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Carl Ruck, M.M ’81, helps Adam Strube ’08 to begin his professional career — at the White House. by Alex Meril ’07 If there is one thing that makes you strive for more, you should pursue it,” says Adam Strube ’08. The vocal performance major... |
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The U.S. Air Force honors Colonel Arnald Gabriel ’50, M.S. ’60, H.D.M. ’89. by Alex Meril ’07 Raised in humble circumstances during the Great Depression, Arnald Gabriel ’50 discovered his love of music listening to the Metropolitan Opera on the radio. He honed his own musical talent... |
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Frances Cicero LaPlaca ’60 infuses her classroom and studio with grace and love. by Anne Ryan She was a second grader in Albany when she fell in love with the piano, but Fran Cicero’s Italian immigrant parents could not afford to buy her one. Three years later they presented her with a second-hand piano... |
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The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, conducted by music performance professor Stephen Peterson, performed John Corigliano’s “Circus Maximus” at Cornell University’s Bailey Hall in February. The piece — which employs a marching band, two sirens, and a shotgun, among more traditional instruments — is designed to create an... |
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Sally Jane Ketcham Tanzer ’70 honors the teachers of whom she thought the world. by Kate Larrabee Sally Jane Ketcham Tanzer says the strong reputation of Ithaca’s music education program preceded her when it came time to interview for teaching positions. “Ithaca really prepared me to walk into an... |
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Tom Everett is grateful for his life in music — as are his listeners. by Kathryn Good-Schiff Tom Everett feels about his job the way everybody wants to feel about theirs: “I do what I love to do,” he says. As Harvard University’s director of bands since 1971 and founder of its jazz... |
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Retired alumnus continues to make important contributions to the wind band repertoire. When band director Gregory B. Rudgers ’70 stumbled across a recording in the stacks of his band room in 1976, he couldn’t have known that it would lead him to make a significant contribution to ... |
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IC oboe and bassoon professors host a worldwide conference on campus. Professors Goodhew-Romm and Morgan are no longer shoe shopping. In fact, they never were. But for over a year, students used “shoe shopping” as code for “Don’t bother... |