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REUNION
ALL PRE-1950 CLASSES
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'36
The music of composer Gardner Read '37E (MM) is performed by vocalist D'Anna Fortunato on her latest CD Gardner Read: The Art of Song. The songs on the CD span the years 1933-1985 and are "appealing examples of the American art song," according to a Boston Globe reviewer.
'44
Marion Kirch Young '45E (Mas) has written a book about her father. The book is available in Old Forge, N.Y., and at the Blue Mountain Lake Museum.
'48
Mary Jeanne van Appledorn '50 (MM), '66 (PhD) (see '64 Eastman).
'49
50TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'50
50TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
James Foglesong heads the music business program at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tenn. He also teaches a business of music course at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.
'51
50TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'54
45TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'55
45TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'56
45TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
Concertino for Bassoon and Strings, composed by Oscar Haugland (DMA), was premiered this summer in Door County, Wis., at the Hardy Art Gallery with James Berkenstock as soloist. The piece was composed for and dedicated to Berkenstock, a member of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra.
'59
40TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
Katherine Hoover's orchestral works have been recorded on a recently released CD, Night Skies, issued by Parnassus Records. Other CDs containing Hoover's music set to be released this season: Cantilena with Laurel Zucker and Susan Jolles contains Dances & Variations for flute and harp, and a CD to be released by the New York Saxophone Quartet includes Suite for Saxophones. In September, Hoover was a guest at the Grand Canyon Music Festival, where she introduced a new work for flute, Native American flute, and percussion. The piece was performed at several area Hopi and Navajo reservation schools. In October, she was a guest at the New Music and Art Festival in Bowling Green, Ohio, where her Pieces for Piano were performed. In December, Hoover's new String Quartet was premiered by the Colorado Quartet in Albany, N.Y.
'60
40TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'61
40TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'64
35TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
Edward Wood performed Suite for Piano, Opus 20 (1998), by Kenneth Girard, at a National Association of Composers, USA-sponsored program at Christ and St. Stephen's Church in New York City. Incantations for Oboe and Piano, a work composed by alumna Mary Jeanne van Appledorn '48, '50 (MM), '66 (PhD), also was included in the program.
'65
35TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
Laura Mann '72 (MM), opera director and adjunct associate professor of voice at George Mason University, has been awarded a 2000-2001 touring grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
'66
35TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'67
Paula Rothman reports that she played shofar (ram's horn) with the New York Philharmonic in the U.S. debut of Lament to Yitzhak, by Israeli composer Dov Seltzer, in July.
'68
From August 30 to September 12, Bill and Ruth Cahn participated in the Showa College of Music's Artists-in-Residence program. As part of the program, they gave workshops, master classes, private lessons, and participated in a gala concert with the school's percussion ensemble that featured Bill's compositions. The college is located in Kanagawa, Japan.
'69
Vivien Goh sends a photo featuring a reunion of Eastmanites in Singapore to welcome Abram Loft, Eastman string professor emeritus, as adjudicator in the 1999 National Piano and Violin Competition in June. (Back row, left to right) Lynette Lim '84, Gerard Chia '98, Vivien Goh, Joshua '01; (front row, left to right) Mildred Loft, Abram Loft, and Soon-Lee Lim '87.
'70
Geary Larrick (MM) reports that his fourth book, Bibliography, History, Pedagogy and Philosophy in Music and Percussion, has been published by the Edwin Mellen Press. . . . Chris Vadala has released a new solo CD, Out of the Shadows, with his jazz quartet. In addition to his duties as director of jazz studies and professor of saxophone at the University of Maryland, he will be guest conducting six all-state jazz ensembles this year. Vadala also reports that he plans to give performances and lectures at this year's Midwest Clinic, IAJE Convention, and MENC National Conference.
'71
Bill Reichenbach (see '83 Eastman).
'72
Theodore Piltzecker has a new recording, Unicycle Man, and invites everyone to visit his Web site at helius.carroll.com/p/tedvibes. . . . Pamela Poulin '83E (PhD) e-mails that she has been elected to the CMS executive board for music theory and chair of the music theory advisory committee. Under her guidance, the committee has begun an Initiative in Music Theory. Programs include a listserv, "Teaching Music Theory," organized by fellow committee member Elizabeth West Marvin '89E (PhD). The address is teaching-music-theory@listserv.music.org. A faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University, Poulin has been awarded a faculty research grant to continue her work on Handel, and is developing an interactive tutorial, "Essentials of Music Theory," with Eastman faculty and students. . . . After retiring from a 30-year career as a symphony violinist, most recently with the Florida Orchestra, Stephanie Vaning-Rosen (MM) has been teaching music to children full time. Her efforts, including the creation of the Tampa Bay Golden Strings Youth Orchestra (average age 9), were profiled in a September story in the St. Petersburg Times. . . . Linda DiMartino Wetherill premiered Fruehwald's flute solo at the National Flute Association Convention in Atlanta this August. An interview with her about her career ran in the fall issue of Flutist Quarterly. She is currently on the faculties of Adelphi University, SUNY Purchase Conservatory, and CUNY College of Staten Island.
'73
As music director of the Ridgewood (N.J.) Symphony Orchestra, Sandra Dackow '87 (PhD) writes that she led the musicians in their Carnegie Hall performance last November. Dackow also is music director for the Hershey (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra. Other accomplishments include: conducting the International Honors Orchestra in England; presenting workshops for teachers and youth orchestra conductors throughout Ireland over the past few years; presenting a workshop during the ISME World Congress in South Africa; and giving rehearsal technique clinics during the MENC National Convention in Phoenix and at the Eastern Division Convention in New York City.
'74
25TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'75
25TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
Pianist Diana Mittler-Battipaglia (DMA) helped return the music of her father, Franz Mittler, to his native Austria this summer as a guest of Vienna's Orpheus Trust, a small nonprofit organization that identifies and catalogs the music of musicians, composers, and musicologists who were lost to Austria as a result of the Nazi takeover of that country. Mittler-Battipaglia performed music composed by her father, who emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s to escape Nazism. . . . John Serry '91 (MM) reports that he was a featured artist and host at two events for the "Jazziz Presents the Key Players," a series of live showcases and competitions that Serry is producing for Jazziz magazine. He hosted events at the "Jazz on the Water" festival in Newport, Oreg., in August and the "Jazz at Seven Springs" festival in September in Seven Springs, Pa.
'76
25TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'77
Bradley Nelson (DMA) writes that he has had 10 new choral works published in 1999. His music is now published with six publishers and includes new contracts with Carl Fischer, Inc., and Concordia Publishing House. His music has been performed numerous times in America and abroad. Nelson has his own Web publishing company, Gladde Music Publications, where all of his choral music can be viewed and heard online. The address is: www.Gladdemusic. com. . . . Jay Stetzer (Mas) (see '69 River Campus undergraduate).
'79
Linda Smith (MM) sends an update: She founded the Genesis Music Foundation, Inc., in 1998 and chairs the nonprofit organization's board. The foundation operates a summer music camp where Smith teaches beginning music theory, piano, and voice to students age 7 to 14. The foundation also offers a travel program every other year in which Smith takes students overseas to perform, tour cultural and historical points of interest, and get a taste of a different heritage and culture. This June, the group went to Paris, where Smith reports that she was entrusted with the keys to the side doors of Notre Dame Cathedral, which opened a winding staircase to the organ loft. The group also was invited to play some pieces on the grand organ at the American Church in Paris. Applications for future programs are available from Smith at 2416 SE Monroe, Topeka, Kans. 66605-1159. She also is the president of Smith Publishing Co.
'81
Dan Locklair (DMA) writes that he was awarded a 1999-2000 artist fellowship by the North Carolina Arts Council to create a new chamber work for flute, cello, and piano. The work will be performed by the Emrys Ensemble, the Mallarmé Chamber Players, and at the Summerfest (Kansas City) and Foothills Music Festivals during the 2000-2001 season. At least one performance will take place at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem. Some other doings: Sonata da chiesa (1998) for flute and organ was premiered in June at a performance in Knoxville, Tenn. Creation's Seeing Order (A Prelude for Orchestra) was performed by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in March. In the Almost Evening (A Nocturne for Soprano, Clarinet, and Piano) was performed by the Chicago Ensemble in May. A new CD, The Frivolous Harpsichord, contains several of Locklair's works including Cluster's Last Stand (on the ground). In April, Locklair gave an organ master class at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City.
'82
Sydney Reed-Carlson e-mails that she completed a DMA at the University of Houston in 1996. She lives in Houston with her family, including two daughters, Gillian and Ainsley. She is a member of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, on the faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University, and principal flute with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Mineria of Mexico City.
'83
Trombonist Michael Davis reports that he completed his third world tour with the Rolling Stones. His company, Hip-Bone Music, Inc. (www.hip-bonemusic.com), also has just released its fifth CD, Bonetown. The CD features Davis and Los Angeles-based bass-trombonist Bill Reichenbach '71E. . . . Paul Sportelli is the new music director of the Shaw Festival at Niagara-On-the-Lake, Ontario. He has developed a CD featuring festival music, according to a profile of his career in The Toronto Star.
'84
15TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'85
15TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
Hillary Watter (MM) is associate professor of voice at Hastings College in Nebraska.
'86
15TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
Eric Mandat (DMA) has been named Outstanding Scholar at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, the school's top prize for research and creative activity. Mandat is a professor of music at Southern Illinois.
'87
Sandra Dackow (PhD) (see '73). . . . Adrienne Pavur '96E (DMA) reports that she was recently appointed director of music ministries at First Presbyterian Church in Mendham, N.J. Her responsibilities include supervising a graded vocal and handbell music program. In 2000, she plans to perform at Methuen Memorial Music Hall and present a lecture-recital for the Northern New Jersey Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
'88
Jonas Gray is vice president for business and strategic development at DVD Express, Inc., an online video retailer in Los Angeles.
'89
Elizabeth West Marvin (PhD) (see '72 Eastman).
'90
Gregory Magie is visiting assistant professor/orchestra conductor at Pomona College in California and is chorus master/assistant conductor of the Pasadena Lyric Opera.
'91
Meliora Winds--Kirsten Larsen, Keve Wilson, Stephen Williamson, Jill Williamson, and Sue Loegering '93E (MM)--appeared as the artist-in-residence on National Public Radio's Performance Today in July. They performed live and were interviewed on-air by the show's host, Martin Goldsmith. . . . Jonathan '91RC and Robin Kornblith Sneider announce the arrival of their second child, David Joseph, on May 27. He joins big sister, Marina. Jonathan and Robin report that the family has moved from New York City to the suburbs and say "hi" to all of their Rochester friends.
'92
Kesatuan, comprised of marimbist Ingrid Gordon and flutist Karen DeWig, sends an update. The two toured Illinois in October presenting contemporary classical pieces, performing at such venues as the Chicago Cultural Center, where they were part of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert series. . . . Dina Carter Ishler (MA) has relocated to Dallastown, Pa. . . . Pianist Marilyn Nonken married composer Jason Eckardt at the Box Tree restaurant in New York City. The couple are founders of Ensemble 21, a chamber group in New York that plays contemporary classical music. . . . The world premiere of Paul Stuart's (MM) Sonata for Violin and Piano was performed in Kilbourn Hall this summer. . . . Doreen Gilmartin Waldbieser '92RC (see '92 undergraduate). . . . Richard Wyman, a saxophonist in the U.S. Coast Guard Band, and Erin Conner are planning a July 15, 2000, wedding.
'94
5TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'95
5TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
'96
5TH REUNION
OCTOBER 11-13, 2000
Adrienne Pavur (DMA) (see '87 Eastman).
'97
Susan Spafford, the reigning Miss Pennsylvania, finished third in the Miss America 2000 pageant.
'99
Matthew Cochran married Julie Ann Rivers on August 7 at the First Presbyterian Church in Honeoye Falls, where he is director of music. Matthew also is teaching guitar at Finger Lakes Community College and pursuing his master's degree in classical performance guitar at Eastman. . . . Gregory Spears is spending the academic year in Copenhagen studying Danish minimalist music composition as the winner of a Fulbright scholarship.
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