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N ew s for A l umni an d F r i e n d s of
th e B oyer Coll ege of M u s ic & Da n c e
“I choose to give to
Boyer so others may
share the opportunities
that were available
to me.”
FALL 2008 / Winter 2009
new construction
a t P r e s s e r Hall
Expanding Opportunities for Students
www.temple.edu/boyer
Letter from the Dean
Dear Alumni and Friends:
Encore
en·core:
F e at u r e s
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New Construction at Presser Hall
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Professors Janet Yamron and Darrel Walters Retire
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Happy Birthday New School Institute
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What’s New in Music Education
DESIGN
Media Collaborative
www.mediacollaborative.com
Q&A with Professor Deborah Sheldon
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About Boyer College
of Music and Dance
Temple University’s Boyer College of
Music and Dance offers a diverse
curriculum, wide array of degree
programs and exemplary faculty,
preparing students for careers as
educators, performers, composers
and scholars. Undergraduate and
graduate degree programs are
offered in instrumental studies,
jazz studies, theory, music therapy,
choral conducting, music education, composition, music history,
voice and opera and dance. In addition to on-campus performances,
student ensembles perform at
Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall,
Kimmel Center for the Performing
Arts, Jazz at Lincoln Center,
Rutgers-Camden Center for the
Arts and Temple Ambler. The
faculty at Boyer is recognized
nationally and internationally
as performers, choreographers,
researchers, academic experts
and scholars, garnering Grammy
awards, major research grants and
accolades from the press.
The Art of Listening
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
BOYER COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DANCE
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DEAN
Robert T. Stroker, Ph.D.
Donald W. Ewart & Richard M. Duris
D e pa r t m e n t s
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Student Spotlight: Tihda Vongkoth
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Alumnus Spotlight: Patrick Desrosiers
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New Faculty Appointments
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Alumni News
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Faculty News
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2007-08 List of Contributors
Inside Back cover: Calendar of Events
ASSOCIATE DEANS
Beth Bolton, Ph.D.
Ed Flanagan, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT DEAN
David Brown
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
Susan Alcedo
DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE RELATIONS
& EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Linda Fiore
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE RELATIONS
& EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Jason Horst
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Janine Scaff
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Tara Webb Duey
Correspondence:
Temple University
Boyer College of Music and Dance
1715 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6097
We feel that now, more than ever, it is imperative to move forward with new initiatives and
projects to provide opportunities that will benefit our greatest resource: our students. Their
future is dependant upon the present.
While many students are facing difficult decisions about their education and future, your
support is a vital part of our combined efforts to weather the storm. Your contribution, at
any level, can make a direct impact on the lives of Boyer students.
However, despite the overall economic downturn, enrollment at Boyer for 2008 is higher
than in any previous year, and applications for 2009 have increased 37% over last year.
Boyer also maintains the highest SAT scores among incoming freshman within the University
as a whole. What this means is that Boyer continues to attract the best and brightest who
want to study with our exemplary faculty and take advantage of the many performance and
research opportunities we have to offer. Our standing and reputation as one of the finest
performing arts colleges in the country remains secure and sound.
During especially challenging times, we look to those who sustain our mission and growth.
With your continued support, we can fulfill Boyer’s vision for the future.
Sincerely,
Announcements about Boyer College alumni,
faculty and students should be sent to:
Tara Webb Duey at [email protected]
If you’d like to be added to Boyer’s email list,
visit www.temple.edu/boyer and click on
“Join our E-Mail List” on the lefthand side.
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Budget and program reductions are now part of the vernacular at every college in the country, and Boyer is no exception.
All of us – faculty, staff and administration – are finding ways
to mindfully manage finances without in any way compromising the quality of education that has been, and continues
to be, Boyer’s hallmark. I want to reassure you that in light of
these challenging economic times, all of us at Boyer remain
committed and dedicated to providing an outstanding education in music and dance.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Ryan Brandenberg; Briar Photography;
Jeff Fusco; Joseph Labolito; Betsy Manning;
Patrick Snook
A look at Professor Steven Kreinberg’s GenEd class
In Memoriam:
Our standing and reputation as one of the
finest performing arts colleges in the country
remains secure and sound.
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Nate Friedman
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers at Home in South Philly
Boyer in the Community
On the fundraising front, I’m pleased to announce that Boyer’s capital campaign goal of
$12 million is at the $10.7 million mark. A portion of that campaign is in support of new
construction at Presser Hall, which will add much needed space for students and faculty. The
new addition will complement the shared atrium space connecting Boyer to the Tyler School
of Art and further enhance the expanding arts hub on main campus that also includes the
School of Communications and Theater.
EDITOR
Linda Fiore, [email protected]
CONTRIBUTORS
Millie Bai
Richard Brodhead
Jeffrey Cornelius
Linda Fiore
Alison Reynolds
Janine Scaff
Tara Webb Duey
Update on Boyer: Building Better Communities
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On the cover: The new atrium
entrance to both Presser Hall and
the Tyler School of Art.
a demand for repetition;
a second achievement
that surpasses the first
Welcome to the 2008/09 edition of ENCORE, which highlights the many accomplishments of
our alumni, faculty and students.
Robert T. Stroker
Dean
Make Your Gift online at www.myowlspace.com
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NEW M U S I C F A C I L I TY A T B OYER CO L L EGE
The new facility adjacent to Presser Hall, seen here at 13th and Norris Streets, features floor-to-ceiling
windows and state-of-the-art technology. Students and faculty will now work toward their educational and
musical goals in surroundings fitting to the 21st century.
We’re Expanding
In order to make this important new facility possible, fundraising continues
from Boyer alumni and friends. Every gift, no matter what the size, will create new opportunities for Boyer students. An envelope is enclosed if you
wish to make a donation.
The Boyer College of Music and Dance is in the midst of an exciting capital
improvement project adjacent to Presser Hall that will significantly enhance the
educational experience of Boyer students well into the future.
When completed, students will have an additional 16,000 square feet of
technologically advanced rehearsal and learning space, including three classrooms,
two teaching studios, 27 practice rooms, a recording studio and loading dock.
This new construction is part of a larger project which puts Boyer’s main music
facility at the center of an expanded arts district on Temple’s main campus
encompassing the School of Communications and Theater and newly relocated
Tyler School of Art. Boyer and Tyler will share a new entrance through a
magnificent two story atrium (see cover).
Live construction views and more detailed project information can be viewed at
www.temple.edu/boyer.
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Additionally, many naming opportunities are available, ranging from $500
to $2.5 million, payable over a five-year pledge period. Below is a list of
selected naming opportunities. For more detailed information, please
contact Janine Scaff, Director of Development, at [email protected]
or 215-204-5689.
NA M I NG o pp o r t u n i t i e s
$
500 sidewalk paver (exterior)
$ 1,000
tree (exterior)
$ 5,000 upright piano
$ 10,000 conference room
$ 15,000 practice room
$ 25,000
faculty studio
$ 50,000 “D” grand piano
$100,000
classroom
Overview of the expanding arts hub at Temple: Presser Hall and the newly
constructed Boyer College facilities will be situated between the School of
Communications and Theater to the west and the Tyler School of Art to the east.
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Professor Janet Yamron to Retire after 43 Years
Professor Janet Yamron is in her 43rd year as a
member of the Temple music faculty. That she has
served Temple for so long will come as a shock to
no one. What may be shocking is that she has decided to retire from full-time teaching at the end
of the academic year. As faculty and alumni have
become aware of her plan to retire, particularly
given her unabated level of energy and interest
in almost everything having to do with Temple
and Boyer, they express downright disbelief that
she will actually do it. Having joined the faculty in
1966, only four years after the college’s inception,
she has become such a part of our culture that it
is difficult to imagine our school without her daily presence. She assures
skeptics, however, that she really does intend to follow through and
expects to be as busy as ever with many of the causes and professional
interests she has nurtured for her entire career.
Janet Yamron hails from Atlantic City where her family name was well
known. Locals and the many visitors to the famous Boardwalk couldn’t
miss the sign identifying Yamron Jewelers, her parents’ well known business. She and her brother, Joe, graduated from Atlantic City High School,
where she still maintains close ties. “For me, the only outlets for music
there,” said Janet, “were two extra-curricular choirs. I loved those choirs so
much I asked if I could volunteer after school to help. I ended up organizing a choral library, which occupied an entire wall in the classroom. This
was my reward to be near the music action.”
Janet came to Temple in 1950 as a freshman. “One of my favorite stories
from my freshman year is connected to a Temple choirs concert in Atlantic
City,” she said. I phoned home and asked my mother if I could bring a few
people home for dinner. She was elated and asked, ‘How many?’ I replied,
‘70.’ I could hear her gulp, but she made it happen with the help of my
uncle, who owned a restaurant there.” In those pre-College of Music days,
although Janet was a choral conducting major, she graduated from the
College of Education with a bachelor of science degree.
After teaching music at Germantown Friends School, the Philadelphia
Museum of Art and serving as conductor of the Penn Singers (University
of Pennsylvania), she finished her master of education degree at Temple
in 1957. Dr. David Stone, then chair of music education, asked her to
remain to teach and serve as manager of Choral Activities and assistant
to the director, Robert Page. In 1960 she went on to teach at Fels Junior
High School, and subsequently at Lincoln and Gratz high schools. She then
became chair of the music department of the highly regarded Overbrook
High School, where she established the first music magnet program in
the Philadelphia school district. But Dr. Stone came calling again in 1966,
offering her a full time double appointment in music and music education – the only time in the history of our college that anyone has been so
appointed. “Dean Stone,” Janet recalls, “had an enormous impact on my
life and career.”
Janet rose through the ranks to become a full professor and served as
associate dean for undergraduate affairs, ultimately returning to full-time
teaching three years ago. She has served the Department of Choral Music
as active conductor and teacher of conducting and choral methods, and
the Department of Music Education as supervisor of student teachers.
As a professor, she has been sought out by many students for her rigorous
and effective approach to the teaching of conducting – an approach that
has prepared them well for their careers. Julia Zavadsky, a former graduate
student and current adjunct faculty member at Temple, says of Janet, “I
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Professor Darrel Walters Retires after 22 Years
came here from Israel to work with her and Professor Harler after a chance
meeting a year earlier, when I knew little English, and she and he were so
interested in me. She has been an example, a teacher, mentor and friend.”
Having joined Singing City shortly after its founding in 1948 by Elaine
Brown, who was a professor at Temple, she came to espouse Singing City’s
raison d’etre of bringing people together through music. “Singing City,”
Janet recalls, “was an outgrowth of Dr. Brown’s Fellowship House Choir,
which I had joined on coming to Philadelphia. Through that experience I
was afforded many opportunities to demonstrate to diverse communities
the power of music to cross lines of differences and to change the hearts
of people.” The impact of this experience on Janet was profound. She became Dr. Brown’s assistant and has continued to be a vital force in Singing
City, currently serving on its board of directors. Janet has helped prepare many of the great monuments in the choral
repertoire with major conductors for performance with The Philadelphia
Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Symphony, the Israeli
Philharmonic and others. As a musician she has conducted all-state and
regional festivals and served as clinician and/or adjudicator in numerous
universities and schools and helped organize the Interlochen Bicentennial
Celebration. As an invited member of a People-to-People delegation, she
traveled to England, France, Poland and Russia in the interest of bringing people together through music. Most recently, she and Singing City’s
former associate conductor and Temple alumna, Sonya Garfinkle, have
co-chaired a development initiative that has raised over a half-million dollars to fund the first named academic chair at Boyer: the Dr. Elaine Brown
Chair of Choral Music.
Along the way, Janet became an exceptionally committed member of
the university’s alumni association and Boyer Alumni Board, of which she
served as officer and treasurer for as long as anyone can remember.
Janet’s long service to music students will not soon be forgotten by the
thousands of students she has guided and advised. She has an exceptional memory for names and details and has become, quite literally, our
organizational memory! Her service to students goes beyond what anyone
would normally expect. If she sees alumni on the street, however, twenty
years after graduation – so the folklore goes – and they had not turned
in a piece of music, she will not only greet them warmly by name but will
remind them of their outstanding debt of sheet music!
Janet has remained in contact with many of the students she encouraged
into the teaching profession, and they are quick to profess their gratitude for
her guidance. Dorina Morrow, a former Temple student of Janet’s and music
teacher at the High School for Creative and Performing Arts, remarked that
“Janet is ageless. Not only does she look today just as she did thirty years
ago, but more importantly, every time I see her working with our young
students, I’m struck by the attraction she holds for them, just as she did for
us. She has ‘It,’ whatever that wonderful quality of teaching is.”
Janet Yamron’s dedicated commitment to Temple University has ranged
over well more than half a century. She has continued to be a catalyst for
growth and change at Boyer and Temple to this day. Janet has also been
a real friend to alumni, faculty and students alike. She is, as all who know
her can attest, the embodiment of Temple’s motto, “Perseverance Conquers.” We all wish her the very best for a long and fulfilling “next stage”
in her life. You can be assured that she will not be idle, nor will she stay
away from the university she loves.
Dr. Jeffrey Cornelius
Professor of Choral Music and former Dean of the College (1993-2001)
Dr. Darrel Walters, who retired from the Music
Education and Therapy Department in December, joined the Boyer faculty in 1986 as assistant
professor and, from 1999-2002, served as department chair.
“I’ve always been interested in art, music and
writing,” Dr. Walters said. “At the University of
Michigan, I was an art major – for three days.
The art studios ran so late into the afternoon I’d
miss the ensembles. So I became a music major
because I was also interested in music. Then in the
course of my work as a music major, an English
teacher tried to talk me into becoming an English major instead because
he though I could be a writer. All three of those interests have played
strong parts in my work. I taught music in the public schools for a number
of years, and it’s obvious how music content played a role there and
then here, but writing ended up playing a bigger role than I had anticipated. When Powerpoint became available, I found I enjoyed presenting
language artistically. The “Academic Writing” class I teach brings all three
of my strengths together and allows me to meet graduate students from
all departments within the college. I’ve enjoyed that cross-spectrum of
students.”
Through his work guiding students’ final projects and dissertations, Dr.
Walters realized a need for a text to guide students’ written expression
and completed The Readable Thesis in 1999. As he offered writing
seminars for businesses such as GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson,
he realized a need for a second book for writers in business or education.
The result? His new book, Write Well Now: Six Keys to Greater Clarity.
His first post-retirement project is to finish a book for the “Assessment
of Music Learning” course. When asked about other writing projects, he
enthusiastically responded, “I’ve written quite a few children’s poems and
have begun a book that makes Shakespeare’s sonnets accessible to young
readers. And, there are four more projects I can’t wait to finish. Now I’ll
have the time to concentrate on them!”
During his 22 years at Boyer, Dr. Walters taught graduate research and
writing courses, “Assessment of Music Learning” (more than 30 times)
and student teaching seminars.
He served as major advisor to doctoral and masters students and served as
a committee member for graduate students – representing contributions
to 83 graduate documents. Colleagues will remember his valuable and
efficient service to the department, college and Temple, such as chair and
secretary of the Collegial Assembly, member of Faculty Senate, Tenure and
Promotion, Music and Dance Teaching Academy, Technology, and many
search committees. He served as a member of the executive board of
Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and chair for the Committee for
Higher Education.
With Dr. Walters’ retirement, Boyer loses an outstanding teacher. In spring
2008, the Music and Dance Teaching Academy Committee chose him
to receive the MADTAC teacher of the year award. At his acceptance
speech he likened teaching to bathing in a flowing river: “ . . . its source
so far back in time we can’t see it – or imagine it. . . as we share a part of
ourselves, a part of who we are; [and] a part of our humanity . . . the river
keeps flowing. And I take gratification from the thought that some of you
might carry a piece of me downstream and around the next bend.”
Those who have known him for his mentoring and collegial spirit respect
that he has maintained the highest standards and expectations, conscientiously working and living true to his principles. He has an impeccable
record of unwavering commitment and dedication to do what is best for
students, colleagues, the department, college and university. During this
interview, he described what he will miss and what parts of Boyer he will
carry with him as he creates a new path with his business and writing.
“The main misgiving about not coming to Temple regularly is the students – to teach people who are enthusiastic and energetic. Students have
taught me the most when we are having discussions. For example, I never
give a test without having at least one of the subsequent class periods
devoted to discussing the exam item-by-item. It allows me to learn about
students’ misconceptions and insights to the content. I also enjoy that a
student will share a point of view or even a fear of something that I would
not have thought of that helps me to think in a new way. Those times put
me in touch with my earlier self. In a way, students help me remember
those times before I started my teaching career. Of course, I will miss my
wonderful colleagues, too.”
What lies in store for Dr. Walters? Immediately, he enjoyed his first winter
break of his retirement with his wife, Carol; daughters Julie, Jennifer, and
Joanna; and grandson Christian, who is 8. In March, he and Dr. Michael
Tsalka (DMA ‘08) will present a recital featuring Dr. Walters’s recitations
of Shakespeare sonnets and Tsalka’s solo piano works. In April, he and
Carol will become grandparents again – to a baby girl. He hinted that he
would enjoy playing in the Katz memorial golf tournaments again next
year. He looks forward to the end result of the new construction at Presser
Hall. Mostly, he will pour all of his efforts into fueling his new business,
Revisionary Inc., and publishing the writing projects he’s had to keep on
the back burner.
We who remain at Boyer confidently know which portions of the river in
which we continue to bathe are attributable to having met, worked with
and learned from Dr. Walters. To say that we will miss him is an understatement. His teaching river is taking him along new courses, and we look
forward to hearing about his successes in his new adventures.
Dr. Alison Reynolds
Associate Professor of Music Education
On behalf of my colleagues, Boyer students and alumni, our most heartfelt gratitude to Professors Yamron
and Walters for their combined 65 years of service and dedication to Temple University. We wish them
both much happiness and success in their future endeavors.
Dean Robert T. Stroker
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Happy Birthday New School and Orlando Cole
The year 2008 marked two milestones for New School alumni and the
Boyer College’s New School Institute: the 65th anniversary of the founding of the New School of Music by members of the Curtis String Quartet,
and the 100th birthday of Orlando Cole, legendary Curtis Quartet cellist,
teacher and New School founder. On July 19, New School alumni, friends
and family from around the country and across generations gathered in
Rock Hall to celebrate both.
Thanks to the New School Alumni Planning Group’s efforts, alumni from
13 states and graduating classes going back to the 1960’s were in attendance. First-time attendees who had not visited campus since the merger
of the New School and Boyer in 1986 were able to see old friends and
their alma mater’s new home during the day-long reunion hosted by the
college.
Robert Page Inspires New Scholarship Fund
Following the concert, Dean Robert Stroker and New School Institute
Director Richard Brodhead welcomed all to a dinner in Temple’s historic
Mitten Hall and made several announcements of importance:
> Five New School scholarships will be endowed to honor individuals
who guided the 1986 merger: Max Aronoff, Jascha Brodsky, Orlando
Cole, Helen Kwalwasser and Helen Gelles. Fundraising is underway.
Thanks to those who have already contributed.
> A student string quartet, carrying the name of the New School, will be
established to represent Boyer in performances as part of its professional training program. Recipients of the New School scholarships will
serve as members of this quartet.
> A New School alumni website now offers news and events, information from New School and Curtis Quartet archives and practical
information for alumni, such as how to order transcripts.
The reunion culminated with the opportunity to celebrate both birthdays.
Mr. Cole was recognized at the concert and toasted at the dinner as a
“living legend… a pathbreaking artist, renowned teacher and New School
founder” whose vision and energy
built the school. He responded to
the standing ovation with eloquent
remarks about the high standards
and spirit of the New School and
with praise for alumni who planned
the reunion and performed at the
concert. His words made a day full
New School founder Orlando Cole, who
of good music and good fellowship celebrated his 100th birthday last Aueven more memorable for those
gust, and Lachlan Pitcairn, former cello
student and New School board member.
who traveled to Temple last July.
Conductor David Rudge and fellow alumni after performing the first movement
of Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 at the reunion concert.
Rock Hall was festooned with photographs and memorabilia from the
Curtis Quartet and New School archives, thanks to the hard work of Alice
Tully librarian and alumna, Millie Bai. Rooms were set aside for listening
to vintage recordings of the New School Orchestra and the Curtis String
Quartet. A special display honored Helen Gelles, the beloved “anchor” of
the New School staff, who passed away in April. The reunion concert was
dedicated to her memory.
Much of the day’s activity was devoted to rehearsals for the late-afternoon
concert, which included chamber works for violin and viola, woodwind
quintet and string octet. Under the direction of alumni conductors Gary
White, artistic director of the Philadelphia Sinfonia and David Rudge,
head of the orchestra program at SUNY Fredonia, the players performed
selections from Holst’s Brook Green Suite and Mozart’s Symphony No.
29. After the concert one alumnus, who participated in the rehearsals and
performance, remarked, “It was amazing to see how the high standards
of the Curtis Quartet and the New School have affected people’s work and
lives.”
The concert also provided a wonderful opportunity for members of the
New School community to remember Miss Gelles: John Little and Jim
Hontz and former dean Matthew Colucci spoke from their perspectives as
students and colleague; former president Tamara Brooks, who was unable
to attend, sent a special tribute which was read by her former assistant,
Sally Millar. Several members of Miss Gelles’s family attended and greeted
alumni.
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If you’d like to make a gift to any of these scholarships, please contact
Tara Webb Duey at 215. 204.1938 or [email protected]. For detailed
information on scholarships, visit www.temple.edu/boyer/newschool
Mitten Hall resonated with the sounds of glorious choral music on
September 27, 2008, when more than 100 choral alumni and friends of
Robert Page gathered to sing under his direction and celebrate the launching of the Robert Page Choral Conducting Scholarship Fund.
Robert Page directed Temple choirs as a member of the faculty from 1956
to 1975, during which time the choirs toured frequently and sang under
several distinguished conductors. He then moved to Pittsburgh where he
has since held the position of professor of music and director of choral
activities at Carnegie Mellon University. His work is available on more
than 40 discs issued by major recording companies, including Columbia,
London, RCA, Telarc and Decca. Receiving several prestigious awards, one
of his two Grammy Awards was for Catulli Carmina, recorded with the
Temple choirs and The Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Eugene
Ormandy. Many attending the September choral reunion remembered
those sessions fondly.
Some came from as far away as Massachusetts, Georgia and Illinois for
a full day of singing, reminiscing and reconnecting with Robert Page and
his wife, Glynn. The day began with a morning choral rehearsal, bringing
much-loved repertoire to life. In the afternoon, many embarked on campus tours led by a quartet of Boyer’s graduate choral conducting majors.
(Note: the Temple University campus has undergone striking changes in
the past decade – it’s worth a visit!) A cocktail reception concluded the
day, when the audience was addressed by Robert Stroker, dean; Alan
Harler, director of Choral Activities; Jeffrey Cornelius, choral faculty member, former dean and student of Robert Page; and then by Robert Page
himself. Committee members took turns sharing reminiscences written
throughout the day by participants, and the Temple University Concert
Choir, under the direction of Tram Sparks, sang beautifully. The event culminated with Robert Page conducting alumni in a grand performance of
his arrangement of the ideal “theme song” – Leonard Bernstein’s “Make
Our Garden Grow” from Candide. It was a perfect day – old friendships
Robert and Glynn Page (center) with members of the Robert Page Choral
Conducting Scholarship Committee (from left: Linda Laverell Tedford, Barbara
Willig, Dan Tuck, Bobbie Field Leiter, Claudia Milstein Calloway, Regina Gordon,
Barbara Thornber Miller, Francine Goman Levin.
were renewed and new friendships were formed as more than $25,000
was raised to endow a scholarship fund to support master of choral conducting students at Boyer.
It is clear that Robert Page’s contributions to the choral art are well
recognized in his many choral arrangements, recordings and Grammy
nominations and awards. His dedication to and demand for excellence in
choral music continues to bring out the best in singers. In short, he is an
inspiration. The Boyer College is most grateful to the Robert Page Choral
Reunion and Scholarship Fund committee co-chairs, Regina Gordon (’69)
and Linda Laverell Tedford (’73), who were inspired to garner support
to establish this scholarship fund. The initial success of this endeavor is a
result of their efforts along with the rest of the committee:
Claudia Milstein Calloway, ‘72
Joan Barnhill Reveyoso, ‘74
Bobbie Field Leiter, ‘70Toby Korn Simon, ‘65
Francine Goman Levin, ‘69Dan Tuck, ‘70
Barbara Thornber Miller, ‘69
Barbara Willig, ‘63
At the Boyer College, we are most appreciative of the many contributions
that we have received to build the fund. We will continue to “Make Our
Garden Grow” in order to provide as much assistance as possible to our
talented and dedicated students of choral conducting.
In Memoriam
Helen Gelles (1924 - 2008)
Helen Gelles, administrator of the New School from the
time of its founding, died last April after a long battle
with cancer. As executive secretary to the president, she
managed all aspects of the school from operations to
registrations to facilities. When the New School merged
with the Boyer College in 1986, she quickly established
herself as one who could get things done at Temple, and she continued to volunteer after her retirement in 1997. Her legendary organization, perfected to an art form, and her commitment to the mission of
the New School were matched only by her wry sense of humor. She
is survived by a sister, Vivian, and two brothers, David and Abraham.
Memorial gifts in her memory may be sent to:
New School Scholarship Funds, Temple University
c/o Tara Webb Duey
1938 Liacouras Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19122
If you wish to honor Robert Page in this way, please make your check
payable to:
Robert Page conducts choral alumni and friends in historic Mitten Hall
Temple University-Robert Page Scholarship Fund
c/o Tara Webb Duey
1938 Liacouras Walk
W HY I G I V E
Carol Grey (‘88 MM Choral Conducting)
“My time as a music student at Temple opened up all sorts of new
avenues that I continue to benefit from to this day. I choose to give
back to the Boyer College each year so that others may share the
joy and opportunities that were available to me.”
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Instrument Drives to Benefit
Philadelphia Public Schools
Tech News
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Sigma Alpha Iota are holding campaigns to
collect used instruments and supplies (books, reeds, teaching materials)
for distribution to Philadelphia public schools. If you have an instrument
you’re no longer using, or any unused supplies to donate, please contact
David Brown at [email protected] who will coordinate the donation
and provide forms for tax purposes.
funded by student TECH fees. The one in Presser Hall 101
Boyer installed several new “smart classrooms” that were
includes a PC. Presser 103 houses a Mac. There will also
be 3 new “smart classrooms,” (2 Mac’s/1 PC) in the new
addition to Presser Hall.
Winners of the 2008-09
Student Soloist Competition
14th Annual David M. Katz Scholarship Charles Dutoit to Receive 2009
Golf Tournament Another Success
Annual Boyer College Tribute Award
At the Boyer College, we are most grateful to Dr. Robert and Mimsye
Katz for organizing the 14th Annual David M. Katz Scholarship Golf
Tournament in memory of their son. This annual fall event, which raises
funds in support of jazz scholarships, offers great golf at Meadowlands
Country Club in Blue Bell, PA and included bridge and other games for
the first time this year. Dinner, a silent auction and live jazz, performed
by current students and alumni Katz scholars who return each year to
thank the Katz family and participate in a lively jam session, concluded
the successful day. Thanks to the numerous contributors to this fund,
more than 30 scholarships have been awarded to Boyer’s talented and
deserving jazz students.
Each year, students audition for a faculty panel for a chance to
perform with the Temple University Symphony Orchestra and
other ensembles. We are pleased to announce this year’s winners:
In 1991, Dutoit was made an Honorary Citizen of the City of Philadelphia. In 1995, the government of Québec named him Grand Officier de
l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has also been invested as an Honorary
Officer of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest award of merit.
The winner in the Preparatory Division is Yerim (Jamie) Lee. The
collegiate division yielded a tie between Mark Livshits (piano) and
Lauren Pollock (soprano). All three winners will perform at the
February 15th Temple University Symphony Orchestra concert at
the Haverford School.
The Annual Boyer College Tribute Award is given to deserving individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary service to the local music
community. Past recipients include Al and Gabrielle Rinaldi from Jacobs
Music Company, Carole Haas Gravagno, Kenneth Gamble and The Honorable Edward G. Rendell. The award will be presented at the Temple
Orchestra and Choirs’ Kimmel concert on March 22.
The runner up for the collegiate division was Adrian Baule (flute)
He will perform with the Temple University Wind Symphony on
February 22.
Our congratulations to the winners.
We are pleased to honor Charles Dutoit, chief
conductor and artistic adviser of The Philadelphia
Orchestra, with the Eighth Annual Boyer College
Tribute Award. Also artistic director and principal
conductor of the Royal Philharmonic, Dutoit
regularly collaborates with the world’s leading
orchestras. Since his debut with the Philadelphia
Orchestra in 1980, Dutoit has been invited each
season to conduct all the major orchestras in the
United States. He has also performed regularly
with all the great orchestras of Europe as well as the Israel Philharmonic
and the major orchestras of Japan, South America and Australia. His
more than 170 recordings have garnered more than 40 awards and
distinctions.
From left: Amanda Noce, Dan Hanrahan, Jeff Torchon, Rob Martino, Maxfield
Gast, Mimsye Katz, Justin Sekelewski, Luke Brandon, Terell Stafford (director,
Department of Jazz Studies), Danny Janklow, Mike Onufrak, Yoichi Uzeki, Greg
Snyder, Joe McDonough, Tyree Barron.
Boyer students Matthew Harman (left) and Brandon Chaderton from Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia, are spearheading the instrument donation program.
Our thanks to both.
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All That Jazz
The Department of Jazz Studies has put together a busy year of
programs, performances and master classes, featuring guest artists
Sean Jones (trumpet), Ralph Peterson (drums), Dena Derose (vocals) and
John La Barbera (arranging). Last May, the jazz band performed at the Detroit International Jazz Festival and the Hague Jazz Festival in Amsterdam.
B OYER i n t h e c o mm u n i t y
The Village Vanguard Orchestra’s Monday Night Live at the Village
Vanguard has been nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Large Jazz
Ensemble and Best Arrangement (St. Louis Blues). Faculty members Terell
Stafford, Luis Bonilla and Dick Oatts perform with the Village Vanguard.
The department’s ties with Amsterdam run deep. Boyer entered into an
exchange program with the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music this past
year. Four students from Amsterdam are studying at Boyer and one Boyer
student is there. Also, Boyer faculty member Dick Oatts is on the faculty of
the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music.
Arts & Quality of Life Research Center
In March, the department will again host the Essentially Ellington
Eastern Regional High School Jazz Band Festival on campus, bringing
some of the region’s top high school bands together for a full day of
workshops and performances with faculty and guest artists.
“Temple Night” at Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus, the premiere place to hear jazz in
Philadelphia, features the jazz band one night each month throughout
the year. And, the band will head to New York this spring for its annual
performance at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center.
>Host of 2nd annual second annual conference: Arts and Quality
of Life in the Philadelphia Community at Temple on February 27
Guest artist Benny Golson performed with the Temple University Jazz Band,
under the direction of Terell Stafford at the Kimmel Center in December.
The Temple Lab Band also performed, under the direction of Greg Kettinger.
Each fall, two graduates from each of Temple’s schools and colleges who have achieved professional distinction are chosen to be inducted into the
Gallery of Success, along with a new class of awardees. Their portraits and bios are displayed alongside many other notable alumni in Mitten Hall.
The 2008-09 Boyer recipients are Tania B. Isaac and Gary D. White.
Honored in 1996 as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” Isaac
graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison prior to receiving
her MFA from Temple, where she was a university fellow. She has worked
tirelessly in both the arts and civic communities in Philadelphia, serving
as resident artist at the Painted Bride Art Center as well as co-founding
Imprint: Dialogues of a Generation, a social action program geared toward
developing conversations between youth and civic leaders.
She has been adjunct faculty at Bryn Mawr College and has taught and
performed in extended residencies at Bennington College in Vermont,
Virginia Commonwealth University and Ohio State University. Tania Isaac
Dance was in residence at the Annenberg Center for the Performing
Arts. Isaac also leads workshops and presentations as a Commonwealth
Speaker with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
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Gary D. White BMus ’86, MMus ’95 is music director and conductor of the Philadelphia Sinfonia, a
forum through which he has been able to pass on
to the next generation of musicians the knowledge
he gained as a student at the New School of Music
and Boyer. Philadelphia Sinfonia is a full symphonic
and string chamber orchestra comprising some of
the most gifted young musicians in the Delaware
Valley. Under White’s baton, the orchestra has
performed at the Republican National Convention,
the Liberty Medal ceremony for former Secretary of State Colin Powell and
the Lewis & Clark 200th Anniversary Conference. Since taking the podium,
the Sinfonia has grown to more than 90 members, competitively selected
each year from an increasingly gifted pool of musicians, and has performed in countries including Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria,
Russia and Finland.
White studied at the prestigious Pierre Monteux School for Conductors
and Orchestral Musicians in Maine and earned his master’s degree in
French horn performance at Boyer after graduating from the New School.
He was music director and conductor of the Temple University Community
Youth Orchestra, assisted Maestro Luis Biava in Temple Music Prep’s Center
for Gifted Young Musicians and was former chair of the music department
at Germantown Friends School.
As a French horn player, White has performed with the Fairmount Brass
Quartet, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and the Harrisburg,
Reading and Pottstown Symphony Orchestras.
Community Concerts at Temple Ambler
> “Singing for Tomorrow,” a songwriting program for children with
spinal cord injuries at Shriner’s Hospital, funded by the Christopher
and Dana Reeve Foundation
This is the second year Boyer has collaborated with Temple Ambler to
present a free, community concert series in Ambler’s Learning Center
Auditorium. Concerts have included faculty members Lawrence Indik,
Maurice Wright, John Johnson, Charles Abramovic and Joyce Lindorff.
Students have performed as well, including the TU Jazz Ensemble,
pianist Tatiana Abramova, violinist Daniel Turcina and the Semes sisters
from Music Prep. Upcoming concerts include opera scenes, cello and
piano, jazz and new music by composition majors. Watch for dates at
www.temple.edu/ambler.
> $50,000 Provost Seed Grant for Corazón: The Influence of Music
Therapy on Stress Risk Factors Associated with Cardiovascular
Disease in Latino Women
New Horizons Band and
Summer Music Workshops
> Arts in Healthcare and Community Training Program – the first
course of the competency-based training program for artists to
prepare them to work with disenfranchised members of the local
community, funded by the Barra Foundation
>Temple hosted 19th annual international conference of the Society
for the Arts in Healthcare in Philadelphia last April. Drs. Cheryl Dileo
and Joke Bradt of the center kicked off the three-day conference,
Embracing Our Past, Shaping Our Future: 21st Century
Innovations
Boyer will soon host a New Horizons Band for members over 50 who
have either played an instrument in the past or have always wanted to
play in a band. The Department of Music Education will offer two new
workshops this summer for music teachers: “Pickin & Grinnin’: Selecting
and Rehearsing Quality Band Literature” and “Wah-wahs, Riders and
Humbuckers: Creating & Developing a Rock Band.” Both workshops
can be taken for credit or non-credit and optional Act 48 credit.
For more information and to register, visit:
http://voyager.adminsvc.temple.edu/tucourses.
>The center was featured on the WRTI’s Creatively Speaking, and
will be featured on WHYY’s new series, Creative Campus in 2009
DanceMobile
>Songwriting program, “Hear Our Voices,” for at-risk youth in
Kensington, featured on local ABC and CBS news. Funding
from Exelon ($10,000) to continue this successful program in 2009
Gallery of Success
Tania B. Isaac MFA dance ’00 has spent her career working toward a model of performance that
seeks to span and deepen her interest in aesthetic,
cultural and academic practices. Her company,
Tania Isaac Dance in Philadelphia, does just that,
creating a hybrid of physical and contemporary
movement narratives that drive social and artistic
discourse. She has toured throughout the United
States, the United Kingdom and Japan, and her
work has been supported by organizations such
as the Leeway Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Independence
Foundation and the National Performance Network.
The following projects support the University’s initiative to develop programs that serve the
greater Temple community and surrounding neighborhoods. BOYER: BUILDING BETTER
COMMUNITIES was created in 2007 by Dean Robert T. Stroker to highlight outreach
projects within the college. What follows is a report on activities from 2008/09:
Temple Music Preparatory Division
This year Temple Music Prep has two additions to its Center for Gifted
Young Musicians: a Harp Ensemble directed by Kimberly Rowe and the
Chamber Players Orchestra conducted by Davyd Booth. The Prep’s Community Music Scholars Program with 150 members is the largest since
the mid-1990’s with students drawn from over 50 Philadelphia schools.
Students receive individual lessons and have performance opportunities
in a jazz orchestra, a string ensemble as well as class instruction in music
theory and a new component in modern dance. A visit from the Sheila
Fortune Foundation, one of the program’s funders, was welcomed last
fall to see the program in action. Music Prep’s Honors String Quartet
(Clare Semes, Anastasia Falasca, Steven Laraia, Nicholas Bollinger) was
invited to perform at the National Guild for Community Schools of the
Arts Award Luncheon. Cellist Bihn Park, a student of Metta Watts and
Orlando Cole will perform with The Philadelphia Orchestra on April 4th
as winner of the Albert Greenfield Competition Children’s Division.
The “I See You!” DanceMobile, hosted by Boyer’s Department of
Dance, is a traveling stage that brings global dance traditions of the
African-American/Latino Diaspora to communities within Philadelphia.
Performances last year included those on main campus, Fairhill Square
Park and North Light Community Center. All performances are free and
open to the public.
For more information on BOYER: BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES,
visit www.temple.edu/boyer/bbbc
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S OUTH PH I LLY C H I
S t u d e n t Sp o t l i g h t
A l u m n U S Sp o t l i g h t
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Find a Home
Tihda Vongkoth
Patrick Desrosiers BM ‘92, MM ‘95
For Tihda Vongkoth, a first year
master’s student in percussion performance, having the opportunity
to visit the Zildjian cymbal factory
in Boston, meeting the founder’s
family and selecting four sets of
complimentary cymbals, is akin to
a seven year old’s visit to Disneyworld: a dream come true. Winning
the Kerope Zildjian Scholarship is
just one of Tihda’s many notable
accomplishments that include
scholarships to Interlochen Arts
Academy and Aspen Music Festival
and placing first in the Florida Orchestra and U.S. Air Force Band Concerto
Competitions.
Patrick Desrosiers enjoys the “lovely cool climate” of his new home, the
city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Hired in 2007 by the new Orchestra Filarmonica of the State of Minas Gerais as a first violinist, he says the statefunded orchestra has set an ambitious goal to become the “best orchestra
in that country.”
Kun-Yang Lin is assistant professor of dance at the Boyer College
From Victor Café’s opera-singing servers to the Samuel S. Fleisher Art
Memorial’s free classes for those from all
economic and cultural backgrounds, South
Philadelphia is crowned by the Italian Market
– a colorful convergence of many familyowned businesses along 9th Street. Adding
to the diversity and energy of this neighborhood, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D),
one of Pennsylvania’s only Asian American
contemporary dance companies, has opened
Chi Movement Arts Center in a renovated
warehouse half a block from the city’s notorious Pat’s and Geno’s Steaks.
“I know that there will be many challenges, but I am committed to being
an active participant in the vibrant art scene in Philadelphia. Art is about
connecting with people,” said artistic director Kun-Yang Lin.
At the age of 12, Lin organized the first all-male dance troupe to perform
in his native village of Hsinchu, Taiwan. He has received numerous awards,
including the Taipei National Theater’s Modern Dance Award, National
Endowment for the Arts Choreography Award, the Domestic Prize from
the Taipei International Community Cultural Foundation and the Taiwan
Outstanding Artist Award.
Since moving to the United States in 1994, Lin has performed as a principal dancer with Doris Humphrey Repertory Dance Company and the Mary
Anthony Dance Theatre. In addition, he has performed in the companies
of Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Kevin
Wynn Collection, Paula Josa-Jones and Janis Brenner & Dancers.
“There is an Asian feel to [Lin’s] work, but it defies classification and
touches people of all backgrounds because Kun-Yang has studied and performed so many different styles in New York, Europe and Asia throughout
his career,” said Ken Metzner, KYL/D executive director since 2004.
KYL/D’s Chi Awareness Technique has been developed throughout Lin’s
life, drawing on his upbringing in Taiwan as well as worldwide teaching
and performing experiences. Rising from internal energy or “chi” – the
Mandarin word for “breath” or “vital life source” – his pieces have been
described as “spiritual” and “bold.”
Lin’s choreography has been presented throughout the United States as
well as in Asia, Southeast Asia, London, Vienna and Mexico. In addition,
Lin’s choreography has been added to the educational curricula for dance
students at Taiwan National University of the Arts and Dance Ensemble
Singapore Performing Arts Academy. He has also been a resident guest
artist at Bryn Mawr College and, since 2003, assistant professor of dance
at Boyer.
“I stumbled into a concert of KYL/D in New York in 2003 and was so
moved by the experience that I became hooked,” Metzner said, noting
that he personally treasures the compassion and humanity in Lin’s pieces.
“Before I knew KYL/D’s work,” he added, “I
was a corporate lawyer for an international
fashion company ... Now I am an interfaith
ministry student working toward my ordination in 2009.”
With a mission of creating work that
transcends cultural boundaries and enriches
the community from an Asian American
perspective, KYL/D members hope that the
center will make a significant contribution to
the appreciation of dance as an art form. The new site serves as a rehearsal
venue for the dancers, and offers dance classes and workshops focusing
on Lin’s discovery and cultivation of “individuals’ internal energies” – a
process that he believes has the potential to transform lives and the communities in which we live.
The center offers workshops by renowned visiting choreographers and dancers as well as classes by accomplished local artists. Through open rehearsals,
the public will also have opportunities to learn about dance and experience
the creative process.
“The diversity, texture, colors and contrasts of the Italian Market district
create a unique energy that we want to be a part of and contribute
to,” Metzner said. “The multicultural character of the area meshes with
KYL/D’s artistry, which seeks to transcend boundaries of language, race,
age, orientation and origin.”
The grand opening of KYL/D’s transformed
3,000-square-foot warehouse at 1316 S.
9th Street was held last April, with local
and Chinese dignitaries in attendance. The
celebration featured a selection of works
from KYL/D’s repertory, including a special
performance by Lin of his trademark solo,
“Dedication.” He performed the piece,
originally created following the sudden
death of his father, in honor of the recently
deceased Patricia Nanon, founder of The
Yard, the Martha’s Vineyard colony for
performing artists.
Chi Movement Arts Center
The Chi Movement Arts Center, a 501(c) (3) non-profit offers dance,
movement, yoga and Pilates classes for children and adults. For more
information, visit www.kunyanglin.org.
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“I like the intimacy of the program at Boyer,” said Tihda. “I can interact
and perform with freshman, play in the orchestra and get to know most
all of the faculty.” In fact, orchestral percussion, and especially opportunities to study and play the timpani, are two of the things she likes best
about Boyer.
Tihda’s parents immigrated to the United States from Laos in 1970. She
was born in Chicago and when the family moved to Florida, she started
studying with the principal timpanist with the Florida Orchestra. This was
6th grade and, even then, she knew she wanted to be a musician. She
played in the Pinellas Youth Orchestra and attended the Pinellas County
Center for the Arts, a prominent performing arts high school. Her senior
year was spent at the Interlochen Arts Academy, and she went on to
win the Florida Orchestra and Air Force Band competitions. Her summers
are spent studying and performing at various music festivals, including
Aspen, Interlochen, Tanglewood and Brevard, most all on scholarships or
fellowships. While Brahms, Shostakovich, Sibelius and Bob Becker are her
favorites composers, her tastes in music are eclectic, from jazz to rap to
world music.
Patrick first took up the violin at
seven with his teacher, who also happened to be his cousin, in his native
country of Haiti. A decade later, he
had the opportunity to meet, and
perform for, Helen Kwalwasser, who
was visiting Haiti. As Patrick started
considering attending college in the
States, it came down to Temple and
a university out west. But Patrick
picked Temple in 1987, not only to
study with Kwalwasser and Jascha
Brodsky, but because he would be
joining three other students from
Haiti who were here pursuing graduate music degrees. Patrick also cites his good fortune to having studied
and performed with Jeffrey Solow, Luis Biava and Lambert Orkis.
While at Temple, he was also performing with the Delaware and Harrisburg Symphonies. After graduation, he held teaching positions at the
Wilmington School of Music and Bryn Mawr Conservatory, performed
with the Philly Pops and toured with the Strauss Orchestra of America,
performing at the Kimmel Center, Kennedy Center and Avery Fisher Hall at
Lincoln Center.
“I consider my time at Temple as a ‘bridge,’” says Patrick, “and am grateful to the many faculty members who helped me cross over to the life I
have now as a professional musician.”
The Filarmonica has scheduled a full inaugural season of concerts and recently performed at a festival in Sao Paulo alongside Maestro Kurt Masur.
Patrick has set his sights high: he’s determined to master the Portuguese
language soon so he can follow in the footsteps of his Temple mentors
and go on to teach at the University of Minas Gerais in the beautiful
country of Brazil.
Of her teacher, Tihda sings his praises. “He is a great pedagogue and a
caring teacher, who devotes time to and energy on his students.” These
are traits that Tihda hopes to pass on to students when she becomes a
teacher, which, in addition to continuing to perform, is one of her many
ambitious goals.
After moving from New York to Philadelphia, he recognized a growing
appreciation for modern dance. The “less frenetic pace” here has allowed
him to focus further inward on “chi,” which informs his artistry.
Lin’s personal movement language blends qualities from both Western and
Eastern cultures. He draws on many influences from Taiwan such as calligraphy, martial arts, tai chi and traditional Chinese dance movements but
expresses them in a contemporary style.
Tihda is a student of Boyer faculty member Alan Abel, former percussionist
with The Philadelphia Orchestra. She first met Abel at one of his percussion seminars while a junior in college and knew she eventually wanted to
study with him. She was accepted at some of the top music schools in the
country: Juilliard, Cleveland Institute and Manhattan School of Music. She
choose Southern Methodist University to study with a percussionist from
the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and because she also wanted a diverse
curriculum in a large university setting. She was looking for a similar graduate school environment, which, in addition to studying with Abel, is the
reason she chose Boyer.
“I actually took my audition in Philadelphia on very short notice. The
contract was written entirely in Portuguese, which was a bit of a challenge since I had only been in the country for two months. Fortunately, I’m
fluent in French and Spanish and was able to find my way.” The orchestra
has aggressively recruited international musicians representing nine countries in addition to the U.S. and Canada.
This article has been adapted from the original which appeared on
4/7/08 in “The Bulletin,” written by Andrea K. Hammer, founder and
director, Artsphoria: Celebrating Arts Euphoria www.artsphoria.com
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Q&A
W h a t ’ s N e w i n M u sic Ed u c a t i o n
with Dr. Deborah Sheldon
P r o f e s s o r a n d C h a i r , D e pa r t m e n t o f M u s i c E d u c a t i o n
The Department of Music Education has a long history at Temple. Beginning in the late1890s and housed within
Teachers College, which later became the College of Education, it offered only a handful of classes. In the early 1960s,
the Music Education Department became autonomous, was officially integrated into Temple’s College of Music and
held the highest enrollment of undergraduate and graduate students within that college. More than four decades later,
Temple’s Office of Alumni Affairs is in touch with 550 music education alumni.
Linda Fiore sat down with Dr. Sheldon to find out what’s new in the field,
in the department and how today’s students prepare to enter the teaching
workforce in the 21st century.
Fiore: What are some new trends in the field of music education and
how is your department addressing them?
Sheldon: Our new curriculum, which was implemented last fall, reflects
trends that came forth from Vision 2020’s initiatives and recent conferences, during which professionals came together to talk about where
we came from and where we’re going. The resulting publication, “Vision
2020: The Housewright Symposium on the Future of Music Education,”
highlights the guiding principle of breaking down traditional walls of the
classroom. The approach is to look at ways to teach music to whole learning communities – those inside and outside the traditional classroom. We
have designed the new undergraduate curriculum to meet the additional
skills our graduates will need to meet these standards.
The new undergraduate curriculum provides opportunities for teachers to
participate in community music projects. In designing the curriculum, we
asked, “How can our students be instrumental in providing adults with
music experiences beyond high school or college?” One of the answers is
that students are required to take the course, “Collaboration and Creativity in the New Music Community.” The state will soon require 360 hours of
experience working with children within special education and English as a
Second Language communities. Our curriculum reflects both requirements
through methods courses and observation within diverse populations.
Fiore: Considering cutbacks in music programs, especially in public
schools, have you seen a decline in the level of interest in careers as
music educators?
Sheldon: I’ve actually seen an increase in the number of inquiries we
receive at Temple. Our program here has a high level of visibility. My
colleagues and I are out there presenting workshops, clinics and guest
conducting, which has a direct impact on the kinds of students we recruit.
There are also many excellent music programs in area schools, and high
school students studying with good teachers aspire to a career in education. It’s a win-win and we reap the benefits. In fact, the Philadelphia
school district comes knocking at our door asking us to send our graduates their way.
Fiore: How versatile do music education graduates have to be to succeed in the current job market?
Sheldon: Any teacher needs to be versatile and is asked to do far more rather than less. This is particularly the case in music, because the certification is
K-12, which means they are licensed to teach music in Kindergarten or band
in middle school or choir in high school, which means versatility is a must. At
the undergraduate level, we give them enough information and skills to be
successful in the first year. Why just the first year? If we teach them the skills
to do independent research, find answers and become self-sufficient in that
first year of teaching, they’ll know to focus on the next part of their career
and continue gaining knowledge through professional development.
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Fiore: What are the biggest changes in the graduate
curriculum, which will be implemented in fall 2009?
Dr. Deborah Sheldon
Sheldon: Some components are already in place. For example, there are
now three options for a master’s degree exit requirement rather than one:
a research project, extra credit courses in a specialized area or a master’s
thesis. The graduate curriculum will be more focused on practitioners’
needs and interests, allowing students to work hand in hand with an advisor to develop the best course sequence. Some of the upcoming summer
workshops will also provide professional development opportunities for
graduate students, such as how to develop a rock band or choosing band
scores for secondary music teachers, both of which mirror the Vision 2020
goal of breaking down traditional walls of the classroom.
Fiore: For those considering careers in music education, what advice can
you give to prepare them for the job market?
Sheldon: I advise them to take private lessons on their instrument and
study keyboard. They should also work with kids in any capacity, whether
it’s babysitting, working at summer camp or giving music lessons. This is
the best gauge to determine whether or not one enjoys working with
children. Regarding advice for graduates, of course they should do well in
their classes, but also develop sound musicianship and teaching skills. They
should think of conducting and teaching as their main instrument as that’s
what most of them will be doing after graduation. I also advise them to get
involved with CMENC so they have a voice on how music programs are
developed at state and national levels. Lastly, I encourage them to be good
colleagues.
Fiore: Tell me about some of your current projects.
Sheldon: I’m finishing an elementary band method book along with three
other writers which will be published by FJH Music in 2009 and premiered
at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. Some ideas from
Vision 2020 are incorporated in the book. Last year, along with a colleague
and PhD students, I conducted research on 40 band directors to quantify
types of verbalizations conductors use during rehearsals, the data of which
was presented in Portugal. I’m also completing research on ethnicity and
gender in wind band conducting which is a follow up to a previous study.
Fiore: What do you learn from your students?
Sheldon: Students teach me all the time. I actually count on them to keep
me current with new technology, materials and music (my 15 year old
daughter helps me to stay on top of new music, too!). I watch how they
interact with each other and am reminded of different learning styles. This
helps me to incorporate different ways of teaching into my courses so that
everyone is served to the best of my ability. Sometimes they think of things
in ways that I would not have. They remind me to stay positive and keep
laughing!
N e w F a c u lt y J o i n B o y e r
A w a r ds & R e c o g n i t i o n s
We are pleased to announce
the appointments of . . .
Dr. Matthew Brunner, as associate director of
bands and director of athletic bands. An Ohio native,
he received a BM in music education from Ohio
University in 1995, after which he served as band
director for the Carrollton, Ohio school district and
performed regularly on trumpet in area concert
bands, orchestras, funk and jazz bands. He returned
to Ohio University for his MM in instrumental
conducting with a minor in trumpet, during which he also conducted the
university’s bands and taught classes in theory, orchestration and conducting. He recently earned his doctorate from Indiana University, where he
also served as associate instructor for the Department of Bands, directing
several university bands and teaching instrumental conducting.
“I am excited and honored to join the faculty at Temple,” Brunner said.
“During my interview, when I conducted the wind symphony, I knew
immediately that this was a special place with fantastic student musicians.
Combine this with a great city like Philadelphia and Temple was easily at
the top of my list. The position also allows me to teach in my three areas
of interest: conducting, concert bands and athletic bands.”
He is credited with over 100 arrangements for university and high school
marching bands across the country, and has published in the Teaching
Music Through Performance in Band, Teaching Music Through Performance in Beginning Band series and the National Band Association
Journal. He recently served as an adjudicator for the Ohio Music Education
Association and traveled to the UK as a winner of the National Band
Association’s International Conducting Symposium.
Jillian Harris, as assistant professor of dance. Prior
to coming to Boyer, she was an adjunct professor of dance at Queens College. She received a
BFA in modern dance from the University of Utah
and toured nationally and abroad with the RirieWoodbury Dance Company as a dancer and teacher.
She was a featured performer in the PBS television
broadcast of Della Davidson’s Night Story, and in
2000, worked with President Clinton’s Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities and was assistant director of the Columbia Festival of the Arts.
“Temple University’s commitment to nurturing excellence in its students
and faculty matches my own intense dedication to the craft and artistry
of dance,” she said. “I look forward to collaborating with my colleagues,
generating excitement amongst future audiences and supporting the next
generation of dance artists.”
Upon receiving an MFA from NYU’s Tisch Department of Dance, Harris
went on to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. She is currently
a member of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers and recently toured Singapore in
collaboration with Singapore Dance Ensemble. In addition to her active
teaching schedule, she continues to conduct master classes in the U.S.
and abroad.
Boyer Alumni President Regina Gordon, Marguerite Brooks,
Dean Robert T. Stroker
2008 Boyer College of Music and Dance Certificate of Honor
to Marguerite L. Brooks (MMus ’75)
Marguerite L. Brooks is associate professor of choral conducting
and chair of the program in choral conducting at Yale’s Institute of
Sacred Music and School of Music. She has taught at Northern Valley
Regional High School in Demarest, New Jersey, Smith and Amherst
Colleges, and was director of choral music at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook. Brooks resides in New Haven, Connecticut,
where she is director of music at the Church of the Redeemer.
2008 Temple University Great Teacher Award
to Professor Helen Kwalwasser (violin)
A Curtis Institute alumna and a member of the Boyer
faculty for 40 years, Kwalwasser’s accomplishments
have also been recognized by the university with the
Creative Achievement Award (1984), the Lindback
Award for Distinguished Teaching (1998) and the
Inspiration Award (2006) from Temple Music Prep. In
2006, she was honored with a prestigious National
Artist-Teacher Award from the American String Teacher Association.
2008 Temple University Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
to Dr. Edward Latham (music theory)
One of the youngest members of the Boyer faculty,
Latham came to Temple in 2001 after teaching at the
University of Minnesota. A specialist in interdisciplinary analysis, Latham’s work has been published in
Indiana Theory Review, Music Theory Online and
Theory and Practice. He holds his PhD from Yale and
has given papers on Debussy, Gershwin and Britten
in Greece, the UK, Ireland, Austria, Canada, the Netherlands and
throughout the US. He has chaired conference sessions in Princeton,
New Haven and Dublin.
Keep in touch with music education alumni by visiting and posting on
www.myowlspace.com
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There is an Art to Listening
It’s not every day on Temple’s campus that students get to
hear a live bagpipe performance in class, but if you’re enrolled in Dr. Steven Kreinberg’s GenEd course, “The Art of Listening,” this is just one of the many musical treats included
in a semester jam packed with guest lecturers, blogging, live
concerts, and naturally, lots of listening.
The GenEd curriculum, which replaced Temple’s core curriculum, is designed to connect different areas of study and
enhance classroom learning with off-site experiences in Philadelphia. For example, an art course involves class excursions
to museums and an education course to a local school or
community center. Some of the arts courses offered through
GenEd that combine music, dance and literature include
“The Jazz Century in America” and “Shakespeare
and Music.”
i n M E M OR I A M
or Dave Brubeck’s Unsquare Dance as an example of
asymmetrical rhythm.
But it’s the student blogs that reveal the most about the
undeniable role music plays in our lives. Their entries
reveal connections between past and present, such as
how the arpeggios and scales for which J.S. Bach was
known can be found in guitar solos of Eric Clapton and
Jimi Hendrix. Students may find a YouTube clip of four
cellists performing the music of the heavy metal group
Metallica or discover who Seiji Ozawa is when browsing
for an example of diverse instrumentation.
The blog groups are also a way for students to share
their love of music with classmates, whether it be
Dr. Steven Kreinberg and
hip-hop, R&B, rock, indie or jazz. Never heard of Justin
student Andrew Weir
Nozuka, Mozella, The Decemberists or Cloud Cult?
Neither has Kreinberg, but he’s appreciative of the musical knowledge
Kreinberg describes his course as a challenge to students to “rethink their
entire conception of music by focusing on how to listen, develop a deeper gained from his students and the lively discourse that takes place during
their exchanges of musical ideas.
appreciation of music and its importance in everyday life.” While some
students play an instrument, there are no music majors in his class of 70,
One of the many facets of this class that took Kreinberg by surprise is the
but rather those pursuing degrees in criminal justice, business, psychology,
“collective desire by students to demystify the professional music scene
communications and biology.
in Philadelphia: what the major venues are, how to learn more about the
performers and the selections they perform, how to locate concerts, how
The course requirements should not be taken lightly, even though Kreto obtain tickets and how to dress and behave, such as cell phone etiinberg manages to balance the seriousness of scholarly teaching with
quette,” he said. “Students wanted to bring their families and friends who
a healthy dose of humor. In addition to reading and listening assignaren’t enrolled in the class to the opera after hearing the Met’s production
ments, students are required to join one of three blog groups – Mozart,
of Salome. I think they were mesmerized by this performance. I don’t
Beethoven or Ellington – and post on all things music. They are also
required to attend live concerts, including jazz at the Philadelphia Museum believe they were expecting to hear such powerful music combined with
of Art, a Temple Opera production, a Philadelphia Orchestra rehearsal and such visually graphic staging.”
concert and MET Goes to the Movies. To facilitate the benefits of attendIt has been said and written that music transcends political, cultural and
ing live performances, Kreinberg acquires the tickets and arranges for
political barriers – that its language is universal. When non-music major
group transportation. The live performances not only synthesize what’s
Andrew Weir brings his bagpipes to class and plays for his fellow students,
learned in class, but require some pre-concert preparation such as in-class
or when Dr. Christine Anderson, chair of the Voice & Opera Department,
instrumental demonstrations and library research. Students are also relectures on what makes a great singer, the wheels are put in motion for
quired to write post-concert blog entries.
a musical concept taught through listening, reading, writing and experiThe syllabus covers the spectrum of musical genres and listening examples encing. The common thread, throughout the lectures, performances and
blogs, is the music itself.
range from Chopin and Stravinsky to Ellington, Sill and Schoenberg.
The listening portion of each class complements weekly topics such as
“When returning to campus after a performance, a well-dressed woman
notation, instrumentation, rhythm, harmony, library resources and music
in her early 70s asked me if these were indeed Temple students, and if
criticism.
they had just attended the broadcast of Salome,” said Kreinberg. After
explaining our field trip, she was delighted by the premise and thanked
Technology plays a vital role in the course as do the legal issues of copyme for bringing a new audience of college-aged students to something
right, fair use, downloading and streaming. YouTube has a feature role as
(the opera) that had given her so much pleasure her entire adult life. As a
well. Students research YouTube clips that demonstrate a topic discussed
college teacher, who could ask for anything more?”
in class, such as a Celtic vocal ensemble performing in compound meters
Ex c e rpts fro m Th e Art of Lis t e ni ng s t ud e nt b l o g gr o up s :
“I hope to learn a lot more about music. It’s such a good medium for expression and covers all ranges
of feelings and emotions unlike anything else.”
“I live, breathe, sleep and eat music.”
“I, like most others, have always had a deep passion for music ever since I could understand what it was.”
“Who wouldn’t love a course where you are REQUIRED to go see live musical performances?”
“Seeing this course in the GenEd section, I honestly thought it was the greatest idea in the world.”
Donald W. Ewart
Music educator and Temple alumnus Donald W. Ewart
BS ’58, MMEd ’66, died peacefully in his home on
October 18th. He was 72 years old.
He began taking music lessons when he was 11 and
became an accomplished piano and bass player. After
graduating from Lincoln High School in Northeast
Philadelphia, he attended Temple University and
earned a bachelor’s degree in education in 1958 and a master’s degree in
music education in 1966.
During his 30-year career with the Philadelphia school district, Ewart
taught music, conducted hundreds of district-wide performances, and
administered music programs, supervising many music teachers who were
Boyer College graduates.
After retiring from the district in the late 1980s, he started a successful
business as an investment planner. His wife of 28 years, Joslyn, joined him
in the business a decade later. In 2000, they developed their business,
Entrust Financial, LLC, into a boutique financial consulting firm. The couple
shared a passion for travel, wine and gourmet food.
For more than 50 years, he volunteered with the Temple University Alumni
Association, serving in a variety of leadership capacities, including as a
University Trustee, four years as President of the Association, as well as
President of the Boyer College Alumni Association and founding President
of the Boyer College’s Board of Visitors.
Since his passion for music matched his passion for Temple, it is fitting that
the annual Temple University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs
Concert at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on March 22, 2009
will be dedicated to his memory.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Doug and Scott, two
daughters, Bonnie and Wendi and five grandchildren.
Contributions in Mr. Ewart’s memory can be made to:
The Philadelphia Foundation Freedom Fulfilled Fund
1234 Market Street
Suite 1800
Richard M. Duris
The Boyer College announces the passing of Richard
M. Duris, retired music librarian, choir director, and
longtime resident of Ambler, in April 2008. He was 77
years old.
Duris earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and two
graduate degrees, an MS in library science from the
University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in musicology from Carnegie-Mellon
University.
A dedicated patron of the arts and a member of the Music Library Association, Duris was a music librarian at Temple University for twenty-nine
years until his retirement in 1998. He also carried on a second career as a
professional organist and choirmaster, playing for churches in Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia and Columbus, Ohio.
A member of the American Guild of Organists, he was organist and choir
director at Zion Lutheran Church in Flourtown for thirteen years. Upon
his retirement, he joined the Zion choir, which he participated in until his
death. He had also been a member of the Ambler Singers and Upper
Dublin Choristers and was a member of the League of Women Voters.
An avid reader, he tutored reading at Madison Avenue Elementary School
in Ambler, Marshall Street Elementary School in Norristown and Graterford
Prison. He was also an enthusiastic member of several book clubs.
In addition to music and books, he had a keen interest in politics, campaigning for numerous candidates and making his voice heard on many
issues. He is survived by his wife of forty-two years, Jacqueline Duris; his
daughter, Elizabeth Duris; three nieces and a nephew.
The Richard M. Duris Scholarship was established at Boyer in memory of
his dedicated service to the college and university. Contributions may be
sent to:
Richard M. Duris Scholarship Fund
c/o Tara Webb Duey
Boyer College, Temple University
1938 Liacouras Walk
Allen Garrett
Allen Garrett, first assistant dean of the Boyer College (then known as the
College of Music) passed away on December 7. He had also served as acting dean from 1975 to 1978 and subsequently taught in, and was
chair of, the department of music history, prior to his retirement.
Garrett held a PhD in musicology from the University of North Carolina.
He founded and was the first president of the North Carolina chapter
of the American Musicological Society, a member of the Musical Fund
Society, president of the Maryland State Music Teachers Association and
president of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association. He authored
two books on the study and history of music. After his retirement, he
continued to play his clarinet and was a member of the Symphonic Band
of Rocky Mount.
Garrett is survived by his wife, Louise, sons, James Forrest and Thomas
Mitchell and five grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may be made to:
University Health Systems Inpatient Hospice
c/o PCMH Foundation
PO Box 8489
Greenville, NC 27835-8489
To learn more about Temple’s GenEd courses, visit www.temple.edu/provost/gened
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Brian Adams PhD ’00 has been assistant professor and director of music
therapy at Immaculata University for the past two years and recently accepted a position as associate professor and coordinator of undergraduate
music therapy studies at Montclair State University. He maintains a small
private music psychotherapy practice featuring improvisation, voice work,
and GIM, while continuing to receive training in Analytical Music Therapy.
He contributed a chapter to a recent volume edited by Thomas Wosch &
Tony Wigram on microanalysis in music therapy and presented numerous
papers and workshops at professional conferences. He is serving as president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of AMTA for the 2007-2009 term.
The wedding of Andrew Bidlack BM ’03, an Adler fellow with the San
Francisco Opera, to Melissa Raz, was featured in the New York Times
(7/13/08). Bidlack made his debut with the company as both the lamplighter and drunkard in Rachel Portmans’ Little Prince, and has also played
the role of Arturo in its production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and
Odoardo in Handel’s Ariodante. The bride and groom met in 2003 while
performing in Le nozze di Figaro in New Hampshire.
Robert Birman BM ’89 has been named chief operating officer of The
Louisville Orchestra. Birman has served as the executive director of the
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco since 2001. Prior to that,
he was chief executive of the Santa Barbara Symphony for four years and
chief executive of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston. Birman
received his bachelor’s degree in percussion performance from Boyer.
Lyric Mezzo-soprano Adrienne Bishop MM ’09 is an active opera singer
and voice teacher in and around Philadelphia. She is a young artist with
Intermezzo Opera, where she performed Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos and
Alma March in Little Women. Bishop works with the Metropolitan Opera soprano, Sharon Sweet and has performed as an Apprentice Artist with Center
City Opera Theater and as The Lady Angela in Patience with the Savoy
Company. Last summer, Bishop performed with the Delaware Valley Opera
Company as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and The Abbess in Suor Angelica.
Joke Bradt MMT ’96 gave the keynote address at the “Living Well with
Lupus” Annual Symposium in October. She is a co-contributor to several
international book chapters and articles on medical music therapy: C. Dileo
& J. Bradt (2009): “A Perspective on Evidence-Based Medicine.” In R. Haas,
& V. Brandes (Eds.): “Music that Works: Contributions of Biology, Neurophysiology, Psychology, Sociology, Medicine and Musicology.” Springer
Vienna New York. C Dileo, J Bradt (in press): “Medical music therapy:
evidence-based principles and practice.” In Soderback, Daykin, & Bunt
(Eds): “International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Intervention.”
Argstatter, H, Hillecke, K. , Bradt, J., & Dileo, C. (2007): “Der Stand Der
Wirksamkeitsforschung - Ein Systematisches Review Musiktherapeutischer
Meta-Analysen; Verhaltenstherapie & Verhaltensmedizin,” 28 (1). Dr. Bradt
is assistant director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center, housed
within the Boyer College.
Stephen Campitelli MM ‘96 maintains an active performing, accompanying, and teaching schedule. He recently performed the Beethoven Piano
Concerto No. 1 with the Main Line Symphony and the MacDowell Piano
Concerto No. 2 with the Immaculata Symphony. He is an adjunct piano faculty member at Immaculata University and maintains a private piano studio.
He is also the church organist at West Chester United Methodist Church.
Michael A. Ciavaglia MM ’06 is conductor of the Fairfield University
Orchestra (Fairfield, CT) and assistant conductor of the New York Choral
Society. He is also choir director at Christ the Saviour Orthodox Church
(Paramus, NJ), and teaches classes in choral and general music at Fairfield
University. This fall he will debut as conductor of the New York Choral
Society Chamber Singers in Manhattan.
Andrea Clearfield DMA ’01 and her catalog of works “has often been
inspired by women’s issues and poetry,” wrote Tom Di Nardo in the Philadelphia Daily News. The thoughts and feelings of women from the Linden
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Elders’ Center were shaped for narration by the orchestra’s storyteller,
Charlotte Blake Alston. Clearfield’s debut piece for the orchestra, Kabo
Omowale (“Welcome Home Child”), received its world premiere and
featured members of the Temple University Music Prep Children’s
Choir, led by Stephen Caldwell MM ‘07. Clearfield has played and
accompanied at the Sarasota, Fla., Music Festival, danced with the Group
Motion Dance Company and taught an interdisciplinary arts course at the
University of the Arts.
Joseph D’Alicandro, Jr. BM ’88, MM ’91 co-authored a band arrangement of the Japanese folk song Sakura with Dr. Quincy Hilliard in 2007; it
is published by C. L. Barnhouse Company. The same year, he co-authored
a band piece with William Owens entitled With Pride and Dignity, published by TRN Music Publisher, Inc. He wrote an article for the April 2008
issue of The Instrumentalist magazine, entitled “4 Mallet Mastery.” In May
of 2008 he wrote an article for the same magazine entitled, “Students
Listen When a Clinician Speaks.”
Marilyn (Pettinicchi) Daggett BM ‘69 retired from Fairfax County (VA)
Public Schools after serving as a string music teacher for 32 years. She was
also a school orchestra director for 25 of those years at Joyce Kilmer Middle School and George C. Marshall High School. “After looking forward to
retirement, I found I was not really ready to lay down the baton,” she said.
“I moved from Virginia to Arizona and was hired to teach orchestra part
time at a local high school. That lasted for one year before I decided to
redefine myself. I am now dabbling in desktop publishing for various local
non-profit organizations in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area.”
Bridget Doak PhD ’06 works at the University of Minnesota Medical
Center, Fairview and is an adjunct instructor of music therapy at Augsburg
College. She recently was asked to take a newly created position as a
clinical education specialist for Child/Adolescent/Adult Mental Health and
Chemical Dependency Services at the hospital, where she is responsible
for staff training and development, identifying staff educational needs,
promoting evidence based practice, and assisting with identifying clinical
issues to reduce harm to patients and staff. She recently trained behavioral
staff to address compassion fatigue and presented on this topic to music
therapists in Minnesota at a CMTE last October.
Steven Estrella PhD ‘92 is a computer programmer and occasional author: the update of Study Outline and Workbook in the Fundamentals of
Music (McGraw-Hill) and two textbooks on Javascript programming (Prentice Hall). He has presented topics in multimedia music education each
year at the Technology Institute for Music Educators national conferences.
He serves on the National Advisory Board and Board of Directors for TI:ME
after a three year term as its vice-president and has created numerous CDROMS, DVDs, and Online Learning Centers for clients such as McGraw-Hill
and Berklee College of Music as well as the programming code for the
electronic listening maps that accompany Macmillan’s Spotlight on Music
textbooks. In 2008, Estrella created the interactive animations for Macmillan’s Florida in the Spotlight. He has also created simulations for Comcast. Together with his wife, Boyer alumna Kathleen Schietroma ‘90, he
runs a small corporation, ShearSpire, Inc. providing business research and
interactive media development services to clients in education, publishing
and other industries.
2008, one of Freidlin’s ensembles, Normal Love, appeared on the cover
of the international music magazine Signal to Noise. His work is being
released on High Two Recordings and Park the Van Records.
Susan Hadley MMT ’95, PhD ’98 is an associate professor of music
therapy at Slippery Rock University, where she has worked since 1997. In
spring 2009, she will start as director of this program. She is the editor of
Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy, Vol. 4 (Barcelona Publishers, 2008),
Feminist Perspectives in Music Therapy (Barcelona Publishers, 2006) and
Psychodynamic Music Therapy: Case Studies (Barcelona Publishers, 2002)
and co-editor (with George Yancy) of Narrative Identities: Psychologists
Engaged in Self-Construction (Jessica Kingsley Press, 2005). She is on the
executive board of the Mid-Atlantic Region American Music Therapy Association.
Marc-André Hamelin’s BM ’83, MM ’85 performance at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival, held at the Mannes College The
New School for Music, was noted for “prodigious technique, searching
musicality and interest in undiscovered gems of the repertory,” as written
by Vivien Schweitzer in the New York Times (7/20/08).
Kevin J. McHugh BMusEd ’78, MMusEd ’83 of the Pennsbury school
district was recently named assistant superintendent for curriculum and
instruction. He has served as interim director of curriculum and instruction
for Pennsbury since July. McHugh won the “National Principal of the Year”
award in 2002 after being named “Pennsylvania Principal of the Year”
in 2001. He joined Pennsbury in 1996 as principal of Pennwood Middle
School. McHugh is also an adjunct assistant professor at Lehigh University
and earned his doctor of education in educational leadership from Lehigh
in 1999.
Brie Adina Neff BFA ’96 is owner and operator of Equilibrium Pilates in
Philadelphia and is one of the youngest chosen Level 3 Romana’s Pilates®
instructors in the world. Neff has taught Pilates through the U.S. and in
Rome and Brazil. She is also a senior lecturer at University of the Arts and
heads the Pilates program there.
Larry Newman BMusEd ‘82 was the recipient of the 60th Annual Los
Angeles Area Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children/
Youth Programming. Newman received the award in September at the
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Leonard H. Goldson Theatre in
Hollywood, California. The one hour special entitled, “Children’s Music
Workshop: 2007 All Schools Honor Orchestra,” was written, directed and
produced by Newman and features 130 music students from Los Angeles
area elementary schools where Children’s Music Workshop teaches the
school instrumental music programs.
Eric Owens BM ‘93 received rave reviews for his Metropolitan Opera
premiere of John Adams’ Dr. Atomic.
Matthew Ferrell MM ’05 has been appointed as the director of choirs at
Brooklyn College, Conservatory of Music.
Jonathan Palant MM ’02 is artistic director of the Turtle Creek Chorale in
Dallas, Texas. He is also founder of Dallas PUMP!, a chorus serving GLBTQ
youth. Jonathan received his DMA in choral conducting from Michigan
State University in May 2007. At MSU he was director of the Collegiate
Choir, assistant director of Men’s Glee Club and chorus master for the
MSU opera program. Previously, Jonathan taught at Madonna University
(MI) and University School (OH). His article, “Relish the Rowdiness with
Repertoire” appeared in Choral Journal. Jonathan’s musical arrangements
are published by Alliance Music.
Amnon D. Freidlin, BM ’07 has kept a busy schedule of recording and
touring in Canada and the US. Performance highlights include the annual
South by Southwest Festival (Texas), Jon Zorn’s The Stone (NYC), and live
performances on Columbia and Princeton radio. As a composer, he was a
recipient of the Meet the Composer Creative Connections grant and the
American Composers Forum Encore grant. Internationally, Freidlin’s music
has been broadcast on French, Swedish, and Canadian radio. In Summer,
Hugh Panaro BM ’85 won the 2008 Barrymore Award for Best Outstanding Leading Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables at the Walnut Street Theater. Howard Shapiro of the Philadelphia
Inquirer wrote, “This Le Miz brings Panaro home in two ways - literally, to
Philadelphia, and also back to the show: He played Marius, the student
who falls in love with Cosette, in the first national tour two decades ago.”
(5/21/08). Panaro hails from East Oak Lane.
Emiliano Pardo-Tristán MM ’98, DMA ‘06 was recently awarded a
post-doctoral fellowship at New York University. Pardo-Tristán, who
was selected from an exceptionally large and highly competitive pool of
applicants, was strongly supported and recommended by Boyer faculty
members Maurice Wright, Cynthia Folio and Richard Brodhead. He will
teach for two years at NYU and develop his project “Transmuting the
Folklore: Converting Transcriptions of Panamanian Mejorana Music into a
large Composition for full Orchestra and Choir.” Pardo-Tristán also taught
“The Musical Language of Olivier Messiaen” and presented at the conference “Listening to the End of Time” at the National Library of Panama in
summer 2008. Pardo-Tristán is the artistic director of the “1st IberoAmerican Music Festival of Philadelphia,” which took place in June 2008. He
performed works from his most recent CD, Classical Guitar Journey, and
the Dalí String Quartet premiered his Fantasia for string trio.
In 2008, Penelope Shumate MM ’97 performed at Opera on the James
as Musetta in La Bohème. Her debut with the Berkshire Choral Festival as
the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
was described as “magnificent” and “effortless.” Returning to Carnegie
Hall for the third time, she performed as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s
Coronation Mass and in Haydn’s St. Nicolai Mass. As Violetta in La Traviata
with the Duluth Festival Opera, she was noted as having “a crystal clear
soprano” and was called “an exquisite Violetta...youthful and beautiful,”
“a lovely, convincing actress who breathes life and death into Violetta...”
In 2009, she will sing the title role in Manon with Opera in the Heights.
Frank Staneck’s MM ’85 composition, A Suite for Ursula, was performed
by the Wister Quartet in October in Rock Hall as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The
Philadelphia Branch of the Delius Society organized the concert in his
memory. Staneck is president of the Vaughan Williams Society and was
closely in touch with Vaughan Williams’ widow, Ursula, for whom this
quartet was written.
Michael Tsalka MM ’04, DMA ’08 has a contract with Naxos to record
Tuerk’s 48 keyboard sonatas and a critical edition for the Artaria publishing
house in New Zealand. He published two articles on different aspects of these
keyboard sonatas for Clavicordio VIII in Italy and the Early Keyboard Journal
in the USA. In late 2008, he performed Tuerk in Halle, Berlin, Stockholm,
Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Minneapolis, Iowa University, Salem College NC,
Taiwan and Hong Kong. He acknowledges the Presser Foundation for making
this tour possible. He recently presented lecture-recitals for the German Clavichord Society, the International Magnano Symposium, and Rutgers Musicological Society. He is currently recording two CDs for the Nydahl Collection
in Stockholm and the RHL&Bild label, and preparing for a series of concerts
in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Rome, Chicago, and Mexico City. In 2008 he taught
master classes in Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Trier, Stockholm, and Minneapolis.
Amber Womack MM ‘01 made her Dallas Opera debut this season as
Sylviane in The Merry Widow. Other roles this season include Lauretta in
Gianni Schicchi, and Sarah Brown in Guys & Dolls. Womack was also an
Artist in Residence with the Natchez Opera Festival this past year.
Shilin Yin MM ’02 has launched a musician’s social networking site,
www.ucombo.com, an online community for musicians, both amateur
and professional, to showcase their talent on a global scale. Founded in
2007, Ucombo is a music sharing site which allows users to upload original
music tracks and promote them online.
Eva Young Professional Studies Certificate, Harpsichord ’07 is an
instructor in piano and staff accompanist at Lincoln University. She often
performs with the Lincoln University Concert Choir locally and on tour. This
past summer she also toured the south with the Delaware State University
Choir. She performed as soloist, in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
with the Young Musicians Community Orchestra both in 2007 and 2008.
She enjoys her teaching career very much and frequently performs as
recitalist and accompanist in the Philly area.
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Charles Abramovic toured Europe last spring with violinist Midori and
performed with her at the Yale Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, CT
and at a benefit concert for the Luzerne Summer Festival in upstate New
York. He played harpsichord (Vivaldi’s Four Seasons) at the Rome Chamber
Music festival. Last fall, he performed: in a faculty recital at Boyer featuring
one of his own works for piano six hands by Schnittke as well as selections
by Ligeti and Richard Brodhead’s Sonata Classica; with bassoonist Pascal
Gallois and Glaux (Temple New Music Ensemble) as part of the American Composer’s Forum; a faculty concert featuring Jeffrey Solow and
Lawrence Wagner; the Shostakovich Second Concerto with the Temple
Sinfonia; the premiere of a new piece by Cynthia Folio for two flutes
and piano with the duo ZAWA!, and, on the Albany Records recording of
Jeremy Gill’s chamber music. Other fall concerts include: guest artist at
the Sitka Chamber Music Festival (Anchorage, AK); Kimmel Center for the
Performing Arts; Swarthmore College; Rutgers-Camden (recital with his
students); guest artist on Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music series –
music of Penderecki with the composer present (Kimmel Center); benefit
concert with flutist Mimi Stillman for Dolce Suono Chamber series; concert
with Midori for Partners in Performance (Reno, NV); recitals with Midori in
Europe (St. Peterburg, Russia, Belgrade, Talinn, Riga, Erfstadt and Landshut
(Germany); concert with Midori for Partners in Performance (Joplin, MO).
His lecture, “The Technique of Expression” was presented to Northern
Delaware Valley Music Teachers and he was a judge for preliminary round
of auditions for Astral Artistic Services.
Kenneth Aigen offered three presentations last November at the 10th
Anniversary Conference of the American Music Therapy Association
(AMTA) in St. Louis. He was part of an invited blue ribbon panel to discuss
the formation of the AMTA and his vision for the future of music therapy.
He also offered a presentation invited by the research committee of the
AMTA that detailed his comprehensive overview of qualitative research in
music therapy and also co-presented with a Temple PhD student, Laurel
Young, on her process of training with him as a music therapy clinical supervisor. In May 2009, he will be in Seoul, South Korea to present a model
of musical analysis he has developed for use in music therapy. He will be
speaking at the First International Music Therapy Symposium at Ewha
Woman’s University which is being offered to celebrate the grand opening
of the Ewha Creative Arts Therapy Center. The theme of the symposium is
“Qualitative Music Therapy Research - Musical Data Collection and Analysis.” The event is being sponsored jointly by the Graduate School of Education, Ewha Woman’s University and the Korean Music Therapy Education
Association. Aigen’s visit to Korea will coincide with the publication in
Korean of his book Music Centered Music Therapy (Barcelona Publishers).
Luis Biava was invited by the New York State Summer School of the Arts
to be the new music director to the 2008 School of Orchestra Studies, a
symphony orchestra of 120 students who gather for a music festival in
Saratoga Springs, NY and where they have the opportunity to hear The
Philadelphia Orchestra at the end of the season. At PMF, he conducted
a special celebration concert to honor Leonard Bernstein’s 90th birthday
with violinist Akiko Meyers as a soloist playing Bernstein’s Serenade and
his Candide Overture. In October, he conducted a concert with the Temple
University Symphony Orchestra featuring as soloists Temple’s faculty
Elizabeth Hainen with the Ginastera Harp Concerto, a premiere for the
Temple University series and in November, a second concert of all French
repertoire that included DMA student Marta Schrempel in the Ravel Piano
Concerto in G. In November he conducted the Puerto Rico Symphony
accompanying famous Philadelphia violinist Sarah Chang, who made her
debut at age 6 with the youth chamber orchestra from the Music Preparatory Division. In January, he was invited to be part of the student auditions
in Asia and the United States in preparation for the Pacific Music Festival in
Sapporo, Japan in August 2009. In February, the Temple Symphony
Orchestra will perform a program that includes the 2 winners of our
Annual Concerto Competition. It will also include Gershwin’s Porgy and
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Bess and the legendary Symphonic Poem arranged by Russell Bennett. In
May he will guest conduct the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon in
Valladolid, Spain.
Beth Bolton’s many international activities included “Early Childhood
Music and a Global Society: Adapting to a changing world” at the Early
Childhood Music Education division conference of the International Society
of Music Education, Frascati, Italy (July 08); “Musical Interactions in early
life in Brazil, Korea and the United States: A cross-cultural debate” at
the International Society of Music Education world conference, Bologna,
Italy with Beatriz Ilari (Brazil), Joohee Rho (Korea), and Emilija Sakadolskis
(Lithuania) (July 08); early childhood music lecture series in Israel (Ktan
Tone in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Academy and Magnificat Institute in Jerusalem),
sponsored by Note di Pace; early childhood music lecture series in Rome,
Savona, Tortona, Genoa, Bordighera, and Torino, Italy as part of the Italian
national didactic course in early childhood music education sponsored by
Musica in Culla, Scuola Popolare di Musica Donna Olimpia and Orff Schulwerk Italiano (January 09); and two lectures and one teaching demonstration with Lithuanian children at the 7th annual Lithuanian International
Conference of Music Education and Early Childhood Music (April 09). She
currently serves as the international conference chair and host for international presenters during the Lithuanian conference. In addition, she taught
a 2-week course “Practical Application of Early Childhood Music Teaching Methods and Techniques, Level 2” for the Gordon Institute of Music
Learning in Bryn Mawr, PA.
Karen Bond taught at Tainan University of Technology in southern Taiwan
in summer 2008, offering workshops for undergraduate dance majors,
dance teachers and artists. She also traveled to Australia to take part in a
panel on the role of dance performance for young people at the World
Dance Alliance Global Summit in Brisbane. In the fall she piloted a new
General Education course, “Embodying Pluralism: Dynamics of Race &
Diversity in American Society,” which explores the course theme through
the lens of dance and the arts. She continues to work on the Hanny Exiner
Archive Project (Exiner was a pioneer of Australian dance education), and
was invited to present on Exiner’s work at the Laban Anniversary Conference, Laban Centre in London. In December she returned to Taiwan as
keynote speaker for the annual conference of the Dance Research Society
of Taiwan in Taipei. The theme of the conference was “A New Epoch of
Dance Education.” She also presented three workshops related to the
conference theme.
Aleck Brinkman prepared multimedia demonstrations for an Access
concert of The Philadelphia Orchestra in October. Access concerts feature a
host who helps explain the music being performed. For this concert Cynthia Folio was the host, and Brinkman’s multimedia animations illustrated
stylistic aspects, such as chromatic gap filling, in Penderecki’s Concerto
Grosso No. 1 for three cellos and orchestra. Brinkman also worked with Dr.
Folio on the analysis of the work.
Richard Brodhead’s new four-movement chamber concerto will be
premiered on April 3 and 5 by Network for New Music, which commissioned the 30-minute work with support from the Dietrich Foundation and
the Philadelphia Music Project, a program of the Philadelphia Center for
Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered
by The University of the Arts. Work on this piece has also been generously
supported by a Dean’s Grant from the Boyer College. This past October,
Charles Abramovic performed his Sonata Classica (2004), commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and premiered in 2005.
In conjunction with the concert, Abramovic will record the sonata for
future CD release. Brodhead is also working on a piece for voice and four
instruments, commissioned by Chamber Music Now!, with a text by John
McIlvain. The piece is part of a collaborative project between CMN and
Eastern State Penitentiary, the historic prison built in the 1820’s at 22nd
and Fairmount. The piece draws on the history of the prison and will be
premiered at the site on April 24 and 25, 2009. He took a leave of absence
in Fall 2008 to complete the piece for CMN and to complete his Sonata
for Cello and Piano. The cello sonata is being composed for cellist Scott
Kluksdahl and pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polero.
Darlene Brooks is now director of music therapy and coordinator of the
masters degree in music therapy. She published a book review in Room
217, a Canadian on-line journal on palliative care on “Music Therapy
at the End of Life,” edited by Cheryl Dileo and Lowey. As part of the
tobacco research grant received by the Arts & Quality of Life Research
Center, conducted a quantitative/qualitative study on Burnout in nursing
personnel at Temple Hospital and Temple Episcopal. Last spring, she made
a presentation on that study along with Joke Bradt (AQLRC) and is refining the results to submit for publication. Brooks will be on leave this spring
to study developmental issues that supervisors face in the clinical training
of music therapy students from first field work to the end of internship, to
include a representative sample of supervisors and trainers using qualitative
methods. The results will be published in a quantitative survey sent to a
cross-section of clinical trainers and academic supervisors throughout the
United States. This will be the first study of its type done in music therapy.
Matthew Brunner completed his doctoral dissertation, “A Conductor’s
Analysis of Selected Wind Works by David Dzubay” which was accepted
last summer. Last fall, he was adjudicator for Marching Band Festival at
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. He recently wrote marching
band arrangements for Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Ohio University, Athens, OH; University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Austin Peay
State University, Clarksville, TN; University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA;
Lakewood High School, Lakewood, OH; Graham High School, St. Paris,
OH. He was ajudicator for Marching Band competition, Pennridge High
School, led a new music reading session at the PMEA District 11 Inservice
and was guest conductor with the Ohio University Marching 110.
Arthur D. Chodoroff will conduct The Temple University Wind Symphony at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Conference at Valley Forge on
Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM. Faculty guest soloist will be Matthew Vaughn, associate principal trombone of The Philadelphia Orchestra. This concert marks the 6th time that the Wind Symphony has been
invited to perform for the PMEA.
Cheryl Dileo, as an honorary faculty member at the University of
Melbourne, Australia, was invited to supervise graduate research at the
National Music Therapy Research Unit meeting in Melbourne in October,
2008. She also traveled to Aalborg, Denmark to participate as an external
reviewer of a doctoral dissertation in October, 2008. She serves on the PhD
Advisory Board of Aalborg University. During the Fall 08 semester, she also
presented invited keynote lectures at the Music Therapy and Autism Conference at Molloy College in Long Island and at the Mozart and Science
conferment in Vienna, Austria. In the Spring and Summer, 09, she will
attend the advisory board meeting of the Arts Therapy Research Center (of
which she is a member) in Utrecht, Holland where she will present invited
lectures and grand rounds at the McGill University Medical School and
Hospital, and also invited lectures for music therapists in Montreal, for the
Nordic Music Therapy Conference in Aalborg, Denmark, at the Music Therapy Cancer Care Institute of the Canadian Music Therapy Conference in
Calgary, for the International Arts in Healthcare Conference in Macquerie,
Australia and at the conference of the International Association for Music
in Medicine, of which she is a founding member, in Moscow. Her invited
chapter, with Joke Bradt, “A Perspective on Evidence-Based Medicine.”
Will appear in R. Haas and V. Brandeis (Eds.). Music that Works: Contributions of Biology, Neurophysiology, Psychology, Sociology, Medicine and
Musicology. Vienna: Springer. Dileo serves as PI on a $100,000 Formula
Fund grant to develop an online continuing medical education course for
physicians and nurses.
John Douglas, for most of last summer, served as director of the Young
Artist Program and chorus master at the Lake George Opera in Saratoga
Springs, NY. In August, he and Temple alumna Joan Campbell (Bayerische
Stadtsoper, Munich), performed 12 recitals in the greater Philadelphia
region. He also appeared as accompanist in recital with Metropolitan
Opera baritone Vernon Hartman and New York City Opera soprano Amy
Johnson. He prepared and conducted La Bohème at Temple last November
and appeared on three panels at the annual convention for the National
Opera Association in Washington, D.C. in January.
Cynthia Folio served on the faculty of the Mannes Institute: Jazz Meets
Pop at the Eastman School of Music and presented participatory workshops, plenary sessions and special guest presentations, emphasizing
interactive dialogue and debate. Summaries of workshops from the
institute were published in the most recent issue of Music Theory Online.
Last October, she was the host for one of The Philadelphia Orchestra’s
Access concerts, assisted by Aleck Brinkman, who prepared multimedia demonstrations; she presented an analysis of Penderecki’s Concerto
Grosso for Three Cellos and Orchestra on the stage with the orchestra, led
by Charles Dutoit and the composer. She also presented two pre-concert
lectures for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Last November, she had a premiere
of a new composition, commissioned by the MTNA, for two flutes and
piano performed by the duo ZAWA! (Claudia Anderson and Jill Felber)
and Charles Abramovic. This coming May, she will have a premiere of a
work for three choirs, piano and four percussionists, commissioned by The
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, The Gay Men’s Chorus and the Anna
Crusis Women’s Choir. The work will be performed at the Church of the
Holy Trinity as part of the Equality Forum.
Jeremy Gill gave summer recitals in Boston and Philadelphia as well as a
live radio broadcast for WGBH in Boston, all as pianist. Last December, he
performed on piano in a recital with Mimi Stillman, Geoffrey Deemer and
Sam Caviezel. In February, he will premiere a DSCMS commission, Ode,
with as part of the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Series. In May, the Harrisburg Symphony will premiere his Symphony No. 1. Other performances
of his music for the 08-09 season include by Great Noise (DC) and Matt
Bengtson (Harrisburg). Albany Records released his first CD of chamber
music featuring Mimi Stillman (Philadelphia) and Charles Abramovic,
Parker String Quartet (Boston) and the Extension Ensemble (New York). He
conducted the Dickinson College Orchestra during its 08-09 season (music
by Haydn, Beethoven, Orff). Pianist Peter Orth will premiere Book of Hours
on his U.S. Tour (dates and locations TBD, but will likely include Boston,
Philadelphia, New York, DC).
Eva Gholson guest lectured on choreomusical analysis and completed the
first draft of her book, The Artistry of Phrasing, which includes interviews
with Ray Still, principal oboist with the Chicago Symphony for 40 years
and composer Stephen Jones, dean of the College of Fine Arts at Brigham
Young University. She also received a grant to choreograph a new work for
California-based singer Larissa Stow.
Matthew Greenbaum’s new work NAMELESS will be premiered by the
Cygnus Ensemble and the Momenta Quartet in New York in May. The
concert will also feature works composed for a Cygnus residency in the
composition program, including premieres by faculty composers Maurice
Wright and Richard Brodhead, and five student composers. NAMELESS
will be recorded for Furious Artisans Records through a Cary Trust Recording Grant ($5,800). The Cygnus residency is supported by a Grant in Aid
($3,000) and a Dean’s Grant ($4,000). He also received a commission last
year from the Koussevitzky Music Fund and the Library of Congress, for a
new chamber work for the German new music group Ensemble Surplus.
The work, ES IST ZUM LACHEN, was premiered by the ensemble last October in Freiburg. This was one of a series of significant awards received by
Greenbaum within the last three years. Others are a recording award from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Cary Charitable Trust
recording grant.
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Alan Harler participated in the National Performing Arts Conference and
Chorus America in Denver, GALA Choruses Festival in Miami, International
Federation of Choral Music in Copenhagen and the PA/ACDA in State
College last summer. This fall, he leads a session at the National Collegiate
Choral Conference in Cincinnati. In February, he will teach master classes
at Indiana University on new American choral music. Harler is in his 20th
season with Mendelssohn Club. The 2008-09 season includes the Verdi
Requiem at the Kimmel Center and six new commissions from composers Pauline Oliveros, David Lang, Cynthia Folio, Peter Hilliard and Robert
Maggio, as well as collaborations with the Leah Stein Dance Company,
Philadelphia Gay Mens Chorus, Anna Crusis and the Chamber Orchestra
of Philadelphia.
Jillian Harris performed last summer as a soloist with Kun-Yang Lin/
Dancers (KYL/D) – the only featured dance company at the 2008 Interlochen Summer Arts Festival. Last fall, she collaborated with Jeff Sable, an
artist from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program,
on a movement sensor-based media installation for Kun-Yang Lin’s new
project. This dance piece was part of KYL/D’s performance at Painted Bride
Arts Center in February 2009. In addition, she is teaching at the newly
opened Chi Movement Arts Center in South Philadelphia and will write
book reviews for Dance Chronicle.
Lawrence Indik gave recitals in Philadelphia and Boston and was high
holidays cantor at Ner Zedek Congregation in Philadelphia. Recitals
include those with Charles Abramovic featuring new works by Maurice Wright, Heidi Jacobs, David Carpenter and Kile Smith at the Ethical
Society on March 1st. His article, “The End of Breath for Singing,” will be
published in The NATS Journal of Singing.
Luke Kahlich worked with colleagues on the dance faculty of John
Moores University in Liverpool on connecting students via the internet to
create new dance projects. This is a follow-up to a successful year-long
project with five Temple students who also travelled to Liverpool last
March to perform works created online with students there. He is also
working to upgrade resources for high speed voice and video for projects
and co-editing a new Dance Series for Cambria Press that will focus on
publishing books that address new perspectives and emerging issues in
the dance education field. He is also pursuing grant funding to support an
archival, digitization and publication project based on IMPULSE, an early
seminal dance journal. He serves as both chairperson of the Provost’s Commission on the Arts and as arts fellow for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Michael Klein became associate editor for the journal 19th-Century
Music in January 2008. He was a guest scholar at Florida State University in February 2008, teaching four classes and giving a lecture entitled
“The Ironic Narrative in Tonal Music.” In March, he presented “The Ironic
Narrative-Archetype in Tonal Music” at the regional conference of the
Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, held at the Library of Congress.
His review of Adrian Thomas’ book, Polish Music Since Symanowski, was
published in the journal 20th Century Music. Last summer, he lectured on
irony in music at Cambridge University (UK). In November 2008, he was
elected to serve on the Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory.
Currently, he is organizing a session for the 6th Biennial Conference on
Twentieth-Century Music to be held at Keele University (UK). The session will bring together over 20 internationally known musicologists and
theorists who will discuss narrative in 20th-century music. Along with
musicologist Nicholas Reyland, he will be editing a collection of essays that
will come out of that conference.
Steven Kreinberg delivered two presentations last fall at the joint CMS/
ATMI (College Music Society/ Association for Technology in Music Instruction) National Conference in Atlanta. The CMS presentation was entitled,
“Using Blogs and WIKIs in Music History Courses: Guidelines and Suggestions,” and was based on recent activities using these tools at Boyer. The
second presentation, for ATMI, was entitled “Building Score Reading Skills
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by Controlling Independent Lines of Music Simultaneously with Sibelius
5 and Adobe Flash CS3.” An article co-written with colleague Cynthia
Folio on using Blogs and Wikis in Music History and Music Theory courses
will be published in the College Music Symposium in 2009. Additionally, he will serve as the Program Committee Chair for the ATMI national
conference in Minneapolis in 2010. During the fall 2008 semester, he
piloted a new General Education course to 70 non-majors entitled, “The
Art of Listening” that he created with input from colleague Steven
Zohn. In addition to hearing six live concerts in-class during the academic
semester, students attended four live concerts at professional venues in
Philadelphia. He is collaborating with Boyer graduate Christopher Freitag
of McGraw-Hill and Roger Kamien on a new music appreciation text that
is in the developmental stages, and will be serving as host of a Philadelphia
Orchestra Access concert in Verizon Hall on April 21, 2008 conducted by
Rossen Milanov. He will be providing several pre-concert lectures for The
Philadelphia Orchestra Association during the spring 2009 semester.
Jan Krzywicki premiered Triquetra for string orchestra, a commission
marking Settlement Music School’s 100th anniversary. He completed Lyrics
for flute and piano, commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music
Society, and has been commissioned to create new works for the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Sinfonia, and the Network for New Music. He
performed four-hand piano works in recital with his wife Susan Nowicki.
His ongoing involvement with Network for New Music includes conducting works by Wernick and others, and premieres by Gene Coleman as part
of their season of collaborative works. He created a teacher’s manual and
student course pack for the “Music Studies Theory III” course.
Edward Latham’s book, Tonality as Drama: Closure and Interruption in
Four Twentieth-Century American Operas, was recently published by University of North Texas Press. Other publications include: “Gapped Lines and
Ghostly Flowers in Amy Beach’s Phantoms, op. 15/2 (1892),” in Analytical
Essays on Music By Women Composers, ed. Laurel Parsons and Brenda
Ravenscroft, 2010; “Interpreting Musical Impediment in Dramatic Vocal
Music,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Musicology 3/1, with Cara M. Latham,
2009; “Drei Nebensonnen: Forte’s Linear-Motivic Analysis, Korngold’s Die
tote Stadt, and Schuber’s Winterreise,” Gamut 2/1, 2009.
Kun-Yang Lin co-founded, with Ken Metzner, the CHI Movement Arts
Center in South Philadelphia, which serves as the home of Kun-Yang
Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) a laboratory for creative research, as well as a place
of learning, exploration, growth, artistic excellence and vitality for the
Philadelphia arts community. Over the past year, Lin’s work has been
performed throughout Mexico by Aletheia-National Ballet of Mexico and
was presented by Philadelphia-based dance company, Group Motion at
Art Bank. KYL/D toured Interlochen Festival in Michigan where Lin taught
master classes for the summer arts camp students. KYL/D was selected
by PA Performing Artists on Tour to be showcased at the PA Presenters
Conference at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg. Lin was awarded the
Ellen Forman Memorial Award by the Philadelphia Foundation and, as part
of the award, has been commissioned to create a new work for Drexel
University’s first dance major program. He created a new work for Jose
Juan Lopez Palacio, considered one of Mexico’s finest male contemporary
dancers. He also performed at the American Dance Guild concert in New
York and will present a full evening of works at The Painted Bride Arts
Center in February that includes a world premiere of A-U-M, a piece that
continues Lin’s research into dance as a healing power. His company also
will perform at Towson University In May.
Joyce Lindorff, in collaboration with Boyer Emeritus Professor Paul Epstein, received a Provost’s Seed Grant for Collaborative Research, matched
by Boyer funding, to record a contemporary harpsichord CD. She performed two of the works in October at Juilliard. In November, she traveled
to Asia. In Beijing, she presented “Pereira’s Musical Heritage and his work
in China,” at the Conference on the History of Mathematical Sciences:
“Portugal and East Asia IV/Europe and China: Science and Arts in the 1718th Centuries,” sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. The conference commemorates the 300th anniversary of the death of Tomás Pereira, who she
wrote about in the Grove Dictionary. He was a missionary and music master to the Chinese emperor in the 17th century. She taught a master class
and gave a solo harpsichord recital at China Conservatory, where alumnus
Zhu Di (’00, MM in Piano; ’01, Professional Studies in Harpsichord) is on
the faculty. She gave the keynote address, “An early piano literature in the
‘Baroque’ era? Tracing the evidence,” at Tainan National University of the
Arts: International Conference on the Performance Practice of Western
Music, along with a solo recital. In Hong Kong, she taught a graduate
seminar and performed at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
She taught a master class and performed with alumnus Michael Tsalka at
Hong Kong Baptist University and recorded a solo recital and interview for
broadcast by RTHK Radio 4. In Macau, she gave a keynote address and
served as artistic director and organizer for the conference concert, “The
Musical Heritage of Tomás Pereira: Music from Braga and Coimbra” with
vocal ensemble, keyboards and viola da gamba at the International Symposium: “In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor: Tomás Pereira, S.J., the
Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China,” sponsored by the Macau
Ricci Institute and Centro de História das Ciências, Universidade Clássica de
Lisboa. As a former China and Taiwan Fulbright Professor, she ended the
trip by attending the Fulbright Retreat at the Kadoorie Institute of Hong
Kong University, sponsored by the US Consulate.
Joellen Meglin has had a chapter on the opera-ballet Les Indes galantes
published in Women’s Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800 (2008)
and an article on Ruth Page’s ballet La Guiablesse published in Dance
Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts (2007). In 2008 she was
appointed co-editor (with alumna Lynn Matluck Brooks) of Dance Chronicle. A special issue on Ballet in a Global World has just appeared. Future
special issues include one on Martha Graham and another on “Choreographers on the Cutting Edge.” She presented a paper on Page’s danced
poems for the Congress on Research in Dance and one on Page’s collaboration with Harald Kreutzberg for the Society of Dance History Scholars,
and she has received funding for her book-in-progress on Page from
the Newberry Library in Chicago and Temple University. With colleague
Cynthia Folio she implemented the new General Education course “The
Jazz Century” last spring.
Dick Oatts has maintained a full performance schedule. He recently
toured in Denmark, performed at the University of Minnesota in Duluth
and Mansfield University and with the New York City All Star High School
Jazz Band. He is currently working on a recording with the Terell Stafford/
Dick Oatts Quintet. Last year, he was guest soloist at the LA Jazz Institute
festival with his ensemble and Garry Dial (DIAL & Oatts), guest soloist
and clinician at Northwestern University in Chicago and maintains weekly
performances with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard
in New York. His touring schedule with the Dick Oatts Quartet and other
jazz artists has taken him to the Kingston Jazz Festival, Italy, Spain, Sweden
and Holland. He presented jazz workshops and lectured at the Amsterdam
Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam, Collin County Community College/
Texas All Star Jazz Camp and Cal State Fullerton. Along with Vanguard
Jazz Orchestra, he performed at North Carolina University, Buena Vista
University in Iowa, Decorah Luther College in Iowa and Iowa State
University. The CD, Gratitude, with the Dick Oatts Quintet, was released
on SteepleChase Records. The Village Vanguard Orchestra’s Monday
Night Live at the Village Vanguard, has been nominated for two Grammy
Awards: Best Large Jazz Ensemble and Best Arrangement (St. Louis Blues).
Oatts and fellow faculty members, Terell Stafford and Luis Bonilla are
members of the Village Vanguard.
Lambert Orkis was recently honored with the Cross of the Order of Merit
from the Federal Republic of Germany which was presented to him by the
German Ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C. last April.
Recent performances: three concerts in July at the Strings Music Festival in
Colorado; in October in Washington, D.C.: Kennedy Center Chamber Players concert, and a performance with cellist David Hardy as part of a Gala
Evening “A Tribute to Maestro Rostropovich” at the Embassy of the Russian Federation, proceeds to benefit the Rostropovich Foundation “Fund
to support young talented musicians” in November: European recital tour
with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in an all-Brahms program performing
sixteen concerts in seven countries, and including a benefit concert for the
Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Germany. Funds raised from this event are to go
towards the purchase of the autographed manuscript of the Diabelli Variations; CD released in April on Dorian/Sono Luminus label: The Beauty of
Two performed by The Kennedy Center Chamber Players includes duos for
piano with cello (Grieg, Martin), viola (Hindemith) and flute (Poulenc).
Alison Reynolds has joined the Bulletin Advisory Committee (Reviewer)
for Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the editorial board for Visions of Research in Music Education. In January, 2009,
she presented three research sessions at “Learning From Young Children:
Research in Early Childhood Music” conference (Newark, Delaware, with
alum Dr. Wendy Valerio (MM ‘90, PhD ‘93), and PhD candidates Corin
Overland and Jill Reese, Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek of Temple University, and Dr.
Suzanne Burton and Rebekah Cleland of the University of Delaware. In fall
2008, she was invited to Penn State University as visiting scholar to present
lectures to graduate and undergraduate music education students and
co-teach an early childhood music class; and to Madison by the Wisconsin
Music Educators Association for two invited sessions on movement in
early childhood music. Last fall, Reynolds also served as faculty advisor to
Diamond Research Scholar Zach Wilson, and Diamond Peer Teacher Kelly
Cuddeback. Last summer, she presented a symposium at the biennial
meeting of the International Society for Music Education, in Bologna, Italy
with Dr. Valerio, Dr. Wilfred Gruhn, Andrea Apostoli, Helena Rodrigues,
and Regina Poskute-Grün: “Sharing a social interaction music learning
framework for young children in six countries.” She continues research as
Principal Investigator (PI): Play-based Music Interactions in Early Childhood
with PhD candidate Jill Reese, MM candidate Marlena Rudzinski, and
BME candidate Krista Master, assisted by Dr. Valerio, Anna Preston (MM
‘06), and Kelly Cuddeback; and as co-PI: Vocal and Movement Interactions Without and With Music Immersion Among Infants and Adults,
with Dr. Suzanne Burton, Jill Reese, and Rebekah Cleland. This spring, an
article co-authored with Dr. Burton, “Transforming Music Teacher Education Through Service-Learning” will be published in the Journal of Music
Teacher Education. Note: correction from 07/08 ENCORE- “At last year’s
Global Temple Conference, Holley Haynes (MM ‘06) co-presented with
Reynolds the Little Oak Children’s House and Boyer College of Music:
Sound Partners in Music Education.”
Ben Schachter completed his latest and sixth solo CD, Omnibus, on which
his trio features Boyer jazz alumni Leon Boykins and Matt Scarano, as well as
guest appearances by jazz faculty Tom Lawton and John Swana.
Eduard Schmieder was interviewed last summer for the BBC for the
documentary, “Science of Talent,” and by RDF TV for a similar project in
London, UK. Last summer, he directed the International Laureates Festival in
Los Angeles and conducted iPalpiti orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Transcribed and premiered Grieg’s “Serenade” (from String Quartet No. 1)
and taught at the Mozarteum Academy, Salzburg, Austria. Last fall he served
as consultant/advisor, final stage at the Julián Gayarre International Singing Competition, Pamplona, Spain and was a member of the jury, National
Sarasate Competition, Madrid. He was also a member of the jury, 2nd China
International Violin Competition (Qingdao) and conducted iPalpiti Orchestra
at Nestlé Centre, Vevey, Switzerland. Schmieder was president of the jury,
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Terell Stafford’s new CD, Taking Chances: Live at the Dakota, (MaxJazz
Records) features fellow Boyer jazz faculty member Bruce Barth, Tim
Warfield and alumni Derrick Hodge and Dana Hall. Stafford held a full
performance and touring schedule this past year, including: Clayton Brothers Quintet, CA; Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band, Kennedy Center,
Deborah Sheldon received the “Outstanding Service to Music Award,”
Washington, DC: Clinic/Master classes, Wauwatosa High School, WI; Terell
by the Tau Beta Sigma Sorority at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic
Stafford Group, Wilmington, DE; Terell Stafford Quintet, Virginia Jazz &
in December in Chicago. Each year, TBS selects a woman(en) who has
Blues Festival; Terell Stafford Group, Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, DE; Tim
made “significant contributions to music and the band world.” Last
Warfield Group, Gettysburg College; Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Jazz
summer, she presented at the Research Commission of the International
Band, Blue Note, NY; Terell Stafford Group, Northwest Arkansas Jazz
Society for Research in Music Education, Porto, Portugal: “Evidence of the
Society; Frank Wess Quintet & Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, Kingston Jazz
Development of Higher Order Thinking Skills in Instrumental Music InstrucFestival, NY; Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Estoril Jazz Festival, Portugal; Italy
tion” and “Evidence From the Masters: A Century of Advice on Musiciantour with Village Vanguard; Jimmy Heath Big Band, Caramoor Jazz Festival
ship, Teaching, and Practice” (with Professor Ruth Brittin, University of the
and, Clayton Brother’s Quintet, Newport Jazz Festival. He served on the
Pacific). She will also present at the Eighteenth National Symposium for
faculty at Juilliard Jazz Seminar in Vitoria, Spain and Port Townsend Jazz
Research in Music Behavior, St. Augustine, FL: “Effects of Multiple Line
Camp and is artistic director, Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz Camp,
Score Reading on Cognitive and Performance Achievement of Adolescent
Messiah College. He took the Temple Jazz Band to perform at the Detroit
Instrumental Students.” She is a clinician for the Midwest Band and OrJazz Festival last fall and to the Hague Jazz Festival in Amsterdam last
chestra Clinic (Chicago): “Women and Minorities in the Band Conducting
spring. He also toured Japan as part of an All-Stars record release. The VilProfession: Past, Present, and Future” and will guest conduct the Troy State
lage Vanguard Orchestra’s Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard, has
University Clinic and PMEA All State Wind Ensemble.
been nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Large Jazz Ensemble and
Best Arrangement (St. Louis Blues). Stafford and fellow faculty members,
Jeffrey Solow attended the National Performing Arts Conference in
Dick Oatts and Luis Bonilla are members of the Village Vanguard.
Denver last summer, performed solo and chamber music and taught lessons and master classes at the Sitka Summer Music Festival (AK), Charles
Glenn Steele continues to work on his research project, “Toward an AsCastleman’s Quartet Program (Fredonia, NY), the Montecito Music Festival
sessment of Weekly Percussion Performance,” of which the first part was
(CA) and the Summit Music Festival (Purchase, NY). His revision of Gregor
a proposal for developing an assessment process, with an ensuing article.
Piatigorsky’s edition of Intermezzo for Cello and Piano by Claude Debussy
The second involved having local teachers (some from Temple) to do a
was published by Theodore Presser and new editions are forthcoming
trial run with the assessment rubric. The third part involved designing a
from International Music Company, Henle Urtext and Ovation Online
Performance Analysis Console (PAC) that would film and provide data for
Editions. He continued his positions as president of ASTA and of the
analysis. The second will be to gather the teacher trial run surveys and see
Violoncello Society, Inc. (of NY). Performances and tours include: Autumn
if the assessment project is working. The next, to be done this spring, will
Classics (Anchorage, AK) (with Charles Abramovic); at Andrea Clearbe to finish the PAC and record the playing of six professional percussionfield’s Salon the premiere of Aaron Minsky’s Dead Cello (based on Grateful
ists to arrive at a base-line of performance. The final descriptive report will
Dead songs); at Temple two solo recitals with Elise Auerbach and trios with
be compiled into an article for Percussive Arts Journal. He also plans to
Charles Abramovic and Lawrence Wagner. In spring, he will teach and
submit a proposal to the Journal for a presentation at next year’s Percussive
perform at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and play an unacArts Convention in Indianapolis in November.
companied recital at BargeMusic in New York and a concerto performance
William Stone was the featured guest artist with the Bellingham Music
with the Philadelphia Sinfonia (conducted by Boyer alumnus Gary White)
Festival in Bellingham, WA, and with the Festival Orchestra, performed
at the Kimmel Center. He is also an adjudicator for the National FoundaBach’s Cantatas #82 and #56; Ravel’s Don Quichotte a Dulcinée, and
tion for Advancement in the Arts.
Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. He is also collaborating with Maurice
Merian Soto is continuing work on her Branch Dance Series that begun
Wright on a cycle of songs for baritone and string quartet, based on
in 2006. Branch dancing is a meditative performance practice which
excerpts of his translation of a diary of the Bauhaus potter Marguerite
involves moving into stillness, the investigation of gravity as essential force,
Wildenhain, Chap. 4, “Marguerite, love of ours, sleep: An introduction to
and the detailed sequencing of movement through inner pathways. Her
the diary,” and translation from the German of excerpts from her diary,
recently completed One Year Wissahickon Park Project of 16 performances
“To the Last Potter of his Lineage,” by Marguerite Wildenhain, in Schwarz,
spanning the four seasons, and featuring Temple dance alumni Shavon
D. & Schwarz, G. (Eds.), Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An
Norris, Olive Prince, Jumatatu Poe and Noemí Segarra, was awarded a
Eyewitness Anthology. Decorah, IA, South Bear Press, 2007. Also included
2008 Rocky (Greater Philadelphia Dance and Physical Theater Award)
in Chap. 6 of the same publication is Stone’s “A Glaze Book Commenlast September. Two new works in the series are in development to be
tary.” The book was reviewed by American Craft in the June/July ‘08 issue.
premiered at Pregones Theater in the Bronx in June 2009, and at The
He recorded “Fireflies and Willows,” Three songs on Poems by Japanese
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival in September 2009. For more on OYWPP
Masters
for Soprano, Baritone and Piano by David Garner with Pentatone
visit the project blog: www.meriansoto.blogspot.com.
Records (Dutch Company), which should be released soon. Last fall, he
Tram Sparks conducted the Concert Choir at the Robert Page Choral
was the guest soloist at the Inauguration of Dr. Stephen Spinelli, Jr. as presReunion; conducted Concert Choir at St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia
ident of Philadelphia University. He was again invited to be an adjudicator
celebrating the Elliott Carter Centenary; conducted Concert Choir at St.
for the prestigious Giargiari Competition at the Academy of Vocal Arts in
John’s Church in Nazareth sponsored by the Robert Becker Memorial Con- Philadelphia. A frequent judge for the Met Auditions, he was invited this
cert Series; conducted Concert Choir at Longwood Gardens; conducted
past January by the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions to be
University Chorale in Mitten Hall.
an adjudicator in Orlando, Florida and also in Knoxville, Tennessee. His new
website is www.williamstonebaritone.com
Maria del Pico Taylor conducted the 6th Taubman Seminar at Temple
last summer, consisting of 6 intensive sessions for a limited number of
participants. The seminars were co-directed by Maria and Sondra Tamman
as well as fellow Taubman faculty member Maria Botelho Hubler. Several
invitations are coming in for similar presentations for the 2008-09 season,
including The State University in Sao Paulo, Brasil and Georgia State
University in Atlanta. Her ensemble, Latin Fiesta, went on the first mini
tour arranged by their new management, Producers, Inc. from Tampa and
co-sponsored by Penn PAT. The concerts started at the Musikfest Festival in
Bethlehem, PA followed by several presentations for Southern Tiers Latin
Fest in Binghamton, NY. Cynthia Folio performed on this tour as the ensemble’s official flutist. Boyer alumnus Fernando Valencia, led Latin Fiesta’s
percussion section. The PA Council on the Arts promoted Latin Fiesta to
the advance level of their “Preserving Diverse Cultures” program, which
carries a $20,000 grant for staff assistance.
Remember Enesco International Violin Competition, Sinaia, Romania and is
a member of the audition committee, ASTRAL Artists, Philadelphia. He will
direct iPalipti as Boyer artists-in-residence in February, culminating in performances at the Kimmel Center and Carnegie Hall in March.
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Stephen Willier completed the second edition of the Bellini Guide to Research, now with the publishers. He is now working on a study of Ernest
Reyer’s French opera Sigurd (prem. 1884), based on the same subject as
the latter part of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen. He served on the editorial advisory board for the new 8th edition of A History of Western Music
by Burkholder-Palisca-Grout and was recently a peer reviewer for an article
submitted to Dance Chronicle. He wrote the program notes for the 20082009 season for Virginia Opera (Norfolk), L’Elisir d’amore, Il trovatore,
Tosca, and Il barbiere di Siviglia. Last November he was a guest on the first
intermission feature for the broadcast of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde from
the Metropolitan Opera, New York, which was broadcast on Sirius and XM
satellite radio.
Maurice Wright continues work with William Stone on a project involving the diary of Marguerite Wildenhain, the renowned Bauhaus potter
who founded the Pond Farm school in California. Stone was a student
of Wildenhain’s, and prepared the translation of her diary for publication
in Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Anthology.
Wright is setting excerpts from her diary for voice and string quartet. His
new work for orchestra, With Fanfare and Song, closed a gala concert at
the Kimmel Center, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the College of Science and Technology. In the summer of 2008 he completed another work
for orchestra that included material from a piece he wrote some years ago,
expanding and recomposing Music for 10 Players and Electronic Sound.
Other recent work includes a new, abridged version of The Lyric’s Tale, for
voice and piano, prepared for premiere by Lawrence Indik at the Ethical
Society in March. Wright performed the computer part to his Antiphonia,
joined by Temple alum, soprano Rebecca Rizzo at the Third Practice Festival
at the University of Richmond in November. He then continued on to Delta
State University in Cleveland, Mississippi to direct a performance of OCTET,
which combines electroacoustic music with video animation to create a hybrid form sometimes called “visual music.” Another visual music composition, A Fish’s Tale, was heard and seen at “TechArt20xx,” a yearly concert
of electroacoustic music, video and experimental live performance at
Northern Illinois University in November. Wright joined composers George
Crumb, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Lansky, Gerald Levinson and Andrew Rudin
in a two-hour live broadcast by WWFM featuring discussion and recordings. A new recording project, Don Liuzzi’s performance of all of Wright’s
works for solo percussion, is now in the editing phase. Pianist Eliza Garth
performed Chamber Symphony for Piano and Electronic Sound (now 32
years old!) at a February concert in New York. Clarinetist Arthur Campbell
has commissioned a piece for clarinet and computer for performance and
recording in 2010, and the Philadelphia Classical Symphony has also commissioned a piece for performance in 2010.
Janet Yamron participated in the masterclass for choral and orchestral musicians at the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene last summer with
Helmuth Rilling, renowned international German teacher, scholar and conductor. Alumni Sonya Garfinkle ’48, Susan Swerdlow ‘91, Colin Dill ‘08,
Emilily Kosasih ’08 and Kahla Wanyama ’09 also participated. Changho
Lee ’08 was selected as one of the active conducting students who
conducted in three public performances. What is significant about this
connection with the Oregon festival is the fact that Elaine Brown, former
director of choral activities visited Germany and invited Maestro Rilling to
be a part of the Ambler Music Festival in 1970 where he conducted master
classes and concerts. That same summer he went to the University of
Oregon to do the same and from this event, the Oregon Bach Festival was
established. The story of the Temple connection has been repeated to the
participants each summer as the Festival has grown into a world premiere
event. She also attended the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont attending
rehearsals and performances and was invited to sing with the chorus at
the closing concert of the festival with Ignat Solzhenitsyn as conductor of
the Beethoven Choral Fantasy.
Steven Zohn’s book, Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning
in Telemann’s Instrumental Works, was recently published by Oxford University Press. In January, he toured Israel, giving chamber music concerts in
Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Tel Aviv, conducting masterclasses at the
Israeli Conservatory of Music, and lecturing at Hebrew University. This past
fall, he was named to the advisory board of the Journal of Musicology,
one of the leading journals in the field, and presented his lecture “Naive
Questions and Laughable Answers: An Eighteenth-Century Job Interview”
on colloquium series at Cornell University and the University of Cambridge.
He also gave recitals at Cornell, Temple, and the American Philosophical Society, as well as performances with New York State Baroque. He
is currently completing a volume of Telemann secular cantatas for the
critical edition of the composer’s works published by Bärenreiter. These 35
cantatas, most of which have never before appeared in print, are due to
be published in 2010.
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Allison Giltinan
Laura and Daniel Gingrich
Sol Glassman
Doris Glazer
Frances Goldenberg
Fleurette Collier Goldman
Lorrene C. Goodman
Marian Gordon
Angela H. Graham
Graycare
Sara and Paul Green
David and Elizabeth Greenspan
Richard J. Groller
Richard S. Grossman
Encore
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Linda Guido
Selvin Gumbs
Lingchin and Martin Hacker
Carol Williams Hafner
Gene K. Hahn
John Reynolds Hall
Jeannine W. Hamburg
William E. Hamilton
Janet and Gerald Hamilton
Karin and Joseph Hampel
Robert Harmelin
Florence Harmon
Harvey and Lois Meyer
Richard W. Hastings
Arthur B. Hattler
Dorothy Hawthorne
Eileen M. Hayes
Carolyn G. Hellick
Annel and Clarence Henry
Carl Bruce Hermanns
Virginia Shaffer Herrmann
Erwin Earl Hertfelder
Allison Jean Herz
Jean and Anthony Hilinski
Nancy Rene’ Hill
Christopher Hill
James Hiller
Robert L. Hinson
Ruth E. Hirschberg
Pamela C. Hitchcock
Robert R. Hoch
Andree E. Hochman
Derrick A. Hodge
Mary H. Hodge
Andrea B. Hodos
Elizabeth Voss Hohwieler
Evelyn S. Holmes
Raymond Hoopes
Joanne Halpern Horne
Terry Horowitz
Sue Hrivnak
Charlotte and Irving Huber
Marion E. Ibach
Florence L. Itoh
Nancy A. Jackson
Roy R. Jenkins
Jeanne M. Jessup
Arlene M. Johnson
Kristi L. Johnston
Lisa Jonas
Catherine and Leonard Jones
Jones Homecare Solutions, Inc.
Janet M. Jordan
Dyanne E. Jurin
Matthew and Deborah Kampf
Patrice and Jeffrey Kaplan
David Katz
Katz Senior Services
Gregory P. Kauriga
Douglas R. Keith
Janet M. Kertmenian
Robert J. Kestler, Jr.
Paul S. Kinsey
Stephen A. Kiser
Patsy and Joel Klingman
Barbara Jean Klubal
Carol Louise Knisell
Madeline Borzelleca Kohler
Connie J. Koppe
Joshua L. Kovach
Michael G. Kozak
Marilyn S. Krakower
Diane Krause
Shirlee and Stuart Kremer
Elsie G. Krinitsky
Kevin H. Kunkle
Brent A. Kuszyk
Joanne and Peter Labiak
Christopher J. Labonde
Denise P. Labonde
Richard Fischler Lampe
Stephen M. Landstreet
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Frances and Tom Lawton
Rachel M. Leanza
Ruth Ann Akers Lebold
Eloise J. Leftrook
Kathleen and Scott Lehman
Hester Lehman
Deborah and Kevin Leibensperger
James M. Lepore
Edina and Alan Lessack
Rodolfo Leuenberger
Ryan M. Leveille
Francine and Bruce Levin
Lili and Arthur Levinowitz
Monica H. Liggins
Phyllis B. Linn
John E. Lipton
Lien-chien Liu
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Esther K. Long
Gianna Lozzi
Mishka Luft and Robert Weissberg
Lucile M. Lynn
Christina Lynn-Craig
Elizabeth A. MacFarland
Douglas Makofka
Katherine Maly
Harry J. Mancia
B. Lee Manns
Lucille Marchisello
Dennis J. Marconi
Cynthia and Richard Marini
Jeffrey H. Marlatt
Judith and Jeffry Marlowe
Debra L. Marsch
Deborah Marson
David J. Martin
Walter B. Mattner
Bill McCaleb
Robert J. McConnell
Victoria McDonald
Kimberly and Thomas McDonald
Jule and Kevin McDonough
Linda and Demetrius McElveen
Susan and Bernard McGorrey
Paul Edward McKay
Claire S. McKinley
Susan Will McNiff
Nancy Deutscher Mellan
Mary Jo and Brian Meneely
Patrick M. Mercuri
Lawrence Thomas Messick
Susan E. Metter
Ernest Meyer
Gail Mickelson
Sally Millar
Elizabeth and Roger Miller
Aaron Miller
Horatio C. Miller
Charles J. Miller, Jr.
Erin Sweetsir and Bradley Mills
Rebecca Kift Minier
Connie F. Monroe
Deborah and Shawn Moore
Michael L. Moreno
Nancy S. Morgan
David B. Morgan
Jennifer E. Moss
Theresa and Raymond Muniz
Nelson H. Muschek
Angelo T. Napoli
Renee Neibauer
Nina D. Nelson
Ursula Neuenkirch
Michael J. Neustadter
Deborah and A. George Newnham
Michael B. Norris
Viviane Young Norris
Moreye Nusbaum
Douglas L. Nyce
Susan and Joseph O’Brien
Katrina and John Oehlers
Wendy R. Oliver
Rosemary A. Omniewski
Sean E. O’Neill
Surah A. Oppenheim
Mark W. Oppenlander
Geoffrey H. Orlando
Barbara R. Ostroff
Lydia A. Overton
Joyce G. Page
Alexander V. Panku
Anthony Pantelopulos
Dena Vlahos Papadopoulos
Robert V. Parisi
Chang Park
Grant Van S. Parr
Harry Patchin
Priscilla and Brian Paul
June and Henry Pearlberg
Bettina and Keith Pedersen
Melinda McIntosh Pember
Casper Pepe
Carmen G. Perron
Walter and Lois Peterson
Cathleen N. Pettway
Edmund I. Phillips
Donna and Mark Pinto
Joseph Podolsky
Jeffrey Stuart Prall
Len Prescott
Michelle and Thaddeus Przybylowski
Anna P. Pullar
Edward Raditz
Philip Raezer
Lillian Gamble Rau
Corrie E. Raulli
Yvonne W. Rawls
Sheila Roman Rees
Marcia Christ Reinert
Stanley Relkin
Claudia and Arthur Revak
Kathryn H. Rhyne
Elvira and John Rice
Betty Jean Rieders
Allen P. Rippe
Michael B. Rodell
Carmen L. Rodriguez-Peralta
Christina M. E. Romann
Rebecca Brown Rooks
Joan B. Rosenberg
Renate G. Rosenblatt
Grace Rosenthal
John Rosner
Paula and Alan Rothman
Suzanne and Robert Rouse
L. Rouse
Nadine Rubenstein
Randall Rudolph
Yoshie Rudolph
Marlena and Richard Rudzinski
Marie C. Ryan
Jeanne G. Sach
Renate Sakins
Patricia Sallee
Edith H. Saltzberg
Pearl S. Saltzman
William P. Sandel
Jo Anna and William Saville
Deborah Fehr Savitske
Fred R. Savitz
Charles J. Scanzello
Marybeth D. Scary
Mark C. Schaefer
Catherine A. Schaeffer
Jean E. Schlegel
Kathryn J. Schoepke
Lynn G. Schoepske
Nancy F. Schwartz
Anne Marie Schwartzenberg
Marlene B. Scott
George and Jean Sellers
Faye Senneca and Richard Weisenberg
Ruth R. Serata
Phebe Odom Settles
Linda and William Shaull
Aimee E. Shelton
Marc E. Sherman
Blaine Franklin Shover
David Edwin Shunskis
Greta and Paul Sick
Margaret Simon and David Weisbrod
Jennifer Perrin Siple
Marjory F. Small
Debora and Thomas Smith
Jacqueline and Kile Smith
David F. Sorensen
John B. Spirtas
Aurelle P. Sprout
Edgar N. Stahley, Jr.
E. Stanwich
Linda and Glenn Steele
Pearl Zeid Steinberg
Mary and Jiri Stejskal
Kelly J. Stokes
Tricia B. Stoltzfus
Nancy and Loniel Strang
Julie and James Strefeler
Mona and Alton Sutnick
Elisabeth J. Swanson
Cy Lewis Swartz
Shin Takao
Nancy Bates Thornton
Suzanne Spicer Tiemstra
William J. Timmins, III
Ibrook Tower
Bryen R. Travis
Laree M. Trollinger
Cornelia and Robert Tucker
Michael P. Tunney
Kaye G. Ullman
Dorothy S. Underhill
The UPS Foundation
Nicholas J. Vallerio
Barbara and Scott Vanpatter
Nancy M. Vees
Victoria P. Vega
Elaine D. Wade
Peter A. Warchal
Nancy L. Washmuth
Ezra B. Watkins
David H. Watt
William David and Frances Webb
Suzanne Webb
Sandra and Timothy Weckesser
Beverly Wehr
Eileen M. Welsh
John Wertheimer
Marion Dornfeld Wescott
Frances R. White
William and Katherine Fouts
Marlene and Thomas Williams
Andrew S. Willis
Angelica Florendo Wingert
Bradford T. Winters
Laura L. Wolfinger
David S. Woodhull
Janet and William Woods
Ora Wry
Chantel and John Yadush
Ann S. Yingling
Francesca H. Young
Sheng-Hwa Yu
James W. Ziccardi
Stephen E. Ziminsky
Naomi F. Zimmerman
Irene Pelech Zwarych
*deceased
All events are free of charge and open to the public unless otherwise indicated.
Visit www.temple.edu/boyer and click on 2008-09 Concert Series for more information.
January 16, 1:00 PM (RH)
February 22, 3:00 PM (CH)
March 25, 12:00 noon (TALC)
April 29, 7:30 PM (MH)
Music Prep Master Class:
Daedalus Quartet
Temple University Wind Symphony
Arthur D. Chodoroff, conductor
Ambler Concert: Cello and piano
February 22, 7:30 PM (SMC)
Master Class: Soovin Kim, violin
Faculty Recital: Lorie Gratis and
Laura Ward, piano
Temple University Chorale, Singers
and Chamber Choir
Tram Sparks, Jeffrey Cornelius and
Janet Yamron, conductors
Temple University Concert Choir
Tram Sparks, conductor
January 24, 4:30 PM (TUCC)
February 25, 7:30 PM (KH)
April 1, 1:40 PM (RH)
May 1 - 9
Muir String Quartet
Faculty Recital: Ed Flanagan,
jazz guitar
Master Class: Emerson String Quartet
February 26, 5:15 PM (RH)
Master Class: Menahem Pressler,
piano
Faculty Lecture Recital:
Christine Anderson
From Paris to the Pyrenees:
The songs of Déodat de Séverac
Jazz Master Class:
Rodney Jones, guitar
Temple Music Prep
Festival of Young Musicians
For full schedule of performances,
see www.temple.edu/boyer/music
prep
January 30, 8:00 PM (CDT)
January 31, 2:00 PM (CDT)
The Crossroads Project
Multi-media performance
(dance/video)
Tix required: www.temple.edu/boyer
Jazz Master Class:
Ralph Peterson, drums
February 13, 8:00 PM (CDT
February 14, 2:00 PM (CDT)
GeoDance Theatre
Multi-media performance
(dance/lecture/video/music)
February 15, 3:00 PM (CH)
Temple University Symphony
Orchestra
Luis Biava, conductor
Featuring winners of the Student
Soloists competition
February 17, 7:30 PM (RH)
Glaux, faculty new music ensemble
February 18, 12:00 NOON
(TALC)
Ambler Concert: Opera scenes
Jazz Master Class:
Sean Jones, trumpet
SCUBA National Touring
Dance Alliance
March 30, 1:40 PM (RH)
April 1, 4:30 PM (KH)
April 3, 8:00 PM (CDT)
April 4, 8:00 PM (CDT)
Faculty Dance Concert:
choreography by faculty.
April 16, 7:30 PM (HGSC)
Temple University Jazz –
Big Band Dance
Terell Stafford, director
Master Class: Lydia Artymiw, piano
March 4, 4:30 PM (KH)
Jazz Master Class:
John La Barbera, arranger
Los Angeles Piano Quartet
Faculty Emeritus and Alumni Recital:
Darrel Walters and Michael Tsalka
March 18, 4:30 PM (KH)
Jazz Master Class:
Jiggs Whigham, trombone
Master Class:
Christopher Maltman, baritone
Faculty Recital:
Conwell Woodwind Quintet
April 24, 7:30 pm (TT)
April 26, 3:00pm (TT)
Temple University Opera Theater
Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Sung in Italian with English titles
Marc Astafan, stage director
John Douglas, music director
Jamie Johnson, producer
April 28 at 7:30pm (TT)
May 1, 7:30 PM (TT)
Temple University Wind Symphony
Arthur D. Chodoroff, conductor
May 3, 3:00 PM (TT)
Temple University Wind Ensemble
and Collegiate Band
Matthew Brunner, conductor
May 9 at 7:30pm (CHT)
Temple Music Prep: Gala Concert
Youth Chamber Orchestra:
Luis Biava, conductor
Concert Choir and Chamber Choir:
Stephen Caldwell, conductor
CDTConwell Dance Theater
CHCentennial Hall, Haverford School
CHTChurch of the Holy Trinity
HGSCHoward Gittis Student Center
KCPT Kimmel Center, Perelman Theater
KCVH Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall
KH Klein Recital Hall (Presser Hall)
MHMitten Hall
RHRock Hall
SMCSt. Mark’s Church
TTTomlinson Theater
TALCTemple Ambler Learning Center
TUCCTemple Univ. Center City
Temple University Sinfonia
André Raphel Smith, guest conductor,
Joyce Lindorff, harpsichord
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT THE KIMMEL CENTER AND CARNEGIE HALL
March 2, 7:30 PM (KCPT)
iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra
Eduard Schmieder, conductor
iPalpiti Orchestra is the ensemble-in-residence at
Boyer College, of which seven members are students.
ENESCU Prelude a L’unisson,
VASKS Musica Dolorosa,
ARNOLD Concerto for Two Violins
GRIEG Serenade for Strings, Op. 27a
Soloists: Catharina Chen and Alexandru Tomescu
Tickets: Kimmel Center Box Office, 215.893.1999 or
www.kimmelcenter.org
March 22 at 7:30pm (KCVH)
Eighth Annual Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Concert
Temple University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs
Alan Harler and Luis Biava, conductors
Charles Dutoit, guest conductor & recipient of
2009 Boyer Tribute Award
BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9
POULENC Gloria
BOULANGER Psalm 24
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100
Tickets available at the Kimmel Center Box Office, 215.893.1999
www.kimmelcenter.org
Four Boyer students performed at the dedication of Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Museum.
From left: Christopher White, Catherine Fish, Mayor Michael Nutter, Lauren Ellis, Noah Luft-Weissberg
Rock Hall
1715 N. Broad Street
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ORGANIZATION
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