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music.nd.edu SUMMER 2006

“Practice!” goes the old joke. But this year, Notre Dame students created a new punchline: Play in the Symphony Orchestra!

In March, the symphony engaged in a collaborative enterprise with the Irish traditional-music ensemble the Chieftains. In performances at the new DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts at Notre Dame and at New York's Carnegie Hall (the latter on St. Patrick's Day, no less), the two groups presented a program exploring a wide range of Celtic styles. Among the highlights were a witty medley of Mozart and Irish jig tunes compiled by Chieftains leader Paddy Moloney and featuring orchestra hornist Rebecca Phillips, a law student, as soloist. Rock legend Elvis Costello joined the assembled musicians on the Carnegie Hall stage as surprise guest vocal soloist in the finale of "The Long Journey Home," a multi-part rumination on the Irish immigrant experience in America. Both concerts closed with a rousing reel in which orchestra violinist Vanessa Ohlrich, a music major, took a solo turn on the fiddle.

As part of the September festivities surrounding the inauguration of Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., as the University’s new president, pianist Leon Fleisher joined the orchestra for a performance of Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto.” In his rehearsals and in concert, as well as in a master class with undergraduate piano performance majors, Fleisher demonstrated his unique insight and personal warmth as both a teacher and player. The members of the orchestra thanked Fleisher for his generosity and spirit; he left Notre Dame also in possession of a pair of ND cufflinks he received as a gift from the ensemble, as he had forgotten to pack up his own pair at his previous stop in Asia.

The orchestra is grateful for the efforts of outgoing DPAC Executive Director John Haynes in making possible these unforgettable experiences.

Photography provided by the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

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ND Student Rebecca Phillips plays the horn with the Chieftains in concert.

Music major Vanessa Ohlrich practices her fiddle solo with Seán Keane of the Chieftains.

Pianist Leon Fleisher in concert with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra.

Notre Dame Music Around the WorldSummer 2005 found seven members of the Notre Dame Marching Band (Katie Lawler, Katie Kimar, Trevor Gass, Courtney Lare, Isaac Ruiz, Tim Beaubien, and Kathleen Zadzora) in New Zealand. Each taught band and an academic subject at a boys and girls high school in Hastings, a community located about 200 miles south of Auckland. While exploring New Zealand, the students took courses in Maori Studies (the native culture), learning the music and chant rituals.

The Notre Dame Chorale toured New Zealand in May 2005, presenting four concerts in South Island. The tour was so successful that Director Alexander Blachly is planning another tour for late May 2007.

This year, the Notre Dame Glee Club toured the United States making stops in Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and California. This fall they will continue their stateside tour in the Carolinas and Southeast. For more Glee Club news and information about their upcoming alumni reunion in September 2006, visit their website at gleeclub.nd.edu.

Continuing the Department’s trek around the globe, the Notre Dame Concert Band toured Austria and the Czech Republic in May 2006 after Commencement. The band performed in many different venues, including the Mozarteum in Salzburg and Smetena Hall in Prague, in honor of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. Students took in the sights and sounds as they explored the rich music history of Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Munich, Innsbruck, and Kremsmünster.

Organists Invade the NetherlandsProfessor Craig Cramer, six undergraduate organ students, and two graduate students enrolled in the Master of Sacred Music program journeyed to the Nether-lands in June 2006.

"The Netherlands is an organ-rich country with one of the highest concentrations of pre-19th century organs in the world,” says Cramer, who led similar tours of historic European organs in 2001 and 2003. “These old organs are our best teachers. The music just comes alive under your fingers when you play antique instruments."

During the tour the students studied the case designs, organ-building techniques, and sounds of different instruments from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. They prepared pieces to match the instruments that they encountered during the tour. Students received generous support from Learning Beyond the Classroom (formerly known as the Undergraduate Intellectual Initiative), the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and the Graduate School. Housed in the College of Arts and Letters, LBC and ISLA provide funding to faculty and students in support of cultural excursions, travel to conferences, and other activities aimed at enhancing teaching and student learning beyond the classroom.

"It is gratifying that the College of Arts and Letters supports travel and research for faculty and students,” Cramer says. “It was a fabulous musical and learning experi-ence for everyone in the group because there is no substitute for playing historic music on old organs."

The highlight of the tour was a visit to the 1696 Schnitger organ in Noordbroek. This organ served as the case model for the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center O'Malley organ, which was built by Paul Fritts and Company and has proven to be a magnificent addition to the musical and cultural life of the campus. Cramer notes "the new Fritts organ has transformed organ study at Notre Dame. Its lively wind system, sensitive key action, stunning appearance, and warm sound have completely captivated everyone who has come into contact with the instrument. Notre Dame should be proud to own a masterpiece of the organ-building art."

The Schnitger organ in Noordbroek, the model for the O’Malley organ on campus.

Photography provided by Eleanore Strong.

Mandy Mouton, Mike Siembor, Eric Sauer, and Lisa Bonkowski from the Notre Dame Band pose with a Maori

Tribesman in Roorua, New Zealand.

Notre Dame graduate student Thomas Muellerplays the Purmerend organ of Koepelkerk.

Music & the DPACIn September 2004, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) opened its doors with a grand community celebration. Home to the Leighton Concert Hall, the Reyes Organ and Choral Hall with its new Fritts organ, the Philbin Studio Theatre, the Browning Cinema, and the Decio Mainstage Theatre, the DPAC has brought new visibility to the variety of musical performances on campus. The facility also houses the offices of music performance faculty members Alexander Blachly, Craig Cramer, and Daniel Stowe. All music department ensemble concerts are now performed in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. With a sound shell featuring panels that can be individually adjusted, the Leighton Concert Hall provides the perfect acoustics for any size performance.

Notre Dame’s Department of Music takes undergraduate educa-tion as its primary focus. By allowing students to work closely with a faculty composed of world-class musicians and scholars, the Department nurtures their love of music and prepares them for whatever paths they may choose.But this education doesn’t take place in isolation from the campus and local communities. Instead, the Department looks for innova-tive ways to bring its love of music to as many people as possible.

Robinson Community Learning CenterThe Robinson Community Learning Center was created to strengthen the relationship between South Bend’s Northeast Neighborhood and the University of Notre Dame. Activities and educational opportu-nities surrounding health, culture, and faith are used to enhance each other’s quality of life and encour-age development and sharing of personal gifts.

BandlinkIn an effort to provide musical instruction for and foster musical appreciation in students who normally would not receive such exposure, Bandlink pairs music majors and members of the Notre Dame marching band with students from two of South Bend's Catholic elementary schools, Holy Cross and Christ the King. The mentors and their pupils meet twice per week for instruction and on Sunday nights for ensemble practice. The culmination of these efforts can be seen in the concerts performed at the end of each semester. In 2005-2006, more than 40 Notre Dame students and 40 young musicians made up the heart of Bandlink.

Currently, six Notre Dame music students give piano lessons to 17 children at the Robinson Center. Music professors Ethan Haimo and Paul Johnson have also taught piano there. Fees for the lessons are nominal or may be waived entirely depending on financial circum-stances. The children have made tremendous improvements in their skills in the last two years to the point where they hope to play in a small recital next spring. The Department of Music thanks Patricia Collins Jones for supervis-ing the program over the past several years.

Thanks to the growth of artistic venues on campus, the Department of Music can host a greater variety of events. This timeline displays a sampling of the recent classical and educational music experiences enjoyed by music students and faculty.

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The Notre Dame Chamber Players perform the works of Schubert, Chausson, Ravel, and Haydn with a variety of guest musicians in Leighton Concert Hall.

American Guild of Organists Pedagogy Conference is held at Notre Dame and piano majors attend a master class with Leon Fleisher, internationally-known concert pianist.

The Notre Dame Chamber Players perform a program of Mozart and Schumann with guests from the string faculty of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.

Chamber music students participate in a master class with Abram Loft, Professor Emeritus of the Eastman School of Music, former member of the Fine Arts Quartet, and judge of the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Competition.

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Visiting Assistant Professor Mark Beudert studied with Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, and Giuseppe di Stefano. His international career has included operatic performances in Austria, Switzer-land, Germany, France, and Italy. In addition to his position as Director of Opera Notre Dame, he is the Director of Bel Canto Northwest Vocal Institute at Portland State University.

Professor Alexan-der Blachly is the founder-director of the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Pomerium, which is recording a series of compact discs of a cappella music of the Renais-sance. Currently, he directs the Notre Dame Chorale and Chamber Orchestra as well as Schola Musicorum.

Assistant Professor John Blacklow, pianist, with violinist Jennifer Frautschi, was chosen in an annual nationwide search by Carnegie Hall for the most promising American musicians in 2004. He embarked on a six-country concert tour of several major European cities co-sponsored by the European Concert Hall Organization. Blacklow was on sabbatical producing a record of 18th through 20th-century piano literature.

Associate Professor Karen Buranskas is a critically acclaimed cellist who has performed throughout the United States and Europe as well as in Brazil and Japan. A member of the Notre Dame Chamber Players, she has recorded two compact discs for Centaur Records, featur-ing chamber works of David Diamond and Paul Hindemith.

Darlene Catello, adjunct instructor of harpsichord, directs Preparatory and Continuing Studies in Music for the Department. She is also a member of the Baroque ensemble Fleur de Lys, which performs music of the 17th and 18th centuries on period instruments.

Professor Craig Cramer produced a recording for the Naxos Organ Encyclopedia. Performed on the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, the disc is a compilation of works

by Dietrich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707).

Professor Kenneth Dye is the director of bands at Notre Dame. He has served as composer and arranger for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Band and as director of the Opening Ceremonies of the U.S. Olympic Festival as well as the All-American College Band at Disney

World. He also composed original music for the inaugura-tion convocation for Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., in September 2005.

Associate Professor Mary Frandsen studies the intersections of music, liturgy, and spirituality in the Baroque era. Her book, Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden, was published in April 2006 by Oxford Univer-sity Press.

Professor Ethan Haimo taught in Israel at Bar-Ilan University, discussing the merits of 20th-century composition during the 2006 spring semester. Cambridge University Press will publish his new book, Schoenberg’s Transformation of Musical Language, in November 2006.

Professor Georgine Resick, soprano, sings with members of the Notre Dame Chamber Players (John Blacklow, piano; Karen Buranskas, cello; and Carolyn Plummer, violin) and guest artists.

For more faculty biographies, accomplishments, and news, visit our website at music.nd.edu.

Associate Professor Paul Johnson composed a tone poem for chamber orchestra titled “The Wild Swans at Coole.” It was released in June 2005 on Masterworks of the New Era, volume 6. It will be performed by the South Bend Symphony Chamber Orchestra in April 2007. His compo-sition for soprano and orchestra, “Spring in War-Time,” will be released on ERM records later this year.

Associate Professor Carolyn Plummer, violin, is one of the members of the Notre Dame Chamber Players. She lectured on Beethoven Violin Concerto for the South Bend Symphony League this spring. Plummer and her twin sister, Kathryn, also participated in a very successful performance over the Internet. You can watch this exciting performance at internet2.nd.edu/MakeConnectionswith Internet2.shtml.

Professor Georgine Resick, voice, has appeared on international stages and has earned public applause as well as the respect of her colleagues, who have re-engaged her season after season at the world's most important opera houses, established orchestras, and prestigious festivals. Recently, Resick released a new album with pianist Warren Jones called Men’s Songs, Women’s Voices. The album was praised in the May 2006

edition of Opera News.

Associate Professor Peter Smith includes the instru-mental music of Brahms, Schenkerian approaches to analysis, and theories of form in his current research interests. Indiana University Press published his book Expressive Forms in Brahms’s Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet in the spring of 2005.

Besides directing the Notre Dame Glee Club and Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Stowe is

a founding member of the plainchant ensemble Schola Musicorum and director of the Collegium Musicum. His research specialties include sacred and secular music of the 16th century, and he has contributed articles on Renaissance, Baroque, and 20th-century Latin American composers to the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music.

J.W. Van Gorkom Professor of Music Susan Youens lectured at Carnegie Hall (with the famous baritone Thomas Quasthoff and pianist Justus Zeyen) and Oxford University this spring. Youens has just completed her book Heinrich Heine and the Lied for Cambridge University Press and two chapters for books of essays published by Princeton University Press and Böhlau Verlag in Vienna.

For more faculty biographies, accomplishments, and news, visit our website at music.nd.edu.

David Banga, visiting instructor of music, teaches Musi-cianship and Gender, Sexuality in Pop Media. The course, which meets the Fine Arts requirement, looks at predeter-mined gendered roles and sexuality in our culture as represented in popular media. When not teaching, Banga works on his musicology doctoral thesis with Professor Ethan Haimo.

Päivi Ekroth, staff pianist for the Department of Music, was invited by Maestro Valerij Gergijev to play a recital at the Mikkeli Music Festival in Finland in 1997. She has also performed in China, Estonia, and at the Settimane Musi-cali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore in Italy.

Stefan Fiol, visiting instructor in music, teaches ethnomu-sicology courses for the Department. He is also an accomplished pianist and sitar player, having studied with Sri Anand Pillay while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Stanley Ramsey and Pt. Ajit Singh in Varanasi, India. He is also an avid performer of the mbira (lamellophone) of Zimbabwe, and has led an African music ensemble in Urbana for a year-and-a-half.

Artist-in-Residence Daniel Schlosberg focuses as much time on collaborative performance in piano as on solo recitals. Projects of note include recitals in France and Italy as a fellow of the La Gesse Foundation, performances in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, and a recital at the Israeli Embassy presented in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institutions. The Department is honored to have him on the faculty.

In MemoriamVisiting Assistant Professor John Riley-Schofield,

voice and opera, was lost to us in a fatal car accident on September 12, 2005. The Department of Music wishes to thank all of those who participated in the

memorial Mass and is grateful for the many thoughts and prayers from friends and colleagues. The faculty

has planned a memorial concert for September 24, 2006, featuring his students.

Nick Morrison, (M.M. ‘88, clarinet performance and literature), was recently appointed full professor at Utah State University. His teaching responsibilities include clarinet studio, chamber music, and symphonic band. He has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique Ste. Trinité in Haiti; with the Notre Dame String Quartet, The New World Quartet, and Arcata String Quartet; and with the Utah Festival Opera Orchestra. Morrison’s flute-clarinet duo Airfare, which he formed with flutist Leslie Timmons, recently received a grant from the Utah Arts Council to make a CD of works for similar duos.

Jacqueline Schmidt (B.A. ‘01, M.M. ‘03, piano performance) and Paul Appleby (B.A. ‘05, vocal performance) were featured soloists in the January 2006 South Bend Symphony Orchestra Chamber Concert. This concert is part of the recent collaboration between the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and Notre Dame. This partner-ship brings the Symphony’s Chamber Series to the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and larger performances of the ND Presents series to the Morris Performing Arts Center in downtown South Bend. Schmidt has been invited to perform in another chamber concert in April 2007. Appleby will be attending the graduate vocal program at The Juilliard School of Music.

Mark Thomas (B.A. ‘06, organ performance) and Nicholas Tonozzi (B.A. ’06, vocal performance) were jointly awarded the Outstanding Senior Award for 2006 by the Department of Music. This honor is granted to seniors for excellence during their years of undergraduate study. Tonozzi, a tenor, continues his vocal studies this fall in the graduate program at Northwestern University. Thomas has been accepted into the doctoral program in philosophy at Boston College.

ALUMNI

NOTRE DAME BANDSAssistant Director Larry Dwyer has performed as a jazz pianist with such greats as Thad Jones, Clark Terry, Sonny Stitt, and Sarah Vaughan. His orchestral arrangements of the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and others have been performed and recorded by the South Bend Symphony, Houston Pops, Utah Symphony, and Rochester Philharmonic.

Assistant Band Director Kelly May has a vibrant interest in music therapy. This has led to a number of practical experiences that varied from working with psychiatric and geriatric populations to her primary focus on helping children with autism and at-risk youth. Matt Merten, assistant band director, has performed with the St. Cloud Amadeus Orchestra, Minnesota Center Chorale, and Regis Philbin's Pop Orchestra. This summer, he performed in the quartet led by Billy “Stix” Nicks at the Elkhart Jazz Festival.

Emmett O’Leary studied euphonium and bass trombone before joining the Notre Dame Bands as an assistant band director. He was invited to participate in the "College All-Star Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble" at both the 1998 and 2000 International Tuba Euphonium Conferences.

Who creates all those magnificent halftime formations for the Notre Dame Band? Samuel Sanchez, assistant band director, is the mastermind behind the movement. He serves as the percussion coordinator, shares the conducting responsibilities of the ensembles, and specializes in areas of music technology and sound recording.

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ArtsEverywhere was launched in December 2004 by the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County to support the arts of the greater South Bend region. This past fall, the group took their mission to the web and to print. ArtsEverywhere.com and ArtsEverywhere magazine were created to be the ultimate guides to the region’s art and culture. Look online for upcoming events in theatre, art, and music as well as performances sponsored by the Department of Music.

A Wonderful GiftIn 1999, R. Emmett Fitzgerald (B.A. ’50, J.D. ’52) presented the music depart-ment with the generous gift of a 1727 violin. Crafted of dark red maple by the famous Tyrolean violin-maker Joseph Mathias Albani in Bolzano, Italy, this beautiful instrument had been in the Fitzgerald family since the late 19th century. Since its arrival at Notre Dame, the violin has been made available to one student per year, most recently Leila Tascheck (M.M. ’05, violin perfor-mance).

Four sons in the Fitzgerald family (Tim, Mike, Pete and Dan) and one daughter (Kathleen) graduated from Notre Dame, and one daughter (Maura) graduated from Saint Mary’s College.

This wonderful gift will enhance music for generations of students at Notre Dame.

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2005-06 Concerto Competition

On November 18, 2005, Notre Dame music students competed in the annual Concerto Competition. This year’s winners were:

•Nicholas Shaneyfelt, piano•Thomas Lee, violin

•Audrey Marier, violin•Joseph Petros, piano

Students prepare for this intense annual competition with many extra hours of practice as well as extra lessons with their instructors. The competition takes place before a panel of performance faculty headed by Notre Dame Symphony Director Daniel Stowe.

Winners perform with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra during its seasonal concerts in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. First-year students Shaneyfelt and Lee gave brilliant performances of Schumann and Beethoven on February 11, 2006. Marier and Petros dazzled the audience at the spring orchestra concert on April 28 with the music of Grieg and Chausson.

Music & CultureThe Department of Music has announced a new concentration within the music major, Music and Culture, which will be offered for the first time in Fall 2006. Music and Culture will be the third concentration available to music majors. This degree allows students to learn about the musical expressions of many countries and cultures, including American and European non-classical music and non-Western music. In addition to studying music with historical, critical, and musicological approaches, Music and Culture also brings methods from ethnomu-sicology, the study of how cultures make use of music. These contexts include gender, race, politics, and ways in which indigenous music has been disseminated and appro-priated by popular culture. In many cultures, musicality and spirituality are interwoven, so the concentra-tion invites students to explore the religious dimension of world music.

Joining the existing concentrations in Music Performance and Music History and Theory, the Music and Culture degree offers the opportu-nity for students to bring their related field studies of aesthetics, gender, critical theory, perfor-mance, anthropology, and political science into the study of music. For students who desire to study music and liturgy, an Interdisciplinary Minor in Liturgical Music Ministry (18 credits) is also available. For more information on these new developments as well as the latest course descriptions, visit our website at www.nd.edu/~music.

Director Daniel Stowe

Opera’s New LookVisiting Associate Professor of Music and Director of Opera Mark Beudert created a bit of a stir on campus with his Spring 2006 production of Orphée aux Enfers by Jacques Offenbach. Beudert decided to shake the preconceived notions of opera and engage everyone in a more modern experience, believing it should relate to people on a very personal level.

“Music is like anything else, you have some-thing to bring to it…opera is a part of life, it is up to you to pay attention to it or not.”

So how does one translate a tale of fighting spouses and a pantheon of gods and goddesses, nymphs, and bacchantes into the modern day? By placing it in Hollywood, of course. Taking a cue from current events involving Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, Beudert thought it would be great to have tabloid fliers posted to create a “buzz” on campus about the opera. Emily Sladek and Eric Petrucci, playing the leads of Eurydice and Orpheus, worked with Notre Dame Media Group to capture some paparazzi moments for the posters.

The result? Opera Notre Dame sold out both nights of performances in Washington Hall this past April.

Auditions for the 2007 production of Opera Notre Dame will take place this September with title and cast to be announced shortly thereafter.

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