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ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

Tuesday, January 28, 1997 Westbrook Auditorium and Evelyn Chapel

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hrough his work as a composer, teacher, and musical citizen, Joseph Schwantner stands at the center of contemporary American

musical life. His colorful, richly expressive music has earned him the acclaim of his fellow composers as well as the concert-going public.

Dr. Schwantner was born in Chicago and is currently Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music of the University of

Rochester, where he has been on the faculty since 1970; he has also served on the faculty of the Juilliard School. Schwantner received his musical and academic training at the Chicago Conser' vatory and Northwestern University, completing a doCtorate in 1968.

Schwantner was Composer-In-Residence with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra as part of the Meet The Composer/ Orchestra Residencies Program funded by the Exxon Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His partnership in St. Louis with Music Director Leonard Slatkin, a champion of con­ temporary American music, raised the profile of new music by American composers significantly and attracted new audiences not only for Schwantner's work but also for that of the young and lesser­ known composers whose music he and Slatkin chose for programming.

Schwantner has further served the profession through membership on many panels relating to the role and future of concert music in America; he is an authority on the state of the American orchestra.

Dr. Schwantner's orchestral composition Aftertones of Infinity received the 1979 Pulitzer Prize in Music. His works Magabunda, "four poems of Agueda Pizarro" and A Sudden Rainbow earned Grammy nominations for their recordings by the St. Louis Symphony.

Schwantner has also received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, and the Kennedy Center, among many others.

He has been commissioned by such organizations as the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Schwantner's music has been recorded by many luminaries of the con­ cert world, including soprano Dawn Upshaw, flutist Ransom Wilson, guitarist Sharon Isbin, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the New

York New Music Ensemble. Virtually every important symphony orchestra and new-music ensemble in the United States has performed Schwantner's music, and his work has received many significant performances in Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan.

This year's Symposium not only presents Dr. Schwantner's music but also reflects some of his concerns as an artist. Music and Poetry, the subject of our afternoon panel discussion, is a topic which Dr. Schwantner chose himself. His involvement with poetry is deep; some of his compositions are based on his original verse, and he has found a deep well of musical inspiration in the work of the Latin American poet Agueda Pizarro. Dr. Schwantner is also an admirer of the contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Part, whose music of luminous austerity, informed by a profound religious faith, is a welcome antidote to the all-too-frequent cheapness and mania of modern life.

Although Schwantner and Part evolved completely independently of each other, and neither one's music could ever be mistaken for the other'S, at tonight's concert we will have the privilege of hearing what these two masterful composers of our age have in common: a poetic, sometimes mystical sensibility; a gift for writing harmonies which are achingly beautiful and simple-sounding, yet abs'o lutely fresh and uncliched; and an almost palpably visual sense of light and darkness, evoking the shadows and glimmerings of the human soul.

OOestbrook . ~uaitorium 4:00 P.M.

Panel Discussion

@;$tusic ana 8}Joetry Participants: Dr. Schwantner Prof. Marina Salina (Chair, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature)

Prof. J . Michael Cooper (Music) Prof. Patricia Klingenberg (Modern and Classical Languages and Literature)

Prof. James McGowan (English) Prof. Julie Prandi (Modern and Classical Languages and Literature)

Moderator: Prof. David Vayo (Music)

{§velyn �hapet 7:30 P.M. Music of Joseph SchwantRer and Arvo Part Magnificat

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Chamber Singers, J. Scott Ferguson, Director

In Memory's Embrace ......................Joseph Schwantner Camerata, Vadim Mazo, Director

yollowing "In Memory's Embrace," the audience is requested to walk across the street to Westbrook Auditorium.

Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro ...............Joseph Schwantner Shadowinnower Black Anemones

Kathy Linger, soprano William West, piano

From a Dark Millenium

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Wind Ensemble, Steven W. Eggleston, Director

@7"1; question and answer session with Dr. Schwantner will immediate�y follow tonight's concert .

yollowing the Q&A session, the audience is cordially invited to a reception in honor �r Dr. Schwantner, courtesy �r Delta Omicron, in the School �r Music Reception Room .

@nsembte CJJe'lsonnet Chamber Singers J.

Scott Ferguson, Director

Soprano

Tenor

Rebekah Askeland Maria Fifelski Sadie Gaughan Jamie-Rose Guarrine Julie Guzowski Sarah Klusak Sandy Schweitzer Lyndee White

Derek Dahlke Jared Johnson Michael Pechman Gregory Tittle

Alto

Bass

Allison Atteberry Rebecca Bogar Rebecca Davis Teresa Trost Sarah Zumdahl

Robert Elfline Alfred Hannon Richard Kaminski Seth Keeton Elliott Marshall Nott

. Camerata Vadim Mazo, Director

Violin I

Viola

Nicole Frey, concertmaster Gina Lauer, co-concertmaster Erika Siaba Jaime Rukstales Nobu Sato

Fred Meyer, principal Jennifer Krowka Ben Johnson

Violin II Sharon Chung, principal Laura Lulusa Luke Herman Deborah Cha

Cello Andrea Schripsema, principal Karl Knapp Vanessa Rogers Karl Lavine ((acuIty)

Bass Andrew Giller

Wind Ensemble Steven W. Eggleston, Director

Flute/Piccolo

Trombone

Judith Eckerle* Allison Isbrandt- piccolo Laura Standard- piccolo

Guy Kelpin* Mark Thomson Victor Anderson Robert Weemhoff (bass)

Oboe/English Horn Allison Baker· Jill Parsons- English horn Lia Weller

Tuba Brent Kastor* .

String Bass Bassoon

Andrew Giller

Jeni Phelps* Paul Powers

Piano Rob Elfline

Bb Clarinet Susan Sipos· Catherine Webb- bass clarinet Emily Kuhn- bass clarinet

Celeste Mina Kim

Percussion Horn

Holly Gray Erik Heine Doug Meis Dan Solovitz* Dan Witte

Peter Gilbert· Beth Ribble Christy Tucker Phil Davis

Trumpet Brian Niebuhr· Peter Weber Olivia Malin

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eSymposium o� crgontempolalY @:lUusic Guest Composers Performers 1954-1997 •

1954: 1955: 1956: 1957: 1958: 1959: 1960: 1962: 196�: 1964:

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Scholars

Normand Lockwood, Robert Palmer Wallingford Riegger, Peter Mennin Hunter Johnson, Ulysses Kay Ernst Krenek, William Bergsma Aaron Copland Paul Pisk, George Rochberg Roy Harris Robert Erickson, George Rochberg, Glenn Glasow Robert Wykes, Alabama String Quartet Robert Wykes, E. J. Ulrich, Salvatore Martirano, Herbert Brlin, Ben Johnston

1966: Louis Coyner, Edwin Harkins, Philip Winsor, Edwin London 1967: Frederick Tillis, George Crumb 1968: lain Hamilton 1969: The Loop Group, DePaul University 1970: Halim El-Dabh, Oily Wilson 1971: Edward J. Miller 1972: Stravinsky Memorial Concert 197�: Courtney Cox, Phil Wilson 1974: Scott Huston 1975: David Ward-Steinman 1976: Donald Erb 1977: Lou Harrison, Ezra Sims 1978: M. William Karlins 1979: Leonard B. Meyer 1981: Walter S. Hartley 1982: David Ward-Steinman 198�: George Crumb 1984: Robert Bankert, Abram M. Plum, R. Bedford Watkins 1985: Michael Schelle 1986: Jean Eichelberger Ivey 1987: Jan Bach 1988: John Beall 1989: Hale Smith 1990: Karel Husa 1991: Alice Parker 199�: (Sprinp) Alexander Aslamazov 199�: (Fall) Leslie Bassett, John Crawford (Society of Composers, Inc. Region 5 Conference)

1995: 1996: 1997:

David Diamond Morton Gould Memorial Concert Joseph Schwantner