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Frederick Fennell '39E (MS) in May received an honorary doctor of music degree from Idaho State University. Fennell was nominated for the honor by Patricia Dengler George '64E, '65E (Mas), who teaches at the university. George toured Europe and the Mideast with Fennell when he was assistant conductor of the Eastman Philharmonia. George says she "has movies (the old 8mm kind) of Fennell and Howard Hanson riding camels at the Pyramids."
Horn and Conductor, by Harold Meek, was recently published by the University of Rochester Press. The book features a foreword by Alfred Mann, emeritus professor of musicology at Eastman.
Beatrice Caro Roxin was chair of the University's Symphony Orchestra's 40th anniversary celebration. She played cello in the Greater Rochester Women's Philharmonia, an annual event, and continues to play in the La Chaminade String Quartet with Virginia L. Wensel '66E, '89E (MA) and Anne London McMonagle '71E, '77E (Mas). Roxin also plays in the Bel Air Trio with Adell Lasky Crane '52E.
Warren van Bronkhorst E (MM), '59E (DMA) (see '58).
Adell Lasky Crane (see '49).
Margaret Weeks Redcay (see '58).
An article by Nicholas Di Virgilio was featured in the December 1996 edition of Opera Journal. Di Virgilio served as adjudicator for the St. Louis branch of the vocal competition of the Academy of Sciences and Letters in March and completed his Youth Opera Preparation and Education project in April. He directed the University of Illinois cast, chorus, and orchestra in 10 performances of La Traviata in Munich, Germany, in June. . . . The Dawning, a composition for orchestra by Margaret Meier, was released in the spring on the Vienna Modern Masters Music of Six Continents series. Her song cycle, Three Marys in Four Songs, was premiered in May 1996 at a concert sponsored by the National Association of Composers/USA and California State University-Pomona. Barbara Rogers '73E was the pianist in a performance of the song cycle in March 1997 at Caldwell College in Caldwell, N.J. Meier's award-winning Prelude on Beach Spring for organ was scheduled to be premiered in June at the Berkshire AGO Convention. She is composer in residence for the Windsong Southland Chorale, which performed her Christmas is Now and Forever in December 1996 and her Wind Song in April 1997. Meier has been an ASCAP award winner for eight years. . . . Carol Bogen von Bronkhorst reports that she and Margaret Weeks Redcay '57E celebrated the flute and their long-time friendship with duo flute recitals at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., and at St. James Church in Sonora, Calif., in January 1997, and in a recital at Texas Tech in Lubbock in March. In the latter concert they were joined by harpist Gail Barber '59E. Carol also reports that Warren van Bronkhorst '51E (MM), '59E (DMA) retired from the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific in 1991 and retired in May of this year as concertmaster of the Stockton Symphony.
Gail Barber (see '58).
Where Have All the Children Gone, a composition by Robert Christensen '64E (MM) in honor of the children who perished in the Oklahoma City bombing, was premiered by the Montage Singers and Gordon College Woodwind Quintet in April and performed again in May in Georgetown and Westford, Mass. The piece was conducted by C. Thomas Brooks, who also premiered Christensen's Absalom for chorus and orchestra in February 1995.
The December 1996 issue of CD Review: Music and the Arts featured the percussion ensemble Nexus on the cover and the accompanying CD. The internationally acclaimed group includes John Wyre, Bill Cahn '68E, Bob Becker '69E, '71E (Mas), Robin Engelman, and Russell Hartenberger. The group's January 1997 concerts included performances at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Omaha Symphony Orchestra. After completing a new Sony Classical recording of Takemitsu's From me flows what you call Time with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Nexus began a concert tour in Europe. Stops included Thessaloniki, Greece; Germany; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Strasbourg, France; and Hamburg, Hannover, and Ulm, Germany.
Patricia Dengler George '65E (Mas) (see '37).
Michael Webster '67E (MM), '74E (DMA) has been appointed associate professor of ensemble and chamber music at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston. He will also be artistic director of the Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet, and will continue as music director of Chamber Music Ann Arbor, which produces SpringFest each May. Webster's wife, Leone Buyse '68E, will leave her position as professor of flute at the University of Michigan to become professor of flute and chamber music at Rice. Together with pianist Katherine Collier '70E, '72E (MM), Buyse and Webster perform as the Webster Trio. The group's first CD, Tour de France, was released by Crystal Records in May 1997. . . . Virginia L. Wensel '89E (MA) (see '49).
Paula Goldin Rothman participated in an Eastman alumni concert held last September in honor of the Eastman School's 75th anniversary. Her son, Jeremy Rothman, is in the Class of '99 at the University. [Editor's note: This information was incorrectly reported in our last issue. Alumni Review regrets the error.]
Bill Cahn (see '63). . . . Leone Buyse (see '66).
Bob Becker '71E (Mas) (see '63).
Katherine Collier '72E (MM) (see '66). . . . Vince DiMartino '78E (MM) has been named Matton Professor of Music at Centre College in Kentucky. DiMartino celebrated his 25th year of collegiate teaching with a reunion of his former students at The Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Ky., in June. He is co-founder of this festival, which draws 50,000 people every year. . . . Percussionist Geary Larrick E (MM) presented a solo drum recital in March for Community Access Television in Stevens Point, Wis. He performed four of his own compositions, written between 1985 and 1995 in Malaysia and Wisconsin. . . . Susan Barr Rouzer received a degree from Whittier Law School in Los Angeles in May. As a student, she received an American Jurisprudence Award (given to students who achieve the highest grade in a course) in the subjects of commercial transactions and remedies. She was also a member of Whittier Law Review and Moot Court Honors Board. She intends to practice law in Los Angeles.
Anne London McMonagle '77E (Mas) (see '49).
Katherine Collier '70E, '72E (MM) (see '66). . . . Vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker--who also happens to be an accomplished unicyclist and juggler--has released his second CD, Unicycle Man, showcasing his original compositions. He produced the album for Equilibrium Records. Piltzecker holds a visiting artist faculty position at the University of Michigan and has conducted numerous clinics at universities and music schools across the United States and Europe under the sponsorship of Ludwig instruments.
William Wingfield writes, "I'm staff accompanist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kans. My duties include accompanying student and faculty recitals, being music director of the musical comedy productions, and teaching piano and accompanying. I'm divorced and have two wonderful daughters."
Andrew Dabczynski (see '46). . . . Vibraphonist/marimbist Steven Rehbein performed David Maslanka's Concert for Marimba and Band with the Florida State Wind Orchestra in October 1996. In January, he was the guest artist at the Marshall University Jazz Festival in Huntington, W.Va. In February, he presented a lecture and recital about MIDI vibraphone at Northern Illinois University. Rehbein was the 1997 recipient of the National Band Association Outstanding Jazz Educator Award for Nebraska. During the summer of 1997, he planned to perform his music at the Jazz On The Green Concert Series in Omaha, Nebr., with his contemporary jazz sextet. Rehbein is an artist and clinician with Ludwig Musser Industries and coordinator of jazz studies and percussion at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Soprano Nancie Kennedy E (MM) wrote to report that she and her husband, Duncan, chose to "relocate (not retire!) in 1995 from Rochester to Annapolis, Md., for a personal and professional mid-life change of scene." She now teaches voice and Elderhostel classes at Peabody Institute in Baltimore and coordinates the Peabody Preparatory's Annapolis campus, located at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. She is also a part-time music faculty member at Anne Arundel Community College. . . . Terry Rhodes E (MM), '86E (DMA) writes that she and her husband, Jack Stewart, are "delighted to announce the birth of Susannah Rhodes Stewart on Feb. 22, 1997."
Susan Laib received a doctor of music degree in April from Florida State University. Her doctoral treatise was titled "An Annotated Bibliography of Original Works for Solo Oboe with Wind Accompaniment and an Appendix of Arranged Works." Laib says, "Oboists from around the globe have been waiting with bated breath for this project to be completed." Her dissertation included five solo recitals on the Florida State campus. Laib lives in Mansfield, Pa., with her husband, trombonist Steve McEuen. In addition to teaching double reeds at Mansfield State University, she is also principal oboe in the Williamsport (Pa.) Symphony and The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes (Corning, N.Y.).
In December 1996, National Public Radio's "Performance Today" aired the first national broadcast of Three Christmas Motets by Dan Locklair E (DMA) in a performance by choral ensemble Bel Canto Company. In January, Locklair's Concerto Grosso for harpsichord, strings, and percussion was premiered by the Lohja Orchestra in Finland. Concerto Grosso received its North America premiere by the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra in February. In April, Locklair's Windows of Comfort, two organ books commissioned by the First Presbyterian Church of Topeka, received their world premiere with organist Marie Rubis Bauer at the church. Locklair was composer-in-residence for the 28th annual Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia/Appalachian State University Contemporary Music Festival in April and is composer-in-residence and professor of music at Wake Forest University.
Jonathan English '84E (MM) is working as the network manager for the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy at Boston College and working as senior computer specialist, designing charts and graphs for the Third International Math and Science Study.
Nancy J. Cooper E (DMA) (see "Alumni Gazette," Harpsichordist for Jefferson). . . . Neal Hampton (see '84). . . . Kristen Shiner McGuire E (MM) has been selected as the new percussion editor of School Music News. In February, McGuire gave a percussion/dance recital with Valerie Talbot at Nazareth College of Rochester. She received a grant for this project of her compositions for percussion and dance.
John Cipolla recently completed a three-year project of recording and annotating the Complete Carl Baermann Method for Clarinet. It is available from Music Minus One in two sets called The Virtuoso Clarinetist and The Art of the Clarinet. He also completed a series of eight concert-band play-along recordings for Music Minus One. Cipolla continues to perform in the Broadway production of Cats and at Radio City Music Hall and teaches at Wagner College in Staten Island. He lives in New York City with his wife and 15-month-old daughter. . . . Flutist Susan Gall Hampton writes that she left an engineering job in California in 1990 to return to music and graduated with a master's in flute performance from the New England Conservatory in 1992. In Boston, she "re-met" Neal Hampton '83E and married him. Susan is a member of the Boston-based contemporary music ensemble, the AUROS Group for New Music (on the Web at www.auros.com). She says the group has won rave reviews from the Boston Globe and several grants for new music performance. Susan teaches flute at Brandeis University and freelances extensively in the Boston area. . . . Kim Milai E (MM) reports she is working as curriculum manager for a music education software company called Jump! Music, located in Silicon Valley. Milai refines curriculum and writes voice-over dialogue for product lessons, directs voice-over recording sessions, produces the MIDI orchestral arrangements, and researches new music product lines.
The Paris International Herald Tribune in January ran a feature on Maria Schneider E (Mas), who recently led the Orchestre National de Jazz in two concerts. Schneider directs her big band in New York City every Monday in a Greenwich Village club. On January 23, according to a note sent in by George Kosel '51M (MS), she was a guest conductor for the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band in a concert entitled, "Gershwin: A Portrait in Jazz." Schneider is an adjunct faculty member at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Adrienne M. Pavur '96E (DMA) is director of parish music for First Lutheran Church in Montclair, N.J., and an active recitalist in the New York City area.
Diana Jacklin has been a roster artist with Operafest! of New Hampshire since 1995. She has performed the Mother and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, and Third Lady in Magic Flute. In February 1997, she played the Witch again with the Raylynmor Opera. Jacklin has spent the 1996-97 season performing song recitals throughout New England. . . . Violinist Miriam Kramer has a new CD, Hebrew Melody: Jewish Music for Violin & Piano. Kramer was the 1995 winner of the United Kingdom's Jewish Performer of the Year and is an active recitalist.
Emily Freeman Brown E (DMA) has been elected to the National Board of Directors of the Conductors Guild, Inc., which is the only international organization devoted to bringing together conductors of orchestra, opera, wind ensemble, and choral groups. Brown is director of orchestral activities and music director of opera theater at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. . . . David Demsey E (DMA) is the author of John Coltrane Plays "Giant Steps," recently published by Hal Leonard Publishing as part of their Artists Transcription Series. Demsey, coordinator of jazz studies and associate professor of music at William Paterson College, is also a member of the American Saxophone Quartet. In May, he performed Duke Ellington's Harlem with the New York Philharmonic and Leonard Slatkin. . . . Robin Holtz-Williams E (DMA) writes, "My husband, Dale, and I are pleased to announce the birth of Chloé Melissa on April 12, 1996. She joins her brother, Clayton, born Sept. 16, 1994. I also recently received tenure and was promoted to associate professor at the University of New Orleans.". . . Melanie Mitrano recently completed her first year as coordinator of vocal studies at Jersey City State College. This past year she also made her New York recital debut at Merkin Concert Hall in the Guild of Composers Concert Series.
Young-Hae Han E (DMA) (see '56).
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In the print version of this issue, we published an incorrect report that Anastasia Jempelis had retired from the Eastman School's Community Education in May. Jempelis continues to teach in the division. Rochester Review regrets the error.
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Dorothy Pozniko Beam '57E (MM), associate professor emeritus of piano at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, has completed her 25th year as program annotator for the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. In two April concerts with the Lancaster Symphony, Beam was the pianist in the world premiere of In Celebration, a composition by Eastman professor Joseph Schwantner. . . . David Burge E (DMA) presented a series of five concerts in Odense, Denmark, in April 1997. The series included the world premiere of Burge's composition, 24 Preludes. Also in April, Burge attended the San Diego Ballet's performance of his newest ballet, Luna Lunera. In February, the same company performed his Liana's Song. Other recent premieres included performances in Korea of Go-Hyang (Ancestral Home) by pianist Young-Hae Han '95E (DMA). Burge, former chair of the piano department at Eastman, will be appearing throughout the United States during the fall of 1997 as a pianist, composer, and lecturer. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Liliane Choney. . . . Paul Freeman '63E (PhD) (see '42).
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The woodwind quintet, Meliora Winds (formerly known as Quintessence), is the recipient of the Nathan Weeden Award of the 1997 Concert Artists Guild competition in New York. The award gives the members professional representation worldwide. The members are: Kirsten Larrabee Larsen, flute; Keve Wilson, oboe; Stephen Williamson, clarinet; Susan Loegering '91E, '93E (MM), bassoon; and Jill Bobo, horn. Meliora Winds has been in residence with the American Festival for the Arts, founded by J. Todd Frazier '92E. The past four summers the quintet has done extensive teaching, chamber music coaching, and given performances throughout Texas and South America. Meliora Winds also announces the marriage of Stephen Williamson and Jill Bobo in September 1996 on Long Island. . . . Linda Piontek E (MM) '95E (DMA) writes, "In July 1996, my husband, Rick Young, and I had our first child, Noah Piontek Young. In September 1996, I was named artistic administrator of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.". . . Michael Titlebaum '92E (MM) writes that he and his wife, Lois Elizabeth Hicks, are proud to announce the birth of twin daughters: "Hannah Bess Titlebaum was born on March 27 at 12:52 p.m. and Zoe Corinne Titlebaum was born 14 minutes later. Both babies and their mother are doing fine," he writes.
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Pia Terndrup Jensen (DMA) teaches violin and piano at the Odense Music School in Denmark and serves as the director of public relations/ concert manager at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music. In the summer, she toured Denmark and Poland as a soloist performing Samuel Barber's violin concerto and she continues to perform and lecture on American and Danish 20th century music for violin and piano. In 1996, she formed a string and piano trio, Trio La Corda, in which she performs as a pianist and violinist. As a postscript, she adds that in 1995 she became a homeowner, in 1996 a "historic-rose enthusiast," and in 1997 the owner of an aubergine-colored new car. She concludes, "I would like to send my best wishes to all I knew at Eastman and I would especially like to remember my teacher Catherine Tait, who died this spring. I hope to carry on--in teaching and as a human being--the wonderful spirit she gave us all. She is missed."
Jensen
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