NOTES JUNE 2004 A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI OF THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC FROM THE EDITOR The right “stu≠” Dear Eastman Alumni: We like Notes’ new look, and it seems you do too. Response has been unani- mously favorable; perhaps we should consider a Steve Boerner–David Cowles NOTES presidential ticket for 2008. I’d vote for them; these two artists made “Notes Volume 22, Number 2 nouveau” a pleasure, and I’m glad the pleasure was conveyed in the magazine June 2004 itself. I write the stuff, but they (and our photographers) make it look good! We also had a tremendous response to our “Eastman Alumni on CD” feature; Editor see pages 33¬34. And enough of you commented on different editorial aspects of David Raymond Notes (not always favorably) that we have a “Letters to the Editor” section, which Assistant editor may be a first for us. Christina Casey This issue of Notes is admittedly filled with history, but Susan Conkling’s re- Contributing writers minder of the great women who shaped both American music and Eastman, and Martial Bednar Amy Blum Paul Burgett’s reminder of four black composers who Christine Corrado played an important part in Eastman history, are stories Contributing photographers worth telling. As is the story of the success of Howard Kurt Brownell Hanson’s Merry Mount at the Met in 1934—a remarkable Gelfand-Piper Photography event, when you think about it. I should add a special Bob Klein Photography word of thanks here to David Peter Coppen, the Sibley Carlos Ortiz Don Ver Ploeg/VP Communications Library Archivist, who is always helpful with providing Amy Vetter historical photographs and other materials for Notes, but Photography coordinator outdid himself for these three articles. Amy Vetter Be assured that Eastman’s present and future are as well Design accounted here as ever; our School, departmental, faculty, Steve Boerner and student news is a full report of the School’s “present.” As for the future, I will point out the exciting changes in Published twice a year by the Office of the air for the Community Education Division and the Eastman Theatre, and the Communications, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY, development of an interactive alumni website. (It works!) 14604, (585) 274-1040. As always, your “stuff” helps make Notes interesting, so please continue to send [email protected] us your letters, comments, and reminiscences. Editor Printed on recycled paper: 100% recycled fibers, 50% post consumer waste, processed chlorine-free. Project number: 2003024 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2004 Draft: Final Date: 6/15/2004 INSIDE FEATURES 4 Distinguished African-American COMPOSER Composers KRZYSZTOF 17 Paul Burgett salutes four African-American PENDERECKI SPENDS composers with Eastman ties AN INTENSE WEEK WITH FACULTY AND 6 Memories of Debussy STUDENTS The great French composer and the Eastman violinist CASA GUIDI 8 “Attend the man of God” IS A GRAMMY 33 Howard Hanson’s only opera, Merry Mount, WINNER FOR EASTMAN premiered at the Met 70 years ago ALUMNUS DOMINICK ARGENTO 13 A great cloud of witnesses An Eastman faculty member pays tribute to ANTHONY DEAN a colleague by remembering great women GRIFFEY FINDS 11 from America’s, and Eastman’s, past BLACK COMPOSERS HIS VOICE IN 4 AT EASTMAN: A TRIBUTE AMERICAN OPERA CONVERSATION 11 Anthony Dean Griffey: “Be who you really are” The rising young tenor revisits Eastman – JAN DEGAETANI and finally debuts in Kilbourn Hall 13 IS JUST ONE OF EASTMAN’S GREAT 2 COMING EVENTS WOMEN OF MUSIC 3 LETTERS 3 CORRECTIONS 17 SCHOOL NEWS 24 DEPARTMENT NEWS 30 IN TRIBUTE 31 ALUMNI NOTES 33 EASTMAN ALUMNI ON CD 43 FACULTY NOTES 44 STUDENT NOTES ON THE COVER: The nine new iris cultivars introduced this spring in Rochester’s sister city of Hamamatsu, ON THE INTERNET: More news about the Eastman School of Music, Japan, included two with Eastman-related names: Eastman Winds and Renée Fleming (shown). They were including the full text of Notes and expanded alumni information, can introduced to the United States in June at the new Iris Friendship Garden in Rochester’s Highland Park. be found online at www.rochester.edu/Eastman. Project number: 2003024 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2004 Draft: Final Date: 6/15/2004 ����������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������ Coming Events: �������������������� 2004¬2005 October 14–17 • Alumni Weekend • 100th Anniversary of Sibley Music Library • Premiere of Dominick Argento’s Four Seascapes, with Eastman-Rochester Chorus and Philharmonia October 21–24 • EROI Festival November 4–7 • Eastman Opera Theatre: Charles Strouse: East and West – a double bill of Nightingale and a new one- act companion piece ������������� November 22 ��������� • Friends of Eastman Opera ������������������������������� 4th Annual Voice Competition �������������������������������������� February 27, 2005 ������������������������������������������ • Eastman Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall ������������������������������� �������������������� March 31, April 1–3 • Eastman Opera Theatre: ������������������������ Puccini: La Rondine ������������������������ ������������������������������������������ ��������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������� �������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������� 2 Eastman Notes | June 2004 ��������������������������� �������������������� Project number: 2003024 Project: EASTMAN NOTES JUNE 2004 Draft: Final Date: 6/15/2004 LETTERS certs with him conducting at Dumbarton A bit more Mariano Oaks in Washington. The program was the I was really quite surprised and disap- ��������� Octet for winds, the brand new Septet, and pointed to see the very little (less than a L’Histoire du Soldat. We subsequently re- page) covering of the special honoring of Jo- corded all these works for Columbia Records. seph Mariano. I had really anticipated seeing Other works that I remember performing more about the past faculty members who under his direction were Le Sacre du Print- spoke (Morris Secon and David Van Hoesen) emps, Threni, Movements for Piano and Or- and their pictures, to say the least. chestra, Mass, Norwegian Moods, and Requiem —Esther S. Rosenthal (MM’58) Canticles. We also recorded some of these Point Roberts, WA works. Since I was the contractor of the mu- sicians (and first bassoonist) at Columbia Records in those days, I had much personal contact with Mr. Stravinsky, and the times ������������� ���������������������������������������������������� I spent with him stand out as some of the most memorable personal and musical ex- periences in my life. I must correct one item: “This was Stravin- —Loren Glickman (BM ’45) sky’s first visit to Rochester (and his next- Englewood, NJ to-last—he guest conducted the Rochester Philharmonic in 1967).” Mr. Glickman’s right: the Sibley Library ar- The contents of Notes are planned well in ad- I was a student bassoonist at Eastman, and chives revealed an RPO program from 1945 in vance, and “Joseph Mariano Day,” while an out- a member of the Philharmonic, in the mid- which Stravinsky did indeed conduct the works standing event, occurred too late last semester 40s, and I distinctly remember Stravinsky mentioned. We happily stand corrected! By the (November 18) to allow for a great deal of space conducting the Philharmonic—it must have way, Loren Glickman’s memories of Stravinsky— in that issue. However, we can at least provide been 1944 or 1945. He conducted Firebird, not to mention Bernstein, Casals, and many a picture of the event Mrs. Rosenthal describes: and I believe he opened the program with other musical leading lights—are included in a Kilbourn Hall round table with “Eastman leg- Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, the “Little his recent book Maestro! Where’s the Beat? ends” Joseph Mariano, Morris Secon, Stanley Russian.” I imagine a little detective work re (Terra Nova Press). Hasty, and David Van Hoesen. those programs in those years ought to bear out my memory. ➤ Notes welcomes your letters and Just as an addendum, you might be in- comments. Send to Eastman Notes, Office of Memories of Stravinsky terested to know that I did quite a lot of Communications, Eastman School of Music, The article about Stravinsky Week in 1966 work with Stravinsky in New York in the 26 Gibbs St., Rochester NY 14604; or write to (Notes, June 2003) was very interesting. But ’50s. In 1954 I played chamber-music con- [email protected]. Corrections In our report on the November 2003 unveil- Our December 2003 “In Memoriam” listed of the New York Philharmonic; she isn’t, but ing of a portrait of Orazio Frugoni, we stated Betty Burnett (BM ’44), but we are happy bassoonist Judith LeClair (BM ’79) is! Judith that it took place on Cominsky Promenade; to report that a letter from her friend Jean states, “I have been in the NYP for almost 24 it took place in Sibley Music Library, and the Halbing Hay (BM ’44) describes her as alive years now as Principal Bassoon (but I have portrait now hangs on the Promenade. and well and living in Belmont, MA. We re- never had the pleasure of meeting Jackie!).” gret the error. In the December 2003 Alumni Notes, Chris- In the December 2003 Institute for Music topher
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