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, u b ) V E R S I ? V 3F HAWAII LiRRkRLUNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MANOAI DEPARTMENT OF MUSICVOL. 10, NO. 2SUMMER 199:UHM Music Building Named for Dorothy M. KahananuiMusic Building 1in January, she was "a brilliant,dedicated music educator. .a scholar of Hawaiianmusic and chant. .[and] a tireless and outstandingteacher of the Hawaiian language." From 1923through the war years, she was the major influenceon music education in the state. It was her leadershipthat helped bring the UHM Music Department to itspresent level of excellence.i.T 'tdShe served on the UHM faculty from 1931 until herretirement in 1960. Initially she taught all ten musiccourses offered in the Teacher's College; her commitment to the cause of music education became legendary. Besides teaching courses for prospective and inservice teachers and supervising student teaching ofmusic, she also taught music history, conducted anon-credit glee club for 20 years, and presentedweekly music lessons via radio for Hawai'i's publicschools. She was also co-founder and president of theHawai'i Music Educators Association. *rThe 29 April ceremony of dedication included remarks by many distinguished guests, including UHPresident Kenneth P. Mortimer, UH Regent MomiCazimero, Dean of Arts and Humanities Robert S.Hines, Professor Emeritus of Music Barbara B. Smith,and Professor Kahananui's son Jonathan. BobFishman delivered a message from GovernorWaihe'e. Kumu Hula Noenoelani Zuttermeister ledthe Hula and Chant Ensemble and Nola N a u l udirected choral selections by the Hawaiian Chorus.The program ended with the Chorus's performance ofE Hau'oli, an original composition of ProfessorKahananui. (Some of the material in this article wastaken from the UHM Arts and Humanities News,Spring 1993).In a 29 April ceremony at Orvis Auditorium, theDiamond Head wing of Music Building 1 (unofficiallycalled "the band side of the new building") wasnamed for the late Professor Emeritus Dorothy M.Kahananui, who taught 30 years at UHM. It had beensuggested that the Diamond Head wing be named forProfessor Kahananui in 1974 when the building wascompleted, but the Regents' policy at that time wasnot to name a building for a living person. ProfessorKahananui passed away in 1984. Music DepartmentChairman Allen Trubitt was instrumental in persuading University officials to have the building namedfor her. The Swimming Pool in the quarry's PhysicalEducation complex was named after DukeKahanamoku, but we believe that she is the firstNative Hawaiian for whom a wing of an academicbuilding on the UHM campus has been named.HIS ISSlShe was born in 1895 in Kdloa, Kaua'i. She received adiploma from the Territorial Normal School in 1913, adiploma from the University Extension Conservatoryof Music in Chicago, a Bachelor of Science degreefrom New York University, and an Ed.M. degreefrom the University of Hawai'i in 1936.MOWS 03 kaculty,nf f .u st,,ws of Alumni 6 FIws of Students .ualas Enaelhardtr .umni SurShe taught in elementary schools on Maui and inHonolulu between 1923 and 1930. In the words of theBoard of Regents, which approved the naming of1 w d MT4 4 6 J b S 6zui WingThl1UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LIBRAR"-r
NEWS OF FACULRuth Bingham, Spring 1992 lecturer in music historyat UHM, will receive her Ph.D. in musicology fromCornell in May for her dissertation, "The Song Cyclein German Speaking Countries 1790-1840: Approaches to a Changing Genre." Ruth received theDonald Jay Grout Memorial Scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. work at Cornell.Zen-On Publishing Company of Japan has publisheda study guide by Peter Coraggio for Volume I1 ofDebussy's Preludes for Piano. Peter will performrecitals for Hawaii Public Radio and for the NewJersey Music Educators Association in June; he willalso teach and perform in Japan this summer.Marvin Greenberg's article, "The 'Ukulele in theMusic Classroom" appeared in the Music EducatorsJournal (November 1992); Marvin's reviews of doctoral theses in music education appeared in theBulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education(Winter, Summer 1992). Marvin completed 31 all-dayevaluation sessions on Kaua'i, Maui, Hawai'i, andO'ahu involving teams of educators and parents inassessing preschool/day-care teachers for the national Child Development Associate (CDA)credentialing program. He has been a CDA representative since 1976, serving under contract with thefederally funded CDA teacher assessment program.The Hawaiian Journal of Histo y vol. 26 (1992) published Dale Hall's article, "Two Hawaiian Careers inGrand Opera" in a special issue celebrating thecentennial year of its publisher, the Hawaiian Historical Society. Dale's article was an expanded version ofa Student-Faculty colloquium lecture he gave in theMusic Department.Takeo Kudo's East Wind, West Wind for soloshakuhachi, six winds and two percussion wasperformed on the Discoveries I11 Series at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, during January. Takeo alsopresented a paper, "Composing for the Shakuhachi:Some Technical Considerations," at the 27th Conference of the Society of Composers, Inc., in Cleveland,Ohio. in April.Byongwon Lee has received a Korea FoundationFellowship for support of research in Korea for theproject entitled "Modernization and Musical Changein South Korea" and a UH Center for Chinese Studiesand Peking University Exchange Fellowship for fieldwork in China during summer 1993 on the post-1987musical change of the Korean minority in China.Byongwon has published an article, "TraditionalMusic in Contemporary Korean Society" in Festival ofKorea: Humanities Guide (Honolulu, 1992). He alsolectured at various mainland universities duringNovember and has been appointed to the AdvisoryCommittee of the Pacific and Asian Council forKorean Studies.Jane Moulin received grants to attend and documentthe Festival of Pacific Arts in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, last October and to present a paper, "Chants ofPower: Music and Counter-hegemonic Structures inthe Marquesas Islands" at the World Conference ofthe International Council for Traditional Music inBerlin June 15-22. She also received a grant to purchase exhibit cases for the Music Collection in SinclairLibrary and to secure already existing cases inHamilton Library. These cases will be used to houseexhibits of musical instruments from theEthnomusicology instrument collection.Armand Russell has two newly composed works:Quest of the Pinnacle was commissioned for the PearlCity High School concert band by Michael Nakasone,and Wedding Suite for woodwind quartet was performed on 2 January at St. Andrew's Cathedral underthe direction of Henry Miyamura on the occasion ofArmand's wedding to Sandra Hammond. Armandhas had works performed recently in Wisconsin andGermany; his arrangement, Mozart Dance Suite, wasperformed by the Verdehr Trio at the College MusicSociety convention in October.Professor Emeritus Richard Vine lives inMenomonie, Wisconsin; his daughter Jody is inCalifornia, his son Jim in Neenah, Wisconsin, and hehas grandchildren in New York and Wisconsin.Lesley Wright's review of Susan McClaryls Cambridge Opera Handbook for Carmen will be publishedsoon in Music and Letters. Lesley's conference reporton the First Annual Gounod Symposium has appeared in the Journal of Musicology vol. 11no. 1 (1993).Byron Yasui is artistic director for the UHM SummerSession Hawaii Jazz Guitar Festival '93 taking place20-27 June. Byron will serve as double bassist withfive visiting jazz guitarists and as classical guitarist induo recitals with Brazilian guitarist Carlos BarbosaLima. Byron's Five Tzu-Yeh Songs for soprano andpiano were performed on Julia Grella's M. A. voiceperformance recital at the Aaron Copland School ofMusic, New York; his Concert Piece for four trumpetswas performed at the Crane Festival of New Music,Potsdam College of the State University of New Yorkon 26 April.
NEWS OF ALUMNI A N D FRIENDSUI-IM music graduates and faculty were once againhighly visible at the 1993 Hawai'i Music EducatorsConference. Presenting clinics and workshops wereKaren Miyamoto (MA 1993), Bea Yoshimoto, DorisFuchikami, Lynell Hamasaki Bright, Nola N&ulu(MA 1978), and UHM Professors Anthony Palmerand Byron Yasui. Conference chair was UHM Associate Director of Bands Tom Bingham.Jose Buenconsejo (MA 1993) has received an assistantship at the University of Pennsylvania, where hewill pursue doctoral studies in musicology. TimHoffman (MA 1991) escorted eight classical Japanesemusicians to India for three weeks of workshops,lectures, and performances in Delhi, Lucknow andBenares in February and March. He is now a Lecturerat the Musashino Music Academy.Patrick Kim (MA 1980) and June Phillips (MA 1981)have returned from teaching music at the International School of the Sacred Heart in Hiroo, Japan andare living in Washington where Pat is working as anapplications engineer in computer software development.Ren6 Lysloff (MA 1982) presented a paper, "Asia inthe New Age: A Korean Shaman in Los Angeles" atthe 1993 annual meeting of the Association for AsianStudies in a session, "Asian Responses to MassMediated Music," for which R. Anderson Sutton(MA 1975) was the discussant. Ren6 will hold aMellon Fellowship at the University of Pittsburghduring 1993-94 and begin teaching duties there Fall 1994as Assistant Professor.Nola N&ulu's Honolulu Children's Opera Chorus wonthe 1993 NB Hoku Hanohano award for its "Na LeoHone," Religious Album of the Year, recorded for theChorus's 30th Anniversary. The Chorus was founded byEileen Lum and former UHM Music Department facultymember Richard Vine in response to a request for achildren's chorus to sing in opera performances withwhat is today Hawaii Opera Theater.Amy Stillman (MA 1982) was the discussant for asession "Cultural Constraints and Musical Response" atthe 1993 annual meeting of the Association for AsianStudies. Amy has received an NEH Summer Stipendand a grant from the Committee for the Preservationand Study of Hawaiian Language, Art and Culture todevote to work on poetic texts of hula ku'i in HawaiianLanguage Newspapers 1883-1895 and will present alecture on the topic during the University of Hawai'iSummer Session.Andrew Weintraub (MA 1992) has received a Fulbrightgrant for fieldwork in Indonesia which will be the basisfor his doctoral dissertation at UC-Berkeley. ChristineYano (MA 1984) gave a talk on sexual identity in Enka inApril at the International House of Japan in Tokyo.Christine is completing her fieldwork for the doctoraldissertation and will return to Honolulu soon.FM-AM invites you to become a member or renew your membership for 1993. Your contribution for membership(tax-deductible) will make you an active supporter of the UHM Music Department. Your help is needed.aI wish to become a member of FM-AM.0 I wish to renew my membership.a 25 Family a 15 Couple a 10 Single 0 StudentIn addition to membership dues, I wish tocontribute My total contribution is With your contribution, the Music Department can offer its students scholarships and awards to support theirstudies in the various music programs, including ethnomusicology, musicology, music education, theory, composition, and performance on both Western and ethnic instruments.Please direct my contribution to supporttheprogramPlease make checks payable to UH Foundation andmail to: FM-AM/Music Department2411 Dole StreetHonolulu, Hawai'i 96822
NEWS OF STThe Morning Music Club awarded Crystl Sonomuraa 500 scholarship.Douglas Engelhardt RetiresDouglasEngelhardt, amember of theUHM musiceducationfaculty, bringshis dedicatedteaching careerto an end whenhe retires at theend of the 1993school year.Doug beganteaching in the1 Illinois publicschoo1s;n 1949;he taught in themidwest until1968, when heaccepted aposition at Morehead State University. He latertaught at the University of Wyoming before comingto UHM in 1979. He received an M. M. E. from DrakeUniversity in 1960 and a D. M. A. from Boston University in 1974. While at UHM he served as Directorof the Honolulu Symphony Chorus and the HawaiiOpera Theatre Chorus from 1981 to 1986; he has alsoserved as Undergraduate Chairman in the MusicDepartment since 1986.Doug was an active string player before he began tosuffer from arthritis in his hands. He remembersbeginning violin lessons at the age of six. His father, aGerman immigrant, had brought an old fiddle fromEurope; it was too big for a six-year-old, however,and his father was eventually persuaded to buy himan instrument suitable in size for a child. In lateryears Doug switched to viola; he has played solo andchamber music recitals on both violin and viola.His snowy-white hair and beard are the first thingthat one notices about Doug; students in his classeshave often remarked on his resemblance to SantaClaus. Last year he actually auditioned for the part ofSanta Claus and won; around Christmas time heappeared in a TV commercial in Japan as CaptainSanta with a surfboard.Doug says that he is looking forward to retirementafter 44 years of teaching. Nevertheless, he willkeep busy. He is completing 20 years of writingbook reviews for Choice and has been asked tocontinue. He has also been invited to do someadjudicating at the national level. He and his wifewill move to Paducah, Kentucky, to be nearer theirchildren. We wish him aloha nui and hope that hekeeps in touch with his Hawai'i colleagues.A CORRECTIONWe reported in our last issue that former UHMLecturer Ruth Pfeiffer (MA 1973) had accepteda position at Windward Community College.Ruth teaches at Leeward, not Windward.rUHM Music DepartmentHolds ReunionA reunion of UHM Music Department "Golden Era"graduates and former students took place at theMauna Kea Ballroom of the Hawaii Prince Hotel inWaikiki on 21 March. After dinner, emcees MildrenTolentino Misajon and Alvin Ing hosted a programthat included an overture played by Herb Messickand Donald Yap; choral selections conducted byShigeru Hotoke and Norman Rian; piano selectionsby Jeannette Chun, Thelma Chock Diercks, Lillian Ito,and Eleanor Lum; a Pacific Overtures medley sung by 3Alvin Ing; and other numbers that featured BobbyCortezan, Sister Grace Capellas, Herman Hashizume,Blossom Lam Hoffman, Richard Kuga, Richard Lum, '.Norma Parado, Rheinhardt Pua'a, John Saclausa,Gerald Ting, and Annette Yonamine.! b. HallIYIILILPcl{SIGNM. Tamaru
RESULTS OF ALUMNI SURVEYIn our Summer 1992 issue we asked alumni to respond to 18 questions to help us evaluate the effectiveness of our music programs. Because of budgetrestraints during this time of recession, we had to relyon alumni to return our questionnaires at their ownexpense. We received 21 responses. Recent graduatesseemed anxious to share their experiences after a fewyears "in the field"; more than half of our respondents received degrees during the 1980s.They gave us a 3.3 (could we say an A-minus?) foroverall quality of Music Department instruction, ahigher mark than the 2.9 they gave general studies atUHM. Seventeen respondents answered that theywould recommend the UHM Music Department.Most of our alumni are involved in teaching, but asignificant minority have other music-related careers.A few respondents suggested adding a variety ofcourses to UHM programs, especially those centeringon non-classical musical styles. Not surprisingly,location and the relatively low cost of tuition werementioned as prominent factors in influencingrespondents' decisions to attend UHM. In the presentclimate of recession, budget cuts, and shrinkingenrollments, our respondents' suggestions that weforge stronger links with the surrounding communityand inform new students of the economic realities ofthe music profession are well-taken. For more details,see specific questions below. To all who took the timeand went to the expense of replying, mahalo nui!1. Most recent degree received from UHM by respondent andnumber of years it took to complete.Bachelor's degree .average 5 years ful I-timeMaster's . about 2 years full-timeYear of respondents' graduation (highest degree received):1980-89 .131970-79 .51960-69 . 12. Scale of 4, high, to 1, low:Quality of the UHM Music Department20 responses .3.3Quality of your specific studies focus19 responses .3.4Quality of UHM studies outside music16 responses . 2.93. On what instrument(s) did the respondent take private studiolessons?Piano . 93 eachVoice, Clarinet, Flute .Koto . 2Cello, Percussion, Guitar,Oboe, Organ, Saxophone . 1 each(Some students took private lessons on more than oneinstrument)4. Most recent full-time position respondent occupied:Private teaching . 3University teaching . 4Primarylsecondary teaching .4Performer . 3Composerlarranger .15. If never employed in full-time position, list part-time positionoccupied:Private teaching .1University teaching .1Primarylsecondary .16. Quality of instruction at UHM; scale of 4, high quality, to 1,low qualityMusic theory18 responses .3.6Music history17 responses .3.4Studio lessons17 responses . 3.4Teaching methods13 responses . 2.9Ensembles19 responses . 3.2Ethnomusicology14 responses . 3.57. Describe courses you think should be added for musicians atUHM.Jazz studies, music business, orcommercial music . 4Music therapy, electronics,Music and Society . 1 each8. List courses you think should not be required:Courses in ethnomusicology at the graduate level .1Too many non-music academic requirements .19. Do you feel that the breadth of your studies prepared youadequately for doing your projectlmaster's thesis?Yes . 9 No . 210. Were your senior project or thesis advisorslcommitteemembers helpful?Yes . 8 No .111. Do you feel you had adequate opportunity to perform inLarge ensembleYes . 18 No . 2Small ensembleYes . 1 0 No . 4SoloYes . 1 5 No . 3
12. What was the influence of performance opportunities on yourcareer development? Scale of 4, tremendous influence, to 1, noinfluenceLarge ensemble14 responses . 2.7Small ensemble15 responses . 2.7Solo17 responses .2.913. Would you recommend UHM's Music Department?Yes responses . 17Answers difficult to interpret: "yes and no," etc. . 414. What advice would you give to present music students inregard to preparing for a career in music?The answers were extremely varied.Three respondents mentioned the.need for determination andthe necessity for students to learn all they can about musicnow.Two respondents mentioned the need to develop incomegenerating means outside music, the need to practice hard onthe student's primary instrument but to learn piano as a secondary instrument, and the desirability of establishing contactswith other persons in the music field.Other respondents stressed the desirability of developing abroad range of knowledge both in and outside music andgetting involved in career organizations.15. Describe your assistantship duties.Only one response: assisted in intermediate music theorycourses and assisted in UH Symphony.16. Rate your assistant experience; scale of 4, excellent, to 1,terrible.Freedom from inappropriate duties1 response .3.0Supervision you received1 response . 4.0Contribution of assistantship experiences to careerdevelopment1 response . 4.017. How important were the following elements in your decision toattend UHM? Scale of 4, very important, to 1, not important.Location18 responses . 3.9Cost of tuition3.817 responses .Recommendations of teachers15 responses .2.5Quality of education16 responses .2.9Reputation of UHM Music Department16 responses .2.518. Comments or suggestions regarding UHM Music Department.Respondents encouraged the Music Department to keep itsstandards high and forge stronger links with the surroundingcommunity, expand its offerings, and inform new students ofthe economic realities of the music profession. A formerethnomusicology student mentioned that links with the EastWest Center were important.University of Hawai'i at MaoaMusic Department2411 Dole StreetHonolulu, Hawai'i 96822OnLibra,,,'I@ Printed on recycled paper.*"NUS96822-2274
five visiting jazz guitarists and as classical guitarist in duo recitals with Brazilian guitarist Carlos Barbosa- Lima. Byron's Five Tzu-Yeh Songs for soprano and piano were performed on Julia Grella's M. A. voice performance recital at the Aaron Copland School of Music, New York; his Concert Piece for four trumpets
