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Fifty-three years ago this week, Director Walter Hendl called an all-School Convocation for a special memorial service honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), iconic civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.\u00a0 The memorial was held in Kilbourn Hall on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 9th, 1969, one year to the day after Dr. King\u2019s funeral.\u00a0 As history has recorded, Dr. King was gunned down in Memphis on April 4th, 1968, one of the most wrenching events of the turbulent decade of the \u201860s; his murder was met by widespread protests and demonstrations of varying intensity, and also with memorial services marked by music, prayer and\/or reflection, and the spoken word.\u00a0 On the day of Dr. King\u2019s funeral in 1968, a group of Eastman students, specifically the students of color who were enrolled at that time (17 in number), mounted a memorial event in Kilbourn Hall, a memorial presented entirely on their initiative.\u00a0 One year later, the notion of a memorial service was broadly endorsed with participation from throughout the Eastman School; on the day, Eastman students were joined on the stage of Kilbourn Hall by members of the faculty and administration.<\/p>\n

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The memorial service began with a prelude consisting of three selections, performed by the Eastman Trombone Choir under Professor Emory Remington\u2019s direction (for whatever reason, the Eastman Trombone Choir was not acknowledged in the printed program).\u00a0 Two speakers then followed: William Crimm, BM \u201971 and vice-president of the 1969-70 sophomore class, who gave the opening invocation; and Joseph Bias, MM \u201972, who spoke on the event\u2019s purpose, which was to set an example of good will in the commemoration of Dr. King\u2019s death, contrasting with the scattered acts of violence being committed elsewhere.\u00a0 Two speakers in turn recounted Dr. King\u2019s life; they were Connie Jones, BM \u201971, speaking on Dr. King\u2019s childhood, education, and early ministry, and Mary Henderson, BM \u201970, speaking on his fight for social justice.\u00a0 The Eastman Chorale performed two spirituals under Professor Milford Fargo\u2019s direction: \u201cWhere Shall I Be?\u201d with baritone Joseph Bias as soloist, and \u201cEzekiel Saw De Wheel\u201d with tenor Stanley Cornett, BM \u201974, MM \u201975 as soloist.\u00a0 A work specially composed by Walter Hendl for this event, Elegy for Martin Luther King, Jr., <\/em>was performed by a string quartet of four students\u2014violinists David Arenz, BM \u201969 and Sylvia Gholson, BM \u201968, MM \u201970; violist Richard Field, BM \u201969; and violoncellist Terry Thomas, BM \u201972.\u00a0 Soprano Esther Satterfield, BM \u201971[1]<\/a>,<\/sup> sang the hymn \u201cPrecious Lord, Take My Hand\u201d\u2014an acknowledged favorite of Dr. King\u2019s\u2014with piano accompaniment (as it happened, the pianist was not acknowledged in the printed program).\u00a0 The Eastman Brass Quintet performed Thomas Weelkes\u2019 \u201cDeath Hath Deprived Me\u201d in a transcription by one of its members, Professor Verne Reynolds.\u00a0 Finally, Director Hendl offered some remarks to the assembly by telephone hook-up from out of town, where he was fulfilling a professional engagement, and the event was concluded by the communal singing of \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d led by the members of the Eastman Chorale.<\/p>\n

For three of the student participants, the memorial held meaningful associations with memorials held on the day of Dr. King\u2019s funeral in 1968. \u00a0Soprano Esther Satterfield had performed at the 1968 memorial in Kilbourn Hall, and also at that event, Paul Burgett\u2014at that time president of the Student Association\u2014had been the principal speaker to eulogize Dr. King.\u00a0 Baritone Joseph Bias had been a senior at Morehouse College in Atlanta (Dr. King\u2019s own alma mater) in the spring of 1968, had been one of the soloists at that institution\u2019s funeral service for Dr. King.<\/p>\n

The memorial service received mention in the Eastman School\u2019s 1969 yearbook,[2]<\/a> <\/sup>and was reported in the Eastman School\u2019s\u00a0 journal Notes from Eastman<\/em>[3]<\/a> <\/sup>(forerunner to today\u2019s Eastman Notes<\/em>) and in the Rochester press[4]<\/a>.<\/sup>\u00a0 A recording engineer working under direction of the Eastman School\u2019s office of Recording Arts and Services (forerunner of today\u2019s office of Technology and Media Production) recorded the service, and the master tapes were archived; in a short time, the digital transfer from the master tapes will be streamed via the Ampache interface here<\/a>.\u00a0 An archive is, above all, the preservation of memory, and I would like to believe that a recording of the 1968 memorial is also extant, although as of this writing I cannot confirm as much.\u00a0 To listen to such a recording might well be devastating; I myself cannot imagine the sense of loss, indeed of desolation and despair, that those students must have experienced in the wake of Dr. King\u2019s murder, but their gesture in Kilbourn Hall must surely have signified a spirit of hope.\u00a0 And, too, the Eastman School\u2019s rallying together in April, 1969 sent a positive message.\u00a0 For us today, when segments of our nation have at long last embarked on a national reckoning, and have begun to examine honestly the crimes and inhumanity that informed our colonial heritage and our national origins and that have persisted throughout our history, we can take courage in that the Eastman School paused to pay homage to a great man in a spirit of woke inspiration.<\/p>\n

\u25ba Photos by Louis Ouzer: <\/em><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Esther Satterfield\u2019s senior portrait appeared in the 1970 yearbook, but her name is cited as a BM degree recipient in the University\u2019s 1971 Commencement Bulletin.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a>\u00a0 The Score 1969, <\/em>page [107].\u00a0 This issue is digitally accessible (together with all of the Eastman School\u2019s yearbooks published since 1925) at the homepage of the University of Rochester Libraries Digital Collections.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> \u201cMartin Luther King memorial service\u201d in Notes from Eastman, <\/em>vol. III, no. 3 (June, 1969), page 20.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a>\u00a0 \u201cDr. King remembered in words and music\u201d by George H. Kimball in the Rochester Times-Union, <\/em>April 10, 1969.\u00a0 Preserved in Rochester Scrapbook March-May 1969, page 46.\u00a0 Sibley Music Library.<\/span><\/p>\n

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gap=”10″][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1728496626354{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Fifty years ago this week, on Friday, April 7th, 1972, the Eastman Wind Ensemble gave a gala concert under the auspices of the Eastman School\u2019s Fiftieth Anniversary Festival (1971-72).\u00a0 The concert united several interests and milestones, including two premieres, a renewed recognition of Howard Hanson in his retirement, a professional conference in promotion of the wind ensemble concept, and appearances by several guest conductors, including Eastman\u2019s own Frederick Fennell.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” gap=”10″][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1728496644260{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The concert was given in combination with a joint meeting in Rochester of the Eastern Division of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) and the Third National Wind Ensemble Conference.\u00a0 The National Wind Ensemble Conference had been inaugurated in 1970 to serve as a national forum for the continuing discussion of the wind ensemble concept while providing a gathering place for conductors, composers, and performers.\u00a0 At each of the annual conferences, exposure was given to a specific aspect of the repertory being performed on a regular basis by leading wind ensembles around the nation. \u00a0At the 1972 conference, there were two concerts (one in Kilbourn Hall and the other in the Eastman Theater) to focus on music for the orchestra wind section and the chamber wind ensemble, and on the piano concerto with wind accompaniment.\u00a0 The conference\u2019s performance highlight was the April 7th concert in the Eastman Theater that brought guest conductors David Whitwell, Frederick Fennell, Henry 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css=”.vc_custom_1729263595982{margin-right: -15px !important;margin-left: -15px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]Donald Hunsberger conducting the Eastman Wind Ensemble in concert in the Eastman Theater, April 7th, 1972. \u25ba R1486-26A, -27A<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1729263325387{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_images_carousel images=”13301,13302,13303″ img_size=”medium” css=”.vc_custom_1648839026001{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1729263585256{margin-right: -15px !important;margin-left: -15px !important;border-top-width: 0px 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The April 7th concert was noteworthy for the two works that were premiered that evening, the first of which was by Eastman\u2019s Howard Hanson.\u00a0 In 1967 Dr. Hanson had composed his orchestral work Dies Natalis <\/em>to mark the centennial of his native state of Nebraska, but for whatever reason(s) or circumstance(s) the work did not gain much traction, nor was it published at that time.\u00a0 In 1970 Dr. Hanson re-scored the composition for symphonic band (or wind ensemble), re-naming it Dies Natalis II, <\/em>\u00a0and dedicating this new version to Donald Hunsberger and the Eastman Wind Ensemble.\u00a0 This new version was published by Carl Fischer in 1973 under the title Dies Natalis. <\/em>\u00a0Since its 1972 premiere it has remained in the EWE\u2019s active repertory.<\/p>\n

The other work premiered by the EWE that evening had been a special commission for the Eastman School\u2019s 50th anniversary.\u00a0 John T. Williams (b 1932) was at that time a composer and conductor enjoying a reputation for his work in film and television.\u00a0 In his early years in Hollywood he had performed in film scores by such composers as Elmer Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, and Henry Mancini; throughout the 1960s he had composed for several television series; he had received his first Academy Award nomination for his score for Valley of the Dolls<\/em> (1967); had received a second nomination for his score for Goodbye, Mr. Chips<\/em> (1969); and then had won his first Academy Award for his score adaptation for the feature film Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> (1971).\u00a0 In the spring of 1969 the Eastman Wind Ensemble had twice performed his Sinfonietta, <\/em>and then had recorded the work for Deutsche Grammophon the following year.\u00a0 In 1971 the Eastman School commissioned a new work from him specifically for the EWE.\u00a0 The result was A Nostalgic Jazz Odyssey, <\/em>\u00a0a 17-minute work whose \u201cnostalgic\u201d associations are explained by the composer in the program notes (the printed program displayed here). \u00a0As it happened, Mr. Williams was unable to attend the April 7th premiere performance owing to his contractual obligations elsewhere with film work.\u00a0 He would enjoy further film successes in the 1970s, and in 1977 his score for George Lucas\u2019 feature film Stars Wars\u2014<\/em>for which he would also conduct the score with the London Symphony Orchestra\u2014would send his already healthy reputation into the proverbial stratosphere.<\/p>\n

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The April 7th, 1972 concert also marked Frederick Fennell\u2019s first return engagement at the Eastman School since his resignation from the ESM faculty in 1962.\u00a0 For the concert he chose the imposing work Apotheosis of This Earth <\/em>by Karel Husa (1921-2016), a composer who has been a close colleague and friend of each Eastman Wind Ensemble conductor since Fennell, and several of whose works are firmly in the EWE\u2019s active repertory. \u00a0Since 2016 the Sibley Music Library has held Dr. Husa\u2019s manuscripts and professional papers.\u00a0 Maestro Fennell penned a personal note on the first page of his copy of the score:<\/p>\n

\u201cI chose this score for my return to the podium of the Eastman Wind Ensemble at a performance Friday evening 7 April 1972 at the Eastman Theater, having been away 30 days short of 10 years.\u00a0 The concert was part of the ESM 50th Anniversary celebration — and to me, it was also the 20th Anniversary of the EWE.\u00a0 The group played magnificently; my life has meant something. FF Sunday 9 April 1972\u201d<\/p>\n

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In this week\u2019s \u201cThe Weekly Dozen\u201d we recognize one of the performances by Eastman\u2019s ever-creative opera-in-English troupe, the Rochester American Opera Company; a prestigious guest appearance by Sir Georg Solti with the Eastman Philharmonia; a guest appearance by the Kronos Quartet, renowned chamber ensemble that would later welcome an Eastman School alumnus as a member for eight seasons; the valedictory operatic production directed by Leonard Treash, marking the end of an opera for Eastman Opera; and finally, some superlative student performances such as grace the Eastman concert calendar each week of the semester.<\/p>\n

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\u25baApril 9, 1923<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baApril 5, 1924<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baApril 5, 1926 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baApril 8 and 10, 1930 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baApril 9, 1945<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baApril 8-9, 1976 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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