ENCORE Magazine 2009

new construction

FALL 2008 / Winter 2009

www.temple.edu/boyer

neWs For ALumni And Friends oF the Boyer coLLege oF music & dAnce

“I choose to give to Boyer so others may share the opportunities that were available to me.”

Expanding Opportunities for Students

A t P r e s s e r h A L L

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F e At u r e s

2 New Construction at Presser Hall

4 Professors Janet Yamron and Darrel Walters Retire

6 Happy Birthday New School Institute

11 Boyer in the Community Update on Boyer: Building Better Communities

12 Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers at Home in South Philly

14 What’s New in Music Education Q&A with Professor Deborah Sheldon

16 The Art of Listening A look at Professor Steven Kreinberg’s GenEd class

17 In Memoriam: Donald W. Ewart & Richard M. Duris

d e PA r t m e n t s

13 Student Spotlight: Tihda Vongkoth

13 Alumnus Spotlight: Patrick Desrosiers

15 New Faculty Appointments

18 Alumni News

20 Faculty News

26 2007-08 List of Contributors Inside Back cover: Calendar of Events

editorLinda Fiore, [email protected]

editoriAL AssistAntnate Friedman

contriButorsmillie Bairichard Brodhead Jeffrey corneliusLinda FioreAlison reynoldsJanine scafftara Webb duey

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PhotogrAPhersryan Brandenberg; Briar Photography;Jeff Fusco; Joseph Labolito; Betsy manning;Patrick snook

temPLe uniVersityBoyer coLLege oF music And dAnce

deAnrobert t. stroker, Ph.d.

AssociAte deAnsBeth Bolton, Ph.d.ed Flanagan, Ph.d.

AssistAnt deAndavid Brown

director oF FinAnce & AdministrAtionsusan Alcedo

director oF coLLege reLAtions & eXternAL AFFAirsLinda Fiore

AssociAte director oF coLLege reLAtions & eXternAL AFFAirsJason horst

director oF deVeLoPmentJanine scaff

AssociAte director oF deVeLoPmenttara Webb duey

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Dear Alumni and Friends:

Welcome to the 2008/09 edition of ENCORE, which highlights the many accomplishments of our alumni, faculty and students.

On the fundraising front, I’m pleased to announce that Boyer’s capital campaign goal of $12 million is at the $10.7 million mark. A portion of that campaign is in support of new construction at Presser Hall, which will add much needed space for students and faculty. The new addition will complement the shared atrium space connecting Boyer to the Tyler School of Art and further enhance the expanding arts hub on main campus that also includes the

School of Communications and Theater.

Budget and program reductions are now part of the vernacu-lar at every college in the country, and Boyer is no exception. All of us – faculty, staff and administration – are finding ways to mindfully manage finances without in any way compro-mising the quality of education that has been, and continues to be, Boyer’s hallmark. I want to reassure you that in light of these challenging economic times, all of us at Boyer remain committed and dedicated to providing an outstanding edu-cation in music and dance.

We feel that now, more than ever, it is imperative to move forward with new initiatives and projects to provide opportunities that will benefit our greatest resource: our students. Their future is dependant upon the present.

While many students are facing difficult decisions about their education and future, your support is a vital part of our combined efforts to weather the storm. Your contribution, at any level, can make a direct impact on the lives of Boyer students.

However, despite the overall economic downturn, enrollment at Boyer for 2008 is higher than in any previous year, and applications for 2009 have increased 37% over last year. Boyer also maintains the highest SAT scores among incoming freshman within the University as a whole. What this means is that Boyer continues to attract the best and brightest who want to study with our exemplary faculty and take advantage of the many performance and research opportunities we have to offer. Our standing and reputation as one of the finest performing arts colleges in the country remains secure and sound.

During especially challenging times, we look to those who sustain our mission and growth. With your continued support, we can fulfill Boyer’s vision for the future.

Sincerely,

Robert T. Stroker Dean

L e t t e r F r o m t h e D e a n

our stAnding And rePutAtion As one oF the Finest PerForming Arts coLLeges in the country remAins secure And sound.

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about boyer College oF music And dAnce

temple university’s Boyer college of music and dance offers a diverse curriculum, wide array of degree programs and exemplary faculty, preparing students for careers as educators, performers, composers and scholars. undergraduate and graduate degree programs are offered in instrumental studies, jazz studies, theory, music therapy, choral conducting, music educa-tion, composition, music history, voice and opera and dance. in ad-dition to on-campus performances, student ensembles perform at Lincoln center, carnegie hall, Kimmel center for the Performing Arts, Jazz at Lincoln center, rutgers-camden center for the Arts and temple Ambler. the faculty at Boyer is recognized nationally and internationally as performers, choreographers, researchers, academic experts and scholars, garnering grammy awards, major research grants and accolades from the press.

On the cover: The new atrium entrance to both Presser Hall and the Tyler School of Art.

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the Boyer college of music and dance is in the midst of an exciting capital

improvement project adjacent to Presser hall that will significantly enhance the

educational experience of Boyer students well into the future.

When completed, students will have an additional 16,000 square feet of

technologically advanced rehearsal and learning space, including three classrooms,

two teaching studios, 27 practice rooms, a recording studio and loading dock.

this new construction is part of a larger project which puts Boyer’s main music

facility at the center of an expanded arts district on temple’s main campus

encompassing the school of communications and theater and newly relocated

tyler school of Art. Boyer and tyler will share a new entrance through a

magnificent two story atrium (see cover).

Live construction views and more detailed project information can be viewed at

www.temple.edu/boyer.

in order to make this important new facility possible, fundraising continues from Boyer alumni and friends. every gift, no matter what the size, will cre-ate new opportunities for Boyer students. An envelope is enclosed if you wish to make a donation.

Additionally, many naming opportunities are available, ranging from $500 to $2.5 million, payable over a five-year pledge period. Below is a list of selected naming opportunities. For more detailed information, please contact Janine scaff, director of development, at [email protected] or 215-204-5689.

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The new facility adjacent to Presser Hall, seen here at 13th and Norris Streets, features floor-to-ceiling windows and state-of-the-art technology. Students and faculty will now work toward their educational and musical goals in surroundings fitting to the 21st century.

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Overview of the expanding arts hub at Temple: Presser Hall and the newly constructed Boyer College facilities will be situated between the School of Communications and Theater to the west and the Tyler School of Art to the east.

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$ 500 sidewalk paver (exterior)

$ 1,000 tree (exterior)

$ 5,000 upright piano

$ 10,000 conference room

$ 15,000 practice room

$ 25,000 faculty studio

$ 50,000 “d” grand piano

$ 100,000 classroom


professor Janet yamron is in her 43rd year as a member of the temple music faculty. that she has served temple for so long will come as a shock to no one. What may be shocking is that she has de-cided to retire from full-time teaching at the end of the academic year. As faculty and alumni have become aware of her plan to retire, particularly given her unabated level of energy and interest in almost everything having to do with temple and Boyer, they express downright disbelief that she will actually do it. having joined the faculty in 1966, only four years after the college’s inception, she has become such a part of our culture that it

is difficult to imagine our school without her daily presence. she assures skeptics, however, that she really does intend to follow through and expects to be as busy as ever with many of the causes and professional interests she has nurtured for her entire career.

Janet yamron hails from Atlantic city where her family name was well known. Locals and the many visitors to the famous Boardwalk couldn’t miss the sign identifying yamron Jewelers, her parents’ well known busi-ness. she and her brother, Joe, graduated from Atlantic city high school, where she still maintains close ties. “For me, the only outlets for music there,” said Janet, “were two extra-curricular choirs. i loved those choirs so much i asked if i could volunteer after school to help. i ended up organiz-ing a choral library, which occupied an entire wall in the classroom. this was my reward to be near the music action.”

Janet came to temple in 1950 as a freshman. “one of my favorite stories from my freshman year is connected to a temple choirs concert in Atlantic city,” she said. i phoned home and asked my mother if i could bring a few people home for dinner. she was elated and asked, ‘how many?’ i replied, ‘70.’ i could hear her gulp, but she made it happen with the help of my uncle, who owned a restaurant there.” in those pre-college of music days, although Janet was a choral conducting major, she graduated from the college of education with a bachelor of science degree.

After teaching music at germantown Friends school, the Philadelphia museum of Art and serving as conductor of the Penn singers (university of Pennsylvania), she finished her master of education degree at temple in 1957. dr. david stone, then chair of music education, asked her to remain to teach and serve as manager of choral Activities and assistant to the director, robert Page. in 1960 she went on to teach at Fels Junior high school, and subsequently at Lincoln and gratz high schools. she then became chair of the music department of the highly regarded overbrook high school, where she established the first music magnet program in the Philadelphia school district. But dr. stone came calling again in 1966, offering her a full time double appointment in music and music educa-tion – the only time in the history of our college that anyone has been so appointed. “dean stone,” Janet recalls, “had an enormous impact on my life and career.”

Janet rose through the ranks to become a full professor and served as associate dean for undergraduate affairs, ultimately returning to full-time teaching three years ago. she has served the department of choral music as active conductor and teacher of conducting and choral methods, and the department of music education as supervisor of student teachers.

As a professor, she has been sought out by many students for her rigorous and effective approach to the teaching of conducting – an approach that has prepared them well for their careers. Julia Zavadsky, a former graduate student and current adjunct faculty member at temple, says of Janet, “i

came here from israel to work with her and Professor harler after a chance meeting a year earlier, when i knew little english, and she and he were so interested in me. she has been an example, a teacher, mentor and friend.”

having joined singing city shortly after its founding in 1948 by elaine Brown, who was a professor at temple, she came to espouse singing city’s raison d’etre of bringing people together through music. “singing city,” Janet recalls, “was an outgrowth of dr. Brown’s Fellowship house choir, which i had joined on coming to Philadelphia. through that experience i was afforded many opportunities to demonstrate to diverse communities the power of music to cross lines of differences and to change the hearts of people.” the impact of this experience on Janet was profound. she be-came dr. Brown’s assistant and has continued to be a vital force in singing city, currently serving on its board of directors.

Janet has helped prepare many of the great monuments in the choral repertoire with major conductors for performance with the Philadelphia orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Los Angeles symphony, the israeli Philharmonic and others. As a musician she has conducted all-state and regional festivals and served as clinician and/or adjudicator in numerous universities and schools and helped organize the interlochen Bicentennial celebration. As an invited member of a People-to-People delegation, she traveled to england, France, Poland and russia in the interest of bring-ing people together through music. most recently, she and singing city’s former associate conductor and temple alumna, sonya garfinkle, have co-chaired a development initiative that has raised over a half-million dol-lars to fund the first named academic chair at Boyer: the dr. elaine Brown chair of choral music.

Along the way, Janet became an exceptionally committed member of the university’s alumni association and Boyer Alumni Board, of which she served as officer and treasurer for as long as anyone can remember.

Janet’s long service to music students will not soon be forgotten by the thousands of students she has guided and advised. she has an excep-tional memory for names and details and has become, quite literally, our organizational memory! her service to students goes beyond what anyone would normally expect. if she sees alumni on the street, however, twenty years after graduation – so the folklore goes – and they had not turned in a piece of music, she will not only greet them warmly by name but will remind them of their outstanding debt of sheet music!

Janet has remained in contact with many of the students she encouraged into the teaching profession, and they are quick to profess their gratitude for her guidance. dorina morrow, a former temple student of Janet’s and music teacher at the high school for creative and Performing Arts, remarked that “Janet is ageless. not only does she look today just as she did thirty years ago, but more importantly, every time i see her working with our young students, i’m struck by the attraction she holds for them, just as she did for us. she has ‘it,’ whatever that wonderful quality of teaching is.”

Janet yamron’s dedicated commitment to temple university has ranged over well more than half a century. she has continued to be a catalyst for growth and change at Boyer and temple to this day. Janet has also been a real friend to alumni, faculty and students alike. she is, as all who know her can attest, the embodiment of temple’s motto, “Perseverance con-quers.” We all wish her the very best for a long and fulfilling “next stage” in her life. you can be assured that she will not be idle, nor will she stay away from the university she loves.

Dr. Jeffrey Cornelius Professor of Choral Music and former Dean of the College (1993-2001)

Professor Janet Yamron to Retire after 43 Years Professor Darrel Walters Retires after 22 YearsDr. Darrel walters, who retired from the music education and therapy department in decem-ber, joined the Boyer faculty in 1986 as assistant professor and, from 1999-2002, served as depart-ment chair.

“i’ve always been interested in art, music and writing,” dr. Walters said. “At the university of michigan, i was an art major – for three days. the art studios ran so late into the afternoon i’d miss the ensembles. so i became a music major because i was also interested in music. then in the course of my work as a music major, an english

teacher tried to talk me into becoming an english major instead because he though i could be a writer. All three of those interests have played strong parts in my work. i taught music in the public schools for a number of years, and it’s obvious how music content played a role there and then here, but writing ended up playing a bigger role than i had antici-pated. When Powerpoint became available, i found i enjoyed presenting language artistically. the “Academic Writing” class i teach brings all three of my strengths together and allows me to meet graduate students from all departments within the college. i’ve enjoyed that cross-spectrum of students.”

through his work guiding students’ final projects and dissertations, dr. Walters realized a need for a text to guide students’ written expression and completed The Readable Thesis in 1999. As he offered writing seminars for businesses such as glaxosmithKline and Johnson & Johnson, he realized a need for a second book for writers in business or education. the result? his new book, Write Well Now: Six Keys to Greater Clarity. his first post-retirement project is to finish a book for the “Assessment of music Learning” course. When asked about other writing projects, he enthusiastically responded, “i’ve written quite a few children’s poems and have begun a book that makes shakespeare’s sonnets accessible to young readers. And, there are four more projects i can’t wait to finish. now i’ll have the time to concentrate on them!”

during his 22 years at Boyer, dr. Walters taught graduate research and writing courses, “Assessment of music Learning” (more than 30 times) and student teaching seminars.

he served as major advisor to doctoral and masters students and served as a committee member for graduate students – representing contributions to 83 graduate documents. colleagues will remember his valuable and efficient service to the department, college and temple, such as chair and secretary of the collegial Assembly, member of Faculty senate, tenure and Promotion, music and dance teaching Academy, technology, and many search committees. he served as a member of the executive board of Pennsylvania music educators Association and chair for the committee for higher education.

With dr. Walters’ retirement, Boyer loses an outstanding teacher. in spring 2008, the music and dance teaching Academy committee chose him to receive the mAdtAc teacher of the year award. At his acceptance speech he likened teaching to bathing in a flowing river: “ . . . its source so far back in time we can’t see it – or imagine it. . . as we share a part of ourselves, a part of who we are; [and] a part of our humanity . . . the river keeps flowing. And i take gratification from the thought that some of you might carry a piece of me downstream and around the next bend.”

those who have known him for his mentoring and collegial spirit respect that he has maintained the highest standards and expectations, conscien-tiously working and living true to his principles. he has an impeccable record of unwavering commitment and dedication to do what is best for students, colleagues, the department, college and university. during this interview, he described what he will miss and what parts of Boyer he will carry with him as he creates a new path with his business and writing.

“the main misgiving about not coming to temple regularly is the stu-dents – to teach people who are enthusiastic and energetic. students have taught me the most when we are having discussions. For example, i never give a test without having at least one of the subsequent class periods devoted to discussing the exam item-by-item. it allows me to learn about students’ misconceptions and insights to the content. i also enjoy that a student will share a point of view or even a fear of something that i would not have thought of that helps me to think in a new way. those times put me in touch with my earlier self. in a way, students help me remember those times before i started my teaching career. of course, i will miss my wonderful colleagues, too.”

What lies in store for dr. Walters? immediately, he enjoyed his first winter break of his retirement with his wife, carol; daughters Julie, Jennifer, and Joanna; and grandson christian, who is 8. in march, he and dr. michael tsalka (DMA ‘08) will present a recital featuring dr. Walters’s recitations of shakespeare sonnets and tsalka’s solo piano works. in April, he and carol will become grandparents again – to a baby girl. he hinted that he would enjoy playing in the Katz memorial golf tournaments again next year. he looks forward to the end result of the new construction at Presser hall. mostly, he will pour all of his efforts into fueling his new business, revisionary inc., and publishing the writing projects he’s had to keep on the back burner.

We who remain at Boyer confidently know which portions of the river in which we continue to bathe are attributable to having met, worked with and learned from dr. Walters. to say that we will miss him is an under-statement. his teaching river is taking him along new courses, and we look forward to hearing about his successes in his new adventures.

Dr. Alison Reynolds Associate Professor of Music Education

On behalf of my colleagues, Boyer students and alumni, our most heartfelt gratitude to Professors Yamron and Walters for their combined 65 years of service and dedication to Temple University. We wish them both much happiness and success in their future endeavors.

Dean Robert T. Stroker


mitten hall resonated with the sounds of glorious choral music on september 27, 2008, when more than 100 choral alumni and friends of robert Page gathered to sing under his direction and celebrate the launch-ing of the robert Page choral conducting scholarship Fund.

robert Page directed temple choirs as a member of the faculty from 1956 to 1975, during which time the choirs toured frequently and sang under several distinguished conductors. he then moved to Pittsburgh where he has since held the position of professor of music and director of choral activities at carnegie mellon university. his work is available on more than 40 discs issued by major recording companies, including columbia, London, rcA, telarc and decca. receiving several prestigious awards, one of his two grammy Awards was for Catulli Carmina, recorded with the temple choirs and the Philadelphia orchestra under the baton of eugene ormandy. many attending the september choral reunion remembered those sessions fondly.

some came from as far away as massachusetts, georgia and illinois for a full day of singing, reminiscing and reconnecting with robert Page and his wife, glynn. the day began with a morning choral rehearsal, bringing much-loved repertoire to life. in the afternoon, many embarked on cam-pus tours led by a quartet of Boyer’s graduate choral conducting majors. (note: the temple university campus has undergone striking changes in the past decade – it’s worth a visit!) A cocktail reception concluded the day, when the audience was addressed by robert stroker, dean; Alan harler, director of choral Activities; Jeffrey cornelius, choral faculty mem-ber, former dean and student of robert Page; and then by robert Page himself. committee members took turns sharing reminiscences written throughout the day by participants, and the temple university concert choir, under the direction of tram sparks, sang beautifully. the event cul-minated with robert Page conducting alumni in a grand performance of his arrangement of the ideal “theme song” – Leonard Bernstein’s “make our garden grow” from Candide. it was a perfect day – old friendships

were renewed and new friendships were formed as more than $25,000 was raised to endow a scholarship fund to support master of choral con-ducting students at Boyer.

it is clear that robert Page’s contributions to the choral art are well recognized in his many choral arrangements, recordings and grammy nominations and awards. his dedication to and demand for excellence in choral music continues to bring out the best in singers. in short, he is an inspiration. the Boyer college is most grateful to the robert Page choral reunion and scholarship Fund committee co-chairs, regina gordon (’69) and Linda Laverell tedford (’73), who were inspired to garner support to establish this scholarship fund. the initial success of this endeavor is a result of their efforts along with the rest of the committee:

claudia milstein calloway, ‘72 Joan Barnhill reveyoso, ‘74 Bobbie Field Leiter, ‘70 toby Korn simon, ‘65 Francine goman Levin, ‘69 dan tuck, ‘70 Barbara thornber miller, ‘69 Barbara Willig, ‘63

At the Boyer college, we are most appreciative of the many contributions that we have received to build the fund. We will continue to “make our garden grow” in order to provide as much assistance as possible to our talented and dedicated students of choral conducting.

if you wish to honor robert Page in this way, please make your check payable to:

temple university-robert Page scholarship Fund c/o tara Webb duey 1938 Liacouras Walk Philadelphia, PA 19122

Robert and Glynn Page (center) with members of the Robert Page Choral Conducting Scholarship Committee (from left: Linda Laverell Tedford, Barbara Willig, Dan Tuck, Bobbie Field Leiter, Claudia Milstein Calloway, Regina Gordon, Barbara Thornber Miller, Francine Goman Levin.

Robert Page Inspires New Scholarship Fund

“My time as a music student at Temple opened up all sorts of new avenues that I continue to benefit from to this day. I choose to give back to the Boyer College each year so that others may share the joy and opportunities that were available to me.”

W h y I g I V eCarol Grey (‘88 MM Choral Conducting)

Robert Page conducts choral alumni and friends in historic Mitten Hall

the year 2008 marked two milestones for new school alumni and the Boyer college’s new school institute: the 65th anniversary of the found-ing of the new school of music by members of the curtis string Quartet, and the 100th birthday of orlando cole, legendary curtis Quartet cellist, teacher and new school founder. on July 19, new school alumni, friends and family from around the country and across generations gathered in rock hall to celebrate both.

thanks to the new school Alumni Planning group’s efforts, alumni from 13 states and graduating classes going back to the 1960’s were in atten-dance. First-time attendees who had not visited campus since the merger of the new school and Boyer in 1986 were able to see old friends and their alma mater’s new home during the day-long reunion hosted by the college.

rock hall was festooned with photographs and memorabilia from the curtis Quartet and new school archives, thanks to the hard work of Alice tully librarian and alumna, millie Bai. rooms were set aside for listening to vintage recordings of the new school orchestra and the curtis string Quartet. A special display honored helen gelles, the beloved “anchor” of the new school staff, who passed away in April. the reunion concert was dedicated to her memory.

much of the day’s activity was devoted to rehearsals for the late-afternoon concert, which included chamber works for violin and viola, woodwind quintet and string octet. under the direction of alumni conductors gary White, artistic director of the Philadelphia sinfonia and david rudge, head of the orchestra program at suny Fredonia, the players performed selections from holst’s Brook Green Suite and mozart’s Symphony No. 29. After the concert one alumnus, who participated in the rehearsals and performance, remarked, “it was amazing to see how the high standards of the curtis Quartet and the new school have affected people’s work and lives.”

the concert also provided a wonderful opportunity for members of the new school community to remember miss gelles: John Little and Jim hontz and former dean matthew colucci spoke from their perspectives as students and colleague; former president tamara Brooks, who was unable to attend, sent a special tribute which was read by her former assistant, sally millar. several members of miss gelles’s family attended and greeted alumni.

Following the concert, dean robert stroker and new school institute director richard Brodhead welcomed all to a dinner in temple’s historic mitten hall and made several announcements of importance:

> Five new school scholarships will be endowed to honor individuals who guided the 1986 merger: max Aronoff, Jascha Brodsky, orlando cole, helen Kwalwasser and helen gelles. Fundraising is underway. thanks to those who have already contributed.

> A student string quartet, carrying the name of the new school, will be established to represent Boyer in performances as part of its profes-sional training program. recipients of the new school scholarships will serve as members of this quartet.

> A new school alumni website now offers news and events, infor-mation from new school and curtis Quartet archives and practical information for alumni, such as how to order transcripts.

the reunion culminated with the opportunity to celebrate both birthdays. mr. cole was recognized at the concert and toasted at the dinner as a “living legend… a pathbreaking artist, renowned teacher and new school founder” whose vision and energy built the school. he responded to the standing ovation with eloquent remarks about the high standards and spirit of the new school and with praise for alumni who planned the reunion and performed at the concert. his words made a day full of good music and good fellowship even more memorable for those who traveled to temple last July.

if you’d like to make a gift to any of these scholarships, please contact tara Webb duey at 215. 204.1938 or [email protected]. For detailed information on scholarships, visit www.temple.edu/boyer/newschool

Conductor David Rudge and fellow alumni after performing the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 at the reunion concert.

Happy Birthday New School and Orlando Cole

New School founder Orlando Cole, who celebrated his 100th birthday last Au-gust, and Lachlan Pitcairn, former cello student and New School board member.

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Helen Gelles (1924 - 2008)helen gelles, administrator of the new school from the time of its founding, died last April after a long battle with cancer. As executive secretary to the president, she managed all aspects of the school from operations to registrations to facilities. When the new school merged with the Boyer college in 1986, she quickly established

herself as one who could get things done at temple, and she contin-ued to volunteer after her retirement in 1997. her legendary organiza-tion, perfected to an art form, and her commitment to the mission of the new school were matched only by her wry sense of humor. she is survived by a sister, Vivian, and two brothers, david and Abraham. memorial gifts in her memory may be sent to:

new school scholarship Funds, temple university c/o tara Webb duey 1938 Liacouras Walk Philadelphia, PA 19122


14th Annual David M. Katz Scholarship Golf Tournament Another SuccessAt the Boyer college, we are most grateful to dr. robert and mimsye Katz for organizing the 14th Annual david m. Katz scholarship golf tournament in memory of their son. this annual fall event, which raises funds in support of jazz scholarships, offers great golf at meadowlands country club in Blue Bell, PA and included bridge and other games for the first time this year. dinner, a silent auction and live jazz, performed by current students and alumni Katz scholars who return each year to thank the Katz family and participate in a lively jam session, concluded the successful day. thanks to the numerous contributors to this fund, more than 30 scholarships have been awarded to Boyer’s talented and deserving jazz students.

From left: Amanda Noce, Dan Hanrahan, Jeff Torchon, Rob Martino, Maxfield Gast, Mimsye Katz, Justin Sekelewski, Luke Brandon, Terell Stafford (director, Department of Jazz Studies), Danny Janklow, Mike Onufrak, Yoichi Uzeki, Greg Snyder, Joe McDonough, Tyree Barron.

Charles Dutoit to Receive 2009 Annual Boyer College Tribute AwardWe are pleased to honor charles dutoit, chief conductor and artistic adviser of the Philadelphia orchestra, with the eighth Annual Boyer college tribute Award. Also artistic director and principal conductor of the royal Philharmonic, dutoit regularly collaborates with the world’s leading orchestras. since his debut with the Philadelphia orchestra in 1980, dutoit has been invited each season to conduct all the major orchestras in the united states. he has also performed regularly with all the great orchestras of europe as well as the israel Philharmonic and the major orchestras of Japan, south America and Australia. his more than 170 recordings have garnered more than 40 awards and distinctions.

in 1991, dutoit was made an honorary citizen of the city of Philadel-phia. in 1995, the government of Québec named him grand officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres. he has also been invested as an honorary officer of the order of canada, the country’s highest award of merit.

the Annual Boyer college tribute Award is given to deserving individu-als who have demonstrated extraordinary service to the local music community. Past recipients include Al and gabrielle rinaldi from Jacobs music company, carole haas gravagno, Kenneth gamble and the hon-orable edward g. rendell. the award will be presented at the temple orchestra and choirs’ Kimmel concert on march 22.

t e C h n e W sInstrument Drives to Benefit Philadelphia Public SchoolsPhi mu Alpha sinfonia and sigma Alpha iota are holding campaigns to collect used instruments and supplies (books, reeds, teaching materials) for distribution to Philadelphia public schools. if you have an instrument you’re no longer using, or any unused supplies to donate, please contact david Brown at [email protected] who will coordinate the donation and provide forms for tax purposes.

Boyer students Matthew Harman (left) and Brandon Chaderton from Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, are spearheading the instrument donation program. Our thanks to both.

Boyer installed several new “smart classrooms” that were

funded by student TECH fees. The one in Presser Hall 101

includes a PC. Presser 103 houses a Mac. There will also

be 3 new “smart classrooms,” (2 Mac’s/1 PC) in the new

addition to Presser Hall.

Winners of the 2008-09 Student Soloist Competitioneach year, students audition for a faculty panel for a chance to perform with the temple university symphony orchestra and other ensembles. We are pleased to announce this year’s winners:

the winner in the Preparatory division is yerim (Jamie) Lee. the collegiate division yielded a tie between mark Livshits (piano) and Lauren Pollock (soprano). All three winners will perform at the February 15th temple university symphony orchestra concert at the haverford school.

the runner up for the collegiate division was Adrian Baule (flute) he will perform with the temple university Wind symphony on February 22.

our congratulations to the winners.


education + partnership + Collaboration

Arts & Quality of Life Research Center> host of 2nd annual second annual conference: Arts and Quality

of Life in the Philadelphia community at temple on February 27

> songwriting program, “hear our Voices,” for at-risk youth in Kensington, featured on local ABc and cBs news. Funding from exelon ($10,000) to continue this successful program in 2009

> “singing for tomorrow,” a songwriting program for children with spinal cord injuries at shriner’s hospital, funded by the christopher and dana reeve Foundation

> $50,000 Provost seed grant for corazón: the influence of music therapy on stress risk Factors Associated with cardiovascular disease in Latino Women

> Arts in healthcare and community training Program – the first course of the competency-based training program for artists to prepare them to work with disenfranchised members of the local community, funded by the Barra Foundation

> temple hosted 19th annual international conference of the society for the Arts in healthcare in Philadelphia last April. drs. cheryl dileo and Joke Bradt of the center kicked off the three-day conference, Embracing Our Past, Shaping Our Future: 21st Century Innovations

> the center was featured on the Wrti’s Creatively Speaking, and will be featured on Whyy’s new series, Creative Campus in 2009

Temple Music Preparatory Division this year temple music Prep has two additions to its center for gifted young musicians: a harp ensemble directed by Kimberly rowe and the chamber Players orchestra conducted by davyd Booth. the Prep’s com-munity music scholars Program with 150 members is the largest since the mid-1990’s with students drawn from over 50 Philadelphia schools. students receive individual lessons and have performance opportunities in a jazz orchestra, a string ensemble as well as class instruction in music theory and a new component in modern dance. A visit from the sheila Fortune Foundation, one of the program’s funders, was welcomed last fall to see the program in action. music Prep’s honors string Quartet (clare semes, Anastasia Falasca, steven Laraia, nicholas Bollinger) was invited to perform at the national guild for community schools of the Arts Award Luncheon. cellist Bihn Park, a student of metta Watts and orlando cole will perform with the Philadelphia orchestra on April 4th as winner of the Albert greenfield competition children’s division.

Community Concerts at Temple Amblerthis is the second year Boyer has collaborated with temple Ambler to present a free, community concert series in Ambler’s Learning center Auditorium. concerts have included faculty members Lawrence indik, maurice Wright, John Johnson, charles Abramovic and Joyce Lindorff. students have performed as well, including the tu Jazz ensemble, pianist tatiana Abramova, violinist daniel turcina and the semes sisters from music Prep. upcoming concerts include opera scenes, cello and piano, jazz and new music by composition majors. Watch for dates at www.temple.edu/ambler.

New Horizons Band and Summer Music WorkshopsBoyer will soon host a new horizons Band for members over 50 who have either played an instrument in the past or have always wanted to play in a band. the department of music education will offer two new workshops this summer for music teachers: “Pickin & grinnin’: selecting and rehearsing Quality Band Literature” and “Wah-wahs, riders and humbuckers: creating & developing a rock Band.” Both workshops can be taken for credit or non-credit and optional Act 48 credit. For more information and to register, visit: http://voyager.adminsvc.temple.edu/tucourses.

DanceMobilethe “i see you!” dancemobile, hosted by Boyer’s department of dance, is a traveling stage that brings global dance traditions of the African-American/Latino diaspora to communities within Philadelphia. Performances last year included those on main campus, Fairhill square Park and north Light community center. All performances are free and open to the public.

For more information on BOYER: BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES, visit www.temple.edu/boyer/bbbc

Gallery of Successeach fall, two graduates from each of temple’s schools and colleges who have achieved professional distinction are chosen to be inducted into the Gallery of Success, along with a new class of awardees. their portraits and bios are displayed alongside many other notable alumni in mitten hall. the 2008-09 Boyer recipients are tania b. Isaac and gary D. white.

All That Jazz the department of Jazz studies has put together a busy year of programs, performances and master classes, featuring guest artists sean Jones (trumpet), ralph Peterson (drums), dena derose (vocals) and John La Barbera (arranging). Last may, the jazz band performed at the de-troit international Jazz Festival and the hague Jazz Festival in Amsterdam.

the department’s ties with Amsterdam run deep. Boyer entered into an exchange program with the Amsterdam conservatory of music this past year. Four students from Amsterdam are studying at Boyer and one Boyer student is there. Also, Boyer faculty member dick oatts is on the faculty of the Amsterdam conservatory of music.

in march, the department will again host the essentially ellington eastern regional high school Jazz Band Festival on campus, bringing some of the region’s top high school bands together for a full day of workshops and performances with faculty and guest artists.

“temple night” at ortlieb’s Jazzhaus, the premiere place to hear jazz in Philadelphia, features the jazz band one night each month throughout the year. And, the band will head to new york this spring for its annual performance at dizzy’s club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln center.

the Village Vanguard orchestra’s Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard has been nominated for two grammy Awards: Best Large Jazz ensemble and Best Arrangement (St. Louis Blues). Faculty members terell stafford, Luis Bonilla and dick oatts perform with the Village Vanguard.

Guest artist Benny Golson performed with the Temple University Jazz Band, under the direction of Terell Stafford at the Kimmel Center in December. The Temple Lab Band also performed, under the direction of Greg Kettinger.

B o y e r I n t h e C o M M u n I t y

The following projects support the University’s initiative to develop programs that serve the greater Temple community and surrounding neighborhoods. BOYER: BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES was created in 2007 by Dean Robert T. Stroker to highlight outreach projects within the college. What follows is a report on activities from 2008/09:

tania b. Isaac MFA dance ’00 has spent her ca-reer working toward a model of performance that seeks to span and deepen her interest in aesthetic, cultural and academic practices. her company, tania isaac dance in Philadelphia, does just that, creating a hybrid of physical and contemporary movement narratives that drive social and artistic discourse. she has toured throughout the united states, the united Kingdom and Japan, and her work has been supported by organizations such

as the Leeway Foundation, the Pew charitable trusts, the independence Foundation and the national Performance network.

honored in 1996 as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” isaac graduated from the university of Wisconsin–madison prior to receiving her mFA from temple, where she was a university fellow. she has worked tirelessly in both the arts and civic communities in Philadelphia, serving as resident artist at the Painted Bride Art center as well as co-founding imprint: dialogues of a generation, a social action program geared toward developing conversations between youth and civic leaders.

she has been adjunct faculty at Bryn mawr college and has taught and performed in extended residencies at Bennington college in Vermont, Virginia commonwealth university and ohio state university. tania isaac dance was in residence at the Annenberg center for the Performing Arts. isaac also leads workshops and presentations as a commonwealth speaker with the Pennsylvania humanities council.

gary D. white BMus ’86, MMus ’95 is music di-rector and conductor of the Philadelphia sinfonia, a forum through which he has been able to pass on to the next generation of musicians the knowledge he gained as a student at the new school of music and Boyer. Philadelphia sinfonia is a full symphonic and string chamber orchestra comprising some of the most gifted young musicians in the delaware Valley. under White’s baton, the orchestra has performed at the republican national convention,

the Liberty medal ceremony for former secretary of state colin Powell and the Lewis & clark 200th Anniversary conference. since taking the podium, the sinfonia has grown to more than 90 members, competitively selected each year from an increasingly gifted pool of musicians, and has per-formed in countries including italy, the czech republic, hungary, Austria, russia and Finland.

White studied at the prestigious Pierre monteux school for conductors and orchestral musicians in maine and earned his master’s degree in French horn performance at Boyer after graduating from the new school. he was music director and conductor of the temple university community youth orchestra, assisted maestro Luis Biava in temple music Prep’s center for gifted young musicians and was former chair of the music department at germantown Friends school.

As a French horn player, White has performed with the Fairmount Brass Quartet, the chamber orchestra of Philadelphia, and the harrisburg, reading and Pottstown symphony orchestras.


Tihda Vongkoth For tihda Vongkoth, a first year master’s student in percussion per-formance, having the opportunity to visit the Zildjian cymbal factory in Boston, meeting the founder’s family and selecting four sets of complimentary cymbals, is akin to a seven year old’s visit to disney-world: a dream come true. Winning the Kerope Zildjian scholarship is just one of tihda’s many notable accomplishments that include scholarships to interlochen Arts Academy and Aspen music Festival

and placing first in the Florida orchestra and u.s. Air Force Band concerto competitions.

tihda is a student of Boyer faculty member Alan Abel, former percussionist with the Philadelphia orchestra. she first met Abel at one of his percus-sion seminars while a junior in college and knew she eventually wanted to study with him. she was accepted at some of the top music schools in the country: Juilliard, cleveland institute and manhattan school of music. she choose southern methodist university to study with a percussionist from the dallas symphony orchestra and because she also wanted a diverse curriculum in a large university setting. she was looking for a similar gradu-ate school environment, which, in addition to studying with Abel, is the reason she chose Boyer.

“i like the intimacy of the program at Boyer,” said tihda. “i can interact and perform with freshman, play in the orchestra and get to know most all of the faculty.” in fact, orchestral percussion, and especially opportuni-ties to study and play the timpani, are two of the things she likes best about Boyer.

tihda’s parents immigrated to the united states from Laos in 1970. she was born in chicago and when the family moved to Florida, she started studying with the principal timpanist with the Florida orchestra. this was 6th grade and, even then, she knew she wanted to be a musician. she played in the Pinellas youth orchestra and attended the Pinellas county center for the Arts, a prominent performing arts high school. her senior year was spent at the interlochen Arts Academy, and she went on to win the Florida orchestra and Air Force Band competitions. her summers are spent studying and performing at various music festivals, including Aspen, interlochen, tanglewood and Brevard, most all on scholarships or fellowships. While Brahms, shostakovich, sibelius and Bob Becker are her favorites composers, her tastes in music are eclectic, from jazz to rap to world music.

of her teacher, tihda sings his praises. “he is a great pedagogue and a caring teacher, who devotes time to and energy on his students.” these are traits that tihda hopes to pass on to students when she becomes a teacher, which, in addition to continuing to perform, is one of her many ambitious goals.

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Kun-Yang Lin is assistant professor of dance at the Boyer College

From Victor café’s opera-singing servers to the samuel s. Fleisher Art memorial’s free classes for those from all economic and cultural backgrounds, south Philadelphia is crowned by the italian market – a colorful convergence of many family-owned businesses along 9th street. Adding to the diversity and energy of this neigh-borhood, Kun-yang Lin/dancers (KyL/d), one of Pennsylvania’s only Asian American contemporary dance companies, has opened chi movement Arts center in a renovated warehouse half a block from the city’s notori-ous Pat’s and geno’s steaks.

“i know that there will be many challenges, but i am committed to being an active participant in the vibrant art scene in Philadelphia. Art is about connecting with people,” said artistic director Kun-yang Lin.

At the age of 12, Lin organized the first all-male dance troupe to perform in his native village of hsinchu, taiwan. he has received numerous awards, including the taipei national theater’s modern dance Award, national endowment for the Arts choreography Award, the domestic Prize from the taipei international community cultural Foundation and the taiwan outstanding Artist Award.

since moving to the united states in 1994, Lin has performed as a princi-pal dancer with doris humphrey repertory dance company and the mary Anthony dance theatre. in addition, he has performed in the companies of martha graham, Anna sokolow, Jennifer muller/the Works, Kevin Wynn collection, Paula Josa-Jones and Janis Brenner & dancers.

“there is an Asian feel to [Lin’s] work, but it defies classification and touches people of all backgrounds because Kun-yang has studied and per-formed so many different styles in new york, europe and Asia throughout his career,” said Ken metzner, KyL/d executive director since 2004.

KyL/d’s chi Awareness technique has been developed throughout Lin’s life, drawing on his upbringing in taiwan as well as worldwide teaching and performing experiences. rising from internal energy or “chi” – the mandarin word for “breath” or “vital life source” – his pieces have been described as “spiritual” and “bold.”

Lin’s choreography has been presented throughout the united states as well as in Asia, southeast Asia, London, Vienna and mexico. in addition, Lin’s choreography has been added to the educational curricula for dance students at taiwan national university of the Arts and dance ensemble singapore Performing Arts Academy. he has also been a resident guest artist at Bryn mawr college and, since 2003, assistant professor of dance at Boyer.

After moving from new york to Philadelphia, he recognized a growing appreciation for modern dance. the “less frenetic pace” here has allowed him to focus further inward on “chi,” which informs his artistry.

Lin’s personal movement language blends qualities from both Western and eastern cultures. he draws on many influences from taiwan such as cal-ligraphy, martial arts, tai chi and traditional chinese dance movements but expresses them in a contemporary style.

“i stumbled into a concert of KyL/d in new york in 2003 and was so moved by the experience that i became hooked,” metzner said, noting that he personally treasures the compassion and humanity in Lin’s pieces.

“Before i knew KyL/d’s work,” he added, “i was a corporate lawyer for an international fashion company ... now i am an interfaith ministry student working toward my ordina-tion in 2009.”

With a mission of creating work that transcends cultural boundaries and enriches the community from an Asian American perspective, KyL/d members hope that the center will make a significant contribution to

the appreciation of dance as an art form. the new site serves as a rehearsal venue for the dancers, and offers dance classes and workshops focusing on Lin’s discovery and cultivation of “individuals’ internal energies” – a process that he believes has the potential to transform lives and the com-munities in which we live.

the center offers workshops by renowned visiting choreographers and danc-ers as well as classes by accomplished local artists. through open rehearsals, the public will also have opportunities to learn about dance and experience the creative process.

“the diversity, texture, colors and contrasts of the italian market district create a unique energy that we want to be a part of and contribute to,” metzner said. “the multicultural character of the area meshes with KyL/d’s artistry, which seeks to transcend boundaries of language, race, age, orientation and origin.”

the grand opening of KyL/d’s transformed 3,000-square-foot warehouse at 1316 s. 9th street was held last April, with local and chinese dignitaries in attendance. the celebration featured a selection of works from KyL/d’s repertory, including a special performance by Lin of his trademark solo, “dedication.” he performed the piece, originally created following the sudden death of his father, in honor of the recently deceased Patricia nanon, founder of the yard, the martha’s Vineyard colony for performing artists.

the chi movement Arts center, a 501(c) (3) non-profit offers dance, movement, yoga and Pilates classes for children and adults. For more information, visit www.kunyanglin.org.

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Find a Home

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Patrick Desrosiers BM ‘92, MM ‘95

Patrick desrosiers enjoys the “lovely cool climate” of his new home, the city of Belo horizonte, Brazil. hired in 2007 by the new orchestra Filar-monica of the state of minas gerais as a first violinist, he says the state-funded orchestra has set an ambitious goal to become the “best orchestra in that country.”

“i actually took my audition in Philadelphia on very short notice. the contract was written entirely in Portuguese, which was a bit of a chal-lenge since i had only been in the country for two months. Fortunately, i’m fluent in French and spanish and was able to find my way.” the orchestra has aggressively recruited international musicians representing nine coun-tries in addition to the u.s. and canada.

Patrick first took up the violin at seven with his teacher, who also hap-pened to be his cousin, in his native country of haiti. A decade later, he had the opportunity to meet, and perform for, helen Kwalwasser, who was visiting haiti. As Patrick started considering attending college in the states, it came down to temple and a university out west. But Patrick picked temple in 1987, not only to study with Kwalwasser and Jascha Brodsky, but because he would be joining three other students from haiti who were here pursuing gradu-ate music degrees. Patrick also cites his good fortune to having studied and performed with Jeffrey solow, Luis Biava and Lambert orkis.

While at temple, he was also performing with the delaware and har-risburg symphonies. After graduation, he held teaching positions at the Wilmington school of music and Bryn mawr conservatory, performed with the Philly Pops and toured with the strauss orchestra of America, performing at the Kimmel center, Kennedy center and Avery Fisher hall at Lincoln center.

“i consider my time at temple as a ‘bridge,’” says Patrick, “and am grate-ful to the many faculty members who helped me cross over to the life i have now as a professional musician.”

the Filarmonica has scheduled a full inaugural season of concerts and re-cently performed at a festival in sao Paulo alongside maestro Kurt masur. Patrick has set his sights high: he’s determined to master the Portuguese language soon so he can follow in the footsteps of his temple mentors and go on to teach at the university of minas gerais in the beautiful country of Brazil.

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Chi Movement Arts Center

This article has been adapted from the original which appeared on 4/7/08 in “The Bulletin,” written by Andrea K. Hammer, founder and director, Artsphoria: Celebrating Arts Euphoria www.artsphoria.com


Linda Fiore sat down with dr. sheldon to find out what’s new in the field, in the department and how today’s students prepare to enter the teaching workforce in the 21st century.

Fiore: What are some new trends in the field of music education and how is your department addressing them?

sheldon: our new curriculum, which was implemented last fall, reflects trends that came forth from Vision 2020’s initiatives and recent confer-ences, during which professionals came together to talk about where we came from and where we’re going. the resulting publication, “Vision 2020: the housewright symposium on the Future of music education,” highlights the guiding principle of breaking down traditional walls of the classroom. the approach is to look at ways to teach music to whole learn-ing communities – those inside and outside the traditional classroom. We have designed the new undergraduate curriculum to meet the additional skills our graduates will need to meet these standards.

the new undergraduate curriculum provides opportunities for teachers to participate in community music projects. in designing the curriculum, we asked, “how can our students be instrumental in providing adults with music experiences beyond high school or college?” one of the answers is that students are required to take the course, “collaboration and creativi-ty in the new music community.” the state will soon require 360 hours of experience working with children within special education and english as a second Language communities. our curriculum reflects both requirements through methods courses and observation within diverse populations.

Fiore: Considering cutbacks in music programs, especially in public schools, have you seen a decline in the level of interest in careers as music educators?

sheldon: i’ve actually seen an increase in the number of inquiries we receive at temple. our program here has a high level of visibility. my colleagues and i are out there presenting workshops, clinics and guest conducting, which has a direct impact on the kinds of students we recruit. there are also many excellent music programs in area schools, and high school students studying with good teachers aspire to a career in educa-tion. it’s a win-win and we reap the benefits. in fact, the Philadelphia school district comes knocking at our door asking us to send our gradu-ates their way.

Fiore: How versatile do music education graduates have to be to suc-ceed in the current job market?

sheldon: Any teacher needs to be versatile and is asked to do far more rath-er than less. this is particularly the case in music, because the certification is K-12, which means they are licensed to teach music in Kindergarten or band in middle school or choir in high school, which means versatility is a must. At the undergraduate level, we give them enough information and skills to be successful in the first year. Why just the first year? if we teach them the skills to do independent research, find answers and become self-sufficient in that first year of teaching, they’ll know to focus on the next part of their career and continue gaining knowledge through professional development.

Fiore: What are the biggest changes in the graduate curriculum, which will be implemented in fall 2009?

sheldon: some components are already in place. For example, there are now three options for a master’s degree exit requirement rather than one: a research project, extra credit courses in a specialized area or a master’s thesis. the graduate curriculum will be more focused on practitioners’ needs and interests, allowing students to work hand in hand with an advi-sor to develop the best course sequence. some of the upcoming summer workshops will also provide professional development opportunities for graduate students, such as how to develop a rock band or choosing band scores for secondary music teachers, both of which mirror the Vision 2020 goal of breaking down traditional walls of the classroom.

Fiore: For those considering careers in music education, what advice can you give to prepare them for the job market?

sheldon: i advise them to take private lessons on their instrument and study keyboard. they should also work with kids in any capacity, whether it’s babysitting, working at summer camp or giving music lessons. this is the best gauge to determine whether or not one enjoys working with children. regarding advice for graduates, of course they should do well in their classes, but also develop sound musicianship and teaching skills. they should think of conducting and teaching as their main instrument as that’s what most of them will be doing after graduation. i also advise them to get involved with cmenc so they have a voice on how music programs are developed at state and national levels. Lastly, i encourage them to be good colleagues.

Fiore: Tell me about some of your current projects.

sheldon: i’m finishing an elementary band method book along with three other writers which will be published by FJh music in 2009 and premiered at the midwest Band and orchestra clinic in chicago. some ideas from Vision 2020 are incorporated in the book. Last year, along with a colleague and Phd students, i conducted research on 40 band directors to quantify types of verbalizations conductors use during rehearsals, the data of which was presented in Portugal. i’m also completing research on ethnicity and gender in wind band conducting which is a follow up to a previous study.

Fiore: What do you learn from your students?

sheldon: students teach me all the time. i actually count on them to keep me current with new technology, materials and music (my 15 year old daughter helps me to stay on top of new music, too!). i watch how they interact with each other and am reminded of different learning styles. this helps me to incorporate different ways of teaching into my courses so that everyone is served to the best of my ability. sometimes they think of things in ways that i would not have. they remind me to stay positive and keep laughing!

Keep in touch with music education alumni by visiting and posting on www.myowlspace.com

The Department of Music Education has a long history at Temple. Beginning in the late1890s and housed within Teachers College, which later became the College of Education, it offered only a handful of classes. In the early 1960s, the Music Education Department became autonomous, was officially integrated into Temple’s College of Music and held the highest enrollment of undergraduate and graduate students within that college. More than four decades later, Temple’s Office of Alumni Affairs is in touch with 550 music education alumni.

Q&a w I t h D r . D e b o r a h S h e l D o n P r o F e s s o r A n d c h A i r , d e PA r t m e n t o F m u s i c e d u c At i o n

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2008 boyer College of Music and Dance Certificate of honor to Marguerite l. brooks (MMus ’75)

marguerite L. Brooks is associate professor of choral conducting and chair of the program in choral conducting at yale’s institute of sacred music and school of music. she has taught at northern Valley regional high school in demarest, new Jersey, smith and Amherst colleges, and was director of choral music at the state university of new york at stony Brook. Brooks resides in new haven, connecticut, where she is director of music at the church of the redeemer.

2008 temple university great teacher award to professor helen Kwalwasser (violin)

A curtis institute alumna and a member of the Boyer faculty for 40 years, Kwalwasser’s accomplishments have also been recognized by the university with the creative Achievement Award (1984), the Lindback Award for distinguished teaching (1998) and the inspiration Award (2006) from temple music Prep. in 2006, she was honored with a prestigious national

Artist-teacher Award from the American string teacher Association.

2008 temple university lindback award for Distinguished teaching to Dr. edward latham (music theory)

one of the youngest members of the Boyer faculty, Latham came to temple in 2001 after teaching at the university of minnesota. A specialist in interdisciplin-ary analysis, Latham’s work has been published in Indiana Theory Review, Music Theory Online and Theory and Practice. he holds his Phd from yale and has given papers on debussy, gershwin and Britten

in greece, the uK, ireland, Austria, canada, the netherlands and throughout the us. he has chaired conference sessions in Princeton, new haven and dublin.

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Boyer Alumni President Regina Gordon, Marguerite Brooks, Dean Robert T. Stroker

We are pleased to announce the appointments of . . .

Dr. Matthew brunner, as associate director of bands and director of athletic bands. An ohio native, he received a Bm in music education from ohio university in 1995, after which he served as band director for the carrollton, ohio school district and performed regularly on trumpet in area concert bands, orchestras, funk and jazz bands. he returned to ohio university for his mm in instrumental

conducting with a minor in trumpet, during which he also conducted the university’s bands and taught classes in theory, orchestration and conduct-ing. he recently earned his doctorate from indiana university, where he also served as associate instructor for the department of Bands, directing several university bands and teaching instrumental conducting.

“i am excited and honored to join the faculty at temple,” Brunner said. “during my interview, when i conducted the wind symphony, i knew immediately that this was a special place with fantastic student musicians. combine this with a great city like Philadelphia and temple was easily at the top of my list. the position also allows me to teach in my three areas of interest: conducting, concert bands and athletic bands.”

he is credited with over 100 arrangements for university and high school marching bands across the country, and has published in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Teaching Music Through Per-formance in Beginning Band series and the National Band Association Journal. he recently served as an adjudicator for the ohio music education Association and traveled to the uK as a winner of the national Band Association’s international conducting symposium.

Jillian harris, as assistant professor of dance. Prior to coming to Boyer, she was an adjunct profes-sor of dance at Queens college. she received a BFA in modern dance from the university of utah and toured nationally and abroad with the ririe-Woodbury dance company as a dancer and teacher. she was a featured performer in the PBs television broadcast of della davidson’s Night Story, and in

2000, worked with President clinton’s committee on the Arts and the humanities and was assistant director of the columbia Festival of the Arts.

“temple university’s commitment to nurturing excellence in its students and faculty matches my own intense dedication to the craft and artistry of dance,” she said. “i look forward to collaborating with my colleagues, generating excitement amongst future audiences and supporting the next generation of dance artists.”

upon receiving an mFA from nyu’s tisch department of dance, harris went on to perform with the metropolitan opera Ballet. she is currently a member of Kun-yang Lin/dancers and recently toured singapore in collaboration with singapore dance ensemble. in addition to her active teaching schedule, she continues to conduct master classes in the u.s. and abroad.

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Dr. Deborah Sheldon


Donald W. Ewartmusic educator and temple alumnus donald W. ewart BS ’58, MMEd ’66, died peacefully in his home on october 18th. he was 72 years old.

he began taking music lessons when he was 11 and became an accomplished piano and bass player. After graduating from Lincoln high school in northeast Philadelphia, he attended temple university and

earned a bachelor’s degree in education in 1958 and a master’s degree in music education in 1966.

during his 30-year career with the Philadelphia school district, ewart taught music, conducted hundreds of district-wide performances, and administered music programs, supervising many music teachers who were Boyer college graduates.

After retiring from the district in the late 1980s, he started a successful business as an investment planner. his wife of 28 years, Joslyn, joined him in the business a decade later. in 2000, they developed their business, entrust Financial, LLc, into a boutique financial consulting firm. the couple shared a passion for travel, wine and gourmet food.

For more than 50 years, he volunteered with the temple university Alumni Association, serving in a variety of leadership capacities, including as a university trustee, four years as President of the Association, as well as President of the Boyer college Alumni Association and founding President of the Boyer college’s Board of Visitors.

since his passion for music matched his passion for temple, it is fitting that the annual temple university symphony orchestra and combined choirs concert at the Kimmel center for the Performing Arts on march 22, 2009 will be dedicated to his memory.

in addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, doug and scott, two daughters, Bonnie and Wendi and five grandchildren.

contributions in mr. ewart’s memory can be made to:

the Philadelphia Foundation Freedom Fulfilled Fund 1234 market street suite 1800 Philadelphia, PA 19107

Richard M. Duristhe Boyer college announces the passing of richard m. duris, retired music librarian, choir director, and longtime resident of Ambler, in April 2008. he was 77 years old.

duris earned a bachelor’s degree in music educa-tion from indiana university of Pennsylvania and two graduate degrees, an ms in library science from the

university of Pittsburgh and an mFA in musicology from carnegie-mellon university.

A dedicated patron of the arts and a member of the music Library As-sociation, duris was a music librarian at temple university for twenty-nine years until his retirement in 1998. he also carried on a second career as a professional organist and choirmaster, playing for churches in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and columbus, ohio.

A member of the American guild of organists, he was organist and choir director at Zion Lutheran church in Flourtown for thirteen years. upon his retirement, he joined the Zion choir, which he participated in until his death. he had also been a member of the Ambler singers and upper dublin choristers and was a member of the League of Women Voters.

An avid reader, he tutored reading at madison Avenue elementary school in Ambler, marshall street elementary school in norristown and graterford Prison. he was also an enthusiastic member of several book clubs.

in addition to music and books, he had a keen interest in politics, cam-paigning for numerous candidates and making his voice heard on many issues. he is survived by his wife of forty-two years, Jacqueline duris; his daughter, elizabeth duris; three nieces and a nephew.

the richard m. duris scholarship was established at Boyer in memory of his dedicated service to the college and university. contributions may be sent to:

richard m. duris scholarship Fund c/o tara Webb duey Boyer college, temple university 1938 Liacouras Walk Philadelphia, PA 19122

i n M e M o r I a MThere is an Art to Listeningit’s not every day on temple’s campus that students get to hear a live bagpipe performance in class, but if you’re en-rolled in dr. steven Kreinberg’s gened course, “the Art of Lis-tening,” this is just one of the many musical treats included in a semester jam packed with guest lecturers, blogging, live concerts, and naturally, lots of listening.

the gened curriculum, which replaced temple’s core cur-riculum, is designed to connect different areas of study and enhance classroom learning with off-site experiences in Phila-delphia. For example, an art course involves class excursions to museums and an education course to a local school or community center. some of the arts courses offered through gened that combine music, dance and literature include “the Jazz century in America” and “shakespeare and music.”

Kreinberg describes his course as a challenge to students to “rethink their entire conception of music by focusing on how to listen, develop a deeper appreciation of music and its importance in everyday life.” While some students play an instrument, there are no music majors in his class of 70, but rather those pursuing degrees in criminal justice, business, psychology, communications and biology.

the course requirements should not be taken lightly, even though Kre-inberg manages to balance the seriousness of scholarly teaching with a healthy dose of humor. in addition to reading and listening assign-ments, students are required to join one of three blog groups – mozart, Beethoven or ellington – and post on all things music. they are also required to attend live concerts, including jazz at the Philadelphia museum of Art, a temple opera production, a Philadelphia orchestra rehearsal and concert and met goes to the movies. to facilitate the benefits of attend-ing live performances, Kreinberg acquires the tickets and arranges for group transportation. the live performances not only synthesize what’s learned in class, but require some pre-concert preparation such as in-class instrumental demonstrations and library research. students are also re-quired to write post-concert blog entries.

the syllabus covers the spectrum of musical genres and listening examples range from chopin and stravinsky to ellington, sill and schoenberg. the listening portion of each class complements weekly topics such as notation, instrumentation, rhythm, harmony, library resources and music criticism.

technology plays a vital role in the course as do the legal issues of copy-right, fair use, downloading and streaming. youtube has a feature role as well. students research youtube clips that demonstrate a topic discussed in class, such as a celtic vocal ensemble performing in compound meters

or dave Brubeck’s Unsquare Dance as an example of asymmetrical rhythm.

But it’s the student blogs that reveal the most about the undeniable role music plays in our lives. their entries reveal connections between past and present, such as how the arpeggios and scales for which J.s. Bach was known can be found in guitar solos of eric clapton and Jimi hendrix. students may find a youtube clip of four cellists performing the music of the heavy metal group metallica or discover who seiji ozawa is when browsing for an example of diverse instrumentation.

the blog groups are also a way for students to share their love of music with classmates, whether it be hip-hop, r&B, rock, indie or jazz. never heard of Justin nozuka, mozella, the decemberists or cloud cult?

neither has Kreinberg, but he’s appreciative of the musical knowledge gained from his students and the lively discourse that takes place during their exchanges of musical ideas.

one of the many facets of this class that took Kreinberg by surprise is the “collective desire by students to demystify the professional music scene in Philadelphia: what the major venues are, how to learn more about the performers and the selections they perform, how to locate concerts, how to obtain tickets and how to dress and behave, such as cell phone eti-quette,” he said. “students wanted to bring their families and friends who aren’t enrolled in the class to the opera after hearing the met’s production of Salome. i think they were mesmerized by this performance. i don’t believe they were expecting to hear such powerful music combined with such visually graphic staging.”

it has been said and written that music transcends political, cultural and political barriers – that its language is universal. When non-music major Andrew Weir brings his bagpipes to class and plays for his fellow students, or when dr. christine Anderson, chair of the Voice & opera department, lectures on what makes a great singer, the wheels are put in motion for a musical concept taught through listening, reading, writing and experi-encing. the common thread, throughout the lectures, performances and blogs, is the music itself.

“When returning to campus after a performance, a well-dressed woman in her early 70s asked me if these were indeed temple students, and if they had just attended the broadcast of Salome,” said Kreinberg. After explaining our field trip, she was delighted by the premise and thanked me for bringing a new audience of college-aged students to something (the opera) that had given her so much pleasure her entire adult life. As a college teacher, who could ask for anything more?”

“I hope to learn a lot more about music. It’s such a good medium for expression and covers all ranges of feelings and emotions unlike anything else.”

“I live, breathe, sleep and eat music.”

“I, like most others, have always had a deep passion for music ever since I could understand what it was.”

“Who wouldn’t love a course where you are REQUIRED to go see live musical performances?”

“Seeing this course in the GenEd section, I honestly thought it was the greatest idea in the world.”

To learn more about Temple’s GenEd courses, visit www.temple.edu/provost/gened

eXcerPts From the art oF lIStenIng StuDent blog groupS :

Dr. Steven Kreinberg and student Andrew Weir

Allen GarrettAllen garrett, first assistant dean of the Boyer college (then known as the college of music) passed away on december 7. he had also served as act-ing dean from 1975 to 1978 and subsequently taught in, and was chair of, the department of music history, prior to his retirement.

garrett held a Phd in musicology from the university of north carolina. he founded and was the first president of the north carolina chapter of the American musicological society, a member of the musical Fund society, president of the maryland state music teachers Association and president of the Pennsylvania music teachers Association. he authored two books on the study and history of music. After his retirement, he continued to play his clarinet and was a member of the symphonic Band of rocky mount.

garrett is survived by his wife, Louise, sons, James Forrest and thomas mitchell and five grandchildren.

memorial contributions may be made to:

university health systems inpatient hospice c/o Pcmh Foundation Po Box 8489 greenville, nc 27835-8489


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2008, one of Freidlin’s ensembles, normal Love, appeared on the cover of the international music magazine Signal to Noise. his work is being released on high two recordings and Park the Van records.

Susan hadley MMT ’95, PhD ’98 is an associate professor of music therapy at slippery rock university, where she has worked since 1997. in spring 2009, she will start as director of this program. she is the editor of Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy, Vol. 4 (Barcelona Publishers, 2008), Feminist Perspectives in Music Therapy (Barcelona Publishers, 2006) and Psychodynamic Music Therapy: Case Studies (Barcelona Publishers, 2002) and co-editor (with george yancy) of Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction (Jessica Kingsley Press, 2005). she is on the executive board of the mid-Atlantic region American music therapy As-sociation.

Marc-andré hamelin’s BM ’83, MM ’85 performance at the inter-national Keyboard institute & Festival, held at the mannes college the new school for music, was noted for “prodigious technique, searching musicality and interest in undiscovered gems of the repertory,” as written by Vivien schweitzer in the New York Times (7/20/08).

Kevin J. Mchugh BMusEd ’78, MMusEd ’83 of the Pennsbury school district was recently named assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. he has served as interim director of curriculum and instruction for Pennsbury since July. mchugh won the “national Principal of the year” award in 2002 after being named “Pennsylvania Principal of the year” in 2001. he joined Pennsbury in 1996 as principal of Pennwood middle school. mchugh is also an adjunct assistant professor at Lehigh university and earned his doctor of education in educational leadership from Lehigh in 1999.

brie adina neff BFA ’96 is owner and operator of equilibrium Pilates in Philadelphia and is one of the youngest chosen Level 3 romana’s Pilates® instructors in the world. neff has taught Pilates through the u.s. and in rome and Brazil. she is also a senior lecturer at university of the Arts and heads the Pilates program there.

larry newman BMusEd ‘82 was the recipient of the 60th Annual Los Angeles Area emmy® Award for outstanding Achievement in children/youth Programming. newman received the award in september at the Academy of television Arts and sciences’ Leonard h. goldson theatre in hollywood, california. the one hour special entitled, “children’s music Workshop: 2007 All schools honor orchestra,” was written, directed and produced by newman and features 130 music students from Los Angeles area elementary schools where children’s music Workshop teaches the school instrumental music programs.

eric owens BM ‘93 received rave reviews for his metropolitan opera premiere of John Adams’ Dr. Atomic.

Jonathan palant MM ’02 is artistic director of the turtle creek chorale in dallas, texas. he is also founder of dallas PumP!, a chorus serving gLBtQ youth. Jonathan received his dmA in choral conducting from michigan state university in may 2007. At msu he was director of the collegiate choir, assistant director of men’s glee club and chorus master for the msu opera program. Previously, Jonathan taught at madonna university (mi) and university school (oh). his article, “relish the rowdiness with repertoire” appeared in Choral Journal. Jonathan’s musical arrangements are published by Alliance music.

hugh panaro BM ’85 won the 2008 Barrymore Award for Best outstand-ing Leading Actor in a musical for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in Les Mis-érables at the Walnut street theater. howard shapiro of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, “this Le miz brings Panaro home in two ways - literally, to Philadelphia, and also back to the show: he played marius, the student who falls in love with cosette, in the first national tour two decades ago.” (5/21/08). Panaro hails from east oak Lane.

emiliano pardo-tristán MM ’98, DMA ‘06 was recently awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at new york university. Pardo-tristán, who was selected from an exceptionally large and highly competitive pool of applicants, was strongly supported and recommended by Boyer faculty members maurice Wright, cynthia Folio and richard Brodhead. he will teach for two years at nyu and develop his project “transmuting the Folklore: converting transcriptions of Panamanian mejorana music into a large composition for full orchestra and choir.” Pardo-tristán also taught “the musical Language of olivier messiaen” and presented at the confer-ence “Listening to the end of time” at the national Library of Panama in summer 2008. Pardo-tristán is the artistic director of the “1st iberoAmeri-can music Festival of Philadelphia,” which took place in June 2008. he performed works from his most recent cd, Classical Guitar Journey, and the dalí string Quartet premiered his Fantasia for string trio.

in 2008, penelope Shumate MM ’97 performed at opera on the James as musetta in La Bohème. her debut with the Berkshire choral Festival as the soprano soloist in carmina Burana and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was described as “magnificent” and “effortless.” returning to carnegie hall for the third time, she performed as the soprano soloist in mozart’s Coronation Mass and in haydn’s St. Nicolai Mass. As Violetta in La Traviata with the duluth Festival opera, she was noted as having “a crystal clear soprano” and was called “an exquisite Violetta...youthful and beautiful,” “a lovely, convincing actress who breathes life and death into Violetta...” in 2009, she will sing the title role in Manon with opera in the heights.

Frank Staneck’s MM ’85 composition, A Suite for Ursula, was performed by the Wister Quartet in october in rock hall as part of the fiftieth an-niversary of the death of english composer ralph Vaughan Williams. the Philadelphia Branch of the delius society organized the concert in his memory. staneck is president of the Vaughan Williams society and was closely in touch with Vaughan Williams’ widow, ursula, for whom this quartet was written.

Michael tsalka MM ’04, DMA ’08 has a contract with naxos to record tuerk’s 48 keyboard sonatas and a critical edition for the Artaria publishing house in new Zealand. he published two articles on different aspects of these keyboard sonatas for Clavicordio VIII in italy and the Early Keyboard Journal in the usA. in late 2008, he performed tuerk in halle, Berlin, stockholm, Buenos Aires, mexico city, minneapolis, iowa university, salem college nc, taiwan and hong Kong. he acknowledges the Presser Foundation for making this tour possible. he recently presented lecture-recitals for the german clavi-chord society, the international magnano symposium, and rutgers musico-logical society. he is currently recording two cds for the nydahl collection in stockholm and the rhL&Bild label, and preparing for a series of concerts in taiwan, hong Kong, rome, chicago, and mexico city. in 2008 he taught master classes in Buenos Aires, hong Kong, trier, stockholm, and minneapolis.

amber womack MM ‘01 made her dallas opera debut this season as sylviane in The Merry Widow. other roles this season include Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, and sarah Brown in Guys & Dolls. Womack was also an Artist in residence with the natchez opera Festival this past year.

Shilin yin MM ’02 has launched a musician’s social networking site, www.ucombo.com, an online community for musicians, both amateur and professional, to showcase their talent on a global scale. Founded in 2007, ucombo is a music sharing site which allows users to upload original music tracks and promote them online.

eva young Professional Studies Certificate, Harpsichord ’07 is an instructor in piano and staff accompanist at Lincoln university. she often performs with the Lincoln university concert choir locally and on tour. this past summer she also toured the south with the delaware state university choir. she performed as soloist, in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the young musicians community orchestra both in 2007 and 2008. she enjoys her teaching career very much and frequently performs as recitalist and accompanist in the Philly area.

brian adams PhD ’00 has been assistant professor and director of music therapy at immaculata university for the past two years and recently ac-cepted a position as associate professor and coordinator of undergraduate music therapy studies at montclair state university. he maintains a small private music psychotherapy practice featuring improvisation, voice work, and gim, while continuing to receive training in Analytical music therapy. he contributed a chapter to a recent volume edited by thomas Wosch & tony Wigram on microanalysis in music therapy and presented numerous papers and workshops at professional conferences. he is serving as presi-dent of the mid-Atlantic region of AmtA for the 2007-2009 term.

the wedding of andrew bidlack BM ’03, an Adler fellow with the san Francisco opera, to melissa raz, was featured in the new york times (7/13/08). Bidlack made his debut with the company as both the lamp-lighter and drunkard in rachel Portmans’ Little Prince, and has also played the role of Arturo in its production of donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and odoardo in handel’s Ariodante. the bride and groom met in 2003 while performing in Le nozze di Figaro in new hampshire.

robert birman BM ’89 has been named chief operating officer of the Louisville orchestra. Birman has served as the executive director of the Philharmonia Baroque orchestra in san Francisco since 2001. Prior to that, he was chief executive of the santa Barbara symphony for four years and chief executive of the Pro Arte chamber orchestra of Boston. Birman received his bachelor’s degree in percussion performance from Boyer.

Lyric mezzo-soprano adrienne bishop MM ’09 is an active opera singer and voice teacher in and around Philadelphia. she is a young artist with intermezzo opera, where she performed dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos and Alma march in Little Women. Bishop works with the metropolitan opera so-prano, sharon sweet and has performed as an Apprentice Artist with center city opera theater and as the Lady Angela in Patience with the savoy company. Last summer, Bishop performed with the delaware Valley opera company as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and the Abbess in Suor Angelica.

Joke bradt MMT ’96 gave the keynote address at the “Living Well with Lupus” Annual symposium in october. she is a co-contributor to several international book chapters and articles on medical music therapy: c. dileo & J. Bradt (2009): “A Perspective on evidence-Based medicine.” in r. haas, & V. Brandes (eds.): “music that Works: contributions of Biology, neuro-physiology, Psychology, sociology, medicine and musicology.” springer Vienna new york. c dileo, J Bradt (in press): “medical music therapy: evidence-based principles and practice.” in soderback, daykin, & Bunt (eds): “international handbook of occupational therapy intervention.” Argstatter, h, hillecke, K. , Bradt, J., & dileo, c. (2007): “der stand der Wirksamkeitsforschung - ein systematisches review musiktherapeutischer meta-Analysen; Verhaltenstherapie & Verhaltensmedizin,” 28 (1). dr. Bradt is assistant director of the Arts and Quality of Life research center, housed within the Boyer college.

Stephen Campitelli MM ‘96 maintains an active performing, accompany-ing, and teaching schedule. he recently performed the Beethoven Piano concerto no. 1 with the main Line symphony and the macdowell Piano concerto no. 2 with the immaculata symphony. he is an adjunct piano fac-ulty member at immaculata university and maintains a private piano studio. he is also the church organist at West chester united methodist church.

Michael a. Ciavaglia MM ’06 is conductor of the Fairfield university orchestra (Fairfield, ct) and assistant conductor of the new york choral society. he is also choir director at christ the saviour orthodox church (Paramus, nJ), and teaches classes in choral and general music at Fairfield university. this fall he will debut as conductor of the new york choral society chamber singers in manhattan.

andrea Clearfield DMA ’01 and her catalog of works “has often been inspired by women’s issues and poetry,” wrote tom di nardo in the Phila-delphia Daily News. the thoughts and feelings of women from the Linden

elders’ center were shaped for narration by the orchestra’s storyteller, charlotte Blake Alston. clearfield’s debut piece for the orchestra, Kabo Omowale (“Welcome home child”), received its world premiere and featured members of the temple university Music prep Children’s Choir, led by Stephen Caldwell MM ‘07. clearfield has played and accompanied at the sarasota, Fla., music Festival, danced with the group motion dance company and taught an interdisciplinary arts course at the university of the Arts.

Joseph D’alicandro, Jr. BM ’88, MM ’91 co-authored a band arrange-ment of the Japanese folk song Sakura with dr. Quincy hilliard in 2007; it is published by c. L. Barnhouse company. the same year, he co-authored a band piece with William owens entitled With Pride and Dignity, pub-lished by trn music Publisher, inc. he wrote an article for the April 2008 issue of The Instrumentalist magazine, entitled “4 mallet mastery.” in may of 2008 he wrote an article for the same magazine entitled, “students Listen When a clinician speaks.”

Marilyn (pettinicchi) Daggett BM ‘69 retired from Fairfax county (VA) Public schools after serving as a string music teacher for 32 years. she was also a school orchestra director for 25 of those years at Joyce Kilmer mid-dle school and george c. marshall high school. “After looking forward to retirement, i found i was not really ready to lay down the baton,” she said. “i moved from Virginia to Arizona and was hired to teach orchestra part time at a local high school. that lasted for one year before i decided to redefine myself. i am now dabbling in desktop publishing for various local non-profit organizations in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area.”

bridget Doak PhD ’06 works at the university of minnesota medical center, Fairview and is an adjunct instructor of music therapy at Augsburg college. she recently was asked to take a newly created position as a clinical education specialist for child/Adolescent/Adult mental health and chemical dependency services at the hospital, where she is responsible for staff training and development, identifying staff educational needs, promoting evidence based practice, and assisting with identifying clinical issues to reduce harm to patients and staff. she recently trained behavioral staff to address compassion fatigue and presented on this topic to music therapists in minnesota at a cmte last october.

Steven estrella PhD ‘92 is a computer programmer and occasional au-thor: the update of Study Outline and Workbook in the Fundamentals of Music (mcgraw-hill) and two textbooks on Javascript programming (Pren-tice hall). he has presented topics in multimedia music education each year at the technology institute for music educators national conferences. he serves on the national Advisory Board and Board of directors for ti:me after a three year term as its vice-president and has created numerous cd-roms, dVds, and online Learning centers for clients such as mcgraw-hill and Berklee college of music as well as the programming code for the electronic listening maps that accompany macmillan’s spotlight on music textbooks. in 2008, estrella created the interactive animations for mac-millan’s Florida in the spotlight. he has also created simulations for com-cast. together with his wife, Boyer alumna Kathleen Schietroma ‘90, he runs a small corporation, shearspire, inc. providing business research and interactive media development services to clients in education, publishing and other industries.

Matthew Ferrell MM ’05 has been appointed as the director of choirs at Brooklyn college, conservatory of music.

amnon D. Freidlin, BM ’07 has kept a busy schedule of recording and touring in canada and the us. Performance highlights include the annual south by southwest Festival (texas), Jon Zorn’s the stone (nyc), and live performances on columbia and Princeton radio. As a composer, he was a recipient of the meet the composer creative connections grant and the American composers Forum encore grant. internationally, Freidlin’s music has been broadcast on French, swedish, and canadian radio. in summer,

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Charles abramovic toured europe last spring with violinist midori and performed with her at the yale chamber music Festival in norfolk, ct and at a benefit concert for the Luzerne summer Festival in upstate new york. he played harpsichord (Vivaldi’s Four Seasons) at the rome chamber music festival. Last fall, he performed: in a faculty recital at Boyer featuring one of his own works for piano six hands by schnittke as well as selections by Ligeti and richard brodhead’s Sonata Classica; with bassoonist Pascal gallois and glaux (temple new music ensemble) as part of the Ameri-can composer’s Forum; a faculty concert featuring Jeffrey Solow and lawrence wagner; the shostakovich second concerto with the temple sinfonia; the premiere of a new piece by Cynthia Folio for two flutes and piano with the duo ZAWA!, and, on the Albany records recording of Jeremy gill’s chamber music. other fall concerts include: guest artist at the sitka chamber music Festival (Anchorage, AK); Kimmel center for the Performing Arts; swarthmore college; rutgers-camden (recital with his students); guest artist on Philadelphia orchestra chamber music series – music of Penderecki with the composer present (Kimmel center); benefit concert with flutist mimi stillman for dolce suono chamber series; concert with midori for Partners in Performance (reno, nV); recitals with midori in europe (st. Peterburg, russia, Belgrade, talinn, riga, erfstadt and Landshut (germany); concert with midori for Partners in Performance (Joplin, mo). his lecture, “the technique of expression” was presented to northern delaware Valley music teachers and he was a judge for preliminary round of auditions for Astral Artistic services.

Kenneth aigen offered three presentations last november at the 10th Anniversary conference of the American music therapy Association (AmtA) in st. Louis. he was part of an invited blue ribbon panel to discuss the formation of the AmtA and his vision for the future of music therapy. he also offered a presentation invited by the research committee of the AmtA that detailed his comprehensive overview of qualitative research in music therapy and also co-presented with a temple Phd student, Laurel young, on her process of training with him as a music therapy clinical su-pervisor. in may 2009, he will be in seoul, south Korea to present a model of musical analysis he has developed for use in music therapy. he will be speaking at the First international music therapy symposium at ewha Woman’s university which is being offered to celebrate the grand opening of the ewha creative Arts therapy center. the theme of the symposium is “Qualitative music therapy research - musical data collection and Analy-sis.” the event is being sponsored jointly by the graduate school of educa-tion, ewha Woman’s university and the Korean music therapy education Association. Aigen’s visit to Korea will coincide with the publication in Korean of his book Music Centered Music Therapy (Barcelona Publishers).

luis biava was invited by the new york state summer school of the Arts to be the new music director to the 2008 school of orchestra studies, a symphony orchestra of 120 students who gather for a music festival in saratoga springs, ny and where they have the opportunity to hear the Philadelphia orchestra at the end of the season. At PmF, he conducted a special celebration concert to honor Leonard Bernstein’s 90th birthday with violinist Akiko meyers as a soloist playing Bernstein’s Serenade and his Candide overture. in october, he conducted a concert with the temple university symphony orchestra featuring as soloists temple’s faculty elizabeth hainen with the ginastera Harp Concerto, a premiere for the temple university series and in november, a second concert of all French repertoire that included dmA student marta schrempel in the ravel Piano Concerto in G. in november he conducted the Puerto rico symphony accompanying famous Philadelphia violinist sarah chang, who made her debut at age 6 with the youth chamber orchestra from the music Prepara-tory division. in January, he was invited to be part of the student auditions in Asia and the united states in preparation for the Pacific music Festival in sapporo, Japan in August 2009. in February, the temple symphony orchestra will perform a program that includes the 2 winners of our Annual concerto competition. it will also include gershwin’s Porgy and

Bess and the legendary Symphonic Poem arranged by russell Bennett. in may he will guest conduct the orquesta sinfonica de castilla y Leon in Valladolid, spain.

beth bolton’s many international activities included “early childhood music and a global society: Adapting to a changing world” at the early childhood music education division conference of the international society of music education, Frascati, italy (July 08); “musical interactions in early life in Brazil, Korea and the united states: A cross-cultural debate” at the international society of music education world conference, Bologna, italy with Beatriz ilari (Brazil), Joohee rho (Korea), and emilija sakadolskis (Lithuania) (July 08); early childhood music lecture series in israel (Ktan tone in tel Aviv, Jerusalem Academy and magnificat institute in Jerusalem), sponsored by Note di Pace; early childhood music lecture series in rome, savona, tortona, genoa, Bordighera, and torino, italy as part of the italian national didactic course in early childhood music education sponsored by Musica in Culla, scuola Popolare di musica donna olimpia and orff schul-werk italiano (January 09); and two lectures and one teaching demonstra-tion with Lithuanian children at the 7th annual Lithuanian international conference of music education and early childhood music (April 09). she currently serves as the international conference chair and host for interna-tional presenters during the Lithuanian conference. in addition, she taught a 2-week course “Practical Application of early childhood music teach-ing methods and techniques, Level 2” for the gordon institute of music Learning in Bryn mawr, PA.

Karen bond taught at tainan university of technology in southern taiwan in summer 2008, offering workshops for undergraduate dance majors, dance teachers and artists. she also traveled to Australia to take part in a panel on the role of dance performance for young people at the World dance Alliance global summit in Brisbane. in the fall she piloted a new general education course, “embodying Pluralism: dynamics of race & diversity in American society,” which explores the course theme through the lens of dance and the arts. she continues to work on the hanny exiner Archive Project (exiner was a pioneer of Australian dance education), and was invited to present on exiner’s work at the Laban Anniversary confer-ence, Laban centre in London. in december she returned to taiwan as keynote speaker for the annual conference of the dance research society of taiwan in taipei. the theme of the conference was “A new epoch of dance education.” she also presented three workshops related to the conference theme.

aleck brinkman prepared multimedia demonstrations for an Access concert of the Philadelphia orchestra in october. Access concerts feature a host who helps explain the music being performed. For this concert Cyn-thia Folio was the host, and Brinkman’s multimedia animations illustrated stylistic aspects, such as chromatic gap filling, in Penderecki’s Concerto Grosso No. 1 for three cellos and orchestra. Brinkman also worked with dr. Folio on the analysis of the work.

richard brodhead’s new four-movement chamber concerto will be premiered on April 3 and 5 by network for new music, which commis-sioned the 30-minute work with support from the dietrich Foundation and the Philadelphia music Project, a program of the Philadelphia center for Arts and heritage, funded by the Pew charitable trusts and administered by the university of the Arts. Work on this piece has also been generously supported by a dean’s grant from the Boyer college. this past october, Charles abramovic performed his Sonata Classica (2004), commis-sioned by the Philadelphia chamber music society and premiered in 2005. in conjunction with the concert, Abramovic will record the sonata for future cd release. Brodhead is also working on a piece for voice and four instruments, commissioned by chamber music now!, with a text by John mcilvain. the piece is part of a collaborative project between cmn and eastern state Penitentiary, the historic prison built in the 1820’s at 22nd and Fairmount. the piece draws on the history of the prison and will be

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premiered at the site on April 24 and 25, 2009. he took a leave of absence in Fall 2008 to complete the piece for cmn and to complete his Sonata for Cello and Piano. the cello sonata is being composed for cellist scott Kluksdahl and pianist noreen cassidy-Polero.

Darlene brooks is now director of music therapy and coordinator of the masters degree in music therapy. she published a book review in Room 217, a canadian on-line journal on palliative care on “music therapy at the end of Life,” edited by Cheryl Dileo and Lowey. As part of the tobacco research grant received by the Arts & Quality of Life research center, conducted a quantitative/qualitative study on Burnout in nursing personnel at temple hospital and temple episcopal. Last spring, she made a presentation on that study along with Joke bradt (AQLrc) and is refin-ing the results to submit for publication. Brooks will be on leave this spring to study developmental issues that supervisors face in the clinical training of music therapy students from first field work to the end of internship, to include a representative sample of supervisors and trainers using qualitative methods. the results will be published in a quantitative survey sent to a cross-section of clinical trainers and academic supervisors throughout the united states. this will be the first study of its type done in music therapy.

Matthew brunner completed his doctoral dissertation, “A conductor’s Analysis of selected Wind Works by david dzubay” which was accepted last summer. Last fall, he was adjudicator for marching Band Festival at Austin Peay state university, clarksville, tn. he recently wrote marching band arrangements for indiana university, Bloomington, in; ohio univer-sity, Athens, oh; university of south carolina, columbia, sc; Austin Peay state university, clarksville, tn; university of West georgia, carrollton, gA; Lakewood high school, Lakewood, oh; graham high school, st. Paris, oh. he was ajudicator for marching Band competition, Pennridge high school, led a new music reading session at the PmeA district 11 inservice and was guest conductor with the ohio university marching 110.

arthur D. Chodoroff will conduct the temple university Wind sym-phony at the Pennsylvania music educators conference at Valley Forge on thursday, April 23, 2009 at 4:00 Pm. Faculty guest soloist will be Mat-thew Vaughn, associate principal trombone of the Philadelphia orches-tra. this concert marks the 6th time that the Wind symphony has been invited to perform for the PmeA.

Cheryl Dileo, as an honorary faculty member at the university of melbourne, Australia, was invited to supervise graduate research at the national music therapy research unit meeting in melbourne in october, 2008. she also traveled to Aalborg, denmark to participate as an external reviewer of a doctoral dissertation in october, 2008. she serves on the Phd Advisory Board of Aalborg university. during the Fall 08 semester, she also presented invited keynote lectures at the music therapy and Autism con-ference at molloy college in Long island and at the mozart and science conferment in Vienna, Austria. in the spring and summer, 09, she will attend the advisory board meeting of the Arts therapy research center (of which she is a member) in utrecht, holland where she will present invited lectures and grand rounds at the mcgill university medical school and hospital, and also invited lectures for music therapists in montreal, for the nordic music therapy conference in Aalborg, denmark, at the music ther-apy cancer care institute of the canadian music therapy conference in calgary, for the international Arts in healthcare conference in macquerie, Australia and at the conference of the international Association for music in medicine, of which she is a founding member, in moscow. her invited chapter, with Joke bradt, “A Perspective on evidence-Based medicine.” Will appear in r. haas and V. Brandeis (eds.). Music that Works: Contribu-tions of Biology, Neurophysiology, Psychology, Sociology, Medicine and Musicology. Vienna: springer. dileo serves as Pi on a $100,000 Formula Fund grant to develop an online continuing medical education course for physicians and nurses.

John Douglas, for most of last summer, served as director of the young Artist Program and chorus master at the Lake george opera in saratoga springs, ny. in August, he and temple alumna Joan campbell (Bayerische stadtsoper, munich), performed 12 recitals in the greater Philadelphia region. he also appeared as accompanist in recital with metropolitan opera baritone Vernon hartman and new york city opera soprano Amy Johnson. he prepared and conducted La Bohème at temple last november and appeared on three panels at the annual convention for the national opera Association in Washington, d.c. in January.

Cynthia Folio served on the faculty of the mannes institute: Jazz meets Pop at the eastman school of music and presented participatory work-shops, plenary sessions and special guest presentations, emphasizing interactive dialogue and debate. summaries of workshops from the institute were published in the most recent issue of Music Theory Online. Last october, she was the host for one of the Philadelphia orchestra’s Access concerts, assisted by aleck brinkman, who prepared multime-dia demonstrations; she presented an analysis of Penderecki’s Concerto Grosso for Three Cellos and Orchestra on the stage with the orchestra, led by charles dutoit and the composer. she also presented two pre-concert lectures for the Philadelphia orchestra. Last november, she had a premiere of a new composition, commissioned by the mtnA, for two flutes and piano performed by the duo ZAWA! (claudia Anderson and Jill Felber) and Charles abramovic. this coming may, she will have a premiere of a work for three choirs, piano and four percussionists, commissioned by the mendelssohn club of Philadelphia, the gay men’s chorus and the Anna crusis Women’s choir. the work will be performed at the church of the holy trinity as part of the equality Forum.

Jeremy gill gave summer recitals in Boston and Philadelphia as well as a live radio broadcast for WgBh in Boston, all as pianist. Last december, he performed on piano in a recital with mimi stillman, geoffrey deemer and sam caviezel. in February, he will premiere a dscms commission, Ode, with as part of the dolce suono chamber music series. in may, the har-risburg symphony will premiere his Symphony No. 1. other performances of his music for the 08-09 season include by great noise (dc) and matt Bengtson (harrisburg). Albany records released his first cd of chamber music featuring mimi stillman (Philadelphia) and Charles abramovic, Parker string Quartet (Boston) and the extension ensemble (new york). he conducted the dickinson college orchestra during its 08-09 season (music by haydn, Beethoven, orff). Pianist Peter orth will premiere Book of Hours on his u.s. tour (dates and locations tBd, but will likely include Boston, Philadelphia, new york, dc).

eva gholson guest lectured on choreomusical analysis and completed the first draft of her book, The Artistry of Phrasing, which includes interviews with ray still, principal oboist with the chicago symphony for 40 years and composer stephen Jones, dean of the college of Fine Arts at Brigham young university. she also received a grant to choreograph a new work for california-based singer Larissa stow.

Matthew greenbaum’s new work NAMELESS will be premiered by the cygnus ensemble and the momenta Quartet in new york in may. the concert will also feature works composed for a cygnus residency in the composition program, including premieres by faculty composers Maurice wright and richard brodhead, and five student composers. NAMELESS will be recorded for Furious Artisans records through a cary trust record-ing grant ($5,800). the cygnus residency is supported by a grant in Aid ($3,000) and a dean’s grant ($4,000). he also received a commission last year from the Koussevitzky music Fund and the Library of congress, for a new chamber work for the german new music group ensemble surplus. the work, ES IST ZUM LACHEN, was premiered by the ensemble last octo-ber in Freiburg. this was one of a series of significant awards received by greenbaum within the last three years. others are a recording award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a cary charitable trust recording grant.



alan harler participated in the national Performing Arts conference and chorus America in denver, gALA choruses Festival in miami, international Federation of choral music in copenhagen and the PA/AcdA in state college last summer. this fall, he leads a session at the national collegiate choral conference in cincinnati. in February, he will teach master classes at indiana university on new American choral music. harler is in his 20th season with mendelssohn club. the 2008-09 season includes the Verdi requiem at the Kimmel center and six new commissions from compos-ers Pauline oliveros, david Lang, Cynthia Folio, Peter hilliard and robert maggio, as well as collaborations with the Leah stein dance company, Philadelphia gay mens chorus, Anna crusis and the chamber orchestra of Philadelphia.

Jillian harris performed last summer as a soloist with Kun-yang lin/dancers (KyL/d) – the only featured dance company at the 2008 inter-lochen summer Arts Festival. Last fall, she collaborated with Jeff sable, an artist from new york university’s interactive telecommunications Program, on a movement sensor-based media installation for Kun-yang Lin’s new project. this dance piece was part of KyL/d’s performance at Painted Bride Arts center in February 2009. in addition, she is teaching at the newly opened chi movement Arts center in south Philadelphia and will write book reviews for Dance Chronicle.

lawrence Indik gave recitals in Philadelphia and Boston and was high holidays cantor at ner Zedek congregation in Philadelphia. recitals include those with Charles abramovic featuring new works by Mau-rice wright, heidi Jacobs, david carpenter and Kile smith at the ethical society on march 1st. his article, “the end of Breath for singing,” will be published in The NATS Journal of Singing.

luke Kahlich worked with colleagues on the dance faculty of John moores university in Liverpool on connecting students via the internet to create new dance projects. this is a follow-up to a successful year-long project with five temple students who also travelled to Liverpool last march to perform works created online with students there. he is also working to upgrade resources for high speed voice and video for projects and co-editing a new dance series for cambria Press that will focus on publishing books that address new perspectives and emerging issues in the dance education field. he is also pursuing grant funding to support an archival, digitization and publication project based on IMPULSE, an early seminal dance journal. he serves as both chairperson of the Provost’s com-mission on the Arts and as arts fellow for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Michael Klein became associate editor for the journal 19th-Century Music in January 2008. he was a guest scholar at Florida state univer-sity in February 2008, teaching four classes and giving a lecture entitled “the ironic narrative in tonal music.” in march, he presented “the ironic narrative-Archetype in tonal music” at the regional conference of the music theory society of the mid-Atlantic, held at the Library of congress. his review of Adrian thomas’ book, Polish Music Since Symanowski, was published in the journal 20th century music. Last summer, he lectured on irony in music at cambridge university (uK). in november 2008, he was elected to serve on the executive Board of the society for music theory. currently, he is organizing a session for the 6th Biennial conference on twentieth-century music to be held at Keele university (uK). the ses-sion will bring together over 20 internationally known musicologists and theorists who will discuss narrative in 20th-century music. Along with musicologist nicholas reyland, he will be editing a collection of essays that will come out of that conference.

Steven Kreinberg delivered two presentations last fall at the joint cms/Atmi (college music society/ Association for technology in music instruc-tion) national conference in Atlanta. the cms presentation was entitled, “using Blogs and WiKis in music history courses: guidelines and sugges-tions,” and was based on recent activities using these tools at Boyer. the second presentation, for Atmi, was entitled “Building score reading skills

by controlling independent Lines of music simultaneously with sibelius 5 and Adobe Flash cs3.” An article co-written with colleague Cynthia Folio on using Blogs and Wikis in music history and music theory courses will be published in the College Music Symposium in 2009. Addition-ally, he will serve as the Program committee chair for the Atmi national conference in minneapolis in 2010. during the fall 2008 semester, he piloted a new general education course to 70 non-majors entitled, “the Art of Listening” that he created with input from colleague Steven Zohn. in addition to hearing six live concerts in-class during the academic semester, students attended four live concerts at professional venues in Philadelphia. he is collaborating with Boyer graduate christopher Freitag of mcgraw-hill and roger Kamien on a new music appreciation text that is in the developmental stages, and will be serving as host of a Philadelphia orchestra Access concert in Verizon hall on April 21, 2008 conducted by rossen milanov. he will be providing several pre-concert lectures for the Philadelphia orchestra Association during the spring 2009 semester.

Jan Krzywicki premiered Triquetra for string orchestra, a commission marking settlement music school’s 100th anniversary. he completed Lyrics for flute and piano, commissioned by the Philadelphia chamber music society, and has been commissioned to create new works for the Philadel-phia classical symphony, sinfonia, and the network for new music. he performed four-hand piano works in recital with his wife susan nowicki. his ongoing involvement with network for new music includes conduct-ing works by Wernick and others, and premieres by gene coleman as part of their season of collaborative works. he created a teacher’s manual and student course pack for the “music studies theory iii” course.

edward latham’s book, Tonality as Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas, was recently published by uni-versity of north texas Press. other publications include: “gapped Lines and ghostly Flowers in Amy Beach’s Phantoms, op. 15/2 (1892),” in Analytical Essays on Music By Women Composers, ed. Laurel Parsons and Brenda ravenscroft, 2010; “interpreting musical impediment in dramatic Vocal music,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Musicology 3/1, with cara m. Latham, 2009; “Drei Nebensonnen: Forte’s Linear-motivic Analysis, Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, and schuber’s Winterreise,” gamut 2/1, 2009.

Kun-yang lin co-founded, with Ken metzner, the chi movement Arts center in south Philadelphia, which serves as the home of Kun-yang Lin/dancers (KyL/d) a laboratory for creative research, as well as a place of learning, exploration, growth, artistic excellence and vitality for the Philadelphia arts community. over the past year, Lin’s work has been performed throughout mexico by Aletheia-national Ballet of mexico and was presented by Philadelphia-based dance company, group motion at Art Bank. KyL/d toured interlochen Festival in michigan where Lin taught master classes for the summer arts camp students. KyL/d was selected by PA Performing Artists on tour to be showcased at the PA Presenters conference at the Whitaker center in harrisburg. Lin was awarded the ellen Forman memorial Award by the Philadelphia Foundation and, as part of the award, has been commissioned to create a new work for drexel university’s first dance major program. he created a new work for Jose Juan Lopez Palacio, considered one of mexico’s finest male contemporary dancers. he also performed at the American dance guild concert in new york and will present a full evening of works at the Painted Bride Arts center in February that includes a world premiere of A-u-m, a piece that continues Lin’s research into dance as a healing power. his company also will perform at towson university in may.

Joyce lindorff, in collaboration with Boyer emeritus Professor Paul ep-stein, received a Provost’s seed grant for collaborative research, matched by Boyer funding, to record a contemporary harpsichord cd. she per-formed two of the works in october at Juilliard. in november, she traveled to Asia. in Beijing, she presented “Pereira’s musical heritage and his work in china,” at the conference on the history of mathematical sciences:


“Portugal and east Asia iV/europe and china: science and Arts in the 17-18th centuries,” sponsored by the chinese Academy of sciences and the Portuguese Foundation for science and technology. the conference com-memorates the 300th anniversary of the death of tomás Pereira, who she wrote about in the grove dictionary. he was a missionary and music mas-ter to the chinese emperor in the 17th century. she taught a master class and gave a solo harpsichord recital at china conservatory, where alumnus Zhu di (’00, MM in Piano; ’01, Professional Studies in Harpsichord) is on the faculty. she gave the keynote address, “An early piano literature in the ‘Baroque’ era? tracing the evidence,” at tainan national university of the Arts: international conference on the Performance Practice of Western music, along with a solo recital. in hong Kong, she taught a graduate seminar and performed at the hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. she taught a master class and performed with alumnus michael tsalka at hong Kong Baptist university and recorded a solo recital and interview for broadcast by rthK radio 4. in macau, she gave a keynote address and served as artistic director and organizer for the conference concert, “the musical heritage of tomás Pereira: music from Braga and coimbra” with vocal ensemble, keyboards and viola da gamba at the international sym-posium: “in the Light and shadow of an emperor: tomás Pereira, s.J., the Kangxi emperor and the Jesuit mission in china,” sponsored by the macau ricci institute and centro de história das ciências, universidade clássica de Lisboa. As a former china and taiwan Fulbright Professor, she ended the trip by attending the Fulbright retreat at the Kadoorie institute of hong Kong university, sponsored by the us consulate.

Joellen Meglin has had a chapter on the opera-ballet Les Indes galantes published in Women’s Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800 (2008) and an article on ruth Page’s ballet La Guiablesse published in Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts (2007). in 2008 she was appointed co-editor (with alumna Lynn matluck Brooks) of dance chron-icle. A special issue on Ballet in a Global World has just appeared. Future special issues include one on martha graham and another on “choreog-raphers on the cutting edge.” she presented a paper on Page’s danced poems for the congress on research in dance and one on Page’s collabo-ration with harald Kreutzberg for the society of dance history scholars, and she has received funding for her book-in-progress on Page from the newberry Library in chicago and temple university. With colleague Cynthia Folio she implemented the new general education course “the Jazz century” last spring.

Dick oatts has maintained a full performance schedule. he recently toured in denmark, performed at the university of minnesota in duluth and mansfield university and with the new york city All star high school Jazz Band. he is currently working on a recording with the terell stafford/dick oatts Quintet. Last year, he was guest soloist at the LA Jazz institute festival with his ensemble and garry dial (diAL & oatts), guest soloist and clinician at northwestern university in chicago and maintains weekly performances with the Vanguard Jazz orchestra at the Village Vanguard in new york. his touring schedule with the dick oatts Quartet and other jazz artists has taken him to the Kingston Jazz Festival, italy, spain, sweden and holland. he presented jazz workshops and lectured at the Amsterdam conservatory of music in Amsterdam, collin county community college/ texas All star Jazz camp and cal state Fullerton. Along with Vanguard Jazz orchestra, he performed at north carolina university, Buena Vista university in iowa, decorah Luther college in iowa and iowa state university. the cd, Gratitude, with the dick oatts Quintet, was released on steeplechase records. the Village Vanguard orchestra’s Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard, has been nominated for two grammy Awards: Best Large Jazz ensemble and Best Arrangement (St. Louis Blues). oatts and fellow faculty members, terell Stafford and luis bonilla are members of the Village Vanguard.

lambert orkis was recently honored with the cross of the order of merit from the Federal republic of germany which was presented to him by the german Ambassador to the united states in Washington, d.c. last April. recent performances: three concerts in July at the strings music Festival in colorado; in october in Washington, d.c.: Kennedy center chamber Play-ers concert, and a performance with cellist david hardy as part of a gala evening “A tribute to maestro rostropovich” at the embassy of the rus-sian Federation, proceeds to benefit the rostropovich Foundation “Fund to support young talented musicians” in november: european recital tour with violinist Anne-sophie mutter in an all-Brahms program performing sixteen concerts in seven countries, and including a benefit concert for the Beethoven haus in Bonn, germany. Funds raised from this event are to go towards the purchase of the autographed manuscript of the diabelli Varia-tions; cd released in April on dorian/sono Luminus label: The Beauty of Two performed by the Kennedy center chamber Players includes duos for piano with cello (grieg, martin), viola (hindemith) and flute (Poulenc).

alison reynolds has joined the Bulletin Advisory committee (reviewer) for Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the edito-rial board for Visions of Research in Music Education. in January, 2009, she presented three research sessions at “Learning From young children: research in early childhood music” conference (newark, delaware, with alum dr. Wendy Valerio (MM ‘90, PhD ‘93), and Phd candidates corin overland and Jill reese, dr. Kathy hirsh-Pasek of temple university, and dr. suzanne Burton and rebekah cleland of the university of delaware. in fall 2008, she was invited to Penn state university as visiting scholar to present lectures to graduate and undergraduate music education students and co-teach an early childhood music class; and to madison by the Wisconsin music educators Association for two invited sessions on movement in early childhood music. Last fall, reynolds also served as faculty advisor to diamond research scholar Zach Wilson, and diamond Peer teacher Kelly cuddeback. Last summer, she presented a symposium at the biennial meeting of the international society for music education, in Bologna, italy with dr. Valerio, dr. Wilfred gruhn, Andrea Apostoli, helena rodrigues, and regina Poskute-grün: “sharing a social interaction music learning framework for young children in six countries.” she continues research as Principal investigator (Pi): Play-based Music Interactions in Early Childhood with Phd candidate Jill reese, mm candidate marlena rudzinski, and Bme candidate Krista master, assisted by dr. Valerio, Anna Preston (MM ‘06), and Kelly cuddeback; and as co-Pi: Vocal and Movement Interac-tions Without and With Music Immersion Among Infants and Adults, with dr. suzanne Burton, Jill reese, and rebekah cleland. this spring, an article co-authored with dr. Burton, “transforming music teacher educa-tion through service-Learning” will be published in the Journal of Music Teacher Education. note: correction from 07/08 encore- “At last year’s global temple conference, holley haynes (MM ‘06) co-presented with reynolds the Little oak children’s house and Boyer college of music: sound Partners in music education.”

ben Schachter completed his latest and sixth solo cd, Omnibus, on which his trio features Boyer jazz alumni Leon Boykins and matt scarano, as well as guest appearances by jazz faculty tom lawton and John Swana.

eduard Schmieder was interviewed last summer for the BBc for the documentary, “science of talent,” and by rdF tV for a similar project in London, uK. Last summer, he directed the international Laureates Festival in Los Angeles and conducted iPalpiti orchestra at Walt disney concert hall. transcribed and premiered grieg’s “serenade” (from String Quartet No. 1) and taught at the mozarteum Academy, salzburg, Austria. Last fall he served as consultant/advisor, final stage at the Julián gayarre international sing-ing competition, Pamplona, spain and was a member of the jury, national sarasate competition, madrid. he was also a member of the jury, 2nd china international Violin competition (Qingdao) and conducted iPalpiti orchestra at nestlé centre, Vevey, switzerland. schmieder was president of the jury,



remember enesco international Violin competition, sinaia, romania and is a member of the audition committee, AstrAL Artists, Philadelphia. he will direct iPalipti as Boyer artists-in-residence in February, culminating in perfor-mances at the Kimmel center and carnegie hall in march.

Deborah Sheldon received the “outstanding service to music Award,” by the tau Beta sigma sorority at the midwest Band and orchestra clinic in december in chicago. each year, tBs selects a woman(en) who has made “significant contributions to music and the band world.” Last summer, she presented at the research commission of the international society for research in music education, Porto, Portugal: “evidence of the development of higher order thinking skills in instrumental music instruc-tion” and “evidence From the masters: A century of Advice on musician-ship, teaching, and Practice” (with Professor ruth Brittin, university of the Pacific). she will also present at the eighteenth national symposium for research in music Behavior, st. Augustine, FL: “effects of multiple Line score reading on cognitive and Performance Achievement of Adolescent instrumental students.” she is a clinician for the midwest Band and or-chestra clinic (chicago): “Women and minorities in the Band conducting Profession: Past, Present, and Future” and will guest conduct the troy state university clinic and PmeA All state Wind ensemble.

Jeffrey Solow attended the national Performing Arts conference in denver last summer, performed solo and chamber music and taught les-sons and master classes at the sitka summer music Festival (AK), charles castleman’s Quartet Program (Fredonia, ny), the montecito music Festival (cA) and the summit music Festival (Purchase, ny). his revision of gregor Piatigorsky’s edition of Intermezzo for Cello and Piano by claude debussy was published by theodore Presser and new editions are forthcoming from international music company, henle urtext and ovation online editions. he continued his positions as president of AstA and of the Violoncello society, inc. (of ny). Performances and tours include: Autumn classics (Anchorage, AK) (with Charles abramovic); at Andrea clear-field’s salon the premiere of Aaron minsky’s Dead Cello (based on grateful dead songs); at temple two solo recitals with elise Auerbach and trios with Charles abramovic and lawrence wagner. in spring, he will teach and perform at east carolina university in greenville, nc, and play an unac-companied recital at Bargemusic in new york and a concerto performance with the Philadelphia sinfonia (conducted by Boyer alumnus gary White) at the Kimmel center. he is also an adjudicator for the national Founda-tion for Advancement in the Arts.

Merian Soto is continuing work on her Branch dance series that begun in 2006. Branch dancing is a meditative performance practice which involves moving into stillness, the investigation of gravity as essential force, and the detailed sequencing of movement through inner pathways. her recently completed one year Wissahickon Park Project of 16 performances spanning the four seasons, and featuring temple dance alumni shavon norris, olive Prince, Jumatatu Poe and noemí segarra, was awarded a 2008 rocky (greater Philadelphia dance and Physical theater Award) last september. two new works in the series are in development to be premiered at Pregones theater in the Bronx in June 2009, and at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival in september 2009. For more on oyWPP visit the project blog: www.meriansoto.blogspot.com.

tram Sparks conducted the concert choir at the robert Page choral reunion; conducted concert choir at st. mark’s church in Philadelphia celebrating the elliott carter centenary; conducted concert choir at st. John’s church in nazareth sponsored by the robert Becker memorial con-cert series; conducted concert choir at Longwood gardens; conducted university chorale in mitten hall.

terell Stafford’s new cd, Taking Chances: Live at the Dakota, (maxJazz records) features fellow Boyer jazz faculty member bruce barth, tim Warfield and alumni derrick hodge and dana hall. stafford held a full performance and touring schedule this past year, including: clayton Broth-ers Quintet, cA; dizzy gillespie All-star Alumni Band, Kennedy center, Washington, dc: clinic/master classes, Wauwatosa high school, Wi; terell stafford group, Wilmington, de; terell stafford Quintet, Virginia Jazz & Blues Festival; terell stafford group, clifford Brown Jazz Festival, de; tim Warfield group, gettysburg college; dizzy gillespie All-star Alumni Jazz Band, Blue note, ny; terell stafford group, northwest Arkansas Jazz society; Frank Wess Quintet & Jon Faddis Jazz orchestra, Kingston Jazz Festival, ny; Vanguard Jazz orchestra, estoril Jazz Festival, Portugal; italy tour with Village Vanguard; Jimmy heath Big Band, caramoor Jazz Festival and, clayton Brother’s Quintet, newport Jazz Festival. he served on the faculty at Juilliard Jazz seminar in Vitoria, spain and Port townsend Jazz camp and is artistic director, central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz camp, messiah college. he took the temple Jazz Band to perform at the detroit Jazz Festival last fall and to the hague Jazz Festival in Amsterdam last spring. he also toured Japan as part of an All-stars record release. the Vil-lage Vanguard orchestra’s Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard, has been nominated for two grammy Awards: Best Large Jazz ensemble and Best Arrangement (St. Louis Blues). stafford and fellow faculty members, Dick oatts and luis bonilla are members of the Village Vanguard.

glenn Steele continues to work on his research project, “toward an As-sessment of Weekly Percussion Performance,” of which the first part was a proposal for developing an assessment process, with an ensuing article. the second involved having local teachers (some from temple) to do a trial run with the assessment rubric. the third part involved designing a Performance Analysis console (PAc) that would film and provide data for analysis. the second will be to gather the teacher trial run surveys and see if the assessment project is working. the next, to be done this spring, will be to finish the PAc and record the playing of six professional percussion-ists to arrive at a base-line of performance. the final descriptive report will be compiled into an article for Percussive Arts Journal. he also plans to submit a proposal to the Journal for a presentation at next year’s Percussive Arts convention in indianapolis in november.

william Stone was the featured guest artist with the Bellingham music Festival in Bellingham, WA, and with the Festival orchestra, performed Bach’s cantatas #82 and #56; ravel’s Don Quichotte a Dulcinée, and mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. he is also collaborating with Maurice wright on a cycle of songs for baritone and string quartet, based on excerpts of his translation of a diary of the Bauhaus potter marguerite Wildenhain, chap. 4, “marguerite, love of ours, sleep: An introduction to the diary,” and translation from the german of excerpts from her diary, “to the Last Potter of his Lineage,” by marguerite Wildenhain, in schwarz, d. & schwarz, g. (eds.), Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Anthology. decorah, iA, south Bear Press, 2007. Also included in chap. 6 of the same publication is stone’s “A glaze Book commen-tary.” the book was reviewed by American Craft in the June/July ‘08 issue. he recorded “Fireflies and Willows,” three songs on Poems by Japanese masters for soprano, Baritone and Piano by david garner with Pentatone records (dutch company), which should be released soon. Last fall, he was the guest soloist at the inauguration of dr. stephen spinelli, Jr. as pres-ident of Philadelphia university. he was again invited to be an adjudicator for the prestigious giargiari competition at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. A frequent judge for the met Auditions, he was invited this past January by the metropolitan opera national council Auditions to be an adjudicator in orlando, Florida and also in Knoxville, tennessee. his new website is www.williamstonebaritone.com


Maria del pico taylor conducted the 6th taubman seminar at temple last summer, consisting of 6 intensive sessions for a limited number of participants. the seminars were co-directed by maria and sondra tamman as well as fellow taubman faculty member maria Botelho hubler. several invitations are coming in for similar presentations for the 2008-09 season, including the state university in sao Paulo, Brasil and georgia state university in Atlanta. her ensemble, Latin Fiesta, went on the first mini tour arranged by their new management, Producers, inc. from tampa and co-sponsored by Penn PAt. the concerts started at the musikfest Festival in Bethlehem, PA followed by several presentations for southern tiers Latin Fest in Binghamton, ny. Cynthia Folio performed on this tour as the en-semble’s official flutist. Boyer alumnus Fernando Valencia, led Latin Fiesta’s percussion section. the PA council on the Arts promoted Latin Fiesta to the advance level of their “Preserving diverse cultures” program, which carries a $20,000 grant for staff assistance.

Stephen willier completed the second edition of the Bellini Guide to Re-search, now with the publishers. he is now working on a study of ernest reyer’s French opera Sigurd (prem. 1884), based on the same subject as the latter part of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen. he served on the edito-rial advisory board for the new 8th edition of A History of Western Music by Burkholder-Palisca-grout and was recently a peer reviewer for an article submitted to Dance Chronicle. he wrote the program notes for the 2008-2009 season for Virginia opera (norfolk), L’Elisir d’amore, Il trovatore, Tosca, and Il barbiere di Siviglia. Last november he was a guest on the first intermission feature for the broadcast of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde from the metropolitan opera, new york, which was broadcast on sirius and Xm satellite radio.

Maurice wright continues work with william Stone on a project involv-ing the diary of marguerite Wildenhain, the renowned Bauhaus potter who founded the Pond Farm school in california. stone was a student of Wildenhain’s, and prepared the translation of her diary for publication in Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Anthology. Wright is setting excerpts from her diary for voice and string quartet. his new work for orchestra, With Fanfare and Song, closed a gala concert at the Kimmel center, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the college of sci-ence and technology. in the summer of 2008 he completed another work for orchestra that included material from a piece he wrote some years ago, expanding and recomposing Music for 10 Players and Electronic Sound. other recent work includes a new, abridged version of The Lyric’s Tale, for voice and piano, prepared for premiere by lawrence Indik at the ethical society in march. Wright performed the computer part to his Antiphonia, joined by temple alum, soprano rebecca rizzo at the third Practice Festival at the university of richmond in november. he then continued on to delta state university in cleveland, mississippi to direct a performance of OCTET, which combines electroacoustic music with video animation to create a hy-brid form sometimes called “visual music.” Another visual music composi-tion, A Fish’s Tale, was heard and seen at “techArt20xx,” a yearly concert of electroacoustic music, video and experimental live performance at northern illinois university in november. Wright joined composers george crumb, Jennifer higdon, Paul Lansky, gerald Levinson and Andrew rudin in a two-hour live broadcast by WWFm featuring discussion and record-ings. A new recording project, don Liuzzi’s performance of all of Wright’s works for solo percussion, is now in the editing phase. Pianist eliza garth performed Chamber Symphony for Piano and Electronic Sound (now 32 years old!) at a February concert in new york. clarinetist Arthur campbell has commissioned a piece for clarinet and computer for performance and recording in 2010, and the Philadelphia classical symphony has also com-missioned a piece for performance in 2010.

Janet yamron participated in the masterclass for choral and orches-tral musicians at the oregon Bach Festival in eugene last summer with helmuth rilling, renowned international german teacher, scholar and con-ductor. Alumni sonya garfinkle ’48, susan swerdlow ‘91, colin dill ‘08, emilily Kosasih ’08 and Kahla Wanyama ’09 also participated. changho Lee ’08 was selected as one of the active conducting students who conducted in three public performances. What is significant about this connection with the oregon festival is the fact that elaine Brown, former director of choral activities visited germany and invited maestro rilling to be a part of the Ambler music Festival in 1970 where he conducted master classes and concerts. that same summer he went to the university of oregon to do the same and from this event, the oregon Bach Festival was established. the story of the temple connection has been repeated to the participants each summer as the Festival has grown into a world premiere event. she also attended the marlboro music Festival in Vermont attending rehearsals and performances and was invited to sing with the chorus at the closing concert of the festival with ignat solzhenitsyn as conductor of the Beethoven Choral Fantasy.

Steven Zohn’s book, Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann’s Instrumental Works, was recently published by oxford uni-versity Press. in January, he toured israel, giving chamber music concerts in haifa, Jerusalem, nazareth, and tel Aviv, conducting masterclasses at the israeli conservatory of music, and lecturing at hebrew university. this past fall, he was named to the advisory board of the Journal of Musicology, one of the leading journals in the field, and presented his lecture “naive Questions and Laughable Answers: An eighteenth-century Job interview” on colloquium series at cornell university and the university of cambridge. he also gave recitals at cornell, temple, and the American Philosophi-cal society, as well as performances with new york state Baroque. he is currently completing a volume of telemann secular cantatas for the critical edition of the composer’s works published by Bärenreiter. these 35 cantatas, most of which have never before appeared in print, are due to be published in 2010.



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Mark Your CalendarsAll events are free of charge and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Visit www.temple.edu/boyer and click on 2008-09 concert series for more information.

January 16, 1:00 pM (rh)music Prep master class: daedalus Quartet

January 23, 7:30 pM (rh)Faculty recital: Lorie gratis and Laura Ward, piano

January 24, 4:30 pM (tuCC)music Prep master class: muir string Quartet

January 26, 2:40 pM (rh)master class: menahem Pressler, piano

January 30, 8:00 pM (CDt) January 31, 2:00 pM (CDt)the crossroads Projectmulti-media performance (dance/video) tix required: www.temple.edu/boyer

February 4, 4:30 pM (Kh)Jazz master class: ralph Peterson, drums

February 13, 8:00 pM (CDt February 14, 2:00 pM (CDt)geodance theatre multi-media performance (dance/lecture/video/music)tix required: www.temple.edu/boyer

February 15, 3:00 pM (Ch)temple university symphony orchestraLuis Biava, conductorFeaturing winners of the student soloists competition

February 17, 7:30 pM (rh)glaux, faculty new music ensemble

February 18, 12:00 noon (talC)Ambler concert: opera scenes

February 22, 3:00 pM (Ch)temple university Wind symphonyArthur d. chodoroff, conductor

February 22, 7:30 pM (SMC)temple university concert choirtram sparks, conductor

February 25, 7:30 pM (Kh)Faculty recital: ed Flanagan, jazz guitar

February 26, 5:15 pM (rh)Faculty Lecture recital: christine Anderson From Paris to the Pyrenees: the songs of déodat de séverac

February 27, 2:30 pM (Kh)Jazz master class: sean Jones, trumpet

February 27, 8:00 pM (CDt) February 28, 2:00 pM (CDt)scuBA national touring dance Alliancetix required: www.temple.edu/boyer

March 4, 4:30 pM (Kh) Jazz master class: John La Barbera, arranger

March 13, 1:00 pM (rh)music Prep master class: Los Angeles Piano Quartet

March 15, 3:00 pM (rh)Faculty emeritus and Alumni recital: darrel Walters and michael tsalka

March 18, 4:30 pM (Kh)Jazz master class: Jiggs Whigham, trombone

March 24, 2:40 pM (rh)master class: christopher maltman, baritone

March 25, 12:00 noon (talC)Ambler concert: cello and piano

March 30, 1:40 pM (rh)master class: soovin Kim, violin

april 1, 1:40 pM (rh)master class: emerson string Quartet

april 1, 4:30 pM (Kh)Jazz master class: rodney Jones, guitar

april 3, 8:00 pM (CDt) april 4, 8:00 pM (CDt)Faculty dance concert: choreography by faculty.tix required: www.temple.edu/boyer

april 16, 7:30 pM (hgSC)temple university Jazz – Big Band danceterell stafford, director

april 17, 2:40 pM (rh)master class: Lydia Artymiw, piano

april 19, 3:00 pM (rh)Faculty recital: conwell Woodwind Quintet

april 24, 7:30 pm (tt) april 26, 3:00pm (tt)temple university opera theaterLe nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus mozart sung in italian with english titlesmarc Astafan, stage directorJohn douglas, music directorJamie Johnson, producertix required: www.temple.edu/boyer

april 28 at 7:30pm (tt)temple university sinfoniaAndré raphel smith, guest conductor, Joyce Lindorff, harpsichord

april 29, 7:30 pM (Mh)temple university chorale, singers and chamber choirtram sparks, Jeffrey cornelius and Janet yamron, conductors

May 1 - 9temple music PrepFestival of young musiciansFor full schedule of performances,see www.temple.edu/boyer/music prep

May 1, 7:30 pM (tt)temple university Wind symphonyArthur d. chodoroff, conductor

May 3, 3:00 pM (tt)temple university Wind ensemble and collegiate Bandmatthew Brunner, conductor

May 9 at 7:30pm (Cht)temple music Prep: gala concertyouth chamber orchestra: Luis Biava, conductorconcert choir and chamber choir: stephen caldwell, conductor

CDt conwell dance theater

Ch centennial hall, haverford school

Cht church of the holy trinity

hgSC howard gittis student center

KCpt Kimmel center, Perelman theater

KCVh Kimmel center, Verizon hall

Kh Klein recital hall (Presser hall)

Mh mitten hall

rh rock hall

SMC st. mark’s church

tt tomlinson theater

talC temple Ambler Learning center

tuCC temple univ. center city

March 2, 7:30 pM (KCpt) iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra Eduard Schmieder, conductor iPalpiti Orchestra is the ensemble-in-residence at Boyer College, of which seven members are students. ENESCU Prelude a L’unisson, VASKS Musica Dolorosa, ARNOLD Concerto for Two Violins GRIEG Serenade for Strings, Op. 27a Soloists: Catharina Chen and Alexandru Tomescu Tickets: Kimmel Center Box Office, 215.893.1999 or www.kimmelcenter.org

March 22 at 7:30pm (KCVh)Eighth Annual Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts ConcertTemple University Symphony Orchestra and Combined ChoirsAlan Harler and Luis Biava, conductorsCharles Dutoit, guest conductor & recipient of 2009 Boyer Tribute AwardBERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9POULENC GloriaBOULANGER Psalm 24 PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100Tickets available at the Kimmel Center Box Office, 215.893.1999www.kimmelcenter.org

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