The INSIDE Serving Baltimore/Washington/AnnapolisJohns January/February 2004 Circulation: 27,000 PeabodyHopkins News Rainbow Body by Christopher Theofanidis wins the Masterprize Page 3 Loraine Bernstein honored with Heritage Award Peabody Jazz Page 3 features Jay Clayton, Erik Friedlander and the Mark Feldman Quartet Page 9 Daniel Thomas Davis receives Marshall Scholarship Page 3 New Directions for Peabody Damce Page 14 Photo by Patrick Roberts, 1986/ © Corbis. All Rights Reserved. Afghan Hero Ahmad Shah Massoud celebrated in Peabody world premiere of The Lion Preparatory ensembles take the of Panshjir by David Gaines stage Page 8 Page 15 Theatre Hopkins runs the Dramatic Gamut by Mike Guiliano The Maestro’s Page 18 Moonshine — Peabody Opera Elizabeth Schaaf Theatre performs discovers Strube’s Abduction from the Seraglio Secret Stash by Garnett Bruce Page 6 Page 11 2 Peabody News January/February 2004 January/February 2004 Peabody News 3 Daniel Thomas Davis awarded Loraine Bernstein receives The Johns Britain’s Marshall Scholarship Heritage Award Hopkins PEABODY At age 22, Daniel Thomas Davis has One of Peabody’s most devoted friends, Peabody News been awarded a Marshall Scholarship, Peabody alumna Loraine Panek Bernstein which, along with the Rhodes, is regard- was the recipient of the 2003 Heritage winners ed as Britain’s most prestigious scholar- Award at a lunch held in the Homewood ship for foreign students. Davis, who is Campus Glass Pavil- finishing his Bachelor’s at Peabody, ion on October 24. The Award Winning Rainbow Body by Christopher where he studies composition with Ms. Bernstein is Newspaper of the Baltimore/ Christopher Theofanidis and Director and Trustee Theofanidis wins the piano/accompanying with Nancy Roldan of the Peggy and Washington Cultural Corridor Masterprize Published by the Peabody and Eileen Cornett, is concurrently com- Yale Gordon Charita- Peabody raised a champagne toast to Conservatory of Music, pleting his Master’s degree in the History ble Trust. Grants Christopher Theofanidis when he Department at Hopkins. He already holds from this organiza- Baltimore. returned in triumph from London in a Bachelor’s degree in history from the tion have supported early November. His orchestral work, university. the Shriver Hall titled Rainbow Body, had just won the Loraine Bernstein Concert Series and Circulation: 27,000 world’s largest competition for new Special Events at music, the Masterprize Competition. The Johns Hopkins, and the Yale Gordon Con- finals were held at the Barbican Center certo Competition and two four-year schol- Editor: on October 30, 2003, with the London arships at Peabody. Anne Garside Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Loraine Bernstein was a member and Daniel Harding performing the works of officer of the Peabody Steering Committee the six finalists. The win carries a cash during the years following the merging of award of (British pounds) 25,000 Assistant Editor and Designer: Peabody and Johns Hopkins. She then The Masterprize Competition is joined The Johns Hopkins University Alum- Kirsten Lavin unusual in that the vote is partly deter- ni Council and served on its Executive mined in advance by the readers of Committee, often hosting students as part Gramophone and Classic FM magazines of the JHU Alumni Association’s Host Fami- Publishers that have a circulation of over 100,000. Daniel Thomas Davis ly Program. Representative: These magazines made recordings of the Her husband, Malcolm (“Mac”) Bern- Network Publications, Inc. works available on their websites. The stein is also an alumnus of Peabody. He 11350 McCormick Road audience also participates in the voting. About forty Marshall Scholarships are received his Teaching Certificate in voice Executive Plaza One, Suite 900 “It’s a bit like the Oscars,” says Theo- awarded annually to U.S. students for in 1951. The Bernsteins annually present Hunt Valley, MD 21031 fanidis. “The night of the finals, colored two years of study at a British university the Marion B. and Samuel Bernstein Award slips were distributed to the audience or college of their choice. Daniel hopes in memory of Mr. Bernstein’s parents to an with the names of the works. At the end, Portfolio Manager: to be accepted by the Royal Academy of outstanding opera singer at Peabody. the emcee opened an envelope on stage and Music in London. Awards to musicians Carey Scanlan said ‘And the Winner is...Rainbow Body.’” are extremely rare. Daniel believes he Peabody’s New Website Tel: 410/584-1900, ext. 121 Local audiences will have the oppor- may be only the second musician to win Fax: 410/584-1998 named “Site of the Day” by tunity to hear Rainbow Body in a live one in the fifty-year history of the Schol- Macromedia.com Email: [email protected] performance by the Columbia Orchestra, arships, which are funded by the British Jason Love conducting, on February 28 government to commemorate the U.S.’s The Peabody Institute website has at 8 p.m. at the Jim Rouse Theatre in Marshall Plan that assisted in the recon- been named “Site of the Day” by Macro- media.com. The new site, launched in fall, Printed by: Columbia. The work has been recorded struction of Europe after World War II. A on the TELARC label with the Atlanta 2003, and developed by Baltimore-based Homestead Publishing Co. second Hopkins student, Sondra L. Hell- Symphony, conducted by Robert Spano. strom, who is a double major in Physics no|inc, includes flash animation features It was commissioned by “Meet the Compos- and Electrical Engineering, is also a recip- on faculty and students along with a er” and the Houston Symphony Orchestra. ient. wealth of information about campus life, Peabody News is published bi- Houston is Chris’s home town. Rainbow The new Marshall Scholar has an programs of study, and upcoming events. monthly for September/October; Body was also performed at Peabody in important date at Peabody this spring. Macromedia is an industry-leader in web November/December; January/Feb- 2002, conducted by Robert Sirota. On April 3 and 4, the Peabody Camerata, design software development. With the ruary; March/April; and May/June. Winning the Masterprize Competition under the baton of Gene Young, joins distinction of being named a “Site of the Day,” the Peabody Institute website is in Each issue mails out at least 10 days is likely to prompt a number of new per- with the Peabody Opera Workshop to formances and commissions for Theo- present the world premiere of Davis’s the company of sites developed by Jaguar, before the first month of the issue IKEA, and Brooks Brothers. The Macrome- date. fanidis. “I have already been approached chamber opera If I Were a Voice. The by an orchestra in Paris and one in opera follows the lives of the Hutchin- dia “Site of the Day” archive is available online at Edited for Peabody/Hopkins faculty, Beirut,” says Chris. “Rainbow Body is sons, a 19th-century family of singers and also being performed again by a British radical reformers, thus reflecting Daniel’s http://www.macromedia.com/show- executive staff, alumni, donors and youth orchestra on its international dual commitment to music and history. case/archive/. friends and Baltimore/Washington tour.” Peabody’s website redesign initiative, concertgoers. begun more than a year ago, was charged with creating a site that would not only be Articles, news items and display ads dynamic to outside users, but would are accepted at the Editor’s discre- encourage communication between the disparate audiences within the Peabody. tion. For editorial information A team of faculty and staff worked closely contact: with no|inc to create it. “The new website provides visitors the Anne Garside opportunity to experience our preemi- Director of Public Information nent faculty and talented students, while The Peabody Conservatory of Music capturing the great history and traditions One East Mount Vernon Place of the Peabody,” says Harlan Parker, chair Baltimore, Maryland 21202 of the Steering Committee on Information Tel. 410/659-8100, ext. 1190 Services. “The new site offers more than Fax 410/783-8576 a nice design. Because faculty and staff E-mail: [email protected] can publish content freely, it literally turns the Peabody inside out.” Visit the new site at The Peabody Composition faculty toast Christopher Theofanidis’s Masterprize win. http://www.peabody.jhu.edu Left to right: Bruno Amato, McGregor Boyle, Geoffrey Wright, Theofanidis, Robert Sirota, and Nicholas Maw. Continued on Page 4 4 Peabody News January/February 2004 PEABODYwinners Dr. Nathan Carter takes Morgan Choir to Russia Music Director Nathan Carter, who holds his doctorate from Peabody, will be taking the Morgan State University Choir to Russsia to perform with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic at the invitation of Yuri Termikanov. Termirkanov is Music Director of both the St. Petersburg Victor Danchenko (far right) and other distinguished members of the jury give a press conference in St. Petersburg. Victor Danchenko, who also studied Petri transcription of Bach “Sheep May with Oistrakh, was invited to be a mem- Safely Graze,” where Fleisher’s perfor- ber of the jury. He and his distinguished mance revealed that “True pianism is less fellow jury members heard the competi- speed and velocity, more the ability of tors in the Small and Grand Halls of the the ear, and consequently the hand, to St. Petersburg Philharmonia. Among separate one voice from the next.” Hol- them was a former Peabody student of land described the premiere of Dina Kos- Danchenko, Yvonne Lam, who won sec- ton’s “Messages” as being “like a melan- Nathan Carter ond prize. Yvonne was also a second choly nightscape lighted by iridescent prizewinner in Peabody’s Marbury Com- clumps of notes.” Koston, a Peabody orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony petition.