8, VOL. NO. 1
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA / DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
SPRING 1991
S h e y l Akaka, Miss Hawaii 1969
C h e y l Bartlett, Miss Hawaii 1986
Cheryl Toma, Miss Hawaii 1990
C(S)HERYL+ MUSIC x 3 = MISS HAWAII 1969 + 1986 + 1990
It has to be more than coincidence. Take three winners of the Miss Hawaii Scholarship Pageant. Gorgeous, poised, charming-that's to be expected, of course. But how likely is it that all three will be graduates of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Music Department? Not very likely, you say? Consider one final coincidence.-all three women pronounce their names the same! A tall tale? No, it happens to be true. Sheryl Akaka, Cheryl Bartlett, and Cheryl Toma, the three beauties in question, represented Hawai'i at the Miss America Scholarship Pageant in Atlantic City in 1969,1986, and 1990. Is it any wonder, then, that music department faculty are scanning their class lists for beautiful women named Cheryl or Sheryl who will be the next Miss Hawaii? Sheryl Akaka was the first. She won in all divisions in the Hawai'i state pageant-talent, bathing suit, evening gown, interview. She went on to become one of the top ten semi-finalists at the national level at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1969. She is of Hawaiian/Chinese descent, a member of a prominent Island family. Her uncles are Daniel and Abraham Akaka; the former Hawai'i's distinguished senator, the latter the retired long-time minister of Kawaiaha'o Church, Honolulu's "Westminster Abbey." A pianist, singer, and guitarist, Sheryl taught music for seven years at the Kamehameha Schools after graduating from UH in 1971 with a Bachelor of Education in Music. Today she teaches at both Kapiolani and Honolulu Community Colleges, has a number of private guitar and piano students, serves as an instructor-consultant for Naris Cosmetics, and does free-lance modeling. Our second Miss Hawaii, Cheryl Bartlett, was born into a Navy family in San Diego 28 years ago. After high school in West Virginia (she was valedictorian of her class), she started her college career at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia. Then her father was sent by the Navy to Hawai'i, and Cheryl and her mother came along. She continued her education at UH, studying voice with John Mount and graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of Music degree. Cheryl had had considerable theater experience even before coming to Hawai'i, and continued to perform here. Brigadoon and Madama Butterfly are among her credits in Hawai'i, and recently she sang one of the two female leads in the Diamond Head Theater production of Kismet. She became Miss Hawaii in 1986 and won a talent award in Atlantic City. After graduating from the Manoa campus she worked in United States Senator Daniel Inouye's office in Washington, D. C. for a year-and-a-half. Returning to Hawai'i, she worked for a time at the Hilton Hawaiian Village as a training administrator. Today she teaches voice at Iolani School, lectures for a
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local model agency, and continues to perform as an actress both in Hawai'i productions and abroad. Cheryl Toma, our third and most recent Miss Hawaii, was born in California, but moved with her family to Hawai'i when she was just three years old. Of Okinawan descent, she played French horn and xylophone in the Pearl City High School Band, but piano was her real love. Beginning at the university in 1983, she studied piano with Peter Coraggio and gave an honors recital in 1986. She enjoyed student teaching in Waipahu, but decided to become a flight attendant for Continental Airlines after graduating with a Bachelor in Music Education in 1987. After hearing Toma play in a UH student recital, Akaka encouraged her to compete in the Miss Hawaii Pageant, offering to coach her in her bid for the title, which she won in 1990. Toma's uncle and aunt are Randy and Gay Hongo, two of the most successful artists in Hawaiian music today. Uncle Randy helped her prepare a Gershwin medley which won her a talent award at Atlantic City. After winning her title, she worked for Hawaiian Airlines, promoting Hawai'i as a tourist destination. Life has not always been easy for this beautiful and talented trio. Sheryl Akaka speaks of herself as a "survivor." "People who have experienced hardship are more resilient," she says. Cheryl Toma experienced the possibility of never being able to play the piano again when her hand was caught in the machinery of an airport conveyor belt in Seoul, Korea a month before the Miss America Pageant in 1990. Fortunately, the injury to nerves in her hand has proven since to be temporary. Cheryl Bartlett knows about adversity, too. Due to the complications of living with diabetes since childhood, she is learning to cope with a considerable loss of eyesight. She takes each day as it comes, and music continues to play a vital and inspiring part of that day. All three of our Miss(es) Hawaii speak of their great love for music and how important it has been in their lives. Sheryl Akaka and Cheryl Bartlett are at present music teachers in Honolulu; Cheryl Toma, after her reign as Miss Hawaii, will use the money she was awarded to complete her master's degree in music education. She also has aspirations towards teaching. The faculty, students, and alumni of the Manoa campus music department salute three of its own. To Sheryl, Cheryl, and Cheryl-Misses Hawaii of 1969, 1986, and 1990-hip, hip, hooray and banzai!
John Mount
The primary goal of any friends' group is to rally support and create enthusiasm for the many projects of its beneficiary-in this case the University of Hawaii at Manoa Music Department-and to help establish a network for this support. Naturally, we want to enlist your help in our projects, but we are also here to help you in any way we can in achieving your goals-even after you leave the Manoa campus. As you read this news of faculty, students, and alumni, you will see that the past few months have been very productive. The number of music majors on our campus continues to increase gradually, even though enrollments have been flagging at many Mainland schools. Thanks to the efforts of FM-AM, we are able to grant larger scholarships to our students to help offset the rising tuition costs. Support of the music program by alumni and friends will become increasingly important as we reach toward the 21st century. We have had the pleasure of seeing many of our students become active performers in a wide variety of performing situations, from the lounges of Waikiki hotels to the stage of Neal Blaisdell Concert Hall, from the musical comedy stages of Hawaiian and Mainland theaters to the opera houses of Europe. Our graduates are also successful teachers in private studios, public and private schools, colleges, and universities across the nation. We have a strong national reputation in ethnomusicology.We are proud of the accomplishments of all our students, alumni, and friends. I hope you will fill us in on your accomplishments and those of former classmates. Please keep in touch; we would love to hear from all of you!
FACULTY NEW
Iwanami Publishing Company of Tokyo published Byong Won Lee's-"Chosen minzku no ongaku dento [Musical Tradition of Korean People]," as part of a monograph entitled Nihon no ongaku Ajiano ongaku [JapaneseMusic, Asian Music] in 1989. Byong Won presented lectures and seminars in Kobe, Japan and Pusan, Korea in February, July, and August, 1990. He also read a paper, "Western Impact on Traditional Music of Korea," at the Third International Conference on Korean Studies in Osaka, Japan during August, 1990 and chaired a session titled "Source Criticism and Style Criticism in Musical Scholarship" at the Fourth Symposium of the International Musicological Society (IMS) in Osaka in July, 1990. Henry Miyamura was director of a Summer Music Institute at Hawaii Preparatory Academy at Kamuela, Hawaii from August 3 to 11,1990. Cosponsored by the Hawaii Youth Symphony Association and the Maui Philharmonic Society, the Institute had 21 faculty members and 90 students in concert band, jazz band, symphony and string orchestra ensembles. John Mount will appear in all three of the Hawaii Opera Theater's 1991 productions: as the King of Egypt in Aida, "Antonio" in Marriage of Figaro, and in Candide. Laurence Paxton had a leading role in the Diamond Head Theater's production of Kismet during
fall, 1990; he will sing "Don Curzio" in HOT'S 1991 Marriage of Figaro production.
Armand Russell recently composed Rondo Festivo for the Pearl City High School Wind Ensemble, which performed it twice under the baton of Michael Nakasone. Armand's Fantasia and Rondino for percussion was given four performances in Germany and Luxembourg in March, 1990 by a faculty ensemble from the University of Texas (Austin, Texas). He has also arranged Mozart's German Dances K. 509 for the Verdehr Trio, which also performed his Dances and Songs of Change at the Academy of Art in March, 1990. The Mozart arrangement was performed in several recent concerts on the Mainland. Ricardo Trimillos delivered the keynote address for the International Conference of the Dance Critics Association in early September, 1990. He served as an evaluator for the recent Los Angeles Festival and serves as a consultant for the Educational Testing Service, revising their music examinations. He was part of the planning committee for "Folklife Hawai'i!" a statewide celebration of folk arts which took place in Honolulu in midOctober. He was also part of a Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) panel on Ethnomusicology and the Press in November in Oakland. Also in November, he presented koto concerts at Northern Illinois University, Georgia State University, and West Georgia College. Lesley Wright spent two months in Paris during Summer, 1990 doing research for ten biographical articles which will appear in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. She also collected some 40 reviews of the Carmen premiere in 1875, when the work sparked great controversy. These reviews will form the basis of a cahier de presse which will appear in Germany next year. On September 26, Lesley Wright, Ricardo Trimillos, and Allen Trubitt participated in a panel discussion on "Music and its Images," part of the 1990 Festival of Arts and Humanities. The general topic of the Festival was "Image and Word." Several of Byron Yasui's compositions have had important performances recently. The faculty woodwind quintet at Portland State University performed his Variationson a Tongan Folk Theme at the first annual Ernest Bloch Composers' Symposium in Oregon; David Pino, professor of clarinet at Southwest Texas State University performed his Novene for solo clarinet the at Southwest Contemporary Music Festival and Conference in San Marcos, Texas in November, 1990; and his O'ahu for marching band, commissioned by the O'ahu Interscholastic League for its 50th anniversary celebration, was premiered by the massed marching bands of several O'ahu high schools at Aloha Stadium during Fall, 1990.
Lalrrence Paxton and Cheryl Bartlett in a scene from Kismet.
NEWS OF ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
Adrienne Mau D'Angelo (BA 1958) enjoyed traveling to Europe during Summer, 1990, performing with her husband at his class reunion in Baltimore, and visiting former classmates and teachers in Hawai'i, October, 1990. Joanne Combs and Christene Loken-Kim, graduate student participants in the "Okinawan Summer" at the Manoa campus in 1976, presented papers at the Fifth Hong Kong International Dance Conference for which Carl Wolz (also a former student as well as faculty member in the Manoa campus Music and Theatre departments) was the director. William Feltz (MA 1970) was an invited participant in the Festival 2,000 Symposium themed "Celebrating Cultural Diversity," held in San Francisco in early October, 1990. He served as a 'presentor' of several activities during "Folklife Hawai'i!" Alfred Kina, an undergraduate participant in the "Okinawan Summer" was both a speaker and a performer in several of the events of the "Okage Sama De"-the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the arrival of Okinawans in Hawai'i. Chang-yang Kuo (who attended the Manoa campus from 1968 to 70) led a Chinese Music Ensemble of seven in a performance of string-bamboo music at the 19th International Conference of Music Education in Helsinki, Finland in August, 1990. Riley Lee (MA 1986) presented a shakuhachi recital as part of the Symposium of the IMS in Osaka in July, 1990. He also visited Hawai'i for six days in October, presenting three lectures on campus and a recital at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. William Lobban, currently working with the Fine Arts Department of the Cambodian national government to assist with restoration of resources in traditional music and dance, organized and accompanied the National Dance Company on a tour of Germany, Holland, and the United Kingdom. Judy Mitoma was curator of the 1990 Los Angeles Festival which had a Pacific and Asian focus; some 120 performing groups totalling more than 4,000 participants-some from places as distant as Cambodia and the Wallis Islands-presented programs in 70 venues throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Kimiko Otani (MA 1981) presented papers at two professional societies during summer, 1990--one at the meeting of the Ethnocoreology Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) in Budapest, Hungary, and the other, "The Natyasastra and Contemporary Dance in India," at the Symposium of the IMS in Osaka. John-Mario Sevilla, formerly an undergraduate student in Ethnomusicology/Filipino Music, is currently a member of the modern dance group Pilobolus. Dr.
Theodore Solis (MA 1970) spent two months in Hawai'i during summer 1990 continuing his research on the local Puerto Rican community. He arranged for two performances on campus by Puerto Rican musicians--one at Orvis Auditorium as part of the Summer Festival of Ethnic Music and one at the East-West Center. Amy Stillman (MA 1982) was one of the five doctoral candidates in musicology awarded an AMS 50 Fellowship by the American Musicological Society. She accepted on an honorary basis (without stipend), having also been awarded a Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship. Maria Tan (BM 1966) was in Hawai'i in late summer on her honeymoon-her husband is Thomas Fleming, a VISTA official in Washington, D. C. Dr. J. Lawrence Witzleben (MA 1983) is chairman of the Society for Ethnomusicological Research in Hong Kong and a member of the committee for the forthcoming 31st World Conference of ICTM scheduled to be held in Hong Kong in July, 1991. Osamu Yamaguti (MA 1967) was one of the principal organizers of the Symposium of the July IMS meeting in Osaka. He also presented a paper, "Performance as Historical Source in Music Research," and served as the interviewer for the discussion themed "World of Discourse, Cosmos of Sounds."
David Conrad is teaching choral and general music at Kaua'i High School in Lihue, singing with Gregory Shepherd's (MA) Chamber Singers at Kaua'i Community College, and working on his MM recital. David Gere was co-director of "Looking Out: Critical Imperatives in World Dance," the meeting of the International Conference of the Dance Critics Association, which was held concurrent with the opening of the Los Angeles Festival. Victoria Takamine, who is both a graduate student and lecturer in Hawaiian Hula at the Manoa campus, participated in the Dance Critics Association Conference, showing excerpts of a film she directed, Kumu Hula: Keepers of a Culture. She later commented on the film in a panel, "Geography of the Sacred," and also conducted a master class in hula at the conference. In addition, she also lectured and conducted workshops at the Fifth International Hong Kong Dance Festival, Summer, 1990. An opera entitled Cassandra by Nicholas Zumbro, former Manoa campus music department piano faculty member, premiered in Athens, Greece, in August, 1990.
UH Students Participate in Hong Kong Dance Festival
Hawaiian hula, famed for its sensuous grace, has enjoyed a worldwide following for generations. It comes as no surprise, then, that 15 students in Hula Ensemble classes at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and their teachers, music department lecturers Victoria Takamine and Noe Zuttermeister, were well received at the Fifth Hong Kong International Dance Festival during Summer, 1990. Many of the other participants at the Festival, such as the members of the Philippine National Dance Company, were professional dancers. They were surprised at the expertise of the Hawaii students, many of whom are Hawaiian Studies majors and had never danced professionally. The students presented both kahiko (ancient style hula with chanting and traditional instruments) and 'auana (modern hula with singing accompanied by Western as well as traditional instruments). Their trip to Hong Kong was sponsored partially by grants from a number of Manoa campus sources, including the Hawaiian Studies program, and other benefactors, including the State Foundation for Culture and the Arts.
FEBRUARY Fri 8 Mon 25 New World String Quartet Honolulu Chamber Music Series; $14/$8 Karl Pituch, Horn Faculty recital; $5/$3
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MARCH Sat 2 U.H. Band Grant Okamura, conductor Location to be announced Nash Ensemble of London Honolulu Chamber Music Series; $16/$12 (Two different programs) Jeannie E. Hennis, trombone Faculty recital; $5/$3 Paul & Kaoru Lyddon, piano duo Faculty recital; $5/$3 Bichuan Li, piano Faculty recital; $5/$3 Young Composers' Symposium Free admission; Room 108 Annette Johansson, mezzo-soprano Faculty recital; $5/$3 Thu 25 FRI 26
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U.H. Chorus with Laurence Paxton, tenor Timothy Carney, conductor 700 p.m. at St. Andrew's Cathedral; $5/ $3 U.H. Symphony Orchestra Henry Miyamura, conductor at NBC Concert Hall; $5/$3 Young Composers' Concert $5/$3 Collegium Musicum Jane Freeman Moulin and Geoffrey Naylor, directors Room 36; free admission U.H. Jazz Ensemble Pat Hennessey, director Music Depart. Outdoor Courtyard; $5/$3 Concert of Ethnic Music & Dance Advanced Student Recital 3:00 p.m.; free admission U.H. Band Aloha Concert Grant Okamura, conductor at NBC Concert Hall
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MAY Sun 5 Tue 7 U.H. Concert Choir The Choir joins the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Chorus; at NBC Concert Hall (Sunday at 4:00 pm, Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.)
APRIL Sat 13 Mon 15 Sat 20 U.H. Opera Workshop Laurence Paxton, director; $5/$3 U.H. Classical Guitar Ensemble Peter Kun Frary, director; $5/$3 U.H. Hawaiian Ensemble & Hawaiian Chorus Vicky Holt Takamine and Nola Nahulu,
All programs are subject to change. Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are held at Mae Zenke OMS Auditorium, Dole Street at University Avenue, and begin at 8:00 p.m. For recorded information about these and other Music Department events, call Music at Manoa Events Information at 95-MUSIC (956-8742).
directors 7:30 p.m.; $5/$3
Manoa Campus Music Department Welcomes A New Faculty Member
Our newest full-time faculty member in the University of Hawaii at Manoa Music Department is Professor Anthony (Tonv) Palmer, a specialist in the area of music education. Tony earned his PhD L in ~ u s i Education c and Ethnomusicology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1975, for his dissertation, "World Musics Anthonu nonu) Palmer in Elementary and Secondary Music Education: A Critical Analysis." His specialty in world musics is especially appropriate in Hawai'i's multi-ethnic climate. Another of his several areas of expertise is secondary choral music.
ing work on his dissertation. He had always liked Japanese music, so in 1976 he joined the Gagaku Ensemble at UCLA. In 1983, he received a Japan-U. S. Friendship Commission Fellowship for further study in Japan, where he spent about a year. His continuing interest in the music of Japan is also apparent in a sixpart article, "Contemporary Japanese Choral Composers," four installments of which have appeared in the International Choral Bulletin. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Palmer moved with his family to California while still a child. Music was a family activity, he says. He began studying clarinet at the age of six and was writing songs by the time he just nine or 10 years of age. He recalls being greatly influenced by his high school choral teacher, as well as a number of fine teachers at colleges and universities in California-including Leonard Stein (music theory and composition), Gerhard Albersheim (musicology), Esther Andreas (voice), and Abraham Schwadron (music education), among others. We at the Manoa campus welcome his expertise and enthusiasm, and look forward to working with him as a colleague in the years ahead.
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He speaks enthusiastically of the need for music educators to gain cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary experience, to see not only Western music but the whole world as a source of music making. While he was at UCLA he felt his own lack of experience in the musical traditions of other cultures, even after finish-
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