With just a few weeks remaining in 2016-17 at the School of Music, we reflect on some recent accomplishments, honors, and transitions, investigate ongoing research and performance activities, and bid farewell to a beloved friend. This issue of Quarter Notes contains all of the above, plus details of a culminating performance on our concert season that will bring together the combined forces of the UW's voice, choral, and instrumental students, joined by community singers, actors and a special guest conductor in an epic performance of Verdi's Requiem.
When longtime UW Ethnomusicology Archivist Laurel Sercombe retired from the UW last June after more than 30 years as archivist, many wondered how the archives would change in her absence or if her high standards could possibly be met by any successor. Now, nearly a year later, several truths are evident: One might leave but not really leave; it’s hard to say goodbye; and: If one is diligent, one might be able to help guide the direction of change toward the best possible outcome.
Graduate choral conducting student Jennifer Rodgers discovers what is possible when a university that provides space for a homeless encampment also has a world-class music department.
University of Washington DMA flute student Gemma Goday won two competitions recently sponsored by the National Flute Association, winning performance spots at the organization’s annual convention in August 2017 in Minneapolis. Her travels to Minneapolis for the convention will be supported through a scholarship award from UW Music granted in recognition of her accomplishments.
Longtime UW Music Jazz Studies Professor Marc Seales is the Western Washington University 2017 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year for the College of Fine & Performing Arts. The awards, established in 1980, are the most prestigious honors bestowed by the Western Alumni Association on alumni and members of the university’s community.
A public memorial service on Sunday, March 26, 2017 at the School of Music’s Brechemin Auditorium honored the life of Mina Bloedel (Brechemin) Person, who died Feb. 10 following a recent struggle with lung cancer.
A unique and profound recreation of Verdi’s Requiem as performed by prisoners of the Terezin concentration camp in Nazi Germany brings together current and past students of UW Music, community musicians, theater professionals and guest conductor and creator Murry Sidlin in two upcoming performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín.
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