Eastman School of Music
1954
Robert Palmieri (MM)
writes that the three-volume series Encyclopedia of Keyboard
Instruments (Routledge) that he oversaw as series editor has
been completed with the 2007 publication of The Harpsichord and
Clavichord. He and his wife, Margaret
Walsh Palmieri ’53 (MM), teamed up on the first volume
in the series, The Piano (1994, 1996, 2003), with Robert
as editor and Margaret as associate editor.
1958
Dean Blair (MM) writes
that he was commissioned to compose music for the 40th anniversary
celebration in April of the founding of the University of
Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. He spent the final 25 years of
his professorial career on the music faculty there, and served 10
years as department chair. Dean writes, “In 1992 I had
written choral work to celebrate the institution’s 25th year,
and I suppose that even though retired for over 10 years, they
thought that I still might have some compositional mileage
left.” The work for choir, piano, and small instrumental
ensemble premiered on April 3 to a standing ovation and will be
repeated as part of the “official” 40th celebration at
this fall’s convocation on October 13.
1963
Joel Kuznik (MM) writes
that he has been named to the Music Critics Association of North
America, having written more than 40 published articles and reviews
on concert halls, music festivals, church music, and organs. His
writings have appeared in The American Organist, The
Diapason, and the Eastman Organ Department’s
Resonance.
1970
Geary Larrick (MM) writes
that in April 2007 he premiered his own composition, Poem IV:
Xylophone, at the Gesell Institute at the University of
Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
1981
The world premiere of In Memory—H.H.L.
by Dan Locklair (DMA) was performed
by the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra in April. The string
orchestra work was written in 2005 in memory of Dan’s
mother.
1983
Ragna Moe (MM) sends
greetings with a note that she is working on an international
100-year commemoration of the death of Norwegian composer and
pianist Edvard Grieg. For more information, go to www.grieg07.com.
Ragna lives in Bergen, Norway.
1992
Ingrid Gordon recently
played drums, tambourine, finger cymbals, and triangle in an
ensemble performance of a Peruvian-inspired composition in July.
She is the artistic director of New York City–based
Percussia, a contemporary chamber music ensemble with percussion as
its driving force.
2000
Danan Healy (MM) writes
to announce that with musicians from the U.S. Army Field Band and
the Navy Band, she has released her first full-length solo album of
original rock and ska tunes.
2002
Evan Jones (DMA/PhD)
writes that he has been awarded tenure and promoted to associate
professor of music theory at Florida State University’s
College of Music, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. Evan
received a university teaching award in April, is contributing
editor of Intimate Voices: Aspects of Construction and
Character in the Twentieth-Century Quartet (forthcoming from
the University of Rochester Press in 2008), and was one of 37
scholars invited to participate in the 2006 Mannes Institute for
Advanced Studies in Music Theory at Yale University.
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