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Tombeau (In Memory Of Donald Stenberg): For Violin And Piano, Ronald Bruce Smith

Ronald Bruce Smith

Tombeau (2006) was written in memory of Donald Stenberg who passed away July 10, 2004. Don was a tenor, a professor of voice and, for a good number of years, chair of the voice department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His genuine warmth and gentleness affected everyone who knew him, as did his profound love and knowledge of music and the joy that it gave him. This piece employs certain features associated with tombeaus from previous centuries. Such features include a descending stepwise figure, first presented in this piece diatonically and then later in a more chromatic context, …

Five Pieces For Guitar And Live Electronics, Ronald Bruce Smith

Ronald Bruce Smith

Five Pieces for Guitar and Live Electronics was commissioned under a UC Discovery grant from the University of California’s Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (IUCRP) and Gibson Guitar Corporation. It was made possible through the support of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley. The aim of the commission was to incorporate into a concert piece for solo guitar the guitar centered software technology that researchers there had developed. These effects were developed in the Max/MSP environment and I make use of a number of them as well as a few other …

String Quartet No. 2: "Nostalgia", Ronald Bruce Smith

Ronald Bruce Smith

The quartet is in four movements and is dedicated to the Del Sol String Quartet. Each movement contains references to music of the past both in their formal designs and through the use of quotation. Borrowed materials as well as references to music from all four movements of Maurice Ravel’s Quatuor à Cordes can be heard throughout the composition. The third movement, a loosely structured chaconne, also takes material from Bill Evans’ versions of My Romance and Alice in Wonderland. As can be symptomatic of the yearning for an irrecoverable past, nostalgia can corrupt the memory to long for a …

An Interview With Tristan Murail, Ronald Bruce Smith

Ronald Bruce Smith

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The Cherokee-Freedmen Story: What The Media Saw, Ronald D. Smith

Ronald Bruce Smith

National media and international journalists watched in March 2007, as voters in the Cherokee Nation decided issues of citizenship. Reporters looked at the same situation and often talked with the same people, but they didn’t always see the same story.

Some journalists saw the Cherokee-Freedmen story as one about race and civil rights; some saw it as being about Cherokee sovereignty and Indian identity. This content analysis investigates media reporting on the issue.