the 2008 Da Capo - TCU | The School of Music
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the 2008 Da Capo - TCU | The School of Music
A Newsletter from the School of Music | Texas Christian University October 2008 NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Do we usually read Notes from the Editor? I think it depends on the magazine. I personally skip editors’ introductions in most publications, except for one or two; however, I do not recommend that you skip mine, because I do hope that our Da Capo will be your magazine of choice to read every line, from cover to cover. It deserves to be read thoroughly, taking the time to think, imagine, and appreciate all of the numerous things that happen here at TCU School of Music. Da Capo’s previous editor, Judith Solomon, passed away in December 2007—what a huge loss for all of us! A memorial concert in her honor was organized last March by Dr. Michael Meckna (see his recollections in this issue about the event). If you would like to share your memories about Prof. Solomon, please e-mail me at [email protected]. Please also contact me with any comments or suggestions you might have about our publication. If, after reading Da Capo carefully, you think that our compilation of news about faculty, staff, students, ensembles, festivals, and alumni is very impressive, I can to tell you that Da Capo would have been even more impressive if we could have included absolutely everything that happened last year at the school. Fortunately for our university, all of our faculty members are exceptional and prominent professionals in their respective fields. Unfortunately for you, our readers, we professors get so buried in our crazy schedules that we sometimes cannot add to our already swollen-out-of-proportion calendars such a simple thing as sending in our news for publication. In connection with the information above, I encourage you to visit our School of Music’s website frequently at www.music.tcu.edu. There, you can find updates about new events, live broadcasts, recordings, and fresh data about upcoming performances. That is not to say that Da Capo is not comprehensive; we do strive to give you the best coverage we can about everything that happens in TCU’s music world. I am very proud to be a part of it. Dr. Misha Galaganov Editor 2 | Da Capo Upcoming Performances September 8 15 22 29 Faculty Recital Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Karen Adrian, flute Laura Logan, harp Faculty Recital Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall San-ky Kim, tenor Harold Martina, piano Faculty and Friends Chamber Music Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Jesus Castro-Balbi, artistic director; $10 admission; $5 students and seniors Free with TCU ID www.music.tcu.edu/facfriends 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Faculty Recital Series Joe Eckert, saxophone Janet Pummill, piano OCTOBER 6 7 13 14 20 23 Faculty Recital Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Gary Whitman, clarinet Janet Pummill, piano Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall TCU Symphony John Giordano, conductor Faculty Recital Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Helen Blackburn, flute Harold Martina, piano Student Recital Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Tuba/Euphonium Studio Richard Murrow, coordinator Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall Wind Symphony/Symphonic Band; Bobby Francis, conductor College of Fine Arts Gala Special Event 6:00 PM, Student Union Ballroom Da Capo | TCU School of Music Richard C. Gipson, Director Misha Galaganov, Editor Paul Cortese, Production Manager Laura Samuel Meyn, Copy Editor Design by Ardent Creative Contributing Photographers include: Glen Ellman, Linda Kaye, Paul Cortese Fall 2008 24 School of Music Alumni Homecoming Dinner Special Event 6:00 PM, Ed Landreth Stage For more information contact Charlene Smith, Alumni Representative, [email protected]. 27 Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall TCU Percussion Ensemble I Brian West, director 28-31 Ukrainian Music Festival Special Event; All events in PepsiCo Recital Hall. For more information contact Gerald Gabel, coordinator. 30 Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Ensemble Concert Series Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble Richard Murrow, director November 1 10 11 12 17 Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall TCU Men’s and Women’s Choirs Sheri Neill, conductor Faculty Recital Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall H. Joseph Butler, organ Laura Logan, harp Student Recital Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Student Composers Till Meyn and Martin Blessinger, coordinators Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Jazz Combos Curt Wilson, conductor 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Faculty and Friends Chamber Music Series; Jesus Castro-Balbi, artistic director, $10 admission; $5 students and seniors; Free with TCU ID www.music.tcu.edu/facfriends 18 21 23 24 Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall Jazz Ensembles Curt Wilson, Joey Carter, and James McNair, conductors Opera Studio Series 7:30 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall TCU Opera Studio Scenes Clyde Berry, director Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, St. Stephen Presbyterian Church TCU Choirs Ron Shirey, conductor Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall TCU Percussion Ensemble II Brian West, director December 2 5 Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall TCU Symphony John Giordano, conductor Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall TCU Wind Symphony/ Symphonic Band Bobby Francis, conductor 8 Ensemble Concert Series 7:30 PM, Ed Landreth Hall TCU Combined Choirs – Christmas Ron Shirey and Sheri Neill, conductors 14 3:00 PM, PepsiCo Recital Hall Ensemble Concert Series Chamber Music Roundup Academy Misha Galaganov, director All events are subject to change. Please visit www.music.tcu.edu for upto-date information. Please submit your announcements online via www.music.tcu.edu/dacapo.asp or send your correspondence to: Da Capo TCU School of Music Dr. Misha Galaganov, editor Box 297500 Fort Worth, TX 76129 Da Capo | 3 Message FROM THE director as in music. Private instruction is foundational and critical for the development of the highest level of performance ability. Beyond private teaching, close personal mentoring, whether in the classroom, rehearsal room, or teaching supervision, distinguishes a quality music education. All these models are expensive, but the results more than justify the expense. Quality faculty working with quality students in a quality environment is critical for our success. Music facilities are TCU School of Music Alumni and Friends: among the most costly on any campus, with performance I hope you will enjoy this latest issue of Da Capo, our spaces, rehearsal spaces, and teaching spaces often annual newsmagazine of the School of Music. Throughout not only large, but highly specialized in function. Proper this issue you will read of the many wonderful activities, acoustical treatment is critical. Music is an equipment- accomplishments, and undertakings of our talented faculty, intensive area, and that equipment must be maintained students, staff, and alumni. I am so proud to present them and upgraded in a timely fashion. to you. For years, Texas Christian University has shown its support The TCU School of Music is a very fine music school, and we and value of the mission of the School of Music in very have our eye on being even better. To have become what tangible ways. We are blessed to enjoy support at all levels we are and to envision an even brighter future requires the including Trustees, Chancellor, Provost, Dean, and myriad support and commitment of the entire university, and we other offices. We in the School of Music do not take this do not take that support for granted. Indeed, pervading support and investment for granted. We appreciate it, all our accomplishments and everything we do here in the thank the university for it, and do our very best every day School of Music is the recognition, acknowledgment, and to represent TCU at the highest possible level. We believe sincere appreciation of just how fortunate we are to be TCU is justly proud of its music school, and we in turn are here at TCU. justly proud of our university. Outstanding music students have many options when they It remains my privilege and honor to serve the TCU choose a school, and without question, the finest music School of Music as Director, and I look forward with great students are recruited, courted, and offered substantial anticipation to the coming year. scholarships to attend numerous fine institutions. In order for us to be competitive, we must enjoy considerable Richard C. Gipson scholarship support, and the lion’s share of our support Director, TCU School of Music is provided internally by the university in the form of tuition waivers. At the heart of high quality music instruction is the oneon-one relationship of student and applied professor. Nowhere else in the university is this model so prevalent 4 | Da Capo Sincerely Richard C. Gipson Director, TCU School of Music 2 SOM’s Internet Initiatives Continue This past year, the School of Music continued to explore code to allow for uncompressed, stereo CD quality audio. the exciting possibilities of using Internet2 for long- This substantial software “tweak” has been included in the distance educational outreach. Internet2 allows the user recent updated version of Microsoft ConferenceXP 5.0, to send and receive DVD-quality video and audio across a which is currently the only video conferencing program dedicated, high-bandwidth network reserved for scientific with this advanced audio capability. research and educational institutions. In April, the SOM participated in a virtual Internet2 One TCU initiative involves working with the Juilliard School videoconference between six different music schools on in New York City to establish a regular teaching schedule the topic of Hearing Conservation for Musicians. Hosted for Professor of Piano Veda Kaplinsky, who divides her time by the North Carolina School of the Arts and presented by between Juilliard and TCU. The obstacles encountered by Dr. Susan Phillips, Dr. Kris Chesky, and Gerald Klickstein, it this partnership have been due to the outdated network featured an interactive question and answer session that infrastructure found in Manhattan. Juilliard has recently allowed SOM students and faculty to participate using our upgraded their network capabilities and both institutions Internet2-based technology. look forward to more productive results in the near future. In February, José Feghali and Paul Cortese attended the Internet2 Performance Production Workshop at the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida. The three-day conference focused on video/audio production, recent computer software developments, and tips on how to organize and produce successful Internet2 events. There were representatives of many other music schools and university music departments in attendance. This provided the opportunity for open discussions and the exchange of ideas and valuable information. One issue that was raised was the need for a hardware/ software solution that would allow for mixing compressed video with high quality audio. This issue is important because many institutions especially those abroad, do not have access to the very high bandwidth that is required for uncompressed video conferencing. José had been in talks with Microsoft Research for over a year, trying to adapt their ConferenceXP conferencing program to the needs of the performing arts, but Microsoft maintained that CD quality audio was impossible to implement in their software. In March, José was able to rewrite a section of the program’s Da Capo | 5 6 | Da Capo Laurana Rice Mitchelmore Master Series Endowed Fund Debuts By Chandler Smith The TCU School of Music sends its alumni far and wide to forge their careers, some achieving local notoriety, and some occupying a place on the world stage. One alumna, Laurana Rice Mitchelmore ’61, attained the world stage but in a supportive role that requires great skill, sensitivity, knowledge, and stagecraft: the role of accompanist. Mitchelmore has traveled the world as a concert pianist in her own right and also as an accompanist, primarily to Frederica “Flicka” Von Stade, world-renowned mezzosoprano. It was because of Mitchelmore’s excellence and success in her career that her family and friends, including Von Stade, chose to honor her life’s work with an endowed fund at TCU. They decided that, rather than establishing a scholarship, they wanted to create a fund whose earnings would help bringing collaborative musicians of the highest level to campus for a concert and master class on a regular basis. They also knew, however, that the unassuming Mitchelmore would never allow such a thing to happen, so they had to do some work behind the scenes. The big night was April 8, 2008, in Ed Landreth auditorium. Von Stade was slated to perform a concert and had asked Mitchelmore to accompany her on the piano. The twist was that Mitchelmore had agreed to perform with no knowledge of the fund or that the evening was in her honor. All she knew was that the concert was a fund-raiser for the School of Music as a part of the Campaign for TCU. Since Mitchelmore is a native of Plano, and still has family in the area, and, since this was the first time she and Von Stade had performed together in Texas, it was natural that the audience comprised relatives, college 6 | Da Capo and sorority chums from the ’60s, and friends and colleagues from the world of music. As the concert went along, little did Mitchelmore know that the excitement was building with each successive piece in the program, as everyone in the energized audience awaited Richard Gipson’s and Von Stade’s surprise announcement from the stage, after encores and curtain calls, of the inauguration of the Laurana Rice Mitchelmore Master Concert Series supported by the Laurana Rice Mitchelmore Master Series Endowed Fund. When the big moment came, the speechless Mitchelmore, stunned that such an honor and surprise had been orchestrated at all, much less without her suspecting, received the audience’s standing ovation with overwhelmed graciousness. A reception in her honor, also a surprise to Mitchelmore, followed at the home of her Tri-Delt sorority sister, Jean Wiggin Roach ’64, whom she had not seen since graduation. The following morning, still in disbelief, Mitchelmore led an informative and helpful master class for voice and piano students on the art of collaboration. Some friends and family members sat among the students to witness and enjoy Mitchelmore in her element as expert artist, musician, and mentor. The School of Music and its students, as well as the Fort Worth arts community, will benefit from the Mitchelmore fund in perpetuity. The fund will bring world-class musicians to campus, and continues to grow, thanks to the generosity of so many willing contributors. If you would like to join them in support of this worthy cause and help provide a world-class experience for our students, please contact Chandler Smith, Director of Development for the College of Fine Arts, at 817-257-5039. Da Capo | 7 Chamber Music Roundup Chamber Music Roundup in Fort Worth takes place in January every year and is a major attraction for amateur musicians and full-time students who enjoy playing in small ensembles. The program consists of rehearsals, performances, lectures, master classes, optional orchestra readings, and optional chamber music sight-readings; it is geared toward music lovers of all levels on strings, winds, brass, and piano. The 2008 event included for the second time an optional extended education class, taught by former TCU Music History professor Dr. Jennifer King on the history of chamber music. Though she no longer lives in Fort Worth, King will return to teach the class again for the January 2009 Roundup. Tuition for the class is free to Roundup participants and $60 for the general public. One of the main attractions of the Roundup is that music lovers have an opportunity to rehearse and perform in ensembles with professional artists. Each group in the festival includes a professional performer. The following artists were featured in January 2008: Gary Whitman, clarinet; Jonathan Ruck, cello; Jesus Castro-Balbi, cello; Tomasz Golka, violin and conducting; John Owings, piano; Stewart Williams, oboe; and Misha Galaganov, viola. Twenty-six amateur musicaians participated from five states, including Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Alabama. Some of our TCU students participated in the festival, too: Jesus Saenz, violin, and Shanna Griffith, harp, enjoyed playing in ensembles with students from UNT. The next festival will take place on January 5–10, 2009. In addition to its already established schedule, Roundup 2009 will include a new program: intensive chamber music studies for full-time music students. The deadline for all applications is October 1, 2008. For more information about the event please go to www.music.tcu.edu/roundup.asp. If you are interested in becoming involved in chamber music, go to the Chamber Music Academy website at www.musicprep.tcu.edu/chamberacademy. asp. You may contact Dr. Misha Galaganov at 817-257-6619 or at [email protected] if you have any questions. 8 | Da Capo M e m o r i a l C o n c e r t for P r o f e s s o r Ju d y S o l om on Dr. Michael Meckna “Judy would have loved this,” said more than one audience member after the “Tribute to Judy Solomon,” which was held March 30, 2008 in PepsiCo Recital Hall in memory of the beloved professor who died on December 22, 2007. First and foremost, the music was outstanding. John Owings began with Schubert’s Impromptu in G-flat, Op. 90, No. 3, one of Solomon’s favorites. Then Owings’s student, 14-year-old Sahun Hong, played “Nocturne for the Left Hand,” which he had written last year especially for Solomon, who was unable to use her right hand after a stroke. Next, Misha Galaganov and Owings played Wieniawski’s thoughtful “Reveries,” followed by tenor Roger Bryant and pianist Janet Pummill, who performed two selections from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Songs of Travel,” and Michael Joncas’ “On Eagle’s Wings” (a setting of selected verses from Psalms 91 and Isaiah 40). Interspersed with the music were a warm welcome by School of Music Director Dr. Richard Gipson; some moving reflections by Solomon’s sister Marcia Simon, her husband, and son; and more memories and anecdotes ad libitum from the audience. Affectionate, humorous, and admiring, these comments helped ease the pain of Solomon’s absence. Just before the Joncas song, Solomon’s nephew Roger Simon read a special benediction by Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger. Judy Solomon would have loved the post-concert reception too, since there was plenty of food for all, including some of her favorites, such as deviled eggs and brownies (“no nuts, please”). Spirits were light as the approximately 125 audience members mingled, munched, and enjoyed a wonderful exhibit of Solomon memorabilia arranged by Assistant Music/Media Librarian and Van Cliburn Archivist Laura Ruede, with the assistance of Head Music/Media Librarian Cari Alexander. Judy Solomon’s fine intellect, wonderful sense of humor, gentle nature, and genuine interest in her students will keep her memory alive in those who were fortunate enough to have known her. —Dr. Michael Meckna Note: A “Solomon Memorial Fund” has been established. Anyone wishing to contribute can contact Chandler Smith at 817-257-5039. Da Capo | 9 Linda Kaye 1942-2007 By Paul Cortese This past year, the School of Music and the TCU community lost a dear friend and dedicated colleague. Photographer Linda Kaye ’63 passed away after a long struggle with cancer. If you didn’t know Linda personally, you definitely knew her through her ubiquitous photos, dynamic images that documented five decades of TCU activities and events. Included on these pages is a small sampling of the countless photos Linda took of TCU music events. We are grateful to Linda because of the wonderful gift she left TCU and the School of Music—a pictorial treasury that reveals who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going. 10 | DaCapo Capo 8 | Da Da Capo | 11 100 Master Classes/Guest Per for m an ces S inc e 20 0 2 : PIANO: Emanuel Ax Fabio Bidini Robert Blocker Sa Chen Andrzej Dutkiewicz Peter Efler Peter Frankl Jan Jiracek Joseph Kalichstein Veda Kaplinsky Mi Kyung Kim David Korevaar Ksenia Nosikova Dario Ntaca Christina Ortiz Elizabeth Pridinoff Eugene Pridinoff Gustavo Romero Tamas Vesmas CLARINET: James Campbell Andrew Crisanti Paul Dean Oskar Espina-Ruiz David Gould David Hattner Howard Klug Ana Victoria Luperi Gregory Raden David Shifrin Bradley Wong Karen Basrak Wayne Burak Jennifer Choi Matthew Dane Paukl Erhard Norman Fischer Arkady Fomin Ronald Francois Vadim Gluzman Erich Krueger Jaime Laredo Donald McInnes Aldo Parisot Carlos Prieto Sharon Robinson Michael Shih Arnaud Sussman Brant Taylor Bion Tsang Josh Waybright Katie Wolfe BAND: Michael Colgrass Eric Ewazen Gary Green James Keene John Mackey David Maslanka Timothy Reynish James Syler John Whitwell Samuel Zyman Miguel Harth-Bedoya Joins TCU Miguel Harth-Bedoya, music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, is now a distinguished Guest Professor of Conducting in the TCU School of Music. Harth-Bedoya said his classes are going to have a practical emphasis, because the professional conducting world is different from conducting music in schools. “It’s going to be like an apprenticeship,” he said. “I want the students to learn not FLUTE: Mathieu Dufour James Galway SAXOPHONE: Tony Campise Dave Pietro STRINGS: Christopher Adkins Toby Appel Anthony Arnone 12 | Da Capo JAZZ STUDIES: Dr. Shelly Berg Wayne Bergeron Tony Campise Conte Candoli Vince DiMartino Andy Martin Dave Pietro Carl Saunders Allen Vizzutti Bill Watrous Patrick Williams from me, but through me.” Selected students will have the opportunity to conduct the Fort Worth Symphony. Harth-Bedoya will primarily be working with graduate conducting students. Under special circumstances, undergraduate students will have an opportunity to work with him on special events. —Bibek Bhandari, Staff reporter, TCU Staff, March 20, 2008 T C U S c h o o l O f Music O p e ns A N e w P ro gr am : Chamber Music R o u ndu p Ac a de m y In response to requests from music lovers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Chamber Music Roundup festival has expanded its services to provide a year-round program for amateur musicians of all ages as well as pre-college-age students. All levels are welcome! The new Chamber Music Roundup Academy gives local enthusiasts a chance to meet each other on regular basis, make new friends, and improve their skills. TCU professors coach each ensemble four times per semester. Rehearsals and coaching sessions are scheduled by group members at mutually convenient times and locations. Payments are processed through TCU’s Music Preparatory Division. (Thank you Leanne Kirkham, Director of the Preparatory Division, for your support!) Fees per semester are $200 for participants, and $80 for observers. For more information or to sign up please contact Dr. Misha Galaganov at 817-257-6619 or visit the academy’s new website at [email protected], or www.musicprep.tcu.edu/ 100 Master Classes/Guest Performances Since 2002 (continued): PERCUSSION: Gideon Alorwoyie Jorge Bermudez Brad Dutz Darren Dyke Eric Ewazen Tom Float Mike Kingan David Maslanka Ben Maughmer Walfredo Reyes, Jr. Steve Smith Ricardo Souza Ed Stephan Darrin Workman Robert Van Sice Deborah Vogel VOICE and OPERA: Sneshinka Avramova Helen Boatwright Anne Choe Laura Lee Everett Lauren Flanagan William Florescu John and Mary Gillas Thomas Hampson Patrick Hanson Paula Homer Felicity Jackson Eva Izykowska Barbara Kilduff Thomas King Stephen Kuchilius Jay Lesenger Janice Mayer Jonathan Pell David Ronis Frederica von Stade Misha Svetlov Hector Vasquez Keith Wolfe Darren K. Woods TRUMPET: Ivano Ascari Wayne Bergeron Joseph Bowman Conte Candoli John Daniels Allen Dean Vincient DiMartino Terry Everson Charles Gates Christopher Moore Mark Niehaus Ron Puckett Michael Sachs Carl Saunders Bert Truax Ramon Vasquez Allen Vizzutti TROMBONE: Ron Barron Andy Martin Bill Watrous TUBA: Oystein Baadsvik Markus Theinert BRASS: Gateway Brass National Brass Virtuosi St. Louis Brass COMPOSITION: Diana Arismendi Alejandro Cardona Michael Colgrass Manuel de Eliás Eric Ewazen Allen Lott Andres Posada Kevin Puts Alfredo Rugeles Carlos Vásquez Samuel Zyman chamberacademy.asp. Da Capo | 13 14 | Da Capo Renovations and Expansion for the School of Music Summer 2008 saw a continued expansion and renovation of School of Music facilities. For the past six summers, School of Music space has been expanded or renovated to support the needs of our ever-growing and developing program. This past summer saw perhaps the largest project to date: renovation of the entire third floor of Jarvis Hall (formerly Jarvis Dormitory) for the School of Music. Beginning in the fall of 2008, faculty in the areas of Music Education, Music Theory/Composition, Musicology, and Choral Music moved into Jarvis Hall. A total of 6,254 square feet of classroom, laboratory, and studio space was added to Jarvis. The School of Music anticipated its largest enrollment on record this fall, with a record 64 faculty serving close to 300 music majors, an increase of more than 50% in the last five years. The School of Music is housed in six different buildings this year: Ed Landreth Hall, the Walsh Center for the Performing Arts, Jarvis Hall, Waits Hall, Foster Hall, and Music Building South. Da Capo | 15 16 | Da Capo R e cl a i m i n g t h e Past: School of Music R e c o rde d H i s tor y Com es Alive Again! By Cari Alexander Music/Media Librarian Summer at the TCU Library generally consists of home- musical legacy of TCU, so the entire project was quickly improvement projects intended to improve the lives of presented to the Dean of the Library and the Director of campus inhabitants and their surroundings. The Music/ the School of Music to discuss preservation options and Media Library Audio/Visual Center was still clad in a dismal funding. green, so the summer of 2006 brought Physical Plant knocking at the Library door with paint brushes in hand, After months of searching for a vendor, we settled on ready to coat the interior with the policy-defined shade SafeSound Archives in Philadelphia, but the resurrection of of antique white. We were informed that the removal of these precious recordings would not be cheap. I applied these last vestiges of color would require the temporary for grants to no avail. Miraculously, funding materialized relocation of the room’s contents. from a very appropriate source. Miss Anna Harriet Heyer, former TCU music librarian, had left part of her estate It was during this hasty and somewhat haphazard to TCU and the funds had just become available! In the rearrangement that some old wooden cabinets were fall of 2007 we packed up the recordings and sent them opened, the contents of which had not seen the light of day to Pennsylvania. The involved process of inventory and for many years. A waxy odor accompanied the discovery sequential boxing of the records in acid-free housing of a series of records of various sizes, made of acetate and was assisted by student workers and our first graduate recorded primarily in the 1950s. We had found archival assistant (Cole Ritchie ’08G). Nine boxes, 135 discs and a broadcast recordings for the TCU School of Music dating few back aches later, the recordings were on a truck bound back to 1949! for Philadelphia. Providentially, the caring and capable engineer who performed the work was from Texas, known Removing and inspecting the discs, I saw that they were to me through professional meetings. covered in a white flaky substance that induced a massive returned to us in March in beautiful digital clarity and, headache if breathed too long. Research revealed the miraculously, the original discs are now cleaner than the culprit to be palmitic acid, a toxic breakdown of the acetate day they were recorded. Ensemble concerts, faculty and in the discs. These pieces of TCU history were deteriorating student recitals and special events from 1949-1959 are alive fast and would become history themselves if something again, including both moments of exquisite perfection and wasn’t done to preserve them. moments a little south of A440. With the help of a student worker (Jamie Phelps ‘04G), a The CDs will eventually be integrated with other Library database was created to delineate the contents of the 16, holdings for visitors to browse and experience here with us. 12 and 10-inch discs. The contents of one program often It is our hope that some day they will be available online via spanned several discs. Occasionally there was a tattered, streaming audio. We will introduce these long lost sounds embrittled program accompanying the discs to divulge the to the public in fall 2008, so watch for information about innermost secrets contained in the white crusted grooves. this special event. To inquire about the recordings, please The palmitic acid deposits prevented our playing them, so contact me at 817-257-6623 or [email protected]. The recordings we trusted that the programs and writing on the disc sleeves were accurate. We discovered historically significant names such as Gillis, Guenther and Giordano among this fragile Da Capo | 17 TCU Campaign for Exc ellenc e Kic k o ff Capo The School of Music took center stage at the TCU Campaign for Excellence Kickoff, a purple- splashed festival for the eyes and ears, an evening showcasing the very best of TCU: the precision of the Symphony Orchestra, the harmonies of the Concert Chorale, the hipness of the Jazz Ensemble, the playfulness of the Steel Drum Band, and the pride of the Marching Band. Long-standing traditions were honored, and possibilities of the future imagined. And, of course, there was Bob Schieffer ’59, the venerable newsman, one of TCU’s greatest Horned Frogs, who doubled as emcee and entertainer for the evening, graciously guiding a crowd of more than 900 through an April evening of conversation, music, and video before shedding his suit and purple tie for a TCU football jersey, boots, and blue jeans to jam with his Washington, D.C. band, Honky Tonk Confidential. It was a night to pull out all the stops. After all, this was the kickoff of the public phase of The Campaign for TCU, the $250 million fund-raising effort to help the university achieve its goal of creating a world-class, values-centered university experience. More than $155 million has been raised during the leadership phase to bolster scholarships and faculty support, improve academic programs and facilities, and buttress the annual fund. TCU hopes alumni, friends of the university, parents, trustees, foundations, and others will contribute another $95 million by the campaign’s end in 2012. —Rick Waters, TCU magazine 2008, 02; Adapted for Da Capo by Richard Gipson 18 | Da Capo Da Capo | 13 Music News Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series The Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series (FFCMS) presented four concerts with works by Boccherini, Poulenc, Brahms, Clifford Shaw, Aaron Copland, Daron Aric Hagen, David Ludwig, Robert Schumann, and the world premiere of Venice Suite by Elena Sokolovsky, performed by Trio Con Brio (Misha Galaganov, John Owings, and Gary Whitman). The FFCMS featured 15 faculty members, seven guests artists, and two TCU students. Newcomers to the series included Jennifer Carr and Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky of the TCU School of Music faculty, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Michael Shih, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra associate concertmaster Jan Mark Sloman. The 2008–09 season information is posted at www.music.tcu.edu/facfriends.asp. SCHOOL OF MUSIC WINS AGAIN The National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) has once again given its First Place Award for the Promotion and Performance of American Music to TCU’s School of Music. The School has previously won the award in 1966, 1988, 1997, and every other year since 2000. (A school cannot win two years in succession.) The NFMC commended the TCU School of Music for its annual celebration of American Music Month in November, its annual jazz festival in March, its biennial Latin American Music Festival in April, its several regional conferences, and its numerous premieres. Noted NFMC American Music Division Chair Odee Maier said, “The citizens of Fort Worth, along with the TCU students, have had a wonderful American Music Year.” From June 2007 to May 2008, according to Michael Meckna (who, with the assistance of Sue Ott, kept track of performances and submitted the application), TCU musicians gave a total of 344 performances of works by 212 American composers on 101 programs. Fourteen of the programs were “all-American,” 26 composers were present for the performance of their works, and 19 works were given their premiere performance. In addition to concerts and recitals, 12 visiting artists and lecturers participated in seminars, workshops, or master classes that focused on American music. Discounting a considerable radio and tour audience, approximately 16,600 people attended these events. Finally, seven festival-like events featured American music. The TCU School of Music has been a member of the 105-year-old NFMC since the early 1950s. The 2008 First Place award carries with it a cash prize of $500 and a certificate of commendation. Brian Youngblood Produces Award-Winning Marching Band Show Congratulations to Brian Youngblood (Associate Director of Bands) on the success of the L.D Bell High School Marching Band at the Bands of America National Championship. The band was selected as the Grand National Champion—the top in the country. What did Youngblood have to do with it? He designed the show! The adjudicator comments were stunningly complimentary to the concept and design. This is the only national contest of this nature, and hundreds of bands from across the nation compete at the regional level to be one of 90 bands invited to compete at the Grand Nationals. Youngblood’s show won out of all of those that competed. New DMA Program at TCU After many years of planning, the School of Music is proud to announce that a new Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) program has been established. The new degree plans and advanced courses have been approved by TCU, as well as by the National Association of Schools of Music. This is a major step forward, and it will lead us to greater recognition as a comprehensive school of music. The addition of doctoral students to our already strong and growing graduate program will raise us to a new level. Fields of study for the doctorate include Performance, Pedagogy, Composition, and Conducting. Many people were involved in the planning and design of the DMA program, but it is necessary to mention the hard work done by our director, Richard Gipson, as well as the members of the DMA Task Force: Sheila Allen, Blaise Ferrandino, Ann Gipson, German Gutierrez, Michael Meckna, Tamás Ungár, Brian West, and Joseph Butler, Chair of the Task Force. The School of Music will begin matriculating doctoral students in the fall of 2009. Da Capo | 19 Spring 2008 Graduating Class OPERA AMERICA WORKSHOP BA Amelia Tyler Isbell Leicht Lauren Nichols Novak Melissa Marie Rogers Daniel Thomas Sweet BM Emily Lorraine Forester Eric Alexander Fossas Jo Yi Zhou BME Ashley Diane Boston Andrea Jo Carl Rachel Lauren Chilton Francesca Danielle Cisneros Tyler James Ferguson Stephen Joseph Goralczyk Daniel Preston Lewis Richard Hunter Lewis Marla A. McClung Elise Michelle Peyrot Rebecca Diane Reed Kathryn Clare Shaw Jordan Elizabeth Warner MM Christina Marie Armendarez Lacy Lee Brown David P. Hall Lauren Ann Kaminski Jacqueline Leung Juan David Mayorga Rojas Heather Rebecca Muskrat Lorea Marisa Aranzasti Pardo Judson Cole Ritchie Matthew Edward Rush Myoung Sook Song Beth E. Weibe Jackson Len Yandell MME Lindsay Caffrey Twichell Graduates who were music minors or participated in School of Music activities: Kayla Bond Cameron Ghassemi Caroline Gladkowski Alejandro Gomez Joshua Ryan Heard Babkayode Jonathan Ipaye Matthew Alan Lundborg Jeffrey Mathena Kamaria Michelle Powell Christopher Qualls Nicholas Timmons 20 | Da Capo After last summer’s successful first TCU/Fort Worth Opera Institute, the Fort Worth Opera and TCU Opera Studio have continued to expand their cooperative ventures. TCU and the Fort Worth Opera co-sponsored the OPERA America Singers’ Workshop. The two-day workshop, held in PepsiCo Recital Hall, was titled “Strategies for Building a Successful Career: A Business Workshop for Opera Singers.” The participating panelists were all opera professionals with careers as singers, stage directors, and opera administrators, including TCU Opera’s Richard Estes and Mark Metcalf, along with Anne Choe, Artistic Services Manager of OPERA America in New York; Darren Woods, General Director of Fort Worth Opera; Keith Wolfe, Managing Director of Fort Worth Opera; Jay Lesenger, General Director of Chautauqua Opera Festival; Jonathon Pell, Director of Artistic Administration at The Dallas Opera; Felicity Jackson, Associate Director of Chicago Opera Theatre; Hector Vasquez, Program Director of Houston Grand Opera Studio; Laura Lee Everett, Associate Director of Maryland Opera Studio; Lauren Flanagan, soprano, La Scala, Metropolitan Opera; and Johnathon Pape, Director of Eastman Opera Theatre. The workshop was attended by 34 young singers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area and as far away as Norman, Oklahoma and Amarillo, Texas. We look forward to this event returning to TCU in future yearsOpera Institute TCU/Fort Worth Opera Institute was held in the TCU Opera Studio from May 12–June 7. Participants enjoyed master classes, career advice, and singers’ roundtable discussions with artists from the Fort Worth Opera Festival season; they received classes in acting, stage movement, and music business from Director Richard Estes; musical coaching from TCU Opera Studio Musical Director Mark Metcalf; and voice instruction from Metropolitan Opera tenor Allan Glassman. SCHOOL OF MUSIC JOINS AA BUSINESS PROGRAM TCU School of Music (SOM) is now a member of American Airlines Business ExtrAA program. Simply put, if you enter the SOM Code (778230) into the Business ExtrAA field when you book air travel on American, the SOM will benefit. This works whether you are booking professional or personal travel—anything on American Airlines. This will in no way affect your personal AAdvantage miles—they will continue to be awarded as always; by also entering 778230 in the Business ExtrAA field, the SOM will receive points at the same time you receive miles. We hope to gather enough points to help pay for student travel. TCU Jazz Fall Concert and Spring Festival The fall 2007 jazz concert featured the new TCU School of Music professor of saxophone Joseph Eckert, formerly (retired) lead alto and director of the USAF Air-Men-of Note. The 31st Annual TCU Jazz Festival, held March 28–29, 2008, attracted 28 high school and middle school jazz ensembles from Texas and Oklahoma. Approximately 1,500 people attended the two evening concerts featuring the fabulous Four Freshmen jazz vocal group and SMSgt Joe Jackson, jazz trombonist and director of the USAF Air-Men-of-Note from Washington, D.C. Voces Intimae TCU Opera Studio sponsored the Voces Intimae collaborative piano workshop on campus on from April 4–6, 2008. Dr. Arleen Shrut, Elizabeth Racheva, and Elvia Puccinelli lead this three-day workshop and showcase for art song music in the TCU Opera Studio. Young artists from UNT, SMU, and TCU participated. TCU Symphony Orchestra Performs in Puerto Rico TCU Cello Ensemble Premieres New Works from TCU Composers The TCU Cello Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Jesús Castro-Balbi, performed at the Northpark Presbyterian Church for the students of the New Conservatory of Dallas on March 29 and presented a recital in Ed Landreth Auditorium at TCU on April 5. The program included world premiere performances of Symphony by Dr. Blaise Ferrandino and Anxieties of the Heart by Dr. Robert Garwell, featuring pianist Dr. Gloria Lin. The ensemble also performed these pieces at the Honors Convocation on April 17, 2008. TCU Percussion Ensemble to Perform at International Conference Dr. Brian West and his TCU Percussion Ensemble have once again been selected by the Percussive Arts Society to perform at PASIC 2008, the international conference of the society, to be held November 6–8. This annual competition (selected blindly from tapes) is open to every college and university percussion ensemble in the world. Only three universities are selected annually, and, once selected, groups must wait out three years before entering again. You may recall that TCU Percussion Ensemble also won this competition in 2005. This is the equivalent of winning a national championship in sports. West and his studio have made us all very proud once again! TCU Tuba-Euphonium Quartet a Finalist in International Competition This past March, the TCU Tuba-Euphonium Quartet was accepted to compete in the semifinal round of the International Tuba Euphonium Conference quartet competition at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. They competed in June and advanced to the final round, where they were placed third among groups who appeared from around the world. Members of the TCU Tuba-Euphonium Quartet are Lacy Brown and Bennett Parsons, euphonium, and Joseph Goralczyk and Johnathon Spann, tuba. The quartet was coached by TCU Tuba/Euphonium professor Richard Murrow. Last October, the TCU Symphony Orchestra was invited to Puerto Rico to perform for the second time at the Festival Iberoamericano de las Artes. Professor Gary Whitman was the soloist in “Divertimento del Sur” by Campos Parsi, performed in Cayey, the last resting place of the composer. The orchestra also performed Corigliano’s “Pied Piper Fantasy” with Australian soloist Alexa Still at the Teatro de Bellas Artes in San Juan. Both concerts were received with great enthusiasm and excellent reviews. TCU Opera and Fort Worth Opera Collaborate TCU shared rehearsal space with the Fort Worth Opera in April as the opera rehearsed its production of Puccini’s Turandot in the TCU Opera Studio, while TCU rehearsed and performed the double bill of Antonio Salieri’s First the Music, Then the Words along with Mozart’s The Impresario. The performances took place in TCU’s Ed Landreth Auditorium on April 25–27 with TCU Symphony Orchestra. Da Capo | 21 The production was designed by Wade Giampa, directed by Richard Estes, and conducted by German Gutierrez and Danaila Hristova. TCU Jazz Ensemble Performs in Italy The award-winning TCU Jazz Ensemble took its seventh international concert tour last summer, July 8–19, 2007. The group was selected (through audition) to give two performances at the prestigious Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. Additional performances were given at the Caruso Jazz Club in Florence and the Fort Worth Sister City of Reggio Emilia. All together, the jazz ensemble performed for more than 3,000 international jazz enthusiasts. TCU Wind Symphony Performs at National and State Conferences Through a “blind” selection process, the TCU Wind Symphony was invited to perform at the College Band Directors National Association Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 29, 2007. This is the first time that the TCU Band has ever been invited to perform at this national convention; it is comparable to winning a national championship. Other performing groups included University of Michigan, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Florida State University, Indiana University, and the Hartt School of Music. The group was also selected to perform an evening concert at the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) convention in San Antonio last spring. It was an outstanding opportunity to perform for over 2,500 Texas music educators, as well as the many “all-state” high school students who attend the TMEA concert—a remarkable showcase for TCU and the School of Music. The stirring performance brought the convention crowd to its feet. As part of the preparation for these events, the Wind Symphony was visited by two major composers: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Colgrass and John Mackey, a recent winner of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award. Both composers worked with the Wind Symphony prior to the performances, an amazing opportunity for the students to learn from living composers who bring insight to the performance of their music. TCU Drummers Win International Competition We would like to congratulate all of the members of the Phantom Regiment Drum Corps (from Rockford, Illinois) for winning the Drum Corps International (DCI) Championship. This very challenging competition was held in Bloomington, Indiana and included drum corps and members from all over the globe. In addition, the regiment won the coveted Fred Sanford Percussion Award, beating out every other drum corps for having the best percussion section. These are very important accomplishments and we are very proud that TCU was so well represented. Members of the TCU family who performed with the Phantom Regiment include Daniel Allen, Michael Garcia, Buck Palmer, Kelsey Svirsky, Tanner Trigg, and Paul Rennick, the Phantom Regiment director of percussion and arranger, and TCU faculty member. In addition, two other TCU percussionists, RJ Colston and Russell Wharton, performed with the Cavaliers Drum Corps (Rosemont, Illinois), who placed third at the DCI finals. We are very happy to have so many TCU students participating in this important youth music education activity. 22 | Da Capo New Faculty and staff Lori Filler Lori Filler joined the TCU School of Music as Administrative Assistant on September 2. She came to the school of music from her position in TCU Advancement. Filler brings a wealth of experience to us, as well as a genuine love of and devotion to music and the arts. Miguel Harth-Bedoya Recognized as one of the most exciting conductors on the international scene, Miguel Harth-Bedoya has served as music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra since 2000; he joins the TCU School of Music as Distinguished Guest Conductor. Under his leadership, both the quality of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and its role in the community have grown significantly. In the words of the Dallas Morning News, “The transformation of the FWSO under music director Miguel HarthBedoya continues to amaze.” The Fort Worth Symphony, conducted by HarthBedoya, made its Carnegie Hall debut in January 2008. Recently released recordings of the Fort Worth Symphony include an allTchaikovsky CD and the first-ever bilingual recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, featuring narrations in Spanish and English with Michael York. Sentimiento Latino, with Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flores (Decca), and Alma del Perú, a recording of Peruvian traditional music with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Lima (Filarmonika), are also available. An active guest conductor, HarthBedoya has appeared with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Milwaukee, Montreal, St. Louis, Seattle, Toronto, and Utah as well as the Minnesota Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In Europe, he has conducted the London BBC Symphony, Berlin Symphony, Birmingham Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Madrid National Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Orchestra/ Hamburg, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, WDR Orchestra/Cologne, and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, among others. Festival appearances include Adelaide, Aspen, Avanti (Helsinki), BBC Proms, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl (for which he received an Emmy), Interlochen, Oregon Bach, Ravinia, and Tanglewood. Recent and upcoming performances include subscription concert debuts with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and the National Symphony, as well as concerts with the Birmingham Symphony (UK), Sydney Symphony, and the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee. Equally at home in opera, Harth-Bedoya has appeared with the Minnesota Opera conducting Tosca and with the Santa Fe Opera conducting Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar with Dawn Upshaw in the leading role, a production that was also presented at Lincoln Center in 2006. Mr. Harth-Bedoya will return to the Minnesota Opera to conduct Un Ballo in Maschera and other productions during the next three years. Next season, he will make his debut with the Canadian Opera Company directing a production of the Barber of Seville. As a result of his exceptional tenure as Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Harth-Bedoya returns to the group every year to conduct a subscription week. Winner of the 2002 Seaver/NEA Conductors Award, he has also served as Music Director of the Auckland Philharmonia, Eugene Symphony, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lima. Born in Peru, Miguel Harth-Bedoya makes his home in Fort Worth with his wife Maritza and their three children, Elena, Emilio, and Elisa. Yuan Xiong Lu A renowned double bass artist, Yuan Xiong Lu joins the TCU School of Music as its first full-time double bass professor. Lu has won numerous national and international competitions, including first prize in the American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition and the 16th annual Corpus Christi International Young Artists Competition. A longtime member of the San Antonio Symphony, Lu is a frequent recitalist, clinician, and chamber music artist throughout the U.S. and China. He has presented master classes at many of the world’s most prestigious universities and conservatories, including Northwestern University, the Shanghai Conservatory, the University of North Texas, University of Hartford, Beijing Central Conservatory, the University of Texas at Austin, the Shenyang Conservatory, and the Sichuan Conservatory. Professor Lu has also given recitals and master classes as a guest artist for the International Society of Bassists Conventions in New York, Interlochen, Houston, and Oklahoma City. Additionally, he has served as a jury member for a number of international double bass competitions, and as director of the Fifth Texas Double Bass Symposium in San Antonio. Prior to joining TCU, Professor Lu served on the faculties of Baylor University and University of the Incarnate Word. Most recently, he was appointed as a Guest Professor for the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. A pioneer of Chinese artists, Lu holds the distinction of being the first Chinese double bass recitalist to perform in China, in a 1984 concert. Subsequently, he has performed as a soloist with various orchestras on major television and radio programs in China, including a live, televised debut with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in 1996. He has also performed with the Grand Teton summer festival orchestra, and served as principal bassist with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chinese Virtuoso Orchestra. A graduate of Shanghai Conservatory and the University of Texas at Austin, Lu is a native of Shanghai, China; he became a U.S. citizen in 1998. Throughout his career, he has worked with and been associated with many of the world’s leading artists including Zdenek Macal, Josef Gingold, Sergiu Comissiona, Larry Rachleff, and prominent bassists such as David Neubert, Stuart Sankey, David Walter, Jeff Bradetich, Paul Ellison, Ed Barker, Eugene Levinson, Francois Rabbath, Homer Mensch, and Gary Karr. Critics have acclaimed him as “a leading double bass virtuoso, a unique world-class performer.” Da Capo | 23 FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS Dr. H. Joseph Butler (organ, Associate Dean of Fine Arts) performed recitals at Hong Kong Baptist University and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, where he also taught a master class on the organ works of J. S. Bach. He performed solo recitals at Trinity United Methodist Church in Wilmette, Illinois (Chicago area) and at Broadway Baptist Church here in Fort Worth. Touring with the TCU Wind Symphony, he performed at the CBDNA Convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at TMEA in San Antonio. Butler was named an Associate in the American Guild of Organists, following a two-day examination in organ performance, sight-reading, and improvisation, as well as music history and theory. He was a guest lecturer at the AGO Regional Convention held in Dallas in 2007. Over the summer, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Carr performed for the Colorado Council for the Arts and Humanities, bringing classical music to rural towns in Colorado. “Music in the Spanish Tradition,” a voice/ piano recital in collaboration with pianist Dr. Linda Jenks from Colorado University Boulder, featured music of Granados, Obradors, Rodrigo, and Latin American folk music. The concerts aimed to help connect the Hispanic and Anglo communities throughout Western Colorado through music and the arts. Concerts were held in La Veta, Durango, Mancos, Paonia, and Rifle, Colorado, and raised money for local libraries. Carr says, “I taught music for 12 years in Western Colorado before coming back to Texas. Many of these communities provide the work force for the big ski areas. Most of these people are the backbone of the ski industry, yet cannot afford to live in the ski towns. Instead they live in small, isolated, rural areas with long and difficult commutes. It is always a joy to present concerts for them, as they are starved for the arts. It’s a very special thing to perform for people who really need to hear something uplifting.” Dr. Jesús Castro-Balbi (cello) and Harold Martina (piano) gave a recital at the EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia on September 5, 2007, and Castro-Balbi conducted a master-class there on the following day. He also performed a program of chamber music with Clavier Trio at the University of Colorado-Boulder on October 3, 2007, and gave a master class there on October 2. Together with Dr. Gloria Lin 24 | Da Capo (piano), Castro-Balbi presented a program of cello and piano music, entitled Rapsodia Latina, on the opening night (October 11, 2007) of the TCU Latin American Arts Festival in PepsiCo Recital Hall. He also performed a program of chamber music with Clavier Trio at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, on October 7, 2007, to a sold out house and to rave reviews in the New York Concert Review and Strad magazine. Castro-Balbi conducted the String Orchestra (part of the Greater Fort Worth Youth Orchestra) in 2007 and 2008 concerts. He has recently served as a judge for the selection of the Association of Performing Arts Presenter’s Young Performer’s Career Advancement awards, and has given recent master classes at the Paris National Conservatoire, France and at the Versailles City Conservatory. Also in the last year, with Clavier Trio, Castro-Balbi performed in Riga, Latvia; at the University of Texas at Dallas, featuring the world premiere performance of a trio by Robert Xavier Rodriguez; and at Bargemusic in New York City. Joe Eckert, TCU’s new full-time Professor of Saxophone, has had a busy spring. In February, he was asked to “sub” for Sir John Dankworth in the Texas Ballet Theater’s production of “Jazz Royalty,” a unique collaboration of incomparable jazz vocalist Dame Cleo Laine, the innovative jazz composer Dankworth, and the critically acclaimed dancers of Texas Ballet Theater. The show ran in Dallas at the Majestic Theater and in Fort Worth at Bass Performance Hall. Eckert also presented a lecture-recital entitled “The Saxophone from Bach to Bop” at the annual Texas Music Educators Conference in San Antonio. Last year, his other performances included “Temptations” in Dallas, the Texas premiere of “PREciPice” for Wind Symphony and Alto Saxophone by Dr. Till MacIvor Meyn (on February 25), and a performance and adjudication at the Jazz Discovery music festival in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Eckert served as an adjudicator and guest soloist at TCU’s 30th annual Jazz Festival at the end of March and also at the North Texas Jazz Festival in Addison in early April. May brought a performance and clinic at East Stroudsburg High School in Pennsylvania, and the first annual TCU Saxophone Workshop took place in June. Eckert continued his various freelance activities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area over the summer months and also served on the faculty of the Texas All Star Jazz Camp, held at Collin Community College in July. At the 2007 conference of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), TCU School of Music Director Dr. Richard C. Gipson was elected chair of NASM Region 9. Gipson will serve a three-year term as chair of the region and will sit on the NASM Board of Directors. Region 9 includes accredited music schools in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The TCU School of Music has been a continuous fully accredited member of NASM since 1949. Congratulations to Erin Gossett, former School of Music Administrative Assistant, for completing her graduate studies at TCU last May. She received her Master of Education diploma on May 10. Brava Erin! David Grogan (voice) stayed busy last semester, teaching in the Voice Lab, and finishing up his course work at UNT. In addition, he also sang the Brahms Liebeslieder-Walzer at Texas Wesleyan University (with former TCU professor Julie McCoy), the Brahms Requiem with the New Mexico Symphony and the Arlington Master Chorale, and the Mendelssohn St. Paul with the Highland Park United Methodist Church. Dr. German Gutierrez (Director of Orchestra Studies) takes his first sabbatical leave from TCU in the fall of 2008 in order to accept several international guestconducting invitations. Among these invitations are the Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, the Orquesta de la Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, and the national symphonies of Peru, Costa Rica, and Colombia. In addition, Gutierrez conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for an unprecedented 12th year as a guest conductor of the Symphony’s Hispanic Festival. Stage Manager Ryan McFarland’s past year has been full of events that have brought happiness, fulfillment, and new beginnings. In June 2007, he was married. He and his beautiful wife, Shaunna, met during their college years here at TCU in 2004. Shaunna is a graduate of TCU’s School of Education, and she now teaches kindergarten in Eagle Mountain ISD. Last November, McFarland was featured in the TCU Concert Chorale’s annual concert at St. Stephens Presbyterian Church. He performed the solo part in “Five Mystical Songs” for baritone and chorus by Ralph Vaughn Williams, and loved every second of it. Finally, this past spring, McFarland began his studies for the Master of Music in Choral Conducting at TCU. Dr. Michael Meckna (music history) contributed “Looking for Chet Baker: The Trumpet Player in Fiction” to the March 2008 International Trumpet Guild Journal; he gave a presentation entitled “Musicians in Fiction” at TMEA; he wrote an entry on Cy Coleman for the Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; he contributed “Music Is Too Important” to the Spring 2007 issue of the South Central Music Bulletin; he reviewed books on Brahms, Mahler, Sousa, and a fictional violinist for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries and for the American Music Teacher; he wrote liner notes for the TCU School of Music DVD of Verdi’s Requiem; and he was appointed Literary Figures editor for the forthcoming New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Dr. Till MacIvor Meyn (theory and composition) joined the faculty in August 2007; during the 2007–08 school year, his choral piece entitled “Jubilate Deo” was accepted for publication by Ione Press (a division of E.C. Schirmer); his percussion piece “Groovelocity,” performed by the Percussion Art Ensemble, appeared on Dark Wood, a CD released by Youngstown State University; and he enjoyed several performances of his works, both in Texas and further afield. Among those were “Red/Blue” for clarinet and piano, premiered by Gary Whitman and Janet Pummill at ClarinetFest 2008 in Kansas City; “PREciPice” for Wind Symphony and Alto Saxophone, given its Texas premiere by professor Joe Eckert and the TCU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and its South Carolina premiere by Dr. James Umble at the Biennial National Saxophone Congress; and “Piano Suite,” given its Texas premiere by TCU graduate student Avguste Antonov. Meyn is a National Arts Associate for Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity, for which his commissioned “SAI Symphony,” a choral work, was given its premiere last spring by the Alpha Nu chapter. He collaborated with Dr. Martin Blessinger to host a TCU student composers’ concert in Pepsico Recital Hall last semester. Meyn joined Schola Cantorum of Texas last year, for which he performs as a bass singer. Last spring, Sue Ott (Administrative Assistant) received her 10-year-service pin from TCU. She expects to graduate with her Master of Liberal Arts degree in December 2008. In addition to her work at the School of Music and her studies, Ott has been teaching “Learn to Sew” classes for TCU Extended Education. Janet Pummill (Coordinator of Accompanying; Staff Accompanist) performed in many recitals and concerts during the last school year, including those by faculty, students, divisions, ensembles, guest artists, as well as new faculty audition recitals and concerts. She continues to perform with Clavivoce, the four-piano, four-voice ensemble with her three daughters, Sallie, ’93, ’95; Amy, ’96, ’00; and Julie ’02, ’05. Other concert venues included Music at Westminster, Oklahoma City; Midland Opera Association Gala; Duncanville Community Concert; concerts for Schola Cantorum as an organist; as well as the Modern Art Museum as an accompanist and featured soloist with Canto. In addition, she accompanied for six sessions for the Elementary Division, TMEA. Pummill’s composition “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” was performed on several occasions by the following ensembles: the TCU Chorale at the Chancelor’s Convocation, TCU Chorale and Orchestra at the Christmas concert, TCU Choral Union, NY Pops with Doc Severinson, Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, Community Choirs, and Rockport-Fulton High School Choir. This composition was also selected to be performed by the TCU Chorale and Orchestra at the Annual Campaign Gala. Summer engagements included North Carolina Choral Institute of Summer Art in the Blue Ridge Mountains; featured soloist and accompanist for a series of concerts for Canto Choir, Cherry Spring Summer Festival; accompanist for Gary Whitman for the International Clarinet Association, premiering a new work by Dr. Till MacIvor Meyn; accompanist for All State Summer Camp, TCU; and pianist for Bloys Campmeeting Association in the Fort Davis Mountains. A special highlight of the summer was filming the birth of her third grandchild. Kristen Queen (Administrative Assistant) gave birth to Madelyn Anne Queen at 11:17 pm on Thursday, July 24, 2008. The mother and daughter (and dad) are doing great. Congratulations Kristen! Dr. Kenneth Raessler, Director of the School of Music and Professor Emeritus, has had a busy professional life since his retirement. His first book, Aspiring to Excel: Leadership Initiatives for Music Educators (2003, GIA Publications) is already in its second printing. Partially autobiographical and partly educational, the book has been listed in a recent publication as “one of the top ten books every educator should have in their library.” Amazon.com has it listed as a five-star book. TCU is mentioned many times in the work, particularly in the chapter on music in higher education. Raessler has presented keynote addresses for 16 state music education conferences since his retirement and has served as clinician for over 30 state, national, and international conferences. He has also contributed several chapters to a recent book by James Jordan entitled The Musicians Walk (2006, GIA Publications) as well as to The School Choral Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing, and Teaching (2008, GIA Da Capo | 25 Publications). Also, Raessler has served for three summers as the founding Executive Director of the Samuel Barber Summer Institute at West Chester University in Pennsylvania along with teaching week-long summer seminars at Villanova University and Westminster Choir College. Paul (percussion) and Sandi Rennick are proud new parents: Their daughter, Catherine Maeve Rennick, was born on July 12, 2008. In addition to his annual faculty recital at TCU, Gary Whitman (clarinet) was a guest performer at the “Cliburn at the Modern” series, presenting music for clarinet and piano by Osvaldo Goloijov. He participated in two world premieres involving TCU faculty. The first was “Venice Suite” by Elena Sokolovsky with Trio Con Brio, including Misha Galaganov, viola, and John Owings, piano, during the Faculty and Friends Chamber Music Series at TCU. The second premiere was at ClarinetFest 2008 in Kansas City, Missouri, where he performed “Red/Blue” by TCU composer Till MacIvor Meyn, accompanied by Janet Pummill, piano. Whitman continues to perform as bass clarinetist with the Fort Worth Symphony. He traveled and performed with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City in January 2008. As a member of the orchestra, he participated in the Texas premiere of “Angels in America” by Peter Eutvos during the 2008 Fort Worth Opera Festival. On September 1, 2008, he began a twoyear term as President of the International Clarinet Association. The ICA is a worldwide organization of 4,000 clarinetists representing 35 countries. He will travel to Porto, Portugal, to coordinate ClarinetFest 2009. Professor Whitman presented a clinic on the All-State audition music for soprano clarinets at the 2008 Texas Bandmasters 26 | Da Capo Association Convention in San Antonio; he continues to administer and teach at the TCU Summer Clarinet Workshop for high school students, with Andrew Crisanti and Victoria Luperi. Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Music Curt Wilson had the following compositions published this past year: “Fantasy Variations for Wind Ensembles” (Really Good Music), “Rainbows” elegy for tuba and band (Shoop publications), and “A Lite Touch” for jazz ensemble (Walrus Music). In addition, he had two arrangements for jazz trumpet ensemble published by Triplo Music: “Short Stop” and “Sophisticated Lady.” Notable performances of some of Wilson’s arrangements included “Christmas is Here” and “Christmas Triptych” for choir and orchestra by the Fort Worth, Corpus Christi, and Las Vegas symphony orchestras, and “Bells Across the Snow” by John Giordano (choral arrangement by Janet Pummill; orchestral arrangement by Curt Wilson) by the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and the Corpus Christi Symphony. His commissioned arrangement of the Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Medley” for clarinet sextet was performed at Clarinetfest in Vancouver, British Columbia by the Texas Clarinet Consort. In addition, his arrangement of “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” written in 1996 for the TCU Marching Band, was used as the finale of the 2007 Houston Bowl and was performed by the combined bands of TCU and the University of Houston. Wilson has just completed his 10th season as conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Concerts in the Garden Big Band. On October 7, his “Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra” will be premiered by the TCU Symphony Orchestra, John Giordano, and Dr. Curt Thompson. ALUMNI NEWS Eugenia Edwards Schuler ’54 set Psalms 119, 19, and 1 to music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Her works were performed at “A Bach Birthday Celebration” concert on March 16, 2008, at the First United Methodist Church in Kerrville, Texas. A story about her work was featured in Kerrville Daily Times on March 15. She was also awarded a commission from the Stevens Point City Band for a composition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the City of Stevens Point. The new piece, SUNSET: Passacaglia for Band, was premiered on July 16. James Sharp ’58 was a student of Emmet G. Smith while at TCU. Under his guidance, Sharp was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study organ and organ literature in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Herr Finn Videro. His other degrees are a MM in Organ from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Organ and Theory from Michigan State University. After 10 years of teaching at the college level, he attended seminary and was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1974, then ordained as a Catholic priest for the Diocese of Dallas in l984. Sharp served several parishes in Dallas, the last being St. Michael the Archangel, Garland. During his tenure there, he oversaw the raising of money for the building of a three-manual organ. He retired from active ministry on January 1, 2006, and now lives in Garland with his wife, Beverly. Sharp has always considered being a student of Professor Smith not only an honor, but a privilege, calling Smith a great teacher and friend, and adding that TCU was very fortunate to have Smith’s years of service to the university. Sandy Keathley ’68, after teaching at various colleges for almost 30 years, got bored and changed careers. He taught himself computer programming and is now Senior Programmer and Application Architect for a national leader in the vehicle service contract industry. He reports that the abstraction of reading music is a huge logical asset for a programmer, and that there are many musicians who have entered his field. L. Edward Sizemore ’68 married Barbara Skirven Lamb on June 24, 2007. In late September, they moved to Davenport, Iowa, where Barbara began her new job as Head of School for Quad Cities Montessori School. In July, they moved again, this time to Corpus Christi, Texas, where Barbara accepted an administrative position with a large Catholic school. Ed continues his writing, working with local newspapers and the classical music radio stations. Ann Milford Koonsman ’68 is honored to continue serving as President of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association for more than two decades. Their most recent successes have been the launching of a Mahler Cycle; over the span of three years (August 2007, August 2008, and August 2009) the FWSO will perform the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler. As the resident company of Bass Performance Hall, the orchestra made its debut on the stage of Carnegie Hall in January 2008 to critical acclaim. Koonsman is currently serving as Chairman of the International Board of Visitors for the College of Fine Arts at TCU, and, as such, she has been greatly involved in biannual galas, which raise funds designated for scholarships and special projects in the college. She is married to businessman Ron Koonsman, and they have a son, Brandon, a daughterin-law, Lori, and three grandsons, Parker, Hudson, and Griffin Koonsman. Retired Metropolitan Opera baritone Ryan Edwards ’71, recent recipient of the National Opera Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, is also author of The Verdi Baritone, an exploration of dramatic character in seven great operas. Now available in a new paperback edition by Indiana University Press, this best-selling book is featured in the Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast study guides and is also listed as recommended reading by La Scala, La Fenice, and the New Grove’s “Verdi and His Operas.” Ann Low Reego ’72 is currently employed in Knoxville, Tennessee at The Webb School, an independent day school. Ann teaches in the middle school and has performing choirs in all three grades. Six years ago, they added hand-bells to the curriculum, and she now has six hand-bell choirs in the middle school and two in the upper school. When Ann left TCU in 1972, she had aspirations to be a high school choral director. She got a job in Edinburg, Texas at South Middle School and by Christmas knew that she would never leave that age group. In 1975, she married Jim, who now has recently retired from his career with General Mills. With his job, they moved all over the country: San Antonio, Houston, Salt Lake City, and Minneapolis, before settling in Knoxville 21 years ago. In 1982, Ann took a 13-year hiatus from teaching to have two daughters, Sarah and Allison. During that time, she never really quit teaching music: Ann served as children’s music director in several churches and, in 1989, founded the Farragut Children’s Choir, a community chorus for children in grades 3–5. Outside of school, she enjoys sewing, cooking, and traveling with Jim—usually to see their children and grandchildren. She would love to hear from other music students who were in her classes, especially members of the A Capella choir from 1968–72. Susan Michelle Malone ’76 has served as Co-Director of the Arlington ISD All-City Choir since the fall of 1990. At first, she was Co-Director of the All-City Boys Choir, and currently she co-directs the Boys and Girls Choir, which was one of four elementary school choirs invited to perform for the 2008 TMEA convention. The choir’s performance was in Lila Cockrell Theater on February 15, 2008. Susan is now in her 23rd year of teaching at Corey Elementary School and in her 28th year with the Arlington ISD. She received her Bachelors of Music Education from Texas Christian University and a Masters of Music with Emphasis in Kodaly Pedagogy from Sam Houston State University. She also received certification in Orff Schulwerk from Southern Methodist University. Larry Wolz ‘76 just completed his 30th year as Professor of Music at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. His research, writing, and lecturing has centered on Texas for a number of years now. During the spring semester 2008, he presented a lecturerecital for the Villa Maria Song Salon series in Houston on the topic “Home on the Range: Art Song in Texas.” Wolz also presented a paper at the national conference of the Society for American Music meeting in San Antonio, entitled “Carl Beck (1850–1920): Father of the Orchestra in Texas.” Wolz was the only American scholar invited to present a paper at a symposium on Flemish music sponsored by the Center for Flemish Music Studies at the Flemish Royal Conservatory on March 18, 2008. The topic of the lecture was “The Songs of Frank van der Stucken (1858–1929): Music of Two Continents and Two Traditions.” The Fredericksburg, Texas-born conductor and composer Frank van der Stucken is honored in Antwerp as a Flemish musician because he studied there with Peter Benoit, the founder of the Flemish nationalist music movement during the 19th century. Wolz is still working on a monograph on the life and works of Frank van der Stucken, the first internationally known Texas-born musician. V. Laura Bozeman ’78 attended the 12th World Piano Pedagogy Conference as an adjudicator for the Most Wanted Piano Competition last November. Last year, she was a piano instructor for the Choir School of East Texas in Tyler, and she will continue as the director of class piano for the incoming students this fall. Candace Bawcombe ’78, ’80 entered her third year as Organist/Choirmaster/Chief Liturgical Officer at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in downtown Fort Worth. She has begun a new nonprofit program, Friends of Music at St. Andrew’s, which serves as a presenter of international choral artists. Bawcombe serves as Artistic and Executive Director of the program. She remains on the board of directors of the Dallas Chamber Music Society, Inc. as a program chair, presenting Emerson String Quartet and the finest musicians in chamber music today to the local audiences. The monthly Wednesday at Noon recital series at St. Andrew’s continues to feature local talents to a growing downtown audience, including home-schooled children in the metro area. This year, in addition to a couple of organ concerts, Bawcombe performed violin-and-piano recitals, touring with Florence Schwartz from Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Curt Thompson from TCU, and playing with her husband, violinist Andrew Schast, on the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music at the Nasher series. Her 12-year-old daughter, Cateline, continues to study piano along with figure skating and organ, and her 4-year-old son, William, studies violin. Rev. Dr. Joe and Bobbie Hendrixson ’79: Joe is the Regional Director of Church World Service; Bobbie was recently appointed as the Assistant Director of Mental Health for the state of Kansas. They have two children, Lyndsay Jo (’06) and Caleb, a sophomore in high school. Both children are musical like their parents: Lyndsay Jo is a French horn player, and Caleb is a clarinetist. Kerry Hughes ’81 has been a member of Yanni’s recording and touring band since early 1994. On all of his broadcast videos and CDs since that time, Kerry has recorded live videos in such venues as the Taj Mahal, India; Forbidden City, China; Royal Albert Hall, London; Toji Temple, Japan; and, most recently, Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. In the fall of 2008, the next Yanni video will be shot in Acapulco, Mexico. Hughes has also toured throughout the world with numerous Broadway companies. While on a recent Yanni hiatus, Hughes has thoroughly enjoyed giving back through private trumpet instruction, guest clinics and master classes, band camps, and adjudication, as well as freelance performing and recording. Rebecca Mack-Wilson ’83 is presently a music teacher. Da Capo | 27 Al Holcomb ’84 co-authored an article on music-teacher mentoring to be published in the Journal of Research in Music Education. He recently reunited with former members of TCU Concert Chorale, Randy Lacy, Robert Cruhm, Tom Boswell, and Lorinda Lee, to perform in a Hill Country music festival. They were accompanied by Janet Pummill and directed by TCU alum Brent Ault. Brian Benison ’85, with his company (www.brianbenisonmusic.com), recently completed music preparation recording sessions with Vanessa Williams, Monica Mancini, and Al Jarreau. They also completed work on Kenny G’s new album Rhythm & Romance. In addition, they are doing music preparation for all shows of new client George Benson. Upcoming projects include a new album, featuring Placido Domingo, and a new opera, Rio de Sangre, by Don Davis, the composer of the music for the Matrix movies. The business is now also renting orchestral scores and parts of classical and jazz compositions to orchestras around the globe. Patricia Bivens ’86 is the Associate Director of Bands at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, where she directs the marching band, brass ensemble, and jazz ensemble. She also teaches the low brass studio and music education courses. In September 2008, she will begin course work on a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Music Education at Boston University. Stephen (Mickey) Coover ’87 has had the pleasure of teaching kindergarten through second grade music (someone has to have the patience) for 20 years. He is still single. He has a screaming three-piece rockand-roll band in Austin, Texas. Stephen also plays double bass, harp, steel guitar, and various other guitar applications. He plays live music and does some recording sessions, too. For Amy Detrick Allibon ’89, the academic year 2007-08 has been eventful. She has beaten cancer (lymphoma), conducted the Haltom A cappella Choir at TMEA in February 2008, was elected President-Elect of TCDA, lost her mother, and changed jobs. She is teaching part-time at Watauga Middle School as the assistant director. She is also looking forward to conducting the numerous region choirs this year in addition to the 2009 Arkansas All State Treble Choir. 28 | Da Capo John Michael Hutchinson ’89, ’91 completed his fifth year as Director of Music, Worship & Arts and organist at the Cumming First United Methodist Church in Cumming, Georgia, and he finished his 24th year as organist for the Bloys Camp Meeting Association outside of Fort Davis, Texas. Over the course of the past year, through the auspices of the church, he commissioned and premiered a service of Christmas Lessons and Carols for multiple choirs and chamber orchestra. He established the first annual Festival of Arts with over 200 participating visual artists, over $10,000 in juried award money, multiple concert settings, and an estimate of over 3,000 people in attendance. During the year, John performed as organist with the North Georgia Symphony, premiered his original organ scores for the silent Laurel and Hardy comedy shorts “Habeas Corpus” and “Liberty,” and was guest organ soloist at the historic Trinity United Methodist Church with proceeds benefiting the restoration project for the city’s oldest playing Austin organ, built in 1912. Alan Luke Burton ’90, though he has a non-musical career, is still an active freelance musician in the Dallas area. Angela Gipson ’90, ’92 is in her eighth year at Kerr Middle School in Burleson, where she is affectionately known as “G-Dawg.” Larry Wayne Morbitt ’93 has been engaged in his 13th year with the Phantom of the Opera and has performed in their newest production called Phantom, the Las Vegas Spectacular at the Venetian Resort and Casino. He is still playing the principle role of Ubaldo Piangi, the opera tenor. He continues to do extensive concerts across the country, particularly gospel. Donovan Wygal ’94 continues teaching music at Stripling Middle School, where many of our budding music teachers observe his rehearsals and classes. Beth McGinnis ’95 serves as an organist at the Vestavia Baptist Church and continues to teach music history and musicology at nearby Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Steve Andre ’96 just served a term as president of Texas Music Educators Association. Guadalupe Rivera, Jr. ’96 is currently completing DMA in Choral Conducting at the University of Arizona. As a member of a conducting master class, he studied with Maestro Helmuth Rilling during the summers of 2006 and 2007 at the Oregon Bach Festival. Rivera has been a guest conductor of the Corpus Christi Cathedral and Symphony Christmas Pageant and a guest conductor of FWISD High School Honor Choir Festival. Last year, he returned to Dallas-Fort Worth area to sing in Dr. Tim Seelig’s last concert with the Turtle Creek Chorale. Sara (Beth) Pempsell ’97 received her MM from University of New Mexico in 1999. Currently, she works as a middle school band director. Jonathan Wallis ’96 was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Diocese of Fort Worth on July 7, 2007. Katarina Boudreaux ’98 performed in a showcase of the Potable Dorothy Parker Theater in lower Manhattan; was the guest artist for Uncle Charlie’s midtown; and booked the Reprise Room at Dillon’s for a jazzaret program in June with Michael Thomas Murphy. Ava Mason Pine ’98 spent the summer of 2007 in Chautuaqua, New York, apprenticing with their opera company. She sang Frasquita in Carmen, Sophie in Werther, Lady Larken in Once Upon A Mattress, and covered Adina in Elixir of Love. During the 2006–07 season, Pine became the first young artist in residence with the Dallas Opera, performing small roles in four productions. In March 2007, she made a return appearance with the Dallas Symphony, singing Messiah and Bach’s Mass in B Minor. During the season of 2007–08, she returned to Dallas for four more productions and also debuted with the Fort Worth Opera, singing the role of the Angel in Angels in America. In reviewing the Texas Camerata’s April 5, 2008, concert at the Modern Art Museum, Punch Shaw wrote “Pine’s rendering of selections from [J.S. Bach’s] BWV 82, in which every note emerged fully shaped, perfectly honed, and without the slightest taint of strain, was so gorgeous and enthralling that it felt as if Bach was speaking directly to us with no score in between.” Lance Beaumont ’99, ’02 has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Howard Payne University, where he heads up the guitar program and teaches music history and music technology. Brandon Moore ’99 is working as a freelance film composer in Los Angeles. Some of his work can be seen and heard at www.brandonmooremusic.com. Jill Dibrell Nennmann ’00, ’02 was appointed Director of Music and Organist at Saint Joseph church in Wilmette, Illinois, in an historic parish in a northshore Chicago suburb. She is responsible for coordinating all liturgies, including musical planning, cantor training, and the development of the Parish Choir, St. Cecilia (Children’s) Choir, Handbell Choir, and Schola Cantorum. Saint Joseph church also has an outstanding fine arts program that includes multiple special concerts/ liturgies presented by the Music Ministry each year, as well as a series of visiting recitalists. John Pasquale ’00 completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Oklahoma in May 2008. Currently, he is hired as the Assistant Director of Bands and the Associate Director of the Marching and Athletic Bands at the University of Michigan. Donny Pinson ’00 married Melissa Ward Pinson in June 2008. He earned a doctorate (DMA) in performance from University of North Texas in August 2008. Currently, he performs on trombone throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area and maintains a large teaching studio. He also has his own website at www.donnypinson.com. Kimberly Holleman Randolph ’00, Dave, and big brother Cooper Austin are pleased to announce the birth of Ethan James on September 4, 2007. Dave is the IT Officer for Northstar Bank of Texas and Kim is an independent consultant for The Pampered Chef. They reside in Corinth, Texas. Julián Gómez-Giraldo ’01 (MM in Conducting), ’03 (MM in Theory and Composition) worked as the Director of Choral Music education and Associate Director of Choral Activities at the University of Northern Colorado until last summer. Since August 2008, he has a new position as the Director of Orchestras at Eastern Washington University. His choral music is currently being published by Hal Leonard Corporation. Genevieve Bennetts Zelaya ’01 and her husband Rafael ’03 moved to the Houston area in the summer of 2007. After six years as a successful middle school band director, Genny moved over to the field of counseling. She currently works as a middle school counselor in Pearland, Texas. She graduated in December 2007 with a master’s degree in school counseling from the University of Houston-Victoria. Andres Franco ’02, a former conducting student of Dr. German Gutierrez, was appointed in August 2007 as Assistant Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO). According to Maestro Harth-Bedoya, the music director of the FWSO, Franco has been one of the most liked and respected assistant conductors of the FWSO in recent years. Unkyoung Teresa Kim ’02 is now CEO of Global Artistic Management. Her performance DVD was released in Europe last year. She organized a Peace Concert in Korea on May 23 at the Parliament to remember Berlin gold medalist marathoner Son Kijung. This project will continue throughout the world. Courtney Mlinar ’02 is the assistant library director at Cottey College and a freelance musician in the Kansas City area. She is currently serving as the Vice-Chair for the Missouri College and Research Library division of the Missouri Library Association and on the Instruction Section Website Task Force for ALA. She performed clarinet and chamber music recitals at Cottey College on April 9 and at Vacation College on May 24. Marcos Balter ’03 received his PhD from Northwestern University, where he now teaches theory and composition. Christina Hager ’03 is ending her time as the Mezzo Resident Artist at the Shreveport Opera, where she most recently performed Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro. She was extremely excited to be heading back to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to sing Dorabella with the Living Opera in June 2008. In the fall, Hager will move to New York City. Elisa Williams Bickers ’04, ’06 will enter her third year of doctoral study at KU, and she continues to be the organist at First United Methodist Church in Lawrence, Kansas. This last year, she was a semifinalist in the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, and she was recently hired as professor of organ and church music at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. John Angeles ’05 is currently performing with the touring company of STOMP, a percussion group that performs rhythmic sounds with various items such as basketballs, lighters, sinks, garbage cans, oil drums, brooms, and more. They have done television commercials and have been performers on various television shows. The group began in England, and tours in the US and internationally. STOMP performed at the Dallas Fair Park Music Hall in June 2008. Jeremy Lewis ’05 was appointed Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at West Texas A & M in Canyon, Texas. Lewis attended Indiana University and received his MM degree in Tuba Performance after graduating from TCU. He spent the past year teaching tuba and euphonium in the Fort Worth area. If you would like to contact Lewis, his e-mail address is jdl3@ alumni.iu.edu. Betina Pasteknik ’05 now lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. She has a great chamber music group with clarinet and piano; they really like to work together, and they have concerts in Paris and Lausanne. Pasteknik takes lessons with Pierre Amoyal. Last year, a wealthy sponsor gave her a very nice Italian violin made in 1750 in Milan. The violin looks amazing and sounds very good! Rumen Cvetkov ’06 has lived in Mannheim, Germany since December 2007. He has many solo recitals and chamber music concerts throughout Europe, collaborating with such musicians as Bernard Greenhouse, Peter Rainer, Roger Chase, Vladimir Mendelsohn, and many others. He has played a few times as a solo violist of Kammerakademie Potsdam, one of the finest chamber orchestras in Germany, and he is working with them from time to time on chamber music projects. Roger Chase invited Cvetkov for a solo recording he did in London of British music for multiple violas. The CD is going to be out very soon. Da Capo | 29 Jason DeWater ’06 was appointed Principal Horn of the Omaha Symphony. Brian Lockard ’06 now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. In February, he recorded a CD with composer/violinist Jonathan Levingston of Levingston’s original works. Lockard is currently teaching privately and accompanying performances at Northern Arizona University. performance major Andrew Fowler was selected through a national audition to perform in the Disneyland Band in Annaheim, California last summer. Graduate cello student Ignacy Grzelazka received the Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series Award and performed in the Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series Cole Ritchie ’06, ’08 has been accepted into the musicology PhD program at UNT. Silvia Nuñez ’07 performed solo with Fort Worth Symphony in Peru in October 2007. The composer Enrique Iturriaga, who is 90 years old now, said “I did not write this music for any voice in particular, but it sounds so good in yours—what a delicious sound!” The most important newspaper in Peru, El Comercio, published a very complimentary review about Nuñez’s performance. Leah Barnett Rockwell ’07 married Brian Rockwell in August 2007. They live in Fort Worth. Brian works for an oil and gas company. Leah is currently teaching at Southwestern Assemblies of God University as a voice instructor. She is also teaching at several schools in the Birdville ISD. In addition, she has started her own music company, AuthoriPay, Inc. You can look them up at www.authoripay.com. on September 17, 2008. During the last season, he performed solo concertos with the Youth Orchestra of El Paso, the Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth, and the TCU Cello Ensemble. Freshman cellist Hyung-Joo Kim was a winner of the concerto competition and Congratulations to Stephanie Odabashian, winner of the TMEA 2008 College Student Essay Contest. Her essay, “Passionate about Music Education,” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Southwestern Musician. Odabashian is a junior music education major; she studies with San-ky Kim and Sheri Neill. Senior cellist Taide Prieto won a scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the Eastman School in Rochester, New York. She also received the Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series Award and performed in the Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series on November 5, 2007. Together with another cello student, Ignacy Grzelazka, Prieto performed Vivaldi’s Double Concerto with YO String Orchestra (part of the Greater Fort Worth Youth Orchestra) on October 21, 2007 at St. Rita Catholic Church. They were also the featured soloists in this concerto with the TCU Cello Ensemble on March 29, 2008 in Dallas and on April 5 at TCU. Many congratulations to Jake Remington, who successfully completed an audition to attend London’s prestigious Royal Academy Adam Stout is serving as a cruise ship musician aboard such vessels as the Disney Magic. Hannah Mowery finished her doctoral work at Rice University, with a dissertation entitled “Unification by Replication: Music, Architecture, and the Imperial Image of Ercole I d’Este.” STUDENT NEWS Jazz studies graduate assistant Micah Bell was selected by Jazziz magazine as one of the college students to be represented on the publication’s annual Best of College Jazz CD, distributed in the fall of 2007 in all of their magazines, all over the world. Bell’s jazz combo is performing one of his original compositions, “Late September— Friday Morning!” Junior 30 | Da Capo trumpet performed with the TCU Symphony in February 2008. He has been invited to perform with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2008. Peter Kutin, a graduate viola student, was accepted on full scholarship to several music festivals last summer. During the Music in the Mountains festival in Durango, Colorado, Kutin had several successful solo and chamber music performances. Graduate cello student Andrés Felipe Jaime was offered scholarships to attend Temple University and TCU, and he opted to stay at TCU in the orchestral conducting graduate program. Jaime was also invited to participate in the Festival Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil de las Americas in Puerto Rico in June 2008. of Music. Remington went to London this fall to study; he will return to TCU to studentteach in the spring and to graduate. It should be noted that he had to complete a graduate-level material for this audition. Remington will be joining TCU percussion alum Manny Arciniega, who is already in London working on his graduate degree. Graduate viola student Andrey Yarovoy was featured as one of only two TCU School of Music students in a broadcast of the TCU radio station last spring. He was invited to attend Hot Springs Music Festival in June along with fellow undergraduate violist Fabricio Cavero Farfan. TCU organ student Sunny Yu distinguished herself in the 36th Annual Wm. C. Hall Organ Competition held in San Antonio, taking second prize overall and first prize in hymn playing. On March 26, Yu gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Christina, weighing 7 lbs., 14 oz. Congratulations to John and Sunny! IN MEMORIAM Dr. Donna Edwards, who was on the TCU faculty for a number of years and was also a Dallas MTA teacher, passed away from liver cancer on March 17, 2008. A memorial service was held at Believers Chapel in Dallas. Noah A. Knepper (1921–2007), former TCU music faculty member and associate dean of graduate studies in Fine Arts, passed away September 10, 2007. He retired in 1990 from TCU, where he taught performance, composition, and conducting. He played widely in area symphony orchestras and dance bands, and, from the 1960s through 1980s, was a fixture in the orchestra pit at Casa Mañana. Judith Anne Solomon (1943–2007), an associate professor emeritus of music at TCU, died peacefully on December 22, 2007. Family services were held in the Beth-El Section of Greenwood Memorial Park. Please see further story in this issue of Da Capo 12 | Da Capo ORDER NOW! 2008 TCU Jazz CD “Just Friends.” This double CD contains nearly 30 great big band compositions, including the work commissioned by TCU for Curt Wilson’s 30-year celebration, The Sun Will Shine Today, by legendary Hollywood film composer Pat Williams, as well as his Grammy-nominated work Concerto In Swing, featuring Professor Gary Whitman. Hear TCU’s new professor of saxophone, Joe Eckert, on a Curt Wilson original, entitled A Lite Touch. 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