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Iwu Music Professor Logan Campbell Is Bloomington-Normal Youth Symphony's Next Director, Lauren Warnecke

Interviews for WGLT

The Bloomington-Normal Youth Symphony (BNYS) will have a new director this fall. Illinois Wesleyan University music professor Logan Campbell will be just the third director to ascend the podium after Deanne Bryant steps down.

Deanne Bryant Conducts Iso Holiday Pops That Seats Young Musicians With The Pros, Lauren Warnecke

Interviews for WGLT

ISO Holiday Pops seats young musicians with the pros — and hosts a Christmas sing-along for all. Deanne Bryant leads the orchestra.

The Saxophone In Classical And Popular Music (Honors), Dylan Propheter

Papers

The Saxophone instrument family has achieved widespread success and recognition in the context of jazz and popular music, but has a more complex role in the western classical music tradition. Instrument maker Adolph Sax invented the Saxophone in the 1840’s while living in Paris. Thanks to Sax’s connections to prominent figures in 19th century France, the instrument family saw initial success despite severe pushback from competing instrument makers and composers. Though it never became a standard instrument in the orchestra, it did have material written for it, including some notable solo pieces. That success did not continue, however, and by …

Mus 124: Life Soundtracks, Adriana Ponce

Departmental Initiatives

No abstract provided.

I Have Not Always Been As Now, Bailey Knowles

Compositions

i have not always been as now is a four-movement piece for soprano voice, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and glockenspiel. The libretto is a reworking of literature by Edgar Allen Poe. I read through his entire output of poetry, isolated lines that I enjoyed, stood out, or triggered a musical thought in my head, and rearranged them to create a new story. The story is purposefully vague, and its specific meanings and interpretations shall be deciphered by the listener. The story follows someone who is recalling memories of a love from the past. This love could be a person, a …

Ilya Radaslovov And Dave Horine On Iwu's Designation As An All Steinway School, Charlie Schlenker

Interviews for WGLT

Illinois Wesleyan University will receive a 3.5 million dollar gift to become an all Steinway piano music school. Eric Stock from WGLT Radio discusses the new designation with Keyboard Department Head Ilya Radaslovov and university piano technician Dave Horine.

La Bicicletta, Jack Druffel

Compositions

Program Notes:

La Bicicletta was written in the fall of 2018 and edited for the Illinois Wesleyan Symphony Orchestra in early 2019. It is a narrative about an accident the composer endured while in Milan, Italy. While cycling home, he was struck by a motorcycle and spent a night in an Italian hospital and was released the next day with minor injuries. The main idea of the piece is to reflect the mundane tasks of daily life, and this motif is presented in each of the four sections that make up La Bicicletta.

The first part of the piece reflects …

Wilberta Naden Pickett, Wilberta Naden Pickett '50

All oral histories

Bachelor of Music, IWU, 1950. According to the 1950 Wesleyana, she was a member of the Indee Women, Egas, Alpha Lambda Delta, Women's Chorus, Colleqiate Choir, University Chorus, Episcopoi, Sunday Evening Fellowship, Vesper Chairman, Vesper Organist, Park Hall President, and was in productions of "Faust" and "Of Thee I Sing."

Mrs. Pickett later attained the following additional accomplishments:

• Master of Sacred Music, Union Theological Seminary, 1952
• Choir Master degree, American Guild of Organists, 1956
• Certified Church Musician, Presbyterian Association of Musicians, 1978

Symposium Of Contemporary Music, 2017, School Of Music

Programs

The program for November 16-17, 2017 featured guest composer Judith Shatlin, he William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia. Ms. Shatin also founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. Her music has been commissioned by organizations including Carnegie Hall and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Glenn Wilson Sound Ideas Interview September 5, 2017, Jon Norton

Interviews for WGLT

Jon Norton,WGLT Radio, speaking with Glenn Wilson, chair of Illinois Wesleyan University's jazz program, about the new 2017 documentary on jazz legend John Coltane.

American Spring, Sam Mullooly, Tom Mullooly

CrissCross

Composer's Notes

I composed American Spring during the 2015-2016 school year, my final year as an undergraduate at Illinois Wesleyan University, in connection with the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. This opera takes place mostly in April 1865, the year Richmond burned and Lincoln died, and deals with America’s feelings of pride and shame in war. The opera’s main character is Varina Davis, the wife of confederate President Jefferson Davis. Varina offers the 1860’s Southern perspective on slavery and the war, one glossed over in most readings of our history because it is so obviously repugnant …

Symposium Of Contemporary Music, November 2016, School Of Music

Programs

Presented by the Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music, November 10, 2016, and featured special guest composer and vocalist Eve Beglarian.

Little Birds, Anna Wagner, Daniel Swilley, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Gender Preference For Music Proximity, Zachary Silver, Shaun Schaefers, Joseph Plazak, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

Oral presentation abstract.

Jonathan Green, Charlie Schlenker

Interviews for WGLT

Charlie Schlenker from WGLT interviews IWU Provost Jonathan Green. A January 2016 recital at Illinois Wesleyan featured several original pieces composed by Provost Green.

See WGLT for more information about the interview. A transcript of this interview can be found by clicking the download link above and to the right of this page.

Movement I. "Lo" From Four Moons For Brass Quartet, Gregory V. Goeden

Compositions

"lo" is the introductory movement of a four-part suite, entitled Four Moons for Brass Quartet. As suggested by the title, the four movements of the work were modeled after a specific set of astronomical entities, the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. These celestial satellites provided inspiration for this work in a number of different ways. Scientific observations and measurements for each moon, such as diameter, mass, density and composition, provided melodic and harmonic ideas through a 20th century musical process that is commonly referred to as "pitch set theory." The visual and physical qualities of each moon, and their relationships …

Illinois (Honors), Luke J. Mcloughlin

Compositions

This work was abstractly inspired by the landscape of my home state. I composed its building blocks while just north of Normal, Illinois, specifically while at various points along the square formed by Main Street, E 1800 North Road, N 1300 East Road, and W Ziebarth Road. During multiple sessions, I visited these locations and wrote down, on staff and loose leaf paper, what came to mind. The goal was that, during the composition process, I would focus more on the development of the music—in and of itself. The resultant piece was to avoid relying on some sort of outside …

Unleashing Music's Hidden Blueprint: An Analysis Of Mathematical Symmetries Used In Music (Honors), Natalie Hoijer

Papers

The history of the development of mathematics and the development of Western music unleashes fascinating connections between the two fields and illustrates their similarities and dependence on each other. Various branches of mathematics are rooted in music, ranging from mathematical physics in sound frequency, to probability and statistical methods of composing, to the use of the Golden Mean and the Fibonacci Series in music. The human brain's logical functioning left side and creative functioning right side, as studied by psychobiologist Robert Sperry ("Whole Brain Development"), are bridged together in this project as mathematical patterns meld with the art of musical …

Carren Moham, Carren Moham, Francine Krieger 2015

All oral histories

Dr. Moham was Professor of Music at Illinois Wesleyan from 1998-2014. She matriculated from The Ohio State University in Columbus where she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Pedagogy and Black Music History.

During this interview she recounts her move from her doctoral program at the Ohio State University, to the Washington Cancer Institute and her choice of Illinois Wesleyan. Moham also discusses some of the memorable moments from her teaching and performing career in Illinois. After retiring, she became artist teacher voice at Illinois State University and is the owner of a voice rehabilitation business in …

Hoijer '15 Studies Correlations Between Mathematics And Music, Danielle Kamp

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Chamberlin '14 Earns National Recognition At Classical Singer Competition, Danielle Kamp

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Illinois Wesleyan To Host Chamber Music Festival, Danielle Kamp

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Stevens Places Second In Brass Competition, Danielle Kamp

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Foundation Grant To Support Summer Music Program, Kim Hill

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Oasis Dreams, Clarisse Tobia, David Vayo, Faculty Advisor

Compositions

Full musical score for violin, viola, cello and piano for large or small ensembles.

Student Composition Concert, Hannah Dhue

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Can Musicians Tell Sharp From Flat?, Cathryn Volk, Joseph Plazak, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

A musician’s awareness of intonation (i.e. “being in tune”) is an important skill. While musicians are highly sensitive to “out of tune” notes, research suggests that this sensitivity is categorical rather than absolute (Siegel & Siegel, 1977). If intonation is heard “categorically,” musicians’ classification of intonation errors (both magnitude and direction), would be expected to be poor. This experiment was designed to determine whether or not musicians could categorically perceive mistuned musical intervals, as well as to investigate the relative limits of absolute intonation perception. Ten undergraduate music students were tested on their ability to identify intonation errors within an …

Spring Choral Concert, Tia Patsavas

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Concert Celebrates Civic Orchestra Conductor Steve Eggleston, Tia Patsavas

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Bruce Prince-Joseph: Toccata Giovane (Honors), Lucas W. Fletcher

Papers

This paper discusses Toccata Giovane, a composition for pipe organ by Dr. Bruce Prince-Joseph, in an effort to reintroduce musicians to this obscure but delightful work. Additionally, Dr. Prince-Joseph's life and career are also explored.