Student Composer Success – Michael Martin and NYAE
Feb 19, 2010 Alumni/Emeriti, Keyboard, Music Tech, Strings, Theory/History, Winds/Perc
Student composer Michael Martin took Honorable Mention in this year’s New York Art Ensemble Young Composers’ Competition! His work The Cinnamon Peeler for clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano made the final round of the competition. The NYAE competition is very well-known, and previous finalists have gone on to great success in other competitions and festivals. Martin worked with Eric Honour and fellow student Tim Gormly to record the work in the UCM recording studios in December 2009, as part of the materials he submitted. The performers for the recording were staff accompanist and UCM alum Amanda Arrington, violin/viola professor John Rutland, and current students James Westbrook and Kasey Wasson. Martin is majoring in jazz-commercial music at UCM. He studies composition with Eric Honour and David Aaberg and piano with Richard Smith.
Professor Emeritus Frederic Homan Dies at 77
Feb 9, 2010 Alumni/Emeriti, Theory/History
Professor Emeritus Frederic Homan, known to many of our alumni for his work in the music theory classroom, has died. Professor Homan taught at UCM from 1962 (when it was named Central Missouri State College) until his retirement in 2000. In his thirty-eight years teaching music theory and organ at UCM, he guided hundreds of our music alumni to deeper understanding of the workings of music. He is remembered by many for his dry sense of humor, kindness to students, and the daily grace with which he approached his work.
The digitalBurg website published an extensive obituary of Dr. Homan.
For those able to attend, his funeral will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, at First Presbyterian Church of Warrensburg, with the Rev. Alex Wales officiating.
Burial will be in the Warrensburg Memorial Gardens Cemetery . Pallbearers are Bryce Austin, Matthew Headley, Bruce Austin and James Dosier.
The family will receive friends Wednesday, February 10, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Sweeney-Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home in Warrensburg.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the ALS Foundation and may be left at the funeral home.
Performing Arts Series Presents “Eclectica”
Feb 3, 2010 1
The University of Central Missouri’s Performing Arts Series presents Eclectica in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, in Hendricks Hall, in cooperation with the UCM Jazz Festival.
Inventive, inspiring and thoroughly entertaining, Eclectica weaves sound-pieces together with a groove that is alive from the first note to the last encore. With sing-along choruses and three-part vocals, Eclectica is a celebration and a concert on the same stage.
Performing Arts Series audiences will remember electric violinist Tracy Silverman from his 2008 appearance on the Hendricks Hall stage with pianist Jim Brickman in the Performing Arts Series holiday concert. Tracy is a Windham Hill artist and currently teaches jazz and rock violin at Belmont University.
Joining Silverman in making up the genre-defying band are five-time Grammy Award-winning drummer Roy “Futureman” Wooten of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and bass legend Steve Forrest, currently one of Nashville’s top session performers and bass chair of “The Wooten Brothers and Friends,” a Nashville institution.
The concert is in conjunction with the UCM Jazz Festival and is sponsored by the UCM Department of Music. In addition to the stage performance, Eclectica will conduct free improvisation and percussions workshops.
Tickets are available now by contacting the Performing Arts Series box office at 660-543-8888, or online at www.ucmo.edu/pas/tickets .