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· . . Three Greek Lyrics, a new composition by Richard Willis GE, '65GE, was given its premiere at Stephen F. Austin State University, Tex. The work is based on ancient Greek texts and is scored for mixed chorus with piano, oboe, and percussion. 1952 Cellist Warren Downs performed in Oshkosh, Wis., with Ellsworth Snyder, a concert pianist. · .. Cellist Ira Lehn is a member of the faculty at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. He returned to full-time teaching after a four-year stint as dean. · .. "The Music of Ron Nelson ['53GE, '57GE]" was the subject of an article in the American Organist . .. . Angeline Kafcas Schmid, an instructor at Mansfield University, gave a recital at the Waverly Community House, Scranton, Pa . ... The Blair Quartet, from Vanderbilt University, counts among its members cellist David Vanderkooi '53GE. 1953 Raymond Wheeler GE wrote an Instrumentalist article on "High Note Fingerings for Saxophone. " 1954 George Buckbee GE, conductor of the University of Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Stockton, Calif., conducted 154 of the most talented student musicians from 54 Pennsylvania high schools in the District I Orchestra Festival . ... Pianist Arno Drucker '55GE closed the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Sunday Night Pops at Teletrack series with selections from George Gershwin .. . . The Covington, La., News Banner talked to Karen Maesch Makas as part of its series on veterans of the New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony. She has been principal cellist since 1965 . ... Nancy Bookout Wolcott was elected president of the Toledo Chapter of the Choristers Guild, and is coordinator of its biennial Junior Choir Festival. She is also music director at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church. 1955 Eastman professor John Beck '62GE penned an article for Instrumentalist called" Sonata for Timpani-The Composer's Concept." ... The musical group Con Viva Musica performed compositions by Leonard Moses, who lives in Annapolis, Md. The music was commissioned by the Maryland Park and Planning Commission and funded by the Maryland Council of Arts. 1956 Judith Clark Esch teaches piano at Indiana University Southeast .... Violinist Allan Fuller GE gave the world premiere of Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, a composition by Keith Gates of Lake Charles, La .... Doris Nicole Gaver took a year offfrom the Williamstown Elementary School system to study electronic and computer-assisted music, contemporary music, and improvisation .... Jean Eichelberger Ivey GE, coodinator of the composition department at the Peabody Conservatory and founder and director of its electronic music studio, was the subject of a profile in the Baltimore Sun. "The modern composer has an unusual wealth of resources to draw on," she told the paper. "We not only know a lot about the past, but we know a lot about the music of cultures all over the world. A composer today can and possibly should be eclectic." 36 1957 William Decker '60GE was guest conductor for Pennsylvania's District XI Choral Festival. . .. Thelma Chock Diercks G E celebrated her 20th year of collaboration with Carolyn Victorine with piano recitals at Hollins College in Virginia .... Ronald R. Sider '60GE, '67GE, professor of music at Messiah College, directs the Grantham (Pa.) Oratorio Society .. . . "There will be no playing down to the youth who attend the annual Young People's Concert to be presented by the Duluth-Superior Chamber Orchestra this month, according to conductor Taavo Virkhaus [GE, '67GE]" and the Ashland, Wis., Press. "This is the type of music we play," says Virkhaus, "and the youth will hear it as itis." 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winner Dominick Argento GE had his opera, Postcardfrom Morocco, presented in Baltimore. "Putting it all together is the fun of it," he said of composing. "By the time the critics get a hold of it, all the fun is gone. Once it leaves your hands, it's no longer yours." .. . Robert Buzak GE, a string teacher in the Tarrytown, N. Y., school district, conducted the area's elementary school All County Orchestra and Band .... Guy Frank GE was to retire as chairman of the Creative Arts Division at Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, W. Va ... . Helen Bovbjerg Niedung '59GE was guest soloist in the Naples-Marco (Fla.) Philharmonic Orchestra's production of "An Evening of Opera." The Ft. Myers News Press called the event "a concert that will be remembered and talked about for years to come .. .. remembered above all for the wonderful artistry and sheer love of music displayed by the unbeatable team of soprano Helen Bovbjerg Niedung and conductor Walter Hendl. Hendl was director from 1964 to 1973 of the Eastman School of Music, the same school where Niedu"ng received her bachelor's and master's degrees in music." . .. Bernard Rubenstein, associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, has also conducted the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra .... Richard Skerlong GE is principal violist in the Seattle Symphony .... Marilyn Smith Sandness was installed as president of the Great Lakes Region of the National Association for Music Therapy in Chicago. She is an associate professor and coordinator of the music therapy program at the University of Dayton .... Larry Smith GE, chairman of the Indiana University organ department and nationally recognized concert organist, gave a performance at Ohio Wesleyan University . .. . Shirley McGaugh Zielinski gave a vocal performance with her husband, Czeslaw, at East Central College, Washington, Mo. 1959 "In West Texas, where country music reigns, a soft-spoken outsider has introduced the flowing sound of harp music to the High Plains," says the Houston Chronicle . Who might this stranger be? Gail Guseman Barber; who became a music instructor at Texas Tech in 1967 .. .. The de Pasquale String Quartet performed the world premiere of "Windows," a work by Haverford College music professor John Davison GE. 1960 Frank Bencriscutto GE directs the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble .... The piano duet of Vincent '63GE and Mary Ann Wydra Lenti '68E, '70GE, '79GE performed at Coker College in South Carolina . ... F. Donald Truesdell GE is professor of music at the College of William and Mary. 1961 Paul E. Droste GE, assistant professor at the Ohio State University School of Music and director of the OSU marching band since 1970, was the guest speaker at the annual meeting of. the Belmont County Chapter of the Ohio State University Alumni Association .... Doris Wilson Sellards is principal flute of the Kansas City Symphony . ... James Willey '63GE, '72GE, chairman of the music department at SUNY Geneseo, performed his "Some Connections" with the Capital Chamber Artists in Albany. 1962 Paul R. Chenevey GE was appointed music director and conductor of the Greenville (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra ... . Diane Wehner Gold, a lecturer in music at Bucknell University, is a member of the Pennsylvania Chamber Players. ... Richard Heschke GE is chairman of the organ department at Concordia College ... . Pianist RobertJordan opened the Great Performers Series at Delaware State College . . . . WilliamJ. N. Stokes is organist and choir director at All Souls Parish in Biltmore, N .C. 1963 "His may be the only office in town with a splendid walnut Chickering piano, circa 1911, next to his desk," begins a feature in The Light, a San Antonio publication. "But when you are Robert Finster [GE, '69GE], parish musician for St. Luke's Episcopal Church and music director for the Texas Bach Choir, this is indeed a fitting furnishing. Equally fitting is the stereo whose needle touches only the likes of Vivaldi, Hummel, Britten; the 'Get off my Bach' paperweight; the American Organist magazines, and the wall of musical scores." ... Byron Hanson '68GE is resident conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra . ... Daniel Perantoni served as brass clinician with the 1984 TMEA All-State Jazz Ensemble Adjudication Panels. He is a professor of music at Arizona State University. 1964 Lynne Priest Bujak is a member of the faculty at the Darlington Fine Arts Center in Wawa, Pa .... Judith Caldwell G E sang a soprano solo in a New Haven (Conn.) Symphony Orchestra pops concert, "An Evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein." .. . Donald Greene GE is chairman of the music department at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He also directs the wind ensemble there .... David Pinnix GE, '69GE received a master teacher certificate from the Music Teachers National Association. It was the first such certificate to go to a North Carolinian . . .. Gerald Shapiro directs Brown University's MacColl Studio for Electronic Music-and has since 1968 .... Viet Nam Songs, by Edward Wood, was performed at the Boston University School of Fine Arts in a concert featuring American composers and poets.
1965 Robert Ellinwood GE, '79GE sang the part of Jesus in a performance of the St. John Passion by the Bach Choir of Southwest Virginia ... . A picture of James Ruccolo embellished the cover of TV magazine, a supplement to newspapers in Bissbee and Shasta Vista, Ariz. He was to appear as part of the Cochise Concert Association series. 1966 Elizabeth Bankhead Buccheri GE, '79GE, a pianist, was the guest performer at the annual meeting of the Winthrop College Alumni Association. She is an associate professor of music at North Park College, Chicago . .. . "Audiences and even musicians frequently operate under the assumption that a 'serious' composer is dead or lives 1,000 miles away," says the Regina, Sask., Leader-Post. "Elizabeth Hodges Raum is one composer who is very much alive and living in Regina." Her latest composition, says the paper, is an opera based on the Alice in Wonderland story .. .. Steven Winick '68GE, '74GE, principal trumpet with the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra, also is a member of the Georgia State University Brass Quintet. 1967 Joan M. Ringerwole GE is professor of music at Dordt College in Iowa. 1968 Guido Ajmone-Marsan is music adviser to the Orchestra of Illinois, the Chicago area's "other" symphony .. .. Glenn Block has completed 10 years as director of orchestras and opera and professor of conducting at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. This past season, he conducted major productions of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (in a critically acclaimed performance that presented Beethoven's original metronome markings), Beethoven's Missa Solemn is , and Bloch's Sacred Service . .. . Charles Decker, professor of trumpet, directs the Tennessee Technological University Trumpet Ensemble .. . . Pianist and composer Bradford Gowen '69GE performed at the College of Eastern Utah .... Carol Lucas '71GE spent time in Reykjavik, Iceland, preparing for the Iceland Symphony production of Lucia di Lammermoor. She also served as pianist for the Wolf Trap Opera Company .. . . Anthony A. Pasquale wrote that he planned recitals for Grand Island, Neb., and the University of Kansas. He was to present a recital to benefit a South African hospital for black children with crippling diseases ... . Susan Foye Smith, an instructor in the music department at Colorado College, is a member of the Colorado Springs Symphony Trio . . .. John West, bass, performed at the St. Paul's Festival, South Nyack, N.Y. 1969 Xylophonist Bob Becker '71GE appeared with the University of New Mexico Marimba Ensemble . .. . Frederick Boyd ' 71GE has been featured on the euphonium with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra .. . . Harpsichordist Charlene Brendler GE performed at Modesto (Calif.)Junior College ... . Lt. LewisJ. Buckley directs the Coast Guard Band .... Steven Wasson '71GE premiered his latest composition, In Memoriam: Howard Hanson, Op. 32 Moving? Making news? Harboring a comment you'd like to make to-or about-Rochester Review? Let us know-we'd like to hear from you. The coupon below makes it easy. Name _______________________ Class ___ _ Address o This is a new address. Effective date: __________ _ (Please enclose present address label. ) M y news/comment: (Mail to Editor, Rochester Review, 108 Administration Building, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627.) for piano solo, at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he is a parttime doctoral student in composition. Wasson's latest work is dedicated to Margaret Hanson. 1970 Carol Eshelman Allen GE is organist at the West Hartford (Conn.) Unitarian-Universalist Church .... George Del Gobbo conducted the East Texas Symphony Orchestra in a series of children's concerts .... Elizabeth McCleary Gorevic is the founder and manager, and a performing member, of the Sara-Placid Chamber Players, a group that plays at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. She also has her own group of violin students in the Plattsburgh, N. Y. , area. .. . Gerald Hansen GE performed on the organ at Schuylerville United Methodist Church. Built in 1756, it is believed to be the oldest pipe organ in use in the United States .. .. Mary Henderson served as artist-in-residence in voice at Washington University at St. Louis .. . . Neal Larrabee, concert pianist and professor of piano at the University of Connecticut, attended the Music Teachers' National.Association Convention in Kentucky . . . . Kay Roberts McAfee GE is assistant professor of music at Henderson State University . . .. Gerard Joseph Niewood appeared as soloist with the Central College Jazz Band in Iowa . . . . James Setapen guestconducted the South Bend (Ind.) Symphony Chamber Players. He is associate conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra . . . . Chris Vadala has appeared on the Merv Griffin Show, Solid Gold, the Tonight Show, and Dick Clark's Salute to the Stars as a member of the Chuck Mangione (,63E) Quartet. Vadala was a guest soloist, representing the Selmer Company, at the Gambrills (Md.)Jazz Festival, and has had some of his classical transcriptions and compositions published by Medici Press. 1971 Eastman faculty member Bonita Boyd was the subject of an article in Rochester Women magazine titled "World-renowned Flutist, Tripletime Accelerando, Right to the Top." . . . Jean Henderson Dodworth '71GE received tenure and was promoted to associate professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University .... Carolyn Kuban, a harpist, helped the Arvada (Colo.) Center Chamber Orchestra celebrate its fifth birthday. ... Time Magazine music critic Michael Walsh, a winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music criticism, spoke to a women' s club in New Britain, Conn. The title of his talk: "Who's Afraid of Classical Music." 1972 OrganistJo Deen Blaine ' 74GE, assistant professor and chairman of the Sterling College music department, accompanied Roger Stoner, trumpet, in the Sterling College-Rice County (Kans.) Arts Council artist series . .. . Michael Luxner '72GE, '78GE, as assistant conductor of the Savannah (Ga.) Symphony, was profiled in the Savannah News Press. He will conduct 22 concerts this year. ... David Owens, assistant editor of the fine arts and literary page of the Christian Science Monitor, won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism. Owens also is a composer. ... Jim Pugh '75GE, former trombonist with both Chuck Mangione and Chick Corea, appeared with his quartet and the Glassboro Jazz Lab Band at Glassboro State College in New Jersey . . . . Soprano Judith Dickison Rhodus appeared in pops concerts with the Springfield (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra . . .. Pianist Kimberly Schmidt '75GE performed Liszt's "Totentanz" in the Jackson Symphony's tribute to Arthur Fiedler. ... Born: to David and Candace Baranowski Sundby' 7 4G E, a son, Julian David, on Mar. 19. 37
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