Music Director of bands Stephen Peterson recently conducted honor bands in New York, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Illinois. In March he was honored with induction into the American Bandmasters’ Association. In March the College’s 17- member Trombone Troupe traveled from Ithaca to Arlington, Virginia, to perform at the Eastern Trombone Workshop. The workshop, hosted by the United States Army Band, consisted of master classes, concerts, and clinics. The troupe, directed this spring by Frederick Boyd of the Syracuse Symphony, performed a challenging repertoire of music that included this year’s winner of the Allen Ostrander composition prize. The troupe also performed at Frühling Posaunen, the annual spring gathering of trombones, with groups from the Eastman School of Music and Penn State University. Trumpet professor Kim Dunnick presented a class in American trumpet music to students at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, in March. Dunnick was in the United Kingdom representing the International Trumpet Guild in talks with Boosey and Hawkes regarding a proposed album of commissioned trumpet music. At the Eastern Division Music Educators National Conference convention, department chair Mark Fonder presented "Playing by Ear — Using the Aural Process in a Large Instrumental Ensemble" with the Ithaca College Concert Band as the demonstration group and "A Survey of the National Standards Influence on American Collegiate Music Education Curricula." Fonder also presented "Assessment Strategies for the School Wind Band" at the New Jersey Music Educators state conference and "Implementing the National Standards in the School Wind Band" at Delaware State Music Day. Allison Evans Henry, adjunct assistant professor of organ and harpsichord, performed a recital of Bach organ works at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City in January. The program included Toccata and Fugue in F, BWV 540, Trio Sonatas I and VI, and BWV 525 and 530. Members of the piano faculty traveled to Steinway Hall in New York City to choose seven new grand pianos for the James J. Whalen Center for Music. Timothy Johnson, first-year assistant professor, has a summer research grant from Dartmouth College for his project on introducing mathematical aspects of music into the music theory curriculum. This summer he will be writing a mini- textbook that seeks to introduce recent cutting-edge scholarship in diatonic set theory to beginning students of music theory. Dartmouth plans to include Johnson’s work in its forthcoming Mathematics-across-the-Curriculum textbook series. Ithaca College students will be introduced to these new pedagogical techniques and ideas in Johnson’s Theory I courses beginning in the fall. Janet Galván presented at the 92nd Street Y in New York a workshop entitled "From Chorus to Classroom." It featured the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, conducted by Francisco Nuñez. This year so far Galván also has conducted the Northwest Treble Choir and the Colorado All-State Choir, presented two sessions at the Colorado State Music Educators meeting, and chaired a panel at the American Chorus Directors Association’s national convention. In June she conducted the North American Children’s Chorale in Carnegie Hall. In addition, she edited two editions of choral music that were published in February. Recent performances by assistant professor of voice Beth Ray include the role of Dido in the Ithaca Opera production of Dido and Aeneas in May. This spring Ray was also soloist in Haydn’s St. Cecilia Mass with Cornell University’s Sage Chapel Choir, and mezzo soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Ithaca Community Chorus. Lee Goodhew, associate professor of bassoon, is teaching and playing at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina this summer. At Ithaca this spring she welcomed bassoon master class teachers Frank Morelli of the Chamber Music Players of Lincoln Center and Janis McKay of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Goodhew was recently invited to join the board of directors of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, becoming the first orchestra member ever to have a place on the governing body. She will perform with the Ithaca Wind Quintet at the international Double Reed Society conference in Madison, Wisconsin, in July. Wendy Mehne presented a workshop on "Breathing, Warm-ups, and Stress Management" for flutists at the 1998 NYSSMA winter conference in Rochester. Recent performances include concerts with Pablo Cohen in a guest artist recital at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, a concert with Ensemble X at the Proscenium Theater at Cornell, a benefit concert for the South Hill Elementary School as part of the formal partnership between Ithaca College and the school, and a guest artist recital and master class at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. Steven Mauk, saxophone, had a busy spring semester of concerts and conference presentations. In January he presented a solo recital at the regional meeting of the North American Saxophone Alliance in Los Angeles. Mauk and piano faculty member Read Gainsford toured Ohio in March, presenting concerts and master classes at Oberlin College, the University of Akron, and Youngstown State University. As members of the Empire Saxophone Quartet, Mauk and Jamal Rossi performed as featured guest artists with the United States Navy Band in Fairfax, Virginia, for the 20th annual Saxophone Symposium. Former Ithaca College faculty member Rodney Winther served as guest conductor in their performance of Michael Colgrass’s Urban Requiem for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble. The ESQ toured New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York during a concert tour in February. They were also featured artists at the University of Montavallo (Alabama) during that institution’s Saxophone Festival. Graduate saxophone student Angela Space performed the Ibert Concertino da Camera in January in a master class at Mansfield University with renowned French saxophone virtuoso and teacher Jean-Marie Londeix.