1933
70th Reunion
October 2004

1934
70th Reunion
October 2004

1938
65th Reunion
October 2004
John Weinzweig (Mas), professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, was among a select group of Canadians to receive a commemorative medal awarded in honor of the 50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne. The Golden Jubilee Medals were presented to Canadians who have made “a significant contribution to Canada, their community, or to fellow Canadians.”

1939
65th Reunion
October 2004

1943
60th Reunion
October 2004

1944
60th Reunion
October 2004

1948
55th Reunion
October 2004
Jerome Landsman writes that he has retired from Montclair State University after 40 years of teaching.

1949
55th Reunion
October 2004

1952
Patricia Paul Jaeger ’53 (MM) writes that she cofounded (with cochair Joyce Rice) a nonprofit Web site, www.harpspectrum. org to provide information about the harp to musicians and nonmusicians. The site includes articles on the craftmanship, history, and playing of the instrument.

1953
50th Reunion
October 2004

1954
50th Reunion
October 2004

1955
The teaching and performing careers of John Beck ’62 (MM) were highlighted in a profile of the Eastman School timpani professor that appeared last fall in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Beck, who retired from his position as principal timpanist in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra after 43 years with the orchestra, has taught several noted percussionists, including Christopher Lamb ’81, principal timpanist for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Duncan Patton ’81, timpanist for the Metropolitan Opera; Patricia Dash ’83, percussionist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bob Becker ’69, ’71 (MM) and Bill Cahn ’68, percussionists with the group Nexus; and jazz drummer Steve Gadd ’68, the story noted.

1957
Sydney Hodkinson ’58 (MM) sends an update: In spring of 2003, he was teaching at Duke University. He also plans to continue conducting and teaching at the Aspen Music Festival this summer. In 2002, he premiered String Quartet No. 4, Hammer (for solo marimba), with the Birmingham Art Music Alliance in Montevallo, Ala., and Requiescant (for chamber sextet) His String Quartet No. 3 also was performed by the Lafayette Quartet at the University of Victoria in British Columbia last April.

1958
45th Reunion
October 2004
Marilyn Smith Sandness sends an update: She has been appointed to the education and training advisory board of the American Music Therapy Association, and she chairs the association’s academic program approval committee. In addition, she has been appointed a director of the foundation board of international professional music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon and serves as president of the Dayton, Ohio, alumni chapter of the fraternity.

1959
45th Reunion
October 2004

1962
John Beck (MM) (see ’55).

1963
40th Reunion
October 2004
A new Christmas carol, entitled The Snow Lay on the Ground, written by Vincent Frohne (PhD) was given its premiere on Christmas Eve by the choir of St. Paul Church in Macomb, Ill. Vincent is the church’s organist and composer. The composition is based on a 19th-century work by Edvard Grieg. . . . Boyde Hood (see ’62 undergraduate).

1964
40th Reunion
October 2004
Edward Wood has recorded a new CD, 21 Variations on a Theme of Andrew Wood.

1968
35th Reunion
October 2004

1969
35th Reunion
October 2004

1970
Geary Larrick (MM) notes that he has an article referenced in the 2001 Music Index, and five books listed in Books in Print 2002–03.

1971
Jay Vosk writes that his composition, Thaw, for alto saxophone (left hand alone), was featured on the compilation An American Exhibition. The performer on the Crystal Records CD is saxophonist Kenneth Tse.

1973
30th Reunion
October 2004
Sandra Dackow ’87 (PhD) wrote in November to say that she guest conducted the All Queensland Honors Orchestra in Australia and the Kharkov Philharmonic in Ukraine. She also made presentations to teachers at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and worked with music teachers at the Special High School of Music in Kharkov.

1974
30th Reunion
October 2004

1975
Rebecca Lyden Leff writes that she participated last summer in a NASA Educator Workshop at the Kennedy Space Center. She was one of 200 teachers chosen nationwide to take part in the two-week intensive workshop focusing on science and technology. Rebecca also completed her M.Ed. in elementary education at DePaul University, graduating in June 2002.

1976
William Harper ’87 (PhD) has released his latest CD, The Banjo of Death Sleeping, on Artco Records.

1977
The composition Gulliver’s Travels for Narrator and Orchestra, by James McVoy (PhD), received its European premiere in a performance by the Hamburg Philharmonic under the direction of Ingo Metzmacher. A professor of music theory and composition and department chair at West Chester University of Pennsylvania’s School of Music, James also serves as assistant to the associate provost, a position he has held for more than two years.

1978
25th Reunion
October 2004

1979
25th Reunion
October 2004
A transcription by Michael Drapkin of Saint-Saens’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (originally for violin and orchestra) was given its premiere last December in a performance by Chicago Symphony clarinetist John Bruce Yeh with the Glenbrook (Ill.) Symphony. The transcription also has a publication date with Roncorp Publications, a music publishing company whose president is Bruce Ronkin.

1980
Karl Moyer (DMA) has published a choral setting of two texts by Hermann Stuempfle: When Moses Tended Jethro’s Sheep and We Marvel at the Words, O Christ.

1982
David Flippo and his jazz quintet, Flippomusic, released the CD Ganesh. The group, based in Chicago, has been together since 1992.

1983
20th Reunion
October 2004

1984
20th Reunion

October 2004

1985
John Fedchock (MM) has released a new CD on the Reservoir Music label. No Nonsense features Fedchock and his New York Big Band.

1987
Sandra Dackow (PhD) (see ’73). . . . William Harper (PhD) (see ’76). . . . Donald Richardson, the founder and artistic director of the Washington Women’s Chorus, has been named music director of Winchester Musica Viva. He also has been named the repertoire and standards chair of women’s choirs for the American Choral Director’s Association chapter of Washington, Maryland, and Northern Virginia through 2003. In addition, he is the vocal instructor at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md.

1988
15th Reunion
October 2004
Pianist Cory Holt Merenda has released Unmistakably Modern, her first solo CD. The recording features music by Eastman graduates Paul Reller ’86 (MA), Robert Constable, and David Rogers ’89, ’97 (PhD).

1989
15th Reunion
October 2004
Brenda Leach (DMA) wrote in September to say that she recently returned from a tour in Russia, where she was a guest conductor with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. She also performed an organ concert at the St. Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall. She continues her work as artistic director and conductor of the Boston Chamber Orchestra; she also has been appointed interim conductor of the Nashua (N.H.) Symphony Orchestra and Chorus during the 2002–03 concert season.

1990
John Hollenbeck ’91 (MM) and his Claudia Quintet finished a fall 2002 tour with a concert at the Eastman School in November. Hollenbeck also led masterclasses as a visiting performer. He said, “It was a really nice feeling to be back at Eastman.” . . . Violist Peter Sulski writes that he has returned to New England after 12 years as a member of the London Symphony Orchestra and a few years as head of strings at the National Palestinian Conservatory in Ramallah. He notes that he “might come back for a D.M.A.”

1991
Scott Shaw (DMA) has been appointed university chapel choirmaster and professor in the Christian studies department at Rikkyo (St. Paul’s) University in Tokyo. Before that, he was a professor of organ and college organist for 13 years at Kwassui Women’s College in Nagasaki, Japan. He performs solo organ recitals regularly throughout Japan; his most recent CD, The Noack Organ at Kwassui Women’s College, includes sonatas by Elgar and Mendelssohn as well as works by Stanley, Paine, and others.

1993
10th Reunion
October 2004
Nopanand Chanorathaikul (MM) teaches at Mahidol University in Thailand.

1994
10th Reunion
October 2004
Carlos Carrillo-Cotto was one of four composers chosen to participate in Synergy: Composer and Conductor, a five-day workshop presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic designed to highlight the relationships between composers and conductors and illustrate the bond between them through their work together. The program selected four composers and four conductors.

1995
Marcella Branagan (DMA), a member of the piano faculties at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and at Buffalo State College, performed a solo concert in Canfield, Ohio, and was a performer in the Arts Canisius Series at Canisius College in Buffalo. . . . Guitarist Peter Fletcher (MM) performed a concert of Albeniz, Saite, Mompou, Dowland, Villa-Lobos, and Domeniconi at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Decatur, Ga., last October as part of the celebration for the release of his CD, Frederic Mompou: Suite Compostelana.

1997
Judy Kehler Siebert (DMA), an associate professor of piano at the University of Manitoba, was the pianist for a concert of Romantic and late-Romantic music for clarinet and piano at the University of Winnipeg in November.

1998
Daniel Viruleg writes that he and percussionist Jennifer Damian were married in a Buddhist ceremony on January 1, 2000, in Vancouver, British Columbia. They had a second wedding at the Memorial Art Gallery on July 8, 2001. They live in the Los Angeles area and celebrated the birth of the first child, Liam Kai, last September.

2001
Anna Marie Hubbard (MM) married Christopher Tiesler on September 14, 2002, in Southern Pines, N.C. The couple lives in Evanston, Ill.

2002
Megan Sesma ’02RC has been selected to be the first full-time harpist in the United States Coast Guard Band in New London, Conn.