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UA alumni Glendon Gross Published in the May 2019 Brass Herald

June 6, 2019

Congratulations to UA alumni Glendon Gross for his article “Pacho Flores Master Class” published in the May 2019 issue of the Brass Herald!

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

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University of Arizona Vocal Arts Showcase, Third Annual
Saturday, October 17, 7:00 p.m.
ONLINE-YouTube Premier Event Broadcast

UA Vocal Arts Gala Concert

Features the winners from the Dr. Larry Day and Marguerite Ough Memorial Voice Competitions

Exciting finalist award performances from the UA Wildcat Competition for High School Singers.

University of Arizona Wildcat Competition for High School Singers Finalist Master Class
with Distinguished Voice and Opera Theater Faculty of the University of Arizona
Dr. Kristin Dauphinais, Dr. Andrew Stuckey, Prof. Yunah Lee, Prof. Cynthia Stokes

This Master Class will feature the exciting young finalists in the University of Arizona Wildcat Competition for High School Singers who will be working on their performance technique with the faculty of the University of Arizona Voice and Opera Theater.
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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

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The University of Arizona
College of Fine Arts, Fred Fox School of Music
Tucson, Arizona

PRESENTS:
Music + Festival 2020: Gershwin, Reich, Bolcom
Festival director: Daniel Asia
Guest artists: Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone; Paula Fan, piano
October 9-12, 2020

The Thirteenth Annual Music+Festival will present the music of George Gershwin (1898-1937), Steve Reich (b. 1936), and William Bolcom (b. 1938), and includes a symposium, three concerts, a presentation, and a film. The festival will feature guest speakers, performers and composer, as well as distinguished UA faculty and students.

All events will be online, free admission and open to the public.

Links will be available at (one week prior to the events).

Film:

Friday, October 9, 5:00-6:10 p.m. (PDT)

“The Russian Gershwin” – Post Classical Ensemble in collaboration with WWFM Joseph Horowitz, Angel Gil-Ordoñez; Bill McGlaughlin (host)

Symposium:

Saturday, October 10, 2:30-4:00 p.m. (PDT)

The Music of George Gershwin, Steve Reich and William Bolcom

William Bolcom; Russell Hartenberger; Joseph Horowitz, presenters

Concert I:

Saturday, October 10, 5:00-6:00 p.m. (PDT)

Chamber Music and Song of Gershwin, Reich and Bolcom

Kristin Dauphinais, mezzo-soprano; Paula Fan, piano; Morris Palter, percussion

Timothy Kantor, violin; Elena Miraztchiyska, piano

Concert II:

Sunday, October 11, 3:00 p.m. (PDT)

Piano Music of Gershwin, Reich and Bolcom

Michael Dauphinais; Daniel Linder, piano

Concert III:

Sunday, October 11, 5:00 p.m. (PDT)

Songs of Gershwin and Bolcom – Jeremy Huw Willliams, baritone; Paula Fan, piano

Presentation:

Monday, October 12, 5:00-6:00 p.m. (PDT)

Fred Fox School of Music Visiting Composers Series: William Bolcom, presenter

The Music+Festival is made possible with the support of:

The Apgar Foundation; The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation; The Sarah Scaife Foundation; Subaru of Tucson; Drs. Fran and Tim Orrok; Harvey Motulsky and Lisa Norton; I. Michael and Beth Kasser; Norman and Cassie Rogers; Mesch Clark and Rothschild; HBL CPAs; Jim Click Automotive Group, Classical 90.5 / Arizona Public Media; and the American Culture and Ideas Initiative.

Contact for more information:

Prof. Daniel Asia, asia@email.arizona.edu, 520-203-1660

Ingvi Kallen, ingvi@email.arizona.edu, 520-626-6320

Message from Festival Director, Daniel Asia:

"Dear Friends,

The 2020 Music+Festival: George Gershwin, Steve Reich, and William Bolcom will present the lives and music of these three composers within a rich and broad humanistic framework.

The festival consists of a film about Gershwin, a symposium providing the historical and artistic context in which the three composers lived and live, as well as what to listen for in this music; three concerts: one chamber music and song, one all-piano, and another all song; and finally and new for our festival format, a presentation by our visiting composer. The festival features faculty members and students of the Fred Fox School of Music, as well as guest artists, scholars, and performers.

The three composers in this festival have one great commonality: they all, in their own way, bridge the worlds of classical music and vernacular, or popular, music. Barriers are broken down, and the vista of what classical music can be, is vastly widened.

George Gershwin, born and bred in New York City, was a musical prodigy just waiting to happen. His parents, Russian Jews who immigrated to this country at the end of the 19th century, bought a piano for George's older brother, Ira, to learn to play. But when George sat down at the keyboard and knocked out a tune that he had only heard at someone’s house, the lessons were given to George instead. He studied piano and then composition from a young age, and even after dropping out of high school at age 15 to go write songs on Tin Pan Alley. His career straddled both sides of the musical tracks, writing songs, musicals, and then works for the concert stage that combined both jazz and classical, what was to be labeled third stream music a few decades later. He and his music were beloved by the classical musical giants of his age, including Heifetz, Klemperer and Schoenberg, and by many songwriters he was considered simply the best. He is a towering historical figure in the history of early American music, to be placed right up there with Ives and Copland, who unfortunately died tragically young.

Steve Reich was born into a Jewish family in New York City, his father a lawyer and his mother a songwriter. He studied and played percussion as a youth and was influenced not just by classical music but also by the burgeoning worlds of popular and jazz music. After studies at Cornell, primarily in philosophy, he attended Juilliard, and then Mills College where he studied with Milhaud and Berio. He

remained in the Bay Area for a number of years, playing in the first performance of the seminal Minimalist work of Terry Riley, In C, and creating his early tape works using the technique of phasing. Moving back to New York, where he has remained for his entire life, he began to write for acoustic instruments. His musical interests grew to include African drumming, Gamelan, and Hebrew cantillation. His latter highly structured works also include his interest in American speech, primarily through sampling, found street sounds, and a greater opening up to composers of the 20th century classical tradition. Among the first generation of minimalists, including Young, Riley and Glass, his output and musical journey is the most hermetic and hard-edged, a music of shimmering beauty and restrained ecstasy.

William Bolcom grew up in Seattle and attended the University of Washington starting at age 11 – another prodigy – where he studied composition and piano. And then like Reich, he studied at Mills with Darius Milhaud, then at Stanford University, and finally with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory. His earlier music is perhaps influenced by Harris and Bartok, and then composers of the European Avant-garde, including Boulez, Stockhausen and Berio. But then his style opened up to history and the American vernacular. He was part of the ragtime revival of the '70s, has written cabaret songs that he and his wife, the singer Joan Morris, perform in concert, and his musical language stretches wide. His "Songs of Experience," on the eponymous book of poems by William Blake, is set for gargantuan forces and speaks in many languages of music, including classical, pop, country, jazz etc. His is a music of the greatest eclecticism and stylistic diversity. It is a music of wide emotional expression that includes levity, humor and grace.

We are pleased and delighted that you are here to participate in this wonderful festival!"

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

University Community Chorus Virtual Webinar Series Fall 2020 Dr. Alyssa Cossey, director Free admission, open to the public For more information: ajcossey@arizona.edu

This fall, the University Community Chorus (with support from the Fred Fox School of Music) will be hosting a Virtual Webinar Series featuring live, interactive, choral lectures, sing-alongs, and events open to both chorus members and the general public. These free, bi-monthly events will be accessible live via Zoom or archived on the UCC Facebook page. The series will include eight events (on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month) throughout the fall with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the choral field. Topics will include: - Decolonization and Hawaiian Choral Music - An introduction to Shape-Note Singing - A pre-election event featuring a Q&A session with composer Andrea Ramsey on her newly completed Suffrage Cantata, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment - Multiple sing-along events, including an evening featuring music from the Justice Choir Movement, a Gospel Choir Night, and the series finale - a national Messiah sing-along co-hosted by Dr. David Rayl from Michigan State University! This exciting holiday event will include a pre-concert lecture, performances by guest soloists, and a sing-along concluding with Handel’s “Hallelujah” Chorus.

The webinar series is open to the public, and we hope that you can join us for one or all of the events this semester. For more detailed information about the series or questions about how to register, please contact Dr. Alyssa Cossey at: ajcossey@arizona.edu.

Webinar #3: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 – 6:00 p.m. (Arizona Time) "Women Composers of Korea"

Zoom Registration Link:

Webinar #4: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 – 6:00 p.m. (Arizona Time) "Gospel Choir Night"

Zoom Registration Link:

Webinar #5: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 – 6:00 p.m. (Arizona Time)

"This Is What Democracy Looks Like"

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Webinar #6: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 – 6:00 p.m. (Arizona Time)

"Music of Hawaii"

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Webinar #7: Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 – 6:00 p.m. (Arizona Time) "Sacred Harp/Shape-Note Sing-along"

Zoom Registration Link:

Webinar #8: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 – 6:00 p.m. (Arizona Time)

Messiah Sing-along (Special Night)

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

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Fred Fox School of Music alumnus Douglas-Jayd Burn is excited to return to the stage with Richmond Ballet as part of their September Studio performances from September 15th to the 29th. He will perform music by Enrique Granados and Franz Schubert that will accompany the choreography of Mate Szentes and Ma Cong. There are options for both in-person and virtual attendance, and more information is available at .

Douglas-Jayd Burn graduated from the University of Arizona in 2018 with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance. He expressed that he misses his alma mater, and sends warm greetings to all of us, students, alumni, faculty and staff!

A native of Richmond, Virginia, Douglas-Jayd Burn began serious musical study at age 18 and now holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Arizona (DMA 2018), the Hartt School (MM 2013), and Virginia Commonwealth University (BM 2007), studying with John Milbauer, David Westfall, and Dmitri Shteinberg respectively, and also studying organ with Ardyth Lohuis. He has appeared in master classes with Eric Larsen, Sonia Rubinsky, and Edward Newman. He has served as an instructor at the University of Arizona under the guidance of Lisa Zdechlik, and as a Teaching Fellow at the Hartt School. Burn also adjudicated for the 2020 Reno Tahoe Piano Competition and the Tucson Music Teachers Arizona Study Program in 2017.

Burn maintains an active career as a pianist and chamber artist. In Europe and the United States, he has performed with members of the Zürich Opera Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Deutsch Oper Berlin, Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and Richmond Symphony Orchestra. He was selected as the Academy Fellow Pianist for the Talis Festival’s 2018 and 2019 seasons. Burn has performed with Richmond Ballet and accompanied works choreographed by Jerome Robbins, Mate Szentes, and Ma Cong. As an organist, he is in frequent demand for both worship and concert settings throughout Virginia. He is currently the Organist/Music Assistant at Huguenot Road Baptist Church, and has previously served as Director of Music and Organist at the Unitarian Society of Hartford and Chester Presbyterian Church.

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

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We are delighted to announce Bolton Guitar Studies Virtual Series' event for this week featuring renown German luthier Antonius Müller.

This event is scheduled for Friday, September 18th at 11 a.m. (PST). The meeting will last one hour and a half, where Antonius will share his thoughts on guitar making and his own work. A Q&A segment will take place towards the end of the session.

To access the meeting simply go to the Bolton Guitar Studies website and click on the link for the Zoom meeting, found below the flyer:

The password to enter this virtual class will be sent by email to all interested parties. If you would like to be a part of this virtual class, please email Ana Maria Iordache (anamariaiordache@email.arizona.edu) and let her know your name and affiliation. ... See MoreSee Less

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

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Nuestra herencia hispana está llena de carácter, familia y comunidad, que está enlazado con nosotros para ser Wildcats de por vida. Nosotros nos esforzamos cada día para celebrar nuestra rica herencia en nuestro campo universitario. GATOS POR VIDA!

Our Hispanic Heritage is a vibrant thread of character, family and community, woven into our being like Wildcats for life. We strive to celebrate the rich heritage of our campus each day. GATOS POR VIDA! ... See MoreSee Less

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