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Biographies and Program Notes
Jeannie Pool's music was heard this last year in California, Washington, D.C., Ohio, New Hampshire,
Beijing, China, and Toronto, Canada. Her string orchestra piece, Cinematic Suite I, was premiered by
the Toronto Sinfonietta in January at the Royal Ontario Museum. As a music historian and producer,
she frequently lectures on film music history and preservation and serves as an independent music
consultant to Paramount Pictures Features Music Department. She holds a Ph.D. in musicology from
the Claremont Graduate University and is currently teaching at Mount Saint Mary's College in Los
Angeles. She is on the Board of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC),
Secretary ofthe Officers Council of the National Association of Composers, U.S.A. (NACUSA) and
serves as an Advisor to the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) which she helped to
establish. Her web site address is: jeanniepool.org.
Character ~~tters'was composed for the Kirby Quartet and premiered October 17,2004 in Toronto,
Canada on the Les Arnis Concert Series, under the direction of Michael Pepa, who asked her to write it.
Most of fie piece was composed in June and July while she was participating in a Gregorian chant
workshop with the monks of the Abbey des Solesmes, France. The work contemplates issues of character
and fie double entendre of the cliche "character matters." As with some of her other chamber
works, it incorporate riffs from popular music, including ragtime, jazz, Cajun, and late 19th century
Victorian parlor traditions. The work is unabashedly sentimental, expressing a yearning for a simpler,
more innocent time, and is dedicated to the memory of dear friend, David Raksin, who died last surnmer
at the age of 92
Frank Campo, born in New York City in 1927, studied composition with Ingolf Dahl in Los Angeles,
with Arthur Honegger in Paris and with Gofiedo Petrassi in Rome as a Fulbright scholar. His many
works include an opera The Mirror, three secular cantatas, five concertos including one for violin and
six players, one for bassoon and string orchestra, one for trumpet and orchestra, one for clarinet and
orchestra and one for piano with wind orchestra. In addition, he has composed a large amount of or-
chestral music, works for wind orchestra, several song cycles, much piano music and a wide variety of
chamber music for diverse ensembles.
Dr. Campo has taught Music Composition and Theory at various Universities including California
State University Northridge from 1967-1 992 and is now an Emeritus Professor at that school. He also
taught composition at the Claremont Graduate University from 1992-2000. He is, in addition, an ac-
complished clarinetist and appeared as soloist with the Topanga Symphony in 1991 performing the
Mozart Clarinet Concerto. He was also one of the soloists with the same orchestra in the late Robert
L~M's Concerto for Woodwind Quartet and String Orchestra and has performed a great amount of
chamber music both new and old.
"As a very young composer, it occurred to me to compose a String Quartet every year in order to
follomy own musical development. That idea quickly evaporated with my growing interest in other
color combinations and with the &val of requests from varied instrumentalists - mainly woodwind
and brass - and my own life-long interest in the human voice. Despite all this, I have produced four
quartets of which this is the latest. My style and approach have changed over the course of a lifetime
and, briefly stated, this works reflects my musical thinking in the mid 90s."--F.C.
David Zea is a composer, pianist, and music editor. He is a graduate of California Institute of the Ms
and has performed extensively, often programming his own compositions on his piano recitals. He
studied with Los Angeles composer and pianist Hugo Davise and composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.