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October 2011 eNews: InterNetzo

Message from the Executive Director
Hilary Kole and Friends at Birdland
Creative Musicians Retreat a great success
Lexington Symphony/Walden School Commission
Event review: Jazz in New Hampshire, and our on-line auction
Help Students Take a Bite Out of Music – Make Your Donation to Walden!
Start the school year off with Walden merchandise
Community News and Goods
Opportunities & Organizations Listing
Now Hear This! Works by 2011 Walden Participants

Message from the Executive Director

What a summer! What a year! How can one measure Walden’s success in 2011?

If the measure of a program were the number of people it deeply affected, Walden would impress for 2011. 24 participants from around the world, aged 19 to 69, attended Walden’s brand new Creative Musicians Retreat in June in Northampton, Massachusetts, on the stunning campus of Smith College; 56 students from everywhere from Vilnius to Tokyo, Peterborough to Seattle attended the 39th season of what has now been named the Young Musicians Program (aka ‘camp’) on the beautiful campus of the Dublin School, enjoying numerous Composers Forums, classes, chorus, hikes, open mics and swim trips; 31 music teachers from throughout the United States attended our 7th weeklong Teacher Training Institute intensive in New Hampshire; and nine students in Oberlin’s Masters in Music Teaching program attended a week of Walden-style teacher training in Ohio. Indeed, a record number of participants – more than 110 – participated in a Walden program during 2011.

If the value of Walden could be determined by the number of engaging events we presented, the School would merit high marks for its 2011 season. Over the course of the summer, we presented more than 25 public performances, community engagement concerts, composers forums and open rehearsals during June, July and August, with artists ranging in style from the Windborne Trio and Pamela Z to the International Contemporary Ensemble and Miranda Cuckson, to name but a few. More than 50 faculty, staff, administration, guest performers and composers-in-residence collaborated and combined forces to produce for our participants what we all hope was an amazing and inspiring experience of creativity, community and music.

If the strength of Walden could be measured by the number of partnerships it builds and sustains, 2011 would indicate great strength. This year we continued forging links with other outstanding arts and education organizations, both local to our summer homes and across the United States. These included partnerships with The MacDowell Colony, Monadnock Music, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Oberlin College Conservatory, Community MusicWorks in Providence, The Juilliard School’s MAP program, Music National Service, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, the Lexington Symphony, Duke University, among many others. This was the second year that Walden was in residence as part of the music program at Dublin School. This spring, Walden faculty member Marshall Bessières taught courses in creative musicianship, composition and computer music. In 2011, Boston-based Firebird Ensemble performed world premieres by Walden faculty members and then helped coach participants in the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music’s summer performance program, who premiered works by three Walden students: Evan Johnson, Ariel Kent, and Wesley Levers.

If we were to calculate Walden’s value by the number of friends and supporters it has, we would find Walden to be rich, indeed. In order to serve the more than 110 program participants, present the more than 25 events, and nurture its myriad partnerships, Walden needed – and continues to need – the help of many friends. During Walden’s 2011, which just ended on September 30, more than 370 of you, along with more than 25 foundations and corporations, combined to provide more than $385,000 in support for our annual fund. These monies supported 100% of our financial aid program, 100% of our guest artist and composer residency programs, 100% of our alumni Composers Forums and regional gatherings, and these monies – importantly – helped defray the costs of basic operations so that we can keep our programs small, individually attentive and, as much as possible, reasonably priced. Did you know that in 2011 more than 50% of our program participants received financial aid and that Walden distributed approximately $100,000 in aid to deserving participants and families? We could not do what we do without our supporters, and I thank each of you for the role you played in making 2011 such a successful year.

We also needed – and continue to need – the help of many friends who volunteer hundreds of hours in making Walden happen. From our dedicated 20+ member board of directors, our invaluable office volunteers in San Francisco, numerous individuals who volunteered at our programs and fundraiser and events, and our volunteer alumni who help guide our HandOverHand Executive Committee, the leadership group of Walden’s alumni association, we simply could not operate without such assistance. Thank you to all of you who give time, that most precious of commodities, to Walden!

If public recognition were the indicator of Walden’s success, our grades would be off the charts for 2011. As we have mentioned before, Walden was the recipient this past year of numerous accolades. Walden was awarded the 2011 New Music Educator Award from the American Music Center (now New Music USA) and earned a spot as one of 50 finalists nationally for the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, a program sponsored by the White House. We also received notice of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts which will support our Young Musicians Program in 2012. And Walden was featured in two news articles appearing in the Monadnock Region’s Keene Sentinel and Monadnock Ledger-Transcript.

But numbers – of participants, events, partnerships, donors, awards – don’t tell the real story of Walden’s value. None of these numbers can represent the incredible and thorough musicianship training that Walden participants receive. No award or trophy can accomplish Walden’s mission to, among other things, “nurture a life-long commitment to creative expression, all resulting in the development of individuals who are capable of effecting positive change in the world around them.” Only Walden’s unique programs led by its outstanding faculty, staff and artists, do this.

So what is the true measure of Walden’s impact? Here are just a few examples:

The smile on the face of a Walden student after the premiere and ensuing discussion of her composition on a Composers Forum.
The feeling that a student has when summiting Mt. Monadnock for the first time with his newfound Walden friends.
And comments like this one from a Young Musicians Program participant from 2011 – “I didn’t believe in heaven before I went to Walden.”

I hope you enjoy this issue of InterNetzo. Be sure to check out News & Goods for updates on the doings of your old friends, read Carrie Mallonee’s report on Walden’s newest program, learn about the co-commissioning project with the Lexington Symphony in Massachusetts, and review our listing of additional musical opportunities. Happy reading!

All best,

Seth Brenzel
Director, Young Musicians Program
Executive Director
sbrenzel@waldenschool.org
(415) 648-4710

Hilary Kole and Friends at Birdland

Alumni, faculty, parents and friends of Walden gathered for a festive evening with Hilary Kole and her outstanding band, who performed a spectacular set of greater- and lesser-known works from the jazz repertoire. She also performed her own arrangement of that Walden chestunut, “Do you love an apple?”. Proceeds from the event will go towards Walden’s financial aid programs in 2012.

Creative Musicians Retreat a great success

by Caroline Mallonée

The Walden School has a new kind of alumnus/a! From June 11-19, participants from 10 states across the country, Washington D.C., Canada, Japan, Belarus, and Portugal came together on the campus of Smith College for the first Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat (CMR). For over a week, the 24 musicians immersed themselves in the creative process, and the results were astounding – 35 new works were given their world premieres at two Composers Forums, moderated by Composer-In-Residence, Russell Pinkston. Participants praised the members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, who presented a concert of works by both living and historical composers on Sunday, June 12, as a kick-off to the week’s events. Classes and workshops in computer music, contemporary music, improvisation, sound painting, chorus and musicianship were offered by the faculty (Marshall Bessières, Caroline Mallonée, Loretta Notareschi, Sam Pluta and Leo Wanenchak). One participant said he had been waiting half his life for the experience CMR provided. It was an inspirational festival, and a wonderful new way for musicians to experience Walden!

The Walden School plans to offer the Creative Musicians Retreat again in June 2012. Contact us for more details.

Lexington Symphony/Walden School Commission

The Lexington Symphony, in celebration of the 300th Anniversary of the founding of Lexington, Massachusetts, approached The Walden School to help it identify a young composer (under 25 years of age) from among Walden program alumni to write a 10-15 minute orchestral work to be premiered in September 2012. The commission was announced in the spring, and over the summer, many Walden alumni composers submitted applications to be considered. A selection committee, comprising Caroline Mallonée, Marshall Bessières, Marguerite Ladd and Seth Brenzel, was formed, and late in August, the committee chose Teacher Training Institute and Creative Musicians Retreat alumna Sky Macklay as the commissioned composer for this exciting project. Sky, who is a music composition graduate student at the University of Memphis, is now hard at work on her new piece, which needs to be completed by the spring, in time for the orchestra to begin working with the score and readying it for its premiere on September 22, 2012.

Young Musicians Program and Teacher Training Institute alumna Kate Ettinger and Young Musicians Program alumnus Michael Rosen were named finalists in the commission contest. Both of these composers made outstanding applications as well, and in the end, a difficult choice to select simply one of the three finalists was made. This commission project also coincides with Walden’s 40th Anniversary celebration, which takes place throughout 2012 and 2013, and the score of the piece will include a dedication to both the town of Lexington and to The Walden School. Walden is grateful to the Lexington Symphony, its staff and board, and its music director, Jonathan McPhee, for partnering with The Walden School on what is sure to be a wonderful project.

Event review: Jazz in New Hampshire, and our on-line auction

Walden’s Online Auction Closes with a Bang

What do custom compositions, catered dinners, and eye exams have in common? They were all items won by bidders in this year’s online auction. Dozens of lucky bidders won lessons, vacations, consulting, and concert tickets in this fun – and successful! – fundraiser for Walden. The auction raised nearly $5,000 to support financial aid at Walden, and introduced the School to some new supporters in the process.

Saturday Afternoon at the Silitches

Jazz, sunshine, food, good friends – what more could you ask for? A summer fundraiser at the beautiful home of Nick and Regina Silitch in New Hampshire featured pianist Bill Stevens and bassist Tony Makarome, both aso Walden faculty members. In addition to performing, Bill also spoke to the gathered crowd from the perspective of both an alumnus and faculty member about the importance of what Walden offers to its program participants. The event raised more than $11,500 for financial aid at Walden – a stunning achievement! Many thanks to all who made the event such a rousing success.

Help Students Take a Bite Out of Music – Make Your Donation to Walden!

Imagine that you’d never had chocolate cake before – you don’t even know what it is. Feeling sorry for you, a friend tries to describe it to you and shows you a recipe, but you’re still unclear on the concept. But what if that friend gives you an actual piece of chocolate cake, tells you to turn it around in your hands, to taste it, what then? You now have a pretty good idea what chocolate cake is. And if your friend shows you how to bake one, you’ll be fluent in chocolate cake: a happy circumstance, indeed!

At most schools, students study music theory as if it were a conceptual chocolate cake. There’s a lot of lecturing and written work, but not enough direct experience – not enough cake eating – and not nearly enough baking. With every person it reaches, Walden transforms that model to one where students develop fluency and mastery through discovery, drill and creative work – composition and improvisation. Music is immediate and real and tangible at Walden, as tangible as chocolate cake should be.

Students deserve to learn music this way, but they need your help to make it happen. Have you made a gift recently? Your donation to Walden today will help make it possible for more musicians to master the creative skills they need to truly understand music, to make it as real – and delicious – as chocolate cake. Please make a contribution today.

And if you’ve already joined the more than 370 people who annually give to Walden, thank you!

Start the school year off with Walden merchandise

Though Autumn has begun, the Walden spirit carries us throughout the year. What better way to remind you and your loved ones of this great community than a sweatshirt to keep you warm all winter, a mug full of your favorite beverage, a snazzy wristband, a key chain, or any of the other items available on Merchandise Order Form available below. The perfect gift for someone whose life has been touched by The Walden School, our merchandise is of high quality and emblazoned with our distinctive logo.

Just print out our Merchandise Form and send in with your payment.

Community News and Goods

The Walden School welcomes news and information from members of the Junior Conservatory Camp and Walden School communities to include in our print and online newsletters. News may be sent via mail or email. We will publish your contact information only if you specifically request that we do so. Please send info to alumni@waldenschool.org or The Walden School, 31A 29th St., San Francisco, CA 94110. We reserve the right to edit submissions and regret we cannot publish all information provided. For upcoming event listings, go to www.handoverhand.org.

Nigel Armstrong (YMP ’00) was a finalist in the Tchaikovsky Competition. You can read articles about him here and here.

Whit Bernard (YMP ’00-02, TTI ’06, Faculty ’09) has begun his first year as an MBA candidate in social enterprise and international business at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

After 15 years in Hungary, Tamar Bloch (JCC ’69-71, YMP ’72, TTI ’08, Faculty ’75, ’77, ’87-92) is living in New Jersey, and taking care of her mother. She’s also doing translations (German and Hungarian) and just recorded her first voice-over demo CD. If you know of music making and/or teaching opportunities in the New York/New Jersey area (solfege, ear training, piano, musicianship, children’s choirs), she’d love to hear from you at solfatamar@yahoo.com.

The September 2011 edition of JazzInside Magazine featured an interview with George Brandon (CMR ’11), in which he discusses his early musical environment, the process of recording his recently released debut CD, Toward the Hill of Joy, and advice for musicians and bandleaders for coping with hassles and pressures!

Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (JCC ’61-65) was present for a screening of her documentary film “FROM AFRICA TO INDIA: Sidi Music in the Indian Ocean Diaspora” at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco in early September. Walden administration members Esther Landau (TTI ’09, Administration ’05-11) and Jefferson Packer (TTI ’10-11, Administration ’10-11) attended both this fascinating film and the ensuing discussion. Amy hopes to attend the reunion in 2012.

Alan Chan (TTI ’04, ’06, Faculty ’10-11) is the winner of this year’s ArtEZ Jazz Composition Contest (International Jazz Festival Enschede, Netherlands) with his composition To Be Continued for jazz big band. He is also the winner of the joint Los Angeles County Arts/St. Matthew’s Music Guild Commission Award in October 2010 and his commissioned work, a concerto for erhu entitled Rock-Paper-Scissors, was premiered in June, 2011, by Wang Hong and St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra in Pacific Palisades, California. In the same month, Bitter Melon for erhu and pipa received its Asia Premiere by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Alan is currently the Artistic Director of Gateway Performance Series in Los Angeles.

Nicholas DeMaison (Faculty ’04-07) will serve as the Music Director for two upcoming productions of Pocket Opera NY, Le pauvre matelot by Darius Milhaud and The Ticket That Exploded by James Ilgenfritz. To view a , visit http://www.pocketoperany.org.

In July, Renée Favand-See (YMP ’85, ’87-90, TTI ’08, Faculty ’93-97, ’99, ’06-07, ’09)premiered a new work by Bonnie Miksch, Like water, like sound, like breath, in addition to performing two songs of her own, Driving a highway in Eastern Washington and Morning Mist. The concert took place at Old Church in Portland.

Walden board member Corty Fengler (TTI ’11, Board ’09-11) met up with Sarah Ye (YMP ’01-05) and her family last year while in Beijing.

Stephen Flynn (YMP ’01-04) started in July 2011 as the Emerging Technologies Librarian at the College of Wooster, and had his innovative cover letter website featured in Library Journal.

The music of Stacy Garrop (YMP ’87-88, Faculty ’96) has seen lots of action lately, with performances of Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy by The Grant Park Chorus and SEVEN by the Lincoln Trio. Stacy also made an appearance at the Skaneateles Festival. SEVEN was featured on a CD by the Lincoln Trio called Notable Women, which includes the music of former festival week moderators Jennifer Higdon (Visiting Artist ’99, Advisory Council ’02-11) and Joan Tower (Visiting Artist ’09).

Tonya Ingersol (YMP ’78-80, ’83, Board of Directors ’98-01) had an exhibit of her paintings at the June Kelly Gallery in New York in September. Read more here.

In June, NPR’s All Things Considered ran a report on the week that music contributor Lara Pellegrinelli shadowed International Contemporary Ensemble (Guest Artists ’11)flutist and executive director Claire Chase (Guest Artists ’05-09). The ensembleperformed James Dillon’s symphonic cycle Nine Rivers September 14-17, 2001 at Miller Theater, Columbia University.

Alex Kazenoff (YMP ’05) graduated this summer from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Electronic Production & Design, and was offered a job as Assistant Engineer at Creative Group, an industry company in the Times Square area of Manhattan.

Aaron Krerowicz (TTI ’11) and his mandolin ensemble Syzygia performed a “Mandolin/Guitar Extravaganza” in Hartford, Connecticut on August 16, 2011. More information, including the concert program, can be found here.

Ned McGowan (Visting Artist ’01-04, ’10) reports that his ensemble Hexnut (Visting Artists ’10) has a new project, WRENCH, together with the photographs of Edward Burtynsky. The performance consists of new compositions performed in a tightly versed integration of sound and projected image, and its premiere last May had a big turnout and was a big success. Hexnut’s website has a trailer from the performance, along with photos, reviews, articles, videos, and info about upcoming concerts.

Loretta Notareschi (YMP ’95, TTI ’08, Faculty ’98-11) was awarded 2nd place in the IronWorks Percussion Duo competition for her piece This Is It; the work was performed in May 2011 in Long Beach, CA. She was also thrilled to write two cadenzas for Mozart’s Flute Concerto in D, performed by Esther Landau (TTI ’09, Administration ’05-11) in November 2010.

Anna Orias (TTI ’04-05) has opened Musically Minded Academy in Oakland, CA,with 11 teachers and more than 100 students. Nick Benavides (TTI ’09-10, CMR ’11) is teaching Creative Musicianship for the first time at the school!

Nat Osborn (YMP ’00-03) is keeping predictably busy with his bands Hawthorne and The Diamond Allegory, with several gigs early in the summer in the NYC area, and the rest of it spent finishing a record and touring Europe.

We dug up a great article by Sam Pluta (Staff ’01-02, Faculty ’02-08, ’10-11) about how to make successful live electronic music.

The PRISM Saxophone Quartet (Guest Artist ’05) made its Bang On A Can debut in June, at New York City’s World Financial Center in the Winter Garden.

Vivian Adelberg Rudow (JCC ’50-51) recently performed live dance to her piece John’s Song, at the Baltimore Museum of Art in July 2011. For the entire month of August, her No Rest Too! and The Bare Smooth Stone of Your Love were featured every two hours on NACUSA Web Radio.

Here is a great video of Kelly Smit (YMP ’93-95) doing Irish Sean-nós dance with her husband Dan Isaacson and his band Simple System.

Births and Weddings:

Mark A. Lackey (TTI ’04-05) and his wife Jennifer welcomed their new daughter Tabitha to the world in February 2011.

Danielle Schindler (YMP ’88-93) married Jason Cheung on August 27, 2011, at IslandWood, an environmental school on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Seth Brenzel (YMP ’85-90, TTI ’08, Staff/Administration ’94-11), Malcolm Gaines (CMR ’11, Administration ’99-11), Loretta Notareschi (YMP ’95, TTI ’08, Faculty ’98-11), David Drucker (YMP ’77-82, CMR’11, Faculty ’84-88, Board of Directors ’98-00), and Dede Ondishko (YMP ’74-77, Faculty/Staff ’79-85, Board of Directors ’99-02) were in attendance. The couple spent their honeymoon in Hong Kong and India.

Now Hear This! Works by 2011 Walden Participants

The Walden School 2011 Creative Musicians Retreat Composers Forums presented the world premieres of more than 25 pieces, including Nick Benavides’ Petrichor, performed by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

(Note: depending on your operating system, this link will either open your media player and play the track, or save the track to your computer.)

by Matthew Klahorst (WP)

June 2011 eNews: InterNetzo

Message from the Executive Director
Walden Receives Grant from National Endowment for the Arts
Lexington Symphony/Walden School Commission
Concert Series Preview
Walden’s Online Auction is starting soon!
Walden goes to Smith: Creative Musicians Retreat Preview
Events roundup
Walden receives New Music Educator Award from the American Music Center
Community News and Goods
Opportunities & Organizations Listing
Now Hear This! Works by 2010 Walden Participants

Message from the Executive Director

I send you greetings from Northampton, Massachusetts, where Walden’s first-ever Creative Musicians Retreat is about to begin. The program’s faculty and staff has gathered a few days prior to the program start and are readying Lawrence House here on Green Street at Smith College. The facilities are lovely, our contacts at Smith helpful, and so far the food is really good. The music building, Sage Hall, looks like it will be a perfect place for what promises to be an exciting week. On Saturday, we will welcome 24 participants from around the world, Russell Pinkston, our composer-in-residence, along with members of ICE, who will also be in residence with us for a concert on Monday night and two composers forums. Read more about the program here.

All of us at Walden are excited that a long-held vision at Walden, to offer a “mini-Walden” program for adult musicians is coming to fruition this year. As a result and for the first time ever, Walden will serve more than 100 participants during its three programs in summer 2011. We are excited about the future possibilities of our newest offering, and we believe the Creative Musicians Retreat will be a wonderful complement to our flagship Young Musicians Program and now nearly 10-year old Teacher Training Institute program.

On June 25, 56 young musicians, ages 9-18 from across the world will descend on Dublin School’s campus for the 39th season of our flagship Young Musicians Program. They include nearly 30 students who are returning for their 2nd or 5th or 10th summer of creativity and community; they include students from Peterborough and Lithuania and India and Los Angeles; they include drummers and singers and violinists and pianists and trumpeters and harpists. We can’t wait to welcome them in just two weeks. Our faculty and staff, comprising many alumni of both our Teacher Training Institute and Young Musicians Program, are a terrific group of mostly returning team members.

On August 3, 40 music teachers from around the world will join our stellar Teacher Training Institute faculty to participate in a weeklong intensive of courses in Walden pedagogy: musicianship, choral singing, computer music, jazz, solfege and rhythms and more. This program is a unique professional development opportunity for music teachers of all kinds, and there are still openings for this summer’s retreat. I hope you will join me in spreading the word!

Throughout the summer, The Walden School, in partnership with numerous ensembles and presenters, will offer 23 concerts, Composers Forums, open rehearsals and presentation, all of which open to the public, in Northampton, Massachusetts, as well as Keene, Dublin, Peterborough and Jaffrey, New Hampshire. The 2011 Concert Seriesbegins on June 12 at Smith College with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and concludes on August 5 in Dublin, New Hampshire, with Dave Eggar. It is a wonderfully diverse, eclectic and exciting series, and I hope to see many of you at one or more of these events.

There is much to celebrate at Walden these days, with our School being honored with the 2011 American Music Center’s New Music Educator award, an NEA grant and our being named a finalist in the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program awards. All of these honors are built upon the incredibly hard work of Walden’s dedicated faculty, staff, board and administration. I want to offer my sincere appreciation to each of these individuals who work tirelessly during the summer and throughout the year to ensure Walden’s continued strength.

Finally, I want to draw your attention to an exciting commission opportunity for our alumni composers. The Lexington Symphony in Massachusetts has partnered with Walden in identifying an alumnus/alumna (of any of Walden’s programs!) to compose a piece in celebration of the city of Lexington’s 300th anniversary. This is a wonderful opportunity for Walden alumni who are young composers (under the age of 25). Please pass along the news.

Have a creative and musical summer! Hope to see you soon.

Seth Brenzel
Director, Young Musicians Program
Executive Director
sbrenzel@waldenschool.org

Walden Receives Grant from National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has recognized the vital importance of Walden’s Young Musician Program by awarding it a $35,000 grant. The 2011 grant marks the fourth NEA grant received by The Walden School in 10 years. The NEA is an independent agency of the federal government that advances artistic excellence, creativity and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. The Walden School is one of 229 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations recommended for a grant as part of the federal agency’s Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth grant support program, providing more than $7.4 million in funding.

In other recent news, on May 5 The Walden School was named one of 50 finalists for the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award (NYHYP) by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its partner agencies, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Out of 471 nominations from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, Walden was named a finalist and is in contention for a $10,000 one-time grant and an invitation to attend the White House awards ceremony hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama.

Lexington Symphony/Walden School Commission Opportunity for Alumni

The Walden School has been selected by the Lexington Symphony (Massachusetts) to partner with it in selecting one of the School’s alumni to compose a new work for orchestra in celebration of the town of Lexington’s 300th Anniversary. This is a great honor, and we at Walden are excited about this exciting new collaboration. The performance of the new work, scheduled for September 2012, will also coincide with celebrations planned for Walden’s 40th Anniversary.

The Walden School invites alumni of its programs, under the age of 25 as of July 1, 2011, to apply for the commission. The selected composer will write a 10-15 minute work for orchestra (overture, tone poem, etc.) by January 1, 2012, and will receive a $1,000 commissioning prize, up to $500 reimbursed in travel and score preparation costs, a performance of the work on the Lexington Symphony’s concert season in September 2012, a professional recording of the performance of the work and opportunities to participate in the rehearsal and preparation of the work for performance. Travel to and from the performance and rehearsals will be at the expense of the selected composer, as will copying and score/parts preparation expenses.

To apply, please write to Seth Brenzel, Executive Director, The Walden School, with the following information no later than July 11, 2011:

Name:
Date of Birth:
Address / Phone / Email:
Year(s) attending The Walden School:
Walden School program(s) attended:

In addition, short answers to each of the following questions should be provided.

Why do you want to receive this commission? How will it fit into your development as a composer?
What are your plans for the commission? What is your intended project?
What experiences do you have writing for orchestra and/or large chamber forces, if any?

Please include up to three (3) scores and recordings (if available) of representative works. These will NOT be returned to you. Please also include a resume or CV.

A committee of Walden faculty will select several finalists who will be recommended to the Lexington Symphony for final selection during July. We will notify all applicants of the results no later than July 31, 2011.

Concert Series Preview

Walden’s 2011 Concert Series will feature an eclectic and exciting mix of artists, including a concert of cutting edge contemporary music by the International Contemporary Ensemble, a performance and Q&A session with the acclaimed composer/performer/improvisor Pamela Z, student and faculty commissions by the fantastic Firebird Ensemble, and much more. As always, Walden’s Festival Week will see the world premieres of more than 50 new pieces by Young Musicians Program Participants, with this year’s Festival Forums moderated by composer Paul Morevec. The full concert schedule, along with more information about each performance, is available here.

Walden’s Online Auction is starting soon!

This summer, Walden is holding an Online Auction, seven weeks of musical period-themed shenanigans and community fun to support our programs. The auction will be held June 25 through August 14, 2011, with different items to bid on each week corresponding to a different musical period. We’ve got some great items already: tickets to the San Francisco Symphony; a painting by Mike Stevens; and a chance to meet Nora, the piano-playing cat!

We need many more items to make the auction fun and successful, so we hope you’ll consider donating – and soliciting – goods and services. Ask your favorite restaurant, spa, bookstore, or pottery painting studio if they ever donate gift certificates for nonprofit auctions. Or consider what you might donate yourself – a customized poem or musical composition; 3 hours of babysitting; two nights at a timeshare someplace warm? If you are interested in donating, you can use this form. We want to have all items in hand by June 15, if possible, so if you’ve got something to donate, let us know today!

In other news, Walden has been added to greatnonprofits.org, and it would be incredibly helpful if you could write a review of our organization. If you haven’t supported Walden yet this year, or if you would like to again, there are many ways to do so in the coming months: make a donation by check, make a donation by credit card by calling us at (415) 648-4710, or make a donation online at www.waldenschool.org/donate. Every gift, no matter the size, helps make Walden possible. Thank you!

Walden goes to Smith: Creative Musicians Retreat Preview

From June 11-19, Walden will present its first-ever Creative Musicians Retreat. Participants from 10 U.S. states, Japan, Portugal, Israel, and Canada will come together on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts for an inspirational week of creative music-making. Highlights of the week’s activities will be a concert by the acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and two Composers Forums, during which new works by participants will be performed by members of ICE. Our composer-in-residence, Russell Pinkston, will moderate the discussions with the composers, performers, participants and audience members following each piece.

The Creative Musicians Retreat (CMR) was conceived to offer training and development opportunities for the well-rounded musician (ages 18+). Caroline Mallonée, Director of the program, has been associated continuously with the Walden School since 1987, her first year as a student in Walden’s Young Musicians Program. Carrie writes, “I am thrilled to see come to fruition several years of planning efforts on the part of the many Walden community members who supported the creation of this program. I have already been in frequent touch with each of this year’s participants as we prepare for the week’s events – they are without exception a wonderful group of diverse, talented people – and I can’t wait to see how the community develops and learns from itself over the course of the Retreat. The CMR Faculty and Staff are eagerly awaiting the chance to work with them, and I know the week will be a rewarding and inspiring experience for all involved.”

To learn more about the Creative Musicians Retreat, please visit www.waldenschool.org/retreat/. If you missed the chance to participate in this year’s retreat, look out for future summers! If you are in New England, please join us for our concerts and forums in Earle Recital Hall, which are free and open to the public:

International Contemporary Ensemble Concert, Sunday, June 12 at 7:30
Composers Forum I, Wednesday, June 15 at 7:30
Composers Forum II, Friday, June 17 at 7:30

We’d love to see you there!

Events roundup

On a sunny spring day in the lovely Baltimore home of Lucy and Jack Henningfield, more than sixty friends of Walden gathered to celebrate the School and listen to a stunning piano recital by jazz great and Walden alumnus Cyrus Chestnut. Board member and YMP alumna Laura Mehiel, along with her mother and aunt, provided delicious food, and Cyrus performed a genre-bending program including a jazzy take on Chopin, a Joplin rag, and originals. He also walked the audience through an exercise he learned from YMP teacher Cindy Harkum, who just happened to be in attendance, and incorporated the sound of the ringing house phone into one of his improvisations. Cyrus also spoke to the importance of creativity and the influence that his Walden experience had on his own music-making.

Walden and JCC alumni had another chance to meet up at two performances by PRISM Saxophone Quartet (Visiting Ensemble ’93, ’94, ’99, ’05). On June 3 and 4 in New York and Philadelphia, the group performed a program of premieres, including “The Giving Tree,” a work by Cara Haxo (YMP ’04-09), most recent winner of the annual PRISM/Walden School Young Composer Commissioning Award.

Walden receives New Music Educator Award from the American Music Center

Dear Friends of Walden,

On May 2 we traveled to New York City to stand with Seth Brenzel, Walden’s Executive Director, as he accepted the American Music Center’s 2011 New Music Education Awardon behalf of the entire Walden community. It was a proud moment for everyone involved with Walden.

For nearly 40 years The Walden School has been advancing innovative, creative, and highly effective methods to help people of all ages express themselves through original improvisation and music composition. We have helped generations of students discover, develop, and fully claim their personal creative voices. In the last ten years we have published two texts documenting our activity-based methods and thorough curriculum, and we have developed a Teacher Training Institute, which serves a broad spectrum of the music education community.

Now the word is out. Walden is taking its place on the national stage!

In August music teachers from all over the country will once again converge in Dublin, New Hampshire, to engage in an experience that is part music immersion, part professional development, part refreshing retreat. There will be young teachers, just starting their careers. There will be seasoned college professors. There will be public and private school teachers, studio teachers, and composers who primarily teach through residency programs. It is always a highly eclectic group comprising some of the most forward thinking, creative musicians in the country.

We invite you to ride the tide of creativity, enthusiasm, and recognition! Please consider the musicians and music educators whom you know. Invite them to consider our 2011 Summer Teacher Training Intensive, August 3-10, in Dublin. We are still accepting applications and would love to work with YOUR friends and colleagues.

As Seth noted in his acceptance speech in New York, The Walden School envisions a world with a higher concentration of people who approach life creatively, collaboratively, and with conviction. Artists of all kinds lead the way in such an endeavor, and Walden has long specialized in offering educational tools that empower musicians to be leaders in the quest.

The word is out. Will you help us spread it?

Sincerely,

Patricia Plude
Director, The Walden School Teacher Training Institute

Pamela Quist
Co-Founder, The Walden School
Assistant Director, The Walden School Teacher Training Institute

Community News and Goods

Deena Ball, mother of Erica Ball (Young Musicians Program ’06-07) reports new artwork, festival participation, upcoming classes and more. Read more at www.deenasball.com.

Marshall Bessières’ (Faculty ’03-11, Teacher Training Institute ’08) new piece “Winter” was premiered by Choral Chameleon on Sunday May 22nd in New York City. Marshall performed the electronics with the group live on the iPad. Read more at marshallbessieres.com/music.

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), directed by Claire Chase (Visiting Artist ’05-09), have a busy summer ahead of them, including a free ICElab concert at New York’s (le) Poisson Rouge featuring premieres from composer and percussionist Nathan Davis (Visiting Artist ’01-07, ’09), a residency at MCA Stage in Chicago, and two parties to benefit the ICElab program. Read more at iceorg.org.

Clogs (Visiting Artists ’03) returned to London in May for several shows celebrating Steve Reich’s 75th birthday at the Barbican Centre’s Reverberations Festival, performing with musicians including Shara Worden, Nico Muhly, Lisa Kaplan and the New London Children’s Choir. More details at clogsmusic.com.

Miranda Cuckson (Visiting Artist ’08, ’11) played several exciting concerts in May, including a performance of Perez Velasquez’s piece for violin and electronics, “Un ser con unas alas enormes”, and an appearance with her group counter)induction at Tenri Institute, featuring works using new electronics spatialization software from VRSonic. Concerts this summer include counter)induction performing at Bargemusic on June 3, and solo appearances at the Bard Festival and the quirkily named “Nono, MuchMore Warped” festival. For details, visit www.mirandacuckson.com.

Natacha Diels (Teacher Training Institute ’09) performed at the Cal Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio Technologies with Ensemble Pamplemousse on May 5. Read more about the event, and about Ensemble Pamplemousse.

Stacy Garrop (Young Musicians Program ’87-88, Faculty ’96) appeared on Cedille Records Day on WFMT 98.7 FM this month. Selections from The Book of American Poetry were performed at the DePaul Concert Hall in Chicago, and her new CD, “In Eleanor’s Words: Music of Stacy Garrop” was given a great review by critic Jay Harvey of the Indianapolis Star. Read the review here, and learn more about the cd here.

Evan Johnson (Young Musicians Program ’09-10) met 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner Zhou Long at the Pulitzer ceremony, where Evan’s father, Mark Johnson, was also receiving a Pulitzer prize. Zhou Long and his wife Chen Yi, both composers, have long been supporters of Walden, and Zhou Long visited Walden with Chen Yi in 1997.

The Nief-Norf Summer Festival chose Caroline Mallonée (Young Musicians Program ’88-92, Teacher Training Institute ’07, Faculty ’96,’98-00,’02-’11) as a winner of its first annual call for scores. Her 2009 piece, North South East West, for four percussionists in four corners, was performed in June at Furman University in Greenville, SC. She was in residence during the festival to work with the performers. Here’s the press release.

An EP by Aimee Bayles produced by Nat Osborn (Young Musician Program ’00-03) has just been released. Nat is also finishing up a short film called “Maybe She Dies Like This” by a film-maker named Jo Henriquez , samples of which can be heard on his website, natosborn.com.

Kelli Pearson (Teacher Training Institute ’10) reports that she has a new website, www.smartfirstgraders.com, for parents, teachers, homeschoolers, grandparents, and anyone else who is helping to raise smart first graders. It has tips for helping with math and reading, learning games and activities, experiments, etc.

The PRISM Saxophone Quartet (Visiting Artists ‘05) recently presented number of concerts. First were two concerts celebrating the release of their new CD, Dedication, in Philadelphia and New York City. They followed this with two concerts of world premieres, including a work by Cara Haxo (Young Musicians Program ’04-09). Cara had a nice profile published in the Akron Beacon Journal.

Alicia Rabins’ (Young Musicians Program ’88-93) band Girls in Trouble has new tour dates up for June. This tour celebrates the release of their new album, Half You Half Me, which was released on May 17th.

Alan Shewmon (Junior Conservatory Camp ’63-69, Young Musicians Program ’72) presented a concert on May 28th featuring works by Bartók, Ginastera, Ravel and Stravinsky, including the Stravinsky-Shewmon transcription of excerpts from Pétrouchka that he performed this past winter at Walden’s San Francisco Alumni Composers Forum.

Transitions

Major Life Events in the Walden/JCC Family

The Rev. Joseph Lafayette Giles, former senior pastor of University Baptist Church and longtime Walden friend and supporter, passed away on May 2 at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville, at 81. Here is a link to the Baltimore Sun obituary.

Now Hear This! Works by 2011 Walden Participants

The Walden School 2010 Young Musicians Program Festival Forums presented the world premieres of more than 50 pieces, including Lenny Kloser’s Medicine Bottle, performed by Lenny on guitar, with Sam Pluta on live electronics.

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by Matthew Klahorst (WP)

April 2011 eNews: InterNetzo

Message from the Executive Director
Walden Honored with National Music Education Award
Apply to Participate in a Walden Program (or two!)
Join jazz luminary Cyrus Chestnut and help support Walden
Event Roundup and Preview: Spring 2011
Walden Profiled in San Francisco Classical Voice
Read Walden’s 2010 Annual Report Online!
Community News and Goods
Opportunities & Organizations Listing
Now Hear This! Works by 2010 Walden Participants

Message from the Executive Director

Greetings from Baltimore, where the leadership team for Walden’s Young Musicians Program has gathered to develop this summer’s curriculum and plan for our upcoming 39th season. In addition to planning for ‘camp’, we’re in the midst of reviewing applications for our Creative Musicians Retreat to be held for the first time at Smith College in June, and for our Teacher Training Institute to be held in Dublin in August. There are still spaces available in each of our programs. I hope you’ll consider joining us and telling your friends, family and colleagues about our unique program offerings.

This issue of InterNetzo touches on many areas of interest to Walden supporters and alumni: a prestigious award bestowed on Walden by the American Music Center at an awards ceremony in New York on May 2, an exciting concert and support opportunity in Baltimore on May 1, a musical offering from one of our 2010 Composers Forums, updates from alumni, faculty and supporters, and much more.

This is an exciting time of year for all of us at Walden, as we ready our programs to welcome participants from around the world. Walden is so fortunate to have the support of hundreds of dedicated supporters who help make all of what we do possible. Without such support, we would not be able to provide any financial aid to deserving students and music teachers, or offer the rich and diverse concert series that we do. Thank you to those of you who have already made a gift to our annual fund this year. We really appreciate it. In 2010, more than 450 supporters invested in Walden and made all of it possible. Read about it here. I hope you’ll consider joining them in making 2011 our best year ever!

In next month’s InterNetzo, we will preview our Concert Series, which begins this year in Northampton with a concert by the International Contemporary Ensemble on June 12. We will also give you information about our faculty and staff, and tell you a bit about some of this year’s program participants. In the meantime, I hope that your spring is off to a great start.

Seth Brenzel
Director, Young Musicians Program
Executive Director
sbrenzel@waldenschool.org

Walden Honored with National Music Education Award

The Walden School will receive the 2011 New Music Educators Award from the American Music Center on May 2, 2011, at an awards ceremony in New York City.

The New Music Educator Award was established by the American Music Center’s Board of Directors in 2006. This award is open to conductors, professors, lecturers, academics, and others who have made important contributions in the realm of education, but might not always be well known to the rest of the new music community. Previous winners include musicologist Charles Hamm and the New World Symphony.

The Walden School is the recipient of our New Music Educator Award, honoring their creative philosophy and curriculum, as well as their contribution toward motivating and mentoring decades of successful students.”
– Joanne Hubbard Cossa, President and CEO of the
American Music Center

Also being honored at the awards ceremony will be preeminent composers William Bolcom and John Harbison, the Copland House and So Percussion, a fantastic quartet of percussionists dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. Many congratulations to everyone involved with Walden, whether since 1972 or since last month! This is a terrific acknowledgement of the great work that we all do together.

Apply to Participate in a Walden Program (or two!)

Applications are still being accepted for each of our programs — it is certainly not too late to plan to spend part of your summer with Walden! And if you can’t attend one of Walden’s programs this summer, we hope you will tell your friends and family and colleagues about what a terrific experience they will have if they do! Limited need-based financial aid is available for all programs.

Creative Musicians Retreat – NEW!
June 11-June 19, 2011 on the campus of Smith College
For more information and to download application materials, visit: www.waldenschool.org/creative-musicians-retreat/
Any adult (18+) musician is invited to join Walden faculty, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and Composer-in-Residence Russell Pinkston for a weeklong workshop in musicianship, composition, choral singing, improvisation, and more! Space is limited to 25 participants.

Young Musicians Program (aka YMP)
June 25-July 31, 2011 on the campus of the Dublin School
For more information and to download application materials, visit: waldenschool.org/young-musicians-program
Join Walden’s top-notch faculty and staff for a 5-week summer music immersion experience of musicianship, composition, choral singing and many other enriching activities. Open to young musicians ages 9-18. Guest artists will include Paul Moravec, Pamela Z, Eric Huebner, and the Firebird Ensemble, among others.

Teacher Training Institute’s Developing Creative Expression (aka TTI)
August 3-August 10, 2011 on the campus of the Dublin School
For more information and to download application materials, visit: waldenschool.org/teacher-training-institute
Walden’s master teaching faculty will lead a group of 40 like-minded music educators through a professional development experience like no other, and provide pedagogy instruction in musicianship, solfege, rhythms, improvisation, composition, choral singing, computer music,and jazz musicianship. Grammy-nominated Dave Eggar will appear in concert as part of the workshop!

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Join jazz luminary Cyrus Chestnut and help support Walden

We hope you’ll join us for a musical afternoon with jazz great and Walden alumnus Cyrus Chestnut. Hailed as “the best jazz pianist of his generation” by Time Magazine, Chestnut will perform a program of standards and original works in this intimate house concert. We hope you can join us for hors d’oeuvres, drinks, conversation and spectacular music to benefit Walden.

Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Time: 3-5:30 p.m.
Location: A private home in Baltimore, Maryland
Please contact us for details

$100 per person suggested donation.
Smaller and larger contributions also welcome.
All donations go towards financial aid for Walden’s programs.

RSVP now by email or call (415) 648-4710.
There are still a few prime seats left!

Can’t attend, but still want to make a gift? Click below.

Your gift of any size makes it possible for creative young people and music teachers to have the experience of a lifetime at Walden. Thank you!

Event Roundup and Preview: Spring 2011

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, April 10, 2011, to be exact, over 30 Walden and JCC alumni and friends gathered for the annual New York Alumni Composers Forum at Ann Goodman Recital Hall in the Lincoln Center neighborhood of Manhattan. Works by Alex Ness (Staff ’03, Faculty ’06-08), Evie Grainger (YMP ‘09-10), Michael Johanson (YMP ’79-86, Faculty ’89, ’93, ’95-96), and Steven Jon Kaplan (YMP ’74) were performed. Bassist Rebekah Griffin Greene (TTI ’10, Faculty ’99, ’01, ’10) and her trombonist husband Terry Greene performed their own improvisation. Other performers included baritone Jefferson Packer (TTI ’10; Administration ’10-present), violinist Jane Chung (Visiting Artist ’04, ’09-10), cellist Jane Cords O’Hara (Visiting Artist ’08, ’10), and guest pianist Solon Gordon. Forum moderators Marguerite Ladd and Michael Johanson engaged the composers, performers, and audience in lively discussion about the works being presented. Afterwards, a reception at the hall flowed into a group dinner around the corner at a local restaurant, where 14 of the participants continued the conversation well into the evening.

If you missed the New York Forum for reasons of timing or geography, you’ll have another chance to meet up with other Walden and JCC alumni at two upcoming performances by PRISM Saxophone Quartet (Visiting Ensemble ’93, ’94, ’99, ’05). On June 3 and 4 in New York and Philadelphia, the group will be performing a program of premieres, including “The Giving Tree,” a work by Cara Haxo (YMP ’04-09), most recent winner of the annual PRISM/Walden School Young Composer Commissioning Award. PRISM’s programs are electrifying – outstanding works performed brilliantly by committed performers.
Click here for details and for ticket information.

Read Walden’s 2010 Annual Report Online!

2010 was an outstanding year at Walden, thanks to our wonderful supporters. Click hereto see who contributed to The Walden School last year and what their giving accomplished. If you haven’t already made your 2011 donation to The Walden School, you can do so online by clicking below. Thank you!

Community News and Goods

Jim Altieri (Faculty ’02,’06-07, Teacher Training Institute ’06) recently collaborated with the band Pearl and the Beard on their new album, Killing the Darlings. He played violin several tracks, and composed a French horn quartet for a track that was performed by the acclaimed quartet Genghis Barbie. More information is available here. Jim also played accordion in Elevation Maps, a piece by Tristan Perich for five accordions and five channel one-bit audio, in a tour this month which includes several East Coast cities, as well as Santa Fe, New Mexico. After a mini-tour with Peter Evans (Guest Artist ’07-08)and Sam Pluta (Staff ’01-02, Faculty ’03-10), they’ve been getting lots of great feedback about “Sum and Difference”, their album of laptop / acoustic instrument duets. You can check the album out on Carrier Records’ website. Finally, he’s been at work with singer-songwriter Matt Singer on his new album, contributing accordion parts to several songs, and playing with his band live and on tape. See tweeg.net for more details.

Erica Ball (Young Musicians Program ’06-07) had a piece featured on a concert by the Arneis Quartet, along with a composer-audience discussion, at the public library in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Kate Ettinger’s (Young Musicians Program ’03-05) orchestra piece Caedo, Caedere (2011) was recently premiered at Oberlin by the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra. You can read more here.

Jane Lange (Young Musicians Program ’09-10)was named a recipient of 2011 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award. The winning piece is Moments, which was composed last year at Walden. Read the article about her in the San Francisco Classical Voice.

Aurora Nealand (Faculty ’03-07, Visiting Artist ’09-10)is a featured artist on the HBO show Treme. Read more about the show here.

This has been a big month for Nat Osborn (Young Musicians Program ’00-03), who appeared multiple times with groups Hawthorne, Nat Osborn and the Diamond Allegory, and also accompanying Aimee Bayles, whose album he recently produced.

Alica Rabins’s (Young Musicians Program ’88-93) band Girls in Trouble has a new album, “HALF YOU HALF ME”, which will be released by Jdub Records on May 17 (and available at shows starting in April). The album features ten new songs and beautiful design by the band’s artist-musician-designer friend David Pokrivnak. A tour of California, the Southeast, the Northeast, and a big NYC show at Joe’s Pub on May 19th will follow. More information about that show is available here. Alicia also had some poems on the back cover of the March/April American Poetry Review.

A small but vibrant group of Los Angeles-based Waldenites got together this April, with alumni Alan Shewmon, (Junior Conservatory Camp ’63-60, Young Musicians Program ’72)Ted Masur (Teacher Training Institute ’04-07, Faculty ’08), Alan Chan (Teacher Training Institute ’04, ’06, Faculty ’10), Julian van Eyken (Teacher Training Institute ’08), and donor and designer Chris Maikish joining Seth Brenzel (Young Musicians Program ’85-90, Teacher Training Institute ’08, Staff ’94, ’96-97, Admin ’94-11) and Esther Landau (Teacher Training Institute ’08, Admin ’05-11).

Now Hear This! Works by 2011 Walden Participants

The Walden School 2010 Young Musicians Program Festival Forums presented the world premieres of over 50 pieces, including Kaeli Mogg’s ROUGH, performed by Amelia Lukas, flute, Meighan Stoops, clarinet, Jake Tejada, trumpet, Steve Parker, trombone, and Nadia Sirota, viola.

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by Matthew Klahorst (WP)

March 2011 eNews: InterNetzo

Message from the Executive Director
Walden Honored with National Music Education Award
Apply to Participate in a Walden Program (or two!)
Event Roundup and Preview: Spring 2011
Reflections on a Residency at the Dublin School
Community News and Goods
Opportunities & Organizations Listing
Now Hear This! Works by 2010 Walden Participants

Message from the Executive Director

Greetings from Walden’s year-round office here in San Francisco. There is much to report on about Walden: a new program, an award from the American Music Center, new board members, new staff, upcoming deadlines for applications to our programs, residencies and partnerships and more. I invite you to peruse all of the articles in this month’s InterNetzo, which is brimming with news and information about your favorite summer music festival, school and camp!

This year, we are piloting our first-ever Creative Musicians Retreat, designed for Walden and JCC alumni, parents, friends and interested adult musicians who want to have their own weeklong Walden experience. Directed by Caroline Mallonée, the program features faculty members Marshall Bessires, Leo Wanenchak, Loretta Notareschi and Sam Pluta. Activities will include daily chorus, classes in musicianship topics, computer music, music history and analysis and daily composition lessons for those who are interested. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) will be in residence, along with composer Russell Pinkston. I hope you’ll consider joining us at what promises to be a fantastic week of the very best of Walden musicianship, community, composition and creativity on the campus of Smith College, June 11-19. And please tell your friends and colleagues.

Walden’s Young Musicians Program starts on June 25, and we have a wonderful roster of guest artists and residencies to tell you about (in April!). Our faculty and staff team is nearly complete, and there are only about 5 more places in our student body for this upcoming summer. I’ll look forward to previewing more about ‘camp’ in next month’s issue of InterNetzo. Our 2011 Teacher Training Institute, August 3-10 in Dublin, New Hampshire, is taking shape as well. Music educators from California, Texas, New Jersey and everywhere in between are making plans to join Walden’s teacher training faculty for a week of practical music pedagogy training. Participants will be able to learn proven methods for developing the creative voices of their own students, enjoy a weeklong retreat with other like-minded music teachers and develop their own musicianship skills in computer music, improvisation, ear training, solfege, choral singing, rhythms, theory and composition.

Marshall Bessières, a long time Young Musicians Program faculty member, is currently in residence at the Dublin School, assisting Jessica Harrison (Teacher Training Institute alumna from 2009-2010) in presenting classes in creative work from the musicianship course, as well as two sections of computer musicianship. This residency follows on Bill Stevens’ successful residency in the spring of 2010, about which you can read separately in this month’s newsletter.

In October 2010, Walden welcomed Jefferson Packer to the team as Walden’s Director of Administration. Jefferson keeps the office running smoothly, handles marketing and outreach tasks, and manages Walden’s finances. He is a Teacher Training Institute alumnus from August 2010, a pianist and singer, holds degrees from Harvard University and San Francisco State University, speaks 5 languages (or is it 6?), and comes to us most recently from the San Francisco Symphony, where he was the Manager of the acclaimed San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. We’re fortunate to have his expertise and energy devoted to Walden. To learn more about Walden’s administrative staff, please visit: http://www.waldenschool.org/about/staff.shtml.

In July 2010, we bid farewell to two outgoing members of Walden’s Board of Directors: Leo Wanenchak and Rita Mitra. They both contributed so much to the furthering of Walden’s mission and the work of the board during their tenures. We are grateful for their terrific service, and of course, we look forward to their continued involvement in the School. We also welcomed four new directors to the board in July: Chad Shampine of New York City; Robin Kenney of Peterborough, NH; James Athey of Washington, DC; and Anne Haxo of Haydenville, Massachusetts. To learn more about Walden’s board of directors, visit the board page on Walden’s website: http://www.waldenschool.org/about/board.shtml. We are excited about what each of them brings to the work of the Board of Directors and thank them for already jumping in and making wonderful contributions to Walden.

There is a lot happening at Walden as we prepare for our 39th season. Each of our programs offers something special for our participants – whether they are creative music educators, young musicians interested in composition and improvisation, or now, adult musicians seeking a creative Walden experience. I hope you, your family and your colleagues will join us in beautiful New England this summer.

Seth Brenzel
Director, Young Musicians Program
Executive Director
sbrenzel@waldenschool.org

Walden Honored with National Music Education Award

The Walden School will receive the 2011 New Music Educators Award from the American Music Center on May 2, 2011, at an awards ceremony in New York City.

The Walden School is the recipient of our New Music Educator Award, honoring their creative philosophy and curriculum, as well as their contribution toward motivating and mentoring decades of successful students.”
– Joanne Hubbard Cossa, President and CEO of the
American Music Center

Apply to Participate in a Walden Program (or two!)

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Event Roundup and Preview: Spring 2011

The Walden School/Junior Conservatory Camp community loves to get together. We love to gather in support of Walden’s programs, to celebrate our successes, to sing, to share new music and conversation together. And we love to simply get together to enjoy our friendships.

In early October, more than 100 friends of Walden gathered at Birdland on a crisp New York evening to hear three alumni of Walden’s programs: vocalist Hilary Kole, pianist Bill Stevens and drummer Eric Mrozkowski. The musical synergy between the three was astounding, supported by the very able bass playing of Gray Hackelman. The atmosphere was festive and the conversation engaging, and the event raised more than $10,000 for Walden’s financial aid programs. Attendees included numerous East Coast board members, alumni and family and friends. Check out the photos here!

In mid-October, 75 friends joined us at the Getty mansion in San Francisco in celebration of Walden’s generous supporters. In this glorious setting, we were treated to an outstanding performance by legendary pianist and member of Walden’s Advisory Council, Leon Fleisher, and the award-winning Cypress String Quartet. The program included solo piano and chamber works by our host, Gordon Getty, as well as Debussy, Korngold, Jenő Takács, and Brahms’ arrangement of the Bach Chaconne for the left hand. Attendees included our local supporters and board members from near and far.

Alumni also had numerous opportunities to get together in December, with holiday potlucks in New York, Baltimore, and San Francisco. In Baltimore, Ellen, Ed and Meade Bernard hosted a party with two dozen guests. Mid-way through the party, the house received a Skype call from the Walden office in San Francisco, so Esther and Seth got to say hello to guests, including Tom Hecht who was in town from Singapore. Seth also Skyped into the party in New York, where Walden faculty member and TTI alumnus Marshall Bessières cheerfully hosted nearly 20 people into his apartment. And in San Francisco, Walden’s Development Director Esther Landau and her wife Caroline Pincus welcomed 30 guests into their home. There was much singing, including a group reading of Carrie Mallonee’s newly published choral work, Dona Nobis Pacem.

More new works were shared and discussed when alumni gathered at Composers Forums in Baltimore and San Francisco. All told, these programs featured dozens of performers presenting new music by 19 alumni of the Junior Conservatory Camp and Walden’s Young Musicians Program and Teacher Training Institute. Music ran the gamut from both traditional and improvisational choral settings and piano solos to jazz and chamber rock. Noah Mlotek and D.J. Sparr co-moderated in Baltimore, and our San Francisco moderators were Cody Wright and Alex Christie. Both Forums were followed immediately by mini-reunions at local restaurants.

Want to join us at an event this spring or summer? Here’s a brief list of what’s coming up:

• Alumni Composers Forum on April 10 in New York

• Fundraisers on May 1 in Baltimore, May 15 in San Francisco, and July 30 in Dublin

• The premieres of alumna Cara Haxo’s new work for PRISM Saxophone Quartet on June 3rd and 4th in New York and Philadelphia, respectively.

And, for those of you wanting a deeper immersion in the Walden community than a single event can provide, consider attending one of Walden’s three Walden’s three programs this summer – now there’s something for everyone at Walden!

Reflections on a Residency at the Dublin School

By Bill Stevens

When I first caught wind of the proposed initiative for a member of Walden’s faculty to be in residence during the year at the Dublin School (our campus hosts for the last several decades), I only had to think about it for a few seconds before piping up and saying “I’ll do it.” And so it happened that last spring I spent a month at the Dublin School, teaching two musicianship classes, offering some private lessons, mentoring and collaborating with Dublin’s music teacher Jess Harrison, and giving a concert with my jazz trio. I was drawn by the chance to deepen the relationship between our two programs, not just academically and artistically, but personally as well. I was first a Walden student in 1992; 2010 was my fourteenth on that campus. Some members of the Dublin community have been around all of those summers, and yet beyond knowing each others names and saying a casual hello, we’ve had few moments of meaningful contact. For me, these relationships have transformed, having had the chance to sit together over dinner day in and day out, to share stories and laughter, and to partner in building a community in which a group of students can grow and flourish. I enjoyed learning that Andy likes to kid, Jan loves to kvetch, and Brad throws a killer curveball. (I volunteered my services as umpire during a pick-up softball game, which, for those who don’t know me personally, is amusing because I really am blind.)

Arriving in Dublin in mid-April 2010, I was struck by all the ways in which it felt much like being back at Walden. The smells in particular were poignantly nostalgic for me: the crisp mountain air, the characteristic floor polish in the schoolhouse (which used to be the library), and the tomato soup and veggie Reubens in the lunch buffet. The touch and articulation of the recital hall piano, now soft, now biting, took me back to the composer’s forum when I was fourteen and sharing my music at Walden for the first time. It was a bit colder, true, even snowy at times; but though there were no blessings before meals or singing in the evenings, though breakfast began at 7:00 instead of 7:45 and there was no rest hour in the schedule (I did snag a few unofficial rest hours on general principle), there were still small classes ripe with humor, teachers who obviously care about their students, and even a few student / faculty pranks, such as the recurring disappearance of the Maypole in advance of May Fair, much to Jan’s distress and the clandestine glee of the freshman class. I was surprised and delighted by how quickly I felt at home.

And of course, I was drawn by the chance to teach musicianship outside of the immediate Walden environment, which I found to be unexpectedly tricky, without pianos tucked away in every available nook and when students aren’t eating, breathing, and dreaming music, creativity, solfege, and the overtone series every hour of the day. Even so, it was fun for me to experience that the discover-drill-create process really does hold up, regardless of the trappings of the teaching situation, gently guiding a class to that tipping point when a creative activity becomes more than just an exercise and something of heart comes to the surface, right there in the middle of the school day. For my E block class, we found this with group improvisations with perfect fourths, focusing on a particular mood, having a conductor cuing intensity, or following the contours of a narrated story. I continue to be amazed at what emerges from young people when provided with adequate space, intention, and care.

The golden section of the residency for me was doing a concert with my jazz trio. Weldon Kollock, trombone, and Chip Newton, guitar, traveled up from North Carolina for a few days to join me for a show of blues, bebop, bossanova, and The Beatles. These are some of my favorite musicians to play with. We all agree that it is most rewarding to play for an audience that is present and engaged, and this surely was that; as Jess put it after, “I’ve never seen this community so energized on a Friday evening before!” (These kids have a highly structured schedule during the week, so having any attention left to give come week’s end is a pretty thorough compliment). Weldon joined me on campus again for another show last summer, as part of Walden’s 2010 concert series (July 11, 2010), along with TTI alumnus Eric Mrozkowski on drums, YMP faculty member Tony Makarome on bass, and my very own brother, Mike Stevens, on paint brushes. (Jazz with live painting; check it out!)

It was a good month. As Brad Bates, Dublin School’s Headmaster and a driving force in bringing this residency into being, put it, “Your visit far exceeded my expectations for what could be accomplished during this first year of collaboration between our two schools.” I know that Seth and I are similarly thrilled with how the experiment turned out. I think we’re all looking forward to further partnership in the years to come.

I have a collection of journals, discussing the residency in greater detail, up on my website, along with sound files from our April 30th concert in Dublin: please feel free to peruse these at your leisure.

Community News and Goods

The first issue of a new online journal, SCOPE, featured a great article on the life and music of Elizabeth Rhudy Austin. (JCC ’52-56) You can read the entire issue here, by clicking the image of the magazine’s cover, and the article about Elizabeth, ‘Composer in waiting’, starts on page 22. Austin was also included in a new book – Women of Influence in Contemporary Music: Nine American Composers, edited by Michael Slayton, which was just released by Scarecrow Press.

Erica Ball (YMP ’06-07) has a new website, www.ericajball.com, featuring upcoming concert listings, audio samples of recent works, and links to fellow musicians and composers.

Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt (YMP ’05-07) is a freshman at Cornell and according to his parents, “is enjoying it immensely.”

Gabriel Bolkosky (Visiting Artist ’01-03) reports that his website, www.gabrielbolkosky.com, has entered the 21st century, and now you can download individual tracks from his CDs, or an entire album. Make sure to check out the Star Wars cloned wedding music!

Sophie Coran (YMP ’00-05) is in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. She reported early on that she was intimidated by the feeling of being an outsider living in a strange country, but loved the school itself, and said the experience, while scary, is a fun, exciting adventure.

Shawn Crouch (YMP’93-5,’96, TTI ’08, Staff ’97, Faculty ’99-00,’02,’05-07) and the Miami Choral Academy (MCA) were featured in an article in BMI’s online magazine MusicWorld. Shawn is the founding director of MCA, a tuition-free afterschool program that creates a little league-type network of choral ensembles for children from underserved communities of Miami-Dade. In just over a week, 200 students rehearsing at four elementary schools explored vocal music, rehearsed for performances, and worked with interns who connected classroom academics (reading, writing, math) and music. You can follow them on their blog and media page on their website. ShawnCrouchMusic.com has information about upcoming performances of his music this year, including a performance of his work “My Metropolitan Sky” this month by the Maryland All-State Wind Ensemble.

Marilyn Crispell (JCC ’60-64) performed several concerts at Sons d’Hiver in Paris in January, one with Joelle Leandre’s Stone Quartet, and the other a solo concert.

A new face has joined the Del Sol String Quartet (Visiting Artists ’06): Kathryn Bates Williams has taken over for Hannah Addario-Berry as cellist of the Quartet. SHADES, Del Sol’s Fall 2010 Home Season series, included four world premieres of commissioned works by Joan Jeanrenaud, Amy X. Neuburg, Ronald Bruce Smith, and Daniel Ward, as well as Osvaldo Golijov’s “Tenebrae.” Composing Together, Del Sol’s semester-long, public school composing program in collaboration with local composer/educator Katrina Wreede, involves groups of middle and high school students in the hands-on process of composing their own music, which Del Sol “workshops” with the kids and then performs and records in a final concert for the whole school.

Carol Thomas Downing (Faculty ’82-86, ’88-94, Visiting Artist ‘05) writes: “I had the privilege of conducting a very special Virginia Children’s Chorus performance marking the choir’s first appearance for national TV, filmed this past December, 2010. LifeTime TV is preparing a series of episodes to honor deployed United States military persons, and staging surprise reunions with their loved ones. The producers recently asked our Virginia Children’s Chorus to be part of one of their major feature episodes in this series. Our story involves the staging of a “dream wedding” at the Chrysler Museum for a young couple who had a very simple ceremony to be married prior to the bride’s deployment. The Concert Choir and girls from the Chamber Singers provided all of the music for the episode.

As the bride walked down the aisle to her groom, the choir sang Franck’s “Panis Angelicus”, and the sound was absolutely ethereal as it resonated throughout the space. Possibly even more lovely was Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” at the recessional. Many of the Lifetime TV staff remarked at how astonishingly beautiful the children sounded, and at their highly professional demeanor as they stood on the stairs of Huber Court for about four hours of filming. The wedding, though VERY long, went beautifully. Our singers sounded fabulous – like angels. They were gems – every one of them was SO patient and professional. A lot of stop-start, standing & waiting, then in the middle of a glorious phrase, “CUT” etc… What troopers!!!” The episode, titled “A Proper Wedding”, will air Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 10:00pm and three other times that week on the Lifetime channel.

On November 5th, Friends of Rain, Lewis & Clark’s new music ensemble, presented Renée Favand-See’s (YMP ’85,’87-90, TTI ’08, Faculty ’93-97,’99,’05-07 ) song cycle “Lonesome Songs” for soprano and piano. The program also featured music by Michael Johanson (YMP ’79-86, TTI ’06, Faculty ’89, ’93, ’95-96), along with music by Lou Harrison and Peter Schickele.

The second and third movements of the “Mythology” Symphony by Stacy Garrop (YMP ’87-88, Faculty ’96) were premiered by the Albany Symphony in May 2010, with David Alan Miller, conductor. You can listen to the performances here. She also has a new CD, produced by Cedille Records. It consists of three recent chamber works: “Silver Dagger” for piano trio, based on three versions of an Appalachian folk song about star-crossed lovers; “In Eleanor’s Words” for mezzo-soprano and piano, which features texts written by American stateswoman and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt from her My Daysyndicated newspaper column; and String Quartet No. 3: “Gaia”, which explores concepts of the mythical Greek goddess of the earth as well as of our modern day planet. The CD features strong performances by the Lincoln Trio, Biava Quartet, mezzo-soprano Buffy Baggott, and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang. You can listen to samples at Cedille Records, and find more information about the music on the CD here.

Jennifer Higdon (Visiting Composer ’99) was recently featured in an article in the SF Classical Voice, and violinist Hilary Hahn’s recent recording of Higdon’s violin concerto was reviewed in the same publication.

Caroline Mallonée’s (YMP ’88-92, TTI ’07, Faculty ’96,’98-00,’02-09, Admin ‘11) Dona Nobis Pacem, a piece for a cappella choir written in 2003 in response to the US invasion of Afghanistan, is now available from Boosey & Hawkes! You can listen to a performance by the Duke University Chorale, conducted by Rodney Wynkoop, here. For more information about Caroline Mallonée, visit www.carolinemallonee.com.

Ned McGowan (Visiting Artist ’01-04,’10) wrote a new piece, “Solar Neon”, for the debut concert of a new music ensemble which includes the famous 31-tone organ. For the entire month of December and part of January he was in Ahmedabad, India for a production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with singers, musicians and dancers from Europe and India. The premiere took place in Ahmedabad and performances followed in Pondecherry and Chennai. The production will come to the Netherlands in October 2011 with performances in the Schouwbergen in Den Haag, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. You can read more about it and follow its development here.

Ned’s work for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, entitled Radiance, was premiered last July. The 40- minute work places the ensemble around the bowed piano; you can see some moments from it here, and read a review in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In May, 2011, Hexnut (Visiting Artist Ensemble ’10) will premiere a new project in collaboration with photographer Edward Burtynsky.

Mackenzie Melemed (YMP ’06-07) was selected as a finalist in the Youtube Symphony Orchestra! He was one of a few pianists chosen by judges from the London Symphony, the Berlin Philarmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony.

Gary Monheit’s (JCC ’72, Faculty ’75-78,’80,’97, Board of Directors ’99-00) jazz group Fortune Smiles appeared at Yoshi’s jazz club in Oakland in February, celebrating the release of their new self-titled CD. You read more about Fortune Smiles and purchase a copy of their CD here.

Nat Osborn (YMP ’00-03) has kept busy with two bands, Nat Osborn and the Diamond Allegory and Hawthorne, with numerous shows up and down the east coast. He produced a 5-song EP for Aimee Bayles, and Lucy York Struever presented a program of work using his compositions for her company York Dance Works, including a brand new 10-minute work and a piece they put together a number of months ago. You can listen to it here; the piece is called “Burro Buracho Bolero.”

Sam Pluta’s (Staff ’01-02, Faculty ’03-10) record label Carrier Records is proud to announce the release of Yarn/Wire’s debut album, “Tone Builders.” Beautifully recorded at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at RPI, Tone Builders features commissioned works for two pianos and two percussion by Alex Mincek, Aaron Einbond, Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels, David Franzson, Sam Pluta, and Mei-Fang Lin. Visit http://www.carrierrecords.com to check out the album.

The PRISM Quartet (Visiting Artists ‘05) was featured at Chamber Music America’s 2011 National Conference. Their annual performance of a work by a Walden-commissioned composer will feature the premiere of “Giving Tree” by Cara Haxo (YMP’04-09) and will take place in New York and Philadelphia over the June 4-5 weekend. Go to http://www.prismquartet.com for more information.

Alicia Rabins (YMP ’88-83) played three shows in February, performing as a soloist with four string players, with a power trio version of her band Girls in Trouble, and finally with the Girls in Trouble quartet at the GenNext Interfaith Conference, playing a short set after a short set after a panel discussion by young Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders. You can read more about the latter event here, and listen to Girls in Trouble here.

At the Chamber Music America Conference in January, Nadia Sirota, (Visiting Artist ’10)new-music broadcaster and violist of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, along with her brother, Jonah Sirota, violist of the Chiara Quartet, and her father, composer Robert Sirota, president of the Manhattan School of Music, joined Grammy-winning bassist/composer/conductor John Clayton, former artistic director for jazz for the LA Philharmonic and his son, pianist Gerald Clayton of the Gerald Clayton Trio, for a panel discussion about tradition and innovation.

D. J. Sparr (YMP ’91, Faculty ’09-10) was featured in this article on the ALIAS chamber ensemble website. He has also been appointed resident composer at the California Symphony, based in Walnut Creek, California.

New Music Box featured a great interview with composer Christopher Theofanidis(Composer in Residence ’08).

John Weaver’s (JCC Faculty ’51-68, Visiting Composer ’97, Advisory Council ’02-11) student Paul Jacobs won the Grammy in the category Best Instrumental Solo Performance (without orchestra) for his album Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement.

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (Visiting Artist ’10) played a host of concerts this winter in London, Oxford and Brighton, including performances of Brahms’ Violin Concerto with the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra and European Doctors Orchestra, a program of Mozart, Ives and Ravel with pianist Tim Horton at Holywell Music Room, the oldest custom-built concert hall in Europe, Delius’ Concerto for Violin and Cello with cellist Gemma Rosefield and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra at the Brighton Dome, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio with pianist Tom Poster and cellist Gemma Rosefield at St Paul’s Covent Garden, and Richard Causton’s Fantasia and Air, Bartok’s Violin Sonata, and Bach’s Chaconne at Wigmore Hall.

An essay by Larry Wetzler (JCC ’62-63) entitled “The Music of Unthinkable Anxiety and Nameless Dread” was published in a book called Music and Psyche: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Explorations. You can learn more and purchase the book here.

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Major Life Events in the Walden/JCC Family

Stacey and Kevin Cronin (YMP ’78-82) have a new baby, Olivia Quinn Cronin, who was born on October 20.

Nathan Davis (Visiting Artist ’01-07,’09-10) married Sylvia Davis in August 2010.

Stephen Flynn (Young Musicians Program ’01-04) married Emily Alinder this summer, with Daniel Cadieux (Young Musicians Program ’03-04)as best man, and Noah Mlotek(Young Musicians Program ’03-04, Teacher Training Institute ’09, Staff ’08-09) as a groomsman.

Jean Eichelberger Ivey, former Walden festival week moderator, passed away on May 2, 2010.

Jennifer and Brooke Joyce (Faculty ’00-10) are happy to announce the birth of Keegan Patrick Joyce on Sunday, October 24 at 9:19 pm.

Eliza Brown‘s (YMP ’00-02, TTI ’07, ’10) and Chris Wild’s (TTI ’10) wedding was in June 2010. Other Waldenites present included Pat Plude, Marshall Bessières, Seth Brenzel, Malcolm Gaines, and Sophie Huet.

Caroline Mallonée‘s (YMP ’88-92, TTI ’07, Faculty ’96,’98-00,’02-09, Admin ‘11) and Eric Heubner’s (Visiting Artist ’04-08) wedding was in June 2010. Carrie and Eric met at Walden during the summer of 2004, and Eric proposed to Carrie years later on the dock of Dublin Lake! You can read a New York Times article about the wedding here. Other Waldenites present included Amelia Lukas, Nicholas DeMaison, Aurora Nealand, Seth Brenzel, Malcolm Gaines, Jim Altieri, Whit Bernard, Marshall Bessières, Molly Pindell, Georgann Nedwell, Sam Pluta and Alexander Ness.

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