EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 58, Issue 18 This issue's topics: A Reliable Salesman! AMBRA Computers CALL FOR PAPERS Concert by Juan Blanco, Cuban Pioneer Faculty Position Piano music needed Trying to reach Lon Amerman Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 11:24:41 -0800 From: "Michael A. Dalton ADP OPuS" Subject: A Reliable Salesman! This is just my way of thanking someone..... I recently spent quite a bit of time on the phone talking about a "high end" keyboard purchase. The salesman answered all my questions and took all the time necessary that *I* needed to feel good about ny purchase. Later, when I decided not to make that purchase, I received the same high quality service as we negotiated a significantly less expensive piece of equipment. The deal was made, no pressure, everything shipped and arrived exactly as planned and exactly as described. SO, here is a public 'thank you' to Mark Shultz in the keyboard department at Lentines Music, Akron, Ohio. By the way you can reach Mark at (216) 434 3138, ...tell em 'Dalton Sent Me'! -- +---------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Michael A. Dalton miked@plaza.ds.adp.com | "What I say to you, I say to | | CIS 71410,2624 Voice: (503) 294-4200 x2541 | everyone: Watch!" -Mark 13:17 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 21:05:19 -0600 From: Kenneth Wayne Goodson Subject: AMBRA Computers (The following is personal opinion and does not reflect the position of my employer) WARNING! Do not purchase computers from Ambra Computer Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM. I have had extreme problems with this computer company in terms of service and support. If you are considering the purchase of a new computer system, I would strongly recommend that you look elsewhere. If you desire details, I will be glad to explain fully by private email. ************************************************************ *Kenneth Goodson *Atlanta High School * *Band Director/UIL Computer Science*705 Rabbit Blvd * *kgoodson@tenet.edu *Atlanta, TX 75551 * *(903) 796-4636 (home) *(903) 796-7213 (office)* ************************************************************ "Up, up and away, in my beautiful balloon"-Fifth Dimension ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 23:45:10 -0500 From: Chunming Kenneth Kwan Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Festival of Music by Contemporary Chinese Composers State University of New York at Buffalo 16-17 April 1994 CALL FOR PAPERS The Festival of Music by Contemporary Chinese Composers is taking place 16-17 April 1994 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Sponsored by the Music Department and various other university offices and student groups, this festival will feature concerts of music by contemporary Chinese composers from different countries. There will also be paper sessions on contemporary Chinese music and theorists and historians interested in this subject are invited to submit papers. 300-word final abstracts of presentation are due 20 January 1994 and questions should be directed to: Kenneth Kwan 222 Baird Hall Music Department SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 Tel: (716)862-0548 Internet: ckkwan@acsu.buffalo.edu Bitnet: V537UE8Y@ubvms.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 22:06:12 -0500 From: Neil Leonard Subject: Concert by Juan Blanco, Cuban Pioneer PAN-AMERICAN COUNTERPOINT UNITES TRADITION AND AVANT GARDE Pioneering Cuban electronic composer Juan Blanco makes his first appearance in Boston for the US premiere of his electro-acoustic compositions for improvisers. Joining the venerable figure of the Cuban avant garde in this extraordinary event are composer-improvisers trombonist George Lewis and saxophonist Neil Leonard III, who will each perform their compositions for improvisation and electronics. The music of each composer unites Western and Non Western traditions in a new music electronic context. The performance takes place on November 6 at 8 p.m. at the ICA Theater, 955 Boylston St., Boston. Tickets are $10. The concert is produced by The Space in collaboration with the Boston Creative Music Alliance. Juan Blanco, 74, has been a leading figure of the Cuban avant-garde for over 50 years. With over 160 published works, he is Cuba's first electronic composer and a musician whose works assimilate the entire spectrum of Cuban music from folkloric Afro- Cuban idioms to popular music and the Western classical tradition. In this respect he is a quintessentially Cuban musician. His pieces include symphonies and chamber pieces, as well as music concrete, pieces for folkloric instruments and magnetic tape, and a multimedia work for the jazz group Irakere and animated film. He will be presenting several US premiers, including "Circus Toccata, "along with a world premier of "Espacios V" written especially for Leonard. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 13:54:20 -0500 From: Gene Griswold Subject: Faculty Position NOTICE OF FACULTY POSITION CHAIRPERSON, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, tenured position as Associate or Professor of music. Contingent upon state funding. DUTIES: The chairperson is the chief academic and administrative officer of the Department of Music and reports to the Dean of The College of Fine Arts and Communication. The chairperson is responsible for the overall planning and coordination of the academic program including departmental governance, instruction, curricula, advising, faculty recruitment/assignments, and fiscal management. The chairperson acts as an advocate for the faculty, students and administration in fulfilling the mission of the department and university. APPOINTMENT: Salary and rank dependent upon qualifications and experience. Academic year appointment starting July 12, 1994. The position as chairperson is a 10-month appointment for a three-year term subject to review and evaluation by the faculty and dean. An additional summer contract as chairperson is available. QUALIFICATIONS: Completed doctorate. Substantial and successful experience as an administrator in a music unit in higher education. Evidence of strong leadership skills and a commitment to the shared governance model of administration. An understanding of the role of a large music department with traditional undergraduate and graduate degrees in music and music education. Distinguished in at least one field of music specialization, with a record of excellence in teaching and research, or scholarly and creative activity in an area of music or music education commensurate to the rank of Associate or Professor of music. GENERAL INFORMATION: Towson State University is a large, public-supported, comprehensive, metropolitan university located in a suburb north of Baltimore. The Department of Music enrolls approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate majors served by 65 full- and part-time faculty. The department offers degrees in performance, music education, theory and composition, literature, and jazz/commercial music. The department is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music. APPLICATION: A completed application should include: A letter of application. A resume. Three (3) CURRENT letters of recommendation. A list of five (5) other references. A statement of philosophy addressing leadership, administration, and management of a music department in higher education. ALL MATERIALS MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 14, 1994. ADDRESS APPLICATIONS TO: Dale Rauschenberg, Chairperson Search Committee Department of Music Towson State University Towson, MD 21204 MINORITIES AND WOMEN ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 02:58:05 EST From: Paul Pizzi Subject: Piano music needed -- C A L L F O R N E W P I A N O M U S I C -- A friend of mine is a talented Japanese pianist who works in the contemporary/avant-garde music environment in Amsterdam, Holland. She's going to organize a concert tour throghout Europe and Japan and would like to present new, unpublished works written by young composers from all over the world. You may submit your PIANO SOLO work(s) to her mentioning my name and this message on the Internet even though I absolutely can't guarantee your music will be accepted for performance. If interested write to: ----------------------- HARUNA SEGAWA Nicolaas Maesstr. 90/2nd 1071RE Amsterdam (Holland) There is no deadline as far as I know, but the soon you w rite the soon you'll be considered. Good luck! =============================== S S S PAOLO PIZZI S S Time El apsed Art Music S S Los Angeles - U.S.A. S S S S-----------------------------S S S S email: S S pizzip@aol.com S S pizzi@delphi.com S S 72772.234@compuserve.com S S S =============================== - Patria est ubicumque est bene (Pacuvius) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 09:19:22 PST From: metlay Subject: Trying to reach Lon Amerman Sorry for the bandwidth, gang, but I recently saw a post here by Lon Amerman, an acquaintance in the Bay Area whose email address I'd lost and was stripped out by the List Server. Lon, please drop me a note sometime, okay? Thanks. -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I incorporated the sound into my dreams...but I didn't wake up." (suzanne) ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************