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THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF MUSIC On the Move .......................................... 2 UT Jazz headed in the right direction with expansion of outstanding faculty and talented students. More Than A Pipe Dream ......................... 4 After a long journey, Jessen organ pipes return home to restore the aesthetics and acoustics of a beloved performance venue. Sacred Music at the University ..................... 5 New program on its way to excellence with key new faculty. Alumni ....................................................... 6 Faculty .......................................................11 New Faculty ................................................18 Students .....................................................20 In Memoriam ...............................................24 Guests .......................................................25 New Endowments and Gifts .............................27 Gifts And Donations ......................................28 On the Cover UT School of Music Jazz Faculty: John Mills, Saxophone; John Fremgen, Bass; Director of Jazz Studies Jeff Hellmer, Piano; Ron Westray, Trombone SCHOOL of MUSIC College of Fine Arts The University of Texas at Austin Director B. Glenn Chandler Associate Directors Michael C. Tusa Scott S. Hanna Assistant to the Director Winton Reynolds Director of Graduate Studies Hunter C. March Director of Undergraduate Studies Suzanne Pence WORDS of NOTE Volume 20: Sept. 2005–Aug. 2006 Editor/Design John Wimberley Publicity Kathryn Van Zandt Contributors Charles Ball Jacqueline Hofto Winton Reynolds Nathan Russell Mark Sarisky Michael Tusa Kathryn Van Zandt Cover Design Ashley Kjos, AKA Design Cover Photograph Brett Brookshire Words of Note The University of Texas at Austin School of Music 1 University Station E3100 Austin, Texas 78712-0435 www.music.utexas.edu
Dear Friends: It gives me great pleasure to share with you this year’s Words of Note with all the exciting information about the School of Music, its students, faculty and alumni. We have much for which to be proud when we look back across the past year. The productivity and accomplishments of our talented students, such as winning an ASCAP award, or a Downbeat Magazine award, demonstrate the fact that we have some of the best students in the country. I know that you will enjoy reading about these and other such activities in the pages to follow. This year we are very pleased that so many of our alumni responded to our request for information. I know that alumni will be interested to know what your former classmates have been doing in recent years. For those who have not honored us with such a reply, please make an effort to share with us an update of your recent involvements for our next edition of Words of Note. Last year we received a total of more than $3M in gifts to the School of Music, much of that being designated for scholarships. Many of you have made contributions to our scholarship fund as a result of our plea last spring, for which we are most grateful. If you have not made such a contribution we invite you to join your friends in donating to the School of Music Scholarship Fund today. Wyatt McSpadden We are pleased that we could continue our initiative of the last few years to involve our students in international activities. Last summer the UT Chamber Singers traveled to Brazil where they joined with the orchestra from the University of São Paulo in a concert tour of that country. Such activities are often the highlight of a student’s education and it is important that we continue to provide such opportunities. We have been fortunate in recent years to gain a number of new faculty positions, which has enabled us to B. Glenn Chandler expand our curriculum into new areas of study. This year we accepted our fi rst class of students into two new undergraduate degree programs, one in Music Business, the other in Recording Technology. This past year we collaborated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies to create a new position in the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division in Middle Eastern music. This new area of study will not only enrich the degree programs available to music students but also enrich the general education of non-music students across the campus as well. With nearly 100 music faculty members there are usually some changes each year. This year we said goodbye to colleagues Elizabeth Crist, who accepted a position on the faculty of Princeton University, and John (Jay) Watkins, who accepted the position as head of the marching band at the University of Florida. We will miss them but wish them well in their careers. At the same time we welcome a number of new faculty for the fall of 2006, about whom you may read later in this magazine. I am very proud of the entire family that makes up the School of Music and wish to invite you to visit us in the near future. We offer more than 500 concerts, recitals, master classes and other musical events each year. For those of you who cannot just pop in for a concert we invite you to listen to our concerts live via our web casts. For information and access go to our web site at www.music.utexas.edu/ and look for the Web icon. Sincerely, B. Glenn Chandler, Director 1
Page 4 and 5: Director Jeff Hellmer leads the Jaz
Page 6 and 7: Nine years after the Jessen Pipe Or
Page 8 and 9: 6 Mary Dunleavy Lee Appleman (MM 19
Page 10 and 11: Michael Barnes of the Austin Americ
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Page 14 and 15: widely on the sacred music of Spain
Page 16 and 17: John Ericson (Arizona State Univers
Page 18 and 19: Anton Nel, Division Head of Keyboar
Page 20 and 21: Gerhardt Zimmermann Professor, Cond
Page 22 and 23: The School of Music honored a large
Page 24 and 25: ing Transilience, which aired on br
Page 26 and 27: Clifford Antone, founder of the fam
Page 28 and 29: The inaugural season of the Starlin
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