'48

Frank York, founder and musical director of the Park Ridge (Ill.) Fine Arts Society, led the organization's 40th anniversary celebration during the summer of 2000. The society supports the Fine Arts Symphony Orchestra, which York founded and conducts. The 65-member company includes musicians who regularly appear with the Chicago Symphony and the Lyric Opera. To celebrate its anniversary, the society presented a series of concerts last summer.

'49

Emma Lou Diemer (MM), '60 (PhD) sent an update: Her recordings and publications include Concerto in One Movement for Piano (MMC recordings); Four Chinese Love-Poems sung by Anne Marie Church (Josara Records); Fantasy for Piano played by Leanne Rees (Fleur de Son Classics) (also recorded on Leonarda by Nanette Kaplan Solomon); Seasonal Psalms: Vols. 1 and 2 for Solo Organ, published by The Sacred Music Press; and O Viridissima Virga for women's chorus, a piece commissioned for the California State University at Stanislaus 1999 Hildegard Festival. Diemer reports that she has been commissioned to write an overture by the Santa Barbara Symphony for its 2000-2001 season.

'55

Leonard Moses released two CDs last summer. Chamber Music Vol. 1 features five original compositions, including Passion Ballet Music, which was commissioned by the Annapolis (Md.) Ballet Theater. And Flatland Ballet Music, written for an electronic orchestra, was commissioned by the Maryland Ballet.

'58

Nicholas DiVirgilio writes that he was master teacher and stage director for the premiere season of Opera Aegean. The group performed opera scenes during a tour of Andros, Athens, Paros, and Tiris. DiVirgilio says he plans to return next season as co-artistic director. . . . Margaret Meier sends an update: The recipient of the ASCAP Standard Award for composers for 11 consecutive years, she writes that her orchestral composition Millennial Magic had its premiere with the Claremont (Calif.) Symphony Orchestra in November 2000. The performance featured Jason Goodman '88E on the Deagan "Round Top" orchestral bells. The program also included Meier's "Claremont" Symphony. Her Mass for the Third Millennium had a June 2000 debut with the Ars Brunensis Choir in Brno, Czech Republic. A CD recording of the work was scheduled for release by Vienna Modern Masters. Meier's Romantic Passacaglia on a Twelve Tone Theme for organ was premiered in May 2000. The piece was performed at the International Congress on Women in Music in Los Angeles. And her Celebration, Sorrow, Strength: A Set of Songs About Biblical Women was to be performed in January 2001 as part of the "In Praise of Music" Series held in La Cañada, Calif. Celebration, Sorrow, Strength was featured in a program by soprano Laura Greenwald and pianist Barbara Rogers '73E, who also performed Meier's song cycle Three Marys in Four Songs at Princeton University Chapel in April 2000.

'59

Katherine Hoover sends an update for 2000: She was a judge at the Kingsville International Music Competition and a guest at both Western Connecticut State College and Skidmore College, where her music was performed and she gave master classes. Canyon Echoes was performed at the Eastman School in June 2000 by faculty members Bonita Boyd and Nicholas Goluses, who also recorded it on their Albany Records release, Chronicles of Discovery. Quito Suite, commissioned by the group Native Tongues, was premiered at the Festival Between Two Worlds in Quito, Ecuador, in June 2000.

'60

Emma Lou Diemer (PhD) (see '49).

'63

William Anderson '64 (MM) reports that the fifth edition of Integrating Music into the Elementary Classroom (co-authored with Joy Lawrence) has been published by Wadsworth, a division of Thompson Learning, Inc. Anderson, who holds a Ph.D. in music from the University of Michigan, has served for 30 years on the faculty of Kent State University, where he has been director of the Center for the Study of World Musics, director of the liberal studies program, and associate dean of the graduate college. He is associate dean for academic affairs in the college and the graduate school of education, where he oversees 5,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs. . . . Chuck Mangione released Everything for Love, a collection of flugelhorn and trumpet jazz ballads. His 60th birthday was the occasion for a November 5, 2000, performance at the Eastman Theatre.

'70

Composer Geary Larrick (MM) writes that the article "Music as Business: A Bibliography," which he co-wrote, appeared in the summer 2000 issue of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Journal. . . . Arthur Michaels e-mails that Shawnee Press has published his Rock-Ness Monster, a concert band piece. He reports that he has been writing and photographing a book for Penn State University Press with the working title A Guide to Pennsylvania Overlooks.

'75

David Harman (DMA) married Lori Foster on August 28, 1999, in Rochester. Harman is professor of music and director of orchestral activities at the University's River Campus. He also is music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and of the Penfield Symphony Orchestra. The couple lives in Rochester. . . . Composer and pianist John Serry '91 (MM) e-mails to say that his band, the John Serry Quartet, which includes Charles Pillow '84 (MM) on the saxophone, performed at Decade in New York City in October.

'76

Pamela Marshall, director of the Just in Time Composers and Players, reports that several of her works were performed as part of the Middlesex Community College Crafts Fair Concert Series in Bedford, Mass., on November 12, 2000. The concert, performed in honor of Lexington composer Francis Cooke, included Marshall's Pascal's Theorems for Cello and Doublebass and the premiere of her Suite for Harpsichord.

'81

Reynolda Reflections, composed by Dan Locklair (DMA), had its debut at the Foothills Music Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C., as part of a concert of works inspired by non-musical media. Each of the piece's five movements had its inspiration in a different painting at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Locklair, composer-in residence and professor of music at Wake Forest University, also premiered Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Montréal), a choir and organ piece commissioned for the Montreal Boys' Choir. In addition, the CD Celestial Fire included movements from Locklair's two organ books, Windows of Comfort. The recording by American organist Douglas Cleveland is on the Gothis (Koch) label.

'82

Jane Adler '84 (MM) reports that she was a soprano soloist in John Rutter's Magnificat and the Christmas portion of Handel's Messiah under the direction of Rutter at Carnegie Hall on November 26, 2000. She also was scheduled to be featured in the Mozart Mass in C Minor and the "laudate Dominum" portion of the Mozart Vespers during an all-Mozart program with the Masterworks Chorale of Augsburg in Minneapolis. . . . Jon English '84 (MM), conductor and artistic director of The Massachusetts Choral Society, e-mailed that his CD K-K-K Katy: Songs from America's Wars was due out last fall. He also was working on a CD collection of The Songs of Stefano Donaudy. English is director of human resources at FireSpout, Inc., a software development company in Cambridge, Mass.

'84

Jane Adler (MM) (see '82). . . . Jon English (MM) (see '82). . . . John Cipolla sent an update: In July, he presented a lecture and performance on playing jazz clarinet at Clarinet Fest 2000 at the University of Oklahoma. He also played for Merideth Monk's opera, Atlas, at the Lincoln Center Festival. He was planning to begin studies last fall in the D.M.A. program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A new baby to join daughters, Gabriela and Willa, was expected last fall, too, he noted. . . . Charles Pillow (MM) (see '75).

'85

Jazz composer, arranger, and bandleader Maria Schneider (MM) and her band's latest album Allegresse were picked as one of the 10 best of 2000 by Time magazine. "[H]ear the next wave in jazz taking shape before your very ears," the magazine noted.

'88

Jason Goodman (see '58). . . . Anne Mittler (see '87 undergraduate). . . . Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette '93 (DMA) e-mail an announcment of With All My Soul, their new Orchard label release that features the music of several woman composers from the turn-of-the-century, including Marie de Grandval, Lili Boulanger, and Pauline Viardot Garcia.

'89

Violinist Miriam Kramer made her U.S. debut at Lincoln Center on December 2, 2000, in a special tribute to violinist Alma Rose, who died at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. For the concert, Kramer played Rose's 1757 Giovanni Baptiste Guadagnini violin. . . . Merrie Siegel e-mails that after finishing her M.M. and D.M.A. degrees at Rice University's Shepard School of Music, she joined the faculty of the University of Idaho's Lionel Hampton School of Music as professor of flute.

'90

Chris and Wendy Agron Gennaula sent an update: Wendy sang the Mozart Exsultate Jubilate last year at Como Park Lutheran Church, where Thomas Ferry is music director. She also performed on The Basilica Choir, a CD recorded by the Basilica Choir of St. Mary. Wendy can be heard singing the solo on René Clausen's All that Hath Life and Breath Praise Ye the Lord. Chris wrote the incidental music for the play Listen that was performed as part of the 2000 Minnesota Fringe Festival. His full-length play, The Cello, received a reading at the Minneapolis Playwrights' Center.

'91

Melissa Fogarty wrote that her group, Ensemble for the Seicento, was a finalist in the Early Music America/Dorian Competition 2000. At the Berkeley Early Music Festival, Melissa appeared as Aminta in Handel's Aminta E Fillide. She was also scheduled to sing the part of Clori in Handel's Clori, Tirsi, and E Fileno with Teatro Bacchino in San Francisco in January 2001. . . . John Serry (MM) (see '75).

'92

Percussionist Ingrid Gordon e-mails that she was a special guest artist (with flutist Alexa Still) at the 21st Annual New Music & Art Festival at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She performed works by Eastman alumnus Mikel Kuehn '95 (PhD) and Eastman composition student Dennis DeSantis. She has released on the Centaur label her debut CD Figures in a Landscape (Kesatuan duo, with Karen DeWig, flute), featuring works by Eastman faculty member Robert Morris '65, and alumni Robert Paterson '95, Alton Clingan, and Gareth Farr (MM). Gordon also notes that she and Al Gelfand moved in July 2000 to Saratoga County, N.Y., where Al will be teaching ethnomusicology for a year at Skidmore College. . . . Paul Stuart (MM) writes to report that Centaur Records has released a recording of his opera The Little Thieves of Bethlehem. The CD features Eastman graduates Kelley Hamilton '96 (MM), Mark Schmidt '88, Vitali Rozynko '98 (MM), Ivan Griffin '86 (MM), Paul Busselberg '97 (MM), Erin Hannigan '96 (MM), Jeff Patterson '94 (MM), Peter '83 and Bonnie Hellick Lindblom '85, Kristen Shiner McGuire, and Kathleen Murphy Kemp '74, '77 (MM). The Opera Theatre of Rochester and the Eastman Bach Children's Chorus also performed on the recording. Stuart writes that several of his compositions, commissioned by The Commission Project (directed by Ned Corman '59), premiered last spring. Because She Remembers for cello and piano, was composed for cellist Kate McPherson. Let Me Soar, Be With Me, Beauty Beneath the Rain, and I Love My Brother (Though He's a Brat!)-four pieces for chorus-were performed by the Byron-Bergen Middle School Chorus, with Jennifer Alhart, conductor. Stuart's Songs of Winter, was premiered by Griffin and pianist Rose Shlyam Grace '96 (DMA) in April 1999.

'93

Sylvie Beaudette (DMA) (see '88). . . . Zing A Little Bing, a CD by Andrew Parks (DMA), is a tribute to Bing Crosby. Parks notes that the recording includes new arrangements of some of Crosby's classic tunes.

'94

Matthew Brady e-mails: "I am busy performing, conducting, and teaching in New York City." He made his debut recital at the 92nd Street Y as part of the "Meet the Virtuoso" performance series in the spring of 2000. He also presented a guest artist recital at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. As associate conductor with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, he has toured with the group throughout the United States and abroad, including a two-week concert tour in Russia. For the past two summers, he has served as music director of The American School in Switzerland. Matthew is on the piano faculty at the 92nd Street Y and also teaches a full class of private students. . . . Marc Faris married Leslie Vincent on July 1, in Rochester. C. Wayne Smith '96 served as best man for the ceremony. Marc is pursuing his doctoral degree in music at Duke University in Durham, N.C.

'95

Andrew Spang (MM) sent an update: He received an M.S. in music education from Western Maryland College and was appointed director of bands at Lime Kiln Middle School in Fulton, Md., as well as director of music at Westminster United Methodist Church in Westminster, Md. He is the tuba player for the Lyric Brass Quintet, which released Daydreams, Desires & Diversions and won the Baltimore Chamber Music Competition last year. Andrew and his wife, Laura, were expecting their first child last fall.

'96

David Gibson (MM) (see '91 undergraduate).

'97

Ann Marie Willer (MM) writes that she and her partner, Lisa Forest, celebrated their Ceremony of Holy Union on June 10, 2000, at the First Universalist Church in Rochester.

'99

As artists-in-residence at the University of Maryland last fall, members of the Prism Brass Quintet opened the School of Music's concert season to a full house, performing solo and as a group. Members include Steven Haase (trumpet), Samuel Buccigrossi (tuba), Matthew Bickel (trumpet), Eric Kofoed (French horn), and Aaron Moats '00 (trombone).

'00

Aaron Moats (see '99).

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