VOL 7, NO. 1 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA/ DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC FALL 1989

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This past year has been an exceptionally productive one for u s Major renovations to Orvis Auditorium and Room 36 have been completed Both of these areas now look and sound better than they ever have before. We have also been able to add compact disc players to our classrooms and have plans this year to add video- cassettes, recorders, and TV monitors to them By the time you receive this newsletter we should be complet- ing the installation of our new ethnic instrument storage system, which will allow our faculty and students much easier access to our priceless collection of ethnic instruments while storing it in a secure environment Most of our faculty offices are now equipped with computers, which aid both in research and in keeping records of students' progress

Equipment and facilities are important but the most important asset we have is our faculty, students, and alumni Throughout the pages of this newsletter you will see evidence of their many accomplishments We on the faculty want to keep in touch with our alumni and friends and are here to help you to succeed in your endeavors in any way we can. We also want to be able to contact you for support of our various projects

As we enter the final decade of the 20th century we must make strong plans for the direction we will take in the 21 s t Technology is advancing so quickly that very few schools can keep up. Careers for musicians are changing rapidly. We need your financial support to help us keep abreast of these advances in technology. In addition, we need your help to assist us in making decisions that will send us on the right path for the future.

JOHN MOUNT

Jean Harling and Whitney Thrall, Music Department Lecturers If you go to Honolulu Symphony concerts you will invariably see a pleasant-looking lady seated among the woodwinds in front of the music director. She is Jean MacKay Harling and she has been occupying approx- imately that same position at concerts for 31 years The UH Music Department is fortunate to have her as a lecturer in flute. Jean was born in Detroit and began studying her instrument in grade schooL After high school her musical education was continued at Wayne (now Wayne State) University, where she studied with

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Edwin Lennig Flutist with the Detroit Symphony, and received a B.S. in Music Education. After graduation from Wayne University she got her first orchestra job with the Buffalo Philharmonic in 1946. She played in Buffalo under William Steinberg and Joseph Krips and studied with John Wummer, flutist with the New York Philharmonic She and her husband Tom eventually grew weary of the cold, snowy Buffalo winters they moved to Honolulu in 1958. She had contacted George Barati, then music director of the Honolulu Symphony, and came here as principal flutist She has been so ever since. Jean has played solos with the Symphony many times, among them Charles Griffes's Poem for Flute and Orchestra and Mozart's Concerto in D Major, to name only two of many. She began teaching at Punahou School when she arrived in Honolulu and started at UH a few years later when the UH Music Department had expanded enough to need a flute specialist Today she has 15 students, eight of them at UH.

Jean lived in Buffalo. She has that in common with Whitney Thrall lecturer in piano, who not only lived there, but was also born there. Whitney began piano lessons in grade school but did not decide on a music career until his four-year Army stint, when he had many opportunities to perform After the Army he pursued his musical interests seriously at Syracuse University, studying piano with Ernst Bacon and George Mulfinger and composition with Joseph McGrath He received a full scholarship to pursue an M U degree at Syracuse, which he received in 1952. His teachers encouraged to give recitals at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in New York in the 1950s "A Promising Debut," announced the New York Times as a caption to one of his reviews Whitney taught piano in New York for many years, becoming assistant director of the Nassau Conservatory of Music on Long Island. He came to Honolulu in 1972 and has continued to teach piano here ever since. His influence has been considerable: many of his former students are teachers in the community. He has given numerous solo recitals, playing many 20th-century works not heard here before. He played DeFalla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Henry Miyamura conduct- ing the UH Symphony Orchestra in 1980. Whitney has recently turned again to composition Soprano Julianne Cross premiered his neoromantic song cycle A Calling last spring Larry Paxton sang his cycle Caravanserai in October, 1989. He enjoys reading and painting as hob- bies And in response to the interviewer's question, he says that-yes, he still paints by numbers, but the num- bers are higher now.

Tim Carney spent the summer in Switzerland working on his dissertation In October, 1989 he is to be invested with a Papal Knighthood for community service and work with church music He will be guest conducting two concerts for the Hawaii Chamber Orchestra this season Peter Coraggio performed at the Festival of Classics Celebration of the Piano at Honolulu Academy of Arts in June, 1989. He has been recently appointed Artist-in-Residence at KI-IPR and will present six recitals with commentary during October, 1989 at the new KHPR Studio. Marvin Greenberg contribued to a recent publication of the Music Educators' National Confer- ence, What Works: Instructional Strategies for Music Educa- tion (1989). Byong Won Lee was in Japan during summer, 1989 collecting materials for a research project on the musical identity of Koreans in Japan His work is being funded by the Korea Research Foundation While in Japan, he lectured at universities in Osaka

Henry Miyamura was one of 23 honorees inducted into McKinley High School's Hall of Honor in October 1989. He was Music Director for his third summer with the Maui Music Institute at Makawao. He also conducted Neil McKay's Fantasy on an American Theme for concert band at Oregon State University High School Summer Band Camp in July and will conduct the same work in Portland, Oregon in November, 1989. Neil McKay's Variations on an American Theme (A Shanty- man's Life) for band and There Once Was A . . . , a cycle of limericks for medium voice and piano, are being published by Shawnee Press and Leyerle Publications, respectively.

John Mount will chair a session on English Literacy and International Students at this yeafs National Associa- tion of Schools of Music Convention in Seattle. He, his wife Lorna, and their children performed in September, 1989 in Oliver at the Army Community Theater. John will sing again this year for Hawai'i Opera Theater productions On his sabbatical leave during Spring Semester, 1989 Armand Russell travelled extensively in Europe, hearing new music and composing a chamber Concert Drama based on English 19th-century poet John Keats He is currently composing a work for the Ver- dehr Trio, whom he heard in New York and Germany.

Ricardo Trimillos had four publications during this academic year, each in a different country. USA: A chapter on Japan in Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education; Jamaica: an article, "Aesthetic Change in Philippine Performing Arts in Cross-Cultural Con- texts" in the proceedings of the International Council for Traditional Music Colloquium; Japan: a chapter in Music Traditions of Japan, Asia, and Oceania; West Germany an article on the Filipino rondalla in a German periodicaL In June Ric was music director for a

Philippine operetta production, Pilipinas circa 1907, at Kennedy Theater and in July he was a music coordi- nator at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC (Hawai'i was the featured state). Allen TrubitY s and Byron Yasuf s Basic Sight Singing has been released by Mayfield Publishing Co. Byron was promoted to full professor during the summer. Congratulations to him are also due for receiving the UH Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award for 1989.

Dr. Frank Berberich (MA 1974) is International Section Manager for systems Planning and Marketing at ASCH Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Richard Berg (BMusEd 1966) is high and middle school band teacher in Spring- field, Oregon and performs trumpet with many Oregon ensembles, including the Oregon Mozart Players, with whom he has served frequently as soloist His wife Betsy Ann Berg (BM 1972) is Executive Administrator for the Eugene Youth Symphony Association Tom and Ruth Otto Bingham (MA 1981 and 1982) live in Lompoc, California where he is director of high school instru- mental music. Ruth spent 1988 in Munich, Germany on a research grant studying German 19th-century song cycles Tom took a yeafs leave to accompany her and studied 19th-century German wind music. Jim Chopyak (MA 1985) presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies at Washington, D.C in March, 1988.

Sandra Davis (MA 1984) prepared the proposal for the establishment of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at U.H. Manoa'She performed the role of the mother in the Kennedy Theater production of the Philippine operetta Pilipinas circa 1907 in July. Thelma Chock Diercks (Bed 1953) has moved to Honolulu-to become Head of Acquisitions (Mono- graphs) at Hamilton Library-from Roanoke, Virginia, where she was active as a duo-pianist and piano teacher as well as a librarian at Hollins College where her hus- band Jack chairs the Music Department Her husband will join her here after his retirement from Hollins Patricia Dougherty (MA 1984) is currently teaching piano in Lesotho (southern Africa). She recently performed in a music program at the palace of the king and queen of Lesotho.

Robert Gjerdigen's (MA 1980) book A Classic Turn of Phrase was published in 1988 and his translation of Carl Dalhhaus's Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality will appear in 1990. He has also published articles in the periodicals Music Theory Spectrum, Music Perception, Computer Music Journal and in Explorations in Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Essays in Honor of Leonard B. Meyer. His wife Catherine Shaffer Gjerdigen (MA 1980) is a free-

lance book editor. They have a baby boy, Owen, born field research in the Marquesas Islands for the UNESCO- in 1988. An article by David Harnish (MA 1985) on sponsored Territorial Survey of Oceanic Musics

Carolyn Iga (BEd 1988) is working for a master's degree in church music at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Gayathri Kassebaum (MA 1975) presented a paper on her fieldwork at the conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast held in Honolulu in July, 1989. Linda Kidani, soloist at Central Union Church since 1979, is Recreation Specialist for the city and county of Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation Edean Kinoshita (MA 1969) sang a solo, "Shinjo Bushi" and played taiko at the Akita- Hawaii Goodwill Song Festival in Honolulu in May, 1988. Yvonne Kishinimi Yokoe teaches music in Misawa, Japan at Sollars Elementary SchooL

Bichuan Li (MA 1983), currently president of the Honolulu Piano Teachers' Association, was invited to perform a lecture-recital of traditional and modern Chinese music in July, 1989 at the Chautauqua Music Institute. Bichuan performed a similar program at UH Manoa in April 1988. Recent publications of Dr. David Mingyue Liang (BA) include a recording, "Elegant Orchid in a Jieshi Mode," of solos for the Chinese gu-qin, one of which is his own composition-and "Reminiscence of Childhood for piano. Marlene Meyer-Patton (MA 1987) continues to teach part-time

1 at Punahou School and has a daughter, Danielle, born in May, 1989. Jane Freeman Moulin (BA 1969) has returned to Honolulu after a year at UC-Santa Barbara, during which she presented a paper on Tahitian music at a conference at UCLA During Summer, 1989 she did

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Islam and musical change in Lombok (Indonesia) has been published in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology. Allan Ho (MA 1980) has been promoted to Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University. Mary Holmes (BA) teaches at Epiphany School in Honolulu and per- forms occasionally with the Honolulu Symphony, Hone lulu Opera Theater, and other local theatre groups

the-production of- Pilipinas circa 1907 at Kennedy Theater; Ruth was invited to participate in the Founders Day Celebration of Silliman University (Dumaguete City, Philippines) as a Balik Talent Consul- tant ("returning to share talent"), gave master classes in piano and lectures to students in the College of Educa- tion and the Divinity School Charles Ramsay (MA 1979) is Chairman of the Humanities, Clark College, Vancouver, Washington Recent publications of Takefusa Sasamori (MA 1969) include an extensive documentary report The Folk Songs of Aomori Prefecture in the series of Bunka-cho projects, and a solo song with piano accorn- paniment, "Folk Song from Tohoku"

Kalena Silva (MA 1982) teaches Hawaiian language and chant at UI-I Hilo. He was awarded the PhD. by the University of Washington in 1989 for his dissertation on Hawaiian church choirs on the islands of Hawai'i, Kaua'i, and Ni'ihau During summer, 1989 he served as the presenter for the Ni'ihau Hawaiian choir at the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D. C Charles Ives specialist James Sin- clair assisted Michael Tilson Thomas last spring in con- ducting Ives's Symphony No. 4.

Kimiko Ohtani (MA 1981) contributed to the JVC (Vic- tor Co. of Japan) AudieVisual Anthology of World Music She attended the conference of the International Council for Traditional Music held in Austria in July 1989 and is currently in India for fieldwork for the doctorate at the Queen's University of Belfast Ruth Imperial Pfeiffer (MA 1973) was assistant director for

Dr. Stephen Slawek (MA 1978) received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; he devoted time during the summer to research with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan; his

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article on musical instruments has been published in the International Encyclopedia of Communications and another article, with a joint author, "Instruments and Music Culture in 18 th-Century India" in Asian Music Dr. Ted Solis (MA 1970) has accepted a position at Arizona State University. His recording of Puerto Rican music in Hawai'i has been published by Smithsoniam Ethnic Folkways Louise Hockaday South (BEd 1977) teaches piano in Kaimuki and is working on an MM in Vocal Performance at UH Manoa Amy Stillman (MA 1982) presented a paper on the Hawaiian Hula in July, 1989 at the Fourth Hong Kong International Dance Conference and one on Hawaiian music in August 1989 at the Fourth International Symposium on the Arts of the Pacific held in Honolulu

Dr. Andy Sutton (MA 1975) went to Indonesia during Summer, 1989 to make arrangements for the participa- tion of performing groups in the 1990-91 Festival of Indonesia James Uyeda (MA 1968) teaches at Leeward Community College. In April 1989 he conducted the Shin Jidai, a group he organized to perform popular Japanese music of a previous generation, in a two- evening appearances at the NBC Concert Hall in Hon- olulu Previously the group has made two recordings Dr. Roger Vetter (MA 1977) spent the summer in Indonesia Osamu Yamaguti (MA 1967) is one of the Japanese scholars who contributed to the JVC Audio- Visual Anthology of World Music Lynn Yanagihara Muramaru (BEd 1980), recently mamed to Donn Muramaru of Mid-Pacific Institute, is band director of grades 7-9 at Iolani School in Honolulu Bruce Zimmer- man (MA) received a local Emmy award for his musical score for the onehour docudrama "Numb: Children of Alcoholics" a Connecticut Public TV special

---STUDFNTS N L - avid Gere is dance reviewer for California Bay Area papers, working on a book on California modem dancers, and putting the finishing touches on his thesis Randy Kohl presented a paper on Hawaiian slack-key guitar at the ICTM conference held in Austria in July, 1989. Teri Skillman is Educational Specialist with the Center for South Asian Studies; her article, "In Rhythm with India," appeared in Span Andrew Killick is in Korea investigating the use of traditional Korean mate rials by contemporary composers as fieldwork for his thesis

Music Education 1989 Summer Programs Successful Over 30 students attended the Orff-Schulwerk intro- ductory and certification courses and more than 100 students registered for Education Through Music-the Mary Helen Richards approach to teaching children music Both courses were initiated and organized by Marvin Greenberg.

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THE ORVIS CONCERT SERIES SPRING 1990

February

Fri 2 Makiko Goto, koto Tbc Japmrne Ko(o: New Pcn~pedivem for a ~ U o d InshwnL Ms. Goto performs both traditional and contemporary compositions. Faculty Recital.

Fri 9 Annette Johansson, mezzo-soprano An Evening of French S o w Included are worlrs by Debussy, Faud, Milhaud and Koechlin. Faculty Recital.

Mon 12 EmKard Shipwright, piano Weh, Wkn, and WodkL Sonatas by Mozart (K333) and Beethoven (Op.109). Poems and preludes by Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. Faculty Recital.

Mon 26 Karl Pituch, horn

April

Sun 1 An April Fools' Concert Faculty & students team up for an evening of midsemester madness, spoofery and satire!

Thu 5 Hawaii in Hula, Chant & Song Advanced students of Noenoelani Zuttermeistcr, Victoria Holt Takamine and Nola Nahulu perform. 7:00 P.M.

Mon 16 U.H. Chamber Orchestra LaVar Krantz conducts. Included in thin program are the Br- Concaio No.3 by J.S. Bach and Haydn's SLnrphony N0.101 (The Clock).

Sat 21 U.H. Opera Workshop in Concert "What I Did For Love" is the theme as Laumce Paxton directs

Sally Heffelfinger, oboe & english horn this season's concert of scenes from operas, operettas and

Featuring solo and ensemble works for French horn, oboe and Broadway musicals. Shari Lynn makes a special guest

English horn, this faculty recital includes Reinecke's Trio /a A appearance.

minor, as well as works by Telemann, Yvon, and Hindemith. Sun 22 Music & Dance of Asia & the Pacific March A potpourri of music and dance of varioua Pacific and Asian

cultures. Advanced students perform. FREE ADMISSION. 3 m P.M.

Fri 16 Paul & Kaom Lyddon, piano duet A recital for one piano, four hands, Mr. and Mrs. Lyddon Thu 26 Young Composers' Concert perform Debussy'a Sir l?pi8qha mrtiqucs, Brahum' awn Hear the composers of t o m o m in this concerts of mleded transcription of the Saing Quartet in A minor, Op.51 No.2, and works by U.H. composition students. FREE ADMISSION. ~voi!i%k's Fmm the Bohuniun Forcn: Op.68, Faculty Recital.

Sat 31 Bichuan Li, piano Ms. Li will perform two works rarely pertomal as complete sets, the Four I-au, Op.142, by Schubert and all fm of Ravel's Minim. Faculty Recital. All ppgarm, am subject to change.

Ticket Information

Orvis Concert Series. E;xcept where otherwise indicated, all Individual tickets. Tickets for any of the Orvis Concert Series events begin at 8:00 p.m. The Mae Zenke Orvis Auditorium is programs are available at the Owis box office on concert nights. located in the Music Department on the University of Hawaii General admission tickets are $5; tickets for students and senior Manoa Campus, University Avenue at Dok Street. citizen (65 and older) are $3. Children under 12 are free.

& Other Special Events

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LUDING OTHER MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS AND THE VOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

DaCapo Chamber Players. January 24 & 27. Honolulu Chamber Music Series. ?tvo different programs, including works by Mozart, Brahms, Musgrave, Carter, Boula, Tower and Messiaen. $12/$8. At 0tvi.s. Call 948-8242.

Shostakovitch String Quartet February 17. Honolulu Chamber Music Series. Program includes Allen Trubitt's " Z k Food of low." $1268. At OMS. Call 948-8242

Melos String Quartet, March 20. ,

Honolulu Chamber Music Series. Haydn, plmtet m F, Open, No.2. Hindernith, Quartet No.2 in C, Op.16, and Dvorak, Quartet N0.9 m D, Op.34. $16/$11. At Orvis. Call 948-8242.

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The Young Composers' Symposium. March 22. nmance and discussion of works in progress. IC Department, Room 108. FREE ADMISSION.

An Evening of Javanese Music & Dance. April 7 and 8. U.H. Gamelan Ensemble, Hardja Susilo, director. At East-West Center. April 7, 8 pm; April 8, 2 pm. $5/$3. Call 944-7666.

U.H. Concert Choir. April 8 & 10. 'Ihe U.H. Concert Choir joins the Honolulu Symphohy Orchestra & Chorus for Brahms' Gmnmr Requiem. Robert Shaw conducts. At the NBC Concert Hall. Apnl 8, 4 pm; April 10,8 pm.

Collegium Musicnm. April 9. JMy music performed on viols, d m and other Renaissance instruments. Geoffrey Naylor and Jane Moulin, directors. Room 36, FREE ADMISSION.

U.H. Symphonic Bands. Aloha Concert. April 23. Grant Okamura, David Bandy, Don Hascgawa, conductors. At the NBC Concert Hall. $3/$2 Call 948-7657.

U.H. Chorus and Chamber Singers. April 27. Choral music from madrigals to the oratorio repertoire. Tiniothy Carny conducts. St. Andrew's Cathedral. 8:00 p.m. $S/$3. Tickets at the door and at Orvis Concert Series events.

U.H. Symphony Orchestra. April 30. I

Henry Mimura , conductor. Program includes Respigi's B c k Qum of S k b a and student concerto competition winners. At the NBC Concert Hall. $563.

Student Recitals Spring 1990 Season

Opera Workshop U. H. Symphony Orchestra An April Fools' Concert

U.H. Chorus and Chamber Singers Javanese Gamelan and Dance

Collegium Musicum T T T T I

March

Sat 17 Pat Pongasi-Goldsoll, soprano Senior recital. A student of L a u m a Paxtan.

April

Sun 8 Rasalie Kcddington, violin Senior recital. A student of LaVar Krantz

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Sat 14 Rachel Matsumc Honors recital. A

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iestra Tue 17 Crystal Miles, soprano

Honora recital. A student of Laurence Paxton. zce o f , . Conc

the Pa oir Fri 20 David Conrad, tenor

Graduate recital. A student of Annette Johanaaon. Chamb ler Mus zg the -

lie Series, Sun 22 Phillip Ancuong Long, saxophone

Senior recital. A student of Jay Romina 'layers, tet, .

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nber P g Quay Tue 24 Richard Hawthorne, guitar

Honors recital. A student of Peter Kun Frary. ostakowtch stnng Quartet;

dent reStals of mo, voice. wolin, saxophone, and guitar.

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Wed 25 Shanita Aana, soprano Senior recital. A student of Annette Johansson.

Sat 28 Rosy Wang, piano Graduate recital. A student of E h r d Shipmight. of

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Coming Up This Summer s i c a t M The Festival of Ethnic Music and Dance. June 22-30.

A week of concerts and lectures on the Lore of the Bamboo. International Jazz Summer Workshop. June 25-29.

With visiting artists-in-residence. 948-7721.

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