ZANETA HO'OULULAHUI RICHARDS,

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1 SPRING 1992 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA / DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC VOL. 9, NO. 1 ZANETA HO'OULULAHUI RICHARDS, I I Zaneta Ho'oululahui Richards -- Better known to her UHM students as Ho'oulu Cambra, Zaneta began her musical career as a pianist, earning her Bachelor's degree at UHM in 1954, where she studied piano with Marian Kerr, and Master's degree at the Eastman School of Music. In 1962, on an East-West Center grant, she began study of ethnomusicology and Polynesian musics with Barbara Smith and Hawaiian chanting with Dorothy Gillett. She continued her study of Hawaiian music and dance with the Halau Hula 0 Ma'iki (becoming its first kumu hula graduate) and with outstanding bearers of kahiko traditions. principles of life to the contemporary lifestyle." Under her direction, the ensemble performed locally on special occasions and abroad at a UNESCO celebration in Austria in 1979 and at a festival in France in Her halau, Nahuluaho'ouluahuihou, an outgrowth of this ensemble, performed in Asia. Concurrently with teaching at UHM, Ho'oulu was Program Specialist in the Hawaiian Studies Institute Ho'oulu returned to the UHM Music Department as Lecturer in Hawaiian chant and dance in 1967 and taught many large classes of enthusiastic students. In 1975 the UHM Hawaiian Dance Ensemble was founded for those of her more advanced students who, in her own words, wished to "develop selfawareness and understanding of [the] capabilities of mind, body, and spirit in the application of ancient lth Anniz )ersay... 3 s Chairman s- lvlessagr..2!r... New Faculty Memb~ 3 Matsumori Contribt,rtion... 3 Faculty & Sfaff Neu,... 3 Tews... A, i r Series C Sl 5 Continued on page 2. 'HIS ISS IC

2 of the Kamehameha Schools where she developed the highly successful outreach program to share knowledge of Hawaiian culture with school children and others throughout the state. Recognized as a soloist with a rich chanter's voice, extensive repertory, and remarkable gift for composing ancient-style chants for contemporary celebratory occasions, Ho'oulu performed both locally and overseas. As a scholar, she presented lectures and papers on Hawaiian chant at professional conferences, contributed the entry on traditional Hawaiian music to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and, shortly before her death from cancer, won a Na Hoku Hanohano award for the liner notes in the Kahauanu Lake Trio's album "Mauna Ala." In 1983 she was honored for her contributions to the knowledge and appreciation of Hawaiian culture with a "Living Treasure Hawai'i" award by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission. The Department extends condolences to her family and the members of her halau. A memorial fund has been established in her name. Anyone wishing to make a contribution to it should send checks (payable to UH Foundation and designated to Zaneta Ho'oulu Richards Memorial Fund) to the UHM Music Department, 2411 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI A Milestone for UHM Gamelan The UHM Gamelan celebrated its 20th anniversary during Summer, 1991 with concerts on 14 and 15 June. Former members of the group returned to help celebrate the occasion, including R. Anderson Sutton (MA 1975), associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his wife Peggy Choy, Southeast Asian specialist at UW-M, Roger Vetter (MA 1977), associate professor at Grinnell College, Iowa, his wife Valerie Mau Vetter, Southeast Asian specialist, Joan Suyenaga, an Indoesian resident and her husband Pak Suhirjan, one of Java's finest drummers and a gamelan maker, and our own Gamelan charter member Byron Moon (BA 1976), facilities manager of the UHM Music Department. With the sponsorship of the UHM Summer Session, the College of Arts and Humanities, and Festival of Indonesia, the UHM Gamelan hosted a leading dhalang (narrator puppeteer) of Java, Ki Anom Suroto, in the presentation of a 3-hour wayang kulit (shadow puppet theater) on 28 and 29 June. Suroto was highly impressed not only by the musicianship of the ensemble, but also by their application of Javanese courtesy and hospitality. This past semester has been one of the most exhausting, yet rewarding, periods I have experienced since becoming Department Chair. Our concert events have been attended in record numbers. During a 14day period prior to the writing of this message 12 major concerts or recitals occurred, three completely sold out, three others near sell-outs, and the remainder quite well-attended. One hundred fifty persons were unable to obtain seats for Mozart's Requiem at St. Andrew's Cathedral and stood through the performance. I hope this trend continues, because I have found these concert events exciting. From new music by faculty and student composers to jazz to hula, from recitals of Western classical music by students and faculty to performances by our band, orchestra, and choirs-we have much to be proud of and I urge you to attend several of these events in We are undergoing a review by the National Association of Schools of Music to renew our accreditation, a process that takes place every ten years. It requires a thorough self-study of our entire program, with involvement by the entire Department. The process is tedious, but also helpful as we take a hard look at ourselves and assess the present status of the Department. Are we meeting the needs of students? Do we have adequate resources, both in personnel and equipment, to give our students the experiences they should have as undergraduates and graduates? How can we best address our deficiencies? I feel that we have many more strengths than weaknesses. These strengths are especially in our excellent faculty and staff and talented student body. Another asset is you, the members of FM-AM. It has been a little over ten years since this organization was founded. Through your support we have raised a considerable amount in scholarship funds. This newsletter helps us to keep track of our alumni. This is one area we want to improve upon. We would like to hear from you and find out what you are doing at present. We would be interested to hear what you think our strengths and weaknesses are. Having gone through our music program and at present in the work force, you can help us plan for the next ten years and beyond. What changes do you feel are important to meet the needs of our students? Your continued support of our program is vital to the future of this Department. I hope to hear from you and look forward to seeing you at our concerts.

3 support of the arts and humanities, areas frequently bypassed when private or public funds are handed out. The UHM Music Department thanks him, his family members, and friends. Thomas R. Bingham UHM Music Department Welcomes a New Faculty Member Thomas R. Bingham is our new associate director of bands and director of the Rainbow Marching Band. Tom's face is not a new one in the Music Department. After receiving his undergraduate music degree from Fresno State in 1975, he came out to UHM to be full-time Assistant Band Director from 1976 to 1982 while he worked on his MA in Music Education. His wife Ruth did her Bachelor's and Master's work here; she is presently working on her Ph. D. dissertation in musicology and keeping an eye on their son Dustin, born July, Tom and Ruth moved here from Lompoc, California, where he taught everything from A to Z in the high school music program. In addition to his work with the bands here, Tom also teaches woodwind methods, secondary instrumental music education, and supervises instrumental student teaching. We welcome him to our staff and wish him every success in his career. Librarian Donald Matsumori Contributes Fund Donald Matsumori, acquisitions librarian at Hamilton Library and former music librarian, retiring at the end of the Fall, 1991 semester, has set up an Award Fund with the UH Foundation to be used for grants and research projects for music students and faculty members. Donald, an organist and pianist as well as a librarian, is eloquent in his At the 31st World Conference of ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) held in Hong Kong 3-9 July, 1991, five members of the UHM faculty and staff presented papers: Theodore Kwok, "Variability in Sheng Music Performance: A Study of Two Pieces-'Han ya xi shui' and 'Yu zhou chang wan' ";Byong Won Lee, "Musical Variance in Korean Buddhist Chant: Conformance to Socioeconomy"; Anthony Palmer, "Choral Music in Japan: Receptions and Transformations"; Barbara Smith, "Christian Hymn-singing in Kosrae, Micronesia"; and Ricardo Trimillos, "Issues of Truth, Beauty, Politics, and Applause." In addition, Smith chaired the panel, "The Chinese and Their Musics in the Pacific" and Kwok reported on the situation in Hawai'i; Smith also chaired the meeting of the Study Group on Musics of Oceania; Trimillos participated in business meetings of the Council. Lee led a group of 23 student participants from Korea. Smith and Trimillos also participated in the Symposium on Chinese Traditional Music in Guangzhou July, Palmer, Smith, Hardja Susilo, and Trimillos contributed to panels and meetings at the joint meeting of the College Music Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology in Chicago, October, Kwok, recently promoted within the UHM system from Music Librarian to a position at the Law Library, has also been appointed bibliographer for the Association for Chinese Music Research. Awards for by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) went to Neil McKay, Armand Russell, Allen Trubitt, and Byron Yasui for recent performance and value of their compositions. Dale Hall received an Arts and Humanities fellowship for fall, 1992 for work on his book, A History of the Honolulu Symphony Society. Takeo Kudo will perform the shakuhachi solo in his own Into the Tranquil Circle for Shakuhachi, String Orchestra, Percussion, and Piano at the SCI (Society of Composers, Inc.) Region 8 Conference in Pullman, Washington early in Byong Won Lee has been appointed secretary-general for the first Pacific Basin International Conference on Korean Studies,

4 to be held in Honolulu 28 July to 1 August, Bichuan Li appeared in a solo recital in May, 1991 in Shanghai, China and gave recitals, lectures, and master classes at Shandong Teachers' University and Shandong Art College. She also judged the Sixth International Young Artist Piano Competition Featuring Chinese Music in Washington, D. C. in June, On 10 October, 1991 the local Okinawan community honored Harry Nakasone with a banquet. He is a sanshin master and the first UH faculty member to be named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts. Tony Palmer's "World Musics in Music Education: The Matter of Authenticity," was the featured front-page article in the September, 1991 College Music Society's Newsletter. Hornist Karl Pituch was one of six finalists remaining from a field of 378 applicants in the prestigious Concert Artist Guild competition, held in New York 3-9 May, Three newly composed works of Armand Russell received their world premieres in Honolulu recently: Scherzos and Trios was performed in the Discoveries I1 Series presented by the Honolulu Symphony at the Academy of Arts in October, 1991; UHM music student Carol Chin sang his A Song from Isaiah on her recital, and his Dramatic and Lyric Dialogues for oboe, horn, and piano was performed on the Composition Faculty Recital on 4 November, 1991, which also included Byron Yasui's Four Songs (After the Japanese) for soprano and harp, Allen Trubitt's Sonata in E-flat and G for violin and piano, and Takeo Kudo's Trio for flute, viola, and cello. Hardja Susilo's paper, "Tourism and Innovation in Indonesia: Thirty Years Assessment of Sendratari," read at a conference. Indonesian Music: Twentieth Century Innovation and Tradition, at UC-Berkeley, September, 1991, will be published by Southeast Asia Studies. Whitney Thrall performed his own composition, Looking Back-Fantasy Variations for Piano, commissioned by the Hawaii chapter of the Music Teachers National Association, at the annual local convention on 11 November, It will be entered in the nationwide MTNA contest for grand prize. The Shaping of Musical Elements, a music theory text by Allen Trubitt and Armand Russell will be published early in 1992; the text has been used in theory classes at UHM for 10 years. A major scholarly periodical, Nineteenth-Century Music, has accepted Lesley Wright's article, "Bias, Influence and Bizet's Prix de Rome," for Spring, 1992 publication. Byron Yasui was double bassist with pianist Rich Crandall in Jazz in a Concert Setting in Orvis Auditorium on 9 November, OF UHMATiUIbINI-&FRrEIVDS ----NEWS William Feltz (MA 1970) was the moderator for a plenary session, "The Arts and Culture of Thailand: An Overview" at the East-West Center Alumni Conference in Bangkok, July, David Harnish (MA 1985) was awarded the Ph. D. in 1991 by UCLA for his dissertation, entitled Music at the Lingsar Temple Festival: The Encapsulation of Meaning in the BalineselSasak Interface in Lombok, Indonesia; his article, "Balinese Performance as Festival Offering," was published in the special Spring 1991 issue (coordinated with the Festival of Indonesia) of Asian Art, published by the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Maui Community College has appointed Rucci Kekawa (MM 1991) instructor of music. Frederic Lieberman (MA 1965) is joint author with Mickey Hart of the 1991 book, Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm, published by Harper sandfrancisco. While finishi& her DMA at the University of Iowa, Gloria Mendoza (MM) is chair of the preparatory division in music and adjunct assistant professor of music at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. Kimiko Ohtani (MA 1981) read a paper at a colloquium at the Goldsmiths' College of London University in January, 1991 and is active in presenting aspects of Japanese and Indian culture to students at The Queen's University of Belfast and to the community at large there. Gregory Shepherd (MA 1987, MM 1988), instructor in music at Kauai Community College and the Honolulu Advertiser's music reviewer, won $26,000 on Alex Trebek's television quiz show Jeopardy recently. Teri Skillman (MA 1989) helped organize the Honolulu activities for "The Year of Tibet: Resilience of a Culture" including an exhibit at the East-West Center and a workshop and lecture-concert series at UHM. Teri is now working toward the doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin with Stephen Slawek (MA 1978) as her principal advisor. Harvard University awarded Amy Stillman (MA 1982) the Ph. D. in Musicology in June, 1991 for her dissertation "Himene Tahiti: Ethnoscientific and Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Choral Singing and Protestant Hymnody in the Society Islands, French Polynesia." She has accepted a position in ethnomusicology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Eric Suganuma (BEd 1989) and Sandi Tanaka, whom he married in May, 1991, are members of the California group Celebrant Singers, he as bass trombonist. J. Lawrence Witzleben (MA 1983) served as the translator (English to Chinese) for the key paper read by Ric Trimillos at the ICTM

5 JANUARY Sun 26 Anton Kuerti, piano $12/$8, Orvis, 4:00 p.m. FEBRUARY Fri 7 Edward Shipwright, piano Thu 13 Thu 20 Thu 27 Fri 28 Sat 29 MARCH Mon 9 Sun 15 Sat 21 APRIL Sun 12 Mon 20 Thu 23 Robert Holl, bass-baritone Honolulu Chamber Music Series, $16/$12* James T. Decker, trombone Anthony Kniffen, tuba UH Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band Grant Okamura & Thomas Bingham conductors, $5/$3, location TBA, 7:30 p.m. Beaux Arts Trio Honolulu Chamber Music Series, $20/$14* Chamber Music for Trombones Jeannie E. Henniss, James T. Decker, Michael Becker, Harold Van Schaik Kai Wu, piano Karl Pituch, horn UH Chorus Palm Sunday Concert Timothy Carney, conductor $5/$3, St. Andrew's Cathedral, 700 p.m. UH Contemporary Ensemble Henry Miyamura, conductor Young Composers Symposium free, Music Dept. Rm.108,8:00 p.m. Fri 24 Sat 25 Sun 26 Tue 28 Wed 29 MAY Fri 1 Mon 4 UH Classical Guitar Ensemble Peter Kun Frary, director UH Jazz Ensemble Patrick Hennessey, director $5/$3, Outdoor Courtyard, 8:00 p.m. UH Chorus Timothy Carney, conductor $5/$3; St. Andrew's Cathedral, 700 p.m. UH Symphony Orchestra Henry Miyamura, conductor $5/$3, NBC Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m. UH Bands Aloha Concert Grant Okamura, Thomas Bingham, Gwen Nakamura, conductors $5/$3, NBC Concert Hall, 700 p.m. Collegium Musicum Jane Freeman Moulin & Geoffrey Naylor, directors free, Music Dept. Rm.36,8:00 p.m. Manoa Trombone Ensemble Jeannie E. Henniss, director This calendar is subject to change. Unless otherwise noted, all events begin at 8:00 p.m. at Mae Zenke Owis Auditorium. Orvis Auditorium is located on the UH Manoa Campus at the corner of Dole Street and University Avenue. Tickets are available in advance at the UH Campus Center Ticket Window ( ) and at the door. Prices are $3 students & seniors, $5 general admission, unless otherwise noted. For information about these and other Music at Manoa events, call 95-MUSIC for recorded information. No senior citizen discount. FRIENDS OF MUSIC AT MANOA FM-AM invites you to become a member or renew your membership for Your contribution for membership (tax deductible) will make you an active supporter of the UHM Music Department. Your help is needed. 0 I wish to become a member of FM-AM. 0 I wish to renew my membership. Direct my contribution to the Fund. Please make checks payable to 0 $25 Family 0 Student FM-AMIUH Foundation and mail to: 0 $15 Couple 0 I wish to contribute FM-AM/Music Department 0 $10 Single above the amounts 2411 Dole Street Honolulu, Hawaii indicated.

6 conference in Hong Kong and the papers by Barbara Smith and Trimillos at the Guangzhou symposium. He also presented a paper at the East-West Center Alumni Conference in Bangkok, July, "Individuality and Writing in Javanese Music Learning"; and Andrew Weintraub (MA 1990), "Perceptions of Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Pantun Sunda." Four alumni participated in the 31st World Conference of ICTM: Chang-yang Kuo (MA 1970) chaired a session on Western Music in Asia; Amy Stillman presented a paper, "Prolegomenon to a Comparative Investigation of Protestant Hymnody in Polynesia," reported on the situation in Tahiti in the panel on "The Chinese and Their Musics in the Pacific," and chaired the session on Music and Dance in Oceania; J. Lawrence Witzleben presented a paper, "Traditional Instrumental Music in Contemporary Hong Kong," and chaired a special meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicological Research in Hong Kong; Osamu Yamaguti (MA 1967) also attended part of the conference. Ten alumni participated in the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology jointly with the College Music Society and International Association for the Study of Popular Music in Chicago. Papers were presented by Frederic Lieberman, "Ethno at the Edge of Magic" in a panel on popularizing ethnomusicology; Terence Liu (MA 1982), "Chinese Opera Companies and Their Audiences in the USA," in the panel on popular musics and political movements; Rene Lysloff, "Popular and Traditional Musical Intersections in Banyumas," in the SEM Preconference on Asian Popular Music; Andrew Weintraub, "Jawaiian: Symbol of Social Identity or Just a Good Danceable Beat?" in an IASPM session, and J. Lawrence Witzleben, "Music and the Taiping Qingjiao Taoist Ritual in Hong Kong," in the session on contemporary society. R. Anderson Sutton chaired a session; David Harnish, Theodore Solis (MA 1970), Amy Stillman and Roger Vetter also attended as did former graduate student Judy Mitoma. It was announced at the meeting that Andrew Weintraub had won the Seeger Prize for the most distinguished student paper delivered at the 1990 annual Meeting, and that Amy Stillman had been elected to the SEM Council. As usual, the Hawai'i group enjoyed getting together at a late evening party. Four alumni presented papers at the Indonesian Music Conference at Berkeley mentioned above: Virginia Gorlinski (MA 1989), "The Western Impact on Kenyah Conceptions of Sound Expression"; Rene Lysloff (MA 1982), "Innovation and Tradition: Calung Music in Banyumas"; R. Anderson Sutton, )ITOR r E. Hall ZSIGN M. Tamaru Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Honolulu, Hawaii Permit No. 278 University of Hawaii at Manoa Music Department 2411 Dole Street Honolulu, Hawaii H~Us Printed on recycled paper.