Department of Music

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#	Title	Date	Summary
201	Music students got a real treat Thursday afternoon when concert pianist Boris Goldovsky presented two lectures for their benefit Public Relations News Release 1952:509, p.1	03/20/1952	Goldovsky, also master of ceremonies for the Metropolitan "Opera News of the Air" broadcast, was in Cedar Falls for his program of "Piano Portraits."
202	Two original compositions by William P. Latham will be presented tonight during the annual Choral Concert at the auditorium Public Relations News Release 1952:546, p.1	03/05/1952	The five-part program will open with the College Women's Chorus singing a group of folk songs. Part II will feature the Madrigal Singers. The College Chorus with Marvin Bergmann, senior from Hampton, as soloist, will be presented.
203	The annual Choral Concert of the college music department will be presented Thursday evening, March 6, in the college auditorium Public Relations News Release 1952:396, p.1	02/27/1952	Performers for the evening include the College Women's Chorus; Madrigal Singers, and the College Chorus assisted by the College Symphony Orchestra, organist George Samson of the music department, and accompanists Carol Jensen and Beulah Yanny.
204	"Songs in the Air" program broadcast over radio station WOI, Ames Public Relations News Release 1952:410, p.1	02/22/1952	"Songs in the Air," conducted by John Mitchell originates in the college radio studios. The program is designed to teach rote songs to elementary pupils. The studio singers help lead the pupils in singing.
205	Thirteen coeds are members of the studio singers who are heard every Monday afternoon Public Relations News Release 1952:409, p.1	02/22/1952	"Songs in the Air' program broadcasts over radio station WOI, Ames. It is conducted by John Mitchell and originates in the college radio studios. The program has an audience of 15,000 school children in more than 3,000 classrooms throughout the state.
206	John Powell (bass-baritone) Public Relations News Release 1952:411, p.1	02/21/1952	Born March 13, 1921, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Graduate of Robert E. Lee high school, Jacksonville, Florida. Received his bachelor of music from Rollins college, Winter Park, FL., in 1946 and master of arts from Teachers college, Columbia University.
207	Maurice Gerow (tenor) Public Relations News Release 1952:411, p.1	02/21/1952	Born Oct. 14, 1915, in Jackson, Michigan. Graduate of Jackson high school. Received his bachelor of music degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1938 and a master of music degree from Michigan in 1942. He is married and has three children.
208	Myron E. Russell has been named as Iowa representative for the National Association of Schools of Music committee for young composers' radio awards Public Relations News Release 1952:451, p.1	02/07/1952	Russell is head of the music department at the college. The purpose of the committee is to foster music composition in secondary schools and colleges through a systematic series of annual awards.
209	A song written by a college employee's son comprises part of the program to be sung by contralto Jane Mauck Public Relations News Release 1951:361, p.1	01/24/1952	The song, "I Shall Be Very Quiet," was written by Gordon Myers, son of Clifton Myers. Clifton Myers is a member of the college maintenance staff. Gordon is vice-president and manager of radio station WGHF-FM in New York City.
210	A song written by a college employee's son comprises part of the program to be sung by contralto Jane Mauck Public Relations News Release 1951:362, p.1	01/24/1952	Mauck's recital, the fifth in the current series of faculty recitals at the college, will be open to the public without charge. Ellen Aakvik, also of the college music department faculty, will accompany Mauck.
211	Jane Mauck to present the fifth faculty recital Public Relations News Release 1951:334, p.1	01/22/1952	Contralto Jane Mauck will present the fifth faculty recital of the current academic year in the college auditorium. The recital will be open to the public without charge. Ellen Aakvik, also of the college music department faculty, will accompany Mauck.
212	Karl M. Holvik announces that the concert band will play eleven compositions on Sunday, January 13th Public Relations News Release 1951:304, p.1	01/10/1952	Frank A. Piersol, director of bands at Iowa State College, Ames, and former Waterloo West high school band director, will be guest conductor.
213	John Mitchell, assistant professor of music education will serve on the national TV-radio committee of the Music Educators National Conference Public Relations News Release 1951:299, p.1	01/08/1952	The group is one of the MENC committees investigating audio-visual aids in music education. Mitchell has previous served as state chairman and as North Central division chairman of the MENC committee on records in music education.
214	Frank A. Piersol will conduct four compositions during the concert program, Sunday Jan. 13 Public Relations News Release 1951:297, p.1	01/05/1952	The 90-piece concert band will present the concert in the college auditorium. Piersol has served as judge of high school music contests in Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado and Arkansas; he has been guest conductor and advisor for many bands.
215	Fourth Faculty Recital Public Relations News Release 1951:283, p.1	01/02/1952	Russell Baum, assistant professor of piano will present the recital Sunday, Jan. 6 in the college auditorium.
216	Art department open house and exhibit to be held Sunday, December 9 Public Relations News Release 1951:205, p.1	12/05/1951	A one-man art show by student Dassine Melcher, Waterloo, will also be featured. It is an art department requirement that every art major present a one-man art show before graduation.
217	Harry Guillaume announced a two-hour art department open house and exhibit Sunday, Dec. 9 Public Relations News Release 1951:204, p.1	12/05/1951	The exhibit will include student, faculty and commercial work which will be displayed in the art department rooms and halls. Features will include art metal work; pottery; paintings; furniture; sculpture work in wood, metal, wire, ceramics; and etchings.
218	The Christmas season will officially open Dec. 6 at the tree lighting ceremony Public Relations News Release 1951:201, p.1	12/03/1951	President J. W. Maucker will light the huge tree south of the Commons at 7 p.m. Don Peter, Marcus, president of the Student League board, will emcee the event.
219	The Annual presentation of Handel's "Messiah" will be given Sunday, December 9, by the Department of Music Public Relations News Release 1951:194, p.1	11/29/1951	Myron Russell, head of the music department, will direct the oratorio which is scheduled for 4 p.m. in the Men's gymnasium. Soloists for the performance are Jane Birkhead, Jane Mauck, Maurice Gerow, and Harald Holst.
220	Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" will be presented in the men's gymnasium Sunday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m. Public Relations News Release 1951:133, p.1	11/12/1951	Roland Searight, of the college music faculty, will direct the production which will be open to the public without charge. Soloists for the oratorio are soprano Jane Birkhead, contralto Jane Mauck, tenor Maurice Gerow, and baritone John Powell.
221	Pianist Ellen Aakvik Public Relations News Release 1951:132, p.1	11/10/1951	Aakvik, of the Iowa State Teachers College music faculty, will play Rachmaninoff's Rapsodie on a theme by Paganini with the Waterloo symphony orchestra Tuesday evening, Nov. 20.
222	Henry Harris, assistant professor of iano, will present concerts at Austin, Minn., and Boone during the next week Public Relations News Release 1951:106, p.1	11/05/1951	The major works to be played at the concerts were selected by the local committees at Austin and Boone. Two of the major works to be played at Austin and Boone respectively are the Sonata Pathetique and the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven.
223	Required attendance at recitals is just too much for music minors College Eye 43:6, p.2	10/26/1951	Music minors are forced to attend recitals.
224	The final event of Homecoming will be the 75th Anniversary concert in the auditorium, Sunday, Oct. 28 Public Relations News Release 1951:92, p.1	10/24/1951	The concert will be presented by the college department of music. This year's homecoming, Oct. 26-28, is the 30th in the college's history. The concert program is in five parts. Program listed.
225	Pianist Henry Harris' program for the second music department faculty recital was announced today by Myron Russell Public Relations News Release 1951:84, p.1	10/18/1951	Russell, head of the music department, said the Harris recital will be open to the public without charge. The recital program is listed.
226	Henry Harris and Robert E. Bruere begin a friendship Public Relations News Release 1951:83, p.1	10/17/1951	The friendship began last year when Bruere heard one of Harris' "Piano Profiles" programs over radio station WOI, Ames. Through correspondence Harris has learned that Bruere, now 27, ranked seventh scholastically in his 1945 Oskaloosa high school class.
227	The second music department faculty recital of the 1951-52 season will be held in the college auditorium, Sunday, October 21 Public Relations News Release 1951:78, p.1	10/15/1951	Pianist Henry Harris, assistant professor of piano, the featured pianist, joined the college faculty in 1941. He was absent from the campus for two and a half years during the war while serving in the Navy.
228	The program of the first music department faculty recital of the 1951-52 season to be held Public Relations News Release 1951:74, p.1	10/11/1951	Myron Russell, head of the music department announced that the recital will be held in the college auditorium, Sunday, October 14. The recital will feature soprano Jane Birkhead and bass-baritone Harald Holst. Jvone Maxwell will be the accompanist.
229	The first music department faculty recital of the 1951-52 season will be held Sunday, October 14 at 8:15 p.m. Public Relations News Release 1951:69, p.1	10/05/1951	The recital will feature soprano Jane Birkhead and bass-baritone Harald Holst. Jvone L. Maxwell of the music department will be the accompanist. Birkhead and Holst gave a concert this summer at Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
230	Paul F. Bender, general chairman of the Homecoming committee, announced the program for the three-day Homecoming weekend Public Relations News Release 1951:64, p.1	10/04/1951	The theme for Homecoming will be "Seventy-Five Years of Teacher Education." It will be the second in a series of five all-college events in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the college. After the game there will be informal dancing in the ballroom
231	Twenty-five faculty members will be on leave of absence during the 1951-52 academic year Public Relations News Release 1951:63, p.1	10/03/1951	Nine faculty members in the teaching department, three from the departments of education and English and speech, two from industrial arts and mathematics, and one from home economics, art, music, physical education for women, social science, and library.
232	Seven departments have been authorized by the state board of education to offer graduate level courses leading to the Master of Arts in Education Public Relations News Release 1951:25, p.1	09/15/1951	M. J. Nelson, dean of the faculty, announced today that Six of the departments - business education, education, English and speech, science, mathematics, and social science- will participate in the graduate program beginning in the summer of 1952.
233	Myron Russell appointed Music Department head Alumnus 35:3, p.3	09/01/1951	Professor Russell replaces Professor Kurtz; photo.
234	Changes of salary policy First 75 Years 0:0, p.68	07/01/1951	Music faculty move from fees to salary; radical change for retirees.
235	Music Old Gold 0:0, p.60	06/01/1951	Brief description of the department; photo.
236	Russell replaces Kurtz as music department head College Eye 42:31, p.1	05/18/1951	Profile of Myron Russell; photo.
237	Postponement of the college presentation of Mendelssohn's oratorio, "Elijah," was announced today by college officials Public Relations News Release 1950:366, p.1	05/17/1951	Originally scheduled for Sunday afternoon, May 20, the oratorio will be performed Nov. 18 as a 75th anniversary commemoration event. The congestion of numerous spring activities amongst students, faculty, and community is the reason for the postponement.
238	Music department prepares 'Elijah' College Eye 42:30, p.3	05/11/1951
239	Four students will present a senior recital Thursday, May 10, at 8 p.m. in Gilchrist hall Public Relations News Release 1950:352, p.1	05/08/1951	The recitalists are Ronald Donelson, Beverly Irwin, Marlene Meyers, and Addie Mae Pittam. Pittam will open the recital with Delmas' "Promenade" and Weber's "First Concerto."
240	Maurice Gerow, of the music faculty will sing the tenor solos in Haydn's oratorio Public Relations News Release 1950:351, p.1	05/08/1951	Gerow will sing the tenor solos from "The Creation," Sunday, May 13, at Knox college, Galesburg, Illinois.
241	Music Department's Dr. Kurtz will retire this year Alumnus 35:2, p.25	05/01/1951	Has been at college since 1924 and headed department since 1934; photo.
242	Emmetsburg will be the evening host Monday, April 30, to the Concert Band Public Relations News Release 1950:334, p.1	04/25/1951	Conductor David Kennedy's once postponed 1951 tour will include Lattimer and Laurens, also on Monday, and three more concerts at Monson, Humboldt, Webster City on Tuesday.
243	Compositions of four faculty members and two students will be performed Sunday night, April 22 at the annual Original Compositions concert Public Relations News Release 1950:324, p.1	04/20/1951	The SAI chorus will sing two songs by Edward Kurtz, retiring head of the music department. Words for both songs were written by Mrs. Kurtz. Pianist Henry Harris will play a piano sonatina by William Latham. Juanita Yearous will sing a song.
244	Dr. Edward Kurtz was honored Tuesday night, April 17, at a dinner party given by fellow musicians and music faculty Public Relations News Release 1950:320, p.1	04/17/1951	The 69-year-old violinist, composer and conductor will retire at the end of the summer quarter. He has been head of the music department since 1934, and a member of that department since 1924.
245	A recital by Harald Holst, bass-baritone, and Russell Baum, pianist, will be presented by the music department, Sunday, April 15, at 8 p.m. Public Relations News Release 1950:298, p.1	04/07/1951	Holst, associate professor of voice, received his master's degree in music from Chicago's Conservatory of Music and was coached in opera by Leo Kopp of the Chicago Civic Opera. Holst has been at the college since 1936.
246	A recital by Harald Holst, bass-baritone, and Russell Baum, pianist, will be presented by the music department in the college auditorium Public Relations News Release 1950:299, p.1	04/07/1951	Baum, assistant professor of piano, received his master's degree from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Since coming to the college in 1938, he has composed songs and works for piano and orchestra and played several radio recitals.
247	A recital by Harald Holst, bass-baritone, and Russell Baum, pianist, will be presented by the music department Sunday, April 15, at 8 p.m. Public Relations News Release 1950:300, p.1	04/07/1951	Holst has a background of concert tours in Denmark and Norway and study in Europe. He has made extensive appearances in oratorio, opera, radio, concerts and recitals in this country.
248	John Powell, of the Music faculty, will sing German, French, English, and American songs at his recital Sunday at 8 p.m. in the college auditorium Public Relations News Release 1950:294, p.1	04/06/1951	John Powell will be accompanied by Daphne Powell. Powell sang the lead in "The Desert Song," staged during the war by the Army Air Force. He has soloed in New York's Town hall, on radio networks, and appeared in concerts throughout the East and South.
249	John Powell, baritone, will present a recital Sunday (April 8) at 8 p.m. in the auditorium Public Relations News Release 1950:289, p.1	04/03/1951	Daphne Powell will accompany the baritone. In England, John Powell studied with Elena Gerhardt, Lieder singer, and in New York with Maestro William Van Geisen. Powell has been a member of the music faculty since 1949.
250	ISTC concerts April 4-5 Public Relations News Release 1950:282, p.1	03/29/1951	On Wednesday (April 4) the 60-piece orchestra will play a morning concert directed by Roland Searight. The 62-voice college choir will sing its home concert Thursday (April 5) conducted by Assistant Professor Maurice Gerow.