Eastman School of Music

1957

Sydney Hodkinson ’58 (MM) sends an update: Scurry for solo clarinet was premiered by clarinetist Lynn Musco on January 13, 2006, and Trance for solo cello had its debut with cellist David Bjella on January 29, 2006. Both were performed in Elizabeth Hall at Stetson University in Deland, Fla.

1963

William Anderson ’65 (MM), a professor of music emeritus at Kent State University, received the Distinguished Service Award from the 6,000-member Ohio Music Education Association. He also serves as vice president of the Ohio Alliance in Arts Education.

1969

Dottie Muller Seep ’73 (MM) sends an update: “After raising my two children, I’ve returned to teaching— a ‘second career’ as a music teacher at a private school in Annapolis, Md., called Annapolis Area Christian School, and am the founding director of the school’s adult Community Choir and Orchestra, which has been performing choral masterworks with orchestral accompaniment for four years. Fifteen years ago my husband, R.V., and I moved from Rochester to Maryland when he became an attorney for the U.S. House of Representatives. We raised two children, Jessica and Jeremy, and 20 months ago R.V. and I were delighted to become grandparents for the first time. We welcomed Tyler Bradley Ekholm, son of our daughter, Jessi, and her husband, Chris.”

1970

Geary Larrick (MM) writes that he was recognized in February 2007 with a percussion book display in the library at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. He also premiered his own compositions, Song and Dance for bongo drums and Dance for Three Gongs, at the Gesell Institute this spring.

1973

Dottie Muller Seep (MM) (see ’69). . . . Ted Moore, director of jazz ensembles at UC Berkeley, writes that he appeared in February with the Oregon Symphony, along with his Brazilian jazz group, Brasilia, performing arrangements from their CD, River Wide. Jeff Tyzik ’73 conducted.

1979

Michael Drapkin writes to announce the publication of his book, Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet, Volume Three, from Roncorp Publications. The volume of difficult passages and solos concludes the series started in 1979 and has become standard literature for bass clarinetists worldwide.

1981

Dan Locklair (DMA), composer-in-residence and professor of music at Wake Forest University, premiered his composition Stirring the Silence in March, a work that was commissioned for the Virginia Festival of American Voices. The festival also featured several of Dan’s choral works.

1983

Paul Sportelli writes that he has cowritten a musical called Tristan that will receive its world premiere at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. It will run from July 12 through October 6, and is the first new musical the Shaw Festival has ever staged. Paul is in his ninth year as the Shaw Festival’s music director. More information on Tristan is available at www.shawfest.com.

1985

Trombonist John Fedchock (MM) writes that Up and Running, his fourth album with the John Fedchock New York Big Band, has been released on the Roncorp Records label. The CD features John’s compositions and arrangements.

1989

James Lowe was the conductor for the first national tour of the Tony Award–winning Broadway show, The Light in the Piazza. The tour played in more than 25 cities. He is the music director of Lyric Opera San Diego.

1991

Thomas Lanners (DMA) sends an update: He recorded a CD entitled Ned Rorem: The Three Piano Sonatas (Centaur Records), which he created through a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording in New York City. His next release will include the remainder of the Pulitzer Prize–winning composer’s output for solo piano. He performed some of these works in recitals at the Universities of North Texas and western Ontario in 2006, and will do so again at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Rode Pomp in Belgium in the fall of 2007.

1997

Amy Getter-Santos writes to announce that she and her husband, violinist Radhames Santos, welcomed a son, Gabriel Michael, on February 15. He joins big sister Ellie, 6. The family lives in Columbia, Md.