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The University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dancewww.music.umich.edu

School of Music, Theatre & Dance Administrative Officers Christopher Kendall, Dean; Kevin T. Geralds, Chief Administrative Officer; Laura Hoffman, Assistant Dean for Admissions and Enrollment Management; Maureen Schafer, Director of Development & External Relations; Mary Simoni, Associate Dean for Research and Community Engagement; Daniel Washington, Associate Dean for Faculty and Multi-Cultural Affairs; Steven M. Whiting, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; Betty Anne Younker, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

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Journey to the EastU-M Symphony Band to Tour China

18 Learning, Working, Playing, CollaboratingLiving Arts Residential Community Fosters Creative Thinking

20 The Moment I Knew.... . . I Would Have a Life in the Arts

2 Message from the Dean

3 View from the Pond

6 Casting Calls: Rachel Hoffman

8 Priscilla Lindsay Returns as Chair

10 Thayer Jonutz Is ‘In the Zone’

22 Faculty Notes

24 Meet Our New Faculty

28 Students

30 Alumni Society

31 Alumni Notes

38 In Memoriam

39 Giving Update

41 Honor Roll of Donors

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Front Cover: National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

Opposite Page: Students from 1961 Russia tour

Back Cover: William D. Revelli conducting the University Symphony Band in Venice during 1971 tour

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A committee of the University’s Board of Regents recently asked me to give a presentation on assessing excellence in the perform-ing arts, and, more specifically, how the School of Music, Theatre & Dance is faring by these measures. I spoke about the special challenges in our field of quantifying the experiential and accounting for the ineffable, but also pointed to the many clear measures by which the School is considered among the best of its kind: the most selective undergraduate unit at U-M; a rare, top-ranked performing arts program at a top-ranked public research university; among the top four in the latest US News & World Report ratings; i.e., the quantifiable.

Certainly, when assessing the School, three main areas are vital to our ongoing success: faculty, our most powerful student recruit-ment tool; outstanding students who in turn attract the best faculty; and the vitality of the programs we offer which attract both, and set us apart from our peers.

To that end, I am excited to announce several new developments as we move into a new academic year. We are delighted to welcome two new department chairs: Carlos Xavier Rodriguez to the Department of Music Education and alumna Priscilla Lindsay to Theatre & Drama. Read more about them both and other new faculty on p. 24.

September saw the arrival of 80 students (drawn from 120 applicants), checking in to Living Arts, the first residential community on North Campus, built around the notion that creativity and collaboration are the skills of the future. First-years from disciplines as disparate as engineering, art, architecture,

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“All of these marvelous new developments only underscore how the arts add an incalculable layer of richness and depth to the University.” —DEAN CHRISTOPHER KENDALL

music, theatre, and dance have moved into their own section of Bursley Hall, to live, eat, work, and play together, as they explore collective approaches to creativity. Read more on p. 18.

Anticipation is building toward May 2011, when the University Symphony Band, under Michael Haithcock, Director of Bands, will tour China. U-M inroads into establishing educational and cultural links with China, started by President Mary Sue Coleman in 2005, have paved the way for this peerless ensemble to tour six major cities, including a rare opportunity to perform at the ‘egg,’ Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts (see cover). The grand finale will be at the spectacular Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on May 29 (for tickets, visit www.music.umich.edu/laconcert). Read more on p. 12.

All of these marvelous new developments only underscore how the arts add an incalculable layer of richness and depth to the University and why they continue to be an indispensable cornerstone of the University’s historical identity and overall mission, integral to the profile of the 21st century university where creativity, connectivity, and cultural pluralism will be the measures of institutional success.

Yours,

Dean Christopher Kendall School of Music, Theatre & Dance

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Evan Chambers’ The Old Burying Ground released on CD

In September, Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown Concert House hosted an evening in celebra-tion of the CD release of the University Symphony Orchestra (USO) recording of

faculty composer Evan Chambers’ The Old Burying Ground, under the direction of Kenneth Kiesler. This memorable and moving work features musical settings of centuries-old epitaphs from two New England cemeteries, interspersed with commissioned poems by five internationally known poets. In the Kerrytown perfor-mance, Chambers and Kiesler presented selections from the work, with pianists Midori Koga and Suzanne Camino, while

award-winning poets Thomas Lynch and Keith Taylor read from their work. Chambers and Camino also presented new pieces by Chambers. A CD signing and reception followed the performance.

The CD has been much anticipated, with its world premiere in Ann Arbor in 2007 and a New York premiere in 2008 at Carnegie Hall, both with the USO. The CD was recorded at Hill Auditorium and features Kiesler and the USO, folksinger Tim Eriksen, tenor Nicholas Phan (BM ‘01), and soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird. The words of poets Keith Taylor, Thomas Lynch, and Jane Hirshfield are threaded throughout the two complete song cycles coupled with powerful orchestral movements.

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POSTER OUTSIDE CARNEGIE HALL TIM ERIKSEN, ANNE-CAROLYN BIRD, AND NICHOLAS PHAN, STANDING L-R, AT CARNEGIE HALL

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U-M Jazz Band Tour Documented by Musicologist“Cultural Diplomacy as Cultural Globalization: The University of Michigan Jazz Band in Latin America” has been published in the Journal of the Society for American Music (Vol. 4, No. 1, February 2010). The article (pp. 59-93) is by Danielle Fosler-Lussier, musicology professor on the faculty of The Ohio State University School of Music whose area of scholarship is music and cold war politics in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. The Jazz Band tour from January to May 1965 provided her with “a case study through which we can see the far-reaching effects of cultural diplomacy. The State Department initially envisioned its cultural and informa-tional programs as one-way communication that brought ideas from the United States to new places; yet the tours changed not only audiences, but also the musicians them-selves and even the communities to which the musicians returned.” The article contains rare photographs, including one of the band members taking cover from gunfire when

they got caught in the midst of a revolution in the Dominican Republic, one of their last stops on the tour.

A2 American Guild of Organists Perform TogetherThe Ann Arbor Chapter of the American Guild of Organists celebrated together in Ann Arbor in April with a performance at Bethlehem United Church. SMTD alumni and students joined in for a concert that included one new commission and three classics from the modern organ repertory. From Olivier Messaien to William Bolcom, the concert also included Frederick Himebaugh’s Fear Not!, for ten male singers and organ. Student composer William Zuckerman’s new work was a four-move-ment piece for saxophone and organ, Recurrence Relics, recalling events from childhood memory “when swings and dinosaurs are of the utmost importance.” Performers included students Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, tenor saxophone, John Woolsey, organ, and James Wagner, DMA

’05, Andrew Meagher, DMA ’10, Naki Sung Kripfans, DMA ’03, and Timothy Huth, DMA ’96. The event was organized by Aaron Tan, DMA candidate and engineering student, and Alan Knight, DMA ’07.

Mu Phi Epsilon Chapters MeetIn March, the U-M Gamma Chapter of the Mu Phi Epsilon professional music fraternity, founded in 1904, had its annual district conference and recital in the University of Toledo Recital Hall with 22 performers and soloists representing six local chapters: Ann Arbor, Detroit, Toledo, and Eastern Michigan University, U-M, and the University of Toledo. Mu Phi Epsilon is a national organization dedicated to promoting musicianship, scholarship, and service in schools and the community. The group offers financial awards at the local level and scholarships and grants at the national level. For more information, email Katie Mueller [ kphan-tom@umich.edu] or Sue Owen-Bissiri [slbissiri@sbcglobal.net].

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JAZZ BAND ON ITS 1965 TOUR OF LATIN AMERICA

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Celebrated Swedish Radio Choir Performs at SMTD Ragnar Bohlin, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and guest conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir, visited the SMTD in February, where he led the Swedish Radio Choir in an open rehearsal and taught a graduate choral conducting seminar. Universally regarded as one of the finest professional choirs in the world, the Swedish Radio Choir was in Ann Arbor to perform in Hill Auditorium as part of the University Musical Society’s Choral Union Series. Maestro Bohlin was guest for the evening rehearsal of the UMS Choral Union, Jerry Blackstone, conductor, where he rehearsed the Mahler Second Symphony for a March performance with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.

Faculty Shine at Detroit Jazz FestivalThe School’s jazz faculty were front and center at the Labor Day Weekend Detroit Jazz Festival. Robert Hurst led his own quartet with the legendary woodwind master Bennie Maupin, Festival Artist-In Residence Mulgrew Miller on piano, and the multi-talented Karriem Riggins on drums. The set included numbers from Hurst’s new CD Bob Ya Head. The Ellen Rowe Quartet, featuring Rowe on piano and colleague Andrew Bishop on saxophone, got a standing ovation for their performance, which featured material from Rowe’s new CD Wishing Well. Bishop also had some outstanding solos as one of the tenor saxophonists in the Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, which also included Hurst on bass and Rowe on piano. Dennis Wilson was in charge of the grand finale of the entire festival, the last concert on the main stage

on Monday night, featuring the Manhattan Transfer, NEA Jazz Master composer and arranger Gerald Wilson, and the Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, which Dennis directed. One of Wilson’s new compositions, written especially for the festival, “brought down the house,” according to jazz chair Rowe.

SYMPOSIUM: The Pipe Organ in African-American WorshipThe Organ Department will sponsor a symposium on “The Pipe Organ in African-American Worship” on Monday, February 21, 2011, at Hill Auditorium. The program will feature lectures, workshops, and demon-strations exploring the past, present and future of the pipe organ in African-American worship traditions. The day will conclude with a group recital in Hill Auditorium at 8:00 pm, open to the public at no charge. The symposium program committee consists of distinguished U-M alumni Dr. Herman Taylor (emeritus, Eastern Illinois University), Dr. Norah Duncan IV (Wayne State University), and Dr. Brandon Spence (Aquinas College). The symposium is made possible by generous support from the Robert Glasgow Keyboard Faculty Support Fund, endowed by Susan and Eugene Goodson, and from Dr. Barbara Furin Sloat. For more information, contact Prof. James Kibbie, Symposium Director, at jkibbie@umich.edu.

DENNIS WILSON SMTD JAZZ FACULTY, L-R: GERI ALLEN, ROBERT HURST, ED SARATH, ANDREW BISHOP, ELLEN ROWE, DENNIS WILSON, & MICHAEL GOULD

THE FRIEZE MEMORIAL ORGAN AT HILL AUDITORIUM

RAGNAR BOHLIN CONDUCTS THE SWEDISH RADIO CHOIR AT SMTD

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A—to be a performer—still firmly intact. “A gentleman named Dave Clemmons saw us,” Hoffman remembers, “and started calling me in for auditions. I never met him; he’d just leave messages on my voicemail.”

One day, as she sat in the audience waiting to see the musical The Civil War, flipping through the program, there was that name: Dave Clemmons. “He was credited as casting director and vocal director,” she noticed. “It’s pretty unusual for a casting director to do both. Then I saw that he was in the show, too. I thought, wait. That’s what I want to do. I want to be in my own Broadway show that I cast and vocal direct.”

Rachel Hoffman, BFA ’99, set out to be a performer. But fate has a funny way of working. During her sophomore review, department chair Brent Wagner made an observation. “He said, I’m going to tell you something and I don’t want you to think that it diminishes your talent in any way,” Rachel remembers.

“I’m 20 years old and I’m thinking, uh oh. Here it comes. But then he said, I think you have gifts that are even more rare than your gifts as a performer. I didn’t know what that meant at the time. But he planted a seed.”

Two years later, Rachel was off to New York City, for Senior Showcase, with Plan

Musical theatre alum finds inspiration on the other side of the casting table

Casting Calls

A SCENE FROM THE MUSICAL MEMPHIS, CAST BY TELSEY + COMPANY

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That seed Wagner planted during sophomore review was putting down tiny roots. After the show, Rachel met up with Clemmons at the stage door, to introduce herself in person and thank him for the auditions he had sent her way. He remembered her from Showcase, and took time to speak with her.

Then she did something she’d always done, but had had reinforced at Michigan. She wrote Clemmons a thank you note. Every musical theatre graduate knows the drill. MT 133, taught by Wagner freshman year, is where they learn, among other things, the importance of humility and gratitude and The Art of the Thank You Note.

Some weeks later, when Clemmons consulted Wagner about good candidates for a casting intern, Rachel’s name came up. “I don’t know exactly how the conversation went,” she says, “but Brent either suggested my name or confirmed that I would be good in that capacity.”

“I jumped on it,” she says. “There’s no school for casting directors. It’s on-the-job training. Almost everyone starts by interning. He slapped a pile of resumes and photos in front of me and said, great, set these up for appointments.”

It’s a common misperception, by the way, to call people in Rachel’s field “casting agents.” There is no such thing. There are casting directors and there are agents. An agent represents actors and submits them to a casting director to be seen for a project. A casting director is hired by producers to find the cast for their show, to present the best people to their creative team.

Hoffman’s first project was Notre Dame de Paris, set to open at Paris Las Vegas. Next came Bat Boy, the Musical. Now she was hitting her stride. It didn’t take long for Clemmons to notice; the paychecks began. When they were hired to cast an off-Broadway revival of Godspell, Rachel was on her own.

“Dave was going out of town,” she remembers. “He said, I think you can run with this one. At the time, I didn’t know enough to be scared.” So she called her friends: classmate Barrett Foa (BFA ‘99);

former roommate Shoshana Bean; Chad Kimball; Capathia Jenkins. “It was a pretty magical cast,” she can say now. “People still talk about it. They were all total unknowns at the time.”

That seed? It was sprouting now. “People ask me, when did you know you were done with acting?” Rachel says. “I say there wasn’t a moment where I made that decision. But I do think Godspell was a turning point. It’s when I saw that I could be part of the magic that was created, just by having ideas about people and what they would bring to a production.”

Now, eleven years down the line, Rachel works for Telsey + Company, the biggest casting office, either coast, in their musical theatre division. She moved over from Clemmons in 2006. “Telsey’s business was booming,” she says, “and they needed someone who could come in and take over projects.”

She could. To be a success in this business, it appears, you need to know everyone in the industry: who’s on tour, who’s back; who’s looking for work, who’s already in a show. You need to go to as much theatre as possible—certainly all the showcases, now a staple of most musical

and the casting director has a matter of hours to find someone new.”

Here’s a typical week. Asked to put together a gay men’s chorus for the movie Sex and the City 2, Rachel sent an intern to Colony Music for sheet music while she found an accompanist, booked a space, and emailed her co-workers for good candidates for “a choir of hot boys.” Next up? A casting call for Bring it On: The Musical, based on the 2000 movie about cheerleading competitions. Then it was a search for a “white male vacation swing” for Memphis, winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical, cast by Telsey.

“I’ve been doing this for eleven years,” Rachel says, “and I love it. I learn every day. You’re always meeting new people, learning new things. And I have to say, I owe this to Brent Wagner. It all started with a thank you note. He saw something in me beyond being a performer.”

Oh, and that “white male vacation swing” for Memphis? It went to Bryan Langlitz, BFA ’08, now upgraded to a full six months as a swing. “Bryan got that job on his own,” Rachel says with typical modesty, “I just helped him pick a better song for the callback.”

theatre programs—to keep up with the available talent in New York. Who can sing, who can dance, who can act. Who does it best, and in what style?

You also need to be prepared to put out fires at every turn, while always maintain-ing your cool. “Whenever I’m with Rachel,” Wagner says, “it seems to be one crisis after another: someone dropped out

Langlitz is a bit more effusive. “Forget about the fact that Rachel Hoffman is an alumna,” he says. “As an actor, you would want her on your side no matter what your alma mater. She’s smart and loyal and at the absolute top of her game, with a keen and creative vision of who you are.”

And to think, it all started with a thank you note. —

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Priscilla LindsayReturns as Chair

Priscilla Lindsay (BA ’71, MA ’72, theatre & drama) is coming home, back to her alma mater. But this time it won’t be to the Frieze Building, where she cut her teeth as a student, but to the beautiful new Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Drama Center. And this time she’s coming back as chair of the Department of Theatre & Drama.

“The Walgreen Drama Center is an amazing space,” she says. “It feels like a place of endless possibilities—the architecture and openness of it speak of beginnings. In our own way, we miss the Frieze Building—that’s where we grew up in theatre at Michigan—but we certainly don’t miss those hallways and classrooms!”

Ms. Lindsay is coming to us from the Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT), founded 38 years ago by the late Ben Mordecai, Edward Stern, now artistic director for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Greg Poggi. That’s right. Greg Poggi, department chair 2005 to 2010. Dr. Poggi will continue to teach, but has taken on a new role, Senior Advisor to Dean Christopher Kendall, to launch a study of program opportuni-ties at Michigan in arts administration and leadership.

Lindsay has been with the IRT for 33 years, the last 12 as associate artistic director, always as an actor and, since 1997, as a director. Of her many roles, it’s the one-character Shirley Valentine, a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, that is both her favorite and the IRT’s. The subscribers voted it their favorite production in the company’s history; the 1993 role was reprised by her in 1997 for IRT’s 25th

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anniversary celebration. Other favorites include Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, Essie in Ah, Wilderness!, Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, and Mrs. Alving in Ghosts. She is also a nationally recognized commercial voice talent.

The voice, she claims, was inherited from her father, a television news man who moved the family to Chicago when he was hired on as a news correspondent for NBC. The Chicago schools had some of the best arts programs at the time and it was there she would meet Mrs. Thurman, her first creative theatre teacher. Ah, Mrs. Thurman. Everyone has one—if they’re lucky. “She was fabulous,” Lindsay remembers. “She was huge in the creative theatre movement. We used to read Shakespeare scenes and then she’d have us put the scripts down and improv the scene, making up our own language. I just couldn’t believe that.”

Like many of her Chicago high school classmates, Lindsay chose the University of Michigan. She arrived here with an interest in art as well as theatre, but after a less than inspiring experience with a freshman drawing class, her focus shifted more exclusively to drama. One day, in the Frieze Building, at the beginning of her sophomore year, “I heard people carrying on, speaking loudly. There was a sign outside one of the classrooms announcing auditions for Electra, by von

Hofmannsthal. I had the lowest voice so they gave me the role of Clytemnestra, the mother of Elektra, who rants and raves. I got the first thing I auditioned for.”

“It was a big old happening time in theatre at Michigan,” she says. It was the era of Doc Halstead and Claribel Baird. “Doc cast me as Miranda in the Tempest,” she remembers. “I went to the first round of auditions, but didn’t realize I needed to go to callbacks. I got a call from Claribel Baird, saying, ‘Priscilla, where are you?’ [in a grandly theatrical voice]. I ran to the Frieze Building; but I got the part.”

That big old happening time in theatre was also the era of the Professional Theatre Program, in affiliation with the APA company, run by Robert Schnitzer and Marcella Cisney. Big name actors and directors were regular visitors to Ann Arbor—Ellis Raab, Helen Hayes, James Stewart, James Whitmore, John Houseman. “They would bring in a show every year, before they took it to Broadway, to test it. And we got to work on it.”

Lindsay has returned to her alma mater in recent years, to direct Shaw’s You Never Can Tell in 2008 and Molière’s Tartuffe in 2009. “The biggest challenge is figuring out how to keep the learning process at the forefront of your mind. But these students want to take advantage of your profession-alism, so I treat them as professionals. I don’t patronize or talk down to them.”

“My focus the first year as chair is to get to know my faculty, because we are in many ways a family,” she says. “It’s a very strong faculty and it’s a wonderful situation to come into. I couldn’t be more blessed in Dean Kendall.”

“I credit Michigan—and have credited Michigan my entire professional career. I have stayed friends with my professors, the ones who have left us and the ones who are still around, and with my classmates. These are all people I dearly love, who affected and influenced me.”

Priscilla sends a big shout out to some of her theatre chums from what some have called the “golden years” of Michigan Theatre! Roz Abrams, Maureen Anderman, Joe Appelt, Jim Baffico, Cindy Ballard, Frank Bernacki, Wanda Bimson, Kit Carson, Bob Chapel, Irene Connors, Ann Crumb, Bob Elliott, Erika Fox, Camille Hardy, Michael Hardy, James B. Harris, Jimmy Hosbein, Bill Hunt, Evan Jeffries, Sharon Jensen, Chris Lahti, Doug Leach, Vivienne Lenk, Margo Martindale, Art McFarland, Cass Medley, Walter Mugdan, Ceal Phelan, Roberta Rader, Chris Root, Morleen Rouse, Rusty Russ, Doug Sprigg, Sister Francesca Thompson, Steve Wyman, Georgette Weremiuk, and Steve Zuckerman.

“I know there are more,” she says, “and I hope to hear from you all! —

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California native Thayer Jonutz, MFA ’09, came to Michigan in 2007 with a BFA in dance from Brigham Young and five years as a profes-sional dancer with Salt Lake City’s preeminent Repertory Dance Theatre.

Now entering his second year on the faculty at Oakland University, Thayer can say unequivocally, “I love teaching. I really enjoyed my first year, but I was scared to death. There’s going to be a classroom full of kids and they’re going to be looking to me to teach them something brilliant!” But this year will be easier. “After getting my feet wet, I realized I really do have something to teach these students.”

“Thayer came to our graduate program as a returning professional,” says Jessica Fogel, one of his professors at Michigan, “and he is still truly in his prime. He is a remarkably resonant performer, with exquisite dramatic, musical, and athletic skills.”

In the Zone

THAYER JONUTZ IN RENNIE HARRIS’S HEAVEN

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“I got some fantastic experience with the Repertory Dance Theatre,” Jonutz says, “through exposure to a wide range of philosophies and movement ideas. But after so many years in Utah, I had hit a plateau. I was hungry for new experience and new people to interact with.”

His initiation back to school, he says, came in the form of Rennie Harris, the Philadelphia-based choreographer who came to Ann Arbor Thayer’s first semester to set a dance on the students. Harris is known for his use of hip-hop, weaving it into the professional dance repertory. “With wit and genius, he is forging an aesthetic revolution by expanding the definition of concert dance,” Dance Magazine wrote of him.

Harris called his new work Heaven. “He gave us a riff on Rite of Spring,” wrote a local dance reviewer, “fusing hip-hop with a slow Butoh cadence and Japanese text and storyline. … the whole was riveting and powerful—and brilliantly danced, with Tomoko Takedani and Thayer Jonutz leading the ensemble toward the final sacrifice.”

The Rite of Spring, in one form or another, seems to shadow this dancer. Just last fall, he was summoned back to Ann Arbor to join the cast for Paul Taylor’s own iconoclastic, mold-busting take on the dance classic: Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal). Thayer knew about Taylor’s movement vocabulary from a master class led by Julie Tice, company member and U-M alumna.

“Le Sacre takes a cast of strong men,” Thayer says. “There are a lot of challeng-ing lifts, starting from awkward positions, while still maintaining the flattened, two-dimensional stance the dance demands. When we were rehearsing last fall, I didn’t know if we were going to be able to pull it off.” Luckily former PTDC member Ruth Andrien, who had the lead in the original 1980 production, was called in to coach the dancers. They not only pulled it off, but did so with élan.

The work will be restaged this October when University Musical Society brings the Paul Taylor Dance Company to town. Students will perform the work on two double programs, the first time a student

group will share the stage with the main company in the entire history of PTDC.

Thayer thinks this second time around might be less daunting. “For the February Power Center concert, we had a long run of performances, plus all the dress rehearsals and run-throughs the week before. That’s when it starts to get into your muscle memory,” he says. “You transform yourself from thinking about the dance to actually getting inside it, where you’re no longer on stage in front of an audience.”

It’s called being “in the zone” and it’s what most performers strive for. It’s a moment of energized focus, of single-minded immersion. Things seem to slow down; movement becomes effortless and

automatic.

While at Michigan, Thayer also developed an interest in Butoh, initially sparked by

Mr. Harris, who incorporated it into the work he set on the student dancers. “Just watching how he used Butoh with break dance, doing such an epic piece, was eye opening,” he says. “Rennie’s very spiri-tual—you can tell that’s where Butoh came into play for him. He has a peaceful demeanor, which is interesting, because you think of the opposite when you think of the hip-hop culture.”

Then the Center for World Performance Studies brought in a Butoh artist Thayer’s second year. An avant-garde performance art that has its origins in Japan after World War II, it is traditionally performed in white body makeup, enacting dark themes. “They take taboo subjects and express them in a really intense, passionate, almost grotesque way with contorted shapes and movements,” he says. “A lot of it is uncomfortably slow motion. As a viewer, you have to be really patient.” Since Thayer’s master’s thesis was about body language, the dance form held a natural fascination for him, even leading him to Japan for study in situ.

“Thayer is obviously a very accomplished technician and possesses great physical strength and beauty,” says Amy Chavasse, another of his professors at Michigan, “but what has drawn me into his work is his ability and willingness to avoid expecta-tions. This creates a performance persona that seems to unfold in the moment, almost a purity of practice and delivery.”

Thayer now has his own company, Mise en Place Dance, started with fellow alumna Amy Cova and named after the cooking practice of gathering ingredients before you start assembling a dish. The two performed their first evening-length concert, Detroit City Conduit, last summer at the Russell Industrial Center, a run-down warehouse in Detroit now in use as an art space. The response was favorable and Mise en Place Dance has since been accepted into two fall dance festivals in New York.

“Thayer is a virtuosic dancer with a beautifully attuned instrument, who calibrates strength and grace with a range of textures and personae,” says Fogel. Looks to us like a career on the rise. —

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A Journey East

With its remarkable economic transforma-tion come great challenges in education, sustainability, employment, social and political change—indeed, the major global problems of the 21st century are exemplified in many ways in China.”

The pace of the tour will be full tilt, with massive geography to cover while still building in time for siteseeing. Student players will have the thrill of performing at the fabulous National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the aptly named ‘egg’ (see Muse cover). In Shanghai, it will be the Grand Theatre, another architectural marvel.

The tour will proceed, with performances at conservatories and concert halls along the way. Students will meet face-to-face with their peers, college-age Chinese musicians, to exchange ideas through the medium of music.

One alumna from the 1961 tour wrote, “If I had it to do over again, I would do more homework beforehand.” That won’t be a problem this time. Not only is the world smaller in the 21st century, but tour participants will take ten sessions on Chinese language, history, culture, music, and geography.

The China tour is an extraordinary opportunity for the School to showcase works by SMTD composers William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, Kristin

Kuster, and Bright Sheng. Kuster’s work will feature violinist Xiang Gao (BM ’96, MM ‘97), a native of China, a musician cited by The New York Times as a “rare and soulful virtuoso,” who will tour with the group.

Upon arrival in Los Angeles, students will have a day to decompress before the final performance. While there, students will engage with young people through Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), LA Philharmonic director Gustavo Dudamel’s signature project, patterned on his native Venezuela’s el sistema.

“The 2011 China tour offers another generation of students the opportunity of a lifetime,” says Dean Christopher Kendall: “to experience another culture firsthand, create lasting bonds with the people they meet, and demonstrate internationally the talent and caliber of the University of Michigan students and this remarkable ensemble.”—

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Nearly a half-century ago, the University Symphony Band, under William D. Revelli,

mounted a tour to the Soviet Union—only the second symphony after the New York Philharmonic allowed behind the Iron Curtain. It was a people-to-people mission, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, aimed at winning hearts and minds during a time of especially tense relations between the two cold war super powers.

That winning of hearts and minds, it appears, worked both ways. Jack Kripl of the 1961 tour wrote, “I was led to believe that the Russians were cold-hearted, staunch members of the Stalinist regime, devoid of feelings, all standing firm behind the Iron Curtain. I found out firsthand that quite the opposite was true.”

Now, fifty years later, Michael Haithcock, Director of Bands, and his University Symphony Band are heading to China: Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi’an, Shenyang, Beijing and Tianjin. In May 2011, 80 SMTD musicians will depart for three weeks in China, touching down in Los Angeles for a grand finale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on May 29. For tickets, visit: www.music.umich.edu/laconcert.

A pre-tour delegation, led by Vice Provost Lester Monts, paved the way for this singular opportunity, a perfect comple-ment to a U-M movement already underway. University President Mary Sue Coleman led a delegation to China in 2005, the first of many, saying, “Never in the history of the world has a nation seen the rise of so many people—hundreds of millions—into the middle class, as citizens move from the countryside to the cities.

As the University Symphony Band prepares for a May 2011 tour of China, we take a look back at the history of tours by that remarkable ensem-ble. In the Fall 2009 Muse (vol. 4, no. 1), we

revisited the 1965 U-M Jazz Band tour to Latin America. The University Symphony Orchestra, University Choirs, and Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs all have their own unique stories to tell. Here we are narrowing the focus to just the band.

The universal language of music breaks down barriers and opens doors

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LEFT: ST. BASIL CATHEDRAL, RUSSIA

BELOW, L TO R: SCENES FROM THE USB’S 1961 TOUR OF THE SOVIET UNION

an indelible part of my educational and personal development.—Richard Longfield (BM ‘57, MM ‘61)

I learned that all of the people of the world share the same human spirit and dreams.—Sandy Hosmer McLean (BM ‘62)

I will never forget the feeling when we finished Verdi’s Requiem at the Roman ruins. We exhaled and looked around and just sat in awe of the performance. It was magnificent.—Bob Wiles (BM ’73, MM ’77)

The shared experience of traveling with colleagues builds friendships and heightens the enjoyment; there’s no substitute for the inspiration you get from performing music in amazing spaces.—Marty Ronish (BM ‘73, MM ‘74)

There was so much mystery involved. “Soviet Russia” was almost on the other side of the universe. We were so daring and so brave and willing to try what we had never seen or experienced.—Anne Speer Aitchison (BM ‘63, MM ‘65)

I learned what it means to be great; how being a member of a highly acclaimed group makes each one of us more than we could be individually.—Loren Mayhew (1961 tour)

The single most repeated sentiment, though, voiced variously, goes something like this: We became aware of the true power of the universal language of music.

The 1961 trip to Russia was indeed historic. The Iron Curtain made what we now know as Russia inaccessible to all but a select few visitors; conversely, the Russian people had very limited exposure to the outside world.

Think of it. No Internet, no email, no Twitter. Aerograms, on tissue-thin blue paper with their characteristic red, white, and blue striped borders, were about as speedy as it got. “We may as well have been dropped onto another planet in another solar system,” Ross Powell (BM ‘61) recalls.

From Moscow and Leningrad to Minsk, Kiev and Odessa, on to Baku, 15 weeks in all, the reception for the band was overwhelming. Encores lasted up to an hour. As the last notes faded, fans would surge toward the stage, eager for more contact with these American ‘rock stars,’ who, some were certain, had to be professional players.

Music-loving Russians would show up at train stations, still riding high from last night’s concert, to see the band off to its next destination, clutching records, books, buttons, and pins, eager to press their modest but precious offerings on the student musicians. In a repressed society, it was one way of saying: thank you; please remember us.

For the final performance in Moscow, Revelli chose Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever, introduced by the Russian emcee as Americansky March. “There was something ennobling and gratifying about the performance,” wrote Rudolf E. Radocy (MM ‘62), “including the look on Dr. Revelli’s face at the conclusion of the march. We were saying goodbye to a Communist system and embracing something special about the USA.”

After Russia, the Band went on to the Middle East and beyond, making its way back home, logging in some 25,000 miles

Since its earliest days, the University Symphony Band has toured. After all, it’s a tradition with much to offer: invaluable exposure for the band, the School, and the University; real-world professional training for the students; priceless cultural exchange; and, at its very best, opportuni-ties for transformative personal growth and friendships that last a lifetime.

Each spring, William D. Revelli, director from 1935-1971, would take the band on tour—to Pennsylvania and New York, Denver and Salt Lake City, New Orleans and Florida. But three international tours stand out: Revelli’s 1961 tour of the Soviet Union, sponsored by the U.S. State Department; the 1971 tour of Europe, Revelli’s swan song before his retirement; and the 1984 tour to Italy with H. Robert Reynolds, director from 1975-2000, to La Scala in Milan.

Since that time, touring opportunities have been fewer, due in large part to shrinking resources (see “Global Tour Fund,” p. 17). Recording has stepped in as a way to leave an important legacy of music pressed to disk—the electronic superhighway, if you will, taking up where the asphalt highway left off. Five CDs have been released during Michael Haithcock’s tenure alone; a sixth will come out of the China tour.

But there’s something special about touring, getting on the bus, train, or plane and hitting the road … well, just listen to comments from tour alumni (for a full list of tour alumni comments, visit the Muse online):

The tour was beyond any dreams I had ever had; each city and country provided opportunities, lessons, and insights beyond the experiences of performance and became

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in often less than ideal conditions. The last stop was a triumphant finale at Carnegie Hall.

Ten years later, Revelli took the Symphony Band out again, this time to Europe: London, Paris, Rome, Venice. Again, the grand finale was at Carnegie Hall. The last encore was a rousing—and emotional—rendition of Varsity. “This was Dr. Revelli’s final concert, and the atmosphere was electric with excitement,” says David Eisler (MM ‘72, DMA ‘78). “It produced an extraordinary performance and became a truly memorable, historic occasion.”

In 1975, a new era began when H. Robert Reynolds was hired as Director of Bands. “I almost didn’t take the job,” he confesses. “I was having a very good time at Wisconsin, building my own house. I was concerned that they wanted a second Revelli. In fact, during my first year, a delegation from the band came to me and said, this is not the way we’ve been doing it. I mean, you never yell at us! How are we to know that you really care about the standards?”

Paul Boylan, the School’s dean at that time, says now, “Bob Reynolds had a most daunting task when he succeeded Revelli. But his achievements are equally stellar. He not only maintained those high levels of performance standards, he introduced

the wind ensemble into the program. The impact of that move cannot be underesti-mated. Michigan became the mecca for this new concept of wind education.”

“There’s the ongoing feeling that each director is the caretaker of the band and adds to its reputation,” says Reynolds. “I’m tickled to death that Mike Haithcock is director now. And the way he’s doing it is much different from the way I did it. We’re both strong enough personalities that we’re going to be ourselves.”

“I wanted to pull bands and wind ensem-bles closer into the mainstream of serious concert music,” Reynolds says. “We did that by commissioning a lot of works.” During his twenty-five year tenure, he set up an endowment for new works, drawn on to this day.

In 1984, Reynolds took the Symphony Band to Milan to perform Lucifer’s Dance, the third scene in an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen. “When you commission contemporary composers, they sometimes break the mold,” Reynolds says. Lucifer’s Dance did indeed do just that, a work with endless—and impossible—meter shifts and intricate physical requirements as the band formed a giant face on six-levels of scaffold, required to move in synchrony to express the facial features.

Michael Haithcock, Director of Bands since 2001, faced challenges of his own following someone of Reynolds’ stature. “He has now placed his individual stamp on the program,” says Boylan. “Like Reynolds, his teaching and conducting style is something to behold. He manages to bring out the very best in his student performers, without intimidation.”

Continuing the tradition of commissioning new works since his arrival, Haithcock has not just kept that flame alive, he’s fanned the fire, drawing on our own faculty—Michael Daugherty, Bright Sheng, William Bolcom, Susan Botti—and other composers of note—John Corigliano, Louis Andriessen, Michael Colgrass—to work with the Symphony Band and conducting students.

As Haithcock marks his tenth year as Director of Bands, he both celebrates the past and paves the way for the future with this tour to a part of the world on the brink of a new era. “We seek to honor the past while envisioning the future,” Haithcock says. “The pillars of our history are monumental; we build on all that has come before. The future is evolving and we must be diligent in looking forward as we consider the following: Are we educating students for our past or their future?” —

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RIALTO BRIDGE AT NIGHT (VENICE, ITALY)

GLOBAL TOUR FUNDElectric with excitement … extraordinary performance … the humanity of others … truly legendary band director … first international travel … great professional experience … mental acuity and toughness … friendships that last a lifetime

These comments from School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni who toured as students speak volumes. In fact, it is a group of alumni from the 1961 tour to Russia who have helped launch the Global Tour Fund to insure that future generations have the same opportunities. These alumni hope many others who have had the unique experience that only touring can afford will join with them in contributing to this fund.

Your donation can make the biggest impact now. The Global Tour Fund will be augmented by U-M President Mary Sue Coleman’s current donor challenge, The Student Global Experience. Any cash donations made or pledged before December 31, 2010 will qualify for this challenge. For every two dollars donated, President Coleman will provide a match of one dollar. This means a gift of $20,000 becomes $30,000; a gift of $200,000 is transformed to $300,000.

Gifts can be committed over a five-year period and still receive the match, as long as a gift agreement is established and the first pledge payment is received by December 31, 2010. To find out more, contact:

Maureen SchaferDirector of Development and External Relationsschafema@umich.edu; 734-764-4453

ABOVE: WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGELES; BELOW: 1984 TOUR OF MILAN

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LIVINGARTS,ANEWRESIDENTIALCOMMUNITYONNORTHCAMPUS,ENCOURAGESTEAM-DRIVENINNOVATION

hat happens when you take an engineer, a dancer, an oboist, and an

architect and give them a problem to solve together? Total chaos as they work from competing modali-ties? Not at all.

The ability to collaborate among disciplines has been a hot topic in recent months. A Newsweek cover story (“The Creativity Crisis,” July 10, 2010) reports that, “The necessity of human ingenuity is undisputed. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 ‘leadership competency’ of the future.”

It’s just this kind of “human ingenuity” that is at the heart of Living Arts, a new residential community launched this fall at Bursley Hall on North Campus. Its goal is to bring together first-years from seemingly disparate fields to explore innovation, creativity, and collaboration in a common setting, working on common endeavors.

In September, 80 incoming students checked into Bursley for the program’s pilot year. They unpacked their belongings and settled into rooms on two adjacent hallways. Just like other freshmen, they began their first days and weeks

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getting acquainted with their new campus, finding classrooms, adapting to life on their own.

Thus the four-year journey begins. At the end of each day, though, the Living Arts 80 will return from a sprawling—and sometimes overwhelming—campus of 35,000, back to their own little corner of Bursley, a community within a community, to live, work, eat, study, and play together.

Each Wednesday evening, they’ll come together for Creative Process and Collaboration, Living Arts’ one required class. The hands-on, year-long course will encourage students to explore creative challenges; generate, build, and communicate ideas; and test and evaluate solutions. Dedicated dorm space will be transformed into classrooms and study lounges along with studios.

Living Arts arose out of another initiative, Arts on Earth—now ArtsEngine—created by the North Campus deans five years ago. Since its inception, ArtsEngine has sponsored forums for exploring the way arts permeate our lives, through a spectrum of many colored lenses: arts and war, arts and bodies, arts and the environment, arts and minds.

Now students from those same North Campus schools and colleges—Engineering, Art & Design, Music, Theatre & Dance, and Architecture + Urban Planning—along with those from LSA whose interests are a good match—will form the demograph-ics of this new living community.

Faculty from those North Campus colleges and schools will guide and critique work as it progresses. Students will start out with directed activities, but will soon be assigned to interdisciplinary teams of four, let loose to dream up projects of their own, all to be unveiled at a year-end celebration.

The students will keep a journal to reflect on their own intellectual progress. How does the work they’ve been doing compare with what they did in high school? How does that compare with what they’re doing in classes in their primary discipline? How do they prefer to work? What happens when they can’t work in their preferred modalities?

“One of the biggest challenges I think we’ll face,” says program director Jean Leverich (Ph.D. ’96, English), “is easing the way for Michigan students, these high achievers, to let go of the certainty that there is one right answer.

Music students, for example, who come from the conservatory tradition, are accustomed to working in a highly disciplined way—that’s how they gained the mastery that got them here in the first place. They may feel uncom-fortable letting go, not always having total command.”

Conversely, engineering students might be challenged to tap into their non-linear creativity, to allow themselves to ask questions outside their area of expertise. “The age-old belief that the arts have [an exclusive] claim to creativity is unfounded,” Newsweek reported. BusinessWeek noted that, “… business leaders around the world are declaring that success requires fresh thinking and continuous innovation at all levels of the organization.”

Living Arts programming will be augmented by campus lectures, events, and performances drawn from the rich array of offerings from U-M and the surrounding commu-nity, including the Penny Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series, the U-M Museum of Art, University Musical Society, and the College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship. —

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Carolyn Dorfman BFA ’77 (dance)

I danced from the time I was 7 and never felt more alive. … The year before I entered Michigan, I went to see

the U-M dancers in concert. When I saw them perform Doris Humphrey’s masterpiece, Passacaglia in C Minor, my moment of truth had arrived.

The work spoke to me on so many levels: the movement, structure, craft, and humanism … inspired me then as it does to this day.

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Bob James BM ’61, MM ’63 (composition)

I believe the turning point for me was at age 11 when I thought I preferred sports to laboriously practicing the piano. My parents grew weary of listening to me complain, so reluctantly agreed to allow me to stop taking lessons. One day they were shocked to hear me ask if I could start up the lessons again. That was my turning point. Since then I’ve always thought of myself as a musician. No regrets!

Janet Maylie theatre & drama faculty

It was in a dress rehearsal of a high school production of Annie Get Your Gun. I made our typically stern orchestra conductor laugh. I was hooked.

Martin Katz collaborative piano faculty

Between my junior and senior years in high school, I attended a choral music camp in southern California. Before that I never knew there were kids my age who ate, drank, slept, and lived music as I did. It was thrilling for me to sing Vaughn-Williams’ Serenade to Music and Beethoven’s Mass in C in a choir of 100, all of whom were in high schools, all of whom were profoundly moved by the experience.

Fred Ormand BM ’58, clarinet faculty emeritus

My moment came the summer after my first year at the University of Michigan. I laid steel on the construction of a grain elevator. I worked on the edge of the platform which rose to well over a hundred feet in the air and in those days there was no safety net. After that I knew music was what I would do and I was so fortunate to be guided by some very wonderful individuals for many years.

John Pasquale, marching and athletic bands faculty

As I was sitting in the back of the rehearsal hall, playing tuba on Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever as a freshman in high school, I had a revelation telling me that this is what I was meant to do; I was put on this earth to make and teach music.

George Shirley voice faculty emeritus

I knew at age 5 as I sang with my parents in church concerts.

Mary Simoni performing arts technology faculty

I started creating tape loops using reel-to-reel machines in second grade. My motivation was to teach my parrot to talk.

The Moment I KnewWe asked the question: “What was the moment when you knew you had to pursue a life in music, theatre, or dance—that there would be no turning back?” Here are some of the responses. Thanks to all who wrote back.

THE ENTIRE LIST WILL BE RUN IN THE ONLINE VERSION OF THE MUSE (www.music.umich.edu/muse).

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STEVEN BALL (university carilloneur) just completed a concert tour of the Netherlands and England, including performances on historic instruments in Hoorn, Almere, Zutphen, York, Loughborough, and Amsterdam. Other recent activities include presenting the premiere silent movie on the newly installed Wurlitzer organ from the Smithsonian Institution, just installed in Greek Hall in Macy’s of Philadelphia, during their Grand Court Organ Day. Ball was also a featured artist at both the National Pastoral Musicians Convention and Latin Liturgy Associations, both in Detroit.

ANDREW BISHOP (jazz and contemporary improvisation) completed a commissioned chamber music arrangement of David Liebman’s Inner Voices, performed at the U-M with Liebman as soloist, with faculty members from SMTD’s Jazz

and Contemporary Improvisation and Winds and Percussion Departments. Bishop performed at the Undead Jazz Festival in New York City with Gerald Cleaver’s Violet Hour. He also performed with the Count Basie Experience at the Gem Theatre in Kansas City, MO, and with the Andrew Kratzit Quartet at the Lansing Jazz Festival, where he gave a saxophone master class.

JERRY BLACKSTONE (choral conducting) and the Chamber Choir, University Choir, and Orpheus Singers joined the University Symphony Orchestra for a performance of the Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem in Hill Auditorium, Blackstone conducting, in February. The UMS Choral Union, prepared by Blackstone, sang the Mahler Second Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in March. As a past conductor of

the U-M Men’s Glee Club, Blackstone conducted men from his era during the gala 150th anniversary celebration in April. The UMS Choral Union gave three performances of the Mozart Requiem with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in April.

WILLIAM BOLCOM (composi-tion emeritus) and JOAN MORRIS (musical theatre) spent the spring and summer performing at various sites in the Czech Republic, Seattle, and Boston and at festivals in Essex, CT, Charlemont, MA, and Burlington, VT. The Brass Band of Battle Creek premiered Bolcom’s Speedgetsem in July.

CHRISTI-ANNE CASTRO (musicology) published the article “Subjectivity and Hybridity in the Age of Internet Media: The Musical Performances of Charice Pempengco and Arnel Pineda,” in the January-June 2010 issue

of Humanities Diliman (University of the Philippines). She also delivered the paper “Songs of Race and Empire During the Philippine-American War” at the national conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Mexico City.

TIMOTHY CHEEK (voice and diction) performed the world premiere of the song cycle Apple Train this summer at the Fifth International Arts in Society Conference, held this year in Sydney, Australia, with soprano Laurie Lashbrook and dancer Bohuslava Jelínková. The work was written for the trio by famed contemporary Czech composer Sylvie Bodorová and was reprised at U-M in early October. This past summer, Cheek performed a Czech concert and coached American song at the Summit Art Song Festival in Fort Wayne and performed and coached Italian and English works at the

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Summer Scholars program for high school students at Notre Dame University.

COLLEEN CONWAY (music education) presented a keynote address for the American School Band Director’s Association in Orlando in July and taught a workshop in Chicago in August, in addition to teaching in the U-M summer music education master’s program. Summer also included an in-service presentation to all the music teachers in the Rochester, MI schools. Dr. Conway was the guest editor for a fall 2010 special focus edition of the journal Arts Education Policy Review, devoted to policy and music teacher professional development.

ERIK FREDRICKSEN (theatre & drama) taught master classes for the Irene Ryan finalists at

the Kennedy Center in April. As co-founder of the Society of American Fight Directors and honorary advisor to the Nordic Society of Theatrical Combat, he presented at master-teacher classes in smallsword and unarmed technique in Finland in July at an international seminar that attracted actors, directors, stunt persons, and students from around Europe. Long-time colleague Jonathan Howell, co-founder of the Society of British Fight Directors, assisted Erik in his smallsword class. Later that month, Erik presented master classes to graduating MFA students at the conservatory affiliated with the Washington Shakespeare Theatre.

ALAN GOSMAN (music theory) had his paper “Committing to Opening Theme Possibilities: How Beethoven’s Sketchbook Struggles are Reflected in Two

Symphonic Movements” published in Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms, Gordon Sly, editor. His “From Melodic Patterns to Themes: The Sketches for the Original Version of Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata, Op. 53” was published in Genetic Criticism and the Creative Process: Essays from Music, Literature, and Theater, William Kinderman and Joseph E. Jones, editors. He gave an invited lecture, The Distant Pianissimo and the Revision of Beethoven’s Opus 18 Finales, at Harvard as part of a symposium, Performing Beethoven’s String Quartets.

JOSEPH GRAMLEY (percus-sion) toured South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Macao, and Singapore with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in April, and again late this summer, this time to ten different music festi-vals across the United States, including Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Blossom. In between these tours, he took U-M students to Chicago for outreach concerts, directed the Summer Percussion Seminar at the Juilliard School, and performed solo recit-als both there and at UM. In June, Gramley and the Knights Chamber Orchestra recorded Schubert symphonies #3 and 8, as well as works by Satie and Feldman, for an album soon to be released by Sony Classical.

MEILU HO (musicology) published a discussion of philosophical hermeneutics and liturgical action in “A Self in the True: Singing in the Pusti Marg Liturgical Service,” in the ethno-musicology journal The World of Music, 2009. She was guest

professor for the South Asian proseminar in the Department of Anthropology this spring and was elected to the Executive Committee of the Center for South Asian Studies. The Office of the Vice-President for Research awarded her a grant to conduct fieldwork research on the Ghazal tradition, a syncretic form of Malay, Indian, Arab, and Persian elements in southern Malaysia, over summer 2010.

JOAN RAEBURN HOLLAND (harp) performed in a chamber music concert at the University of Qingdao in China in early June. Following the China trip, she played on the opening faculty recital of the North American Viola Institute with violist David Holland. Joan was the instructor and director of the harp programs for SMTD’s summer MPulse program and for Interlochen Arts Camp 2010.

ROBERT HURST (jazz and improvisation studies) recorded two new CDs. He returned from a six-week European tour with Diana Krall in August and performed on “The Watts Project” Tour of Asia with Jeff “Tain” Watts, Terrence Blanchard, and Branford Marsalis in October. In November, The Robert Hurst Trio will perform in the U-M Museum of Art jazz series.

ANDREW JENNINGS (violin) has won this year’s Harold Haugh Award for excellence in studio teaching. After being nominated by his department, Jennings was selected by the School’s executive committee. He will present a recital or lecture-demonstration during

LAURIE LASHBROOK, TIMOTHY CHEEK, AND BOHUSLAVA JELÍNKOVÁ IN SYDNEY

MEILU HO (LEFT OF HARMONIUM) WITH SRI MUAR GHAZA ENSEMBLE MUSICIANS IN MUAR, MALAYSIA

CHRISTI-ANNE CASTRO

ERIK FREDRICKSEN TEACHING UNARMED TECHNIQUE IN FINLAND

ALAN GOSMAN

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MICHAEL HOPKINS joins us this fall as associate professor of music education, coming to Michigan from the University of Vermont, where he was associate professor from 1999 to 2010, taught music education and music technology, and conducted the UVM Orchestra. He is the founding director of the Burlington Chamber Orchestra and has appeared as a guest conductor at orchestra festivals throughout the United States. He is active as a composer and arranger, with over 30 published works for orchestra, and many more commissioned by schools and ensembles throughout the U.S. He has performed as a double bassist with professional orchestras in Vermont, New Hampshire, Michigan, Colorado, and Wyoming.

Hopkins is the author of the award-winning Web site, The String Pedagogy Notebook, a resource for string teachers and performers. He has published articles in the Journal of Research in Music Education, American String Teacher and The Instrumentalist and has presented at national and state conferences on topics in string education and music technology. Hopkins has served on the faculty of the American String Workshop, as executive director for the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and as past president of the Vermont chapter of ASTA with the National School Orchestra Association. Hopkins received his bachelor’s degree in music education from Colorado State University and his master’s and Ph.D. in music education from the University of Michigan.

PRISCILLA LINDSAY returns to her alma mater as chair of the Department of Theatre & Drama. She attended the University of Michigan as a professional

theatre program fellow, earning a bachelor’s and a master’s. Following her formal training, she performed professionally at the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX. Subsequently, she was appointed associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, as well as a member of the Missouri Repertory Theatre in Kansas City. Since 1999, Professor Lindsay was the associate artistic director at the Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT). In addition to the duties of artistic planning with this engagement, she taught and directed the IRT’s Summer Conservatory for Youth program.

Lindsay is a gifted and experienced actor, having performed in over 30 seasons at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. Additionally, she is an accomplished director; these talents were clearly in evidence last fall when she guest directed Tartuffe at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, a major success on all counts. In addition to her theatrical talents, Lindsay is a renowned voice-over commercial artist. She has held profes-sional engagements with such clients as Sub-Zero, Maytag, Cool Whip, Gerber, Oscar Meyer, Sears, Hyundai, Kraft, Kellogg, McDonalds, Kroger, American Dairy Association, and Meijer Stores, among many others. Numerous clients such as Children’s Memorial Hospital, Eli Lilly, Sara Lee Foundation, and United Way have engaged her for representative narration.

For more about Professor Lindsay, see Spotlight on Theatre, pags 8-9.

CARLOS XAVIER RODRIGUEZ, new chair of the department of music education, has held previous appointments at the University of South Florida, the University of Iowa, and The Ohio State University. He is a general music specialist who teaches

Meet Our New Faculty & MUSA Director

MICHAEL HOPKINS PRISCILLA LINDSAY CARLOS XAVIER RODRIGUEZ

undergraduate methods courses, leads graduate courses in music psychology, cognition, and philosophical foundations, and supervises the music teaching experience. An active clinician and a leading authority on popular music and music education, he has published articles and presented conference papers nationally and internationally on musical development and cognition, musicality, musical expression, creative thinking, and popular music and culture.

Professor Rodriguez has contributed to numerous textbook series and book chapters, is associate editor of the journal Action, Criticism, and Theory, and is on the editorial review board of Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. An accomplished guitarist, he has been active in public school systems as a musician, consultant, and educator for the past twenty years. He received a bachelor’s from Pitzer College, a master’s from UCLA, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MUSADOROTHEA GAIL began her tenure as director of MUSA (Music of the United States of America) this fall. She studied music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt A.M., Germany. In 2007, she earned her Ph.D. in musicology with a thesis entitled “Charles E. Ives’s Fourth Symphony: Source Study – Analysis – Meaning” (Hofheim: Wolke 2009). From 2008-2010 she was visiting assistant professor and research scholar for music history at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Gail’s interests are American music, aesthetics and gender and cultural studies. She maintains a perspective outside academia with the stylings of her electronic pop band The Moving Coffins.

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JAMES KIBBIE (organ) per-formed the final recital in the International Organ Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, in September, sponsored by the Mayor of Prague in honor of the late Czech composer Jirí Ropek. The program included Ropek’s Toccata and Fugue, dedicated to Kibbie, and Fantasy on Mozart’s Theme, dedicated to Kibbie’s students. Other recent perfor-mances included the opening recital for the Los Angeles Bach Festival and recitals in New Orleans, Interlochen, Grand Rapids, and for U-M’s 50th Conference on Organ Music.

NANCY AMBROSE KING, (oboe) presented master classes at the Cologne Hochschule in Germany and at the Puerto Rico Taller de Oboe Verano in San Juan, where she also performed in recital. She performed and taught at the Sarasota Music Festival, Idyllwild Music Festival, and U-M’s MPulse summer oboe institute which this year drew seventeen oboists representing seven states. She also per-formed three times at the conference of the International Double Reed Society, featuring two evening performances and an afternoon recital with U-M faculty Jeffrey Lyman and Chad Burrow and Amy Cheng Burrow. Earlier in the semester, King performed with U-M saxophone professor Don Sinta and the U-M Percussion Ensemble.

MARILYN MASON (organ) lectured at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists on commis-sioning music. She performed as a duo with Brenda Wimberly for the International Music Series, part of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and played Dupré’s Le Chemin de la Croix for the National Pastoral Musicians Conference in Detroit. Mason is scheduled to dedicate two new organs this fall and will lead her 57th U-M Historic, In the Steps of Bach, this summer. She directed the 50th Conference on Organ Music in October.

CHRISTIAN MATJIAS (dance) music directed and performed Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps for the restaging of choreographer Paul Taylor’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) at the annual Power Center dance concert. This fall, he will present at conferences in Helsinki, London, and Tempe, AZ. During summer 2010, Matjias led the third Ann Arbor Paul Taylor Summer Intensive. He also finished authoring the new dance BFA curriculum, the first significant revision to the degree since it was introduced in the mid-1970s. Matjias has decided to no longer compose music, as he never felt it was what he was supposed to do in the first place.

JANET MAYLIE (theatre & drama) served as acting and scene study director for the Theatre and Drama Academy of M-Pulse Ann Arbor for the third

consecutive summer. She taught twenty-eight nationally recruited high school students in acting classes twice a day for two weeks and directed their final scene presentation.

MARIE MCCARTHY (music education) presented papers at the International Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education in Helsinki and the first International Conference on Spirituality and Music Education in Birmingham, UK. She contributed to several sessions at the 29th Biennial World Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Beijing. An article on the history of ISME was translated and published in the China Music Education Magazine; a reprint of an earlier article appeared in The Many Ways of Community Music: Chinese Supplement of the International Journal of Community Music. She coordinated and taught at the U-M summer master’s program.

LOUIS NAGEL (piano) per-formed two Beethoven “sonata sonata” programs at Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown Concert House in July, with two lectures there in the days preceding the concerts. Also in July, he appeared on WGTE FM-Toledo radio with host Brad Cresswell, discussing the Beethoven programs and playing examples. He also served as an adjudicator and clinician at the New Orleans International Piano Festival and Competition. In the fall, he will

appear at the Great Romantics Festival in Hamilton, Ontario,and at McMaster University, performing music of Schumann.

MBALA D. NKANGA (theatre & drama) just published an essay titled “Mvett Performance: Retention, Reinvention, and Exaggeration in Remembering the Past,” in Theatre History Studies. He led a March colloquium in the U-M dance department on his essay “Aesthetization of the Black Body: Jean Rouch and Jean Genet.” He conducted the screening of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s I Bring What I Love, a film about Youssou Ndour. Nkanga presented a paper, “Facing History—Reconstructing African Past for the Stage: Bernard Dadié and the Recovery of Dona Beatrice’s Martyrdom,” at the Performance and the Public Sphere: A Festschrift in Honor of Sandra Richards, at U-C, Berkeley.

FRED ORMAND (professor emeritus, clarinet) continues to be active in retirement, present-ing a master class at Lincoln Center as a part of the Imani Winds Institute. In February, while completing research on his Wind Music of Ponchielli, he joined his wife, Julia Broxholm (DMA ‘01) in joint recitals at the Conservatorio ‘Giuseppi Verdi’ in Milan and at the Institute Vecchi Tonelli in Modena, with music from their CDs recorded with colleague and collabora-tive pianist Martin Katz. The two now make their home in

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Lawrence, KS, where Broxholm is a member of the voice faculty and also teaches at the Seagle Vocal Colony in New York.

AMY PORTER (flute) visited Slovenia for the 8th Slovenian Flute Festival, where she lectured and performed. This summer, she taught at her annual Anatomy of Sound work-shop and for MPulse, high school intensives offered by the School. She visited Denton for the Texas Flute Society as featured guest and participated in the 2010 ARIA International Summer Academy at Mt. Holyoke College. In August, she performed a headliner recital at the National Flute Association Convention in Anaheim. In September, she was a featured guest of the Brazilian International Flute Festival and performed Michael Daugherty’s Trail of Tears with the Ann Arbor Symphony.

H. BOB REYNOLDS (direc-tor of bands emeritus) was named the H. Robert Reynolds Professor of Wind Conducting at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. He received an honorary doctor of music from Duquesne University in April.

STEVE RUSH (dance and per-forming arts technology) and his jazz trio Yuganaut recently released Sharks, both on vinyl and CD. Faculty at the University of Wisconsin are releasing a

recording of Rush’s chamber works, as are U-M colleagues David Jackson, trombone, and Joe Gramley, percussion. Rush’s piano work is featured on a recording of jazz legend Roscoe Mitchell’s recent work; his performance of Mitchell’s 8-8-88 received positive notice in Downbeat. Stephen has been commissioned to write a work for the West Point ‘Hellcats,’ the oldest drum and bugle corps in the country, to be premiered at West Point this March.

ED SARATH (jazz and contem-plative studies) continues his national and international schedule of performances and lectures. A recent four-country trip included invited presenta-tions at Dublin’s Graduate Academy for Arts and Media, the first annual Spirituality in Music Education conference in Birmingham, England, the International Transpersonal Psychology Summit in Moscow, and the International Association of Schools of Jazz meetings in The Hague. Recent writings have appeared in Integral Education: New Directions in Higher Learning and the British Journal of Music Education. His forthcoming book, Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness, will be the first application to music of an emergent worldview called Integral Theory.

YIZHAK SCHOTTEN (viola) won the American Viola Society’s

prestigious Maurice W. Riley Award for his “significant contri-butions over many decades to the music world, as an orchestral principal, viola soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.” The award was presented at the 38th International Viola Congress in June.

STEPHEN WEST (voice) sang Alban Berg’s Lulu with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, and Mahler’s Das klagende Lied with the Orquesta Sinfónica di Minería in Mexico City. This summer, he taught for SMTD’s MPulse high school intensives and presented ‘Stephen West and Friends’ concerts in Dexter, MI and Denver, CO. This fall, he will appear in composition colleague Paul Schoenfield’s Ghetto Songs with the Michigan Chamber Players and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as Mephistopheles in Pascal Dusapin’s Faustus, the Last Night, a role he created for the American premiere at the Spoleto festival in 2005.

E.J. WESTLAKE (theatre & drama) had her article, “No Hint as to the Author Is Anywhere Found: Problems of Using 19th-century Ethnography in Latin American Theatre History,” published in Theatre Historiography: Critical Interventions, edited by Henry Bial and Scott Magelsson and

published by the University of Michigan Press (2010). She presented her paper “Nationalism, Fascism, and Folk Drama in Nicaragua: the Vanguardia’s Appropriation of El Güegüence” at the International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference in Munich in July and conducted archival research at the Bibliothek des Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut.

DENNIS WILSON (jazz and improvisation studies) was co-producer, arranger, and conductor for the new CD release Count Basie Orchestra: Swinging, Singing, Playing. The CD includes special guests Geri Allen, Jamie Cullum, Joe Hendricks, and Hank Jones, among many others. One of Wilson’s own compositions, Blues on Mack Avenue, is included on the CD.

LEIGH WOODS (theatre & drama) joined the tenth-year reunion cast of Jerry Lax and Ed Stein’s …and Associates, a comedy about a lawyer gone bad, at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor, the site of its original staging, in late April. He adjudicated the Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s annual monologue competition for local high school students in May and played the Bush-like President in Andy Kirshner’s upcoming film, Liberty’s Secret: The National Security Musical, still in production.

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James L. Curtis, MD ’46, and Vivian A. Curtis, MSW ’48,

both had long and distinguished careers, she in social

work, as Director of the Social Work Department at

Kings County Hospital in New York, he as a physician

and Director of Psychiatry at Harlem Hospital.

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Buttheirloveoftheartshasplayedanequallyimportantroleintheirlives.InNewYorkCity,wheretheyspentmostoftheircareers,theywereimmersedinthatcity’sdynamicartandmusicscene.TheirextensivecollectionofAfricanandAfrican-AmericanartworkandanotherequallyimpressivecollectionofgospelandspiritualrecordingshavebeendonatedtotheUniversity.Now,throughaCharitableGiftAnnuity,theyhavesetuptheJamesL.andVivianA.CurtisEndowedGraduateScholarshiptoencouragestudyofthelonganddistinguishedcultureofAfrican-AmericanmusicinAmerica.

“Musicalwaysfilledbothourheartswithjoy,”saysDr.Curtis.“Wewantedtopreserveourculturalheritageandencouragethatloveinfuturegenerations.ACharitableGiftAnnuitywastheperfectwaytosupportsomethingwecareaboutandprovideuswithaguaranteedincomeandtaxdeductionsnow.”

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Percussion students of JOE GRAMLEY fetched a handsome $1,000 for Habitat for Humanity at a recent auction for a future performance at a party by U-M’s samba band Vencedores, a hit last year when they performed for the 2009 auction. Bravo to their director, DMA candidate Neeraj Mehta, and bravo to the U-M percussion students who will volunteer their time in support of this great enterprise.

Ann Arbor-based new music group Existential Pilot is preparing the follow-up to its 2009 inaugural tour of New York

City, Philadelphia, Boston, Ann Arbor, and Buffalo, NY. Members include alumni EZRA DONNER (BM ’08, composition) and MARK DOVER (BM ’09, clarinet) and current students WILLIAM ZUCKERMAN and JONATHAN LUBIN, composer-pianists, CLAIRE DIVIZIO, soprano, and ZOË AQUA, violinist. The group, recently featured in the Ann Arbor News, The Big City (New York), Betsy’s View (Boston), Miss Music Nerd (Boston), and on WMBR Radio (Cambridge, MA), is dedicated to dynamic and relevant contemporary music.

MATTHEW BOUSE, senior in theatre & drama, spent the summer interning at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago where he compiled dramaturgi-cal research for the Ignition 2010 Festival. This past spring, Matthew’s play Living Dead received a reading in theatre faculty member OyamO’s Playfest.

PETER SHIN, freshman composition student studying under Erik Santos, won Outstanding Interpretation in the senior level of the National PTA Reflections Contest, whose

theme this year was “Beauty Is…” The Reflections Program has six arts categories, including composition, and over 500,000 submissions were entered. He received the award for his work Reverie at the National PTA Convention in Memphis in June. Visit http://www.ptareflections.org/ to hear his work.

SIMON ALEXANDER-ADAMS, a freshman in Performing Arts Technology (media arts), finished production on his first music release, an electronic album titled Retinal Fatigue. The ten tracks sample everything

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from Debussy preludes to old sci-fi radio shows. In addition to a digital download, Simon had 100 CDs printed, all with original album art. While the market for the CDs currently consists of friends and family, he reports, it has been a satisfying experience and is certainly not his last effort.

ALISON DESIMONE, a doctoral candidate in musicology, was named a co-winner of the National Opera Association Scholarly Papers competition. She received the Leland Fox Award in the amount of $500 and will present her paper, “Médée et son pouvoir: Music and Dramatic Structure in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Médée (1693),” at the annual convention of the National Opera Association to be held in San Antonio, TX, in January 2011. Her paper will be published in the Opera Journal in 2011.

Over this summer, PHILLIP MAXWELL, first-year student in theatre & drama performance, got together with friends to act in a movie called Rangers that was later sent to festivals around the country. His filmmaker friend, Zach Terry, has had movies accepted into festivals in the past, so hopes are high for this latest effort.

Sophomore musical theatre student ASHLEY PARK

performed this summer with Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera’s Miss Saigon, which toured the Northeast through Pittsburgh, Toronto, and Schenectady. This production was Miss Saigon’s first major return to Canada, staged as part of Dancap Production’s Summer Broadway Series.

SUBARAM RAMAN, PAUL DOOLEY, and MICHAEL-THOMAS FOUMAI were recently awarded BMI Student Composer Awards in New York City. Eleven young classical composers, ages 13 to 26, were named winners in the 58th annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Dooley, a DMA candidate, won for his cello solo Gradus. Foumai, master’s candidate, won for his concerto for clarinet and symphonic band. Raman (MM ‘10) won for his Darvisha for six alto saxophones.

In other news, FOURMAI had his Hanakotoba selected for the 2010 Fresno New Music Festival. The Los Angeles-based Orchestra Unleashed will perform his Purgatorio. He was a finalist and participant in the Sixth Thailand International Composition Festival. His Paradiso was named winner of the ASTA Merle J. Isaac Competition and his String Theory was performed at the Osaka College of Music in Japan.

A group comprised of current students and recent graduates of the BFA theatre & drama program just finished a run of Wanton Displays of Affection at the International Fringe Festival in New York City. The play, produced in December 2009 in Basement Arts, is three one-acts, written and directed by recent graduate ZACH SMILOVITZ (BFA ’10), about relationships pushed to the brink by the common subtext of betrayal. It had five perfor-mances and was featured in The New York Times coverage of the Festival. The cast included NICO AGER (BFA ’09), LEE CHRISMAN (BFA ’09), JAIME LYN BEATTY (BFA ’10), and current students LILY MARKS, PAUL MANGANELLO, BRITTANY UOMOLEALE, and ARIELLE GOLDMAN.

Junior voice student ANTONINA CHEKHOVSKAYA spent a month in Urbania, Italy, this summer with a program called Si parla, si canta, combining music with daily classes in Italian. The program accepted 30 singers and five pianists to perform Italian opera scenes and professionally staged full operas. She sat in on a lesson with Italian soprano legend Mirella Freni in Modena, where she learned the impor-tance of the Italian language in opera, and is now interpreting music better and correcting

many previous diction problems.

The Acropolis Reed Quintet, with oboist TIM GOCKLIN, were semifinalists in the 2010 Plowman Chamber Music Competition, sponsored by the Missouri Symphony Society, and finalists in the prestigious annual Fischoff Competition, held in South Bend, IN.

CAROLINE ROSS, oboe, attended the Banff Centre for the Arts this past summer. She was also accepted to perform in a week-long series of master classes, in Paris, led by Paris Conservatoire oboe professor Jacques Tys.

JASON HARRIS, DMA student in choral conducting, was recently sought out and invited—without even an application or inquiry on his part—to be one of four conductors in the June 2010 Chorus America Conducting Master Class, held in Atlanta. The chorus and orchestra will be the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the repertoire is the Mozart Requiem.

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We are thrilled to report that the 2010 Reunion was a huge success, and brought back many members of the Class of 1960, along with alumni from the ‘50s through the ‘00s

Homecoming weekend reunion activities included an Alumni Open Choral Sing on Friday, October 15. The Sing was open to all U-M alumni celebrating their 50th Reunion and all SMTD alums. Alumni from SMTD and across the University sang Fauré’s Requiem in Stamps Auditorium. The Sing was led by conducting chair Jerry Blackstone and was once again a joy for all involved.

Immediately following the Sing, Music, Theatre & Dance alums, along with faculty students and staff, gathered in the

Reunion 2010Towsley Musical Theatre Studio at the Walgreen Drama Center to celebrate the 2010 Alumni Award Winners and the Class of 1960. The afternoon wine & cheese reception included remarks by Dean Christopher Kendall and Michael Mark, Alumni Society Chair, along with alumni award winners and nominating faculty.

We are already looking forward to the 2011 Reunion, which will pay special tribute to the U-M Symphony Band’s 1961 tour of Russia and the Middle East (see article, p. 14). Look to the spring issue of Michigan Muse for information on the 2011 Reunion, scheduled for October 27-30, 2011.

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2000sDaniel Albert, MM ‘05 (music education), recently completed his term as president of the Western District of the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA). In that capacity, Daniel collaborated with western Massachusetts music educators to produce regional district festivals, create and execute policies, maintain music education advocacy vehicles, execute new initiatives, and represent the Western District on the state MMEA board of directors. He is now serving on the Western District executive board as immediate past chairperson.

Armando Bayolo, DMA 2001 (composition), was among the featured composers in the 2010 Ibero-American Festival for the Arts in San Juan, Puerto Rico, presenting his orchestral work

Colorfields and a lecture at the University of Puerto Rico. His works will receive performances by the Ensemble Lontano in London, Hexnut in Neijmegen, Arnhem and Amsterdam, and the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra, premiering his trombone concerto, Absolute Music, in Soderborg. Bayolo will lead the first performance by a professional American ensem-ble of Louis Andriessen’s De Materie in October, with Andriessen present, at the National Gallery of Art with his Great Noise Ensemble.

Garrett Field, BFA ‘03 (jazz and contemplative studies), received a Fulbright-Hays scholarship for the dissertation he is complet-ing at Wesleyan University on the history of modern Sinhala poetry-song. He will live in Colombo, Sri Lanka for two years in the graduate studies unit of Sri Lanka’s University of

the Visual and Performing Arts. His paper, “From Threatened by Modernity to Reinvented by Modernity: The History of the History of Indian Classical Music (1980-2006),” was recently awarded the James T. Koetting Prize for outstanding graduate student paper presented at the annual chapter meeting by the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

John Hartman, BM ’06 (trumpet), BA ’06 (film and video studies), is currently performing with The Second City, a Chicago comedy theatre, on the cruise ship NCL Pride of America in Hawaii. In Chicago, he performs with the musical improvisation group Baby Wants Candy, which The Huffington Post calls “pretty damn brilliant.” He also mounted his solo comedy show, Your Friends and Enemies, at Chicago’s The Annoyance Theatre. Time Out

Chicago named it a Critic’s Pick, “60 minutes of guilt-free comic perversions … finely edited … solid pacing … highly entertain-ing to watch,” adding, “I thoroughly loved Hartman’s fringe characters coupled with the show’s whizbang timing.”

Amanda Kaipio, BM ’08 (voice performance), earned her master’s in vocal performance from Boston University in 2010. She was one of seven American students chosen from all disciplines for a Fulbright Scholarship to study Finnish vocal music, opera, and language at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Kenneth Kellogg, MM ’06, specialist degree (voice performance), recently finished a two-year residency as an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera. A young artist on the

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rise, he is making debuts with Atlanta Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Wolftrap Opera, and Washington National Opera, just this year. He is also debuting in Osaka and Tokyo and working on a new “fire opera” called Machine, being written for him and set to premiere at the Crucible Theater in California next year.

Stephen Lancaster, DMA ‘08 (voice), has been promoted to assistant teaching professor of music at the University of Notre Dame, after serving as visiting

lecturer since 2007. Last season, he appeared as Falke in Die Fledermaus with Arbor Opera Theater and taught at the Franco-American Vocal Academy in Périgord, France. Earlier this year, he performed in recital with SMTD collaborative pianist Martin Katz and made his Carnegie Hall debut as guest artist with the Notre Dame Concert Band. He recently completed a recital tour of Taiwan, with Wanyi-Lo (BM ‘08) and Lorraine Sullivan (BM ‘07), and performed as an artist fellow at the Atlantic Music Festival.

Bryan Langlitz, BFA ’09 (musical theatre), has been cast as the swing in Memphis, a current smash hit on Broadway, going into rehearsals a mere 36 hours after being hired. Bryan is covering a number of different roles within the large ensemble and will share the stage with fellow MT alums Sydney Morton and Cary Tedder, before Cary leaves to tour with West Side Story.

Alexander Lapins, MM ‘02 (tuba), joined the faculty of the Northern Arizona University (NAU) School of Music and was awarded his doctorate in music performance from Indiana University. This past spring, Alex performed throughout eastern China with the Elden Brass Quintet, the faculty quintet of NAU, which presented a program that included two new works for brass quintet and tuba quintet at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference in Tucson. One of the new works was by John Berners (MM ’98, Ph.D. ’05, composition). Alex then returned to the faculty of the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.

Diana Lawrence, BM ’05 (voice), was invited to partici-pate in the fifth annual Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, held at Northwestern University. Her band, Diana & the Dishes, released its debut album, Take A Picture, in August. As a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Diana will perform Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass this fall with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez. In December, she will be in Washington D.C. as music

director for The Second City’s production of “A Girl’s Guide to Washington Politics” at Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

Ann-Marie MacFarlane, MM ’07 (vocal performance), former student of George Shirley, was selected to participate in the international Aurora Chamber Music Festival in Sweden, where she received individual training and career advice from legendary American opera singer Barbara Hendricks. She was the only American, joining seven other singers from countries that included France, Germany, and Turkey; all were granted full scholarships to participate. MacFarlane is an active recitalist and concert singer in Denmark, recently performing as soloist with the Danish National Opera in a workshop for an upcoming production.

Wes Mason, BM ’09 (voice), co-starred in Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls, with Seth Carico (MM ’07), with the Fort Worth Opera.

MaryAnn Ramos, DMA ’09 (cello), was selected to perform for the President of Mexico, Phillipe Calderon, at a Department of State luncheon in his honor in May, performing with actress Selma Hayek, who recited a poem in Spanish in the guest’s honor. The luncheon was hosted by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who introduced her. MaryAnn has just been named to the cello faculty of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

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Corbin Reid, BFA ’09 (musical theatre), joined the cast of Green Day’s American Idiot on Broadway in July.

Kristen Sague, BFA ’06 (dance), is part of the ethnic dance community of San Francisco and the East Bay area. This past June, she was one of a group of dancers, musicians, vocalists, and songwriters in Miriam’s Well, an interfaith performance of sacred music, dance, and poetry. The culminating performance was at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. She was also featured with two companies in the 32nd Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. She is a principal dancer with Ballet Afsaneh and Wan-Chao Dance that pre-sented a world premiere of its Follow the Footprints, an ethno-contemporary dance mourning the decline of nomadic cultures.

Carolyn Senger, BMA ‘06 (vocal performance), recently

graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) and matched at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, for residency training in anesthesiology. During her medical training, she continued singing in events such as the Homicide Victims of Baltimore Candlelight Vigil and the JHUSOM Human Anatomy Memorial Service and White Coat Ceremony.

Clinton Smith, MM ’06 (orchestral conducting and piano), DMA ’09 (conducting), returns to the Minnesota Opera for a third season as assistant/cover conductor and chorus-master, making his debut conducting La traviata. He has been cover conductor and chorusmaster for productions with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Minnesota Opera Orchestra. Recently he conducted Madama Butterfly for Hamline University and a

workshop of Kevin Puts’s opera Silent Night for the Minnesota Opera’s New Works Initiative. Clinton spent Summer 2010 working as an assistant conductor and coach for Glimmerglass Opera on productions of The Tender Land and Tolomeo.

Alex Springer, BFA ’07 (dance), together with Xan Burley, just completed their first fully produced season at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY, presenting themselves as alexanDance Performance. Their work was praised as “funny and fierce” (iDanz.net) and full of “humor, absurdity, [and] quirky choreography” (Dance Enthusiast). The show, A Veritable Smorgasbord, incorporated old and new pieces, dance films, live musicians, an art exhibit, live painting, and sixteen dancers, among them Leah Ives (‘07), Sheila Klein (‘09), Jordan Risdon (‘08), Tomoko Takedani (MFA ‘08), and Jenny Thomas (‘08). Alex continues to enjoy dancing with Doug Varone and Dancers.

Anthony Suter, MM ’04 (composition), is currently assistant professor of music composition at the University of Redlands in Southern California, where he was this year’s recipient of the university-wide Outstanding Faculty Award for Innovative Teaching. In March of 2010, Centaur Records released Hymns to Forgotten Moon: the Music of Arnold Schoenberg and Anthony Suter. A new work for concert band, Sparking Angels, has been published by

Daehn Publications. He recently completed a brass quartet, premiered by Chicago Symphony principals Michael Mulchahy and Gene Pokorny, Detroit Symphony principal bass trombonist Randall Hawes, and Redlands Dean Andrew Glendening.

Fernando Tarango, BM ’05 (voice), has independently released his third solo album, titled, October 31, 2009. Since graduating, he has sung professionally for the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Grammy Award-Winning Pacific Boychoir Academy, and for Clerestory, the alumni group of the San Francisco-based men’s chorus Chanticleer. Fernando premiered the role of Mr. Bingley in Kirk Mechem’s opera Pride and Prejudice for the San Francisco Choral Society and is the vocalist for an upcoming Bolero-influenced jazz album recorded in La Paz, Bolivia.

Gregory X. Whitmore, BM ’01 (music education), now in his tenth year as director of bands at Cathedral City (CA) High School, spent the summer on a teacher study abroad program at Cambridge University, studying architecture and art. His CCHS Symphonic Band was selected for a 2009 Mark of Excellence National Wind Band Award, at the state level. That band will tour France and Germany in March. It was also one of only 10 high school marching bands nationwide selected to take part in the 2010 Hollywood Santa Parade.

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Ali Woerner, MFA ‘07 (dance), is visiting professor of dance at Oakland (MI) University. Her company, Shifting Sol, made its New York City premiere this past June at the Ailey Citigroup Theatre. Ali was recently awarded Michigan Dance Council’s Maggie Allesee New Choreography Award. She created a collaborative event for Detroit Happenings, a showcase for dance, music, painting, and poetry, this year on the roof of Detroit’s Music Hall for the Performing Arts. She is also the new private sector editor for the Journal of Dance Education.

James Wolk, BFA ’07 (theatre & drama), is featured in Lonestar, Fox network’s new one-hour drama that launched in September. Set in Texas, the show is about “a good-looking, charming, charismatic con artist who also happens to be a bigamist.” Yes, that’s Wolk, in the lead role of Robert Allen. He was most recently seen in Hallmark Hall of Fame’s Front of the Class, about a young man with Tourette’s syndrome. Lonestar will also star Adrianne Palicki of Friday Night Lights, Jon Voight, and David Keith.

1990sNicholas D Abruzzo, BFA ’95 (theatre & drama), had his short paper “Toward a Tesseract Theater” published in the Bridges Pécs Conference Proceedings (2010) as part of their annual international conference on mathematical connections in art, music, and science. The paper contextual-izes Euripides’ theatrical device deus ex machina and two landmark examples of its modern legacy, in spatial 4D. It considers stacked space (topology), tesseract geometry, and graph-theoretical trees in the proposed design and use of a theater situated in the surface-volume of a tesseract. The paper was presented again in September at the Los Angeles Theater Center.

Carrie Barnhardt, BFA ’94 (musical theatre and voice),

received the 2008 Colorado High School Theatre Educator of the Year award, presented by the Alliance for Colorado Theatre. Her program at Pine Creek High School in Colorado Springs was named best high school drama program in “Best of the Springs 2010” and was nominated to participate in the American High School Theatre Festival at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland next year.

Gordon Beeferman, BM ’98 (composition), received a number of performances of his works, in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including String Quartet, performed by the Momenta Quartet, Passages for recorder quartet, Brass Quintet, commis-sioned by the American Brass Quintet, and Scene Two from his chamber opera The Rat Land, presented by New York City Opera. His hybrid, avant-jazz, new music septet, the Imaginary Band, made its New York City debut and released its first recording, Music for an Imaginary Band. A new score for Anita Cheng Dance will premiere this spring. In 2010, Beeferman was in residence at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.

Laura Carmichael, BM ’91 (clarinet), performed in the Berlin Philharmonie with MusikFabrik in September, performing Berio’s Kol Od with Peter Eötvös conducting. She is based in Amsterdam, where she performs with contemporary music ensembles, including her own Duo X with saxophonist and sho player Naomi Sato. Their staged-concert Urban Doldrums, with electronics and video, won a prize at the 2010 Experimental Sound, Art and Performance Festival at Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan.

Jason Dilly, BFA ’93 (musical theatre), was inducted into the American College of Surgeons in October 2009, one of the highest honors attainable in the field of surgical medicine. Now Jason Dilly, MD, FACS (Fellow of the American College of Surgeons), he continues in clinical ophthamology and surgical eye care as senior staff member at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He is on the faculty at Wayne State.

Aaron Dworkin, BM ’97, MM ’98 (violin), was named one of the fifteen most inspiring people in classical music in Listen

Magazine’s summer issue, joining such other honorees as Yo-Yo Ma, Martha Agerich, Gustavo Dudamel, Marilyn Horne, Michael Tilson Thomas, William Christie, among others.

John “Nipper” Knapp, BFA ’92, Matthew Letscher (BA ’92) and Andrew Newberg (BFA ’93) (theatre & drama all), won Best Writing Award in the recent New York Television Festival for their original TV pilot Gentrification. Pilots were presented for industry executives at a showcase at Tribeca Cinemas in September.

James Lee III, BM ’99 (piano), MM ’01 and DMA ’05 (composi-tion), won the Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Natalie Mannix, BMA ’95 (trombone performance), is assistant professor of trombone at Towson University and principal trombone of the Delaware Symphony, a position she has held since 2004. Recently, she was a guest artist at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Toronto, where she presented a master class and performed both a solo

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and with the Monarch Brass Ensemble. This past year, she was featured in solo perfor-mances at the Eastern Trombone Workshop, the Western PASSHE Low Brass Consortium, and Towson University with the Towson Symphonic Band.

Brian J. Nelson, BM ‘90 (composition), has released two CDs of his music in the past twelve months. Responsorial Psalms for Advent and Christmas (Nelson Music 2009) is a collection of his sacred music. Vocalise (2010) is a full-scale collection of his instrumental and choral works. Among its eleven tracks, Vocalise features the premiere recording of Ballade for violin and piano, with U-M alumna Tami C. Lee Hughes (MM ’00, DMA ’03, violin).

Jamie L. Nix, MM ’99 (trom-bone performance), MM ’99 (wind conducting), was recently appointed director of wind ensemble activities and associate professor of music at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Georgia. He conducts both the wind ensemble and wind orchestra and heads the graduate conducting program. Prior to this appointment, Nix completed his DMA in wind conducting at the University of Miami in Coral Gables.

Benedette Palazzola, MFA ’91 (dance), is now a quilt artist. Her work is represented in the collection of the Great Lakes Quilt Center at the Michigan State University Museum, and will appear this year at the

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor.

Samantha Shelton, MFA ’94 (dance), will teach full time in the Dance Department at Alma (MI) College, beginning in the fall, co-directing the Alma College Dance Company. She will choreograph two works to music by Vivaldi and Mendelssohn for Alma’s fall concert, and, for the spring concert, will stage the ballet Paquita. Last spring, she was invited by Angela Kane, U-M dance chair, to teach a ballet master class for dance majors. She was in New York in August to attend American Ballet Theatre curriculum training and continues to teach and choreograph for the ABT summer intensives.

Matthew Shippee, MA ‘98 (musicology), has been awarded tenure and advancement to professor at Greenfield (MA) Community College, where the music department he created in 2003 has grown to over forty majors. His chapter, “The Sound of Starting Where You Are: Contemplative Practice and Music Pedagogy,” will appear in New Directions in Community Colleges in the fall. Matthew’s Gypsy jazz band, Swing Caravan, performed over 100 concerts this year, including at the New York City Djangology Festival, Club Passim in Cambridge, and Falcon Ridge (NY) Folk Festival. Matthew plays lead guitar and oud and sings and composes for the band, currently recording a collection of American WWII-era music.

John W. Vandertuin, DMA ’94 (organ performance), who composes as well as performs, had three recent commissioned works published by the Organ Historical Society of Richmond, VA. Blind since birth, Dr. Vandertuin continues as church organist in Scotland, Ontario, in Canada, performing throughout the country. He has also produced two CDs, his latest John W. Vandertuin, Live in Concert, which was recognized by Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican. He was also recently honored by Paul Martin, former prime minister of Canada, and Stephen Harper, current PM.

David Vayo, DMA ’90 (composi-tion), was in residence last spring at I-Park, an artists’ colony in East Haddam, CT. Later in the spring, he was in Mexico City to attend the ONIX Ensemble’s performance of his

Enlightenment, written for the group as part of the International Forum of New Music “Manuel Enríquez.” His opera Fertile Ground had its premiere run of performances in a co-production of Illinois Wesleyan University Opera Theatre and Prairie Fire Theatre of Bloomington, IL. The Paris-based duo Thierry Miroglio, percussion, and Ancuza Aprodu, piano, per-formed Vayo’s Orion at Illinois Wesleyan in March.

Christopher Zimmerman, MM ’91 (orchestral conducting), was appointed music director of the Fairfax (VA) Symphony Orchestra, following a two-year search. Zimmerman’s inaugural season featured the first of a three-year focus on the works of Jean Sibelius, including the rarely performed Lemminkainen Legends, as well as the east coast premiere of Avner Dorman’s Piano Concerto, performed by Alon Goldstein. Zimmerman, currently music director of the Hartt Symphony Orchestra and professor of orchestral conducting at the Hartt School, moved with his wife and two teenagers to Virginia this summer to focus his energies on the new position with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra.

1980sPeter DuBois, MM ’82 (organ), on the faculty at Eastman School of Music and director of music and organist at Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, NY, has been named host of With Heart and Voice,

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a national sacred choral and organ radio program that started in 1975. He signed on as the national host this fall. The program, broadcast from WXXI-FM radio in Rochester, is picked up by more than 100 public radio stations nationwide and spans a full range of western religious music, from the Gothic period to the 21st century.

Pamela Lydon Heard, MFA ’83 (dance), artistic director of Pamela Lydon and Dancers, recently awarded the first Pamela Lydon Scholarship for further studies in dance to Brittany Barnett, a graduating senior at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Brittany attended the Kista Tucker Dance Summer Intensive at SUNY Brockport in July.

Jere Humphreys, Ph.D. ’84 (music education), a professor of music education in the Arizona State University School of Music, traveled twice to the Balkans to present lectures in Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia, and a keynote speech in Bulgaria. He also presented scholarly papers at research symposia in Gothenburg, Sweden and Arlington, VA and published a co-authored curriculum study on multicultural and popular music in a music teacher education program in the International Journal of Music Education: Research. In spring 2010 he taught a quantitative research methods course in an Ed.D. program for Native Americans in the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, AZ.

Kirk Moss, BM ’87 (music education), joined the faculty of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music as an associate professor of music and chair of the Music Education Department. He also serves as the elected national president of the 10,000-member American String Teachers Association. Last summer, his conducting engagements included the Lamar Stringfield (NC) Music Camp and Interlochen Music Camp.

Barbara Neri, MFA ’80 (dance), is associate editor of The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the historic five-volume edition of Browning’s complete works, published by Pickering and Chatto in March. In other work, Neri contributed groundbreak-ing research on the poet’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. Her visual art was published as artist pages in the March 2008 Performance Research issue “On Choreography” and exhibited as a multi-media installation in the Ann Arbor Work Gallery (re)Mapping exhibit in fall of 2009. Her script, Unlocking Desire, was read at the August 2010 Renegade Theater Festival in Lansing, MI.

1970sF. Gerard Errante, DMA ’70 (clarinet), has recently relocated to Las Vegas, after retiring as professor of music from Norfolk State (VA) University. He has been an active performer and lecturer in countries throughout the world, from Australia to Zimbabwe. A former president

of the International Clarinet Association, Errante has received that organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award. His fourth solo CD, Delicate Balance, containing works for clarinet and electronics composed for him, was recently released.

Stephen Michael Gryc, BM ’71 (music education), MM ’78 (theory & composition), DMA ’83 (composition), was composer-in-residence at the Three Bridges International Chamber Music Festival in Duluth this past June, where he lectured and attended the performance of three of his works. In January, the Cornell University Wind Ensemble performed his Las Campanas during a concert tour of Costa Rica. Las Campanas was recently published by Subito Music and recorded by the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony on the Summit label. A recording of Gryc’s String Quartet by the Avalon String Quartet was recently released on the Albany label.

Ray Henry, BM ’76 (organ), was elected to the board of directors for the Oakland County (MI) Pioneer and Historical Society. Founded in 1874, its mission is to identify, record, collect, preserve, and make available objects and materials reflecting the history of the people, places, and events of the county and to restore and maintain the Governor Moses Wisner estate, known as Pine Grove, as a recognized national and state historic site. Henry now serves as senior technical writer/editor for Snap-on, Inc. in Rochester Hills, MI.

Catherine Hilbish McNeela, MM ’76 (voice), professor of performing arts and head of Elon University’s music theatre program, is now the William S. Long Professor, named after the institution’s first president. McNeela’s appointment to the professorship was made in recognition of her twenty years of outstanding teaching, scholarship, and leadership in developing their nationally recognized music theatre program. She joined the Elon faculty in 1990, after teaching voice and music theatre at the University of Arkansas, Illinois Wesleyan, and Allegheny College. She has performed as a professional actor and singer in more than 100 plays and musicals.

Martin Pakledinaz, MA ’75 (theatre & drama costume design), was nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for costume design for Lend Me a Tenor and awarded the 2010 Henry Hews Design Award for that work.

Bob Phillips, BM ’76, MM ’79 (music education and clarinet), has been promoted to director of String Publications for Alfred Music Publishing. In May, he began his term as president-elect of the American String Teachers Association. In addition to his many composi-tions for school orchestra, he has also recently co-authored Sound Innovations, the groundbreaking, customizable method for strings and band. He continues to present clinics at most state and national music education conferences and in the fall will be in residence at the University of Alabama through

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its endowed chair in music. Next summer, he will guest conduct and present music education clinics throughout Australia.

Jeffrey Quick, BM ’78 (music history and musicology), won first prize for his Mass in Honor of St. Maximilian Kolbe in the 2010 International Sacred Music Competition, held by the Foundation for the Sacred Arts of Washington D.C. The award for a setting of the newly revised English translation of the Mass included a cash prize and a premiere by the choir of Washington D.C.’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, under Dr. Peter Latona, on August 14, coincidentally Kolbe’s feast day.

1960sJoanne (Williamson) Dorenfeld, MM ’68 (voice), gave concerts in Holland and Belgium and appeared as soloist with the London and Edmonton

Symphonies and the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, among others. She has premiered many works written for her voice and taught at several universities and Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music, with which she has had a long affiliation. She now coaches oratorio soloists and travels with her husband.

Henry Fuchs, MM ’60 (piano), appeared as guest artist with the Foothills Chamber Ensemble, Tucson, AZ in May, performing Mozart’s Piano Quintet in E-flat, K. 452 and Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet. He was named professor emeritus in June 2000 after 32 years of service at the University of Rhode Island.

Robert Pattengale, MM ’65 (music literature), Ph.D. ’73 (musicology), and professor emeritus, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, co-founded the Great Lakes

Chamber Orchestra (GLCO) in 2001 in order to bring live orchestral music to northern Michigan. Pattengale, who was recently elected president of GLCO’s board of trustees, has been active as harpsichordist and program annotator. The orchestra, celebrating its 10th season with Maestro Matthew Hazelwood, has presented over 80 concerts and numerous chamber music recitals with soloists, including SMTD faculty member and harpist Joan Holland and SMTD undergrads Hannah Robbins, cello, and Andy Tuck, viola

Earl Sherburn, BM ’65, MM ’70 (music education), is retired but still substitutes in the Clark County School District and travels the world. He and his lifetime partner of 21 years have traveled to over 70 countries and operate a Web site as travel consultants. Dr. Sherburn enjoys an annual visit to his alma mater each fall for a football game.

Anna Epley Speck, BM ’65 (music education), retired in June after ten years as choral director at Cranbrook Upper and Middle Schools, preceded by 15 years as a member of the voice faculty at Wayne State University and director of the Grosse Pointe Community Chorus.

1950sLibby Appel, BA ’59 (theatre & drama), artistic director emerita of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, received the Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Legacy Award for Excellence in Theater as part of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival. Artistic director of the OSF from 1995 through 2007, Ms. Appel chose to direct the award’s $10,000 scholar-ship to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s FAIR Experience, a program that incorporates fellowships, assistantships, internships, and residencies.

Bob McGrath, BM ’54 (voice), enjoyed the 150th reunion of the Men’s Glee Club in Ann Arbor

this past summer. McGrath, a member of Sesame Street cast since its premiere, joined in the celebration of its 40th anniver-sary last November. Taping for the 41st season, he writes, began in January. The cast performed at the Hollywood Bowl with the popular mini orchestra Pink Martini and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in September.

1930sRubi Peinert Wentzel, BM ’35 (cello), Stanley Medal winner her senior year and student of Swiss cellist Hans Pick, is working on a book of studies for the begin-ning cellist—at the age of 97 and despite being wheelchair bound—called It’s Fun to Play the Cello. Brava, Rubi!

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Alene M. Smith, 1916-2010Alene M. Smith, age 93, passed away in her home at Glacier Hills on August 20, 2010, surrounded by her family. Her husband, Allan F. Smith, who preceded her in death, was Dean of the Law School at Michigan (1960-1965) and Vice President for Academic Affairs (1965-1974) and served as interim president of the University in 1979. The duo moved to Ann Arbor in 1947, when Allan joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School. Alene was deeply committed to and active in both the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor communities, where she will be remembered for her leadership in many organizations as well as her unfailing graciousness and quiet elegance. She established the Allan F. Smith Scholarship in Theatre & Drama in 1997 in memory of her husband.

Floyd Edwards Werle, 1929-2010Floyd E. Werle, composer and arranger, died in July at 81 in Oakland, CA, where he had moved in 2002. Werle began studies for his BM at Michigan in the late 1940s, but was called away in 1950 by the Korean War. He stands as one of the true giants in the history of military music in America. During his 32 years in Air Force Music, 30 as chief arranger of the United States Air Force Band, Symphony Orchestra, and the Singing Sergeants, he created an unequalled library of compositions and arrangements. Following his stint in Korea, Floyd re-enrolled at Michigan; it was there that his talents as an arranger came to the fore.

While not as well known, his work in the field of sacred music is equally impressive. His hymns, masses, and worship concepts are centered on the joy he found in the act of worship. For 35 years, he was the minister of music at Faith United Methodist Church in Rockville, MD. During that time he wrote over 200 hymns and several masses in the modern style, as well as a group of anthems, later published as The Now Faith series.

Werle finally received his BM from Michigan in 1982, recognized during a concert by the USAF Band and the Singing Sergeants at Hill Auditorium that year. Another honor was added in October 2001, when he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts Degree from Rocky Mountain College in Billings. At a special ceremony in the nation’s capitol in January 2008, the extensive music collection of the U.S. Air Force Band Library, which houses over 900 of Werle’s compositions and arrangements, was officially named the Floyd E. Werle Music Library.

1930sJoseph J. Deike, BM ’39, MM ’49, in music education, died July 2, 2010

1940sWilliam S. Bagwell, Jr., BM ’42, in music education, died April 21, 2010

James T. Dickey, Jr., BM ’41, in music education, died October 8, 2008

William H. Ellerbusch, MM ’42, in musicology, died June 7, 1988

Ann T. Hubbell, BM ’48, in piano, MM ’49, in music literature, died April 20, 2010

Harry B. Ray, MM ’47, in music literature, died May 29, 2010

Albert P. Smith, MM ’48, in music education, died June 19, 2010

1950sJohn W. Crawford, Jr., BM ’50, MM ’51, in wind instruments, died March 27, 2008

Elsie Evelyn Kalionen, BM ’50, in violin, died August 6, 2010

Katherine (Koukios) Leonida, NODEG ’51, died June 5, 2010

Harold H. Luoma, BM ’50, in music education, died November 21, 2009

Georgia A. (Hertzman) Pampel, BM ’54, in music theory, died May 13, 2010

Warren W. Pickett, MA ’51, in theatre, Ph.D. ‘70 in speech, died May 10, 2010

Sara J. (Weston) Powell, BM ’59, in music education, died June 28, 2010

Eugene P. Rebillot, MA ’55, in theatre, died February 11, 2010

Joseph S. Skrzynski, BM ’50, in music education, died April 29, 2008

1960sJohn E. Courter, MM ’66, in organ, died June 21, 2010

Jeffrey A. Hollander, BM ’67, MM ‘68, in cello, DMA ‘68 in piano performance, died June 27, 2010

Jerry R. Kirk, BM ’60, in music education, died September 9, 2009

Charles D. Noneman, MM ’60, in music education, died July 24, 2010

Luther Olson, BM ’61, in music education and voice, died April 23, 2010

Robert P. Roubos, DMA ’66, in organ, died June 24, 2010

Patricia A. (Webb) Small, BM ’60, in music education, died August 1, 2010

1970sJack B. Jonker, BM ’75, MM ’76, in music education, died May 5, 2010

Correction: Josephine Cole Howes was mistakenly listed as Joseph Cole Howes in the Spring 2010 Michigan Muse. Apologies to Josephine’s family and friends.

GIVING UPDATEWe are pleased to share the impact of the following recent and future gifts to benefit the students and programs of the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

The School of Music, Theatre & Dance Annual FundAnnual gifts to the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance allow SMTD to respond to pressing needs and act upon exceptional opportunities as they arise. Gifts to the Music, Theatre & Dance Fund, as well as to other programmatic enrichment funds, support the School’s top funding priorities, including scholarships, facilities, and student experiences. Scholarship support gives SMTD the opportunity to recruit the best students and helps to make Michigan affordable for the extraordinary students who want to study with our extraordinary faculty. Support for facilities includes critical new capital projects and ongoing building and instrument acquisition and maintenance. And, support for student experiences helps to extend the Michigan education beyond the classroom through

connections with guest artists and lecturers, opportunities to step outside the practice room as performers and emissaries of the arts, and support for new scholarly or entrepreneurial initiatives.

New Gifts for SMTDTwo new gifts to grow the School’s scholarship funds were recently received: the Kathleen Summers Parvis Scholarship for International Study in Piano, which was matched through President Mary Sue Coleman’s Student Global Experience donor challenge, to support international education for U-M students allows the School the flexibility to support current piano students who want to study abroad or to use the funding to recruit international piano students to study at Michigan; and a recent estate gift received from Beth Landis Noggle (MM ’43, music education) strengthens the

School of Music, Theatre & Dance Endowed Scholarship Fund.

A two-year commitment to establish the Benard L. Maas Foundation Guest Artist and Speakers Series will allow the Department of Musical Theatre to attract guest artists and lecturers for both short- and long-term residencies so that musical theatre students can further expand their artistic skills and prepare them for performance careers.

James and Carol Brescoll recently donated a Model C 7’3’’ Steinway piano originally built in 1880, making it the oldest piano owned by the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. It is currently undergoing restoration by our piano technology department.

Recent gifts to the Michigan Marching Band will support students and the programmatic needs of the athletic band

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Please call the Office of Development & External Relations at 734-764-4453 if you have any questions or would like to explore giving opportunities.

programs. They include a gift from Donald R. Shepherd (BBA ’58, business) to add to his graduate and undergraduate scholarship funds, a gift from Howard Gourwitz (BA ’69, LSA) to award four undergraduate scholarships, gifts from Elizabeth Ann Mould and Mary Jane Wright to establish the Joseph J. Deike Memorial Scholarship, a contribution from Bob (BA ’62, LSA) and Shirley Giles in support of the MMB’s flag and drum-line sections, and recent gifts to sponsor the halftime performances from Dave and Sue Guilmette for U-M’s 2010-2011 season opener against the University of Connecticut, and from brothers Jerry Kolins (BS ’68, LSA) and Mark Kolins (BS ’73, LSA) to sponsor the halftime show for this season’s U-M vs. MSU football game.

Alumni of the Men’s Glee Club have established two new endowments for the Club: the MGC 150th Anniversary Endowment and the Jerry Blackstone Endowment for International Tours, for which gifts are eligible to receive matching dollars through the Student Global Experience donor challenge.

Recently received planned gifts and documented bequest intentions that help to ensure SMTD programs will continue to thrive include a second charitable gift

annuity from Dr. James L. Curtis (MD, ’46) to encourage the study of African-American music and musicians, an anonymous bequest intention from a 1960 alumna to provide scholarships for out-of-state students, and a bequest intention from Susan (MM ’72, flute) and D. Roger (MBA ’72, business) Waller to benefit flute students.

Extending SMTD’s Touring Tradition for Future GenerationsIn celebration of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the 1961 University Symphony Band tour to the Soviet Union, Middle East, and Eastern Europe and the School’s plans to send the Symphony Band to China in May 2011, a group of ’61 tour band alumni and current faculty have pledged support to establish the SMTD Global Tour Fund. “The 1961 Symphony Band Tour was the most valuable experi-ence of my young life. What else would you expect from a Michigan education? Every student should have this opportunity and I’m happy to contribute to this goal,” said Buddy Ronsaville. The 1961 tour band alumni hope others who toured with SMTD ensembles throughout the decades will also consider a gift to grow this endowment. Bruce Galbraith

commented, “The experiences and lessons of the ’61 band tour were life altering. It was truly a formative experience, and to think that others might have it too is something we wanted to support as best we could. Karen and I discussed this opportu-nity, and decided to stretch a bit for future ensembles.”

Cash donations made or pledged before December 31, 2010 to the SMTD Global Tour Fund qualify for the Student Global Experience donor challenge: for every two dollars donated, President Coleman will provide a match of one dollar. Gifts can be committed over a five-year period and still receive the match, as long as a gift agree-ment is established and the first pledge payment is received by December 31, 2010. Gifts from the following alumni and faculty have secured over $300K to date:

Mark Clague and Laura JacksonBruce and Karen GalbraithPaul GansonMartin GurveyMichael and Melinda HaithcockBuddy and Donna RonsavilleDon and Susan Sinta John and Sarah WakefieldDavid and Jean Wolter

SCENES FROM SCHOLARSHIP SHOWCASE SEPTEMBER 26, 2010: OPPOSING PAGE, GIL CHAPMAN, PIANO; THIS PAGE, ABOVE LEFT, AMY PETRONGELLI AND SARAH BETTS, SOPRANOS; BASSOONISTS (L-R) PATRICK SOUZA, CHRISTIAN GREEN, RYAN REYNOLDS AND SCOTT BARTLETT.

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$250,000 and aboveCharles R. Walgreen, Jr. Estate

$100,000- $249,999Evangeline L. Dumesnil Trust Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley

Foundation

$50,000- $99,999Robert and Pearson Macek Marilyn M. MasonRegent Emeritus Robert E.

Nederlander

$25,000- $49,9991011 Foundation, Inc.Elise M. Cambon EstateCharles H. Gershenson TrustJackson and Margaret Hammitt Lee and Matthew Keiser John G. ParvisHarris Schwartzberg

$10,000- $24,999Anonymous (3)Dr. and Mrs. Dale E. Briggs Don and Betts ChisholmBetty Ellen CummingsRichard and Denise Elmquist Ann & Gordon Getty FoundationHoward J. GourwitzSchuyler Lance and Linda Merwin Barbara Abramoff LevyThomas D. and Catherine MarionJanis and Alan Menken John and Mary Ann Morgan The Presser Foundation

‘Cille and Steve Ramsey Jeffrey D. Vandeusen, P.E.Reid and Susan Wagstaff James L. Weinberg

$5,000-$9,999Anonymous (2)Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Alder, Jr. Barbara and Peter BenedekBarbara and Jeffrey Duncan ExxonMobil FoundationDr. Joseph M. Galema, Jr.Charles Goldberg, Esq.T. Stephen Hauser Randall L. HeiserBryan HieronymusCurt and Jan JonesDr. Mark W. LegniniLutheran Community FoundationMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey N. Lutz Benard L. Maas FoundationPhilip and Siobhan Marber Paul Marquardt and Andrea

Tokheim Patricia P. McFadden EstateChristopher L. NordhoffBettina and Stephen Pollock Andrew and Catherine Raab Steven A. RoachDr. Barbara Furin SloatDavid G. Wallingford Gregory P. Weidler

$2,500-$4,999Herbert and Carol Amster Dr. Charlene Paullin ArchibequeNorman E. Barnett, Jr.Maurice and Linda BinkowJanet and Bill Cassebaum Tong-Soon and Sung-In Chang Margaret Culhane and Mark

Adelson Mary Jane DrubelAmb. Robert E. FrittsHarriet GalesPhyllis Gardner Estate

Honor Roll of Donors July1,2009–June30,2010

The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance sincerely appreciates all the alumni and friends who made a gift to support the educational initiatives of this top-tier performing arts school during the 2010 fiscal year. Your philanthropic commitments have provided the scholarships, educational experiences, performance opportunities, and improvements to facilities that allow our faculty and students to continue to excel as artists and scholars. Dean Christopher Kendall, the faculty, staff, students and I are all truly grateful for your generosity and dedication.

Many thanks,

Maureen Schafer Director of Development & External Relations

Diana F. Gayer Whit and Svea GrayDalos W. GrobeCyrus C. Hopkins, M.D.Illinois Tool Works FoundationJohn and Gretchen Neal Jackson Kathleen M. Johnson-Browning

and Paul BrowningJim and Marsha Krause Wanda Lincoln and Richard

Chadwell Joan MarshallAustin and Janine Moore Nancy E. PfundGregory and Allison Poggi J. Russell and Molly Reid John and Marilyn Rintamaki Drs. Peter A. and M. Gwyneth

Schroeder Carrie E. Smith Schuyler EstatePatricia Duryea SchwarzMichele and Paul Soucie

$1,000-$2,499Anonymous (4) 1560 Broadway Co. James Adams and Naz Edwards Timothy A. AdamsAdult Learning InstituteMona and Richard Alonzo Dan C. and Eleanor D. Armstrong Terry L. BangsJanice Beauchemin and Ryan

Rizzo Ralph P. BeebeLawrence D. BellAnne Beaubien and Philip Berry James and Gail Browne Paul D. BrowningMajor General and Mrs. John T.

Buck Elizabeth BunnCraig and Susan Burrows Kelly L. BurrowsMatthew A. BurrowsMr. and Mrs. George Carignan Robert and June Chartrand

Phelps and Jean Connell Howard CooperArch Hope CopelandLeighAnn and Chad Costley Cranbrook Music Guild, Inc.Mary Hunter DobsonWilliam and Ann DoddsJim and Anne Duderstadt Bradley A. DumontDave and Patsy Eisler Ronald and Susan Elder Melinda and Raymond Emmerich Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy A. Engelhardt Robert and Donna Farrell Clare Malcolm FingerleJames and Lynnette Forman Mary and Gary Foster Bruce and Dale Frankel Lois Kennedy GambleDr. Diana GannettPaul S. GloyerRoger and Sandra Goldman Goldman, Sachs & Co.Richard and Linda B. Goodenough George and Phyllis Googasian Dev and John Gordon David H. GrupeDonald and Carol Haas Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Hardy Deborah and Paul Harkins Dr. James HarrisMartha S. HearronAlbert and Jolene Hermalin Dr. and Mrs. David J. Herzig Thomas D. HitchmanNathan J. HoleVirginia E. Hunt TrustJewel F. HunterSusan and Martin Hurwitz Ann and Chuck HutchinsRichard Ingram and Susan Froelich Mr. and Mrs. Verne G. Istock Robert DeRoy Jobe, Ph.D.Bruce C. JohnsonRose Marie JunJeffrey M. KaplanM. Dolores and Charles L. Kelly

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Mr. and Mrs. David B. Kennedy William G. KringAlan and Jean Krisch Alice LandauWendy and Ted Lawrence Craig M. LeMoyneJohn and Barbara Leppiaho David and Jan Libengood Elizabeth J. LoesselJill A. MacklemJeremiah F. MaddenMr. and Mrs. R. Michael Mahoney Stanislaus and Alice Majewski Dr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Marcus Jerry and Deborah Orr May William J Mayer Dick and Lynn McCord Lynn and Philip Metzger Microsoft CorporationVirginia and Richard Moceri Thomas and Patricia Morrow Mary C. MorsePeter and Henrietta Heydon Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Donald and Mary Sanderson Mike and Marsha Santicchia Richard and Norma Sarns Trudi SchreiberPaul and Lianne Sefcovic Timothy D. SharpeDale A. ShoemakerFrances U. and Scott K. Simonds Carl and Jari Smith S. Gregory and Martha Smith J. Kathryn and Alan Sonnanstine Paul D. Sponseller, M.D.Rev. Paul E. SteeleJennifer and William Stevenson Susan T. StillingsGail and John Stout Sandra L Sully Alan Susser and Deborah Stein Bradley and Simone Taylor Bradley and Karen Thompson Carrie and Peter Throm Marilyn Tsao and Steve Gao Jan and Nub Turner University of Michigan Band

Alumni AssociationThomas G. and Jessica VanGessel

$500-$999Doris E. AndersonDalbert Fear, Jr. and M. Antonia

Ausum Automatic Data Processing Inc.Michael and Kathleen Aznavorian Leland & Mary Bartholomew Raymond A. BasileLinda Bennett and Robert

Bagramian Dr. Lawrence S. BerlinRobert J. BickettMr. and Mrs. Duane A. Bingel William and Ilene Birge John and Joy Bisaro Paul M. and Kathryn E. Bisaro Thomas and Cathie Bloem Frances C. BrockmanDr. Jane E. BrockmanDr. and Mrs. Robert W. Browne Mark and Barbara Buchanan Suzanne H. ButchEdward and Mary Cady Prof. H. D. CameronBrad CanaleCharles A. Carver IIIDavid and Ann Case Robert and Maria Dominguez

Chapel Matthew Ciaramitaro and Julie

Robertson Cisco FoundationBill and Laura Cohen Richard and Penelope Crawford John B. and Shirley A. Daball Mark and Barbara Dentz Carol and Rick Detweiler Joy and Chester Douglass Dow Corning CorporationDouglas P. DueyJames R. DueyHenry W. DunbarRory and Marilyn Dunkel Jill and M. Douglas Dunn Michael P. DupayDr. James S. EadieSusanne M. East-BrookeAlan EisenbergEmerson Charitable TrustEmil A. Weddige EstateGayle A. ErkeJohn and Laurel Fingerle FirstEnergy FoundationRichard J. FollettJill and Jim Gabbe Barbara GalvinGlacier Hills, Inc.Anne and Paul Glendon Steven G. GoogasianRichard and Linda Greene Tyrone D. GreiveTed and Dorene Grekowicz Kay and Dave Gugala Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Gunn Arnold and Merrie Hammel F. Susan and John C. Harrison Karen Hayes

David W. and Kathryn Moore Heleniak

Rose and John Henderson Norman and Deborah Herbert Richard K. HeuselBob and Marguerite Higgins Lisa and Scott higleyLaura and Jeff Hoffman Dr. Rebecca Sue HorvathHorace and Theresa Hull Hampton and Marguerite Irwin Jim and Millie Irwin Timothy M. JacksonThomas C. JonesSue H. JungeJane M. and Herbert Kaufer Daryl and Dana Kenningham James Kibbie and Gary

Christensen John and Georgie Kincaid Diane KirkpatrickRochelle and Richard Klein Lisa and John Koegel Robert and Elaine Koester Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence

Kronenberger Dr. and Mrs. James Labes Lee and William Laimbeer Richard LeSueurGary LevenbachMartha and Robert MacDonald Lawrence and Judy Macklem Mr. and Mrs. Marcos F. Maestre William and Anne Manierre Mr. and Mrs. William C. Martin Kris and Jody Matthew Mary and Chandler Matthews Peggy McCracken and Douglas

Anderson Charlotte McGeochDrs. Michael and Kathryn Mekaru Dolores and Michael Mendelow Fredrick and Laurie Metzger Timothy and Jenifer Miller Bruce and Kristin Moore Mark and Mary Mordue Joan and Gerald Mrofka Gladys L. MuehligP & G FundMarlena L. PankowskiPauline Park and Jack Panitch Helen A. PetersKaren and William Peterson Michael and Jennifer Pisarczyk Margaret Radin and Phillip Coonce Dr. Rudolph E. Reichert, Jr.Bill and Joan Richards Richard and Crystal Richardson Robert and Denise Richter William and Phyllis Robb John Romani and Barbara

Anderson Nancy W. RuganiGerald Rumierz and Kathleen

O’Connell Benjamin T. SalsburyMr. and Mrs. Larry D. Sanford John & Christine Litwin Sanguinetti

“I am originally from Baltimore, and

that is where I first fell in love with the

arts. This scholarship has given me the

means to carry out my dream of

becoming a dancer. Your mother made

this possible and I am very grateful to

have received the scholarship she

created.”

Allegra Anne RomitaMildred McIntosh Dance Scholarship

National InstrumentsVirginia Stewart NicklasP. LaMont and JoAnn King Okey Michael Pad and Rhonda Dean John and Mary Pedley Pfizer FoundationKatherine and Sem Phan William F. PickardJoseph A. PlacekPricewaterhouseCoopersLaura and Clarence Rice Thomas and Catherine Roberts Rob and Karen Rock Vic RomitaPatrick and Margaret Ross Jacqueline RosseelsNoreen and Jack Rounick

David and Susan VanHooser Andrew L. WatchornJack and Jerry Weidenbach Zelma H. WeisfeldDr. Frederick R. WeldySteven Whiting and Leslie Stainton Marina and Bob Whitman John O. WilberBeverly and Mark Wilkie James and Sandra Wojczynski Lawrence and Wendy Woolf Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Wozniak Yung-Koh and Barbara Yin Elizabeth Younker and Dale Inder Youqing ZhuAvedis Zildjian Company

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Nancy L. SannarLeon S. SarkisianMaureen Schafer and David Klerkx Thomas and Maryellen Scott Michael and Janet Shatusky Clifford G. and Ingrid B. Sheldon Dr. Earl F. SherburnSteven and Lexy Shroyer Susan and Donald Sinta Marilyn S. and Ted A. Sleder Jerry and Sharon K. Smith Fred S. SpindelMr. and Mrs. John G. Sposito Samuel Jay StoormanJoseph and Sue Strazanac Thomas and Gretchen Sweeny James and Dorothy Symons Dr. William W. TaylorCary D. TedderGeorge W. and Mary Tewksbury The University of Michigan Club of

Greater DetroitDavid and Margaret Thompson David Frazier ThompsonMr. and Mrs. Howard P. Toplansky University of Michigan Club of

DownriverShirley VerrettElizabeth A. and David C. Walker Felix H. WangAlan and Jean Weamer Anita and Dennis Werling Nathan A. WhetsellElaine and Benjamin Whiteley Allen and Claire Wilcox Gregg and Kristen Wildes Robert S. Wirthlin, M.D.Alan and Emma Wright Michael Shoemaker Wright IIIMarion S. WyattBeth and Robert Zelony

$250-$499Family of S. AboukasmAccenture Foundation, Inc.Virginia K. AllenDr. James M. AnthonyHenry and Harlene Appelman David M. AsherDr. and Mrs. Robert Ause Carolyn AustinDonald and Shirley AxonTodd BakalTed and Karen Baker Jeremy and Linda Balmuth Susan and Benson Barr Gretchen Batra Marsha BellRobert H. BellairsHarry and Kathryn Benford Gwen BlumenscheinDuane C. and Lee Ann Bollert Tina and Jeffrey Bolton Janina and Christopher Bonwich Suzanne and Daniel Boyce David and Jan BrandonCalvin M. Braxton

Jacquelyn L. BrewerJames and Linda Brian Barbara and Ronald Broadley Charles and Maureen Brown Vincent M. BrysonDiane and Steven Budaj James Robert BurmeisterMary S. BurrisWilnella BushC. Robert Carson Jean W. CampbellBrent and Valerie Carey John and Barbara Castellana Dr. and Mrs. Conan J. Castle Donald and Maureen Chamberlain Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Chappell Anne M. ChaseBruce and Lucille Chin Jack and Eileen Chisholm Robert and Pat Chlum Norman and Claudia Chmielewski Thecla F. ChomiczSteven and Elizabeth Christensen Russell L. ChristopherCigna FoundationRobert ClarkRobert W. ConleyTina and Tom Conner Robert and Cynthia Conover Wayne and Patricia Cooke William and Christine Cooper Miles and Margaret Cowdrey Clifford and Laura Craig Cerina and C. William Criss Jean C. CrumpMr. and Mrs. Speers M. Crumrine Mary C. CurrieRobert W. CurtisDr. Robert I. CutcherCarole and Gerald Damon Clark and Janice De Jonge Ronald E. DeanMark and Paula DeBofsky Trudy Cobb DennardDarlene and Paul DeRubeis Harold J. DeutscherKenneth and Judith DeWoskin Richard and Jo Ann Dionne Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Dobson Kirk Donaldson and Kristin

Guenther DTE Energy FoundationTed and Joan Durst Eaton Charitable FundMary and John Eckman Edison InternationalPatrick K. ElkinsLinda Bischak EtterRandall and Jane Evans John W. EvertsKaris and Randall Faust Bruce and Ruth Field Margaret A. FillionStephen Fisher and Anne Heacock Stephen A. FlanneryWilliam and Pamela Flom Bruce Flynn and Kathryn

Mulholland

Douglas Franklin and Carole Strait Janet and Erik Fredricksen Ursula R. FreimarckWilliam and Sabine Friedman Janet and David Fritsch Roger and Linda Geary Elizabeth and Geoff Gephart Thomas and Mary Gething Dr. Timothy and Kathleen M.

Gietzen Dennis J. and Debra E. Gmerek Goldstick Insurance Agency, Inc.Barbara C. GomezJohn and Susan Goodrich and Peter E. Goodstein Steven and Christine Gosik Kristen E. K. GossCozette T. GrabbEsther and Julius Grau Diane and Saul Green Joel and Julia Greenblatt Thomas and Charlene Gregory Martha and William Grimes Stacey GrimmTrudy and Robert Grimmer George E. GroehslAnne L. HagiwaraDr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Hammel Herbert S. Hammond IIILynn Alice HansenCharlotte HansonRichard N. Harper, Jr.Harold and Norma Harrington Dr. Richard Van HarrisonThomas and Cheryl Harsay Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Hatch Larry Hauptman and Andrea

Streeter Thomas and Alice Haverbush William C. HeinKaren and Jason Heindl Mr. and Mrs. David A. Helms Constance and William Hensley Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Heroy Betsy and Theodore Hershberg Lorna and Mark Hildebrandt Tom and Myrna Hitchman Dennis G. HofferJesse A. Holshouser IIIHSBC North AmericaRaymond and Janice B. Ikola Mark and Kimberly Janich Janet and Wallie Jeffries Eric JohnsonMartha W. JohnsonJohnson Controls FoundationJanet and Ken Platt Thomas M. JubbNathan and Christina Judson Pat and Bob Kahn David L. KaneKathleen W. KaneNaomi M. Kane, M.D.Michael and Kimberly Kardasz Herbert E. KatzDebra E. KatzmanRobert P. and Jeri Anne Kelch

The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. James N. Kent

Nancy A. KleinDrs. William Klykylo & Dorothyann

Feldis Janet and John Knapp N. Peter KnollBonnie and Al Koch Mark Steven KoehnekeAnthony and Susan Konovaliv Karen and Paul Krajewski William H. Krebs, Ph.D.Ann and George Kruszewski Barbara Hoddy KulkisSteven J. KushnerDr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Kutt William and Patricia Lakey Jean A. LakinAnne C. LampeJames and Karen Lancendorfer Jerry R. and Mary C. Langenkamp Donald J. Lewis and Carolyn Dana

Lewis Lennart and Betty Lofstrom Virginia L. Lootens-PalmerJennifer S. LoweShelley MacMillan and Gary Decker Dougald and Tiffany MacNaughton Robert and Michaela Malecki Melvin and Jean Manis Ann Martin and Russell Larson David R. MartinDouglas J. MartinIrwin and Fran Martin Nancy Ann and John W. Mason Dr. Patricia Matusky-YamaguchiWinifred MayesGary and Mary Maynard Joy McClendon and Jeffrey Lee Alan McCord and Anne McKee Joan and Harry McCreary Michael P. McDonaldJill McDonough and Greg

Merriman Erin L. McGarryRegent Emerita Rebecca McGowanWilbert and Virginia McKeachie Tom and Debby McMullen Dr. and Mrs. James McNamara, Jr. Dr. Allen S. MehlerSantosh and Anita Mehra Diane and Michael Mehringer Karen E. MernoffDr. Bonnie L. MetzgerDorothy and Robert Metzger Thomas and Jeanette Meyer Joseph and Jean Middleton Jean MientusCynthia and Richard Miiller Dr. and Mrs. David L. Miller David and Carol Mitchell Elizabeth A. MorrisonTheodore J. MuellerKathryn Mulholland and Bruce

Flynn Charles and Sharon Newman Betty R. NixonNorth Star Investment

Management Corp

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Colin and Nancy Oatley Harry T. OngAbe Arthur OsserSteven OvitskyMichael P. ParinKristina D. Pasko, J.D.Michelle L. PateRobert and Rebecca Peacock Jerome P. and Marianne H. Pesick PharmaciaBob and Pam Phillips Nancy S. PickusRobert C. PierceLloyd and Carol Plantier PNC FoundationDan and Nancy Pressley Gregory Warren QuickNancy and Lawrence Quinn Joel A. RappaportDonald J. and Kathryn L. Ray Susan H. ReinachMalverne ReinhartBruin and Sarah Richardson Joseph and Karen Ricotta Linda and Richard Ridley Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Riedel Steven H. RigaDr. Joseph A. Rinaldo, Jr.Harold E. RobisonMr. and Mrs. James P. Rogers Robert A. RosiekDick RushlowMatthew and Lorrie Russo Stewart RyckmanStuart Erwin SacksJohn and Mary Schippel Frederick and Diane Schmid Carl V. Schmult, Jr.Grace and William Schoedel Mr. and Mrs. John M. Schrenk Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Schuessler Harriet C. SelinShar Products CompanyJames A. and Elizabeth B. Sharpe Prof. Kay K. Shelemay, Ph.D.Thomas and Mary Shields Kathryn and Randall Shirts Mark Sikora and Anne Fras Dr. and Mrs. Brooks Sitterley Nancy and Howard Slater James S. SlosbergPriscilla A. and Frederick Smith Ralph and Janet Smith Mr. and Mrs. Radley M. Smith Sara and David Smith Wilbur and Fusako Smith Susan M. Smith and Robert Gray Donald and Elaine Stevenson Dr. Carolee StewartMr. and Mrs. William A. Stout Roger Gordon StutesmanTimothy A. SupolAnn and John Syverson Phyllis J. Thornton, M.D.Janene and Jerry Tice John and Stacie Ann Tonkin U of M Alumni Band

Phyllis A. ValentineMr. and Mrs. Charles H. Van

Deusen Mark and Kate Van Sumeren Vicky Velich-HamrickPamela and Kirt Vener Verdi Opera TheatreRita and John Versace John and Susan Wacksmuth Brent WagnerRoger and Susan Waller Donna R. WardJames and Gloria Webley Sandra and Jeffrey Weintraub Wells Fargo FoundationFloyd E. WerleEdson A. WhippleMary Ann WhippleBen WhiteleyThomas and Ronna Whitten John A. WickeyDianne Widzinski and James

Skupski James and Sandra Wilkins David L. WilliamsMarguerite A. WinterJ. Greer and Harvey Wolfson Thomas and Andrea Woo Ross and Debra Woodhams Patrick J. WoodmanElizabeth and Walter Work Christopher and Heather-Lee

Wysong Jeanne and Paul Yhouse Helen N. YoungJames and Gladys Young Matthew D. ZerbelDavid and Kathleen Zmyslowski Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Zoller Stephen Zuckerman and Darlene

Kaplan

$100-$249Anonymous (6)Abbott FundCarolyn and Ronald Abramovich Dr. and Mrs. Hanley N. Abramson Morton and Barbara Achter Victor and Michelle Adamo M.E. AdamsTim and Leah Adams Barbara and Robert Agsten Christopher and Julie Aichler Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Aitchison Sarah K. AlbrightAmerican International GroupAmeriprise FinancialDr. and Mrs. Martin E. Amundson Richard A. AndersenChris and Paula Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Perry L. Anderson Waldie A. AndersonRobert E. AnkromDavid and Jean Anthony Helen E. AnthonyMary M. Appelt, M.D.Michelle J. Arden and T. Akin

Roger D. ArnettGary and Geri Arnold John C. AseltineDrs. Deborah and Jeffrey Ash George and Darcy Ashley AT&T FoundationWilliam and Patricia Austin Frances Horne AveraJohn and Barbara Bacarella George E. BaconDenyse Nia R. BagleyAnne C. BakerPamela and Dennis Baker Daniel and Barbara Balbach Donnell and Mary Ballard Jeffrey T. BallastDr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Bander Fern R. BarberJohn and Monica Barbour Barbara M. BarclayBurton and Lenora Barnes John and Janet Barnfather Baroque Violin ShopThomas and Sandra Barrett Donna M. BarrowBASF CorporationGeorge BasharaCarl Battishill and Mary Kleam Dr. and Mrs. Walter Bauer Richard and Anne Bauman William S. BeamanRichard M. BeasleyRobert T. BeattieAlfred R. Becker, Jr.Edward and Jean Becker Linda S. BeckerThe Beckham Group, Inc.Catherine and James Behrendt Dr. David Orr BelcherLouis and Jane Belcher Dr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Bell, Jr. Elizabeth A. BellWilliam D. BellDouglas W. and Jill D. Benner M. June and Clyde Bennett Richard P. BennettDr. and Mrs. Roger A. Berg Jill and Thomas R. Berglund Darlene Berkovitz and Robert Zinn Douglas C. BernsteinDr. and Mrs. Joshua Berrett Steven F. BestKenneth and Judy Betz Roberta and Keith Beverly Laurie and Gregory Biggs Raymond and Wendy Biggs Eric and Doris Billes Gerald and Darlene Binder Mr. and Mrs. William W. Bing Joan A. Binkow Carol S. BirdDorothy and Jerry Blackstone Emerson B. BlairDavid T. BloomfieldBoeing CompanyRonald and Mimi Bogdasarian H.T. and Dorothy Bogosian

C. Jane BookWilliam and Annlee Boonstra Dr. and Mrs. Morris Bornstein Dorothy J. BorstMr. and Mrs. Bliss Bowman Richard J. BowmanKurt and Judith Brandle Bonnie and Todd Brandstadt Russell J. BraunElaine and Jere Brophy Mary L. BroughtonAlan S. BrownCarol and Baird Brown Craig and Laura Brown Gary and Diane Brown Mark Brown and Heather Pelisek Nancy Hallsten BrownBrenda Kee and Wayne Brown Barbara Bruno and Steven Harris Mark J. BrunsmanLynn BucciRobert and Jeannine Buchanan Mathew J. BuchmanGina E. BuntsThomas M. BurchmanDr. Phillip E. BurgessJeanne Burgess-GutierrezKevin L. BurnerPaul and Susan Burnett Beth J. BurnhamM. David and Pamela Bushouse James D. ButtThomas A. ButtsEllen and Mark Cady Prof. and Mrs. Albert C. Cain Victor E. Calcaterra, M.D.David and Linda Calzone Susan and Oliver Cameron Glen R. CampbellJean W. Campbell Evelyn CannonThomas L. Capua, Sr.Bradley and Jennifer Carlson David Carlson and Judy Tsou John L. and Carolyn L. Carr Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Cary Timothy and Janis Casai Edward S. CassedyGraham W. CasserlyRuth S. Challender Craig R. ChamberlainRobert and Elspeth Chambers Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. Chapekis,

Sr. Jeannine and Stephen Chapman Mimi Chapman and Dietmar

Wagner William Chapman and Michele

Cherniga H. Yvonne Cheek, Ph.D.Kathleen Cho and Eric Fearon Jill and M. Allen Chozen Iain and Stephanida Christie Jill Chukerman Test and Thomas

Test Catherine A. Churgay, M.D.Theodore CiganikMatthew and Christina Clapham

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JoAnn and Roy Claps Helen and David Clark Perry D. ClarkArdell Hardy ClelandChristine M. ClewellRichard Edward CoffeyRobert and Mary CoffeyAlice S. CohenMarian Cohen and Sheldon Ginns Charlene B. ColegroveJerre and Ross Conran Consumers Energy FoundationPaul and Laurie Cook Hal CooperMr. and Mrs. James L. Copeland Theodora Y. CopleyJames T. and Patricia Corden David S. CortrightJoanna and Richard Cortright Dean W. CostonMary and Patrick Cotter Dr. Diane L. CottrellJohn and Rosalyn Coury Stafford G. Cox, Ph.D.Lois Wilson-CrabtreeThomas and Maria Cranmer Prof. and Mrs. C. Merle Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Crawford Julie and John Crispin Edith Morris CroakeDaniel W. CrofootMichael J. Cromwell IVGaret N. CrosbyTheora M. and Thomas G. Cultice Dr. Michael G. CunninghamPeter and Jennie Dalton Constance J. D’AmatoRobert and Joyce Damschroder Phyllis DanielsLee and Millie Danielson Denise and Wayne Dannels Charles H. DavidsonMarit DaviesJanet E. Fasse Davis and James E.

Davis Janet C. DavisDr. and Mrs. Robert E. Davis Sheldon DavisRobert and Barbara Ream Debrodt Marie E. DeemCarolyn and Terry Deibel Stuart B. Delaney

Eric A. DelzerRoger and Gloria DeMeritt Karen A. DeMolCarol R. DennisDr. and Mrs. Francisco Deogracias David DeVollAndrew and Elizabeth DeWitt Elizabeth DexterDr. Marc R. DickeyJoan DicksonMichael P. DicuirciGordon and Elaine Didier Albert R. DilleyXiao-Li DingDelbert Dean DisselhorstJean DolegaSharon Lee DolegaStephen and Ann Donawick Carol and Dennis Dooley Donald J. DoskeyLori Dostal and Keith Latham Dr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Dow Kathleen M. and Daniel G. Dow Dr. Brian K. DoyleJohn R. and Mary G. Dresser Dale and Betty Drew Lillian G. DruryJeannette Duane and Douglas

Shapiro Peter A. DuboisE. Roy DuffRonald and Kristina Dugas Sharon and Gary DuLong Joel and Merijo Dulyea Meneve Dunham Connie R. DunlapJennifer and Christopher Dwan Dr. and Mrs. Franklin E. Dybdahl Kelly A. DyerDebbie and Joseph Eagen Deborah and B.H. Early Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Eckert Chris and Linda Edgar Steven L. EglerLisa Eichler and Stephen Crump Michele Eickholt and Lee Green Neil EisenbergMr. and Mrs. Charles R. Eisendrath James and Kathleen Ekeberg Peter T. EkstromThe Honorable and Mrs. S.J. Elden Eleanor G. Voldrich

Dr. Charles and Julie Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon M. Ellis Bob A. ElyJames and Joan Emerson Sharon EricksonJanet Ann EvansLynn and Janice Evans Exelon CorporationJennifer and Brent Fairfield Frederick J. FarranAnn and Robert Farrington Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Farris John and Margaret Faulkner Joseph and Michele Ann Fazio Dr. and Mrs. David K. Felbeck Roy Norris FeldhusenPhyllis and Phillip Fellin Karen E. and John G. Ferguson Ramona Fernandez and Donald

Barry Julie R. FerriesRobert M. FerrisMartha and Lewis Fickett Geri FieldsCarol FinermanPatricia and Peter Fink David A. FinnKaren and Charles Flachs Jeffrey K. FlemingBeverly and Gordon Flynn Jessica Fogel and Lawrence Weiner Christine C. FolaronDr. Richard A. FoleyRachel and Terry Ford Richard and Virginia Forrestel Millicent V. FossMalcolm and Marilyn Foster Mr. and Mrs. Claude A. Fouse Howard P. FoxM. Beatrice and William Fox Derek and Pamela Francis Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Freed Mary Frey and James McKay Martha Frey and Robert T. Collins Helen FridericiLeon and Marcia Friedman Marilyn L. FriedmanMr. and Mrs. James T. Frost William L. and Barbara L. Fuller Peri and Patty Gagalis Kathleen O’Brien GageEnid H. Galler

Kevin J. GarryJeffrey and Nicole Gdowski Lois A. GdowskiGE FoundationJanice R. GeddesDr. Herbert G. Geisler, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Gelehrter General Mills FoundationGordon and Connie George Steven and Joyce Gerber Samuel and Heather Gere Robert C. and Carol A. Gerisch Michael GerstenbergerBeth Wilkinson GiacobassiConstantine and Ann Gianakaris Cheryl and N. Gibbs Nancy and Christopher Gibbs Colvin L. and Mary Gibson Dr. and Mrs. Peter J. Gilbert Lauran and Stephen Gilbreath Grant P. GilezanDr. and Mrs. Gary Gillespie Tara M. GillespieSusan and Alan Gillmor Sandra and Gerald Gimelstob Philip H. GirouxGary Glaze and Cynthia Munzer Dr. and Mrs. Karl J. Glenn Dr. and Mrs. James Glinski Howard and Viviana Gluckman Dr. and Mrs. Martin E. Gluckstein Edie Goldenberg Mr. and Mrs. George D. Goodman Robert GordonLouise L. GossAlbert GottesmanArthur Gottschalk and Shelley

Johnson William GraberCaptain Joseph F. Gradisher, USNKenneth and Deborah Granke Ellen and Wallace Grant Elizabeth and Carl Grapentine Jason GrauchMichelle Graveline and Kent Stout Jerry and Mary Gray Susan Keith GrayAnthony J. GrecoMamie L. GreeneRichard D. Greer, Jr.William Leo GreggClifford Lowell GregorySonja and Mohinder Grewal Irita and Robert Grierson Dr. Richard F. GrunowKenneth and Vivian Gudan Vishal and Shaila Gupta Robert S. GurwinPeter and Virginia Gustafson Richard and Mabeth Gyllstrom Peter B. Haag, P.E.David and Judith A. Haas Dr. Jack HachigianDon Haefner and Cynthia Stewart Dr. Ramin HaghgooieSusan and Thomas Hagstrom Alice Berberian Haidostian

“The times are tough for everyone these days, including my

family, and I truly wouldn’t be able to be here without my

scholarship. … You are on the top of my list of people to thank

when I win my first Tony!”

Maddy Trumble, musical theatreCairn Endowed Scholarship Fund

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Jay and Margery Haite Barbara L. HallAnthony J. HalloinJudith Huber Halseth, Ed.D.Margo HalstedDavid and Sis Hamilton John and Janet Hamilton Patricia and Frederick Hamilton James and Jean Hammond Charlene and Walton Hancock Dr. and Mrs. William C. Handorf Grace H. HanninenRebecca Happel and David

Mexicotte Linda and James Hargett Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Harrell Linda and Skip Harrington Laurelynne and George Harris Katherine and Tyrell Harris Mimi HarrisAvis Lowery HarveyRichard L. Harvey, M.D.Eila K. HaubrichJames and Roberta Hause Karen M. HauseNancy and Wendel HeersCharles S. HeftmanMary and Rodger Heglar Paul and Maryanne Heidemann James O. and Kathryn V. Heier Dr. Clinton L. HeimbachGary C. HeitmanAlyce and Dennis Helfman Kirsten Hellman and William

Frogameni Sylvia and Ted Hellums Dr. Caroline G. HeltonJohn and Joyce Henderson Phillip and Mary Lou Henderson Douglas A. HenryCharles J. and Allyson J. Henstock Daniel J. HeppFrederick A. HerbertMargaret and Jan Herbst Robert D. HerremaDr. and Mrs. Keith Heslinger Hewitt Associates LLCMartha L. HickelThomas and Helen Higby Roger D. Hilbert, M.D.Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Hill James HillRobert S. HinesThomas C. HoeberlingJared J. HoffertAmy Lynn HofingDoris Jean HolbrookPatricia and Daniel Holland Charles M. Hollis IIIDave and Patricia Holman Catherine and James Holt Mark A. HoltzerMichael G. HolzJeffrey P. HomKaren Smith HomsherTodd and Nancy Hoover Garabed and Brooke Hoplamazian

Barbara Hopps and Thomas Stoppelberg

Davetta J. HornerKeith Horngren and Katherine

Erdman Ronit and Hayden Horowitz David and Susan Horvath Douglas and Kerry Hoverson Logan W. Hovis, M.D.Howard T. HowardMr. and Mrs. John E. N. Howard Dr. and Mrs. L. Rowell Huesmann Ruth and Harry Huff William and Sarah Hufford Dr. Ralph M. HulettGene HullinghorstWilliam F. HulskerDr. Ann D. HungermanJulia Huttar BaileyMr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Irwin Karen and Andrew Isble Tanya and Jerold Israel John M. and Jean Jabe Gregory P. and Marcia Jablonski Elaine and Emil Jackinchuk Susan L. JacklinBruce and Leonor Jacobson Jean JacobsonJacquelyn A. Brewer Daniel Jay JaffeBelle JaniszewskiDwain and Christine Jansson Marie and Thomas Jarboe Michelle L. JasterDr. Warren W. JaworskiJohn I. JayProf. Jerome M. JelinekJerry R. JelsemaGail and Andrew Jennings Paul and Genevieve Shanklin

Johnson Joseph R. JohnsonStardust K. JohnsonThomas G. JohnsonCarol and Victor Johnson Helen and Robert Jones Linda and Stephan Jones Robert W. JonesProf. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Jones

Peter James JordanCharles and Judith Judge Michael R. JulienDouglas and Jean Kahl Robert and Beatrice Kahn Ann and Daniel Kalvelage Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Kan Prof. and Mrs. Gordon Kane Adrienne Kaplan and Harold Borkin H. David KaplanDivisha KapurDavid and Caryl Kassoy Mary Ann KeelerElizabeth J. KellerMichael R. KellermannErnest and Sally Kelly William J. KellyCharles A. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Kennedy Ronald and Dolores Kennis Ruth and Dennis Kenny Alan KevwitchFrederick and Luise Kienzle Mr. and Mrs. Allen F. Kindt Jenny Lungershausen KingSara and Fred King Lucinda KipRhea K. Kish Christopher and Nicola Kiver Carl and Helen KleisKevin and Karen Kline Hermine Roby KlinglerMr. and Mrs. Lynn E. Klock Ulrike KlopferChristine and Paal Klykken Ian R. KnauerMary KnolesJoseph and Renee Kochanek Dr. Gale R. KramerPamela and Robert Kramer Stuart M. KraneWilliam and Claudia Kretzschmar Samuel and Marilyn Krimm Paul H. KubitskeyMr. and Mrs. Leo Kulka Laurie and Eric Kuper Jeffrey and Kelly Kurburski Margaret and Damon Kvamme

Thomas La BossiereAnn L. LabounskyDouglas N. LaBrecqueGeoffrey and Barbara Laham Guido Marcus LamellSusan and Timothy Lamothe Jack and Noelle Landin Barbara Lanese and Ken Grimm Calvin and Yvonne Langejans Heather and Stephen Langs John and Linda Larin Robert LarmMyra A. Larson, Ph.D.Patricia M. LarsonPeter M. LarsonSiu-Man K. LauJerold and Judith Lax Dr. and Mrs. Victor B. Lebedovych Anna and David Lee Jung-Goo Lee and Mi Gyung Kim William and Jeri Lee Steven Lentz and Patricia Perrine Donald A. Leopold, M.D.Max Lepler and Rex L. Dotson Mirtha S. LeslieLouis and Alicia Lessard Shwu and Yuk Leung Constance and Leon Level John and Kathy Levinson Dorothy Hall LewisRobert and Margaret Lewis Frederick B. LiCathy and Rene Lichtman Katherine K. LightDorothy LimEmilie L. LinJudith LindnerWayne and Georgia Lindstrom Janet and Philip Lineer Donna R. LittlejohnOleg and Susan

Lobanov-Rostovsky Miranda and Gerald Lockhart Louis Loeb and Tully Lyons Lawrence L. Lokuta, Sr.Joe L. Long, D.M.A.Dr. Kathryn Louise LongLinda and Roger Long

“I am extremely grateful to have received the Joseph Brinkman

Memorial Scholarship in Piano, which helped in making the

difficult decision between the University of Michigan and

several other of the nation’s best music schools where I was

offered admission. In the time I have spent here thus far, I am

convinced that I made the right decision.”

Jonathan C. Cook, pianoJoseph Brinkman Memorial Scholarship

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Richard O. LongfieldDavid A. LootensColonel and Mrs. Carl W. Lord Christine M. LoyerJane and Kenneth Lucas Ivan Ludington, Jr.Barrett and Kathryn Ludlow John Ludlow and Kathryn Davies Dr. John D. LudlowBarbara and Frederick Ludwig Mr. and Mrs. Terry M. Lurtz Kirstin LurtzRosemary E. LutzJudith A. and George J. Zubrickas James MacDonaldGregory and Wendy MacKenzie S. J. MacKinneyRobert and Katherine MacMillan Madeleine and Philip Macy Gregg E. and Merilee J. Magnuson Richard Ali MaierPamela Maker and Chris Benson Barbara Manica and Phillip Wein Beverly J. MankoDeborah and Michael Manley Robert W. and Judith A. Marans Prof. Milan Marich, Jr.Michael L. MarkRoberta and Stanley Marks W. Harry MarsdenMarsh & McLennan Companies,

Inc.Barbara and Emmery Martin Christine Ragonetti MartinMr. and Mrs. Terence B. Martin Margaret MartinMr. and Mrs. Charles F. Martyn David G. MartynuikEugene Mason and Maricela

Alarcon Marleta Hill MathesonMichael K. MathewsLaurie T. MayersOlivia P. Maynard and S. Olof

Karlstrom Kevin and Wendy Mazer Ramona MazurDr. Lisa MazziaDr. William J. McCannDr. Marie F. McCarthyKatherine and John McCarty Mark and Lisa McClure John and Mary McCollum Lon and Marian McCollum David and Gabriela McCubbrey James Clair McCulloughDrs. Richard A. and Linda L.

McGowan Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McGrath Michael S. McGrawMargaret McKinley and Dan

Ketelaar Michael and Josephine McLennan Robert W. McMillanMr. and Mrs. James O. McNamee David and Marise McNeeley William H. and Marilyn M. McNitt Michael K. McStraw

Laura McTaggart and Thomas Nolan

Robert L. McVeanDr. and Mrs. R. Charles Medlar Kirsten H. MeisterDonald F. Melhorn, Jr.Merck Company FoundationDavid Meretta and Amy

Checkoway Dr. Scott MessingProf. Robert C. MetcalfWilliam and Shirley Meyers Judith and Thomas Mich Mr. C. Conrad Miller and Ms.

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