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1956
In Memoriam
Bill Evans's (Class '56, Composition) previously unreleased June 1980 recordings at the Village Vanguard are available as a CD box set, entitled Turn Out the Stars, on the Warner Bros. label. The recordings were made two months before Mr. Evans's death in September 1980.
1959
Morey Ritt (B.S. '59, Piano) performed with new cello faculty member Barbara Stein Mallow at Merkin Concert Hall in November.
1960
George Cleve (B.S. '60; Dip. '59, Conducting) conducted the Baltimore Symphony for horn player Barry Tuckwell's final public performance.
1962
Eve Queler (Dip. '62, Conducting) received high praise from The New York Times
and the Village Voice for her leadership of the Opera Orchestra of New York in a concert version of Wagner's
Tristan und Isolde at Carnegie Hall.
1967
Walter Ponce (B.S. '67, Piano) previously the head of the piano department
at SUNY Binghamton, was appointed professor and Head of the Piano Area at UCLA.
1969
Robin Chadwick (Dip. '69, Piano) a piano instructor at St. Martin's College, performed works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Bolcom, Ravel, Gershwin, and Grainger in a scholarship benefit concert at the college.
1972
Anton Del Forno (B.M. '72, Guitar) appeared in concert at
the North Bellmore Public Library as part of the program "Bringing the Great Concert Hall Music to the People."
1974
Jeff Rainer (P.S.C. '74) directs orchestra programs at two public schools in
the Katonah-Lewisboro school district and serves as a music consultant to local cable television in White Plains.
1975
Myung-Whun Chung (B.M. '75, Conducting; Dip.
'74, Piano) returned to Paris to conduct three
concerts with the Orchestre de Paris. For his
first engagement in Paris since his departure from l'Opera-Bastille in
1994, Chung conducted Mahler's Symphony No. 5 and Olivier Messiaen's
Les Offrandes oubliees.
Rudolph Palmer (B.S. '75, Composition) composition
faculty (Extension) at Mannes,
conducts the world premiere recording of Handel's Faramondo (Vox Classics) as
well as Handel's Imeneo, Joshua,
Muzio, Siroe and Berenice, Haydn's La Canterina, Scarlatti's Ishmael,
Telemann's Pimpinone, and Pergolesi's
La Serva padrona for Vox, Newport Classics, Helicon, and Omega. His
ballet Dance-Music will be premiered this
May at Bucknell University in honor of the institution's sesquicentennial.
1977
JoAnn Falletta (Dip. '77, Conducting) conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in
Francis Poulenc's Babar the Elephant with Meryl Streep as narrator in a new Koch International release.
Ms. Falletta will conduct the Mannes Orchestra in concert on February 19, 1998.
1979
Mayuki Fukuhara (P.S.C. '79, Violin) is one of the concertmasters for
the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
1983
Gaute Vikdal (M.M. '83, Trombone) performs with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra,
Stavanger, Norway.
Kirsten Vogelsang (B.M. '83, Cello) completed seven film scoring projects
for both features and festival shorts, including Love Notes, Hero, Lover, Fool, and Flight. In addition
to her work as a session musician on the scores to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Nutty Professor,
and The Rock, she performed two of her compositions as part of a National Aids Awareness Day
program at the Grand Theater in Las Vegas.
1984
Arthur Cooke (M.M.'84, Cello) and pianist Deborah Gilwood, the duo known
as Blue Door, opened the fall concert series at the Department of Art and Music at Seton Hall University.
1985
Todd Palmer (B.M. '84; M.M. '85, Clarinet) joined the Young Concert Artists
Series for their 1997-1998 roster.
1986
Marilyn Harris-Bardet (B.M. '86, Cello) the new cellist in the Southwest Chamber Music Society, presented 11 Mu Phi Epsilon solo concerts during the fall which culminated in a final performance with her sister and Mannes alumna Carole Marie Harris (M.M. '83; B.M. '82, Violin).
William Hughes (B.M. '85; M.M. '86, Horn) performed with his wife Y. Kyung Diana
Hughes (M.M. '88; B.M. '87, Piano) at the West Shore Baptist Church. Ms. Hughes is currently completing
a doctorate of musical arts in piano at Rutgers University.
David Nessim Lawrence (B.M. '86, Composition) is the resident composer
for the Warner Bros. sitcom Brotherly Love and often collaborates with his wife, lyricist Faye Greenberg.
1987
Peter Lurie (M.M. '87, Voice) performs with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
1988
Sun Young Coe-Snyder (M.M. '88, Piano) works as a full-time accompanist and vocal coach at the California State University.
1989
Maura Molloy (M.M. '89, Voice) performs in the ensemble Elyrica, comprised of harp, cello, and mezzo-soprano, and often combined with guest flutists. Presenting concerts and workshops around the country, the group recently founded the Elyrica Music Outreach Program in Charlotte, NC.
Thomas Sauer (M.M. '89, Piano) piano faculty (College and Extension) at Mannes and artist-in-residence with the Yajima-Ni-Sauer Trio, received his D.M.A. from CUNY after defending his doctoral dissertation on "Texture in the Piano Music of Robert Schumann."
1990
Larry Goldings's (B.F.A. '90, Organ) trio, performed with saxophonist James Moody for the annual Cognac Hennessy New Year's Eve Coast-to-Coast radio broadcast over National Public Radio.
Lee Chin Siow (M.M. '90, Violin) appeared on CBS's
Sunday Morning for a feature story on a unique master's program
in Israel which examines the similar posture, muscle control, and concentration
needed in archery and playing the violin.
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