Composition Contest Judges Announced You won’t believe who’s judging! - Pg. 4 Also Inside: Fireside Southeast - Pg. 3 Percy Burrell Anniversary Celebrations & Contests - Pg. 10 Foundation Scholarships - Pg. 11 From the National Collegiate Representative By Erick Reid, Rho Mu (Norfolk music. The composition contest highlights this theme. State) ’08, National Collegiate I encourage those brothers who have the gift of compo- Representative sition to participate or spread the word to someone you Greetings Brothers! feel could benefit from this exciting opportunity. We HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray have some outstanding judges and I think we should that 2013 presented you with chal- give them some tough competition! The composition lenges that will make you greater program is open to both Sinfonians and non- and better prepared for those chal- Sinfonians so be sure to tell everyone you know! lenges you will face in 2014. I am Lastly, Leadership Institute is coming once again confident 2014 is going to be a and I know you all are going to take advantage of this great time for each of us individual- awesome experience! I promise you won’t find a pro- ly, as chapters, and collectively as a National gram like it. I have attended several times and I am Organization. The organization saw much change in sure we’re going to have a great time this year. So please 2013 and our National Executive Committee and take the time to attend this affordable opportunity in National Staff are making changes to prepare us for the Hoosier State (yeah, I had to look that up too)! 2014! Enjoy this issue of the Red & Black! Take the time My initial insight into the history of the fraternity to read the writings of Brother Percy J. Burrell as we was at a Fireside Conference! Here I learned about the commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death. And history of our organization, the meanings behind the check out news from campuses around the country! Let Ritual, and even had the opportunity to chat with our us all set a resolution as a fraternity to reach out more fraternity’s leaders about the vision of our order. This in 2014! Whether it be through social media, writing a experience was great and sparked my interest to go fur- letter, or even paying a visit to a new chapter this year ther and to do more for Sinfonia. You will have this and feel free to share these experiences with me at opportunity this semester! Fireside Southeast will take [email protected]! place on the campus of the University of Georgia. I encourage brothers in this region and even outside to In the Spirit of Phi, make a trip to learn more! You will have the opportuni- Erick Jamar Reid ty to learn from brothers from all over the country in National Collegiate Representative an intimate setting. As we are all aware, Sinfonia represents the best in The Red & Black is the collegiate newsletter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity Volume XXXI Number 3 Jan/Feb 2014 Follow Us: Composition Judges - 4 facebook.com/phimualphasinfonia @phimualpha issuu.com/sinfoniahq Phi Mu Alpha is a member of, supporter of or affiliated with the following organizations: American Classical Music Hall of Submission Deadlines - 11 Fame, Barbershop Harmony Society, Drum Corps International, Fraternity Communications Association, National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Music Policy Roundtable, National Association of Music Merchants Page 2 (NAMM) Support Music Coalition, and the National Interfraternity Music Council. Fireside Conference Southeast Where: University of Georgia When: April 4-6 Musical & Educational opportunities with Fraternity leaders and brothers from across the country! Affordable Cost ($29 - standard registration) Attend a performance by the Experience the UGA campus Branford Marsalis Quartet! with your brothers! www.sinfonia.org/fireside Page 3 Advancing Music in Ame The Phi Mu Alpha Composition Contest continues Sinfonia’s 100-year legacy of support for American artists and the creat Entrants will compete for a grand prize of $ 5,000, a featured premiere of their entry at the 2015 National Convention, a ning entry. We are pleased to announce the three distinguished brothers who have graciously agreed to serve as judges for made significant contributions to American music in his own right. Samuel Adler, Gamma Theta (North Texas) 1960 Brother Adler’s mark on American music stretches into nearly every of instrumentation, including five operas, six symphonies, numerou He has conducted the world over, and founded and conducted the from 1950 to 1952. His contributions also include several acclaime Following military service, Brother Adler conducted the Dallas Lyr of North Texas College of Music (1957-1966), Professor of Compo on the composition faculty at Julliard. Carlisle Floyd, Epsilon Iota (Florida State) 1957 Brother Floyd is one of the most admired and widely performed op ited with helping to create an American idiom in opera. Carlisle’s m performed American operas in history. His other popular works in of the same name, and Cold Sassy Tree, his most recent work, writt Brother Floyd has been honored with The Citation of Merit by the Composers, the National Opera Institute’s Award for Service to Am and Letters, the White House National Medal of Arts, and the Fra been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as an ho Keith Lockhart, Gamma Eta (Furman) 1978 Brother Lockhart became the 20th conductor of the Boston Pops i artists from virtually every corner of the entertainment world. Dur Boston Pops concerts. Audiences worldwide love Keith’s inimitable making, but also by his unique ability to speak directly to the audi mitted. Currently, Brother Lockhart serves as principal conductor o artistic director of the Brevard Music Center summer institute and every major symphonic ensemble in North America, as well as seve Page 4 erica... tion of new works of American music. and a publishing contract for the win- r the competition, each of whom has y realm of music. His catalogue includes over 400 published works in all types us string quartets, concerti, and several shorter works for orchestra or choir. Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra while serving in the United States Army ed books and articles on conducting, composition, and orchestration. ic Theater (1954-1958), served as Professor of Composition at the University osition at the Eastman School of Music (1966-1995), and since 1997 has been pera composers and librettists of the last century. He is cred- most popular work, Susannah, has become one of the most clude Of Mice and Men, based on the John Steinbeck novel en in 2000. Among numerous prominent distinctions, e National Association of American Conductors and merican Opera, induction into the American Academy of Arts aternity’s own prestigious Man of Music award. He has also onoree for lifetime contribution. in 1995. He has worked with a wide array of established ring his 17-year tenure, he has conducted more than 1,400 e style, expressed not only through his consummate music- ience about the music to which he feels so passionately com- of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. In addition, he is d festival in North Carolina. He has appeared with virtually eral in Asia and Europe. The contest is open to all who are interested and qualified! Deadline for entries is July 1, 2014. Head to www.sinfonia.org/compositioncontest for entry requirements and details. Page 5 The President's Message (reprinted from The Phi Mu Alpha Annual; Vol. IX, 1910) “The advancement of music America and a loyalty to the Alma Mater. DEAR BROTHERS: It has been strictly academic, scholastic and pedagogical. The debating and lit- my privilege in the previous two erary clubs, local societies, general fraternities and the like help in messages to choose a text from the developing the social side of man's nature. Here men meet one article of our Constitution on another on the same level. Rough exteriors are planed down by “Object.” I have sought to say some- rubbing up against smooth ones, and the smooth find out which thing worth your time to read on way the grain really runs in getting scratched by the rough ones. the development of the best and These diverse, not diametric - indeed they are, after all, harmoniz- truest fraternal spirit and the mutual ing aspects of the student life - are true developers for both mak- welfare and brotherhood of musical ing a rounded manhood and putting a man on the square. students This year I have turned to Isolation in thought and in body does not tend to make a man the remaining aim of our fraternity love any one in any corner but his own. His corner is only big expressed in the words “the advance- enough for himself. Fraternity, it seems to me, is a sort of life's ment of music in America and a loy- “puss in the corner” game where one is glad to exchange corners Brother Percy J. Burrell in 1911. alty to the Alma Mater.” On the when the other fellow whistles and everybody has an equally good opening pages of our YEAR BOOK and profitable time. I desire to emphasize this specific kind of loyalty, and in so doing I I see that I have used the word “Fraternity.” Let us do so again trust that its close relation to the advancement of music in and put the word Sinfonia before it, so it reads Sinfonia Fraternity. America may be apparent. What does it mean? Loyalty to the Alma Mater! I believe that that The present-day demand for education is determined to no is what a true fraternity means every time.