News from the College of Musical Arts

Robert Satterlee, Associate Professor of Piano, will travel to China in May for concerts and master classes at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music and the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu.

Sunday, May 5

11:00 a.m. – Church Service at First United Methodist Church, Bowling Green, OH

1506 East Wooster

Bowling Green, OH 43402

7:00 p.m. – Evening Concert at Bay United Methodist Church, Bay Village, OH

29931 Lake Rd

Bay Village, OH  44140

Monday, May 6

11:00 a.m. – Performance at Manchester Presbyterian Lodge, Erie, PA

6351 West Lake Road

Erie, PA 16505

7:00 p.m. – Evening Concert at Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo

695 Elmwood Ave.

Buffalo, NY 14222

Wednesday, May 8

7:30 p.m. – Evening Concert at Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo, ON

50 Erb Street West

Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 1T1

Associate Professor of Piano, Thomas Rosenkranz, will be presented in a solo tour of  China with performances in Shaoxing, Wenzhou, Leqing, Cixi, Ningbo, Houzhou and Jiaxing, from May 3rd-May 11th. On May 18th he will serve on the jury for the Spring Festival Competition in Shanghai, which is sponsored by Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. In addition he will give masterclasses at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu, and at the Xinghai Conservatory in Guangzhou.

BGSU alumni Barry Hartz was named OMEA Outstanding Music Education 2013. For further information, go to:  www.omea-ohio.org/activities/recognition.html) – then choose “outstanding educator.”

Per F. Broman, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Associate Dean, will present his paper “Mute the Bereaved Memories Speak: ‘Vulgar! Rough! Tasteless!—A major music event! Brilliant critique of civilization’,” a paper dealing with the first Requiem by composer Sven-David Sandström, at the Society for Word-Music Relations 7th Annual Lyrica Dialogues at Harvard University on May 3.

On April 4th and 5th, BGSU Philharmonia director Dr. Emily Freeman Brown conducted the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester in a program of Bohemian Masters of the Classical Period. The web site is  http://www.gso-online.de/

Per F. Broman, Associate Professor of Music Theory, along with three graduate students, musicologist Jane Hines, composers Michael Kasinger and Carter Rice, will present research papers at the Music and Moving Image conference at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, May 31-June 2.

Hines’s “The Enchanted Concerto: World War II, Propaganda, and Musemes” analyses the use of the Hubert Bath’s composition Cornish Rhapsody in  John Cromwell’s film The Enchanted Cottage (1945);  Rice’s “Thematic Textures in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Films” shows the transformation of traditional Leitmotifs from the early Batman (1989) to The Dark Knight (2008); Kasinger’s “Sleight of Ear: The Use of the Unexpected in Film Scores” illustrates how carefully selected music acts a barrier between the audience and the cinematic events, controlling the emotional and intellectual response, by using Joel and Ethan Coen’ Burn After Reading (2008) and Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) as case studies; Broman’s “Mute the Bereaved Memories Speak: A Pasolinian Requiem” traces the close intertextual musical relationship between the Sven-David Sandström’s Requiem (1979) and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò (1975), which provides important keys to understanding the requiem.

Andrew Pelletier, Associate Professor of Horn, recently performed with the internationally recognized Empire Brass.  The performance was April 14, 2013 at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, MI.  Dr. Pelletier was invited by the group’s founder and leader, Rolf Smedvig, to join the group for this performance.

Richard Alleshouse, B.S.’63, has had the honor of being inducted into the 2012 Class of Norwalk High School Hall of Fame, academic division.   Richard has been on the faculty of BGSU and UT and taught orchestra students for 33 years, most recently retiring as Director of Orchestras in Sylvania, Ohio, schools.  He is in his 48th year as Principal Double Bass of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and his first season with the orchestra was 1961.