doesn't always mean hear keyboard works played with the her students, notes that Clavinova soft- fter a solid year of planning, June Schock, the Opera Workshop took a than a week before flying to New Orleans. better technology, hut some new "voice" on the Clavinova. ware is available for use with many well- fundraising, rehearsing, and endless portion of this new opera, Tobermory, to One of the biggest undertakings, electronic keyboards are proving to The Clavinova can also be a powerful known method hooks, such as the Alfred L! phone calls, the UO Opera Work- San Francisco. They came away victor- however, was the set and lighting design, be a useful and downright irresistible tool in teaching, and the UO's Piano Lab Piano Series. "The student can play along shop had its reward: the world premiere of ious, having presented the winning entry. provided by Eugene's own David element in the UO's keyboard studies makes excellent use of the Clavinovas for with the pre-recorded on a new chamber opera, Tobermory, which The win meant that the UO Opera Sherman. In constant communication with ; department. beginning and intermediate piano students the disk, or practice just the left hand they performed in New Orleans at the Workshop would have the opportunity to the theater personnel at Tulane University, Through the generosity of Don Law- The Clavinova's , with a alone while the disk plays the right hand," National Opera Association's annual present the world premiere this year at the the staff had to prearrange everything son's Keyboard Center in Eugene, the metronome built in, offers 16 different says Wachter. "The orchestra track can he convention in November. Twenty-three convention in New Orleans. The NOA from furniture to lights. Part of the set was School of Music has had the use of six options which can be adjusted to match thc turned on and off as needed, helping the students and faculty from the School of would co-sponsor, hut the School of actually packed in two pieces of Sherman's Clavinova keyboards the past year. The student's technical level on any piece. student to maintain rhythmic continuity Music boarded the plane to take an entire Music would have to provide most of the luggage! Clavinova is one of the many lines of Clavinovas have an amplifier and quality and giving more of a professional feeling production south to the City of Jazz (and financial support for the production. Once keyboard-activated electronic instruments speaker system built in and can be played to the performance." food!). New Orleans was one of the first again, Dean McLucas saw the value of The NOA applauded the UO thattheYamahaCorporation manufactures. With the recording device built into cities in the United States to have an opera such an honor and the national exposure it The Clavinova is not to be confused the Clavinova, the students can immed- company, and that long, rich tradition was would bring, and committed to the produc- for being the first ever to with the department store Casio-type iately hear how they played, or what they one reason why the National Opera Assoc- tion. That's when the real work began- bring an entire production to keyboards, where the keyboard simply may need to practice. Students can also iation decided to hold its convention there. sets, costumes, accommodations, food, the convention site. acts as a switch, turning the notes on or work on their improvisatory skills by All of this started over one year ago, plane tickets, orchestra, and on and on. off. The keys of the Clavinova are "touch recording on one track, and improvising when Barbara Gonziilez-Palmer was in Gonzilez-Palmer. along- with assistant After a terrific dress rehearsal at sensitive," weighted and balanced with a another track to go with it. The Clavinova production coordinator Laural Tulane and a good night's sleep, the cast, moving mechanism that helps to simulate will record up to ten tracks for each piece. Workman, spent many hours crew, and orchestra gave a stellar perform- the feel of an action with moving parts. For the more adventuresome teacher, writing, phoning, and organizing ance on Novemher 11. The chamber Furthermore, the piano voice of the there are other applications for the Clavi- to get this off the ground. The orchestra was a combination of UO Clavinova is digitally sampled, so the nova. The Clavinova can function as an National Opera Association students and faculty, directed by Wayne sound is an actual recording of an acoustic integral part of a MLDI system where it applauded the UO School of Bennett. The result was exceptional. instrument, rather than an electronically may control other MIDI instruments to Music for being the first ever to Once the production was over, every- synthesized approximation. which it is connected. Furthermore, the bring an entire production to the one had the opportunity to take advantage The Clavinova can create many Clavinova may he connected to a compu- convention site. of some of New Orleans' wonderful treats: sounds, allowing students at all levels to ter and be used as a keyboard controller Along the way, many exciting delicious meals, New Orleans jazz- experiment with the possibilities. The and with MIDI sequencing things happened for the partici- including visits to Preservation Hall, the "voices" can be combined to create new and notation programs. pants. Jorge Martin, the compo- Marsalis Club, and the Pete Fountain sounds, or simply played as one sound, Alan Phillips, the School of Music's ser, came to Oregon in April to Room, and a few even took in a steamboat such as vibes or . Students study- GTF Tamani Eaton (r)uses a Clavinova piano technician, praised the Yamaha work directly with the cast. A ride on the Mississippi. ing Bach or Scarlatti find it intriguing to to help a student in the Piano Lab. Corporation's program of "loaning" these witty, young composer from New The University of Oregon can he instruments to music schools through local York (born in Cuba), Martin proud of the School of Music students and KAMMERER, continued And now it's too late. I knew him for dealers. "Everybody wins with this loaner Composer Jorge Marth (1.) with Barbara worked well with the students, helping faculty who represented it so well to opera really thank Ed for all that he had done for 16 years, and yet I never managed to let program," said Phillips. "We get to expose Gonzdlez-Palmer and Wayne Bennett. shape their dramatic and musical ideas. ~rofessionalsfrom across the countrv. us. The simple efforts to make a newcomer him know how much I appreciated all of faculty and students to current products Once in New Orleans, Martin said he was Faculty and staff who participated were feel at home, the job recommendations, the large favors and small kindnesses that and technology that the state can't afford Austria with the American Institute of thrilled with the level of musicianship and Barbara Gonzilez-Palmer, June Schock, the many bits of musical advice, the hours he showed me over the years. to purchase. The instruments are sold at Musical Studies. Talking with a colleague drama displayed in their performance, and Wayne Bennett, Anne Bargar, Leslie of pleasure spent making music together. They say that words such as these, or the end of six months and replaced with there, she discovered that the NOA was hoped that it would go as well in his New Straka, Steven Pologe, and Kathryn You know how it is: you graduate, the memorial service that was held, are for new ones. The sale price is very good, and holding a chamber opera competition in York premiere this coming February. The Lucktenberg. The cast included students and pack for the last time, and all of a the living; the dead, they say, need no alumni, faculty, staff and students get first San Francisco in Novemher '92. Dean librettist, Andrew Joffe, also came to the Laural Workman, Mary Jo Simonds- sudden you're gone, on your way to a more words or services. But Ed Kammerer crack at them before the general public." McLucas, when presented with the idea of New Orleans performance and was Huneger, Sandy Naishtat, Alika Borsting, teaching job or graduate school, or what- was a friend, and 16 years of music and Phillips adds that the word-of-mouth the UO Opera Workshop presenting an likewise laudatory. John Jantzi, Kristina Kuckartz, Martin have-you. And there's never the chance to friendship deserves the best that I can and general goodwill of the faculty entry, was wholly supportive, knowing Sending a production long distance Tobias, and Robert Kohl. The orchestra put those thoughts into words, into words offer. What would I have been if I hadn't towards the is great that national exposure for our opera group was no easy feat. In fact, some of the cast included students John Klinghammer, that might help repay some of what you made the effort? advertising for the company. In an age of was important and well-deselved. Under members and staff were na longer even Kristen Halay, Michael Anderson, Leslie owe. And as time passes you incur other Thanks, Ed. We'll miss you. + tight budgets and increasing demands on the music direction and production residing in Eugene: stage director June Sawyer, Jeff Kaye, Eugene residents debts, and soon the old ones just fade into -. instrument inventory, it seems to be a deal coordination of Gonzilez-Palmer, and Schock was back in her homestate of Nathan Waddell and Richard Long, and the background. It's a common problem. Reprinted from the Northwest Music News that serves both parties well. + stage direction of visiting faculty member Colorado and had to come in one week former UO student Janet Bullis. + Students are selected six weeks prior New Trusts and Solo Vocal Camp to the camp, and are sent their repertoire at Danceability Workshop that time. They are expected to come to Scholarships Named in High Demand the camp with all repertoire memorized. by Barbara H. Goodson The week is intense and tightly Offers unique Angles The School of Music received the hen Professor Emeritus Exine scheduled, and for a reason: students UO co-hosts the event for a second year, March 4-6 largest charitable gift in its 108-year Bailey started her first UO Solo considering a career in singing can get a istorically, people with disabilities environment helps dissolve inhibitions and history this Fall with the pledge by Norman Vocal Camp five years ago, it was taste of the hard work, discipline. and or sensory impairments have been allows participants' natural forms of self- and Kathleen Richards of Cottage Grove the realization of a dream she had camed reponsibility involved. Q isolated from the mainstream of expression and communication to emerge. of $500,000 to create a dean's fund for for years as a member of the UO voice In addition to their regularly sched- society. This isolation has limited their The workshops use the Contact excellence. This fund (matched by the faculty: to provide a professional training uled daily classes, camp participants also social, emotional and physical experience Improvisation dance form as a framework. state) will become a permanent endow- camp for high school age solo singers. have performance seminars in the evening, as well as their artistic expression. This form is based on two or more people ment, allowing the dean to direct the Her dream now is to see the School of where they sing and receive feedback from For year, the University of moving together, sharing weight and interest where it is most needed. Both Music grab the reins and take the program their peers, workshop faculty, master Oregon Department of Dance and Joint balancing by following a point of contact Richards studied at the School of Music; to the next level-the creation of a full teachers, professional singers, and the UO ~orc~sDance Company will increase that flows between them. Within this Norm was a major as Young Artists Institute, possibly linked voice faculty. This year's guests included social and artistic access for people with form, differences in range of movement well as dmm major of the marching band. with the Oregon Bach Festival as part of a Candice Burrows, a UO alumna who various needs and capabilities by co-host- are not hindrances, but shape the dance They both feel the music school helped youth development program in both vocal shared insights from her career in opera. ing the 7th Annual Danceability Project. that unfolds between dancers. shape their lives, and wanted to help and disciplines. From the student's point of view, Danceability workshops offer a safe, The workshop is taught by an inter- future generations of students enjoy the Clearly there is demand for such a perhaps the week's most exciting element supportive atmosphere that encourages national staff, including blind, able-bodied, same educational opportunities they did. program, at least in the voice area. While is its link with the Oregon Bach Festival. exploration between people of different and disabled movement artists. A major Thank youvery much, Nonn and Kathleen! ~-~ Camp participants attend selected rehears- there are many summer band and orches- movement capabilities. The workshop ouruose of the Danceabilitv Worksho~is als and concerts during the Bach Festival, Evelyn Dew Nye has established a tra camps in the Northwest (the UO has hensive nature of its curriculum. Bailey to help clarify and which is usually in the first week of its 15- charitable remainder trust which will pro- run a fine series of summer camps for correctly insists that young vocalists be eliminate attitudinal day run. Over the years the students have vide $154,000 for the dean's unrestricted decades), there are precious few for solo exposed to the complete spectrum of the barriers that both able- been able to meet and hear such artists as funds. vocalists-and fewer still that require an singers' discipline before they can reach bodied and people with Bobby McFemn, Frederica von Stade, and Two memorial funds have recently audition to enroll. their potential. That means each student disabilities hold. Gary Lakes, either in , perfor- been established which will provide Because of limited space, time, and studics not only vocal technique, breath Instructors identify mances, master classes, or "Let's Talk" scholarships for School of Music students. staff, Bailey's Solo Vocal Camp has been control and repertoire, but theory, dra- those barriers and luncheons. Add to that the privilege of The Ira and Gertrude Lee fund will aid a limited to a maximum of 30 students. Her matic technique, performance etiquette, demonstrate how to use watching conductor Helmuth Rilling work music major studying . Ira Lee first year, recruiting solely from Oregon, audition concepts, plus dance and move- verbal and physical with a professional , orchestra, and was a brass professor here at the School of garnered barely more than 30 applicants. mcnt. space and supportive soloists in the Hult Center's magnificent Music, and his son, Michael, is now Dancelmovement is not commonly atmosphere for changes Silva Hall, and it's quite a dazzling teaching at the University of Oklahoma. taught as a direct link to vocal training, but to take place. For more "Calling it a camp sounds package for a high school singer. The Edward W. Kammerer thc UO camp teaches that body control, information on the like it's a vacation... Believe The week concludes with a formal Memorial Scholarship Fund has been body awareness and movement are critical Danceability Work- recital by all the camp participants, established to aid a music major in jazz me, these young people work aides to a singer, particularly for soloists. shop, call 346-3386. + when they're here!'' performing a diverse studies. Ed was a dear friend of many range of material: opera here at the School of Music, and you may read more about his enrichment of the Each year since, the camp's reputation has by Mozart, lieder by cultural life.of Oregon on page 3 of this spread and Bailey has expanded her Brahms, and show tunes UO Jazz Celebration concerts. This year's attractions are guitarist on Friday, March newsletter. recruiting base as well, extending into by Bernstein, to name a If you would like to make a contri- Alaska, Washington, Canada, and Califor- few. Opens March 11 11, and the Ellis Marsalis Trio on Satur- bution to either of these scholarship funds, nia. Last year more than 130 applicants This year Bailey The sixth annual Oregon Jazz Celebra- day, March 12. Clinics by Towner and Marsalis, as or to another program here at the School vied for the 30 slots, and Bailey says it hopes to initiate the tion opens at a new time this year-March of Music, please use the envelope was the most talented group ever. 'These next phase of her dream 11-12-and with a new partner: Eugene's well as those by additional jazz artists and provided in this newsletter. Or you may young singers were not only gifted, they with a name change to Hult Center for the Performing Arts will educators, will be held throughout Friday and Saturday, and are free to the public. write or call: were highly motivated, and good students Solo Vocal Workshop. be co-hosting the event with the music Daytime concerts by regional junior high, Barbara Gnodson (503) 346-5687 as well--everyone had at least a 3.0 high "Calling it a camp school. high school, and college groups are School of Music school GPA," says Bailey. sounds like it's a Jazz Studies Director Steve Owen 1225 University of Oregon As a result, Bailey is scrambling to vacation," says Bailey. declared it a logical pairing, with the likewise open to the public. Eugene, OR 97403-1225 find a way to expand this year's camp to "Believe me, these music school continuing its educational For information on the Jazz Celebration, Checks may be made payable to the two sessions, handling up to 60 students. young people work mission by running the all-day clinics and contact the UO Jazz Studies Office at (503) School of Music, with a note to which What makes the UO Solo Vocal Camp when they're here!" + workshops, and the Hult Center bringing 346-5672; for evening concert tickets, contact the Hult Center at 687-5000. fund or program you'd like it to go. so appealing to the students is the compre- Cliiss meiizbers watch their peers rehearse a comedic number. in the featured performers for the evening + toire, Keith Jarrett has established him- performance practice. In October she Peter Bergquist has seen three works self as one of the giants of the keyboard. coordinated a and Renaissance published in the last six months. "The He perfoms at the Hult Center Saturday, Music and Dance workshop held at the Anonymous Propers in Munich Mss. 32 June 25, in a night of solo piano UO, featuring Baroque dancer Linda and 76: Are They Previously Unknown improvisations. Tomko and -composer Donald Works by Orlando di Lasso?" appeared in On Friday, July 1, the Bella Lewitzky Waxman. In November, she hosted Acta Musicologica (the journal of the Dance Co. visually interprets the spiritual organist Guy Bovet who gave an organ International Musicological Society.) His slde of Bach and other , and a masterclass at the UO. Baird had an articlr edition of Orlando di Lasso, Cantica, week later, the Albert McNeil Jubilee published in the December issue of Responsories and Other Music for the Singers bring their sounds of spirituals, Barbara Baird taught summer school and Clavier, titled "Introducing to Divine Office, appeared as volume 24 of gospel, and jazz to Silva Hall. gave a harpsichord recital at Southern Harpsichord Skills." As a performer, Bair~ Lasso's Samtliche Werke Neue Reihe, Chamber Concerts Methodist University in New . In gave a Faculty Artist concert titled "- published by Kassel, BBie~eiter.Volume Beall Hall will be the scene for five September she taught a masterclass in sichord and Dance," played a harpsichord 25 of the same series, Litanies and chamber performances, including vocalists Baroque and Classical Music in McMinn- recital in Seattle, and joined the Oregon Falsibordoni, was released in December, The Hilliard Ensemble on June 28. On ville for the Oregon Music Teacher's Mozart Players for an October concert. the last of four Lasso volumes Bergquist Thursday, June 30, a classical brother act Association. She was also a clinician at She continues as accompanist to the has edited for Birenreiter. -Victor Steinhardt of the School of the OMTA Adjudicator Training Confer- Eugene Concert Choir, and as organist at The acclaimed Hilliard Ensemble will be one of the Oregon Bach Festivalk 1994 guests. Music faculty on piano, and brother ence, giving a presentation on Baroque Eugene's First Congregational Church. Dennis Davenport (GTF) had his Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri String composition, The Celestial Harmony, Quartet on -takes center stage; a Oregon Bach Festival 1994: released on a new CD by the Debussy matinee performance by the Tapiola Trio. The work was written for the Bach Blockbuster is a Youth Choir is featured July 3; and on New Composers, New Program Debussy Trio during their workshop for July 6, Oregon Bach Festival vocalists the UO Composer's Forum seminar in present an evening of solo cantatas. 1992. Copies of the CD may be ordered Feast for Your Heart In Silva Hall on June 29, the Festival Added to Bach Master Class from Sierra Records, PO Box 5853, Oregon ~achFestival pr pares for 25th season Chamber Orchestra under concertmaster Paying tribute to the past while address the Festival theme, "Spirituality ir Pasadena, CA 91 117-0853. Kathleen Lenski performs music by Bach, looking forward to the future is an under- Music." wenty-five years ago, organist and performance series at Beall Concert Hall. Haydn, Vivaldi, and Rodrigo,with guest lying theme of the Oregon Bach Festival's In its 25th year, the Master Class in Charles Dowd performed last summer as conductor Helmuth Rilling came to With its mesmerizing interplay of guitarist Jose Maria Gallardo del Rey. silver anniversary. This year, the Festival's Choral-Orchestral offers principal timpanist with the Oregon Bach Eugene for a modest series of soloists, instrumentalists, and full and On July 5, Rilling conducts all six educational program exudes that theme, student conductors the opportunity to Festival, the Oregon Festival of American choral workshops and a single perform- divided chorus, the Monteverdi Vespers Brandenburg by Bach, with with a new offering for emerging compos- study technique, style, text, and interpre- Music, and California's Cabrillo Music ance. Today, the Oregon Bach Festival has of 1610 will reverberate through Silva soloists , harpsichord, ers and theonsts in addition to its tation. Class work extends to performance Festival, and was substitute principal grown into an international event with Hall on July 2. Cindy Phelps, viola, Elizabeth Baker traditional master class. when students will conduct the Festival timpanist with the Oregon Symphony. more than 40 concerts in two music-filled Closing the Festival July 9 is the and Kathleen Lenski, violin, Carol The Composers Symposium is an orchestra and soloists in the St. Matthew Dowd performed concerts as jazz weeks. From June 24-July 9, 1994, the Verdi , the opera master's Wincenc, , Allan Vogel, , and innovative new curriculum which combines Passion under the watchful eye of vibraharpist and BMI composerlarranger Festival will celebrate its silver anniver- dramatic setting of the Roman Catholic Hannes Laubin, trumpet. theory, composition and performance in a Helmuth Rilling. with his Goodvibes jazz quartet at the sary with a retrospective look at the "Best Requiem . Other Attractions single intensive program. Under the direc- Besides Rilling, master class faculty Springfield Filbert Festival in September of the Festival" and a leap into the future World Premiere by Arvo Part Throughout the spring, the Festival tion of Robert Kyr, associate professor of members include Richard Clark, associate and at Aquinas College in Michigan. At with a world premiere-a feast for the Another aspect of spirituality in music will be offering opportunities for Eugene composition and theory at the School of professor of music and coordinator of Aquinas he was artist-in-residence, heart of every classical music fan. will be explored Sunday, June 26 in a audiences and performing groups to hear Music, the Composers Symposium choral studies at the School of Music; presenting the Michigan premiere of Choral-Orchestral Concerts night of music by Estonian composer the music of Arvo Part and other Festival consists of four elements: daily seminars Thomas Somerville, professor of music at George Barati's Three Inventions for Solo At the core of every Oregon Bach Arvo Part, which will include the world composers in its "Creative Journeys" analyzing the Festival's choral-orchestral Occidental College near Los Angeles; Timpani and timpani pieces by Elliott Festival are performances of major choral- premiere of A Prayer of Saint John community involvement series. The series repertoire; meetings with Festival guest Gordon Paine, chair of the music depart- Carter, as well as giving jazz drumset and orchestral works. For 1994, conductor Chiysostom, commissioned for the includes lectures, publications, perfom- artists, including Arvo Pa,The Hilliard ment at Cal State-Fullerton and a member clinics and performances. He Rilling and his international forces will Festival's 25th anniversary. Rilling will ances, and discussions. Ensemble, and Helmuth Rilling; of Rilling's Gachinger Kantorei for five conducted the Oregon Percussion Ensem- explore a different genre of spiritual music conduct; vocal soloists are frequent Pirt Mainstays on the Bach schedule attendance at dress rehearsals and years; and Robert Goeser, professor of ble in new chamber works for percussion in each concert. collaborators The Hilliard Ensemble. returning in 1994 are free noon concerts in performances; and composition of a new historical theology at Pacific Lutheran in November, and attended the Percussive Opening the Festival June 24, 1994 in Pirt will be in Eugene for the Festival and the Hult Center lobby, pre-. The symposium experience is Seminary. The Master Class runs concur- Arts Society International Convention in Silva Concert Hall is the Mass in B Minor is scheduled to take part in a question-and- lectures, a meet-the-performer noon series, capped by premieres of the new pieces by rently with the Festival, June 24-July 9. Columbus, OH, where he participated in by Johann Sehastian Bach, one of the answer forum the day after the premiere. and the children's International EarPort. chamber ensembles from within the This year the Festival is also accep- theNationalCollegePercussion Curriculum great composer's most expansive, expres- Guest Artists For more Festival information, call Festival orchestra, conducted by Alasdair ting tapes for chorus auditions. For an Committee. On New Year's Eve he played sive, and jubilant works. The Festival's diverse lineup also 5031346.5666 or 8001457-1486, + Neale, associate conductor of the San application or more information about the a solo jazz vibraharp show at The Chame- Rich with symbolism and spiritual features innovative guest performers. With Francisco Symphony. Composers Symposium, Master Class, or leon in Eugene. Dowd is currently compo- depth, the Bach St. Matthew Passion will more than 50 jazz recordings and an Scheduled for June 17-July l I, 1994, Chorus Auditions, call (503).346-566 or sing, arranging, and scripting a jazz drumset be examined in-depth in a six-part lecture- impressive foray into the classical reper- the Composers Symposium will also (800) 457-1486. + Continued on page 11 Why? Because parents are VIEWPOINT, continued 53% believe the arts are as important as FACULTY NEWS, continued expected to send their children into In a study of the arts industry in the basics of leaming to read and write video project, and continues as artist clini- sub-zero temperature properly , it was found that twice as many well. Nine in ten parents feel the arts are cian for Avedis Zildjian and Ludwig-Musser. outfitted to protect the entire body. people attend the theater, symphony sorely needed in the classroom as full Barefoot To stop short by sending him to concerts, dance performances and credit courses. The arts are viewed as Richard Frazier held a successful seminar school barefooted would be museums than attend professional sports. giving children a sense of accomplish- last summer for players and teachers of in thi Arts considered irresponsible. And I say Surveys of businesses rank liveability and ment other school subjects do not. brass instruments, atttended by both that to provide our children with quality of life high in their priority of A clear majority are willing to pay an amateurs and professional players from by Royce Saltzman math, reading, social studies, factors affecting locational decisions. additional $15 per year in their own taxes Eugene, Portland, and Washington. Frazier language, and science without the And the arts play a critical role in that to support federal funding of the arts. The plans another seminar in the summer of , UO Professor Royce Saltzman, Executive Director of the Oregon arts. is cause for deeo concern. , Bach Festival, gave the following speech to the School Board of ~~ decision-making process. The Oregon survey indicates that despite the deep 1994. Call 343-5789 for more information. Eugene School District 45 on September 22,1993: A report in U.S. News and World Report, March 30, 1992, Shakespeare Festival exerts a $60 million concern people have about the nation's describes what has happened at the South Bronx's St. Augustine economic impact on southern Oregon's economy, they are also disturbed that the John Gainer arranged and conducted want to express a personal concern about decisions that are School of the Arts where the arts have become the core of the economy. Overall, in a state with a am are being systematically eliminated background vocals on four cuts of a new causing the slow shredding of the ass fabric in our schools, curriculum, not extra-curricular activities. St. Augustine serves population of less than three million from school budgets and from the school release titled Constant Rain by Rob Tobias, one thread at a time-decisions which already are affecting children in the nation's poorest congressional district, where people, the arts have a $138 million experience itself. By an overwhelming a folklrock vocal artist. The vocals were

the life of this community and will have, I believe, an even more only one in four will ever graduate from high school. Its impact on Oregon's economic health. majority of ten to one, -people - surveyed performed by John's community choir, drastic impact in the future. curriculum is built around music, dance, the visual arts, and The arts generate were convinced Inspirational Sounds. Gainer was also I am refemng to the elimination of music specialists in most creative writing-to defy the odds. The results? Ninety-five a positive image that the arts involved in recording projects for the West of the elementary schools, and in FY 92-93, a reduction of the arts percent of St. Augustine's students are reading at or above that makes a "zn Boston ... twice as many- nrovide an Coast Gospel Music Workshop of America throughout much of the district. I fear this is part of an ill wind grade level. All but a few will go on to high school and strong statement veovle attend the theater, enhanced Regional Mass Choir, released in January, tbat is blowing across many parts of our country that sees the arts graduate. And though some come from single-parent families about the quality Symphonyconcerts, dance educations' 1994, on Pepperco Records, and the as being unworthy to be part of the infrastructure of a community's that are damaged by drugs, AIDS, and violence, virtually all are of life in a experience that National GMWA Mass Choir "Live" in soul and spirit; and that when it comes to priorities, ranks the arts model students who are disciplined, cooperative, and confident. community-and performances, and museums not only helps Indianapolis 1993, to be released on at the bottom for funding consideration. The report goes on to say that St. Augustine's model is a resonant arts than attend professi0iZal sports."- build self- Benson Records in March. The elimination or reduction of the arts in our schools will "fueling a growing campaign nationwide to restore the arts to program in the confidence in affect the lives of our children far into the future. Set in motion is their former place in the basic cumculum." schools is a keystone in building this children, but also makes the educational Barbara Gunzilez-Palmer performed in a defoliation of creativity that leaves barren the mind, spirit, and Groups such as the Future Business Leaders of America quality of life. process much more exciting and recital with singers Maria Jette and Richard creativity of generations to come and erodes the very soul of our city. and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics are In March 1992, Louis Harris interesting. Zeller for the 1993 Oregon Bach Festival's An executive summary from a report by the US. Department realizing that comprehensive programs in the arts can radically announced in Washington the results of a Much of what I have said this "Holiday Salute to America" program. of Labor entitled "Reinventing the Wheel: A Design for Student improve graduation rates, grades, and overall achievement levels. survey called Americans and the Arts. evening may not he new information to She then journeyed to Austria for her Achievement in the 21st Century," states that more than half of Recently, a study by a College Entrance Examination The survey shows that 91% of Americans yon. What is important, however, is that second summer as a pianist with the Amer- America's students leave school without the skills they need to Board revealed that students who took more than four years of support arts in the schools, even though the weather vane for the arts is pointing in ican Institute of Musical Studies, where find and hold good jobs. The report lists these skills as "the music and arts scored 34 points higher on verbal and 18 points programs are being cut back across the several directions. One tells us that with she performed numerous recitals, auditions, ability to work with others, communication, creative thinking, self- better on math SATs than those who took music for less than nation. Ninety- percent believe that the passing of Measure 5, the climate of and competitions with vocalists and instru- esteem, imagination, and invention-skills that arts education one year. Reading, writing, science, social studies, speaking leaming about the arts helps children state support for our schools has and will mentalists from around the world. During helps develop." skills, and math all improve when students are involved in the arts. become more creative and imaginative. continue to bring with it some turbulent the fall, shc: was pianist in Faculty Artist I have no problem with placing a high priority on math, BNC~Ratner, an urban developer, spoke to the American Eighty percent think that when times. The other tells us that when it Series concerts with Jeff Williams, The reading, social studies, language, and science as important core Council for the Arts last March about the significant impact the children in school leam about and comes to the bottom line, parents want a Con Brio Chamber Players, and the components of our learning. But it is stopping there that is wrong! arts have on the economy of our communities and our nation. participate in the arts, they learn skills that healthy climate in which the arts can annual Faculty Musicale. In addition, she Adam, my grandson, departs for pre-school on a sub-zero He urged that when making decisions about the allocation of can be useful in a job. Eighty-nine survive and flourish for the benefit of performed in recital with renowned cellist scarce dollars we answer the question: "What are the arts worth percent of parents surveyed would like their children-and they are willing to and pedagogue Gordon Epperson during "Reading, writing, science, social studies, to our country and to our communities?' Ratner further stated their children to be able to enjoy and lend their support to make it happen! the Scandinavian Studies celebration in that "funding for the arts requires decisions about the value of benefit from the arts and from cultural John F. Kennedy said it best: "The October. As music director and production speaking skills, and math all improve when arts as contributors to economic growth." experiences at school that were not life of the arts, far from being an coordinator for the chamber opera Tober- students are involved in the arts." As one of a number of arts administrators in this available when they, the parents, were in interruption, a distraction in the life of a mory, she took 22 student musicians and community, I am deeply concerned that decisions which cut school. A 76% majority believes that art nation, is very close to the center of a colleagues to the National Opera Assoc- Minnesota winter morning. His parents make certain that he has away at the roots of our arts cumculum in the schools will leave courses should be funded by the school nation's purpose and is a test of the iation's annual convention in New Orleans. warm underclothing, topped by shirt and leggings, a wool cap to us barren in the future of musicians, visual and graphic artists, system as part of the regular budget. If quality of a nation's civilization." protect his head, fur-lined gloves for the hands, a vortex jacket, and actors, and dancers. In a city that values the quality of its they bad to choose, 69% favor cutting I close by paraphrasing tbat Francis Graffeo, director of the UO Opera a lunch pail filled with all the right nutrients for a growing boy. liveability, we cannot overlook the fact that allowing the arts to some administrative expenses in the statement: "The life of the arts, far from Workshop and artistic director of Eugene Now, he's ready to meet a Minnesota morning-right? Wrong! If be reduced or eliminated affects not only the vocational direc- school system in order to have the arts as being an interruption, a distraction in the Opera, spent the summer conducting Rose it happened that way, my daughter and son-in-law likely would be tion of many of our youth, but also the cultural and economic part of the regular cumculum. A majority life of this community, is veiy close to the Marie and Verdi's Falstaff at Central City taken to court, tried as unfit parents, and Adam placed in the well-being of our city. (67%) feel that courses in the arts are as center of its purpose and is afest of the Opera in Colorado, totalling over 20 temporary custody of a court-appointed child protection agency. Continued on page I1 important as history and geography, and quality of its future progress." Continued on page 12 FACULTY NEWS, continued Outline History of Western Music, - summer, Steinhardt appeared with the performances. In Eugene, he has been busy lished by Brown-BenchmarkPublishing Co. Oregon Bach Festival, and performed two with the Opera's 1993-94 season, conduc- concerts with the Bloch Festival in Looking Back Over the Fence ting Cavalleria Rusticana, a Gala Concert Anne Dhu McLucas spoke on "Perform- Newport. He performed Don Wunn (B.S. 1939) is well-remem- Vative son Richard Smith returns to shares insights at UO on New Year's Eve, and Tosca in January. ing or Composing a Life" at UO with the Salem , Mozart's bered by his Hood River High School commencement ceremonies in August. Concerto in Minor with the Salem bands, which he led from 1939 to 1942. In usic students at the UO got an up-close-and-persona1 session from one of the Don Latarski spent two weeks last She was also a featured speaker at the Chamber Orchestra and the Oregon recent years Wunn has received frequent pros, as guitarist Richard Smith (UO '83) visited the School of Music in Novem- summer teaching at the University of Britt Festival annual dinner in October, as Mozart Players, and soloed on the Oregon invitations to attend 50-year class reunions. ber. Smith spoke for an hour at one of the new Student Music Forums and later Alaska at Fairbanks, instructing in musical well as a presenter at the UO Humanities Symphony's all-Beethoven concert. Stein- Each year, a former student shows up at oined jazz instructor Don Latarski in a more focused session with the jazz class. uses of personal computers. Latarski's brown bag series, speaking on her work- hardt also participated in the 1993 Chamber his home, insisting that he come, followed A professional guitarist who lives in Los Angleles and is on the USC music faculty, by letters saying "he there!" ' most recent book, Practical Theory for in-progress on an edition of 19th century Music Series Benefit Concert, and played Smith is riding" a comfortable wave these davs. Along" with his studio work. he is a side Guitar, published by CCPBelwin Inc., melodrama music. With co-author Paul F. a chamber music recital in Seattle with man for saxophonist Richard Elliot, and is recording his own music-"an incredibly was released in October. The book comes Wells, of the Center for Popular Music, new string faculty members Kathryn Helen Hudson Chester (B.A. 1949) had Fulfilling experience." Not only fulfilling, but acclaimed as well. One Smith album was with a CD tucked inside the front cover she presented a paper at the American Lucktenherg and Steven Pologe. no idea that the cruise she took in Septem- lamed Record of the Year in Japan (1990), and two hit the top five in U.S. jjiz polls in which contains all the examples used in Folklore Society annual meeting in ber would turn into a reunion. As she was 1992. In recent years Smith has played in the Hollywood Bowl, Orchestra Hall in the book. Don and his group recently October, "Musical Theater of the 18th and Stephen Stone completed a project boarding the ship, however, she heard her Zhicago, and Town Hall in , to name a few. completed an 11-month engagement at the 19th Century as a between Folk cataloguing the songs of two well-known name being called by two women. They Smith grew up in Eugene, attending Roosevelt Middle School and South Eugene Oregon Electric Station, and will resume and Popular Traditions." composer/singer/pianists of the 1940s and turned out to be Treva Rice Barker High, where he came under the early influence of Rick Wolfgang and Dick Long. At theirresidency at the Jazz Depot beginning 50s, Matt Dennis and Robert (Bobby) (1950) and Alma Dopson Brown (1951), 3ge 15, Smith was playing gigs at Joe Federigo's, and by age 20 there was little else in in February. The group also performed last J. Robert Moore, following two months of Troup. The catalogued songs have been two of her School of Music classmates. is life but music. year at the Umpqua Valley Arts Festival, summer research in Hungaty in 1991, gave placed on file in the Archive of Popular They hadn't seen each other in 44 years. Though he admitted that "when you're in school it's hard to see over the fence," Oregon Country Fair, Amazon Concert five lecture-recitalslast year on the tam- American at UCLA. Smith gave the UO School of Music credit for giving him a strong foundation. "The UO Series, and theEugene Celebration. Don gato, a Hungarian folk instrument, including Treva Rice Barker (B.A. 1950) works as -eally stoked my furnace," he said. "I have very good memories of the UO and the has also been working with Dynamix, Inc., presentations at Western Washington State, Claire Wachter gave a piano master class a travel marketing consultant in Portland. 3pportunities it gave me." Smith urged students not only to take their classes seriously, on soundtrack music for thelr computer Arizona State, University of Oregon, and in for the South Coast District of Oregon She recently escorted 165 English 3ut to find a mentor-someone to really quench their thirst and expand their horizons. game, "The Incredible Machine." Nashville for the International Conference Music Teacher's Association in November. Handbell Ringers on an Alaskan cruise Smith expressed gratitude that he had two mentors at Oregon: percussionist Charles of the American seminar. Barker is planning another cruise Dowd and pianist~dKammerer. Mark Levy is directing the second year of Society. This past season Moore soloed Jeffrey Williams hosted master classes by for January 1995 to the Caribbean. Smith's lecture was peppered with the UO's World Music Series, which this with violinist Leslie Sawyer at an Oregon visiting trombonists John Marcellus, Ava memories of his undergraduate experi- year has included Balinese music and Mozart Players concert, and performed Ordman, and Jim Pugh this past year. Byron Miller (MS. 1951), former ence, recalling an ear training class with dance by Gamelan Sekar Jaya and several Faculty Artist concerts with the Con Williams spent the summer performing in supervisor of music in Eugene and band Robert Hurwitz, counterpoint with Hal by ZiyiA. Spring term will have Brio Chamber Players. He continues as the Red Lodge (Montana) Music Festival, and orchestra director at South Eugene Owen, and Appreciation of Music with music from several cultures, featuring principal oboe with the Oregon Mozart the Oregon Bach Festival, the Ernest High, now lives in Lake Havasu City, AZ. Gary Martin. Some of that material didn't Oregon-based performers. Levy was the Players and the Cascade Festival of Music. Bloch Music Festival, and Oregon's Miller, now 80, continues to play trumpet seem particularly useful at the time, said faculty sponsor for the 1993 Northwest Festival of American Music. He also and string , even though he is legally Smith, but once out in the real world he MarimbaFestival: a celebration of Randall Moore conducted the Oregon attended the 1993 International Trombqne blind, able to see only vague shapes and found himself noticing and relying on Zimbabwean Music, held at the U of 0. In Children's Choir in eight performances of Workshop in Cleveland. Williams shades of light. In the past few years he those building blocks more and more. For September he performed with a Eugene- "Pioneer Children on the Oregon Trail," a continues as principal trombone of the soloed at his Hood River High School's illustration, he recalled a recent TV based Balkan folk music group, Slavej, at musical created for the Oregon Trail's Eugene Symphony Orchestra. 60th reunion, and at the 50th reunion at commercial that successfully used the Eugene Celebration and the Cornallis Sesquicentennial. The group performed Centralia, WA, where he taught prior to principles of Gregorian for dramatic Fall Festival. Levy'sEastEuropeanFoIk the show in Bend, Bums, Baker City, Susan Zadoff (Dance) pelformed and moving to Eugene. He plays his trumpet effect. "You never know when this stuff is MusicEnsemble, a School of Music class, Wallowa Park, Oregon City, The Dalles, helped choreograph four numbers for the every Sunday at church, and remarks going to sneak up on you," he said. performed in December and will represent and Eugene. Moore also co-authored a Harlem Rhapsody Gala-part of Marin "thank heavens they still sing the old As for specific recommendations to the UO at the Alumni Association's paper with Wayne Strong of Springfield Alsop's Festival of American Music last hymns I know." Miller's annual visits to the guitar class, Smith had three: learn to Portland luncheon series, "Expanding Public Schools, titled "Relationship of summer. She and Larry Sutton did the Eugene always result in his performing a play as many styles as possible; learn to Horizons." Levy was elected to a three- singing ability between parents and their Charleston for seven exhausting minutes comet solo at his former Kiwanis Club. play them the best you can; and play them year term on the Council for the Society ~hildren"and presented it at a national at a Eugene Symphony program in as often as possible. + for Ethnomusicology, and has been asked symposium in April at the University of October, and she performed the role of the Del Chinhrug (M.Mus. 1961) taught at to write a 60-page article on the music of Alabama. In November, Moore attended Queen in Eugene Ballet's Sleeping Beauty. North Salem High School from 1960- (M.A. 1965) will be Dan Bochard (B.Mus. 1968) was a -guest European ethnic groups as a contribution m international conference of North Zadoff also taught a week-long workshop 1981. After retiring in 1985 from Waldo :caching music at the Theremin Center for clinician for the Southern California to the Encyclopedia of WorldMusic, a ten- American music therapists in Toronto. in Astoria for the North Coast Ballet, and Middle School, he continued to teach Electro-Acoustic Music at the Moscow School Band and Orchestra Association. volume series to be released in a few years. choreographed a 12-minute work for woodwinds at Western Oregon State Zonservatory of Music (Russia) in the He also recorded a television soundtrack Victor Steinhardt gave a May perform- Dance '94 at the Hult Center. + College until 1989. Last year Chinhurg Winter of 1994. Jon's hoineis in White with Roger Williams and Glenn Campbell. Gary Martin and James Miller have just mce of his own Sonata , assisted and his wife took an extended tour of the River Jct., Vermont. .. . He is a trombone soloist, clinician and had the eighth edition of their book, An ~y violinist Leslie Sawyer. During the U.S. in their motor home. adjudicator throughout the western states. Philip Cansler (M.Mus. 1977) and American Choral Directors Association. Alice Blankenship (B.Mus. 1989) has Jeannine Cansler (D.M.A. 1984) had a His responsibilities include overseeing been accepted to the San Francisco full-size installed in their workshops and festivals and writing Conservatory of Music and will study living room by Austrian craftsman Martin editorials for the California ACDA violin with Isadore Tinkleman. Alice Pasi, who owns an organ-building shop in newsletter. Hodson is on the faculty of studied with Lawrence Maves of the Roy, Washington. Pasi handcrafted every Modesto Junior College where he directs University of Oregon and Helene Pohl of part of the instrument, and it took two the Masterworks Chorus and the the San Francisco Conservatory. She men working full time to complete it. It is Collegiate Choir. graduated cum laude from the University a tracker organ, patterned after one of the of Oregon Honors College where she was great early organs of the Renaissance era, Mike McCornack (B.Mus. 1984,M. Mus. a Presidential Scholar. She was a member with 463 pipes, and a case made of white 1990) and his wife Carleen recently of the Oregon Mozart Players for the oak. The Canslers installed the 16-foot- released their fourth recording in 22 years 1991-1992 season. Alice's mother, Gay high organ for Jeannine to practice, give of making music together. The album, Blankenship (MA. 1966), is a classroom lessons, and host small student recitals Sunshine Cake, is a work for children, as music teacher and has been choir director and music gatherings. Both Canslers are is all the McComacks' music. The alhum of the Junction City Community Choir for on the music faculty at the University of also features UO graduates Date Bradley 30 years. Portland. Philip also serves as coordinator (B.Mus. 1981, M.Mus. 1984) and Kevin of music at Parkrose United Methodist McCornack (B.Mus. 1980, M.Mus. Vera Jhung (B.A. 1990) is finishing her Church and Jeannine is music director at 1982). The group has given many recent master's degree in orchestral conducting at Mt. Tabor Presbyterian. Together they local performances, including the 1993 the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, Music in the Hinterlands operate their own music publishing and Eugene Celebration and the Lane County where she conducts and plays viola in the UO grad named Teacher of the Year in Alaska District booking agency, Pro-Motion Music. + Fair. The album is available through Conductor's Institute. She plans to by John McManus Alacazam! Records. graduate in May, 1994. Jhung also received her black belt in Tae Kwon Do avid Glazier, a 1977 UO School of Music graduate, was recently named 1993 Gene A. Newton (B.Mus. 1974, M.Mus. Timothy Tikker (M.Mus. 1983) won the Cameron Gates (B.Mus. Ed. 1988) this past summer, and currently teaches Teacher of the Year for the Southeast Island School District in Alaska. 1978) has recently released his first solo 1993-94 AGO/Holtkamp Award in Organ joined the United States Marine Band in women's self-defense classes. rn Accompanying the honor is an all-expense-paid opportunity for Glazier to attend alhum under his own label, Nez Composition, a biennial contest open to all June, 1993. Staff Sergeant Gates earned a music education conference in any of the lower 48 states. Productions. The alhum features original ages in the US., Canada, and Mexico. His his master's degree in instrumental Jane Schrepping (B.Mus. Ed. 1990) has For the past seven years, Glazier has been dedicated to bringing music to students compositions using modem technology winning work,Variations su un vieux Noel conducting from the University of New been teaching K-5 general music for in some of the most isolated panhandle communities of Alaska. The school district and and synthesis. The release is titled was unanimously chosen from well over Mexico and taught hand at Saugus High Portland Public Schools. She plays with the state of Alaska are committed to allocating funds for the arts education of students in Celestial Plea and is an attempt to reach 30 entries. The award includes a cash School in Los Angeles, and Elmira High the University of Portland Symphonic many of the one and two-room schools located in distant outlying fishing villages, the core of the human spirit through prize, performance of the work at the 1994 School in Oregon. While in the Marine Band and performed the Richard Strauss logging camps, and mining areas that are reached only by float planes or boats. The sound. The CD will be available National Convention of the American Band, Gates will perform at the White No. 1 with the band in 15,000 square mile areaGlazier serves covers the islands of Revillagigedo,Baronof, Kuiu, throughout the Northwest or from Nez Guild of Organists in Dallas, TX, and House, in the Washington, D.C. area, and December, 1993. Kosciusko, Heceta, and Prince of Whales. This year, his schools are located in Edna Productions, PO Box 1042, Albany, OR. publication by Hinshaw Music. Tikker around the country during the group's Bay, Lahouchere Bay, Port Alexander, Port Protection, Rowan Bay, and Whale Pass. gave the premiere of his work in a recital annual concert tour. Gates currently Kathleen Sonsa-Yonehiro (B.A. Dance, Glazier's school week begins in his office in Ketchikan, preparing for the week's David W. Rhodes (M.Mus. 1970) opened celebrating the 25th anniversaly of the resides in Falls Church,VA. 1990) is teaching Hula and Modern Dance classes and waiting for fog to lift or a storm to abate. When the district-contracted pilot up R&R Travel in Hesston, Kansas. His installation of the Reuter pipe organ at while completing her nursing degree at the decides it is safe to fly, Glazier climbs aboard the vintage 1953 DeHavilland Beaver float agency specializes in educational tours for Central Presbyterian Church in Eugene in University of Hawaii. Her daughter, plane with his five-pound violin, 3 112-pound , bed roll, and food and students and the general public, as well as October, 1993. He has also been chosen as Taylor, turned one year old in December, teaching supplies for a week. Limited to 35 pounds, he must make tough decisions about specialty tours, including volleyball, The the composer of a set of improvisation 1993. what to leave behind. For example, his and any heavy, general music hooks Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Route, concert lessons for beginning organists, designed rarely make it. The plane lands on the safest stretch of water nearest the school, partially and opera tours, art history, and geography. for use in the Pipe Organ Encounters Siri Nilsun (B.A. 1992) is currenth beaching so that Glazier can jump out in shallow water, or, if he is lucky, on sand or a pier. program sponsored by the AGO. In July, Music is scheduled whenever Glazier appears at the door. The regular teacher DeeAnn Sands (B.Mus. Ed. 1983) has Tikker served as improvisation instructor interrupts the routine and tums the K-12 students over to Glazier, who is always greeted been singing opera, operetta, and musical and adjudicator at the San Anselmo Organ architecture at the University of Wisconsin with enthusiasm. He teaches general music, vocal, and instrumental music in these one theater in Portland for seven years. She Festival at First Presbyterian Church in at Madison. She is also on staff at the and two-room schools. The total enrollment, K-12, ranges from six in his smallest recently played the role of Fiona in The San Anselmo, CA. Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison, one school to 20 in his largest, the only two-room school. Next year, however, the state of Musical Theatre Company's production of of the top three university museums in the Alaska will close all schools with fewer than eight students. Brigadoon. She and her percussionist Steven R. Hodson (M.Mus. Ed. 1984) country. + When evening comes, Glazier prepares his own food, practices his violin in his husband, Mark Goodenherger, perfom was awarded the D.M.A. in choral spare time, and then rolls out his sleeping bag in a corner of the school building and contemporary-classical music concerts literature and conducting from the spends the night. Occasionally he is invited to stay with families, and is noted for together. She directs grade school at University of Colorado at Boulder. He was cooking his favorite dishes for them. A few of the communities have an apartment the French American School in Portland also elected president of the 1,300- available for visiting specialists. Sometimes had weather strands him until the school. and teaches private lessons in her studio. member California State contingent of the Cameron Gates Conrinued on page 16 HINTERLANDS, continued district pilot is able to pick him up and deliver him to the next school, or back to Ketchikan. Once a year Glazier takes his students to the Region 5 Spring Music Festival where 850 high school band and choir students from Southeast Alaska are adjudicated. Blanche W. (Wicklund) Royer ( B.A. 1921) died at the age of 96. She was born His upper-grade students, numbering 23, are flown or ferried to the festival site where they are able to meet and rehearse for the first time as a unit. The festival locale rotates in Astoria and raised in Hamrnond, OR. around the Southeast Alaskan panhandle communities of Ketchikan, Juneau, or Sitka. If After completing her degree at UO, she taught music and was supervisor of music the host school is Juneau, it involves a two-day ferry ride for Glazier's students. His students sleep and rehearse as a group in churches or gymnasiums, and are glad to have at high schools in Newherg and Rainier, the time to make the adjustment from a small ensemble to the larger band and choir. OR, and in Wenatchee, WA. ' Performing for an audience of 1,000 is an eye-opening experience for Glazier's students, who have received outstanding ratings the past four years. Some have remarked that Mary Ornesta (Benson) Dunlap (B.A. 88. Glazier's band was the best band in the festival regardless of size, a tribute to his 1934) died last year at the age of Dunlap taught piano and oversaw the teaching skill and general . This is especially remarkable when one considers .. that of his 23 students in the 1993 spring festival, 15 were in the band, and only five of piano instructors at Pacific University for 2 those were present to begin the new school year in the fall of 1992. Because of the many years. She grew up in the Portland Area and worked briefly as a secretary 3 transient population in these rural camps and communities, each year Glazier routinely 0 g faces starting 314 of his band students as raw beginners. before attending the University of Oregon. 6, Despite his forays into the hinterlands, Glazier leads an active life as a performer She taught in Cottage Grove and North g and private teacher in the Ketchikan area. He has played violin, clarinet, and string bass Bend before her marriage to Leonard c Dunlap in 1934. In 1942 she moved to g 0 in the Southeast Alaska and Juneau , and has been the guest artist clarinet Y? soloist twice with the Southeast Alaska Symphony. Another guest solo appearance is Forest Grove, where, in addition to her g scheduled later this year. He has performed for five years with the Ketchikan Jazz juties at Pacific University, she served as aE :hoir director for the Forest Grove United El. Society Big Band and at local folk festivals and community benefit dances. Glazier is also a skilled instrument repairman like his dad, who owned his own shop and served as Methodist Church. repairman at Wills Music in Salem, Oregon, for many years. Donald Rees (B.S. 1939) died last year at :he age of 76. Rees taught music for 28 HAVE WE HEARD FROM YOU LATELY? years at McKenzie High School, :ventually serving as vice-principal as Let us and your fellow alumni know of your activities by filling out aell. At McKenzie he was noted for his and sending us the form below. Please give us your current address, aell-disciplined bands that comprised a particularly if you have moved recently. Photographs are welcome. hird of the total student body, and for the r""""----"""---,,-, 1 igh quality of his annual Gilbert & 1 2/94 UO School of Music & Dance Alumni Sullivan operettas, and the annual Fun I \light concerts that were the talk of the I WHAT'S UP? I .own. He moved on to become I Superintendent of Schools at Creswell I NAME Class of I Degree mtil he retired in 1978, completing 39 I I {ears in education. + I Comments I

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