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Carlos
Abril (music
education)
co-edited the book Musical Experience in Our Lives: Things We Learn and Meanings
We Make (Rowman & Littlefield). He also had articles published in the Journal
of Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, and the Mountain
Lake Reader. This year, Professor Abril presented findings of his latest
research at the International Society for Music Education World Conference in
Bologna, Italy, and at the International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior
in St. Augustine, Florida. He continues to serve as an educational consultant
and strand leader for the Ravinia Education and Community Partnerships and regularly
presents education workshops around the country.
Stephen Alltop (conducting) was guest instructor
in the graduate choral program at Indiana University last October,
teaching seminars on Beethoven, Dvo?ák, and Verdi. In
November he conducted and performed as chamber organ soloist
for a broadcast on WFMT-FM in Chicago with mezzo-soprano Julia
Bentley and an instrumental ensemble in a program that included
the music of Bach, Handle, Hindemith and Turnage. Last March,
he led the Elmhurst (IL) Symphony Orchestra in a collaboration
with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago of Bernstein’s Chichester
Psalms and Orff’s Carmina Burana. He also
conducted “Siamsa na n’Gael” (A Celebration
of Celtic Music) at Chicago’s Symphony Center. In April,
Professor Alltop made his Symphony Center concerto debut with
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pinchas Zukerman
with Bach’s concerto in a minor for harpsichord, flute
and violin. Also in April, he served as team captain for the
victorious “Stars of Chicago Univerties” team on
WFMT’s first-ever live classical music game show “La
Triviata.” In May, he traveled to Italy to conduct Orchestra
Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari in the cities of Bari, Molfetta,
and Trigiano with a program that included the music of Rossini,
Rolla and Beethoven.
William Barnewitz (horn) spent his summer
in Santa Fe performing opera and chamber music. He was part
of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Milwaukee Symphony,
which included performances of Mozart Horn concerti 1 and 3
and spectacular performances of Mahler Symphony number 8 with
NU alumni Matt Oliphant, Valerie Whitney and Paul Tervelt in
the horn section. Mr. Barnewitz was also a featured artist
on the Pabst Artist Series in an evening of chamber music works
by Tony Plog, Carl Nielsen and Franz Schubert.
Janet R. Barrett (music
education) is
the editor of a book to be released by Rowman and Littlefield
Education this summer, Music Education at a Crossroads:
Realizing the Goal of Music Education for All. She has
recently published articles on curriculum development in music
education in Research Studies in Music Education as
well as an essay on conceptual change in teaching in the Mountain
Lake Reader. Barrett was appointed to a special task force
on music teacher education by the National Association of Schools
of Music and is serving as chair-elect of the Society for Music
Teacher Education. This year she has presented research studies
at the Arizona Music Educators Research Forum as well as the
American Educational Research Association conference in San
Diego, and was an invited guest lecturer at the University
of Iowa.
J. Lawrie Bloom (clarinet) presented three
concerts at Northwestern University over the last year, each
exploring the work of a single composer: St. Saens, Schumann,
and Spohr. He also performed with the Lincoln String Quartet
and toured with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to New York
City, Japan, and China. Last May, Professor Bloom received
the Certificate of Honor at Temple University’s Founders
Day celebration in Philadelphia. The honor recognized his distinguished
contributions to the profession and expressed appreciation
for his service to the university. In June he returned to the
Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, where he is founder and
artistic co-director. Also in June, he performed and taught
at Domaine Forget in Quebec, Canada.
Robert Boyd (music
education) currently serves
as secretary for the Illinois Chapter of the American Choral
Directors. This past year he has served as guest clinician
at the Men’s Glee Club of Wheaton College, the Waubonsee
Valley High School Vocal Solo and Ensemble Contest, the Downers
Grove South High School Vocal Solo and Ensemble Contest, the
Illinois Grade School Music Association contest, the Mokena
Junior High School Chorus, the Mahomet-Seymour High School
Vocal Solo and Ensemble Contest, and the choral program at
Glenbard West High School. He also served as judge at many
of the above competitions. Colla Voce Music published his “Sing
to Me, Guiding Stars,” a work commissioned by Plainfield
North High School and which was later presented at the new
music session of the Illinois Music Education Association convention;
and his edition of Saint-Saens’ "Ave Maria" for
soprano and alto voices and piano. Composition premieres this
year include “Sleep, My Baby,” performed by Lincoln
Way East High School, and "Let All the World in Ev'ry
Corner Sing,” by the St. Charles Singers, a
work commissioned in honor of their 25th Anniversary. Guest
artist/conductor appearances this year include Lincoln Way
East High School, the North Central Illinois Choral Festival,
the Stevenson High School Treble Choir, and St. Cletus Catholic
Church (La Grange, IL). He was a session prsenter at the Illinois
ACDA Fall Convention, and he led sectionals for the Illinois
Honors All-State Chorus.
Theresa Brancaccio (voice
and opera) served
as presenter and panelist for the Chicago National Association
of Teachers of Singing (NATS) workshop for seniors preparing
for college auditions. Last March she performed with Cathedral
Brass Chicago on a program that included spirituals and works
by Aaron Copland. In April, Professor Brancaccio was the also
soloist with the Chicago Master Singers in a perfrormance of
Schubert’s Mass in A-flat and Magnificat.
Karen Brunssen (voice
and opera) performed
the one-act, one-woman opera Bon Appétit! by
Lee Hoiby with the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra under the direction
of Stephen Alltop last January. In February
She was a guest master teacher in residence at Cambridge University
in England, where she taught voice lessons, master classes,
voice clinics and choral workshops for Choral and Master Scholars
from Claire College, Kings College, Pembroke College, Roberston
College, Selwin College, Magdaline College, Cambridge University
Music Society, Innsbruk University Chorale, and Hills Road
Sixth Form College Chamber Choir. In April, she was a
guest master teacher at University of Illinois-Chicago Campus. In
May, she adjudicated for the Classical Singer Magazine National
Convention 2009.
Elizabeth Buccheri (piano
and collaborative arts) performed this past year in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's
Beyond the Score series at Orchestra Hall. Other performances
include a collaborative recital sponsored by the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra and the Art Institute of Chicago, and an appearance
on Chicago’s local PBS affiliate (WTTW) with baritones
Thomas Hampson and Mark Delavan. She prepared soloists for
Maestro Pierre Boulez’s performances of the music of
Stravinsky in Orchestra Hall and Carnegie Hall. She attended
the inaugural season of the Vann Vocal Institute in Montgomery,
AL, where she gave master classes and coachings. Professor
Buccheri also gave a lecture for the Evanston Chapter of the
Lyric Opera of Chicago. During this last year, she also served
artistic and awards chair of the Solti Foundation.
Barbara
Butler (trumpet)
See Charles Geyer.
Alan Chow (piano) performed as soloist and
convention artist for the Wyoming Music Teachers Association,
and as guest artist with the Chicago Chamber Musicians and
Rembrandt Chamber Players. He gave duo concerts with percussionist
Michael Burritt in New York and New Jersey, as well as duo-piano
concerts with Alvin Chow and Angela Cheng in Illinois and Connecticut.
He also taught, gave master classes, or adjudicated this past
year at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival and
Competition, the Chautauqua (NY) Music Festival, the New Orleans
International Piano Festival and Competition, and at Indiana
University.
Steve Cohen (clarinet) performed several
times with the Chicago Symphony over the last year, including
a tour with the CSO to New York. He performed as guest artist
and soloist this past year at Ball State University and Northern
Illinois University. Other performances this year include appearances
with Chicago Lyric Opera, Music of the Baroque Orchestra, Chicago
Chamber Musicians, the Lincoln Quartet, the Louisiana Philharmonic,
and at the International Clarinet Assocation’s August
convention in Porto, Portugal. He also taught and performed
at the International Music Master Classes in Guimares, Portugal
in August. He performed (with Trio Cayenne) and conducted a
workshop at Indiana University. Professor Cohen served as a
guest artist and teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto.
Drew Edward Davies (musicology)
presented his paper “Indexing Africa in Christmas Season
Villancicos” at the American Musicological Society conference
in Philadelphia in November 2009. In the same month, he collaborated
with Early Music New York by preparing musical editions, translations,
and a pre-concert lecture for its “El nuevo mundo” program
at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A month prior, he
presented his paper “Mexican Baroque? Toward a More Precise
Model for Viceregal New Spanish Music” at the international
conference La cultura del barroco español e iberoamericano in
Warsaw, Poland, as well as in Catholic University of America’s
musicology colloquium series in Washington. His article “St.
Peter and the Triumph of the Church in Music from New Spain” appears
in the 2009 issue of Sanctorum, an interdisciplinary
journal about saints.As academic advisor and regional coordinator
of the Seminario Nacional de Música en la Nueva España
y el México Independiente, he spent three weeks of the
summer cataloging the “Estrada Collection” at the
archive of Mexico City Cathedral, and he continues to lead
monthly academic meetings on viceregal musical culture in Mexico
City. The seminar’s work on New Spanish choirbooks and
music manuscripts can be consulted at www.musicat.unam.mx.
At Northwestern, he has been named a Searle Teaching Fellow
for the 2009-2010 academic year and has recently taught a course
on baroque music in the Continuing Education program.
Bernard Dobroski (music
education) is an
active member on the boards or principal advisory committees
of the Lyric Opera of the Ryan Opera Center, the Loyola University
Museum of Art, Voicexperience, the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project,
the Bel Canto Foundation, the Goldovsky Foundation, the Rembrandt
Chamber Players, the Lira Singers and Dance Ensemble, and several
other local and national cultural arts organizations. Professor
Dobroski was invited to deliver the keynote address at the
College Music Society’s Great Lakes chapter conference.
Melissa Foster (voice
and opera) was elected
to the faculty honor roll by Northwestern’s Associated
Student Government. She became a member of the National Assocaition
of Teachers of Singing (NATS) this year.
Charles Geyer (trumpet) and Barbara
Butler (trumpet) will continue as soloists and co-principal
trumpets in the Chicago-area ensembles Music of the
Baroque, Ars Viva, Chicago Chamber Musicians and Chicago
Philharmonic.
James Giles (piano) was a guest artist last
October at the Shanghal International Piano Festival, where
he performed and taught several master classes over a one-week
period. Elsewhere during the year, he performed concertos by
Chopin and Brahms and premiered a new concerto by Timothy Dunne
with the Ithaca College Orchestra.
Robert Gjerdingen (music
theory and cognition) was awarded the Wallace Berry Award
for his book Music in the Galant Style (Oxford University
Press) atthe Society for Music Theory conference in Montreal.
The Berry Award is the Society's annual award for
the
outstanding book published in the preceding year and is
the Society's most prestigious prize. Professor Gjerdingen
gave invited lectures at the University of Chicago and Princeton
University. He was the keynote speaker at the annual Theory
and Analysis Graduate Students (TAGS) Days for the British
Society for Music Analysis, hosted by the Department of Music
at the University of Durham, England, where he collaborated
with the famous Swiss organist and music director Rudolph
Lutz. Professor Gjerdingen served on the faculty of the Mannes
Institute in New York this past summer, giving a three-day
seminar for professional music theorists.
Victor Goines (jazz
studies) toured all over
the United States this year with the Jazz At Lincoln Center
Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis. Over the last year, Professor
Goines and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performed with
such guests as Paquito D’Rivera, Wycliffe Gordon, the
Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Yacub Addy and Odadaa African Drum
Ensemble, and the Herlin Riley Quartet. Other performances
this year include David Torkanowsky at the Snug Harbor Jazz
Bistro (New Orleans), the Victor Goines Quintet at Dizzy’s
Club Coca Cola (New York), the Victor Goines Quartet at the
Music Hall (Detroit, MI), and the Victor Goines Duo at Jazz
City Java (New Orleans). In April, he was guest performer with
the Chicago Jazz Orchestra at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.
Nancy Gustafson (voice
and opera) has had
a busy year. Among the many roles she has sung around the world
are Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with both the
Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra;
Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow at Teatro alla Scala,
Milan; Lady Billows in Albert Herring with the Opera
Comique, Paris, and Salome in Salome with Teatro Sao
Carlos, Lisbon. She also was soprano soloist in Britten’s The
War Requiem and in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, both
with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Lorin Maazel.
Other activities include service as artist in residence with
Maestro Maazel’s Castleton Festival and a master class
for the Chicago Opera Theatre’s young artists training
program.
Robert
G. Hasty (conducting)
was invited by the community
of New Berlin, Wisconsin, to conduct their
annual performance of Handel's Messiah last December.
The concert, featuring the combined high schools and choirs
from the community, served as a benefit to a family whose young
son was severely injured in a bike/car accident earlier in
the year. In a fund-raising effort for Evanston’s magnet
school for performing arts, Dr. Hasty helped raise several
thousand dollars by performing on violin for Finehearts in
February 2009. This included collaboration with NU Geology
department chair (and guitarist) Brad Sageman.
Lee Hyla (composition) has seen the release
of a new recording that includes two of his works. Released
by BMOP Sound, Lives of the Saints includes the title
track and At Suma Beach. Mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger performs
on both pieces with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil
Rose conducting. During the last year, he has completed his
term as Meet the Composer Music Alive Composer-in-Residence
with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Last October he was the
Maurice Abravenal Distinguished Visiting Composer at the University
of Utah. The Brentano String Quartet performed his Howl for
string quartet and narrator in Kansas City, Philadelphia, Houston,
Dresden, and at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
There were thirty performances of his music worldwide, including
performances of Polish Folk Songs in Boston, London,
Chicago, and San Francisco. Locally his music was performed
by MusicNow, Eigth Balckbird, dal Ninete, and Sonic Inertia.
Professor Hyla composed Warble for flute and piano
(premiered by Fenwick Smith and Judith Gordon in Boston in
September, 2008), Mother Popcorn Revisited for piano
trio (to be premiered by the Grammercy Trio the in fall, 2009)
and a piece called Odd Appetite for cello and percussion
(to be premiered in the fall, 2009).
Philip Kraus (opera) performed the role of
the Doctor in the Chicago premiere of Barber's Vanessa with
Chamber Opera last October. That same month he performed the
baritone solos in Carmina Burana with the Chicago
Sinfonietta. In December he sang the bass solos in annual Messiah at
Augustana College. Last March, he performed the same solos
during the Handel Week tenth anniversary performance of Messiah.
Walfrid Kujala (flute) saw the release of
his latest book, The Articulate Flutist: Rhythms, Groupings,
Turns and Trills (Progress Press, 2008). He performed
a recital and gave lectures and a master class at the University
of Redlands (CA) and the Texas Woman’s University (Denton,
TX). He completed his second season as principal flute
with the Lake Forest Symphony under Alan Heatherington. In
June, The Chicago Flute Club held its inaugural Walfrid Kujala
Piccolo Artist Competition at Roosevelt University.
Jay Lesenger (opera) celebrates his 15th
summer as general/artistic director of Chautauqua Opera, where
he directed Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Gilbert and
Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, and Menotti’s The
Consul, which was a co-production between Northwestern
University Opera Theatre and Chautauqua Opera. He continues
as a member of the board of directors of Opera America. Professor
Lesenger hosted and took part in Opera America’ss Singers
Panels at Northwestern. He conducted a master class on “The
Acting Singer” for Opera America in New York. Last January,
he staged Puccini’s Manon Lescaut for Hawaii
Opera Theater. This fall he will direct a new production
of Bizet’s Carmen for Opera Nordfjord — the
first opera production in the new opera house in Nordfjordeid,
Norway.
Rex Martin (tuba
and euphonium) released
a solo CD, Rex Martin Live in Japan (Windsong Press,
available at windsongpress.com). It is the only live CD to
be produced from a single live recital by any tuba player. In
December, he was invited to present master classes and conduct
concerts in Venice and Castagneto Carducci, Italy. Last spring,
he travelled to Stavanger, Norway, to coach the brass section
of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and to give master classes
at the Stavanger Conservatory of Music. He then traveled to
Geneva, Switzerland, to give master classes at the Geneva Conservatory
of Music. In March, he performed a concert in Osaka, Japan
with the Soka Gakkai Kansai Wind Orchestra. He traveled to
Karlskrona, Sweden, this summer to perform and teach at the
Blekinge International Brass Academy along with Bienen School
colleague Michael Mulcahy. After presenting
a week of master classes at Northwestern with Gene Pokorny,
he gave classes and performed concerts in Lugano, Switzerland;
Bergen, Norway; Pontevedra, Spain; Copenhagen, Denmark; and
Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Toni-Marie Montgomery (dean) is one of five honorees of the
90th-anniversary celebration of the National Association of
Negro Musicians, one of the nation's oldest musical organizations.
Michael Mulcahy (trombone) had a busy performing
and teaching schedule conducting the Brass of the Aarhus Symphony.
He presented his NU Summer Masterclass Week in July as well
as the Domaine Forget Festival in Quebec, the International
Trombone Festival in Aarhus and the BIBA Brass Seminar in Sweden.
Inna Naroditskaya (musicology) was invited for a residency
at the Rockefeller Foundation Belaggio Center to work on her
book project, Russian Empresses in History
and Opera. This is a major work situating Russian operas
in the context of imperial Russian lore and gender dichotomy
in the transition from eighteenth century Russia as female
kingdom to the nineteenth century restoration of patriarchal
rule. This spring, she was invited and presented a paper at
the World Mugham/Maqam Symposium, which was organized and sponsored
by the president of Azerbaijan. The Bellagio Center offers
one-month residencies for no more than 12 scholars and scientists
in any discipline and from any part of the world at any given
time.
Ryan
Nelson (conducting) conducted
the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in concert of
works by Northwestern's composition faculty. Other guest conducting
engagements last year included the Manitoba Senior Honor Band,
Trinity High School Wind Ensemble (PA), Southern California
Honor Band, Alameda County Honor Band (CA), Beaver County Honors
Chorus (PA), and the PMEA Region 5 State Band (PA). Professor
Nelson was also a clinician for the Broken Arrow School District
(OK), OBA Toronto Festival, and the Northshore Concert Band
Festival. Music theatre activities included the music direction
of All Shook Up and The Light in the Piazza at
the Marriott theatre, supervision of Sweeney Todd and Waa-Mu:
One for the Books at Northwestern, and the Johnny Mercer
Foundation Gala Concert with Liz Calloway and Capathia Jenkins.
In March, he traveled to the Middle East to perform at the
opening ceremony for the Northwestern campus in Doha, Qatar.
Susan Piagentini (music
theory and cognition)
was honored with the Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished
Lecturer, a university-wide award for teaching excellence.
She served as program chair for the College Music Society Great
Lakes Regional Chapter Conference at Central Michigan University
in March. She just finished a three-year term as treasurer
for the regional chapter and is now the newly elected vice-president.
Hans Thomalla (composition) saw the release
of a CD of recordings of his work performed by Ensemble Recherche
on the Wergo label this past summer. He gave a lecture and
premiered a new work at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New
Music. Last November, the Zurich (Switzerland) New Music Days
presented his music in four concerts and two lectures. Swiss
radio broadcast three of the concerts in addition to a feature
documentary portrait on Professor Thomalla and his work.
Mallory
Thompson (conducting)
appeared as guest conductor with the Vandercook College of
Music Symphonic Band, the United States Army Field Band, and
the Northwestern University Brass Ensemble at the Midwest Band
and Orchestra Clinic last December. In March, she conducted
the California All-State Band. This past year, she guest conducted
with the Coast Guard Academy as the Captain Lewis J. Buckley
Guest Artist. She served as a guest clinician for conducting
workshops at the University of Puget Sound and for the Music
Educators of Bergen County.
Almita Vamos (violin) received the Presidential
Distinguished Teacher Recognition Award in June. She and
her husband Roland Vamos spent part
of their summer in Norway at the Sommersymphonie Festival in
Valdres, where they played several concerts and taught.
This summer, she also taught at the Chautauqua Institute and
the Astona Festival in Switzerland (again with Roland). She
adjudicated at the Lipizer International Violin Competition
in Italy this past summer.
Peter Webster (John W. Beattie Professor
of Music Education and Technology) received a research grant
for over $100,000 from the National Association of Music Merchants
Foundation (NAMM) Sounds of Learning initiative. His
study will investigate the formal and informal musical experiences
during elementary, secondary, and undergraduate college years
for three cohorts of professions (architects, chemical engineers,
and music educators) to see if these experiences might be associated
with creative achievement in their respective fields. This
was one of the largest awards in the scientific research category
from NAMM. The Center for the Study of Education and the Music
Experience (CSEME), which is comprised of doctoral students
in residence in music education and members of the music education
faculty, will assist Webster in the execution of this grant
over the 2009/10 academic year.
She-e Wu (percussion) performed two works
by Edgar Varèse, Ionization and Amerique,
with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (under Pierre Boulez) in
winter concerts at Orchestra Hall and Carnegie Hall. Other
solo appearances this year include performances with the John
Battie High School Percussion Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion
Group, the Bethlehem Bach Choir, the University of Oklahoma
Percussion Ensembles, Colorado State University’s percussion
ensemble, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and a performance with
Ricardo Morales as part of the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber
Music Series. She gave lectures or presentations this past
year at the Manhattan School of Music, the Percussive Arts
Society International Convention, the Percussive Arts Society
Day of Percussion in South Carolina, the Alan Abel Summer Percussion
Seminar at Temple University, and the Symphonic Wind Band Conducting
Seminar at Northwestern. She presented master classes and clinics
at Manhattan School of Music, the Percussive Arst Society Illinois
Day of Percussion at Northern Illinois University, the Curtis
Institute of Music, the Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion
in Arkansas at the University of Arkansas, the Illinois chapter
of Midwest Young Artists, and the University of North Texas
Marimba Workshop.
Victor
Yampolsky (conducting)
is celebrating his 25th year as a professor of conducting
and director of the orchestra program at the Bienen School
of Music. In the past year, he has guest conducted at
the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, the Cape Philharmonic
Orchestra (Cape Town, South Africa), and the KwaZulu Natal
Philharmonic (Durban, South Africa). Also while in South Africa,
he was a jury member at the First Len van Zyl Conducting Competition
in Cape Town. He served as guest faculty at the St. Petersburg
Conservatory and the Stellenbosch (South Africa) International
Chamber Music Festival. In February, Professor Yampolsky was
a guest lecturer for the department of Russian Studies at Emory
University. In August, he served his 23rd year as music director
of the Peninsula Music Festival in Fish Creek, WI.
Jay
Alan Yim (composition) participated
in a number of international presentations of new media
work with his longtime collaborator and faculty colleague Marlena
Novak. Fluid Mechanics Remix was shown at Digital
Media Valencia 1.0 (Spain) (curated by the Digital Art Museum-Berlin),
in London through the Ottica Contemporary TV Channel at the
Better Bankside Centre, at CCNOA as part of the Biennale de
Bruxelles (Belgium), and at INDUSTRIA at Flatfile Galleries as
part of the opening of the fall cultural season in Chicago.
Additional works by Novak & Yim exhibited in the Brussels
Biennial included Dancing Cranes and bOnk! Other
Chicago presentations this past season included the Chicago
Cultural Center premiere of their newest video EDGE Detection during
the Site Unseen 08 Festival in November, and an interactive
video environment pr!ck—based on the unusual
mating behavior of hermaphroditic marine flatworms—at
Flatfile Galleries. Yim also completed a new 24-minute
ensemble work for the Tel Aviv-based ensemble Musica Nova,
for violin, two cellos, doublebass, soprano saxophone, two
laptops, and a VJ, based on a recent trip to Iceland. They
are now at work on a new intermedia work called scale, which
is funded by grants from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research
in the Arts (at Northwestern) and the National Science Foundation. Scale is
a collaboration between Novak, Yim, and Malcolm Maciver, who
is a member of Northwestern's faculty in biomedical engineering
and neurobiology. The new work will be an installation
that allows the audience to interactively listen to the tones
generated by a 'chorus' of electric fish from the Amazon river
basin.
Susan Young (music
education) conducted a choir
in Burlington, VT, for the Delta Kappa Gamma International Northeast
Regional Conference. She has been named the Illionis State Music
Chairman of Delta Kappa Gamma for 2009-2011. Her community choir
from Northbrook, IL, sang at Carnegie Hall in June at the invitation
of Dr. John Leavitt in the premiere of his latest composition, Symphony
of Songs.
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