The Boyer College is proud to wel-come the following new members ofout faculty.Chris Neal, Assistant Professor ofMusic Education and Director ofAthletic Bands, came to the BoyerCollege on very short notice last sum-mer when we had an unexpectedopening for Director of AthleticBands. Dr. Neal received his BMEd de-gree from the University of Oklahoma,an MM in Instrumental Conductingfrom The University of Texas Austin,and returned to the University ofOklahoma for his DMA inInstrumental Conducting.

Dr. Neal, as a doctoral conductingassistant at Oklahoma, was responsi-ble for the drill design and rehearsingthe 300-member Pride of OklahomaMarching Band, including the 2000Orange Bowl half-time show, and the1999 Independence Bowl openingdrill.

He was the Assistant Director ofBands at Angelo State University forthree years, the second of which heserved as Interim Director of Bands.He developed and conducted the WindSymphony at Angelo State in 1997,and the San Angelo Youth WindSymphony which he helped found ayear earlier in 1996.

Dr. Neal has presented research onKarel Husa’s Music for Prague 1968

at the University of Houston, pre-sented world premieres as conductorand clarinetist, has performed withthe San Angelo Symphony on clarinetand saxophone, and has been active

as a free-lance drill designer for nu-merous high schools throughoutOklahoma and Texas.Arnold Gregorian, newly appointedlecturer in double bass, a member ofthe Baltimore Symphony, and formermember of the Dallas Symphony, hasstudied with Roger Scott, JohnMathews, and Warren Benfield. He hastaught at Southern MethodistUniversity, Towson University, andCatholic University. Interests includesoloing on his collection of antique in-struments, and making rosin and gutstrings.

George Gray, appointed lecturer invoice, fall 2002, has a BMEd fromWestminster Choir College, and anMM in Opera from the Boyer College

The Boyer College is honored thatCarole Haas Gravagno (MS ’66),

one of Philadelphia’s leading advo-cates of the arts, will receive the FirstAnnual Esther Boyer College of MusicTribute Award, for her lifelong sup-port of arts education, and her tirelesssupport of art and culture inPhiladelphia. “The greaterPhiladelphia region is very fortunateto have such a great supporter, leader,and friend of the arts and educationcommunity,” said Boyer Dean RobertStroker. “It is a privilege for the BoyerCollege of Music and Department ofDance to honor Carole Haas Gravagnofor her many outstanding contribu-tions throughout the years.”

The award will be presented on theoccasion of the Boyer College’s sec-ond Annual Concert at the KimmelCenter for the Performing Arts (pleasesee article, page three).

Ms. Haas Gravagno, whose Masterof Science in elementary educationdegree was earned at TempleUniversity’s College of Education,serves on boards of directors of manymajor arts organizations inPhiladelphia. Her activity is notmerely as a sideline member, but as anactive working member; she is vitallyinterested in every aspect of the orga-nization in which she has invested herenergy.

In a lengthy article in the Summer2000 issue of Temple Review, Ms.Haas Gravagno was lauded as a vitalmember of the Arden Theater board.“Some people,” says Terry Nolen, pro-ducing artistic director of the ArdenTheater, “who sit on boards bring tothe table their knowledge, some bringtheir connections, some bring their re-sources; Carole brings everything.”

Ms. Haas Gravagno has served onthe boards of the Philadelphia

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Museletter Editor

Mary Edsall came to TempleUniversity in 1999 as a

Presidential Fellow in the Departmentof Dance. But before she even arrivedat Temple she had met with MaureenPastine, University Librarian in PaleyLibrary, and outlined the project shewanted to work on, creating thePhiladelphia Dance Collection.

Ms. Edsall took a systematic ap-proach to the collection of the primarysource material. She initially wentaround to the major dance organiza-tions in town and expressed her ideafor creating an archive of Philadelphiabased dance materials. After gettingwhat she termed her “cornerstone or-ganizations,” she held a town meetingat which she outlined her proposal forseveral different organizations whomight be able to assist her in the pro-

ject she wanted to accomplish.Following that, at the Ethical Societyof Philadelphia, she held a full-daysymposium for the dance community,

C O N T E N T S

Letter from the Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Kimmel Center Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Vocal Concerts “In Review” . . . . . . . . . . 3

Alumni Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Alumni/ae Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Jazz Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Computers is the Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Faculty Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Greater Philadelphia Concert Series . 12

Carole Haas Gravagno, Advocate

for the Arts and Children’s Causes

to receive Boyer Award

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Mary Edsall’s Work at Temple

University: The Philadelphia Dance

Archive and A Core Collection in

Dance

By Darrel Walters

Professor of Music Education

Fifty pianists entered the Twenty-sixth Frinna Awerbuch

International Piano Competition,sponsored by the Piano TeachersCongress of New York. The first-placeprize was a check for $2,000 and an in-vitation to perform at Carnegie Hall.Along with students from Juilliard,New England Conservatory, PeabodyInstitute, Yale and many otherrenowned high-performance musicschools, Temple University’s CongFan—a student of ProfessorWedeen—entered the competition.

Cong was happy to be retained asone of the eleven second-round per-formers, and elated to be one of thesix finalists. If you know Cong, youcan visualize her jumping up anddown and thrusting her fist in the airwhen she was notified that she fin-ished first. And if you know Cong’splaying, you can reconcile her first

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MUSELETTERThe Museletter is published by the Esther Boyer College of Music and Department ofDance

Announcements about Boyer College Alumni/ae, faculty, and students should be sent to:David P. Brown, Museletter Editor, Boyer College, 2001 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA19122-6079. E-mail to dpbrown@astro.temple.edu.

The Museletter is also on the Boyer web page, www.temple.edu/music.

Photography by: Muriel Kirkpatrick, Robin Miller, Joe Labolito, Jim Roese.

Design and production by the Temple University Office of Publications (cm 664-02).

We reserve the right to edit all correspondence.

The rich heritage and traditions thathave defined the Boyer College ofMusic and Department of Dance atTemple University for the past 41 yearsserves as a bridge towards the future.To that end, like the great Japaneseprintmaker Hokusai, the Boyer Collegemust begin to plan for the futureachievements that lie ahead.

Ever since the age of six I

have had a mania for draw-

ing the forms of objects.

Towards the age of fifty I

published a very large num-

ber of drawings, but I am

dissatisfied with everything

which I produced before the age of seventy. It was at the age of sev-

enty-three I nearly mastered the real nature and form of birds,

fish, plants, etc…

Consequently, at the age of eighty, I shall have got to the bottom

of things; at one hundred I shall have attained a decidedly higher

level which I cannot define, and at the age of one hundred and ten

every dot and every line from my brush will be alive. I call on

those who may live as long as I to see if I keep my word.

Hokusai believed that artistic growth was continuous, which proved to bethe case for him; he was still producing art at his death at ninety. In otherwords, for the Boyer College of Music, it is not good enough to simply begreat.

The challenges of the future and realities of the marketplace dictate that toremain at the vanguard of the nation’s music colleges, the Boyer College ofMusic and Department of Dance must: develop an aggressive developmentcampaign; maintain a curriculum that is both relevant and cutting edge; at-tract and retain the best and brightest community of artist-scholars; attractthe finest student musicians and dancers; and create an environment that is,at once, stimulating, rigorous, and nurturing in order to maximize the poten-tial of the individual.

For decades, because of the outstanding leadership of the past, the world’sbest and brightest have been beating a path to Temple University’s doors —we must continue the great tradition that exists at Temple University andwork together to move the Boyer College to a decidedly higher level of artisticand scholarly excellence. To accomplish this, I invite you to get involved withthe Boyer College. I invite you to attend the many outstanding concertsthroughout the year, join and become active with the Boyer AlumniOrganization, and contribute to the Boyer Annual Fund.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “If a man can write a better book, preach abetter sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though hebuilds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”I am confident that through your involvement and support, we will be suc-cessful in building the best College of Music and Dance in the country.

Music Therapy Scholarship Gift to

the Boyer College

The Boyer College is pleased to announce a one-time gift of $4,000.00 to begiven to a Music Therapy student(s) at the Boyer College. The gift, given in

memory of Ethel K. Solender, was donated by Lynne Whitman on behalf of thefamily. The gift will be designated for one or two deserving music therapy stu-dents in the form of tuition scholarships, and will be awarded in the spring 2003semester. The Boyer College is grateful for this generous gift, and thanks theWhitman Family for their support of our students and programs.

Orchestra, the William PennFoundation, and the Arden Theater,and she serves as President of theNational Liberty Museum. One of thecommon threads which runs thoughall of the organizations which she sup-ports is that of childhood education.She has assisted the Arden in produc-ing theater for children, and sheserves as Chair of the EducationCommittee of the PhiladelphiaOrchestra.

She was instrumental in seeing theWilliam Penn Foundation increase itsgrantmaking activity to improve thelives of children. From the Temple

Review: “Carole’s enduring interest,”according to Ms. Janet Haas,President of the William PennFoundation, “in children and parent-ing and her vast experience havemade her an incredibly effective advo-cate for families.”

It is our distinct pleasure to recog-nize Ms. Haas Gravagno for her un-ceasing efforts on behalf of art,culture and education in Philadelphia,and we hope the alumni of the BoyerCollege will join us on April 6, 2003, inrecognizing this extraordinary individ-ual for her achievements.

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place finish with what you have heardwhen she is at the keyboard. She istruly an extraordinary musician.

I was privileged to hear Cong’sCarnegie Hall performance onNovember 16, a performance thatmade me feel like shouting from therooftops how wonderful she was.Because the roof is so high and theweather inclement, I decided tobroadcast my message by use of theMuseletter instead.

Cong did not take a safe path in herselection of repertoire. She performedthe Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 2 in B�Minor, the 1931 version, and the lastmovement (Fuga) of the Barber Piano

Sonata, Opus 26. From the momentshe began to play the RachmaninoffSonata she seemed removed from herimmediate surroundings, as if she hadentered—mind, body, and soul—thepiece that Rachmaninoff created. Shethen proceeded to re-create the piecewith understanding, passion, strength,and astounding musicianship. Of

course, I might add technique to thatlist, but Cong’s musical treat cast hertechnical tools—amazing and essen-tial as they are—as peripheral to themain event.

Thoughts of technique came rush-ing back to me as soon as Cong beganto play the Barber Fugue. The physi-cal demands of that piece seem over-whelming to a listener whosekeyboard skills are as limited as mine.But still, the impressive technicalwork was embedded in a total pack-age of musical expression thatseemed to consume Cong and againtransport her from the here-and-now.She transported the entire audiencealong with her. Warm, extended ap-plause and a shower of bouquetsseemed a portent of things to comefor Cong Fan. We need to keep oureye on this young woman whom weknow, love, and admire. Who knowswhere she might go and how high shemight rise?

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The Boyer College is proud to pre-sent its second annual concert at

the Kimmel Center for the PerformingArts on April 6, 2003, at 3:00 PM. Inconjunction with this performance,the Boyer College will award its firstannual Boyer College Tribute Awardto noted Philadelphia arts advocateand Temple Alumna, Carole HaasGravagno (please see related story,front page).

The concert will once again featurethe talents of the Temple UniversitySymphony Orchestra (TUSO) with theCombined Choirs under the directionof Alan Harler, Laura CarnellProfessor of Choral Music, andProfessor Luis Biava, Music Directorof the TUSO.

The performance will feature musicof Eastern European composers withthe Symphony of Psalms by IgorStravinsky, the Te Deum of AntoninDvorak, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s

monumental Symphony No. 5. The Music Alumni Board will also

hold its popular pre-concert lunch atthe Doubletree Hotel, in the OrmandyBallroom, beginning at 12:00 PM.Please see page seven of thisMuseletter for complete ticket infor-mation for both the concert and pre-concert lunch.

This concert has traditionallyproven to be one of the most popularperformances of the year by our stu-dents; last year’s concert sold out twoweeks prior to the event. Tickets willgo on sale on or about March 1, 2003at the Kimmel Center Box Office, andyour early response will ensure yourability to obtain the best seats.

We look forward to seeing you atthe concert, where we will enjoy theperformance of our students andhonor one of Philadelphia’s greatestmusical supporters.

2nd Annual Kimmel Center Concert — April 6, 2003

Temple University Choral, Voice,and Opera productions are always

well received by audiences inPhiladelphia and the vicinity, so it’s apleasure to note that they are also wellreceived by the professionals who re-view concerts for Philadelphia news-papers.

In fall 2002, Professor Alan Harlerscheduled a performance with theTemple University Concert Choir ofrarely heard American music by rarelyheard-of American composers, includ-ing Meredith Monk (better known as achoreographer), R. Murray Schaefer,Eric Whitacre, and a lesser known se-lection by Samuel Barber. In a reviewin the Philadelphia Inquirer, DavidPatrick Stearns wrote, “The chorusfanned out around the audience inconfigurations that changed withevery piece ... The acoustical prob-lems this could create — how couldthe singers hope to hear one another— weren’t an issue. Not only wasthere a security in pitch that somenonstudent choirs in this town couldonly approximate, there was a senseof belief in the music that had a mes-merizing effect. At a time when somany people talk about reinventingthe classical music concert, here’s onethat did so in a low-key, ingratiatingway.”

From the Chestnut Hill Local,Michael Caruso writes of a Fall 2001Fauré Requiem performance by theTemple University Concert Choir,“With a small choir and orchestra ar-rayed before him, [Alan] Harler led a

lovely reading of the1893 version of the score... It was an interpreta-tion that caught thework’s simple lyricismwithout sacrificing itsprofound strength.”

Peter Burwasser fromthe Philadelphia City

Paper writes of a spring2001 production ofBernstein’s Candide,“Temple Opera has con-sistently put out some ofthe most entertainingstaged musical theater intown, and this jaunty,joyous production of theopera version of LeonardBernstein’s Candide wasno exception ... BecauseTemple has full-blowntheater, music, dance and opera pro-grams, these productions have a seam-lessness and scope that other studentproductions often lack.”

Everyone liked the spring 2000 pro-duction of Britten’s A Midsummer

Night’s Dream (which was, by sheercoincidence, offered by the CurtisOpera Theater, on the same weekend).The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Stearnssaid, “...musically speaking, the operawas delivered with boldness and star-tling comprehension. I’ve never beenconvinced that this 1960 opera is top-drawer Britten — until now. I’ve heardall three recordings and seen four pro-ductions (most recently one from theCurtis Institute last week) but this is

the only one in which the opera stakeda claim for being its own entity apartfrom the play ... Conductor JohnDouglas found such musical purposein virtually every bar of the score — itreally was a revelation...” And thePhiladelphia City Paper’s Burwasser,in comparing the two productions,said, “In contrast, Temple’s favored anoverflowing, happily messy stage, set-ting the action in a whitewashed de-crepit theater in a way thatingeniously made sense ofShakespeare’s play-within-a-play...[John] Douglas did an especially finejob in drawing out Britten’s musicallydiverse dramatic characterizations...”

And finally, in the “it’s a somewhat

dubious distinction category,” thePhiladelphia City Paper’s CP 2002Choice Awards has awarded theTemple University Opera TheaterBest Neglected Opera Resource,saying, “The Temple University OperaTheater consistently presents lively,well-performed productions of bothmainstream and offbeat operas at itsNorth Philadelphia campus. Theystand comparison with any otheropera in town, but too few fans seemto know about this neglected and de-lightful treasure.”

Please feel free to attend any of ouroutstanding vocal performances, andhelp make us less of a neglected re-source.

Recent Boyer Vocal Concerts “In Review”

Alan Harler, Laura Carnell Professor of Choral Conducting Luis Biava, Professor of Music

Professor Alan Harler and the Temple University Concert Choir

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Diane Amster (BSEd ’56) has retiredfrom school teaching, but continues toteach privately. She still plays cham-ber music and in orchestras, and free-lances in the Philadelphia region. Shealso has two grandchildren who oc-cupy her time.

Ted Atkatz (Professional Studies ’97)was the subject (with BostonSymphony percussionist Tim Genis) ofa lengthy article in Backstage Pass,the magazine of the Yamaha MusicCorporation. Atkatz, appointed as sec-tion percussion in the ChicagoSymphony Orchestra in 1997, has re-cently been chosen as principal per-cussion of that orchestra.

Virginia Austin (BSEd ’45, MEd ’49)founded a recorder group at her retire-ment community in San Diego, whereshe teaches recorder and directs therecorder choir. Originally consisting often members, the group now numbers13, with performers on bass, tenor,alto, soprano and sopranino instru-ments.

Mitchell Beck, (BSEd. ’68, MSEd ’72)has been an instrumental musicteacher for 34 consecutive years. Twoyears in the Audubon, NJ, schoolDistrict and 32 years in the BensalemTwp. (PA) school district. He and hiswife have raised one son and have al-ways lived in Philadelphia. Mr. Beck iscurrently a bassoonist with the BucksCounty Symphony Orchestra.

Arthur Alfred Birkby (BS ’48), aftera semester at Temple, entered thearmy and served in World War II withthe infantry in three European cam-paigns including the Battle of theBulge. After the war, he continuedat Temple, graduating in 1948. Furtherschooling followed elsewhere, includ-ing master’s and doctoral degrees; hetaught in colleges and universities in

Pennsylvania, Michigan, andWyoming, retiring in 1987. During theteaching years he played organrecitals in more than 100 cities ofEurope and the United States.Following retirement he has contin-ued periodic piano lecture-recitals,and teaches a limited schedule at alocal seminary and Bible college.

J. Lawrie Bloom

(BM ’74) has beenbusy this past year.In addition to his du-ties on clarinet andbass clarinet withthe ChicagoSymphonyOrchestra, he per-

formed the Mozart Clarinet Concertoon basset clarinet in February, pre-sented master classes at Carnegie-Melon University and the BaldwinWallace Conservatory in April, andperformed with members of theShanghai Radio Orchestra at theShanghai Spring Festival, Shanghai,China in May. In June he performed atthe Eastern Shore Chamber MusicFestival in Maryland, where he servesas Artistic Co-Director. Mr. Bloom pre-sented a solo program this past sum-mer at the International ClarinetAssociation’s Clarinetfest inStockholm, Sweden, and performedchamber and orchestral concerts atthe Skaneateles Festival in New YorkState. He has just returned from aChicago Symphony Orchestra tour toLucerne, Switzerland, and a trip toNew York City for CSO concerts atCarnegie Hall. He is AssistantProfessor of Clarinet at NorthwesternUniversity.

Lynn Matluck Brooks (MEd ’79, EdD’85) is the founder and head of theFranklin & Marshall College DanceProgram since 1984. She chaired thedepartment of Theatre, Dance and

Film for seven years. Dr. Brooksedited Dance Research Journal for sixyears and have guest-edited otherjournals or sections of journals since,and is widely published in the fields ofdance history and movement analysis.She still choreographs and performsprofessionally. She is currently on anNEH grant for dance history research,and has been named the Arthur andKatherine Shadek HumanitiesProfessor at F&M. Dr. Brooks serveson boards of organizations, advisesher own and other students on re-search, and loves her field.

Stephen Campitelli (MM ’96) is a fre-quent piano soloist with theImmaculata Symphony. He has per-formed the Saint-Saens PianoConcerto No. 2 and the Liszt PianoConcerto No. 1 with the symphonyand is scheduled to play theRachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 inthe fall of 2003. In 2002 he premieredthe solo piano work Incantation forIseult the Sorceress by RomanPawlowski, the conductor of theImmaculata Symphony. Mr. Campitellialso recently served as collegiate coor-dinator for the Pennsylvania MusicTeachers Association’s CollegiateArtist Competition. He is an activeperformer, accompanist, pianoteacher, and church organist in thePhiladelphia area.

William Carr (BM ’72, MM ’74) willperform this February at Verizon Hallat the Kimmel Center in a benefit con-cert for Multiple Sclerosis Researchsponsored by Jefferson UniversityMedical Center. He gave a concert lastyear at Carnegie Hall, also to benefitMS Research, was a soloist with theOcean City Pops in NJ, and performedon the Piano Recital Series of RutgersUniversity. In July of 2001, he was ap-pointed Chair of the MusicDepartment of Immaculata University.

Susan Elfman Carson (MM Ed ’70)ended up owning and running tworadio stations, but has recently soldher businesses, has started studyingpiano again, and is currently involvedwith the Brubeck Institute at theUniversity of the Pacific.

Anthony Ciucci (BM ’76, BMEd ’79)is currently the Organist and Directorof Music at the Church of the GoodShepherd in Camp Hill, PA, and MusicInstructor at Good Shepherd School.He has been featured in recitalsthroughout the mid-Atlantic region. Anactive member of the American Guildof Organists, he completed three con-secutive terms (1994-2000) as Dean ofthe Harrisburg Chapter. He currentlyserves the Guild as District Convenerfor Central and Western PA.

Paula Diehl (MM ’82) formed a newensemble Verso for the purpose of per-forming prestructured improvs at thePhiladelphia Fringe Festival. She wasawarded a fellowship for a summerresidence at Music/Omi in NY with 13other composers and musicians fromthe US and around the world. Her 2001composition Dove, was performed inthe Fresh Ears segment of the 2001Fringe. She gave presentations at theUniversity of Wisconsin in Madisonand at the Fourth Annual AspenComposers Conference in Aspen,

Colo. She received a commission for apiece for unaccompanied viola, andreviewed CDs for the periodical Penn

Sounds.

Amanda Diorio (BFA ’02) currentlyworks as a Dancer and MC with A-Sharp Production and is teachingdance at Dance Pointe Studio inHamburg and at Chambersburg Dancein Trenton. She also interns withRennie Harris Puremovement in WestPhiladelphia and runs her own dancecompany entitled The ADD Company.

Jennifer Drees (Moscato) (BM MT’85) continues to direct a large chil-dren’s choir in Mantua, NJ. Her article,“Leading the Children in the Face ofCrisis,” was published in the magazineToday’s Liturgy with Children, anOregon Catholic Press publication.

Dr. Arnold Fletcher (BSEd ’40, MEd’46), after public school teaching andmilitary service, spent 23 years at WestChester State College where he be-came Dean of Faculty from 1965 to1969. He held positions at theAmerican College of Monaco,Wilmington College, and spent tenyears as Vice President for AcademicAffairs at Edison State College in NJ.

Dr. Joy Friedlander (EdD ’97) isteaching at the Philadelphia HighSchool for Girls. In the fall she re-ceived the Pennsylvania DanceEducator of the Year Award from thestatewide dance association. Joyserves on the daCi USA (dance andthe Child international) board and isbusy planning the PA daCi Day ofDance for March 22, 2003, and also ne-gotiating with Temple about hostingthe next National daCi USA DanceFestival. She is currently choreograph-ing and preparing for two large perfor-mances for the spring — An Evening

of Dance and a full-scale production ofCinderella, the musical.

Carmina Gagliardi (BM ’82) was a vi-olinist with the Natal Philharmonic ofDurban, South Africa, from 1983 to1990, and currently maintains a pri-vate teaching studio and freelances inthe Philadelphia metropolitan area.

De Sayles R. Grey (MM ’69) is a re-tired university professor currently liv-ing in upstate New York. He hasperformed internationally with theDoc Holiday Band, Cecil Taylor, andhas toured with the Temptations. Hehas authored a book on John Coltraneentitled Acknowledgement: A John

Coltrane Legacy.

Deborah Prischmann Gryniewicz

(MM ’85) is a vocal artist including asa soloist and member of the Voices ofthe Pops with Peter Nero and thePhilly Pops. She has performedthroughout the US in Opera, Oratorio,Off-Broadway, and on Carnival CruiseLines. She has appeared on radio, tele-vision, recorded for Fred Waring’sShawnee Press, Inc. and AlfredPublishing Company as studio soloist.She is the founder of Jubilant VoiceMinistries, the producer, co-writer,and composer of musical dramasDaughters of the King and Children

of the King. She is an active memberof the National Association ofTeachers of Singing and the

Alumni Focus

Karl Kramer (BM ’79), this pastAugust, was appointed Director of

the School of Music at the Universityof Illinois Urbana Champaign. Dr.Kramer, an award winning tuba playeras a member of the chamber ensemblethe Brass Ring, was previously theProfessor and Dean of Music at StateUniversity of New York PurchaseCollege Conservatory of Music. Priorto his position at SUNY Purchase, hewas Dean and Professor of Music atthe New World School of the Arts inMiami.

Dr. Kramer earned a Master of Musicdegree from Yale University, and aDoctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music. His principalteachers have included Edmund Moore, Warren Deck and Thompson Hanks.Dr. Kramer maintains an active performing schedule serving as principal tubafor the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and the Connecticut Grand Opera.He has premiered solo music for tuba by Christopher Rouse and Eric Ewazenamong others, and premiered with the New Haven Symphony the tuba con-certo Songs of Zion Recycled, written for him by Neely Bruce.

As a member of Brass Ring, he has recorded three CDs on the Crystal labelincluding premieres of music by Witold Lutoslawski, Ned Rorem, andLuciano Berio, and extensively toured the United States and Europe. The en-semble also recorded sound tracks for the PBS Series, The American

Experience.Dr. Kramer was presented with the 1990 Distinguished Service Award by

the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and in the spring 2003, he will beawarded the Temple University Alumni Certificate of Honor Award from theBoyer College.

Director/Instructor of the MeadowLark Vocal Studio in Doylestown.

Fawzi Habboushe (BM ’84) is thefounder, music director and conductorof the Philadelphia Doctor’sOrchestra, an ensemble of approxi-mately 35 members who rehearsemusic from the Baroque through the20th century. Dr. Habboushe (MD,FASC) has been the director of this en-semble since inception, almost 20years ago.

Jenn Harris, (BM’94) recently re-turned to thePhiladelphia area toperform in thePrince MusicTheater productionof Pal Joey. A regu-lar performer in the

annual Radio City Music HallChristmas Spectacular, Harris tookthis year off to be a part of thePhiladelphia Theater scene. She con-tinues to live in New York City andperform and choreograph in theatersacross the country.

Elizabeth Voss Hohweiler (BMEd’77, MM ’80) has been a vocal musicteacher for Pennsbury Schools since1986, where she teaches 9th and 10thgrade choral in a large 9-12 programthat has five curricular choirs and sev-eral after school groups. She has alsobeen a member of The PhiladelphiaSingers since 1983 and was excited tobe one of 32 singing the Messiah thispast December with the PhiladelphiaOrchestra — the first time they haveperformed it with a small professionalchorus.

Jean Magin Howell (BS Ed ’49) di-rects the bell choir for the TryonPresbyterian Church, and also sings inthe choir. Recent activities have in-cluded performing in the TryonCommunity Chorus, HendersonvilleCommunity Band, RutherfordSymphony Orchestra, the NaplesFlorida Concert Band, and playingwith the Windjammers Circus Band.

Victoria Hutchinson (DEd ’94) is thisyear’s recipient of Salisbury Universityof Maryland’s Distinguished FacultyAward. Hutchinson, a 12-year facultymember of the SU Department ofPhysical Education, established itsdance minor and is director of the SUDance Company. Hutchinson holdsthree degrees in dance and has cre-ated more than 40 dance works. Herlist of awards and honors include theUniversity of Arizona CreativeAchievement Award, the American OilCompany/John F. Kennedy Center forthe Performing Arts Award ofExcellence for Performance, andstudy in India of dance and music as aFulbright Scholar. Her professionaland collegiate service includes servingon the board of directors for theAmerican College Dance FestivalAssociation, chair of the 2001-02 SUSeidel School of Education andProfessional Studies’ Dean SearchCommittee, and member of SU’sGeneral Education Task Force.

Patricia Harper James (BS Ed ’59),after spending 38 years as a MusicSpecialist for the School District ofPhiladelphia, is now the proprietor ofGlobal Artifacts, an upscale boutiquein Daytona Beach, FL, specializing in

artifacts — including carving and fab-rics — from Africa and around theworld.

Linda Johnson (Clark) (BM ’69) iscurrently practicing as a licensed psy-chologist with a full-time private prac-tice specializing in adults withdepression, anxiety, and post-trau-matic stress disorders.

Ferald B. Kapps (MM ’67) has retiredas solo English Horn of the MinnesotaOrchestra after 22 years, and is thenew owner of the Reliable ReedCompany, which supplies many pro-fessional and amateur oboists withprofessional quality reeds.

Bob Kestler (BMEd ’69) recently re-tired after 28 years of teaching musicfor the School District of Philadelphia.He conducts the University Glee Clubof Philadelphia and plays in the LuluShriners String Band. He is presentlytrying to form a chorus for theExplorer Division of the Cradle ofLiberty, Boy Scouts of America.

Josh Kovach (BM’98, MM ’00) is enjoy-ing his second sea-son with the ReadingSymphony, and hasrecently returnedfrom the NorfolkChamber MusicFestival. He gave a

successful recital at the EthicalSociety of Philadelphia, and is lookingforward to a “Kovach Family andFriends” recital in April.

Jonathan Lax (BM Ed ’76) is the JazzEnsemble and Brass EnsembleDirector at Bayonne High School inBayonne, NJ. He is also a herald trum-pet performer with the MirandoloConsort, with which he has performedin Renaissance Faires in New York,Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

Christopher Lenz (BM ’86) has re-cently appeared in Brigadoon atCumberland Theater in MD, and Kiss

Me Kate with the Ocean City Pops.Feature film appearances have in-cluded Unbreakable and the upcomingJersey Girl. He has appeared in classi-cal concerts including a performanceof Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms withthe York Symphony of Wheaton, IL.

Pamela Faith Lerman (M.Ed ’85) isthe dance/movement therapist andcreative arts therapist for theDepartment of Psychiatry at EllisHospital in Schenectady, NY, workingwith people of all ages. In addition,over the years since graduating fromTemple University, she created and di-rected a performing group called “TheOlder Woman’s Project” which per-formed dances about the lifestories ofolder women and the issues womenface as they age. She also continues tolead “Jewish Lifestory Dance work-shops” in venues throughout theNortheast.

Joyce Magann (BMEd ’85) is cur-rently teaching stringed instruments,orchestra, guitar, and working withspecial needs students at MethactonHigh School, in Montgomery County,PA. She works closely with two otherTemple Grads in the string program ofMethacton School District—SusanEsposito Basalik and Sharon DeanSaul.

Brian Maher (BM ’96) is the Directorof Bands at Elizabeth High School inElizabeth, New Jersey. He directs theElizabeth High School Concert Band,Symphonic Band, and Jazz Ensemble.He is also the director of, and musicarranger for, the award-winningElizabeth High School 130-memberMinutemen Marching Band. In addi-tion to his teaching duties, Mr. Maheris a professional music arranger andhas been arranging and orchestratingmusic for various marching bands inNew Jersey, String Bands in thePhiladelphia area, and various “BigBands” on the East Coast.

Ronald Alan Matthews (MM ’76)conducted the Jubilate Deo Choraleand Orchestra at Carnegie Hall thispast September as a memorial for9/11/01. He conducted a performanceof John Rutter’s Magnificat with theFestival Chorus and Orchestra inWillow Grove, PA where he is also or-ganist and music director at CalvaryPresbyterian Church. Mr. Matthews isa Professor of Music and Director ofMusic Programs at Eastern University.

Jeffrey McCray (MM ’98) has re-cently served as instructor of bassoonat Western Michigan University, andBaylor University, both as one-year ap-pointments. He has performed withthe Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra,Colorado Springs Symphony, WacoSymphony, and appeared on theHungaroton Records label of M.William Karlin’s Four Inventions and

a Fugue.

Kelly Meashey (BM Ed ’82, MMT ’00)teaches jazz voice and runs the vocalcomponent of the pre-college programat the University of the Arts. She alsomaintains a private music psychother-apy practice. In January 2000, she re-ceived the Music Therapy ResearchAward from Temple University. InJune 2002, she became a Fellow in theAssociation for Music and Imagery. InOctober, Kelly completed a recordingcontract with the Creative ImprovisedMusic Projects (C.I.M.P.) division ofthe Cadence studio. The CD, which isentitled Songs of Living is scheduledfor release in Feb 2003.

Howard Miller (BMEd ’62) retired inJune 2000, after 38 years of teachingjazz and classical music in the SchoolDistrict of Philadelphia. He currentlyteaches and is the Director ofCheltenham Music and Art, an after-school music and art program. In 1978he formed and is the band leader forthe Howard Miller Orchestra, and hasfor the past ten years, been director ofthe Spring Lake Farm Art and MusicCamp.

James Nalley (BM’92, MM ’94) has per-formed across theUnited States,Canada, and Europeas a solo recitalist,chamber musician,and accompanistand has given a suc-

cessful New York debut in CarnegieHall. The winner of many national andinternational competitions, Nalley hasappeared in recital in Philadelphia,New York and Boston. He has ap-peared with numerous orchestras assoloist, including the PhiladelphiaOrchestra and the San FranciscoSymphony, and has performed in

chamber music concerts with the Muirand Shanghai String Quartets, in addi-tion to chamber concerts at the Aspenand Taos Music Festivals. He was re-cently Artist-in-Residence at the BanffCentre for the Performing Arts wherehe recorded his first CD, featuring thePiano Sonatas of Charles Ives andAaron Copland. The CD has been re-leased on the Eroica Record Label. Dr.Nalley, who received his DMA fromthe Eastman School, was recently se-lected as a Fulbright Scholar for inclu-sion on the roster of Senior Specialistsfor 2002 by the U.S. State Department.

Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb (MFA ’85)is currently in private practice as anadvanced level dance movement ther-apist, teaching part-time at theUniversity of Minnesota DanceDepartment and the Center forSpirituality and Healing. She has co-written and performed in a play aboutIsrael and Palestine, and recently re-turned from co-leading a St. OlafCollege program of study in theMiddle East.

Mark Oppenlander

(BM ’83) is a found-ing member of theensemble, OneAlternative, with fel-low Boyer studentsoboist Jill Haley, andFrank McDermott.The ensemble, per-

forming an amalgam of classical andjazz styles, whose fifth CD, Changes

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Percussion

Highlights

Angela Zator-Nelson (MM ’02)performed Maurice Wright’s,

Concertpiece for Marimba and

Orchestra, with the TempleSymphony Orchestra at CentennialHall this past October. Ms. Zator-Nelson is a member of thePhiladelphia Orchestra.

This past November at thePercussive Arts SocietyInternational Convention, AlanAbel organized 16 OrchestralPercussion sessions. Among thepresenters were Boyer CollegeAlumni Chris Diviney, percussionistwith the Houston Symphony, givinga performance and clinic on xylo-phone and marimba in the orches-tra; and John Shaw, percussionistwith the Florida Symphony, givinga clinic on castanets.

Glenn Steele was a panel memberfor the College Pedagogy sessiondiscussing the subject of “ThePercussion Ensemble in the 21stCentury: Where do we go fromhere”?

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was released in 1998, is looking for-ward to its sixth CD, due for release inthe spring.

Paul Orgel (DMA ’96) can be heardon two recent CD releases: Music for

Flute and Piano by Louis Moyse onthe CRI label (which garnered a 2003Grammy Nomination), and Music of

Curt Cacioppo, a Capstone Recordsrelease. Dr. Orgel is a member of themusic faculty at the University ofVermont, and is Artist-in-Residence inthe Humanities at St. Michael’sCollege. His upcoming performancesinclude concerts with violinist JamieLaredo, the Quartetto di Venezia, and asolo program of music by composerswho died in the holocaust.

Joanne Pascale’s (BM ’01) concertsat Ortlieb’s Jazz Haus, and Chris’ JazzCafe were reviewed by True vanDeusen in Philadelphia’s Metro

Newspaper. The review states,“Pascale, just 22, sings with a surpris-ingly sophisticated style for one soyoung. Her treatment of such stan-dards as Bewitched, Bothered and

Bewildered, and Willow Weep for Me

are classic vocal renderings.”

Frank Portone (BM ’75) has been,since 1980, Principal Horn for theCharlotte Symphony. Prior to histenure in Charlotte, he played forthree years as Principal Horn with theHong Kong Symphony.

Maria Portone (BM ’75) has been anemployee of Compuware Corporationwhere she provides IT services to anumber of Fortune 500 Companies.She is active musically as a member ofand soloist with the Chamber Singersof Oratorio Singers of Charlotte.

Alba Potes (BM ’89, MM ’92, DMA’97) won the Music of ChangesComposers Competition with a con-cert devoted to her music given at theHerbert Zipper Recital Hall in LosAngeles. Her commission by Sala LuisAngel Arango/Banco de la Republicade Colombia, Entre Arrullos y

Madrigales, was performed by so-prano Susan Narucki and the NewYork New Music Ensemble in Bogotá,Colombia. Dr. Potes‚ compositionCantares para Orquesta, was one oftwo winners of the Women’sPhilharmonic Reading Sessions, andshe was the recipient of anIndependence Foundation Fellowshipin the Arts to write Suite Pacifica,which was premiered by the Networkfor New Music in Washington, DC.Other performances of her composi-tions were given at Sarah LawrenceCollege, at the Americas Society inNew York City, and as part of theInternational Stephan WolpeCentennial.

John Primerano’s

(BM ’73) recordingof his original songPhiladelphia has be-come the theme ofthe Don GiovanniShow on radio sta-tion WPHT. Last Mayhe was a guest on

the nationally syndicated JoeyReynolds Show aired from New YorkCity. He was featured in magazine arti-cles in the national periodicalsAmerican Rag, Dancin‚ USA and Our

Town. This past September, he had apart as a priest in the hit new CBSdrama, Hack.

Fatih Rasul (BM ’78, MM in progress)has worked as a piano instructor atSettlement Music School, Rosa ParksHigh School of the Performing Arts,the Music Education Division of theLatin American Musicians’ Associa-tion, and the Camden School ofMusical Arts. Recently he has beenself-employed as the organizer and co-ordinator of the Rasul Tutorial/Educational Services, offering individ-ualized instruction in piano (inSpanish and English) and foreign lan-guages (Spanish, Portuguese, ESL). Hehas coordinated and narrated a bilin-gual workshop series for young audi-ences on the “Roots of the Music ofthe Spanish-speaking Caribbean” inthe mid-Atlantic area. He continues toplay piano with ensembles which ex-plore the traditions of both theSpanish-speaking Caribbean (PuertoRico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba),and blend them with performancepractices peculiar to America jazz.

Selma Goldberg Savitz, (BS MusicEd ’58; MEd Counseling Psychology’77), upon retirement from the posi-tion of Counselor at the TempleUniversity Center City Campus, has di-rected the Lower Merion SeniorCenter Glee Club for the past 12 years.The Glee Club provides about 30 musi-cal programs per year to senior resi-dences, churches, synagogues, andcommunity centers in Montgomery,Delaware and Philadelphia counties.Last spring they performed in the ro-tunda at the State Capitol Building inHarrisburg, and in October of 2002were selected to receive one of theGovernor’s Silver and Gold Awards for“enhancing the lives of olderPennsylvanians.” Inspiration is drawnfrom the legacy of the great AmericanSongbook, the great popular songswritten by the likes of Kern, Rodgersand Gershwin. This all-volunteergroup includes some 25 dedicatedsingers and instrumentalists ranging inage from the mid-fifties to the mid-nineties.

Michal Schmidt (DMA ’02) accepteda teaching position at DickinsonCollege in Carlisle, PA, where she iscontinuing her Beethoven CelloSonatas CD recordings — playing boththe cello and piano parts. Dr. Schmidtcontinues performing concerts withthe Network for New Music and 1807and Friends.

Jamie Stover Schmitt (EdD ’92) isthe founder and president of Spanda:The Yoga of Movement private yogamovement therapy practice workingwith everyone from newborns to octo-genarians — located in the New Yorkmetropolitan area. Dr. Schmitt has justpublished (November 2002) Every

Woman’s Yoga: How to Incorporate

Strength, Flexibility, and Balance

into Your Life, released by the PrimaPublishing Co. She has also publishedYoga for Pregnancy (HimalayanInstitute Reprint Series, HimalayanInstitute Press, 2001), and is also acontributor to Yoga International

Magazine. Visit her Web site atwww.spandayoga.com.

Marie (Keller) Sprenger (BM Ed’74) teaches instrumental music in theCentral Bucks School District and hasbeen an elementary band director atmany schools since 1975. In additionto her student’s school performances,her elementary band is invited eachyear to perform at the New BritainBorough Tree Lighting Ceremony.

Richard Strausbaugh (BM ’73) hasbeen on the medical staff of YorkHospital as a staff anesthesiologistsince 1984. Married with two children,Dr. Strausbaugh continues to practiceclarinet and performs occasionally inchurch.

Judith Willoughby

(MM ’73), whofounded and for tenyears led the TempleUniversity’sChildren’s Choir, hasjoined the faculty ofNorthwesternUniversity’s School

of Music as Associate Professor ofConducting and Music Education.During the summer of 2002,Willoughby was guest conductor forthe Long Island New York ChoralFestival, presented two sessions at thenational conference of the AmericanGuild of Organists in Philadelphia, andwent to the Eastman School of Musicas a member of the school’s SummerInstitute Faculty, where she also con-ducted an Eastman Summer Sing.Willoughby also conducted a youthchoral festival in Hong Kong as theguest of the Hong Kong City govern-ment. During the fall of 2002 sheserved on the choral panel for theNational Endowment for the Arts, andtraveled to China. In February, 2003,Willoughby will conduct the Women’sHonor Choir at the national conven-tion of the American Choral Director’sAssociation in New York City.Additional spring semester conductingengagements have her returning toNew York City, Pennsylvania,Vancouver, British Columbia, andIllinois. She is serving her third con-secutive term on the board of ChorusAmerica where she is the nationalchair of the children/youth con-stituency and continues to work withthe conducting task force.

Rita Wolotkiewicz (BS Ed ’46) re-tired from Temple University in 1987as a full professor and Assistant VicePresident. Prior to that, she taughtmusic in Camden, NJ for 10 years.

of Music at Temple University. Hehas taken additional studies at theMannes College of Music and theAcademy of Vocal Arts. Mr. Grayhas performed for the past 20 yearsin Europe, United States, Asia andAfrica, with concerts at EnglishNational Opera, San FranciscoOpera, Dallas Opera, St. LouisOpera, New York City Opera,Hamburg Opera, and the ZurichOpera among others. He has givennumerous performances ofSiegfried, Die Gotterdammerung,

Tristan und Isolde, Otello and I

Pagliacci. He opened the OperaBastille as Ene in Les Troyens.

Booker W. Rowe, a 1963 graduateof the newly formed College ofMusic at Temple University, hasbeen appointed lecturer in violin,fall 2002. Mr. Rowe is a member ofThe Philadelphia Orchestra.

Laura Ward, appointed lecturer invoice, fall 2002, has a BM fromBaylor University; an MM,University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and she re-ceived a DMA, University ofMichigan. Dr. Ward is a vocalcoach, accompanist, and lecturerfor the Washington Opera, and is aformer faculty at the Academy ofVocal Arts. She is the editor of sev-eral historical editions of songs,published by Hal Leonard.

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Correction

Theresa Purcell Cone, PhD in Dance, was inad-vertently omitted from the 2002 list of graduatesof the Boyer College, as listed in the Fall 2002issue of the Museletter. Dr. Cone received her de-gree in January, 2002, the first recipient of thePhD in Dance awarded by Temple University. Weregret the omission.

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Mavra Igor StravinskyHin und Zurück Paul HindemithGianni Schicchi Giacomo Puccini

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further strengthening her position.She now has the dance archives of thePennsylvania Ballet, and is in theprocess of acquiring collections fromPhiladanco, the Philadelphia DanceAlliance, the Philadelphia FringeFestival and Group Motion DanceCompany.

Adding to the base she has alreadycreated with the Philadelphia DanceCollection, she is preparing to receivecollections from Temple UniversityDance Professors Eva Gholson,Helmut and Brenda Dixon Gottschild,Ann Vachon and the Dance Conduit,Merián Soto and Pepatián, and is ne-gotiating with Rennie Harris ofPuremovement, and others for theirdance archives.

The Philadelphia Dance Collectioncontains a remarkable breadth of ma-terials including concert programs,posters, publicity materials, lightplots, stage designs, set designs,videos, stage managers’ notes, anymoving or still image, contact sheets,and audio recordings. It also containsthe written language of choreographyincluding sheets of Labanotation andBanesh Ballet scores.

Her greatest satisfaction comesfrom her knowledge that thePhiladelphia Dance Collection will beused in support of student curricula.The Dance Department of TempleUniversity contains only one of fourPhD degrees in dance in the nation aswell as a BFA, MEd and MFA degrees.She knows that the undergraduatesthrough the doctoral students will findsomething of value in the collection.Edsall credits University LibrarianMaureen Pastine with the foresight tosupport the creation of thePhiladelphia Dance Collection, andfor providing space at Paley Library tohouse the collection.

Because of dance’s ephemeral na-ture, the oral histories Edsall is creat-ing are video taped and being savedfor future generations through digiti-zation. Eventually she will place thematerials on DVD or whatever the cur-rent optical storage media might be,and has looked into video streamingof the materials. Her dream is that thePhiladelphia Dance Collection will bein a site where dance students cur-rently working on a piece in a studiowill be able to access a monitor, callup an instructional video on how apiece might be choreographed, andtake that knowledge directly into theirclassroom as the video is playing.

Edsall has received a $30,000Delmas grant which has supported herresearch in the form of salary, and inenhancement of the collection. Shehas also received a Pew DanceAdvance grant of $77,000 which isspecifically geared to collect the oraland dance tradition of legendary

Philadelphia tap artist, LaVaughanRobinson, and trace the history ofGruppe Motion Berlin/Group MotionPhiladelphia through the work ofManfred Fischbeck, HellmutGottschild, and Brigitta Herrman.These projects will include taping andtranscribing oral histories, interviews,documenting choreography and teach-ing sessions with the artists atTemple’s Conwell Theater, Bryn MawrCollege, the Community EducationalCenter, and the University of the Arts.

Edsall has also concurrently beenworking on and has recently com-pleted A Core Collection in Dance, abibliographic work designed for useby libraries and researchers to ascer-tain the latest published scholarship inthe field of dance and to enhance theirown collections. This work, submittedfor a 2002 Lillian Moore Award, wasthe winner in a field that included thenewly published Oxford Dictionary of

Dance from Oxford University Press.For this award Edsall received a cita-tion, a crystal sculpture from Tiffany’sand a sizable honorarium. This award,given in memory of Lillian Moore, therenowned dance historian, dancer andscholar, is given for works in dancescholarship attaining the highest levelof scholarship, and which displaymeticulous attention to detail.

Interestingly, A Core Collection in

Dance doesn’t contain a section onarchived materials around the coun-try, but rather focuses on publishedmaterials. Edsall admits that a futureproject may well be to list the variousdance archive collections in one placeand make that resource available.

A Core Collection in Dance is cur-rently available for sale from theAmerican Center for ResearchLibraries of the American LibraryAssociation and Amazon.com.

Edsall, who is currently working onher dissertation, is not even using ei-ther of these two major projects, eachof which would be a remarkable dis-sertation project. Rather, she is work-ing on a biography of her mentor,noted theoretician, improvisationist,former dance librarian of the NewYork Public Library, and faculty of theUniversity of Maryland, Robert EllisDunn. Dunn was a founding memberof the Judson Dance Theater in NewYork accredited with the beginnings ofpostmodern dance in America, andworked for years as a renownedteacher of dance improvisation andmovement theory.

Edsall has degrees in dance, libraryscience, is the Past-President for theCongress on Research in Dance, andhas worked for the Library ofCongress.

We congratulate her on all her accomplishments.

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tour Germany; record CD

The Temple University Jazz Band (TUJB), under the direction of AssociateProfessor Terell Stafford, has been invited to appear with the Phoenix

Foundation Jazz Orchestra (PFJO) for five concerts in Germany in spring 2003.The invitation came by way of Professor Stafford’s guest artist appearance

with the PFJO ensemble at last year’s International Association of JazzEducators Conference held in Baltimore. Stafford invited the entire PFJO en-semble to visit the Boyer College during a TUJB rehearsal, which they were ableto do. The director of the PFJO, Mr. Frank Reichart, was so impressed with theTUJB that he offered them the invitation the next day.

The PFJO is made up of European jazz students who are selected for this pres-tigious regional ensemble. The tour concerts will feature the TUJB in theGerman cities of Speyer, Kaiserslautern, Goarshausen, Ludwigshafen, and bothensembles will team up for a final festival concert in Mainz, the home base forthe PFJO.

The TUJB will also be recording their first CD, tentatively scheduled for re-lease on the SeaBreeze Label. This CD will feature the band with guest soloistsJon Faddis, trumpet; Dick Oatts and Tim Warfield, saxophones; and ConradHerwig, trombone, in tunes by Duke Ellington, Shirley Scott, and Count Basie,among others. The studio recording will be in May in Brooklyn, so look for theCD for a fall 2003 release.

Congratulations to all the members of the ensemble.

It’s a pretty safe bet thatyou didn’t have as inter-

esting a winter vacation asdid Laura Camp, Master ofMusic student in voice andopera performance at theBoyer College. However, ifyour winter break consistedof flying to equatorial Africato set up a fifteen stationcomputer lab at a medicalfacility in Goma,Democratic Republic ofCongo (DRC), then perhapsI’m wrong.

It all started on January 17, 2002,when Mt. Nyiragongo erupted and de-stroyed the city of Goma with ash andmolten lava. Located in Goma is themedical facility of DOCS, Doctors onCall for Service, whose director, JoLusi and his wife Lyn Lusi, are friendsof Laura Camp’s husband Jason Campand father-in-law Jim Camp. Naturallyconcerned about their friends inGoma (near where Jason was raisedby his missionary parents), the Campscalled to find out that the lava flowhad gone directly through the DOCSfacility, effectively wiping out majorsections of the center. “The lava flowhad destroyed the ground floor ofmany of the DOCS buildings,” saidLaura. “There were no more groundfloors. The second story was the newfirst floor.”

DOCS, founded by Jo and Lyn Lusiin 1993, is one of the few medicalteaching facilities in Goma, indeed inthis region of Africa. Concerned abouta brain drain of talented medical pro-fessionals leaving Goma, Jo Lusi set

up DOCS where local African studentswould come to train at the facility, andwould pledge to remain in the countryto provide medical services in thecommunity.

Jo Lusi convinced the Camps that acomputer lab, connected to the inter-net, and running medical softwarewould be a suitable temporary re-placement for the library which wasdestroyed by the lava. So the Campfamily purchased 12 new Dell comput-ers, 3 used computers and a networkprinter for DOCS, and shipped themout to Goma, in late spring 2002. If youknow your African geography, Gomais completely land-locked, situatedabove the northern tip of LakeTanganyika, practically straddling theEquator. The computers were loadedonto shipping containers, sent byfreighter to Africa, then overland toGoma where they arrived in August,2002.

The initial plan was to go to Gomain the late summer and set up thecomputer lab then. One thing led to

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Charles Abramovic

maintained a busyperforming scheduleincluding perfor-mances with violinistRobert McDuffie forthe AmericanAcademy in Rome,Italy, with

Philadelphia Orchestra principal flutistJeffrey Khaner on the PhiladelphiaChamber Music Society series, andwith Boyer colleague Larry Indik on afaculty recital. He appeared in con-certs of Philadelphia Composers as amember of both the Network for NewMusic and Orchestra 2001. A memberof the Temple New Music Trio, he alsoparticipated in a premiere of his com-position, Beasts, for flute, cello andpiano.

Andrea Berger performed as asoloist in Budapest, Hungary, in theIsadora Duncan International Festival,organized by The Hungarian Societyfor Choreology and The NationalDance Theatre. The festival commem-orated the centenary of Duncan’s veryfirst public solo appearance. Groupsfrom Moscow, London, Paris, Cologne,Prague, New York, and San Franciscoalso participated.

Ken Bruscia co-edited and con-tributed fivechapters to a com-prehensive musictherapy textbook en-titled, Guided

Imagery and Music:

The Bonny Method

Beyond. Dr. Bruscia, a recipient of theTemple University Great TeacherAward, received the 2002 Researchand Publication Award of theAmerican Music Therapy Association.He is organizing the first TempleUniversity interdisciplinary sympo-sium on qualitative research, to beheld on March 21, 2003.

During the Spring2002, Arthur D.

Chodoroff,Professor ofInstrumentalMusic and Chair ofthe Department ofInstrumental Studiesserved as an

adjudicator at festivals inWilliamsburg, Virginia Beach, GreatAdventure, and several local schools.He again served on the panel for theGreenfield Student Competition forThe Philadelphia Orchestra. Duringthe current year, in addition to con-ducting concerts with the TempleUniversity Wind Ensemble andChamber Orchestra, he recentlyserved as an adjudicator for theWalgreen Concerto Competition heldby the Mid-West Young Artists inChicago.

Donna Jean Cocchia graduated fromUnion Theological Seminary in NewYork with an MA in Theology. She alsoreceived the Bennett FellowshipAward of Auburn Seminary —awarded by Union’s faculty. The awardrecognizes commitment to ministriesof social justice and social service by agraduating student. Ms. Cocchia is amember of the Religious StudiesNational Honor Society.

Cheryl Dileo wasnamed theMcAndlessDistinguishedProfessor and Chairin the Humanitiesfor Eastern MichiganUniversity during2002–3, and pre-

sented a lecture on Music Therapy andMedicine at the University of MichiganHospital’s Alternative andComplementary Medicine’sDistinguished Lecture Series. Dr. Dileopresented five papers/sessions (joinedby Temple’s music therapy graduatestudents) at the World Congress ofMusic Therapy in Oxford, England, on“Music therapy and medicine, experi-ential training and professionalethics.” She serves on the ExecutiveCouncil of the World Federation ofMusic Therapy. One of her studies(along with Bradt, Friedman,Schwoebel and Coslett), “The effectsof Music Entrainment on Pain levelsand Body Schema of Chronic PainPatients,” was accepted for publica-tion in the medical journal, Neurology.

John Douglas con-tinued his long-standing associationwith the ChautauquaOpera as EnglishDiction Coach thispast summer, as wellas accompanying 15concerts in the

Philadelphia area with mezzo sopranoJoan Campbell. This past fall he wasnamed Director of the ApprenticeProgram for the Lake George Operaand will audition more than 400 appli-cants in three cities for this upcomingseason. He also served as the coordi-nating adjudicator for the NationalOpera Association’s Chamber OperaCompetition, selecting three finalistsfor the 2003 convention inWashington, DC. He lectured onCarmen for Temple Music Prep as-sisted by Philadelphia OperaCompany’s resident costume designer,Richard St. Clair. He also coordinateda visit of Ann Panagalias to Temple todiscuss building a career in opera.

Cynthia Folio

chaired a paper ses-sion at the SMT/AMSconference inColumbus Ohio, enti-tled “Women in Jazz:Roles and Voices.”She presented apaper “Billie Holiday

and the Art of Paraphrase: A Study inConsistency,” at the Music TheorySociety of New York State Conferenceat Columbia University. Dr. Folio gavea pre-concert lecture for thePhiladelphia Chamber Music Society,and will also give a lecture/demonstra-tion on contemporary flute techniquesfor the Flute Society of GreaterPhiladelphia. A recipient of ten con-secutive annual ASCAP StandardAwards for music composition, Dr.Folio’s composition Touch the Angel’s

Hand, was performed by theMendelssohn Club of Philadelphiawith Boyer colleague Alan Harler, con-ducting and doctoral student CaraLatham as the soprano soloist. Dr.Folio is currently working on twocommissions to be premiered in 2003— When the Sprit Catches You... a

commission from the RelâcheEnsemble, and a setting of two songsby Stephen Dunn, commissioned bythe Network for New Music. As flutist,she continues to perform regularlywith Network for New Music and withthe Temple Faculty New Music Trio.Dr. Folio serves on the Editorial Boardfor Music Theory Spectrum, on theEditorial Board for ex tempore, andshe also serves on the SMTPublication Committee.

Lorie Gratis per-formed as a soloistwith the DrydenEarly MusicEnsemble, and as asoloist with theDelaware SymphonyOrchestra’s perfor-mance of Handel’s

Messiah. Dr. Gratis was a featuredguest artist of soprano JulianneBaird’s recent recording, Rossini in

Venice, released this past fall. She alsogave a faculty recital at the BoyerCollege featuring music of Handel,Schumann, and Poulenc among others.

Alan Harler moder-ated a panel on thesubject “Workingwith Orchestras” atthe Denver, ColoradoChorus America 25thAnnual Conference.He has served on theBoard of Directors

for this national service organizationfor several years, and as a member ofthe Conducting Programs Task Force,he helped form the guidelines for thenew Robert Shaw ConductingFellowship. He guest conducted theGlasgow University Chapel Choir in aperformance of the Fauré Requiem

with additional singers fromMendelssohn Club and TempleConcert Choir, and guest conducted atthe Taipei International ChoralFestival in Taipei, Taiwan. In additionto conducting the final concert, hegave a masterclass in new Americanchoral music and choral techniques.This was his fifth journey to work withwonderful musicians in Taipei. InAugust the Mendelssohn Club per-formed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

with the Philadelphia Orchestra at theSaratoga Performing Arts Center. Healso presented a lecture on the SPACLecture Series, “An Ode to Joy — theChorus.”

Larry Indik pre-miered the baritonesong cycles of twoBoyer doctoral com-position students:the Northland Songs

by DouglasThompson and theMichelangelo Songs

by Lou DeLise. He also gave a pre-miere performance of songs by mas-ter’s student Orlando Haddad. Dr.Indik was the soloist in Philadelphia-area performances of Beethoven’sSymphony No. 9 and Missa Solemnis,and Handel’s Messiah. He also gave afaculty recital featuring the music ofWolf and Shostakovich with Boyer col-league, pianist Charles Abramovic. Hecontinues his research in modeling ofvoice and the control and memory ofvocal production.

Jan Krzywicki re-ceived premieres ofthree new works:Nocturnals for

piano at the DorothyTaubman PianoFestival atWilliamstownCollege, MA (July

’02) and at an SCI conference inBaltimore (Oct. ’02), StarSongs by theMusic Group of Philadelphia (Dec.’02), and Septet with the composerconducting Network for New Music(May /02), the latter two works sup-ported in part by residencies at Yaddoand the MacDowell Colony. Krzywickihas also conducted Network in severalconcerts of world and area premieres,in the Philadelphia area and in a two-day residency at the University ofPittsburgh. Network’s first CD underKrzywicki’s direction, Dream Journal,has been released on Albany Records.

David Laganella’s new book, The

Composer’s Guide to the Electric

Guitar, is scheduled for release byMel-Bay Music Press. His composi-tion, Lamentoso was the first prizewinner in the Haddonfield SymphonyComposer Competition and he re-ceived an Ives Commission for a newquartet to be performed by the AurosGroup for New Music on a spring 2003tour.

Tom Lawton recorded CDs with theRob Henderson Quartet (RH

Positive), with the Peter PaulsenQuartet (The Three Stranded), andwith vocalist Michelle Wagner. He iscurrently a member of NormanDavid’s Group Four appearing regu-larly at St. Jack’s in Philadelphia, andis a frequent collaborator with jazz vo-calist Miss Justine. He has appearedrecently at the Interfaith Jazz Festival,Cape May Jazz Festival, WestchesterJazz Festival, and Franklin andMarshall College. Performances haveincluded concerts with violinistsDiane Monroe (Uptown StringQuartet) and Arnold Steinhardt(Guarneri String Quartet) in mixedclassical/jazz programs. Mr. Lawtonhas also appeared in concert recentlywith Denis DiBlasio, Larry McKenna,Ben Schachter, Lee Smith, and JimMiller, among others.

Randi Marrazzo was an adjudicatorof the First Annual Emerging YoungArtist Competition of the MarionAnderson Award. Held at TempleUniversity in October 2002, over 70singers applied for the monetaryawards. She was a soloist with theChamber Orchestra of Philadelphiafor a Valentine’s Day concert inPerelman Hall at the Kimmel Center.She also was a soloist with the BucksCounty Choral Society for Handel’sMessiah, Dec. 2002. Ms. Marrazzo per-formed a concert and a recital inVenice, Florida in March of 2002 for anew concert series, and is collaborat-ing with Boyer colleague, EvaGholson, to sing the Seven Early

Songs of Alban Berg with choreogra-phy. The choreographed songs will beperformed in February, 2003.

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Robin Moore’s bookNationalizing

Blackness

(University ofPittsburgh Press1997) was translatedinto Spanish andpublished this Fallwith the title Música

y Mestizaje. Revolución artística y

cambio social en la Habana (Madrid:Editorial Colibrí). He also published“‘Revolución con pachanga’?: DebatesOver the Place of Fun in the DanceMusic of Socialist Cuba” in the mostrecent issue of the Canadian Journal

of Latin American and Caribbean

Studies. He presented numerous pub-lic lectures at the invitation ofChestnut Hill College, VillanovaUniversity, Plymouth State College,Florida International University, theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison,Franklin and Marshall College, andother institutions. His performancegroups Areíto, Crisol, and Conjunto 23continue to perform regionally and lo-cally.

Lambert Orkis wasthe recipient in April2002 of the TempleUniversity EstherBoyer College ofMusic andDepartment ofDance Certificate ofHonor Alumni

Award. He performed in the FirstChair All Stars Concert which waspart of the Bay Chamber ConcertSummer Music Festival, Rockport,Maine, including PhiladelphiaOrchestra principals Jeffrey Khaner,flute; Richard Woodhams, oboe; andDaniel Matsukawa, bassoon. The pro-gram included works by Beethoven,Dutilleux, and Poulenc. With violinistAnne-Sophie Mutter, he presented aUnited States Recital Tour with con-certs in Chicago, Boston, New York,Washington, DC, and Philadelphia.The program included works byFauré, Brahms, Gershwin, Kreisler,and Previn. He performed concerts onperiod instruments with The CastleTrio, including at the Hall of MusicalInstruments, National Museum ofAmerican History, Washington, DC, oninstruments from the SmithsonianCollection, and in Santa Fe, NewMexico, as part of the Santa Fe ProMusica Chamber Music ConcertSeries. He gave a recital with Lisa-Beth Lambert, violin, a member of thePhiladelphia Orchestra, the first ofthree concerts planned over a periodof two years in a cycle of Mozart’s ma-ture piano and violin sonatas. He per-formed chamber music with membersof the National Symphony Orchestra,and as Principal Keyboard with theNational Symphony Orchestra.

Ben Schachter hasreleased two newCDs, Inside,

Looking Out, andThe Missing

Beloved, both ofwhich feature his en-semble, Trio ofMany, with Erik

Johnson on drums, and Micah Joneson bass. Both of the new CDs havebeen released on the Ben-Jam Music

label. The Missing Beloved, also fea-turing Tim Hagans on trumpet, GaryBartz on saxophone, and Jef LeeJohnson on guitar, was the subject ofa feature article and favorable reviewin the July/August issue of All About

Jazz. Trio of Many continues its long-running engagement at St. Jack’s inPhiladelphia, and has also appeared atFranklin and Marshall College,University of the Arts, and has aspring 2003 clinic/masterclass sched-uled at Northwestern University.

Michael Sheadel (DMA ’93) andKelly McDermott, flutist (MM ’87,Professional Studies ’88) have formedthe ensemble The Hamilton Duo.Their inaugural CD, Romantic

Treasures, was released in October.The CD contains works by Schubert,Reinecke, and Franck, and was pro-duced by the Catalpa Classics label.

Jeffrey Solow con-tinues as Chair ofthe ASTA NationalSolo Competition,and as Editor of theNewsletter of the

Violoncello Society

in New York City. Hegave concerts

throughout the United States (includ-ing Hawaii) with the Amadeus Trio,gave a chamber music concert at theUkranian Institute of America in NewYork City, and gave a trio concert withBoyer colleague Diane Monroe andPianist Gary Gress. Mr. Solow gave arecital and masterclass at SouthernIllinois University and presented forthe New Jersey Music EducatorsAssociation. This spring will find himat Texas A&M giving a masterclass,judging the Corpus Christie YoungArtists Competition, and performingthe Beethoven Triple Concerto withthe Phoenix Symphony at the SedonaChamber Music Festival. Closer tohome, he performed with the TempleNew Music Trio, gave a lecture for theRittenhouse Committee for thePhiladelphia Orchestra, and was anadjudicator for the Astral YoungArtists Auditions.

Merián Soto pre-sented an evening ofher choreography atthe TempleUniversity ConwellDance Theater thispast October. Shehas been awarded a$25,000 Research

Incentive Grant from the office of theVice Provost for Research for La

Maquina del Tiempo, a new work in-vestigating the intersection of danceand music improvisation. Soto also re-ceived a $12,000 Multidisciplinarygrant from the National Endowmentfor the Arts in support of La Maquina.Soto presented her recent solo,Prequel(a): Deconstruction of a

Passion for Salsa as part of theDanceBoom Festival at the WilmaTheater in January.

Steven Zohn hasbeen commissionedto write the articleon Telemann for theforthcomingCompanion to

Chamber Music. Hehas also recently re-vised a number of ar-

ticles on performance practice for thesecond edition of the New Harvard

Dictionary of Music, and reviewedcritical editions of Telemann’s operasMiriways and Emma und Eginhard

for Notes: Journal of the Music

Library Association. In November2002, he chaired a session of paperson eighteenth-century topics at the na-tional meeting of the AmericanMusicological Society. Also inNovember, his CD with The PublickMusick of previously unrecordedTelemann trios was released byCentaur Records. This spring he willpresent his paper, “Bach and theConcert en Ouverture” at the BachColloquium at Harvard University.

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The Boyer College regrets to an-nounce the passing of ProfessorEmeritus, Elva S. Daniels.Professor Daniels was a member ofthe Department of Music Theory atthe Boyer College for 25 years be-fore retiring in 1987. She was a for-mer music editor and writer for The

Instructor magazine, with numer-ous articles published. Includedamong them was the sixteen-partseries — appearing over three years— Classroom Music: Revitalizing

Singing in the Classroom. She alsoproduced a teaching guide calledInstrumental Capers, a five-volumeLP released by RCA EducationalRecords, designed for elementaryage children. A consummate peda-gogue, Professor Daniels is remem-bered fondly by many music schoolalumni as one of their finest instruc-tors.

Lambert Orkis was the recipient in April 2002 of the Temple University Esther Boyer College of Music and Department ofDance Certificate of Honor Alumni Award. He is shown here with (from left) Acting Dean Richard C. Brodhead, Music AlumniBoard President Doris Schmauk, Mr. Orkis, and General Alumni Association President, Don Ewart.

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another and the plans were delayeduntil January 1, 2003, when Laura andJason flew to Africa to set up the labwith help from local technicians.

Trusting that all the computer equip-ment would be in as-shipped condi-tion, Laura and Jason arrived in Gomacarrying with them six suitcases ofmedical supplies to help replenish in-struments lost in the lava. “It’s amaz-ing what an American passport willdo,” said Laura. “We sailed throughcustoms in Nairobi, and went throughKigali (Rwanda), and drove threehours to Goma with practically no oneasking us questions about the medicalinstruments in our suitcases.”

Astoundingly, the computers werein perfect working order, even aftersitting in a metal shipping container,outside, from August to January, inthe middle of Africa. “The installationprocess was actually relativelysmooth,” said Laura. “The electricwiring was almost completed whenwe arrived, and the tables were beinghand-made during the first few days

we were there.” As local electricians finished the

wiring, Jason and Laura, ran the com-puter cables; the internet connectionwas set up through the Goma post of-fice (with help from the owner of alocal internet café), and the comput-ers were up and running on schedule.The problems which inevitably ariseduring a complicated set-up of thiskind were overcome, and the com-puter lab was officially inaugurated bythe DRC Minister of Health.

Jason and Laura assisted in trainingthe doctors currently working atDOCS in running the lab and using thesoftware. “Some of the students at theDOCS center,” said Laura, “had nevereven used a computer mouse to clickand drag, let alone access software.”

“It was an amazing experience,” saidLaura. “The people we met in DRCwere wonderful and generous peo-ple.”

No more so than Laura and her family.

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E S T H E R B O Y E R C O L L E G E O F M U S I C A N D D E P A R T M E N T O F D A N C E , T E M P L E U N I V E R S I T YEsther Boyer College of Musicand Department of DanceTemple University2001 N. 13th St.Philadelphia, PA 19122-6079

NONPROFIT ORG.ZIP + 4 BARCODEDU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044

Thursday, February 6 2003 4:30 PM

Master Class*Anner Bylsma, cello Rock Hall

Saturday, February 8 8pm Sunday, February 9 2pm

Two Japanese Multimedia

Dance/Theater Companies Leni Basso and Baneto Gen. Adm. $10 Stdt/Sr.Cit $8 Temple Arts Box Office 215.204.1122 Conwell Dance Theater

Friday, February 14 1:30 pm

Piano Master Class Ann Schein, Prof. Emeritus, PeabodyConservatory (Sponsored by Jacobs Music)

Friday, February 14, 2003 8:00 PMSaturday, February 15, 2003 8:00 PM

Department of Dance Faculty

Concert Featuring Temple University Dance faculty along with a reconstruction byRuth Andrien O’Neill performed byTemple Dance students.Gen. Adm. $10 • Stdt/Sr. Cit. $8 • GAF $5Temple Arts Box Office: 215.204.1122Conwell Dance Theater

Wednesday, February 19 3PM

Guest Artists “Trumpets East” Klein Recital Hall

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:00 PM

Temple University Concert ChoirMarietta Simpson, mezzo sopranoEric Owens, bassAlan Harler, conductor Bach: Cantatas and MotetsPresented by The Philadelphia ChamberMusic SocietyTicket Information: 215.569.8080 www.pcmsnet.orgPennsylvania Convention Center Auditorium

Sunday, February 23

TempleUniversity Symphony

Orchestra Luis Biava, conductor Sharon Derstine, soprano Brian Lee, violin Winner of the Student Soloists

Competition Wagner Wesendonk Lieder (excerpts) Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo

Cappricioso

Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor

Centennial HallThe Haverford School450 W. Lancaster AvenueHaverford, PA

Monday, February 24, 2003 6:00 PM

Jazz Master ClassDennis Irwin, string bass Klein Recital Hall

Saturday, March 1, 2003 7:30 PM

Guest ArtistsAuros Group for New MusicSusan Gall, flute; Nancy Dimock, oboe;William Kirkley, clarinet; DemetriusSpaneas, saxophone; Sarah Thornblade,violin; Jennifer Lucht, cello; NinaFerrigno, piano; Robert Schulz, percus-sion; Michael Adelson, conductor Works by David Laganella and othersRock Hall

Sunday, March 2, 2003 3:00 PM

Temple University Wind

SymphonyArthur Chodoroff, conductorCharles Abramovic, piano Program will include Gershwin’sRhapsody in Blue

Tomlinson Theater

Monday, March 17, 2003 7:30 PM

Faculty RecitalConwell Woodwind QuintetLoren Lind, flute; Louis Rosenblatt, oboe;Lawrence Wagner, clarinet; BernardGarfield, bassoon; Shelley Showers, horn Rock Hall

Friday, March 21, 2003 8:00 PM

Guest Artists RecitalNetwork for New Music The Poetry ProjectCompositions by Philadelphia composersCynthia Folio, Jeremy Gill, JenniferBarker and David Finko, set to new poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner, StephenDunn.Ticket Information: 215.848.7647Rock Hall

Friday, March 28, 2003 8:00 PMSaturday, March 29, 2003 8:00 PM

Department of Dance Guest Artist

ConcertPersona Zenobia Dance Ensemble Gen. Adm. $10 • Stdt/Sr. Cit. $8 • GAF $5Temple Arts Box Office: 215.204.1122Conwell Dance Theater

Sunday, April 6, 2003 3:00 PM

Kimmel Center ConcertTemple University Symphony Orchestraand Combined ChoirsAlan Harler and Luis Biava, conductorsStravinsky Symphony of Psalms

Dvorak Te Deum, Op. 103Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, Op. 47Tickets Required: $10–$25Call TicketPhiladelphia @ 215.893.1999 after March 1,2003.Tickets may be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office.Verizon HallThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsBroad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia

Monday, April 7 2003 4:30 PM

International Stefan Wolpe

CentennialStefan Wolpe Music for a DancerCharles Abramovic, pianoJoellen Meglin, choreographer Marshall Taylor, saxaphoneCynthia Folio, fluteAlso works by Matthew Greenbaum,David Glaser, Alex DeVaron and others.

7:30 PM

Stefan Wolpe’s Enactments for ThreePianos (Philadelphia Premiere) per-formed by the Bugallo/Williams PianoDuo (Chicago) with Nicholas Hodges(Great Britain). Additional works byMario Davidovsky, Morton Feldman, NilsVigeland and Amy Williams.Rock Hall

Tuesday, April 8 4:30 pm

The Talea String Quartet Philadelphia Premieres of works byWolpe, Greenbaum and Butch Morris andWorld Premieres of works by Sarah Lee and Daniel Barta

5:30 pm

Panel Discussion Austin Clarkson (University of Toronto) Hanna Arie-Gaifman (92nd Street Y) Dr. Marion Kant (University ofPennsylvania) Rock Hall

7:30 PM

International Stefan Wolpe

CentennialMarshall Taylor, saxophoneDr. Samuel Hsu, pianoDr. Marion Kant, introduction and com-mentarySaxophone Ensemble “Entartete Musik” (Music by composerscondemned as “degenerate” by the ThirdReich) and Music of ExileWorks by Wolpe, Schoenberg, Hindemith,Pleskow and MamlokRock Hall

Wednesday, April 9, 2003 7:30 PM

Temple University Latin American

EnsembleRobin Moore, director Klein Recital Hall

Friday, April 18 1:30 pm

Piano Master Class* Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano Rock Hall

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 7:30 PM

Temple University Chamber

OrchestraHelen Kwalwasser, concertmaster andleader Trinity Center for Urban Life 2212 Spruce Street,Philadelphia

Thursday, April 24 2:30 pm

Piano Master ClassMenahem Pressler (Sponsored by Jacobs Music) Rock Hall

Friday, April 25, 2003 7:30 PMSunday, April 27, 2003 3:00 PM

Temple University Opera Theater Mavra Igor StravinskyHin und Zurück Paul HindemithGianni Schicchi Giacomo PucciniJohn Douglas, conductorBen Levit, stage directorJames Johnson, producerGen. Adm. $20 • Stdt./Sr. Cit. $12.50 • GAF FreeTemple Arts Box Office: 215.204.1122Tomlinson Theater

Monday, April 28, 2003 7:30 PM

Temple University Jazz BandTerell Stafford, directorTomlinson Theater

Tuesday, April 29, 2003 7:30 PM

Temple University Jazz EnsembleTerell Stafford, director Jimmy Heath, saxophone Tomlinson Theater

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 7:30 PM

Temple University ChoirsConcert Choir, Alan Harler, conductorUniversity Singers, Jeffrey Cornelius,

conductorUniversity Chorale, Janet Yamron,

conductorWomen’s Choir, Tram Sparks, conductor Tomlinson Theater

Friday, May 2, 2003 1:30 PM

Jazz Master Class*McCoy Tyner, piano Legendary jazz pianist and composerRock Hall

Friday, May 2, 2003 7:30 PM

Temple University Percussion

EnsembleGlenn Steele, director Tomlinson Theater

Sunday, May 4, 2003 3:00 PM

Temple University Wind

Symphony and Collegiate BandArthur Chodoroff and Christopher Neal,conductors Tomlinson Theater

Information

All concerts are free unless otherwise noted. Programs

subject to change without notice. For updates to college

schedule, parking information, and to confirm all programs,

please call our college Concert Office at 215.204.8391.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY MAIN CAMPUS CONCERT VENUE LOCATIONS

Rock HallBroad and Cecil B. Moore AvenuesPhiladelphia

Tomlinson Theater13th and Norris StreetsPhiladelphia

Conwell Dance TheaterFifth FloorBroad Street and Montgomery AvenuePhiladelphia

Klein Recital Hall13th and Norris StreetsPhiladelphia

* We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in the presentation of these master classes.