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University of Northern Iowa School of Music

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Greetings from the Director

fl. reetings from the School of Music! It is with great pleasure that I am able to write to you

year with an update on the many activities and successes of our students and faculty at the UNI School of Music. This year is no exception. As I begin my 12th year (fifth year as director), I still find the environment in the School of Music to be energized and a productive one for our students. The same excitement and love for music is evident today just as it was during the eras of past generations of ISNS, ISTC, SCI and UNI students.

Diane Curtis , we thank you for your support. Every dollar raised helps us to bring the Russell Hall renovation closer to fruition. Many donors also have contributed to our scholarship program. We are fortunate that Dorothea W. Dean generously has donated a new gift to establish the Dorothea W. and Robert W. Dean Visiting Artists/ Scholars Fund. This fund will allow national and international

You again will enjoy reading about our students and faculty in this issue.

Richard (B.M. '79) and Kristine (BA. '80) Schultz donated $100,000 to the Russell Hall renovation project.

I am pleased to report that the Russell Hall Renovation Project, part of the "Students First" capital campaign, is progressing very well. The recent major gift of $100,000 by Richard (B.M. '79) and Kristine (B.A. '80) Schultz has allowed the campaign to carry us over the $1 million mark. This gift follows the previous generous $250,000 donation from Bruce Bengtson (B.A. '64), who was recognized in our last newsletter. These major gifts have had a significant impact on our ability to ultimately reach our goal. Advisory Board members, alumni, faculty, emeritus faculty and friends have made pledges ranging from $100 to $10,000. To everyone involved in this worthwhile project and many of you who have been contacted by our Development Officer

musicians to present recitals , lectures and master classes at UNI. The generosity of our donors is so appreciated and greatly assists UNI students with their educational development and tuition expenses.

The "Students First" campaign continues to jump-start the renovation effort by raising $2 million. Russell Hall improvements will provide performance and rehearsal spaces, complement the new Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center and give students quality spaces to prepare for careers as teachers and performers. Renovations will enhance the recruitment of talented students, faculty and staff. The entire building will be revamped, including studios and classrooms. While about 20 percent of UNI School of Music activities now take

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place in the GBPAC, Russell Hall remains vital to our programs. Extensive renovations, estimated at more than $8 million, are needed to give UNI music students, faculty and staff optimum facilities. The School of Music Advisory Board members-Gayle Rose, Jim Coffin, Jim Linahon, Lisa Meyer, Susan Rider, Emmett Steel, Steve West, Jeff Tower, Rick Lawn, Berdena Beach, Bruce Bengtson,

Keith Benjamin, Sheri Greenawald, John Harbaugh and Jeff Helmer - all have contributed their time, effort and support to our School of Music students. The board will be meeting again in October to develop a grassroots campaign to meet our goal. So, as you can see, progress is still the driving force in the School of Music!

As I close my remarks, let me reiterate how proud the faculty and staff are of our graduates. Many have been so successful in their careers, businesses and families. Tmly, UNI has made a difference in the past and continues to make a difference in the future for our students. The tradition of excellence is alive and well in the School of

Music-a reflection of you, our graduates, who unfailingly represent our institution as exemplary friends , benefactors and supporters. We invite you to visit the UNI campus. It's always a pleasure to meet with alumni and friends.

Sincerely,

John F. Vallentine, director

University of Northern Iowa

SRO for Jazz Band I's West Coast trip Jazz Band I's trip to the International

Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) Conference, held in Long Beach,

California, started in the dark (at 2:00 a.m. on a bus depatting for the Minneapolis airport) and ended in the dark (at 4:30 a.m. on a bus arriving at UNI). But in between was a vety sunny musical experience for the 19 band students, director Robert Washut, faculty Chris Merz and Tom Barry and official photographer and mother confessor Kate Washut. And fo r all of us UNI alumni w ho reside in or near the left coast, plus a few others, it was a magical week that began at 8:00 p.m. on January 7 and ended at 6:00 p .m. on Januaty 12.

The band's first appearance was at Steamers Cafe, a small jazz club in Fullerton, California, that serves up great music seven nights a week. Monday nights are big band night, and for the regular patrons plus jazz alumni from Texas, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Francisco and southern Califo rnia, Jazz I put on a ste llar concert. The famed trumpeter Bobby Shew, who performed with the

session at the famed Hollywood Oceanway studio on Tuesday. Pictures of the legendary artists who have recorded at Oceanway lined the hallways, and Bette Midler was scheduled for a session the next day. Jason Danielson, senior pianist from Des Moines, summed u p his feelings by saying, "It was a great honor playing the piano at Oceanway, not only because of the beautiful action and sound, but because of its h istoty. I grew up listening to albums by Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, and I felt almost unworthy know ing they had recorded on that vety instrument."

UNI alumnus Jim Linahon (B.A. '73) was the recording engineer on that date and used his many wiles to bring out the best from the band. "In the recording studio, I was having the worst time p laying a flute part," reminisced senior alto saxophonist Greg Aker from Coralville. "After about ten takes, thanks to Jim Linahon's te rrible jokes and other scare tactics, he was able to get me calm enough to nail it!"

According to Washut, the tunes recorded at Oceanway will be on their 11th CD, to be released this fall (see article on next page).

The conference began on Wednesday and ran through Saturday, during which the students were able to attend clinics and

(1-r) jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew and UN! jazz Band I Director Robert IVashut at the recording session at Oceanway Studios in Hollywood

appearances featuring some of the world's finest jazz players and educators. More than 50 groups, ranging

from legends like the Dave Brubeck Quartet

band at all of its performances plus the recording session, gave the audience some wonderful jazz moments, as did saxophonists Chris Merz and Tom Barry. It was standing ovations all around. "Going to the IAJE was an incredible experience. I really enjoyed performing for the appreciative audience at Steamers," said Rick Stone, senior tenor saxophonist from Sioux City.

Getting a little rest from a long day on Monday, the band didn 't leave the ho tel until 10:30 a.m. for its recording

to contemporaty bands like the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, as well as such luminaries as Pancho Sanchez, Billy Childs, Bill Watrous and the big bands of Bob Florence and Med Flory, gave performances throughout the day and into the wee hours of the morning. Interspersed between the learning and listening, the students were able to do some sightseeing and enjoy southern California life . (Those stories will remain undocumented.)

Saturday at 5:00 p .m. in the Hyatt

Regency Hotel, adjacent to the Long Beach Convention Center, Jazz Band I, with guest artist Bobby Shew and special appearances by Mark Levine, piano, and John Santos, congas, presented its IAJE 'concert to a standing room only audience. The hour-long performance featured arrangements by Washut and Merz (Merz also soloed on the soprano saxophone) and offered a musical palette rich in compositions from Chick Corea to Henry Mancini and Carla Bley to Thad Jones. Jazz I gave a magnificent performance, which resulted in another standing ovation by an appreciative audience. Bobby Shew, by giving of his talent and time, enhanced not only the bands appearances, but in many ways raised the musicality of the group. Pella native and senior drummer Phil Martin summarized, "Getting the chance to play and record with Bobby Shew was fantastic, because it forced me to tty to play on a much higher level. "

The last words must come from Jazz I's respected leader, Robert Washut. "The trip was expensive and a lot of work. In retrospect, however, it was well worth the effort! The club gig was a hoot. . . the kids really enjoyed it. The recording session was a very valuable experience- many, many thanks to Jim Linahon for his generosity and assistance. And the IAJE performance was a thrill and an honor. Working with Bobby Shew is always a treat. I was pleasantly surprised at the show of support by UNI Jazz Band alumni at all of the West Coast activities. That was vety cool and reflects the sincere pride in the heritage of jazz at UNI."

Jazz Band I Personnel

Saxophone Trombone Greg Aker Bill Scheidecker Dave Oline Nate Dishman Rick Stone Chris Schmitz Nick Thompson Luke Pingel Ryan Jeter Brian Moore Rhythm

Trnmpet Brandon Lewis Caleb Shreves Phil Hamilton Patrick Parker Meghan Guss

Jason Danielson, piano Billy LeGrand, guitar Jay Foote, bass Phil Martin, drums

[Editor's Note: Special thanks to UNI's "Father of)azz" Jim Coffin {B.A. '52, M.A. '64) for contributing this article.]

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Conducting professor published U N I Conducting Professor William

Shepherd had his textbook, Conducting Workbook with CD-ROM Video, published by Schirmer/ Wadsworth, ISBN: 0-534-52896-1, © 2002, 240 pages, spiral bound, 8 1/ 2 x 11. The textbook is intended for the one-semester conducting course required for music and music education majors at four-year colleges, universities and conservatories of music. Shepherd's book can be used in a variety of learning situations, from one-on-one teaching in which a student would conduct while a teacher plays the exercises to large classes in which a student would conduct a class performing as an ensemble. The text provides step­by-step coverage of all aspects of conducting and contains exercises that require each student to practice with a metronome.

Reviewer quotes were positive. "Strong examples aid productive practice for the conductor-in-training. Perceptive observations on the myriad areas demanding a young conductor's attention. An inherent and sincere passion for music in general and conducting in particular. " -Gerald L. Welker, University of Alabama.

"Plentiful excerpts, many already transposed for immediate use and almost all very thorough. I especially like the prep beat exercises in Chapter 2 and the mixed meter exercises in Chapter 6. Tbe CD-ROM will grab the students' attention and allows them to work on conducting fundamentals at home." - Timothy Gunter, University of Arkansas Bands.

"Superb exercises. Straightforward text. Excellent conducting caveats."­Robert C. Cameron, Duquesne University.

Topics covered in Shepherd's book include basics of conducting, conducting patterns, fermati , cues, dynamics, mixed meter, transposition, rubato and score study guide.

The book has several features. Students who master all of the exercises will have a solid foundation in the fundamentals of conducting and w ill have experienced all the major challenges faced by conductors. Challenging conducting exercises - especially those with fermati -prepare the student conductor for actual conducting. The text helps students develop a conducting style that gives musicians a clear, inspiring and concise

beat pattern. Shepherd's approach emphasizes score study techniques. More than 200 musical examples have been written and illustrated by the author. A CD-ROM is enclosed with the text and, for simplified teaching, has been keyed to text discussions. [Editor's note: Information for this

article was taken from the website http:/ / www.newtexts.com/newtexts/ boo k.cfm?book_id=412 and used by permission of The Thomson Corporation. For informatio n regarding a review copy, please consult the aforementioned website .]

New Jazz Band I CD West Coasting, the 11th UNI Jazz

Band I CD in as many years and the last one to be made under the leadership of Robert Washut, has been released. Guest artist on two of the tracks is famed jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew. Shew is featured on Washut's arrangements of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Jerome Kern and Serengeti by Mark Levine.

This past January, Jazz Band I performed at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in Long Beach, California. While in the Los Angeles area , the band recorded six charts at Oceanway Studios in Hollywood. The session was engineered by Jim Linahon (B.A. '73). Jazz I also recorded at the brand new Catamount Studios in Cedar Falls in May. As a result, West Coasting is culled from two separate sessions plus a track recorded live at the Gallagher­Blueclorn Performing Arts Center in April. The title West Coasting is derived from a relatively obscure Charles Mingus tune called East Coasting.

Ten tracks are featured , including compositions and arrangements by UNI faculty members Washut and Chris Merz and UNI Jazz Band I alumni Eric Schmitz (B.M. '00) and Troy Thompson (M.M. '92). Selections on the CD include Blues in the 2% by Dennis Mackrel, Basso Urnessto by Washut, Washut's arrangement of Utviklingssang by Carla Bley, Thompson's arrangement of Now He Sings, Now He Sobs by Chick Corea , Merz' arrangement of Hotel Le Hot by Kenny Wheeler, Swing by Schmitz, Freel Sturm's arrangement of Milonga Loca by Astor Piazolla and Compensation by Kenny Werner. Featured student soloists include pianist Jason Danielson, saxophonists Rick Stone, Greg Aker, Nick Thompson and Ryan Jeter and drummer Phil Martin.

University ot Northern Iowa Jau Band One 2001 . 2002

Robert Washut Ouec:tor

Wt.aCt1~ Featuring Bobby Shew

For information on West Coasting and other UNI Jazz Band I CDs, please visit www.uni.edu/ jazzstuclies or contact Washut, 319-273-6431, washut@uni.eclu

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Students Molly Stehn, soprano, Kyle Albertson, baritone,

and Cassie Van Gelder, piano, performed as "Promising Young Artists of the 21st Century" in San Jose, Costa Rica last May. During their one-week trip, the students performed at the Costa Rican-North American Cultural Center's Eugene 0' Teill Theate r in Los Yoses, San Jose's eastern suburb; University of Costa Rica in San Jose; Marrio tt Hotel Los Suenos in Playa

(1-r) Kyle Albertson, john Vallentine, Manuel Arce, Cassie Van Gelder and Molly Stehn in Costa Rica

Herradura on the Central Pacific coast; and in the city of San Ramon, about an hour northwest of San Jose.

School of Music Director John Vallentine and Van Gelder were the collaborative pianists with the students at the concerts. Vallentine stated, "The concert at the Eugene O'Neill Theater was the School of Music's third annual exchange with the Costa Rican-North

American Cultural Center. Manuel Arce, cultural director of the center, puts forth a great effort to ensure a remarkable experience for our students." The multiple performances were met with much acclaim, including a standing-room-only audience in San Ramon. "The audience in San Ramon treated the students like major performing stars, requested autographs and would not stop applauding at the conclusion of the concert," Vallentine said.

St. Petersburg ~xchange programs conttnue

UNI students and faculty were active during the past year with exchanges to

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Stehn, Albertson and Van Gelder participated in master classes and cross­cultural sessions with their counterparts in Costa Rica. Vallentine conducted University of Costa Rica bands and the San Jose Band, which is responsible for all official music functions for the president of the country. He presented conducting and clarinet master classes at the University of Costa Rica . Vallentine worked with members of the National Symphony Orchestra, their students and the Tico Jazz Band.

The Centro Cultural Center was founded in 1945 with funding from the

U.S. government. Now an autonomous Costa Rican non-profit organization, the center promotes cultural and educational knowledge for Costa Ricans and foreign nationals living there. To increase cultural awareness, the UNI students were hosted by volunteer families during their trip. Stehn, Albertson and Van Gelder also took an excursion to the rainforest and traveled across the country to their various performances. The exchange program will continue next May with jazz students and faculty traveling again to Costa Rica.

the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Faculty members Frederick Halgedahl, violin, and Julia Bullard, viola, traveled to St. Petersburg in October and performed at the House of Composers with Russian collaborative pianist Oleg Koshelev. Bullard and Halgedahl presented maste r classes at the university and recruited graduate students from there and the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Four graduate students, three from the conservatory and one from the university, w ill be attending UNI this fall. The UNI Graduate Quartet is sponsored by the UNI Graduate College, John Somervill, dean; International Programs; and School of Music. The quartet w ill be in residence for three years and perform throughout Iowa and the

Annual May Institute. The students earned credit while studying h istoty, language, art and the music of Russia. Assistant Vice-President of International Programs Tim O'Connor, Head of Modern Languages Maria Basom and Bullard coordinated all of the activities. In addition to her supervisory responsibilities with the U I students, Bullard performed with Koshelev at the university and presented a

(l-r) UN! Graduate String Quartet: Kirilt Murashko, Vladimir Gouliaev, Petr Illyash and Nadezhda Potemkina

U.S. Bullard returned to St. Petersburg in

May with ten UNI students for the Second

paper there on music education in the United States at the Fifth Russian-American Scientific and Practical Conference on Modern Concepts of University Education.

School of Music Director John Vallentine and Halgedahl will travel to Russia this fa ll to continue the collaboration between UNI and the St.

Petersbu rg institutions. Russian pianist Aleksandr Dyachkov will be guest pianist in residence during the fa ll semester at UNI. He will collaborate with students and faculty during seminars and recitals and perform a solo piano recital.

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Glee Club tours Europe You die-they throw it away-lost forever

T he UNI Varsity Men's Glee Club 2002 European Tour started with unbelievably warm spring weather

in Salzburg. Even light jackets were unnecessary. The Mirabel! Gardens were alive with early flowers and a splashing fo untain. Players were active at the giant, outdoor chessboard adjacent to the Cathedral, and a steep walk to "die Festung," the medieval fortress, afforded excellent views of the city. An excursion to the spa town of Badgastein provided great scenes of the Austrian Alps. The town itself boasts a noisy waterfall, which can be seen from many angles. Before leaving, we enjoyed a three-course luncheon. Upon return, we performed informally in Salzburg Cathedral to the delight of hundreds of tourists. Our first concert was in Grodig, a small town outside Salzburg, which has become a traditional concert venue for our tours. The burgermeister ordered up a special brew from a local monastety for the after­concert dinner and celebration. Representatives in attendance from the American consulate in Salzburg and University of Salzburg offered to help with concert engagements for the 2004 tour.

On our way to Innsbruck, we stopped in Wattens to tour the Swarovski Crystal Museum. There we sang informally in a dome-shaped room. The inner surface was covered with crystal mirrors and it sounded as though our singing was greatly amplified with the amazing acoustics. Our first night in Innsbruck, we attended a Tyrolean Evening, a rousing performance of folk songs and dance from the province of Tyrol. The next day was spent exploring Innsbruck. Paragliding, mountain cable car rides and seeing the Golden Roof were all part of the excitement. We gave an impromptu performance in St. Jakob's Cathedral, which was half full with tourists by the end of our program. Our second formal concert took place that evening at the Baroque church in Axams, just ou~side Innsbruck. It was a wondrous venue for singing, and the concert was well attended. We received an offer from a faculty member at the Innsbruck Conservatory to perform with an instrumental ensemble, which he would organize for our next trip.

The next day was devoted to skiing or an excursion to Vipiteno/ Sterzing and Brixen, Italy. We left early the next morning for a tour of Neuschwanstein King Ludwig's world-famous castle in ' Bavaria. After lunch, we visited another renowned site , the Passion Play Theatre in Oberammergau, before returning to Innsbruck, where we boarded the train to Vienna. In Vienna, we were fortunate to stay at the Hotel Wand!, 50 yards from St. Stephen's Cathedral. We sang informally in St. Stephen's, and a large crowd gathered for the performance.

On the way to our final concert in Modling, we stopped at Stift Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross Abbey), where we sang briefly in the gothic and romanesque abbey church. A Cistercian monk praised us for the performance and offered to perform on the church organ. We were delighted with his virtuosic offering. Modling is just outside Vienna and it was our second performance in ' that city. A local chorus sang at the beginning of the program, and then the women from that chorus performed two Austrian folk songs with us before we sang our complete program. The people from Modling were goodly in number and enthusiastic about the performance. We have been invited to return. After a hearty dinner at the Hotel Babenberger Hof in Modling, we returned to the Wand! in Vienna. The last clay in Vienna was spent sightseeing. We attended an excellent Strauss concert at the Palais Auersperg that evening and ended the trip with a sumptuous gala farewell dinner.

In conjunction with the golden anniversary of U I jazz, held in February, 2001, the UNI Jazz Archives was established. Gerald L. Peterson, university archivist and special collections librarian informed the School of Music that ' contributions have stopped since the initial announcement. "With our controlled environment in the Special Collections section of the UNI Library, old clippings, photos, recordings, programs and other jazz memorabilia will be protected against the ravages of time," Peterson stated. He recommended that copies of the material be made for personal use and the originals be sent to the Library. Documentation such as dates places, photo identifications and unusual' circumstances should be included.

Jim Coffin (B.A. '52, M.A. '64), who proposed and formulated the project, urged all former jazz students to dig out all of the yellowing clippings, photos and other materials and send them in before they get lost or thrown away. He also suggested that in addition to their personal memorabilia, donors include a biography of themselves and remembrances of their jazz experiences.

Director of the School of Music John Valentine pointed out that the assembling of such material will not only be valuable for graduate thesis research, but future jazz students will be able to gain an historical perspective of UNI's excellent jazz program. All material should be addressed to: Gerald L. Peterson, Special Collections and University Archives, Rod Library, UNI, Cedar Falls, IA 50613-3675.

Members of the UN! Varsity Mens Glee Club after an informal performance at St.jakob's Cathedral in lnnsbruck

6 University of Northern Iowa

Scholarship Benefit Concert rl' he UNI School of Music U cordially invites you to attend

the 21st anniversary Scholarship Benefit Concert.

The one performance only of "Rhythm and Smooth" will take p lace in the Great Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on Friday, September 27 at 7:30 p.m. Guest Artists w ill be SONSAX, a Costa Rican saxophones and percussion band. Featured ensembles will be the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, UNI Percussion Ensemble, UNI Concert Chorale, UNI Singers, UNI Wind Symphony and UNI Flute Choir. Student performers to be showcased will be pianist Edwin Neimann and the George Walker Society of Music. Featured facu lty/ a lumni performers on the program will be soprano Jean McDonald and tenor Jeffrey Erich, clarinetist Jack Graham and pianist Joan Smalley, tubist Jeffrey Funderburk and guest pianist Iva Navratova, and bass-baritone Won Cho.

We are excited to present the 21st

Annual Scholarship Benefit Concert at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center once again. Our appreciation of the GBPAC increases each year, as the acoustically and architecturally best-in­Iowa Great Hall allows us to present the concert in one evening. The spacious Davis Hall and McElroy Lobby provide us ample room for the post-concert receptions. Join us at the Cotton Club in Davis Hall and the Costa Rican Tropical Paradise with SONSAX in McElroy Lobby.

A pre-concert greeting will be provided by the UNI Flute Choir, directed by faculty member Angeleita Floyd. The program will open with the very quick rhythm of Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide. Rebecca Burkhardt will conduct the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra. Faculty member Jean McDonald, soprano, and UNI alumnus Jeffrey Erich, tenor, will join Burkhardt and the orchestra for A

Richard Rodgers 1 OOth Tribute, arranged by faculty composer Jonathan Schwabe. Rodgers was born in 1902 and died in 1979 and reigns supreme as a composer of musicals. Faculty member Jack Graham, clarinet, will collaborate with

Rhythm-that which takes us through the days that move us through our lives. Smooth-the sensation of ice cream upon your tongue.

UNI alumna Joan Smalley, piano, on Alec Templeton's very popular Pocket Size

Sonata. Faculty percussionist Randy

Hogancamp wil l direct the UNI Percussion Ensemble on Robert ]. Damm's Hoo­Daiko. Hoo-Daiko was inspired by traditional Japanese ta iko drumming. Taiko dmmmers have a powerful sound and provide an impressive visual element of choreographed movement. The first half will close with the crowd-pleasing Tbe Morning Song, a new age gospel selection by Roger Kellaway that will be performed by faculty tubist Jeffrey Funderburk and guest pianist Iva Navratova. A native of Ostrava in the Czech Republic, Navratova currently teaches at the Staatliche Hochschule fttr Musik in Trossingen, Germany.

Pianist Edwin Neimann won the $4,000 Presser Foundation Award at the Performance Competition Finals held in April as part of the School of Music's Spotlight Series. We are pleased to announce that Neimann will open the second half of the Scholarship Benefit Concert with Prelude, Op. 23, No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninov. Selections will follow from a work of great celebration, Paul Basler's Missa Kenya for mixed

chorus and tenor solo with horn, percussion and piano. The New York Times described Basler's music as "vittuosic and highly athletic." Faculty member Dyan Baker Meyer will conduct the UNI Concert Chorale for the performance. Faculty performers on the piece will be hornist Thomas Tritle and percussionist Randy Hogancamp.

New faculty bass-baritone Won Cho will make his UNI debut with La

Calunnia, from The Barber Q{ Seville by Gioacchino Rossini. He will close with Ol' Man River, an audience favorite from Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Cho has performed in numerous operas, oratorios, concerts and recitals throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and his native Korea.

A surprise selection will be performed by SONSAX. "Costa Rican Band SONSAX is a 'World Saxophone Quartet' in every sense of the word. The sax part is the four principal members of the family (baritone, tenor, alto, soprano -plus percussion), and the songs can be from anywhere: sometimes cool, sometimes frenzied, sometimes laid-back lounge, sometimes pure funk - and always with enough Latin to move you to dance or dream."- XX! Montreal

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International jazz Festival, 2000. New faculty member Brad Barrett w ill

make his UNI debut. He will conduct the UNI Singers on Consecrate the Place and Day by Lloyd Pfautsch and Ajtonen by Hugo Alven. As a Missouri high school choir director, Barrett's choruses held the record number of "I" ratings for solos, small ensembles and choirs at both the district and state levels .

For the grand finale, the students in the UNI Singers and UNI Conceit Chorale will join forces with the UNI Wind Symphony for a performance of Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe. Faculty member Ronald Johnson will be the conductor.

The School of Music recreates the beautifu l Costa Rican Tropical Paradise with the music of SONSAX, our guest

artists from San Jose, Costa Rica. SONSAX has gathered a large and varied repeltoire of musical genres, including Latin American, funk, jazz and classical music. The expansive McElroy Lobby will come alive with the band's five exciting Latin American professional musicians.

The Cotton Club is recreated by the School of Music in our vety own Davis Hall. Enter through candlelight as popular tunes emanate from student performers of the George Walker Society, under the direction of faculty member Darryl Taylor. It's a postlude concert that will stir the imagination and revive memories of the celebrity clientele of the Cotton Club -Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin , Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway and Lena Horne.

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Performing Alts Center and the much larger lot just north of that, there will be ample parking for the Benefit Concert. Additional parking is available in the two lots on the south side of University Avenue, across from the center. A tunnel and a crosswalk allow patrons to cross the street safe ly. Parking for mobility­impaired patrons is available on the north side of the center.

To order tax-deductible tickets at $25 each or to become a "Special Donor" (seven categories beginning with Benefactors at $100 and topping with President's Circle at $2,500 or more), please call 319-273-SHOW (7469).

Below is a list of "Special Donors" to the 2000 Scholarship Benefit Concerts, which raised $38,651.00: President's Circle* - $2,500 or more Gayle S. Rose

Director's Circle* - $1,500 University Book & Supply

Underwriters*- $1,000 In memory of Hattie Zoe Shoesmith

Guarantors* - $500 William & Stephanie Clohesy Jon & Marilyn Hansen David & Laura Olson ]. Stephin Patin

Pat~ons• - $250 Ro bert & Rosemary Beach Glenn Boysen Cathy & Ed Gallaghe r, Jr. Karl & Martha Holvik Betty Mulcay Dr. & Mrs. Edward Voldseth Flo ris M. Waller Benefactors* - $1 00 Merle & Phyllis Anderson Diane Lee Baum

Lyle Lillian Baum Parke & Marlene Behn Robert & Shirley Berg Elayne Blumhagen Emil & Loraine Bock Mattin & Margaret Borchelt Mr. & Mrs. William F. Bowlin Roben & Margaret Bradford Rick & Sharon Brown in memory of Betty Hatch Neubauer Bill & Kathy Calhoun R. B. Campbell james Collins Patricia Connell Russ & Diane Curtis Kristin Daggett Saul & joan Diamond Mac Eblen James Edsill Donna & John Falk Dr. Maty Franken Dr. & Mrs. Larry Furlong Dorothy & John Glascock David & Marion Greene F. Ray Hartson Noreen Hermansen Jane Whitehead & Randy H6gancamp

Help us find our ((lost alumni" The number of music alumni for whom we have no address

has dropped dramatically to 18, down from 133 last year. The UNI Office of Alumni Relations individually ran the lost music alumni through a new service to which it subscribes, and the results were phenomenal. With 2,093 names on the music alumni list, the percentage of "lost a lumni" is .86 percent, down from 6.37 percent last year. We're impressed with the new service.

Dr. John Holstad James & Kathleen Hughes Invision Architecture, LTD Sue & Jerry Jacobsen William T. Jochumsen Leonard & Marion Karlin Robert & Yvonne Koob Michael R. Liesch Lois N. Kilgore Karen Agee & Thomas Kline Mary Klotzbach & Beulah Harmon Denis ]. & Julia Kuhlmann H.D. (Ike) Leighty Harriet & Symone Ma David R. & Cindi Mason Frederick Mast Dave & Mary McCalley Manha & James McCutcheon Mark E. Mershon Steve & Jan Moore Myron Mueller Matybeth Nelson Audrey Niemann Bonnie & Tim Noonan Heidi & Jeff Noonan-Day C. Hugh Pettersen Dale & Diane Phelps

Dorothy ]. Plager Veda Rasmussen LeRoy & Nancy Redfern Bob & JoDee Richardson Verna Ford Ritchie James & Jeanene Robertson Lorene Rohlf Tom Romanin Genevieve & Mary Schlicher Alan & Dana Schmitz Augusta Schurrer Paul & Maribeth Shanley Bill & Mary Shepherd Phyllis & Don Singer Andrew C. & Murtis M. Smith Dr. Tom & Char Strub Diane Thiessen Edward F. Wagner Ne il & Lil Williams Junean Witham Gene Yagla La uri & J im Young

In our continual effort to stay in touch with our music graduates, we would appreciate it if you please would check over the names below around the years that you were a student at UNI. If you can provide an address, please write to us, call 319-273-2024 or e-mail byrnes@uni.edu. We thank you for your assistance, as wil l our few remaining "lost alumni ."

McAbeer, Carita Harris '29 Robinson, Marian Bronson '31 Clark, Verna M. '43 Staff, Lillian Soukup '30 Mimbach, Mary Templeton '36 Zeller, Annie Catherine '58 Thomas, Margaret Tydvil '30 Maynard, Myra L. '37 Powers, Mark Andrew '74 Carey, Dorothy Dinsmore '31 Beckman, Norma Sutz '39 Raines, Raymond Sungjoo '90 Mann , Doreen Cobb '31 Bishop, Wanda Elaine '41 Plaza-Perez, Francisco Javier '96 Dethlefsen, Cecilia L. '31 Reeves, Margaret Roelfs '43 Abel Majid, Sazali '97

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Student Awards UNI J azz Band I, directed by Robert

Washut, was selected to perform at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Jazz Educators, held in Long Beach, California last January. Groups from literally all over the world submitted audition tapes, and Jazz Band I was one of a handful of collegiate jazz ensembles invited to perform (see Jim Coffin's article on page 2 of this issue).

UNI Jazz Band II, directed by Christopher Merz, was named the outstanding College Big Band at the 35th Annual Eau Claire Jazz Festival last March. UNIJazz Combo ill, also directed by Merz, placed first in the combo division.

Phil Hey of the University of Minnesota declared, "Jazz II is an excellent band overall - well rehearsed and fun to listen to. " Kevin Kjos of the University of Pennsylvania-Kutztown praised the band by saying, "good, crisp sound, nice fundamentals and concept." The band was chosen over ensembles from Gustavus Adolphus College (Minneapolis), Hamline University (St. Paul), the University of Wisconsin­Superior and Iowa State University.

Combo III was commended by the judges saying, "very sophisticated sound," "excellent communication," "wonderful

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rhythm section playing" and "fabulous feeling of looseness." Other schools represented by combos were the University of Wisconsin-Superior, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Iowa State University.

In addition to the group awards, five Jazz II members were cited as outstanding soloists. They were saxophonist Austin Zaletel of Des Moines, trumpeter Christian Anderson of Dubuque, guitarist Tom Wherrett of Omaha, clarinetist Kyle Novak of Marion and bassist Danny Oline of Independence. Combo III saxophonist Rick Stone of Sioux City was cited as the outstanding soloist of all the competing combos.

Organist Mi-YoungJin was the first place w inner in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) State Collegiate Organ Competition, held in Ames last November. ]in received her Master of Music degree in performance last May. She studied w ith faculty organist Marilou Kratzenstein. As a pianist, Jin performed with the UNI Concert Chorale and UNI Varsity Men's

Glee Club. Her home is in Seoul, South Korea. ] in's father is Dae-Sub Jin, and her mother is Sook-Ja Sung.

Graduate student Junghye Shln, won first prize in the college piano division of the 2002 Des Moines

, Symphony Alliance Young Artist Competition , which took place last February. She also was awarded the grand prize, a full tuition plus room and board scholarship to the 2002 Summer Aspen Music School. In the semi-final round, Shin competed w ith five p ianists w ho were chosen by audition tape. In the final round, she competed with one pianist for first prize in piano and then that pianist and three instrumentalists for the grand prize . Shin has a full graduate assistantship and studied with faculty pianist Jeongwon Ham. She is p ursuing a Master of Music degree in performance. All students in the competition were from Iowa colleges and universities. A native of Seoul, South Korea, Shin's father is Wooshik Shin , and her mother is Simhyang Choi.

Flutist RebeccaJohnson was the first prize w inner in the college winds, brass, percussion and harp d ivision of the 2002 Des Moines Symphony Alliance Young Artist Competition . She received a $1,000 cash award . Faculty member Robin Guy was pianist w ith Johnson at the competition. They performed Jean Rivier's Concerto f or Flute and Charles Marie Widor's Romance. There were 11 contestants in the semi-final round and three in the final round. Johnson studied with faculty flutist Angeleita Floyd. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in performance last May, attended the Aspen Music Festival this past summer and w ill be studying at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England with Peter Lloyd this September. At UNI, Johnson was a member of the UNI Wind Symphony, Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, JOYAS woodwind quintet, "Flute Loops" flute quartet, UNI Flute Choir and UNI Panther Marching Band. In 2001, she was the winner of the $1,500 Charles & Marleta Matheson Award. Johnson is the daughter of David

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and Ruth Johnson of Fort Dodge. The Performance Competition Finals

took place last April in the UNI School of Music Spotlight Series. Pianist Edwin Neimann won the $4,000 Presser Foundation Award . Trombonist Cory Mixdorf was the winner of the $1,500 Charles & Marleta Matheson Award. Marimbist Ryan Frost was awarded the $1,000 Myron & Ruth Russell Award. From the UNI School of Music, there were six competitors in the final round and 16 contestants in the preliminary round.

Neimann studies with faculty pianist Howard Aibel and is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in performance. He played Ballade No. 1 in G Minm; Op. 23 by Frederic Chopin at the competition finals. Neimann will be a senior this fall. His parents are Ed and Debbie Neimann of Fort Dodge.

Mixdorf studied with faculty trombonist Nancy Vogt and performed Deux Danses by Jean-Michel Defay with undergraduate pianist Jason Danielson. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree last May. Mixdorf has been a member of the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra; UNI Jazz Bands I, II and III; UNI Jazz Combos; UNI Panther Marching Band; and UNI

NewFacultv Joining the School of Music faculty

this fa ll w ill be Rod M. Chesnutt, assistant professor of marching and symphonic bands (music education); Brad Barrett, assistant professor of choral conducting and music education; and Won Cho, assistant professor of voice.

Chesnutt previously was director of bands at Mississippi State University; director of bands at the State University of West Georgia; and assistant director of bands at the University of Nebraska. He was a graduate assistant at Florida State University and Arkansas State University. Chesnutt holds a bachelor's degree from Tennessee Technological University, a master's degree from Arkansas State

Trombone Choir. His parents are Dan and Linda Mixdorf of Eldridge and Laurie Frederick of Des Moines.

Frost studies with faculty percussionist Randy

Hogancamp and is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree. At the competition finals, he soloed on Rhythm Song by Paul Smadbeck. Frost will be a senior this fall and has performed as a member of the UNI Wind Symphony, UNI Percussion Ensemble, UNI Panther Marching Band, UNI Symphonic Band, UNI Concert Band and UNIWADE (UNI West African Drum Ensemble). His parents are Russell and Diana Frost of Waterloo.

Daniel Perszyk was the winner last January in the college division of the Fort Dodge Area Symphony Young Artists Auditions. He vied with 15 others and won a cash prize and performance opportunity. Last April Perszyk performed the third movement of C.P.E. Bach 's Conce110 in D Minor with the Fon Dodge Area Symphony. He performed the same piece at the competition with graduate

University and a Ph.D. degree from Florida State University. He taught in the public schools of Blytheville and Tmmann, Arkansas. His bands have performed at prestigious festivals, parades and conventions throughout the U.S. and overseas. Chesnutt has been a guest conductor and professional arranger.

Barrett currently is completing his D.M.A. degree in choral conducting as a doctoral graduate teaching assistant with a minor field of study in vocal performance at the University of Arizona-Tucson. Previously, he was director of choral activities at Logan-Rogersville Public Schools in Rogersville , Missouri, and Conway (Missouri) Public Schools. Barrett earlier was a graduate teaching assistant at Southwest Missouri State University. For ten consecutive years his choirs held the district and state record number of "I" ratings for solos, small ensembles and choirs. During that same time frame , Barrett's choral program had more singers named to the Missouri All-State Honor Choir than any other Missouri school.

9 pianist Lan-Yi Chen. Perszyk studies with faculty flutist Angeleita Floyd and is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in performance. He has been a member of the UNI Symphonic Band, UNI Wind Symphony and UNI Chamber Winds. His mother is Elizabeth Perszyk of Elk River, Minnesota.

Also in January, Molly Stehn won the $1,000 Martha-Ellen Tye Career Development Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Upper Midwest Region, Iowa District, which were held at Iowa State University. She sang Martern alter A11en, from Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail by Mozart and Ah, jors ' e lui .. . Sempre Iibera, from La Traviata by Verdi. Thomas Muraco, a judge from the Manhattan School of Music, said Stehn had "a rare, smokey tone" and that she sings "with fi re ." Stehn studied with faculty vocalist Leslie Morgan and received her Bachelor of Music degree in performance this past spring. She was a member of the UNI Women's Choms, UNI Concert Chorale, UNI Chamber Singers and UNI Opera Performance Ensemble . Her parents are Dan and Donna Stehn from Cresco.

Barrett has been a guest conductor and adjudicator throughout the Midwest, collaborative pianist and performer of various operatic roles.

Cho is completing his doctorate at the University of Memphis, where he was a doctoral teaching assistant. Previously, he held a position at the University of Hartford, Community Division; was an Hohenberg-Scheidt Opera Fellow at the University of Memphis; and was assistant director of the University of Memphis Opera. Cho holds degrees in voice performance from the Manhattan School of Music and Boston University. He garnered additional study at programs in Italy and Austria. Cho has won numerous awards in national and inte rnational voice, concerto and opera competitions.

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Beginning with the 2002-2003 academic year, a major change will occur m the UNI School of Music

jazz division. Robert Washut, director of UNIJazz Band I, and Christopher Merz, director of UNI Jazz Band II, will switch directorships.

Washut is professor of music at UNI, where he has been director of the award­winning UNI Jazz Band I and director of jazz studies since 1980. An accomplished jazz composer and arranger, Washut has received numerous commissions from collegiate jazz ensembles, professional jazz artists and symphony orchestras. Many of his works are published by the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) Jazz Press in Greeley, Colorado; Walrus Music Publishing in Glendale, California; C.L. Barnhouse in Oskaloosa, Iowa; and Heritage JazzWorks in Dayton, Ohio. Washut is in demand as ~ clinician and adjudicator throughout the country. An active jazz pianist, he is founder of the Latin jazz band, Orquesta de Jazz y Salsa Alto Maiz, and recently recorded and released a jazz trio CD titled Songbook (Sea Breeze Jazz: SB-3036). Washut was selected as Outstanding Teacher at UNI in 1996.

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, UNI Jazz Band I is one of the premier collegiate jazz ensembles in the Midwest. Jazz Band I has appeared at festivals across the U.S. and in Europe. The band performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1989, 1995 and 1998 and the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1989 and 1998. Jazz Band I has received outstanding band recognition at Christopher Merz the Notre Dame (Indiana), Wichita (Kansas), Kansas City (Missouri), Eau Claire (Wisconsin) and Elmhurst (Illinois) jazz festivals. It has been a featured band by invitation at the Greeley (Colorado) and KU (Kansas) jazz

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the Ychool ~ Yl!a:tic festivals and has performed at the 1981 and 2002 International Association of Jazz Educators Conferences in Chicago, Illinois, and Long Beach, California, respectively. The band also has been the recipient of three Outstanding Performance A wards in the collegiate big band categmy of Downbeat magazine's 1993, 1995 and 1999 Annual Student Music Awards.

Jazz Band I has been a pioneer in innovative programming and instrumentation. Maintaining a balance of classic Basie and Ellington works and contemporary original

UN! jazz I Director Robert Washut speaks with the audience during a peiformance.

compositions, the ensemble's repertoire consistently displays depth and diversity of style. The repertoire also showcases the versatility and high level of musicianship of the players in the band. Several original compositions and arrangements have been commissioned by the band from composers such as Manny Albam, Jane Ira Bloom, Ed Sarath, Chris Merz, Paul McKee and Rob Hudson.

The band has recorded 11 CDs -West Coasting in 2002, Leap of Faith in 2001, At Dusk in 2000, Just Us in 1999, Games in 1998, Conversations in 1997,

Skittish in 1996, That Big Band Thing in 1995, Field of Play in 1994, Come Fly with Us in 1993 and Northern Exposure in 1992. Both That Big Band Thing and Come Fly with Us received five-star reviews in Downbeat. Prominent guest artists who have appeared with Jazz Band I include Benny Golson, Tim Hagans, Ryan Kisor, Bob Berg, Jimmy Heath, Dick Oatts, Terell Stafford, Bobby Shew, Matt Wilson, Donald Harrison, Steve Turre, Jerry Bergonzi, Jane Ira Bloom, Carl Fontana, James Williams, Conrad Herwig, Jiggs Whigham, David Liebman, Sunny Wilkinson and Hal Galper.

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A very good year yriad recitalists , lecturers , M clinicians , master class presenters et al. shared their talent , insight and wisdom with School of

Music students and faculty throughout the 2001-2002 academic year. An enriching experience for all who were involved, these visitations reinforce what students already have been taught and inspire students to seek levels of achievement which previously were unknown. The impressive list of guests over the last year follows.

Several of these guest artists made their appearances through the generosity of the late Martha-Ellen Tye and the late Noma Rupprich Jebe (B.A. '33). We are grateful for the contributions from these benefactors to the School of Music and acknowledge their gifts more specifically below.

September 2001 Pianist Maria Thompson Corley

performed piano music of African­American composers on the Diversity Week Concert. Corley received her master's and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School, where she was a student of Gyorgy Sandor. She currently teaches piano and is collaborative pianist at Millersville University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her appearance was sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Education, School of Music, Maucker Union Policy Board, Multicultural Activities and Programs Committee and MOB Ministries, Inc.

Jazz vocalist Linda Tate performed on a Faculty Jazz Quartet recital. A Chicago native , Tate performs regularly at corporate and private events and at popular venues such as Pop's for Champagne, Andy's, Toulouse Cognac Bar, Pete Miller's Steak House, The Bob Shop, Border's Book Stores, the summer music festival at Unity in Chicago, Catch 35 and the Metropole Room of the Fairmont Hotel.

A guest organ recital was performed by Ji-Yoen Choi. Choi was the winner of the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, sponsored by the American Guild of Organists (AGO). A

native of Korea, she has a Bachelor of Music degree from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and a Master of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory. Choi is currently in the doctoral program at the Eastman School of Music. Her performance was made possible through funding provided by the late Noma Rupprich Jebe.

October 2001 A guest recital was presented by

Nancy McFarland Gaub, violin, and Eugene Gaub, piano. Nancy McFarland Ga ub is a lecturer in music at Grinnell College. She directs the chamber music ensembles, teaches violin and viola and performs frequently on the Grinnell Chamber Music Series and other venues. Gaub and pianist Eugene Gaub are co­artistic directors of the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival , which they founded in East Aurora , New York in 1994. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Eugene Gaub received a doctor of musical atts degree and the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. His teachers have included Ylda Novik, Beveridge Webster and Rebecca Penneys. Since his New York debut playing Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Juilliard Orchestra , Gaub has performed to critical acclaim throughout the United States. He also has performed in Mexico , Canada and Europe.

For his guest residency, trumpeter Gordon Mathie taught lessons, spoke to a music education class and gave presentations for trumpet class and the brass, woodwind and percussion seminar. A former visiting artist for a semester at the UNI School of Music, Mathie is an emeritus professor of trumpet and music education at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York (SUNY) College at Potsdam. His appearance was made possible by a grant from the Martha-Ellen Tye Visiting Artist Fund.

An organ recital and organ and composition master classes were presented by guest Ron Ebrecht. In Connecticut, Ron Ebrecht is university organist at Wesleyan University in Middletown and director of music at the First Congregational Church in Waterbury.

At the university, he curates an international organ recital series and the Young Organ Virtuosi Festival. Ebrecht has given recitals in Europe , the Far East and the U.S. His performance was made possible through funding provided by the late Noma Rupprich Jebe.

November 2001 Percussionist Michael Burritt's

guest residency included UNI Percussion Ensemble coaching, a master class and a recital. Burritt is associate professor and director of percussion studies in the School of Music at Northwestern University. He previously held the same position at Kent State University from 1985 until 1995. He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees and the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. His appearance was sponsored by Malletech Mallets and Malletech Marimbas.

A guest recital was performed by Pandit Debu Chaudhuri, sitar; Anup Ghosh, tabla; and Anita Ghosh, tamboura. Chaudhuri is considered by many to be today's finest performer on the sitar. Living in New Delhi, Chaudhuri has traveled regularly around the world to give concerts and spearhead educational projects concerned with the classical atts of his native land. He has had a lengthy career as an educator and was dean of the Faculty of Music and Fine Atts at the University of Delhi for 14 years. Anup Ghosh is a recognized virtuoso on the tabla. A native of Calcutta, he was awarded the National Scholarship in Tabla from the Indian Ministry of Culture. Ghosh has performed as a soloist and with many of India 's leading musicians, both in India and abroad. He is presently an artist-in-residence faculty member at the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield , Iowa. Anita Ghosh is an accomplished and recognized vocal soloist in her own right. She also is an artist-in-residence at Maharishi University, where she and Anup perform regularly. The concert received support from the UNI School of Music, UNI College of Humanities and Fine Arts and Northeast Iowa India Association.

Guest performers on a Faculty Jazz

1 Quartet recital were Dane Richeson, drums, and Doug Johns (B.M. '80) , tenor saxophone. Richeson has been featured as a solo marimbist, contemporary chamber music percussionist, ethnic percussion artist and jazz drummer throughout the U.S. , Europe and Asia. He has performed with artists Lukas Foss, Bobby McFerrin, Gunther Schuller, Joe Lovano, Lionel Hampton, Dianne Reeves, Roscoe Mitchell, Claudio Roditi, Stanley Jordan, Terry Gibbs, Eddie Daniels, David Liebman and Kevin Mahogany. Richeson is currently an associate professor of music at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he is director of percussion studies.

December 2001 Percussionist Michael Spiro

presented a workshop and rehearsed with UNI Jazz Band I as a visiting artist. He. is an internationally recognized percussionist , recording artist and educator. Spiro is known specifically for his work in the Latin music field. He has performed on hundreds of records and co-produced several instructional videos for Warner Bros. Publications , which featured such artists as David Garibaldi, Changuito, Giovanni Hidalgo and Ignacio Berroa. His appearance was made possible by a grant from the Martha-Ellen Tye Visiting Artist Fund.

Januarr 2002 A guest recital was presented by

Stephanie Jutt, flute , and Jeffrey Sykes, piano. Jutt made her acclaimed New York debut as first prize winner of the International Conceit Artist Guild Awards. As winner of the International Pro Musicis Award, she has been a recitalist in Paris , Freiburg, Rome , Lisbon, Bergen, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco , New York and Washington, D.C. Jutt has been flute professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1990. She received her degrees at the New England Conse1vatory. Sykes has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Western Europe. He has toured France and Italy with Jutt. He made his Carnegie Hall debut last year with oboist Gerard Reuter and Jutt under the auspices of the Pro Musicis Foundation. Sykes has degrees with honors from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Franz-

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Schubert-lnstitut in Baden-bei-Wien, Austria; and University of Wisconsin­Madison.

William McGuire (M.M. '93) was guest organist on a faculty recital by trumpeter Randy Grabowski. McGuire has been minister of music for 15 years and organist for 25 years at the Nazareth Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls.

Ted Reuter presented a guest piano recital. He is professor of piano at Wa1tburg College , where he teaches piano and related courses. Reuter received his B.A. degree from Knox College, M.M. degree from the University of Illinois and D.M.A. degree from the University of Iowa , where he studied with John Simms. Reuter has given solo and chamber music recitals at colleges, universities, institutes and on artist series throughout the Midwest, Texas and Idaho.

Februarr 2002 Approximately 220 students from 45

Iowa high schools participated in the Northern Festival of Bands. Janis Purins, conductor of the Riga Wind Orchestra (Latvia), was guest conductor with the UNI Wind Symphony and for the Festival Symphony Band, students in grades 11 and 12. The Festival Concert Band, students in grades nine and ten, was conducted by Dan Anderson, former director of bands at North Scott High School in Eldridge.

Mezzo-soprano Ruby Hinds and pianist David Holkeboer presented "An Evening of Songs and Remembrance" for the Fourth Annual School of Music Black History Month Concert. The second half of the program featured See Tbere in the Distance, a one-woman show that chronicles the life and accomplishments of legendary contralto Marian Anderson.

Oleg Koshelev, an associate professor of music at the Russian State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg was a guest recitalist. He is also head of the piano department in the College of Music at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conse1vatory of Music. Koshelev graduated from the Conservatory in 1980. Since then he has performed numerous chamber concerts and solo recitals, conducted master classes and patticipated in international music festivals in Russia and abroad.

Approximately 1,350 students from 64 Iowa high schools participated in the 47th Annual Tallcorn Jazz Festival.

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Adjudicators for the festival included Dan Gailey of the University of Kansas, Fred Forney of Mesa (Arizona) College , Larry Kisor of Sioux City and Brent Sandy (B.A. '81), Steve Grismore, Jim Dreier and Mark Urness (B.A. '93), all of Iowa City.

The 51st Annual Sinfonian Dimensions in Jazz Shows featured tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, who has been performing in New York City since 1976. He spent a year on the road with the Glenn Miller Band prior to that. In 1977, Peny joined the Thad Jones and Mel Lewis Big Band and spent the next two years touring the U.S. and Europe. After Jones left the band , Perry continued playing with Lewis and recorded three LPs with him.

The Center for New Music Ensemble, directed by David Gompper, presented a concert of contemporary works. A performing organization devoted to 20th-century repertoire, the ensemble is the focus of contemporary composition and performance at the University of Iowa. It has given the world or American premieres of major works, including Traces by Luciano Berio; Songs, Drone and Refrains of Death (1969) by George Crumb; Couleurs De Ia Cite Celeste 0973) by Olivier Messiaen ; and Triple Duo (1983) by Elliott Carter. Gompper, professor of composition at the University of Iowa , received his B.M. degree from San Diego State University, M.M. degree from the Royal College of Music in London and D.M.A. degree from the University of Michigan. He was appointed the director of the Center for New Music in 1994. He has lectured and heard his works performed at three Moscow Conservatory of Music festivals.

Approximate ly 165 students from 30 Iowa high schools participated in the Northern Iowa Vocal Arts Festival. Guest clinician to rehearse and conduct the Festival Choir w as Judy Bowers, associate professor of choral music education at Florida State University. The Davenport North Choirs, conducted by Ryan Riewerts, performed as the Festival Honor Choirs. Partial sponsorship for the festival was provided by the UNI Office of Conferences and Visitor Services .

From private teaching studios across Iowa, 12 high school pianists were selected to rece ive private lessons and coaching from members of the UNI keyboard faculty at the Northern Iowa Piano Festival. The Festival was sponsored in part by the Office of Conferences and Visitor Services. "

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Approximately 40 students from 11 Iowa high schools participated in the Northern Iowa String Festival. The Festival Orchestra was conducted by Rebecca Burkhardt, conductor of the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra. Members of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble presented the master classes on violin , viola and cello, and UNI alumnus Mark Urness presented the master class on double bass. The master classes were sponsored by the UNI School of Music, Martha-Ellen Tye Visiting Artist Fund and Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center.

March2002 The Iowa Composers Forum

Festival of New Music took place over two days at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center's Davis and Jebe Halls. UNI music faculty and UNI faculty and student and other Iowa composers were involved in lectures on and performances of new music.

A guest concert was given by the United States Navy Band, conducted by Ralph M. Gambone. Among the band members was trombone instrumentalist and enlisted conductor Mike Schmitz (B.M. '83). The United States Navy Band is the Navy's premier musical representative in Washington , D.C. Gambone is the 11th officer to direct the band. The Navy Band is recognized by many as "The World 's Finest" and is staffed by some of the nation's best musicians.

Flutists Claudia Anderson and Jill Felber were guest performers with faculty pianist Robin Guy on a recital. Anderson and Felber have performed as ZAWA! since 1997 and offer recently commissioned and traditional duo works. ZAWAI has appeared at Carnegie Hall and London's Wigmore Hall. Felber has held residencies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia , Mexico, France, Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain and the U.S. She has premiered over 300 works for the flute and released world-premiere recordings for Centaur Records, CRI and Neuma Records. Holding degrees from the University of Michigan and Bowling Green State University, she is currently professor of flute at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Anderson has performed as a solo ist in the U.S. , Europe

and South America. After graduating from the University of Michigan with honors and participating in the world premiere of Leonard Bernste in's Mass, she went to Italy on a Fulbright scholarship and remained for several years to play principal flute with the Orchestra dell'Opera del Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Anderson taught previously at UNI. The appearance by ZAWA! was funded in part by the Martha-Ellen Tye Visiting Artist Fund, the Flute Studio Fund and Miyazawa Flutes, Ltd .

April2002 A guest and faculty recital was

presented by violinist Fredi Gerling and pianist Jeongwon Ham. Gerling has master's degrees from the ew England Conservatmy and a D.M.A. degree from the University of Iowa. In 1986, he joined the faculty of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sui in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil , where he is now a tenured

professor. During his time in Brazil, Gerling has given recitals and master classes at Brazil's most prominent music festivals - Curitiba and Campos do Jordao. The appearance by Gerling was made possible by support from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sui.

Randall Faust, horn, was a guest performer on a program of his compositions with faculty members Thomas Tritle, horn, and Robin Guy, piano . Faust is professor of music at Western Illinois University, where he teaches horn and music theory. During the summers, Faust teaches horn at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. He received his Bachelor of Science in Music degree from Eastern Michigan University, Master of Music degree from Mankato State University and D.M.A. degree from the University of Iowa. The appearance by Faust was made possible by a grant from the Martha-Ellen Tye Visiting Artist Fund.

The eight concerts on the 2002 - 2003 Spotlight Series will be as fol lows:

• School of Music Faculty Chamber Music Concert Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - GBPAC Davis Hall· 8:00p.m.

• UNI Jazz Band I, ChirsMerz, conductor Friday, November 15, 2002- GPBPAC Great Hall· 7:30 p.m.

• UNI Wind Symphony, Ronald Johnson, conductor Friday, November 15, 2002 · GBPAC Great Hall· 7:30 p.m.

• Chimes of Christmas: UNI Concert Chorale, UNI Singers, UNI Women's Chorus and UNI Chamber Singers, Dyan Baker a nd Brad Barrett, conductors Monday, December 9, 2002 · Fi rst Presbyterian Church, Waterloo · 7:30 p.m.

• Faculty Artists Showcase Concert Wednesday, February 19, 2003 · GBPAC Great Hal l · 7:30 p.m.

• UNI Concert Chorale Performance, Dyan Baker, conductor Monday, March 3, 2003 · G BPAC Great Hall · 7:30 p.m.

• UNI Performance Competition Finals Monday, April 7, 2003 - GBPAC Great Hal l - 7:30p.m. Finalists for the $4,000 Presser Foundation Award, the $1,500 Charles & Marl eta Matheson Award and the $1 ,000 Myron & Ruth Russel l Award

• Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Burkhardt, conductor Friday, April 25, 2003- GBPAC Great Hall -7:30 p.m.

Tickets for individual concerts will be $6 for public, $5 for senior citizens and $4 for students or admission with a current I D. Tickets and additional information are available by ca lling 319-273-SHOW (7469) for Great Hall events or 319-273-2024 for Davis Hall and Fi rst Presbyterian Church, Waterloo events. Tickets also may be purchased at the door.

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tf / v~ . Iowa • The renovation and addition project of Russell Hall is part of the university's $75 million "Students First" campaign that is expected to be completed by January 2005. The campaign will support scholarships. acadt:mic program support and facilities .

• The School of Music 's part of the "Students First" campaign is seeking to raise S2 million in pri\·ate funding of the $H.2 million needed to renm·ate Russell Hall. The remaining monies will he allocated from the state.

• When erected in 1962. Russell Hall had 21 staff members :md 8'5 students. Today. the School of Music has become one of U:\il's signature programs and has more than 50 facult\· and staff and more than 350 majors. In addition. there are more than 1.000 non-majors taking music courses. 0\·er 40 percent of lO\\·a·s

music teachers are UNI graduates. Russell Hall improvements w ill provide performance and

rehearsal spaces, complement the new Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center and give students quality facilities in \\·hich to prepare for careers as teachers and performers. Included \\·ill be rehearsal and performance spaces and high­quality rehearsal and recording facilit ies for UNI jazz bands and other ensembles. The renm·ations will enhance recruitment of talented students, faculty and staff.

• Naming Opportunities Available • New Addition (Entire Wing) $500,000

• New Student Lounge $150,000

• New Jazz Rehearsal Hall $150,000

• Jazz Hall of Fame Corridor $50,000

• School of Music Hall of Fame Corridor $50,000

Please d irect contributions or requests for additional information to Diane Curtis, director of development for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, 319-27.3-7114, diane.curtis@uni.edu.

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Faculty Activities The number of faculty activities off

campus and outside the metropolitan area were typically plentiful this year. Below is a listing of School of Music faculty accomplishments, which occurred in Iowa, across the country and around the world .

Howard Aibel, professor of piano, was a member of the Ibla International Grand Prize Competition jmy. He gave a master class in Salzburg, Austria . Aibel performed the first Tchaikovsky piano concerto with the Oskaloosa Symphony Orchestra. He was honored by Steinway and Sons, and his photo hangs in Steinway Hall.

Dyan Baker Meyer, visiting artist/ choral, was a collaborative pianist for a Waterloo East High School Choir concert and subsequent large group contest.

Tom Barry, assistant professor of oboe and saxophone, was principal oboist with the Waterloo/ Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra (WCFSO). He was oboist and saxophonist with the Northwind Quintet for a concert/ clinic at the Iowa Bandmasters Association (IBA) Convention in Des Moines and two performances at Wartburg College and one at Cedar Falls High School. The Quintet's tour to Des Moines included concerts at the Des Moines East, Des Moines Roosevelt, Norwalk and West Des Moines high schools. Bany was oboist with the Wate rloo Symphony Woodwind Quintet at a concert in Waverly. He was an oboe soloist with the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra. With UNIJazz Band I, Barry was a saxophone soloist at the IBA Convention in Des Moines and at a performance in Fullerton , California. At the Iowa City Jazz Festival, he was a saxophonist with the Carla Bley/ Steve Swallow Big Band. Bany was the sound engineer for the UNI Jazz Band I concert at the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) Conference in Lo ng Beach , California. He was an oboe clinician for the IBA Convention in Des Moines and for the West Music Company's Latin Music Clinic in Davenport.

David Buch , professor of music history, had a book, Schikaneders heroisch-komische Oper "Der Stein der Weisen" - Modell fiir Moz arts

"Zauherjldte, " published by Gottingen: Hainholz Verlag. He had articles published in the Mozart j ahrbuch 1999; Acta Mozm1iana; Deutschsprachiges Theater in Prag: Begegnungen der Sprachen und Kulturen; Moza11 j ahrbuch 2000; Festschrift Programm: 50. Deutsches Mozartfest 2001; the Program of the Amics del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain; Festschrift f ur Otto G.Schindler zum 60.Gebw1stag; and Festschrift Tomislav Valek in Hudebni veda (Prague). Buch's musicological endeavors were the subject of numerous international articles and inte rviews and radio and television coverage.

Julia Bullard, assistant p rofessor of viola and theory, was principal violist on a WCFSO chamber concert. She was a guest artist on a recital at the House of Composers in St. Petersburg, Russia. There she also presented a master class at the Herzen Pedagogical University. Bullard was an adjudicator for the Mankato (Minnesota) Symphony Young Artists Competition.

Rebecca Burkhardt, associate professor of orchestral music and director of the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, was conductor of the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra for two performances at Grinnell College. She was guest conductor of the Northeast Iowa Conference Honor Orchestra at Cresco High School and for a performance by the Illinois Music Educators Association District Two Honor Orchestra. Burkhardt was guitarist and p ianist with the Uncle Irene Band in myriad performances in Albuquerque, Aztec, Farmington and Madrid, New Mexico; and Durango, Pueblo and Silverton, Colorado.

Ro bert Byrnes, director of the UNI Varsity Men's Glee Club, university cari llonneur and administrative assistant, conducted the Glee Club on a European Concert Tour to Grodig (Salzburg), Axams (Innsbruck) and Modling (Vienna), Austria (see article on page 5 of this issue). One of his carillon compositions was performed at the Mary M. Emety Memorial Carillon in Mariemont, Ohio. He had an article published in the Proceedings of the 12th World Cm"illon Congress, published by the Springfie ld (Illinois) Park District.

Jonathan Chenoweth, associate professor of cello , was a member of the music faculty for the UNI College of Humanities and Fine Arts Institute for the Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia, the first cooperative venture between UNI and the Herzen State Pedagogical University. There he also p resented a paper. Chenoweth was principal cellist with the WCFSO and cellist for both orchestral and chamber music performances with the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra in Plymouth. He was an adjudicator for the All-State Orchestra auditions in Oelwein.

Angeleita Floyd, professor of flute, was a guest artist, clinician and conductor for the Richmond (Virginia) Flute Festival. For the Second Inte rnational Flute Festival in Orebro, Sweden and the XII Festival Internacional de Flautistas en Ia Mitad del Mundo in Quito and Manta, Ecuador, she was a conductor and presented master classes. In Sweden, Floyd also gave a lecture. She conducted the Northern Iowa Flute Choir last fall for a performance at Grinnell College and then again in the spring for the Iowa Flute Festival 2002, where she presented another lecture. For the Northwind Quintet tour, Floyd presented a flute clinic at Valley High School in Des Moines.

Jeffrey Funderburk, professor of tuba/ euphonium, performed with the professional ensemble Symphonia at the Inte rnational Tuba and Euphonium Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina. He gave a recital and master class in Neunberg, Germany and was a guest artist - two recitals and two clinics -for the BRASS SAENS event in Bratislava, Slovakia. For the RIC International Brass Meeting in Belgium, Funderburk was a guest artist and master class presenter. He coached brass chamber music at the Staatliche Hochschule fUr Musik in Trossingen, Germany. In Merano, Italy, Funderburk gave a solo concert and presented a week of master classes. He was a soloist and clinician with Garner­Hayfield High School Band. Funderburk was principal tubist with the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra (CRSO) and tubist with that organization's brass quintet and brass ensemble. Two articles by Funderburk were published in the Texas Bandmasters j ournal.

Debra Gordon, associate professor of music education, had articles published by Tbe Choral j ournal, Music Educators j ournal, Contributions to Music Education, Australian j ournal of Music

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Faculty Activities Education and on the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) website. She gave two joint presentations at the Music Educators National Conference in Nashville and on the web for the Eleventh Annual International Computer Music Technology Conference and Workshop. Gordon also gave presentations at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) North Central Convention in Des Moines; Singspiel Conference at Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin; Iowa Choral Directors (ICDA) Association Elementary Workshop at Adel-DeSoto Schools; and ICDA Conference in Mason City.

Randy Grabowski, professor of trumpet, was the principal/lead trumpet with the CRSO, that organization's brass quintet and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra performance at the Isle of Capri Riverboat/ Casino in Bettendorf. He was a trumpet soloist at St. Paul 's Lutheran Church in Davenport. As trumpeter with the Chestnut Brass Company, Grabowski performed at 11 Pennsylvania schools; the Montreal International Music Camp in Canada; the 32nd Festival de Inverno in Campos do Jordao, Brazil; the Interlochen (Michigan) Arts Academy; for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and in New York City. In addition, he presented master classes/ workshops at one school in Pennsylvania and in Montreal, Campos do Jordao and Interlochen. He also was trumpeter for the Variety Club Telethon, a big band dance and a benefit concert in Cedar Rapids; for an Orquesta de Jazz y Salsa Alto Maiz performance in Waverly; with the Carla Bley/ Steve Swallow Big Band at the Iowa City Jazz Festival; and for a big band dance in West Union.

Jack Graham, professor of clarinet,

was clarinetist with the Northwind Quintet (see Tom Bany) and presented a number of master classes at Des Moines schools in conjunction with the Quintet's tour. With the New Hampshire Music Festival, he was principal clarinetist with the orchestra and also chamber clarinetist.

Robin Guy, associate professor of collaborative piano, was pianist with soprano Karen Peeler and violist Henrietta Neely for performances by Trio Ariana at Ohio State University, Marietta (Ohio) College and Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Trio Ariana released a CD, Incantations and Rhymes. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she performed with flutists Claudia Anderson and Jill Felber. For the Interlochen (Michigan) Arts Camp, Guy was pianist on faculty concerts and an adjudicator. She was pianist with a number of students at the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra (DMSO) Young Artist Competition. Guy was an adjudicator for the Hill Award Auditions at Grinnell College and Iowa Music Teachers Association (IMTA) District Auditions in Cedar Rapids.

Frederick Halgedahl, assistant professor of violin, was violinist in the Sun Valley (Idaho) Summer Symphony and associate concertmaster of the CRSO. He was a guest recitalist at the House of Composers in St. Petersburg, Russia. There he also gave a master class at the Herzen University School of Music. http:/ / fp.uni.edu/ halgedah/

Jeongwon Ham, assistant professor of piano, was pianist with violinist Fred Gerling at Grandview College in Des Moines. She gave solo recitals at Wartburg College and Grinnell College. In Seoul, South Korea, Ham was a recitalist and presented master classes at the Sungshin Women's University and "Calvier Hall. " She gave a master class at Wartburg College and was a master teacher at the IMTA Piano Festival in Waverly. Ham was an adjudicator for the Donna Turner

Smith Competition in Norman, Oklahoma, and the IMTA East Central Auditions in Iowa City.

Randy Hogancamp, assistant professor of percussion, was principal timpanist with the WCFSO, Dubuque Symphony Orchestra and New Hampshire

' Music Festival. He was percussionist for one CRSO subscription concert. Hogancamp presented West African drum clinics at Plymouth (New Hampshire) State College, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and Boise (Idaho) State University. He was a clinician for the Cedar Rapids All-City Music Contest.

LathonJernigan, associate professor of theory, was an adjudicator for the Hill Award Auditions at Grinnell College and the Fort Dodge Area Symphony Young Artists Auditions.

RonaldJohnson, professor of instrumental music and conductor of the UNI Wind Symphony and UNI Chamber Winds, gave conducting workshops in Manerbio, Peschiera , Castelgoffredo and Lenato, Italy. He was guest conductor of the Orchestra da Fiati di Valtellina in Lucerne , Switzerland and Orchestra Filarmonica di Leopolda in Florence, Italy.

Marilou Kratzenstein, professor of organ, harpsichord and music history, delivered a lecture to the Des Moines chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Jean McDonald, associate professor of voice, was a consultant/ teacher for Columbia Artist and soprano Nicolle Foland (B.M. '91, M.M. '93) in San Francisco. She was a mezzo-soprano soloist for two performances on the 2002 Messiah Festival at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. There she also was a St. Matthew Passion soloist, performer in a quartet recital and master class teacher.

Christopher Merz, assistant professor of jazz and director of UNI Jazz Band II, was a saxophone and flute soloist with the UNI Jazz Band I on performances at the IBA Convention and Spaghetti Works, both in Des Moines; the IAJE Conference in Long Beach, California; and at Steamer's Cafe in Fullerton, California. He played on the Variety Club Telethon in Cedar Rapids; with Merz/ Grismore/ Sandy, UNI Jazz Faculty and Equilateral at the Sanctuary in Iowa City; with the Carla Bley/ Steve Swallow Big Band and Equilateral on the Iowa City Jazz Festival; and at the University of California-Santa Barbara and California State University-Los Angeles. At the Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Jazz Festival ,

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UNI Jazz Band II, conducted by Merz, was selected as Outstanding Collegiate Big Band for the second consecutive year, and the UNI Jazz Combo Brave New Quartet, coached by Merz, was selected as Outstanding Collegiate Jazz Combo (see Awards article on page 8-9 of this issue).

Merz was guest conductor of the CJC All­Star Jazz Band (high school juniors) in Des Moines. His compositions and arrangements were performed by the University of Massachusetts Jazz Ensemble I; University of Iowa Jazz Band II; Jazz MN Big Band in Minneapolis; UNI Jazz Band I at the IAJE Conference in Long Beach, California; and at the University of California-Santa Barbara and California State University-Los Angeles. In Iowa, Merz was an adjudicator for the Iowa High School Jazz Championships in Des Moines; Jack Oatts Jazz Festival in Earlham, Central College Jazzmania in Pella and SCIBA Jazz Festival in Waukee. He was a clinician for the Winfield-Mt. Union Jazz Band, Urbandale High School jazz bands, Cedar Falls High School Jazz Band I, University of California-Santa Barbara and California State University-Los Angeles.

Jennifer Mishra, assistant professor of graduate music education and associate director for graduate studies in music, had articles published in Applications of Research in Music Education, Proceedings of the International Technological Directions in Music Learning, Flute Talk and journal of String Research. An arrangement for middle school string orchestra was published by Alfred Publishing. She gave presentations at the Investigating Musical Performance Conference at the Royal College of Music in London and Ninth Annual International Technological Directions in Music Learning Conference in San Antonio.

Leslie Morgan , associate professor of voice, was soprano soloist on the Mahler Symphony No. 2 performance by the CRSO, Christian Tiemeyer, conductor. She

was an adjudicator for the ational Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Central Regional Auditions and IMTA State Auditions, both in Cedar Rapids.

Miguel Pinto, associate professor of vocal coaching, gave master classes at the Juilliard School of Music and Indiana

University School of Music. He was a member of the Indiana University School of Music faculty at their summer program in Piobico, Italy.

David Rachor, professor of bassoon and saxophone, performed and

presented a master class at the Colloque de bassoon in Angouleme, France. He was a visiting professor of bassoon at the American Band College in Ashland, Oregon and Universitatea de Muzica in Cluj, Romania. Rachor had an article published in Bandworld and presented a bassoon clinic at the IBA Convention in Des Moines. He was principal bassoonist with the DMSO and the Baroque Orchestra of Iowa. The latter performed in Des Moines and Grinnell. Rachor was bassoonist with the Northwind Quintet (see Tom Barry).

Don Rierson, assistant professor of opera/ musical theatre, was assistant director for the Indianapolis Opera production of Samson et Dalila.

Alan Schmitz, associate professor of theory and composition and associate director of the School of Music, had his Bassoon Quartet (2001) premiered at the Feu de Basson Festival in Angouleme, France. His Musical Heritage Ove11ure (2000) was performed by the South Dakota State University Civic Symphony, conducted by John Brawand, in Brookings.

Jonathan Schwabe, associate professor of theory and composition, had his song cycle, Above the Whim of Time for soprano and piano, premiered at Ancilla College in Donaldson, Indiana. He conducted the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra in La Salle on the premiere of his In Memoriam 11 September. That work also was featured on Iowa Public Television's Living in Iowa, where DMSO Conductor Joseph Giunta directed UNI School of Music faculty and students. His chamber opera, Tbe Hard Years, was premiered at the 2001 Maude Powell

Festival in La Salle. Schwabe had four works published by Musikverlag Bruno Uetz.

William Shepherd, associate professor, coordinator of Music in General Studies, had his conducting textbook published by Schirmer/ Wadsworth (see article on page 3 of this issue). He was trombonist with the WCFSO. Shepherd performed in eastern Iowa with his big band, combo and dixieland band.

David Smalley, associate professor of voice, retired at the end of the 2001-2002 academic year (see article on page 22 of this issue).

Darryl Taylor, assistant professor of voice, was an adjudicator for the NATS Central Regional Auditions in Cedar Rapids. He performed with harpist Patricia Terry-Ross and pianist Erik Santos in New York City at the Merkin Concert Hall and Riverside Theatre in Riverside Church. Radio broadcasts of Taylor and pianist Robin Guy's CD, Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams, have occurred in New York City; Oberlin, Ohio; Detroit; and Tucson.

Thomas Tritle, associate professor of horn, directed members of the UNI Horn Choir as featured performers with the UNI International Dance Theatre at the German Festival in Guttenburg, Iowa. He was principal hornist with the WCFSO and its associated brass quartet and woodwind quintet. Tritle also was principal hornist with the Dorian Opera Theatre Orchestra in Decorah. He was hornist with the Northwind Quintet (see Tom Barry). Tritle presented a lecture at the IBA Convention in Des Moines. He had an article published in Tbe Horn Call, and two of his reviews were published in the j ournal of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors.

John Vallentine, associate professor and director of the School of Music, produced and was conductor of the orchestra and mass choir for the School of Music Scholarship Benefit Concert, which raised $38,000. He assisted the UNI Development Office in the raising over $700,000 for the Russell Hall Renovation Project. Vallentine managed, oversaw and wrote the massive Optional Response report for the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) accreditation. In Iowa, he conducted a High School Honor Band in Tripoli and was a conductor/ clinician for the Waverly-Shell Rock High School Band. Vallentine was a conductor, clinician and pianist in Costa Rica with students/ members of the University of Costa Rica, National

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Faculty Activities Symphony Orchestra and San Jose Band. Three UNI students also were involved in the third visit to Costa Rica , which continues the development of an international program w ith Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano.

Robert Washut, professor of jazz studies and director of UNIJazz Band I, presented a workshop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was a guest conductor of the Des Moines Community Jazz Center Senior Honors Band and guest conductor and composer for the University of Kansas-Lawrence Jazz Ensemble . In Iowa, Washut conducted the UNI Jazz Band I on a performance at the IBA Convention in Des Moines, concert at Pella High School, concert with the Des Moines Big Band and concert for the Grand Lodge State Convention in Dubuque. In Ca lifornia , he conducted

Jazz I on performances at the IAJE Conference in Long Beach and Steamer's Cafe in Fullerton and a recording session at Oceanway Studios in Hollywood (see article on page 2 of this issue). Jazz I's CD, Leap of Faith, was released on the Sea Breeze Vista label, SBV: 4538. It was included in Herb Wong's annual Blue Chip CD list in the jazz Educator's journal and on NPR/PRI syndicated jazz radio show host Jim Wilke's "Best Jazz CDs of 2001" list, www.jazzafterhours.org. Washut was winner of the Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois) Jazz Composition Contest with Leap qf Faith, , which was performed by the Knox College Jazz Band. He was pianist, arranger and musical director of the Orquesta de Jazz y Salsa Alto Maiz on the Community Artist Series in Clinton, Iowa; Springfield and Peoria (Illinois) jazz festivals; and for the Iowa City Downtown Association and Gusta Latina at the University of Iowa. Washut was pianist with the Facul ty Jazz

Alumni News There was a substantial amount of

good news from music alumni over the past year. Many submissions were sent via e-mail , and the rest came from the "Alumni Response Form," found on page 24 of this year's issue . Alumni who wish to correspond via e-mail should write to: byrnes@uni.edu . For e-mail, please check the "Alumni Response Form" to be sure that you provide all the information requested and then include the news items of interest. Please do not send resumes. We only will accept prose . Interesting photographs are welcome. Those sent via e-mail should be at least 300 dpi. The deadline for the 2003 issue will be the middle of next July. And now, on with this year's music alumni news.

Of 60 members of the Class of 1952 who attended their Golden Reunion May 9-11, seven were School of Music alumni. That is 11.66 percent and places the music majors of the Class of 1952 in fourth place in Golden Reunion attendance since 1991 when we started keeping track. Of course, this is not completely accurate since Marjane Yetley Taylor actually graduated in 1953 and came as a guest to this reunion. Marjane did the same thing last year, so what's good for the goose is good

for the gander. Hopefully Marjane will continue to do this each year - next year is her Golden Reunion - so that this publication's editor is not called before Congress with accusations of deceit and fraud. Here is the updated table:

% of Golden Reunion Class Year Attendees Who Were

Music Alumni 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952

15.38% (10 out of 65) 7.46% (5 out of 67) 8.45% (6 out of 71) 2.94% (1 out of 34) 3.12% (1 out of 32) 0.00% (0 out of 47)

24.24% (8 out of 33) 9.09% (4 out of 44) 3.12% (2 out of 64)

14.12% (12 out o f 85) 5. 79% ( 4 out of 69)

11 .66% (7 out of 60) Those in attendance for the Golden

Reunion this past spring were James Qim) A. Coff"tn (B.A '52 , M.A. '64) of 6570 E Paseo Alcazaa, Anaheim, CA 92807-4910; Patricia Eastman Foorman (B.A. '52) of 16135 Huston St, Encino, CA 91436-1321; Elly Stettler Leslie (B .A. '52) of 16255 Via Embeleso, San Diego, CA 92128-3220; Reginald R. Schive (B.A.

Quartet and guest drummer Dane Richeson at the Sanctua1y in Iowa City. Two of his arrangements were published by the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) Jazz Press, two by Heritage JazzWorks and one by Walrus Music Publishers. He ritage JazzWorks and Walrus

· Music Publishers each published one of Washut's compositions. Three music reviews by Washut were published in the jazz Educators journal. He was an adjudicator/ clinician for the University of Kansas-Lawrence Jazz Festival; Iowa Jazz Championships in Des Moines; Urbandale (Iowa) High School Jazz Ensemble; Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Jazz Festival ; Hampton (Iowa) High School Jazz Ensemble; SEIBA Jazz Festival in Iowa City; New Trier Jazz ...., Festival in Evanston, Illinois; West High School in Iowa City; SCIBA Jazz Festival in Des Moines; and CAL/Dows Jazz Band in Latimer, Iowa .

'52) of 3113 S Oleander, Sioux City, IA 51106-4227; Beverly Bramblett Waggener (B.A. '52) of 15518 Landings Av, Spirit Lake, IA 51360-7480; Sonia Scholl Wilson (B .A. '52) of 1669 Somerset Ln, Iowa City, IA 52240-0000; and Marjane Yetley Taylor (B.A. '53, M.A. '75) of 103 Washington St, Box 630, Cedar Falls, IA 50613-9610.

We also discovered that one of the 20 attendees in the 60-Year Reunion June 7 was a music major. That is five percent and places the music majors of the Class o f 1942 in third place in 60-Year Reunion attendance since 1999 when we st3Ited keeping track. William T. Jochumsen (B.A. '42, M.A. '58) of 503 Olive St, Cedar Falls, IA 50613-2522 was the one attendee. Here is the updated chart for that:

%of 60-Year Reunion Class Year Attendees Who Were

Music Alumni 1939 1940 1941 1942

4.35% (1 out of 23) 11.11% (3 out of 27) 17.65% (3 out of 17) 5.00% (1 out of 20)

Clare Storkamp (B.A. '01) of 1/ 89 Ridge St, North Sydney 206o, NSW Australia, storkac2668@hotmail.com e­mailed us in August of 2001 to so say she had just completed her first day at her new full-time job as ticket services team leader for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She spent the summer of 2001 playing in the Hot Springs and Rome music festivals and then traveled to Sydney, Australia , for

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ten days of visiting and relaxation. Clare hoped we all were doing well. [Editor's note: In July of 2002, Clare sent an e-mail with the address listed above and a note indicating she was starting on her master's degree in musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.]

Susan Rider (B.M. '89) of 9918 Hagel Cir, Lorton, VA 22079, srider2@eatthlink.net sent an e-mail to say she was pleased to see she was sandwiched between her buddies , Eileen Massinon Russell (M.M. '89) and JoDee Davis McKee (B.M. '80, M.M. '85), in the alumni news from the Fall 2000 newsletter. "They are two people that I highly respect," Susan wrote. She still is a member of the trumpet section of "The President's Own" United States Marine Band in Washington, D.C. Susan completed four years with the group in July of 2001. She toured with the band on its 1999 West Coast and 2000 Southwest tours, continues to be a featured soloist in front of the group, helped inaugurate President Bush in January of 2001 and traveled to Lucerne, Switzerland to perform for the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Convention in July of 2001. Susan soloed with the University of Louisville Wind Symphony in 2000 and Em my University Wind Ensemble in Atlanta in 2001. She gave a solo recital at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi Highlander Keith A. Benjamin

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teaches, and came back to UNI to do a solo recital in Davis Hall in February of 2001. Susan became co-editor of the International Women 's Brass Conference Newsletter in 2000 and continues to enjoy being an Advisoty Board member for the UNI School of Music. "Thanks to Randy Grabowski, John Vallentine, Angeleita Floyd and the rest of the crew for their continued support and friendship and best wishes to the UNI musical

community at large!" Susan concluded. [Editor's note: Susan, this is very impressive, but wait! We also recently received an e-mail from your dad and UNI chemistry professor, Paul Rider. He wrote to say ABC's Nightline did a program on "The President's Own" United States Marine Band last July 4. You were one of the few people featured , and you mentioned rece iving your bachelor's degree from UNI. Your dad also said you have been promoted to Gunnery Sgt. and are now one of the fall tour coordinators. He reported you were the featured performer with the band as they opened the season of concerts at Wolf Trap in May. You played Goldman's variations on My Old Kentucky Home, received a rousing ovation from over 6,000 people and played an encore. In your introduction, it was noted you received your undergraduate degree from UNI and there was cheering from the crowd, but not your parents, your dad said. Wow! Nightline and Wolf Trap. We are proud, and we appreciate the great publicity you have generated for the UNI School of Music.]

John Vallentine received an e-mail from Elke Hollingworth Overton (B.M. '93) of 3646 Flael Av, Saint Louis, MO 63108-0000. Elke stated, "We're still in St. Louis, and I love my new job directing the concert band and orchestra at St. Charles (Missouri) Community College. " She also teaches music history, music appreciation and conducting.

On the other hand , Scott G. Angelici (B.M. '88) of 6 Brookside Ct, Bettendorf, IA 52722, angelici@home.COM made the move from public education to the private business sector. "I have joined John Deere as an infrastructure analyst, " Scott wrote. "I'm doing computer desktop support for the Law and Patent departments at the John Deere World Headquarters in Moline, Illinois. While my day job has changed, I'm continuing to play regularly with several different groups in the Quad Cities area. Keep up the great work!" [Edit01"'s note: You too, Scott. Thanks for the update .]

And as one might expect, a bad word was used in the very first sentence of an e-mail received from Keith A. Benjamin (M.M. '84) of 5614 Holmes St, Kansas City, MO 64110-2728, KeithinMO@aol.COM: "Hi, Bob; just got the latest alumni newsletter - sounds like it was a pretty #@!! fine year all around at the School 0 ' Music. " [Editor's note: Do you see what I mean' Bad language, not

to mention problems with punctuation, capitalization, syntax, grammar, etc. Nonetheless, we will proceed.] "The 50th Anniversary Jazz Bash had me flying for about a month ... what a great time," Keith extolled. He was married in June of 2001 to the former Jennifer Rector. They were betrothed in traditional Scottish style, complete with kilts and being led in by a piper. "A great time," Keith wrote, "although the shock of seeing my 76-year­old dad in a kilt might have caused at least some of the drinking that happened after the ceremony. Or not. " Keith reported that he and Melody Turnquist Steed (M.M. '85) have released their second Clarion CD, New Vintage. The CD consists of five commissioned works from American composers, including Samuel Adler. Keith announced that the new trombone teacher at the UMKC Conservatory is JoDee Davis McKee (B.M. '80, M.M. '85). "It's going to be fantastic having her as a colleague again, " he praised. "That's it from here - take care of yourself and say hello to all the old, familiar faces. " [Editor's note: Congratulations, Keith, and watch that language. Congratulations also to Melody and JoDee.]

A nice e-mail was received from Richard A. (B M. '78, M.B.A. '83) and Susan Jenkins Frevert (B.M. '78) of 3510 Urbandale Ln N, Minneapolis, MN 55447-1019, RFREVERT@lnc.COM. They live in Plymouth, a western suburb of Minneapolis. "The Twin Cities are great, especially in spring, summer and fall ," they wrote. "It's winter that can be challenging, although the natives have taught us tolerance and how to actually function and enjoy ourselves with five feet of snow on the ground." Susan has a flourishing woodwind studio with 49 students. Rich is running his own business, a financial planning firm called Bravo Wealth Strategies. He has a number of performing artists in his practice and finds that rewarding. Sue and Rich's daughter, Karen, started at St. Olaf in the fall of 2001. "We've enjoyed reconnecting with Peter Hamlin (M.M. '89) in his position on the music faculty at St. Olaf," they stated. Their son, Tim, is a now a junior at Wayzata High School. They closed by saying, "We send our regards to our fellow School of Music alumni. "

"Sh eri Greenawald [B.A. '68] Appointed Director of the San Francisco Opera Center" was the exciting headline in the Contra Costa Times of Walnut Creek, California last fall. "Former operatic

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soprano Sheri Greenawald, a professor of voice and opera at the Boston Conservatory, has been appointed director of the San Francisco Opera Center, it was announced Tuesday. Greenawald, 53, succeeds Richard Harrell, who tendered his resignation in August.

"The Opera Center, founded in 1982, operates on a $3.5 million annual budget and administers various training and education programs for the San Francisco Opera, including the 11-week Merola Program summer series, the touring Western Opera Theater and the Adler Fellowships.

"A graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Greenawald did fmther studies at the Juilliard School in New York and has been a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her operatic career included featured Toles at the San Francisco Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and opera houses all over the world . Chosen as the Seattle Opera's artist of the year in 1998, she served as the Santa Fe Opera's apprentice program vocal coach in 1999 and as one of the program's stage directors in 2000. She also has taught master classes at the Opera Theater of St. Louis.

"Greenawald's appointment takes effect in May 2002 ... " [Editor's note: Spectacular news. Sheri 's new address is 1333 Gough #llB, San Francisco, CA 94109, sgreenawalcl@SFOpera.com.]

Stacy L. Fahrion (B.M. '96) of 338 S Governor #1, Iowa City, IA 52240, SFahrion@aol.COM was kind enough to send her "year-old new address." Stacy was in her second year of graduate study as a teaching assistant for the University of Iowa Piano Department last fall.

Ja-Hyeong Koo (B.M. '85, M.M. '88) of 16706 Osborne St, Northridge, CA 91343, nalsin61@yahoo.COM was as pleasant as ever when she called and then followed up with an e-mail. Ja went to New York City at the end of last March and performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No . 5 ("Emperor") with the Manhattan-based Ureuk Chamber Orchestra , guest conducted by Daniel Mezza. Mezza is from Argentina, where he is director of the San Martin Theater Orchestra and music director of the National University of Tucuman Orchestra. Ja was gratified that UNI Piano Professor Howard Aibel was able to attend the performance. She had not seen him in

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more than ten years. "He was so proud of me ," Ja wrote. The New York Review Magazin€ stated , "Ms. Koo's playing always kept listeners interested in what she had to say, and one can hope to hear her again soon. " Ja has been playing with La Trio, a clarinet, cello and piano chamber ensemble. The trio has been performing throughout the Los Angeles area and overseas in Beijing and two other cities in China. Ja frequ ently plays solo recitals and is a collaborative pianist with singers and instrumentalists in the Los Angeles area . She teaches privately and is involved with the lqrge Korean community in Los Angeles. She is collaborative pianist with the Korean Broadcast Choir and Korean Church Choir. Ja closed by saying, "Please say hello to everyone." [Editor's note: ]a, no sooner said than done. Thanks for the call and the e-mail. It was all very interesting and congratulations on your successes.]

And then a really wild story came in from Michele Roberts Stephens (B.M. '75) of 2151 Key Dr, Brentwood, TN 37027, mstephens@gafundraising.COM. Michele won a bed and breakfast in Arlington, Vermont in 1998. We're not talking about an overnight stay and breakfast meal. Michele won an actual five-bedroom bed and breakfast property that was built in 1805. She was one of 16,000 entrants who wrote the final line for a Polaner All-Fruit jingle: "Breakfast with Polaner All-Fruit is better because ... it transforms your morning. It makes your coffee gourmet, your napkins linen, turns your toast into crumpets, your juice into fresh squeezed. " And then Michele wrote, "Polaner All-fruit makes every morning a bed and breakfast morning. " She set the prose to music, sang it in person to the judges and won the contest. After a quick press tour and an international interview on CNNfn, Michele and her husband, David, hosted the guests of their first fall season. But clue to their careers being 1100 miles away in Nashville, they sold the bed and breakfast in 1999. "Of course , the press attributed my musical ability to my being from Nashville," wrote Michele, "but we all know it's my background at UNI that helped me win!" [Editor's note: Amen to that, Michele . Nothing truer ever was spoken. Thanks for the great story.]

They don't own a bed and breakfast, but they live in a part of Iowa that would be scenic enough for one. Jim

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(B.M. '79, M.A. '85) and Elizabeth Gall Fritz (B.M. '83) of 315 Riverview Dr, Decorah, IA 52101-1258, jfritz@clecorah.k12.ia.us sent an e-mail. The Decorah High School Wind Ensemble, directed by Jim, was selected

. and performed at the 2001 IBA Convention. At Decorah , Jim is department head and teaches brass , Liz focuses on woodwind lessons and curriculum and Sam Oppel (B.M. '01) handles percussion and jazz studies. Last December, Jim was awarded the Phillip Sehmann Excellence in Teaching Award by the directors of the Northeast IBA. He recently became President-Elect of the IBA and will be its president during the 2003-2004 school year. Liz is the fifth and _.. sixth grade band director and founded the successful Tri-State Middle School Honor Band eight years ago. The ensemble attracts 275 of the top middle school band musicians from the Tri-State region each year. Jim and Liz have one daughter, Deanna, who is in sixth grade and plays horn. The Fritzes closed by saying, "We had a great time seeing everyone at the 50th anniversaty jazz concert. We've enjoyed the new Gallagher-Blueclorn Performing Atts Center and look forward to the renovation of Russell Hall. We'd like to say hello to friends, classmates and faculty at the School of Music. "

Flutist Jan Dockendorff Boland (M.A. '71) of 1495 Douglas Ct, Marion, IA 52302-2309, music@redcedar.org and guitarist John Dowdall recently premiered a new work, The Pounce of Now by Robert Dick. The duo presented a series of nine concerts and nearly 100 educational events this past season under the auspices of Reel Cedar Chamber Music. Last spring, they performed for the Early Music Colorado Series in Boulder and at the University of Wyoming­Laramie.

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Alumni News Pianist Nino Sanikidze (M.M. '01)

of 7704 25 Av, Hyattsville, MD 20783 sent a card indicating she and tenor Ramone Diggs were presented in a recital at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City as the 2001 Marilyn Horne Foundation Awardees at the Music Academy of the West. Nino and Ramone's program, "On Wings of Song," was hosted by Marilyn Horne and Robert White and was broadcast this past March on WQXR Radio. [Editor's note: Bravo , Nino. We are proud of you.]

Catherine Dycus (B.A. '42) of 125 Pocahontas PI, Hampton, VA 23661-3308, cdycus8056@aol.com wrote to say she retired as supervisor of music fo r the Newport News Public Schools in 1979. She recently published a book, Wbere the Twenties Weren't Roaring, about farm life in western Kentucky as she remembered it from vacations with farming relatives from 1925 to 1929. When she 's not writing, Catherine travels to visit friends and relatives.

Also retired is Mary Hansen Crawford (B.A. '39) of 306 E Center St, Winfield, IA 52659-0155. She was the vocal music and typing teacher in Winfield from 1939 until 1942. Her marriage took place in East Hartford, Connecticut in 1943, and Mary was the collaborative pianist for the Frank Caruso Vocal Studio in Hartfo rd. While her husband, Keith, was overseas in the army, she was a typist for the Bureau of Research at UNI. Following World War II, Mary and Keith have resided in Winfield , where she was the United Presbyterian Church o rganist for 40 years, a piano teacher for 20 years and choral director for the Easter Community Cantatas.

A birth announcement was sent to us by Wendy Hamann Green (B.M. '94) of 1309 Larkfie ld Ct, Marshalltown, IA 50158-2549, wdgreen@willinet.net. "David and I are now parents!" Wendy exclaimed. "We were blessed w ith the birth of our son , Logan Matthew, on July 1, 2001. We are all adjusting and loving every minute of it!" Wendy is the instrumental music teacher at Anson Middle School in Marshalltown and West Marshall Middle School. [Editor's note. Congratulations, Wendy and David, and we are assuming Logan already has displayed signs of musical aptitude.]

Deaths We all were shocked at the early

death of Thomas D. Gause (B.M. '73) at the age of 50 on September 30, 2001. Former UNI Director of Jazz Studies J im Coffin (B.A. '52, M.A. '64) wrote, "Tom played so wonderfully at the 50th Jazz Reunion and to have this happen at his young age is very, very sad." Tom's brother, Lee ( B.M. '73), said of his sibling, " .. .I had a chance to talk to people from all walks of Tom's life. He meant so much to so many and positively enhanced eve1y life with which he interacted. " And Tom's wife , Jackie , said in a letter, "It was a great blessing that in the last year of his life (after being diagnosed with melanoma in June, 2000), he was able to participate in events such as the Jazz Reunion at UNI. We all will miss Tom in so many ways." In addition to Jackie, immediate survivors include Tom's two children, Michael, 15, and Emily, 17.

After graduating from UNI, Tom was a member of the Army Jazz Band in Washington , D.C. Following his discharge, he received his master's degree in music from North Texas State University and was then a professional musician in Las Vegas from 1978 to 1991. Tom and Jackie married in 1983 and moved to Ellensburg in 1991 when Tom joined the Central Washington University music department. There he taught trumpet, music composition and jazz studies. Tom was instrumental in forming Ellensburg's annual Jazz in the Valley festival. He was principal trumpet with the Yakima Symphony and performed severa l times with the Seattle Sympho ny. Tom played in recording sessions for Disney soundtracks in Seattle. During his career, he composed numerous jazz and classical works.

Cedar Falls arts advocate Lyle Julius Baum (B.A. '41, M.A. '68), 84, died of cancer on November 28, 2001. She was

married in 1940 to longtime UNI Piano Professor Russell Baum who preceded her in death in 2000. Lyle spent 23 years teaching music in the Cedar Falls Schools and ultimately became the vocal music teacher at Holmes Junior High School. There she directed the ninth, eighth and three seventh grade choruses. There were 70 to 90 students in each choir, and the ninth and eighth grade choruses especially were renowned for their high level of perfo rmance . A number of student teachers who worked with Lyle went on to build successful vocal music teaching careers.

Lyle was friends with James and Me1yl Hearst and suggested they create an arts center fo r the city of Cedar Falls. The Hearsts liked the idea and bequeathed their home and $300 thousand to the city of Cedar Falls to establish the Hearst Center for the Arts. Individuals and businesses in the community jo ined together and raised almost $700 thousand in additional funds to expand the building. The result is a beautiful facility with more than 3,000 square feet of galle ry space located in a picturesque setting. Lyle was on the Hearst Center Board of Directors until shortly before her death.

She also arranged for the Ste inway

grand piano in the Baum home to be donated to the UNI School of Music for use in an applied piano studio .

A memoria l tribute was held March 30 at the Hearst Center for Lyle. She is survived by her sons - Michael (and Catherine) of Boston; Erik of Madrid, Spain ; and Kurt (and Janet) of Minneapolis - and grandson - Nathaniel of Chicago.

Thanks to all who e-mailed and wrote to "Alumni News." If you wish to contribute to the next issue, please refer back to the first paragraph of this article. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Longtime professor retires from UN/ Baritone David Smalley, M.M.

(Unive rsity of Michigan), retired this past May from the UNI School of Music, where he was an associate professor of voice and chair of the vocal division. He was awarded emeritus status by UNI. In 2001, as chair of the Graduate Committee , David was responsible for the design and justification of a new two-year Artist Diploma program, which was approved for implementation this fall.

Since jo ining the School of Music faculty in 1964, David taught hundreds of young singers, preparing them vocally and musically for successful careers as performers and teachers . At UNI, his graduate and undergraduate students regularly were cast in major roles in UNI Lyric Theatre opera productions and appeared as solo ists w ith the Concert Chorale and UNI Singe rs. Former students have sung with opera co~1panies in Europe and the U.S., including the Metropolitan Opera . In 2001, 2000 and 1998, students from his studio were winners in the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions. Melissa Manseau (M.M. '99) was the first

American singer to advance to the third round of the Antonin Dvorak International Opera Competition in the Czech Republic in 1999. Alan Cemore (B.M. '81), successful as an operatic singer in Germany, presently sings at the Bremen Opera after distinguishing himself for six years at the Graz Opera in Austria . Many other students have won awards in major competitions, became professional singer/ actors or obtained teaching positions at universities, colleges and secondary schools.

As a singer, David appeared in more than 350 oratorio, opera, concert and recital performances at UNI, throughout Iowa and in the Midwest. His repertoire includes bass-baritone ro les from 19 major oratorio works, including Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem and other major works of Bach, Handel, Mozart and Stravinsky. With the Waterloo/ Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, he sang Orff's Carmina Burana on two different occasions. According to David, his most memorable operatic performances were the roles of Marcello in La Boheme, Scarpia in Tasca and the Count in Tbe Marriage of Figaro, which he sang with faculty and students in UNI Lyric Theatre

productions during the 70s and 80s. He enjoyed singing the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein with the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra and Lerner and Loewe with the Des Mo ines Symphony

' Orchestra. A native of Canton, Ohio, and of

Ukrainian descent, David studied vocal technique with distinguished pedagogues Margaret Harshaw, Hermanus Baer and Richard Miller. He taught one year at Western Illinois University before moving to Cedar Falls.

Former student Robert Patton, now editor and publisher of Tbe Gowrie News, wrote in an article about David , " .. . his ability to shape a voice with his expertise was consistent and unfailing ... with me and many of my colleagues, his instruction was indeed magic."

When asked what he would miss the most, David responded , "Students, colleagues, faculty meetings, telephone calls that constantly interrupted my teaching, endless e-mail messages and canceled classes because of snow."

David now lives with his wife, Catherine, in the Chicago area (Skokie) , where they own a home. His e-mail address is smalclavi@earthlink.net.

UNI says goodbye to director, mentor and friend Marching Band

Director John Baker, 50, died on October 6, 2001. "John was a husband, father, friend, colleague, director, conductor, mentor, teacher, music educator and musician," wrote John Vallentine, director of the UNI School of Music. "He embodied a spirit that will live with us forever. Those of us who were fortunate to know him will miss him greatly. Our sympathies go out to our colleague, Dyan, and Jessica, Kayla and Lauren Baker. "

John suffered a brain aneurysm fo llowing the performance of the Panther Marching Band at the game in the UNI­Dome a week prior to the sixth and was flown to the Iowa City Hospitals by helicopter.

'john was a just and wonderfully fine person ," eulogized James Lubker, clean of the UNI College of Humanities and Fine Arts. "He was, as Athletic Director Rick Hartzell said to the members of the Marching Band, a gentle man. He was a musician and a teacher and was highly valued in both of those capacities. When I

met w ith Rick and the students in the Marching Band, I was struck by how deeply the students cared about John. Their tears spoke so eloquently of the quality of the man. "

John was director of the Concert, Symphonic and Marching bands and taught music education and conducting courses at UNI from 1999 until 2001. Previously, he was director of the Concert, Symphonic and Marching bands and assistant director of bands at Florida State University. There John taught courses in conducting, band literature and music education.

He held bachelor's and master's degrees respectively from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. John received his Ph.D. in music education from Florida State University.

Earlier, during his 16-year tenure with the Parkway West High School Bands in St. Louis, Missouri, his bands were invited to perform at numerous state, regional and national conferences, including the National Band Association's National Conference and twice at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. He received the latter's "Medal of

Honor" and the National Band Association's "Citation of Excellence." Phi Beta Mu recognized him as Missouri's "Outstanding Band Director."

At UNI, John received recognition for outstanding teaching merit. He maintained an active profile as a guest conductor and adjudicator. He was a professional resource for music educators and had professional affiliations with the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Association, International Association of Jazz Educators, National Band Association and all-state organizations.

During the summer of 1998, John was a guest conductor for the Queensland State Youth Wind Ensemble in Brisbane, Australia. He was selected for honorary membership to both Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma and elected to membership in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Phi Beta Mu and Pi Kappa Lambda. John lived in Waterloo with his wife, Dyan , and their two children , Kayla and Lauren. His oldest daughter, Jessica, is a student at Florida State University. Memorials may be directed to the UNI Foundation -John L. Baker Scholarship Fund.

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Emeritus Activities It is a pleasure once again to info rm

you of the activities of our emeritus faculty. Marleta Matheson e-mailed the annual update for herself and Charles. "Some things in our lives don't seem to change - the daily routines and the events stemming from our music activities. We enjoyed UNI athletics as always, attending most of the home football and basketball games. The second Gallagher-Bluedorn artist series provided another stellar year of entertainment. Charles continues private teaching, and I have continued my setv ice to the Waterloo/ Cedar Falls Symphony and the U I Suzuki program. We both cany forth with leading the singing at the Cedar Falls Rotary Club every Tuesday. Connections there keep us updated with community activities.

"To celebrate Charles' 89th birthday in October, we went on a bus trip to Spillville and Decorah to visit the Dvorak exhibit and the Bily clocks, to which neither of us had ever been and a must for musicians!

"In November, my sister and I drove her car to Arizona, where she spends the winter, and after a few days in the sunshine, I flew back home. Of course, that meant I had to fly back down in April and drive horne w ith her!

"At the end of November, we flew into Chicago for five nights and met Bud (B.A. '56) and Pat (B.A. '55) Boughton from Wichita. We saw Billy Budd at the Chicago Lyric Opera, an all-Mozart program with the Chicago Symphony, the Van Gogh-Gaugin exhibition at the Art Institute and the Kirov Orchestra with a rare performance of the Prokofiev second piano concetto with a fantastic Russian pianist.

"Our not-so-routine activities included a three-week road trip west in March with my cousins from Rocheste r, Minnesota. We visited my sister in Apache Junction, Arizona; took in a Cubs/ White Sox spring training game in Mesa; and spent a couple of days in San Diego and two days in Los Angeles right before the Academy Awards. Our son lives just up the hill from Hollywood Boulevard and the Kodak Theatre, so we were able to walk down and obsetve all the preparations. Then it was on to Merced, Califo rnia to visit our eldest cousin and get some genealogy information, which is also occupying my time . Las Vegas wasn't

exactly on our way home , but since Charles had never been there , I thought he should experience it at least once, so we enjoyed a couple of days there and saw the fantastic Cirque du Sole il show as well as all the other sights.

"I experienced quite a shock one morning toward the end of April w hen chest pain hit me, and after calling the doctor, I was told to call 911 and get to the ER! Yes, I had a heart attack and after getting stabilized at Sattori, was taken to Allen Hospital, where the cardiologist put in a stent. Four days in the hospital, a wonderful husband and son, lots of caring friends and support, about four weeks of cardiac/rehab and walking every day and I'm as good as new. I am very fortunate! Of course , I found out I wasn't indispensable when someone else took my part in the symp hony and played for the Suzuki spring recital, but I was able to play my part in the Five Grands performance at the Creme de Ia Creme II on June 2nd. It was another successful fundraiser for the Gallagher-Bluedorn, and we're looking fmw ard to the upcoming year of exciting events'"

For Karl and Martha (M.A. '69) Holvik, Martha wrote, "Our opening sentence of last year's report describes this past year succinctly: 'Life for the Holviks continues to be good , thanks to generally satisfactory health, minds that still work and many happy times w ith family and friends.' Although we've taken no long trips, we've kept active attending local events, reading and making music. Be assured that life is far from boring. We send warm greetings and good wishes to all who read this. "

In a handwritten no te to j ohn Vallentine , Ruth Russeii, wife of deceased Department of Music Head Myron Russell, stated, "Thank you for your many expressions of encouragement for my recovery from illness. I especially thank you for the beautiful flower bouquet. I like to read of your concerts and recitals and am sony I can 't participate in person. But I hope my named seat in the Performing Arts Center is filled by some eager listener of your offerings. It is my hope that my seat always will be filled by a listener w ho has yet to learn of the truly wonderful concerts and recitals given in the awesome surroundings of the new

concert halls. My congratulations to all who participate . Best wishes from Ruth Russell. "

On a sad note , we received notification of the death of former UNI piano faculty member Merrill Harlan, 60, who taught intermittently at UNI between 1966 and 1975. Merrill passed away in March of 2001 in San Francisco after a battle with lung cancer. He was a longtime cabaret and hotel pianist in San Francisco. Merrill was known for his w ide repertoire and ability to perform a polished rendition of a song immediately after hearing someone hum a bit of the tune. "He never used sheet music," recalled his friend and collaborator, j oseph Frank. "He could sit down and play an hour of japanese melodies o r German songs from the 1920s off the top of his head. There was no one like him. A native of Onawa, Iowa, Merrill received his master's and docto ral degrees from Northwestern University, where he a lso taught. Since corning to San Francisco in 1975, he was the regular pianist at the Palace and St. Francis hotels and Alexis and Harris restaurants. Merrill was a popular dinner party pianist in the mansions of Nob Hill and Pacific Heights.

Happy Birthday, Charles!

Charles Matheson will he celebrating his 90th birthday on October 10, 2002. As a special

surprise (Marlcta is go ing to hide the newsletter fro m him), please

send a card. no te or lette r to : Charles Matheso n, 2H4 Clark Dr, Cedar Falls, lA 506 1.). The more.

the merrie r.

Join in the Celebration!

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