2005 SCI Region V Conference An Interview with Steven Stucky Christopher Gable Ralph S. Kendrick Butler University RSK: Congratulations on winning the Indianapolis, Indiana Pulitzer Prize this year! How does one feel UPCOMING November 11–13 after winning such a distinguished award? co-hosted by Were you surprised by it, and has your life CONFERENCES Frank Felice and Michael Schelle been much different since? 2006 Region VII Conference During the second weekend of November, SS: I can’t pretend that I’m not pleased University of New Mexico 2005, approximately 48 composers from that this year my number came up. It’s not In conjunction with the John Donald all across the country converged on the that I think that objectively my piece was Robb Composers Symposium campus of Butler University for the SCI the “best” one, of course, but a committee April 2–5, 2006 Midwest Chapter (Region V) Conference. of respected peers found the piece worth Host: Christopher Shultis After nine full-length concerts in three discussing in the company of some of the E-mail: [email protected] days, we were all exhausted, but thrilled by other terrific pieces American composers the experience and warmed by the gave us over the past year. That’s enough 2006 National Conference generosity of the conference’s co-hosts, to encourage a composer to think he San Antonio, TX Frank Felice and Michael Schelle. There hasn’t been wasting his time, and to September 13-17, 2006 was networking, socializing, rehearsing, inspire him to keep trying to do his best. Co-located Conference with the and reuniting, all during informal meetings And it’s hard to be cynical about seeing College Music Society at the on-campus Starbucks, or local your name inked in on the junior end of a restaurants, as well as at the off-campus list that contains your boyhood heroes 2006 National Student Conference Broad Ripple Brew Pub. I always find it (Aaron Copland! Charles Ives!). Arizona State University amazing how small the world of composi- October 2006 (Dates TBA) tion is, and am happy to meet someone I never expected to be singled out this Submission Deadline: TBA who went to school with so-and-so, who year, not after various controversies Host: Glenn Hackbarth also studied with this person, and who surrounding the music prize in recent E-mail: [email protected] knows your best friend’s sister. In any years, and not so soon after the criteria event, we were blessed by unseasonably were broadened to reach beyond what we 2006 Region IV Conference warm weather and clear skies, which used to call “classical” music (a move that I Middle Tennessee State University showed off the beautiful campus and seconded in principle, even while wonder- October 26–28, 2006 pleasant residential setting in a great light. ing how it might work in practice). Like Submission Deadline: TBA many others, I thought that Pulitzer juries Host: Paul D. Osterfield would feel compelled over the next few E-mail: [email protected] years to test the new boundaries—and perhaps they will. You can’t really be 2006 Region II Conference prepared for the avalanche of attention Hamilton College, Clinton, NY that descends the minute the prizes are November 10–11, 2006 announced. There is a nice irony, though, Submission Deadline: TBA in the fact that—since the Pulitzers are Host: Sam Pellman really about journalism and thus obses- E-mail: [email protected] sively covered by journalists—the glare of Overall, the performances were outstand- the media machine alights once every 2007 Region V Conference ing, with special kudos to the students and spring on exotica like contemporary music Clarke College, Dubuque, IA faculty of Butler, who obviously invested a and contemporary poetry. It may be a sort February 22–24, 2007 great deal of time into committed perfor- of accident that we composers get swept Submission Deadline: TBA mances of often quite challenging music. into the limelight once a year along with Host: Amy Dunker Hats off in particular to Michael Schelle, the journalists, but it sure can’t hurt the E-mail: [email protected] who not only helped organize many of the cause we all believe in. “Region V” ...continued on page 6 “Stucky” ...continued on page 8 TheSociety SCI Newsletter of Composers, XXXVI:2 Inc. March—April 2006, XXXVI:2Page 1 The Society of Composers, Inc. Region V John G. Bilotta SCION Editor The Society of Composers, Inc. is a Dan McCarthy professional society dedicated to the The University of Akron Bruce J. Taub promotion of composition, performance, Journal of Music Scores Editor understanding and dissemination of new Frank Felice and contemporary music. Members Butler University Richard Brooks CD Series Producer include composers and performers both Region VI in and outside of academia interested in Nassau Community College addressing concerns for national and Samuel Magrill Mike McFerron regional support of compositional University of Central Oklahoma Web Master activities. The organizational body of the Lewis University Society is comprised of a National Phillip Schroeder Council, co-chairs who represent Henderson State University Matthew McCabe regional activities, and the Executive Web Content Editor Region VII Committee. 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Tom Flaherty All rights reserved Greg Bartholomew SCION John Bilotta, Editor SCION, SCI’s on-line electronic news, provides information on opportunities for composers. News items, announce- ments, comments, and other material for publication may be sent via e-mail to: [email protected] Mail, telephone calls, and fax messages Cellist Roger Lebow and marimba player should be directed to: David Johnson premiered Tom Flahery’s Cellorimbian Flights on the Monday On February 15, 2006 Bethany Lutheran John G. Bilotta, SCION Editor Evening Concert series at the Los Church in Seattle, Nancy Kern directed 1699 Agadir St. Angeles County Museum on January 9, voci femmine in a performance of Concord, CA 94518 2006. Bartholomew’s A Rainy Day. She also Telephone: 925-685-9259 “Members” ...continued on page 4 The SCI Newsletter XXXVI:2 Page 3 “Members” ...continued from page 3 tive Music System at New York 2002 Region VII conference at Northern Jerry Hui University’s Composers Forum Concert Arizona Series, Black Box Theater (New York City, University. Feb. 14, 2006); Minute Percussion at the Jerry Hui’s “Three Facets of Love,” was 24th Concordia University Electroacoustics Powers’ wife, Martha (who plays on every premiered on concerts by Sospiro, a Festival (Montreal, Canada, Oct. 12, piece on the CD except one) takes center graduate vocal chamber group in Univer- 2005); and A Miniature Odyssey and stage in 3 short piano pieces, two of which sity of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon on Minute Percussion on the Radio Broad- she performed at the 2005 National February 25th, 2006, and received a cast, Martian Gardens, Massachusetts Conference at Central Oklahoma Univer- repeat performance on February 28th, Public Radio (July 10, 2005).