CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PHIL HARDBERGER MAYOR Welcome 1Bienvenidos! As the Mayor of the City of San Antonio, on behalf of my colleagues and the citizens of San Antonio, I am pleased and honored to bestow greetings to everyone attending the Society of Composers, Inc. conference. We are delighted to host your event. San Antonio is the seventh largest city and very proud of the distinction that we have earned as one of the most unique and charming cities in the country. While you are here for business, please take time to enjoy the various sights and sounds that draw over 21 million visitors annually to San Antonio year after year. From the historic Alamo to the famous River Walk, we have a multitude of choices for everyone. I hope you have a memorable stay and a productive meeting. Thanks to each of you for your visit and please plan to return. Sincerely, -·~ 'Society of Composers, Inc. On behalf of the Society of Composers, Incorporated, welcome to our 2006 National Conference! This year's event is a new endeavor for us: a National Conference without an official host institution, and a conference chair planning the event from 1,300 miles away. Our host this year is a consortium of San Antonio Universities: The University of Texas at San Antonio; Trinity University; and The University of The Incarnate Word, represented by their faculty/SCI members David Heuser, Timothy Kramer, and Ken Metz, respectively. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the faculty, administrators, and students of these institutions for their support of this conference through allowing us to use their facilities, and by the contributions of their performing faculty and ensembles. I could not have begun to organize this conference without the constant and generous help and support on the ground here in San Antonio. Please, when you see David, Tim, and Ken, or any of their colleagues, thank them profusely for the work they have put in to this event. Our General Manager, Gerald Warfield, contributed greatly to the organization of this conference, handling the details of registration, the printing of the program book and biographical notes, and, as always, dispensing sage advice--all while attending to the day-to-day details of running SCI. Another unusual aspect of this event is its co-location with the national conference of the College Music Soci­ ety, with which organization we have conferenced before. We are programming several CMS-composer works on our concerts as well as presenting workshops and lecture/demonstrations by colleagues who are on the CMS program. I wish to thank Tayloe Harding, President of CMS and SCI member, for his invitation to co-confer­ ence, as well as Dennis Kam and Stella Sung, who coordinated the CMS concert events. Special thanks are due ASCAP and Fran Richards for their generous sponsorship of the joint SCI/CMS/Phi Kappa Lambda/ATMI Thursday-evening reception. We are most grateful to ASCAP for their continued sponsor­ ship of our yearly Student Commissioning Competition. San Antonio is a wonderful location for a conference! We've scheduled plenty of social events/receptions for catching up with your colleagues and relaxing a bit from the full plate of conference activities. I hope you enjoy your experience at this Festival of New Music and New Ideas from our fellow SCI members and from our CMS guests. Tom Wells President, SCI U1SA The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Music September 2006 Dear SCI National and CMS Participants, On behalf of the UTSA Department of Music: Welcome to San Antonio! I am encouraged that several of San Antonio's music institutions are collaborating in the hosting of this conference. UTSA President Ricardo Romo and Fine Arts Dean Daniel Gelo join me in wishing you all a productive, interesting, and inspiring event. Your presence here demonstrates that the study, programming, and performing of new works is a critical responsibility of all musicians, especially those of us in higher education. We must seek, teach, and present the good and current creative works alongside the inheritance of great music that has stood the test of time. While I have your attention for a few more seconds, may I ask you whether or not you, as Charles Ives is quoted by Nicolas Slonimsky, confuse beauty in music "with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?" Or, perhaps you are able to transcend the difference we sometimes put between beauty and musical profundity, making these two admirable traits less mutually exclusive. This question is more than about beauty being "in the eye of the beholder." This question is about your strength and ability to define and compel beauty in all of its sonic power in every composition, interpretation, and research work you undertake. What you do on a daily basis is quite a job, and I thank you for it. I sincerely hope you look back on your time here as both enjoyable and productive, and that this conference informs and inspires your future work in the areas of composition, performance, teaching, and research. Respectfully yours, Gene Dowdy, Chair, UTSA Department of Music 6900 North Loop 1604 West• Sa n Antonio, Texas 78249-0645 • (210) 458-4354 • (2 10) 458-4381 fax ONE TRINITY PLACE SAN ANTONIO , TX 78212 -7200 ® www trinity.edu TRINITY UNIVERSITY 1/10!9998201vo c OFFICE OF THE VIC E PRESIOENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFA1RS & OEAN Of THE FACULT Y 12101 .,~~-8L3-l fJ> July 22, 2006 Professor Thomas Wells, President Society of Composers, Inc. The Ohio State University Dear SCI members: On behalf of Trinity University, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our campus and to San Antonio. Trinity is a private, primarily undergraduate institution with approximately 2400 students. Our new music and art building, where your events are taking place, was formally dedicated only a couple of months ago, on May 11, 2006. Housing 11 full-time music faculty members, and 21 part-time instructors, the Smith Music Building offers many ways for Trinity students to get involved with music. We offer degrees in Performance, Composition, and Music Education, as well as the more general B.A. in Music that many of our majors pursue. Please take a moment, while you are here, to walk around and see how well the Smith Music Building blends in with the lovely oak trees and attractive brick architecture that give our can1pus its essential character. Trinity believes deeply in the central role of music and art in a liberal arts education. For this reason, we feel privileged to serve as a host institution for portions of the SCI National Conference. We also welcome other members of the College Music Society, the Association for Technology in Music Instruction, and Pi Kappa Lambda who are holding conferences in conjunction with SCI. Please enjoy your time in San Antonio. Sincerely, ~~cht-- Michael Fischer Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE~ r~ft'~l V:ioo Pin~~N.lt Jar At~:11d1:1rme Sqn:emb« l3t 2006 CCI~~ Mlmiet S(}ci«J md CM Sccl~ ofComposen 1 Irte. 4~ Nm()nlli <.:om~ mSan An.km:io Dear CoH;Cagut:s: cm.bf$M1f of the Univmity of~ l~e 'Word? [want to extmd a wm:m. Satl A.noonio we}Q}JM to all of ynu. Wr: 1re qui~ proud ofdre acoomp~entJ of oor own~ . ftwulty bmhJding ·~ta.lent m1ll ~vity th.~· bring to working witb our •~d5~ And. u. an insti.t~tioo w~ value our iibmtl ...~ roots~ an.d mus.ic: ~ucmion is :a: $~g pm1 of tbm ttadi.ooa. Afli we ulebrate o:m l2S1lii aim:iv~y this y~~ we are gm~l !W ~11 of ·ttre joy .and ent:et:Uimnent ·the arts 'have provided us • lneam~ Worn and in S.m Antonio. \Ve Me pl~~ to lmv~ you in . ~ A~io Ind oo om cmnpcm md b¢W yu~ w:UJ enjoy yoo:r ~~Y bm'(;!, By th~ way, fire heewmem origin ofthe Sm Antonio River. called too Blue 11:ole Sprin& fa on oor campus! .Best wi~ on ~~~I oon;f-eren.ce• Dr·. .~e.~J J. Ilt)y1e Vktei Pr(3mooi for Aca.demic and Student Affilirs The Society of Composers, Incorporated is a professional society dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music. Members include composers and performers both in and outside of academia interest­ ed in addressing concerns for national and regional support of compositional activities. The organizational body of the Society is comprised of a National Council: co-chairs who represent regional activities, and the Executive Committee. SCI Officers National Council (2005-06) Thomas Wells, President, The Ohio State University David Gompper, President Emeritus, University of Iowa Greg Steinke, President Emeritus Beth Wiemann, University of Maine (1) Scott Brickman, University of Maine (1) Anneliese Weibel, SUNY-Stony Brook (2) Daniel Weymouth, SUNY-Stony Brook (2) Bruno Amato, Peabody Conservatory (3) Harvey Stokes, Hampton University (3) Mark Engebretson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (4) Michael Timpson, University of South Florida (4) Dan McCarthy, University of Akron (5) Frank Felice, Butler University (5) Sam Magrill, University of Central Oklahoma (6) Ken Metz, University of the Incarnate Word (6) Bruce Reiprich, Northern Arizona State University (7) Glenn Hackbarth, Arizona State University (7) Charles Argersinger, Washington State University (8) Patrick Williams, University of Montana (8) Glen Hackbarth, Student National Conference Host, Arizona State University Executive Committee James Sain, Chairman, University of Florida William Ryan, Chairman Emeritus, Suffolk Community College Samuel J.