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VOL. 8, NO. 1S h e y l Akaka, Miss Hawaii 1969UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA / DEPARTMENT OF MUSICC h e y l Bartlett, Miss Hawaii 1986SPRING 1991Cheryl Toma, Miss Hawaii 1990C(S)HERYL MUSIC x 3 MISS HAWAII 1969 1986 1990It has to be more than coincidence. Take three winners of the Miss Hawaii Scholarship Pageant. Gorgeous, poised, charming-that's to be expected, ofcourse. But how likely is it that all three will begraduates of the University of Hawaii at ManoaMusic Department? Not very likely, you say? Consider one final coincidence.-all three women pronounce their names the same! A tall tale? No, ithappens to be true. Sheryl Akaka, Cheryl Bartlett, andCheryl Toma, the three beauties in question, represented Hawai'i at the Miss America ScholarshipPageant in Atlantic City in 1969,1986, and 1990. Is itany wonder, then, that music department faculty arescanning their class lists for beautiful women namedCheryl or Sheryl who will be the next Miss Hawaii?Sheryl Akaka was the first. She won in all divisions inthe Hawai'i state pageant-talent, bathing suit,evening gown, interview. She went on to become oneof the top ten semi-finalists at the national level at theMiss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1969. She isof Hawaiian/Chinese descent, a member of a prominent Island family. Her uncles are Daniel andAbraham Akaka; the former Hawai'i's distinguishedsenator, the latter the retired long-time minister ofKawaiaha'o Church, Honolulu's "WestminsterAbbey." A pianist, singer, and guitarist, Sheryl taughtmusic for seven years at the Kamehameha Schoolsafter graduating from UH in 1971 with a Bachelor ofEducation in Music. Today she teaches at bothKapiolani and Honolulu Community Colleges, has anumber of private guitar and piano students, servesas an instructor-consultant for Naris Cosmetics, anddoes free-lance modeling.Our second Miss Hawaii, Cheryl Bartlett, was borninto a Navy family in San Diego 28 years ago. Afterhigh school in West Virginia (she was valedictorian ofher class), she started her college career atShenandoah Conservatory in Virginia. Then herfather was sent by the Navy to Hawai'i, and Cheryland her mother came along. She continued hereducation at UH, studying voice with John Mountand graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of Musicdegree. Cheryl had had considerable theater experience even before coming to Hawai'i, and continued toperform here. Brigadoon and Madama Butterfly areamong her credits in Hawai'i, and recently she sangone of the two female leads in the Diamond HeadTheater production of Kismet. She became MissHawaii in 1986 and won a talent award in AtlanticCity. After graduating from the Manoa campus sheworked in United States Senator Daniel Inouye'soffice in Washington, D. C. for a year-and-a-half.Returning to Hawai'i, she worked for a time at theHilton Hawaiian Village as a training administrator.Today she teaches voice at Iolani School, lectures for acontinued on page 2 .

MISS HAWAII X 3continued from page 1local model agency, and continues to perform as anactress 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 toHawai'i when she was just three years old. OfOkinawan descent, she played French horn andxylophone in the Pearl City High School Band, butpiano was her real love. Beginning at the university in1983, she studied piano with Peter Coraggio and gavean honors recital in 1986. She enjoyed student teaching in Waipahu, but decided to become a flightattendant for Continental Airlines after graduatingwith a Bachelor in Music Education in 1987. Afterhearing Toma play in a UH student recital, Akakaencouraged her to compete in the Miss HawaiiPageant, offering to coach her in her bid for the title,which she won in 1990. Toma's uncle and aunt areRandy and Gay Hongo, two of the most successfulartists in Hawaiian music today. Uncle Randy helpedher prepare a Gershwin medley which won her atalent award at Atlantic City. After winning her title,she worked for Hawaiian Airlines, promotingHawai'i as a tourist destination.Life has not always been easy for this beautiful andtalented trio. Sheryl Akaka speaks of herself as a"survivor." "People who have experienced hardshipare more resilient," she says. Cheryl Toma experienced the possibility of never being able to play thepiano again when her hand was caught in the machinery of an airport conveyor belt in Seoul, Korea amonth before the Miss America Pageant in 1990.Fortunately, the injury to nerves in her hand hasproven since to be temporary. Cheryl Bartlett knowsabout adversity, too. Due to the complications ofliving with diabetes since childhood, she is learning tocope with a considerable loss of eyesight. She takeseach day as it comes, and music continues to play avital and inspiring part of that day.All three of our Miss(es) Hawaii speak of their greatlove for music and how important it has been in theirlives. Sheryl Akaka and Cheryl Bartlett are at presentmusic teachers in Honolulu; Cheryl Toma, after herreign as Miss Hawaii, will use the money she wasawarded to complete her master's degree in musiceducation. She also has aspirations towards teaching.The faculty, students, and alumni of the Manoacampus music department salute three of its own. ToSheryl, Cheryl, and Cheryl-Misses Hawaii of 1969,1986, and 1990-hip, hip, hooray and banzai!John MountThe primary goal of any friends' group is to rallysupport and create enthusiasm for the many projectsof its beneficiary-in this case the University ofHawaii at Manoa Music Department-and to helpestablish a network for this support. Naturally, wewant to enlist your help in our projects, but we arealso here to help you in any way we can in achievingyour goals-even after you leave the Manoa campus.As you read this news of faculty, students, andalumni, you will see that the past few months havebeen very productive. The number of music majors onour campus continues to increase gradually, eventhough enrollments have been flagging at manyMainland schools. Thanks to the efforts of FM-AM, weare able to grant larger scholarships to our students tohelp offset the rising tuition costs.Support of the music program by alumni and friendswill become increasingly important as we reachtoward the 21st century. We have had the pleasure ofseeing many of our students become active performersin a wide variety of performing situations, from thelounges of Waikiki hotels to the stage of Neal BlaisdellConcert Hall, from the musical comedy stages ofHawaiian and Mainland theaters to the opera housesof Europe. Our graduates are also successful teachersin private studios, public and private schools, colleges,and universities across the nation. We have a strongnational reputation in ethnomusicology.We are proudof the accomplishments of all our students, alumni,and friends. I hope you will fill us in on your accomplishments and those of former classmates. Pleasekeep in touch; we would love to hear from all of you!

FACULTY NEWIwanami Publishing Company of Tokyo publishedByong Won Lee's-"Chosen minzku no ongaku dento[Musical Tradition of Korean People]," as part of amonograph entitled Nihon no ongaku Ajianoongaku [JapaneseMusic, Asian Music] in 1989.Byong Won presented lectures and seminars in Kobe,Japan and Pusan, Korea in February, July, andAugust, 1990. He also read a paper, "Western Impacton Traditional Music of Korea," at the Third International Conference on Korean Studies in Osaka, Japanduring August, 1990 and chaired a session titled"Source Criticism and Style Criticism in MusicalScholarship" at the Fourth Symposium of the International Musicological Society (IMS) in Osaka in July,1990. Henry Miyamura was director of a SummerMusic Institute at Hawaii Preparatory Academy atKamuela, Hawaii from August 3 to 11,1990. Cosponsored by the Hawaii Youth Symphony Association and the Maui Philharmonic Society, the Institutehad 21 faculty members and 90 students in concertband, jazz band, symphony and string orchestraensembles. John Mount will appear in all three of theHawaii Opera Theater's 1991 productions: as the Kingof Egypt in Aida, "Antonio" in Marriage of Figaro, andin Candide. Laurence Paxton had a leading role in theDiamond Head Theater's production of Kismet duringLalrrence Paxton and Cheryl Bartlett in a scene from Kismet.fall, 1990; he will sing "Don Curzio" in HOT'S 1991Marriage of Figaro production.Armand Russell recently composed Rondo Festivo forthe Pearl City High School Wind Ensemble, whichperformed it twice under the baton of MichaelNakasone. Armand's Fantasia and Rondino for percussion was given four performances in Germany andLuxembourg in March, 1990 by a faculty ensemblefrom the University of Texas (Austin, Texas). He hasalso arranged Mozart's German Dances K. 509 for theVerdehr Trio, which also performed his Dances andSongs of Change at the Academy of Art in March, 1990.The Mozart arrangement was performed in severalrecent concerts on the Mainland. Ricardo Trimillosdelivered the keynote address for the InternationalConference of the Dance Critics Association in earlySeptember, 1990. He served as an evaluator for therecent Los Angeles Festival and serves as a consultantfor the Educational Testing Service, revising theirmusic examinations. He was part of the planningcommittee for "Folklife Hawai'i!" a statewide celebration of folk arts which took place in Honolulu in midOctober. He was also part of a Society forEthnomusicology (SEM) panel on Ethnomusicologyand the Press in November in Oakland. Also inNovember, he presented koto concerts at NorthernIllinois University, Georgia State University, andWest Georgia College.Lesley Wright spent two months in Paris duringSummer, 1990 doing research for ten biographicalarticles which will appear in The New Grove Dictionaryof Opera. She also collected some 40 reviews of theCarmen premiere in 1875, when the work sparkedgreat controversy. These reviews will form the basisof a cahier de presse which will appear in Germanynext year. On September 26, Lesley Wright, RicardoTrimillos, and Allen Trubitt participated in a paneldiscussion on "Music and its Images," part of the 1990Festival of Arts and Humanities. The general topic ofthe Festival was "Image and Word." Several of ByronYasui's compositions have had important performances recently. The faculty woodwind quintet atPortland State University performed his Variationsona Tongan Folk Theme at the first annual Ernest BlochComposers' Symposium in Oregon; David Pino,professor of clarinet at Southwest Texas State University performed his Novene for solo clarinet at theSouthwest Contemporary Music Festival and Conference in San Marcos, Texas in November, 1990; and hisO'ahu for marching band, commissioned by the O'ahuInterscholastic League for its 50th anniversary celebration, was premiered by the massed marchingbands of several O'ahu high schools at Aloha Stadiumduring Fall, 1990.