Band concert performed at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall.

Recital presented at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James and John Bowen, Earl Steele, and Don Stoll. The Bowen brothers and Earl Steele share their experiences aboard USS South Dakota (BB-57) during WWII. The brothers served aboard the ship together. They were still aboard when the ship was deployed to the Atlantic. Ingram interviews Don Stoll on 3 December 1989. Stoll served as an engineer on the captain’s gig aboard USS South Dakota. He was aboard from 1943 through 1946. Stoll was injured severely in a bomb blast.

Recording of Ipke Starke's Flurstück. The composer denotes "Flurstück" as meaning a piece of countryside, a rural landscape (Flur), which is private property; this is important to a central theme of ownership and its interactions with natural environments vs more "technical" atmospheres. It is described as such: The background of the piece is the dismemberment of the landscape, the subdivided land. From this are born the images. Fields, travel, property, appropriation and expropriation, the battle, fields of march in songs of the consequences. The beautiful atmosphere is disturbed. The notion of ownership must appear in the title: we listen differently when we think of ownership. The composer's interest is in particular in the different silences that were recorded in the countryside in specific favorite places. Added to this are "technical" atmospheres, incidences and "hinges" which oppose natural environments, and which are a reflection and documentation of their confrontation, of the division of the earth. The very precise measurement of the landscape is transmitted to the structuring of the piece by precisely measured durations, unequal, rhythmic, but not insertable into a frame. After the journey through these images of boundaries and fences, and faced with this frustrating experience, the composer notes …

Alcoforado is a fuzzy, vaguely remembered portrait of a woman whose passion for passionate love letters will ensure her a place in history - as in the case of the original Alcoforado, a XVII century Portuguese nun who shared the same passion. Incidentally, this is all that is known about her but - one must admit - is sufficient to make one envious. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (also known as Witkacy), a Polish painter, writer and philosopher, was a man of unusual energy which he expended on opposing any and every kind of orthodoxy - whether artistic, political or religious. He was perceived as an enfant terrible of his time, rigorously antagonistic to the uniformity of dogmatism, seeing it as a tool for enslaving the mind. Witkacy foresaw very early on the disastrous results of one such ideology - communism. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz remained faithful to his ideas to the last day of his life, committing suicide on September 17, 1939 - the same day that the Russian Red Army crossed the eastern Polish border, helping its Nazi allies in fighting Polish troops. In Witkiewicz's prolific artistic output, there is a number of portraits of women entitled Alcoforado. These portraits present …

Ensemble concert performed at the UNT School of Music Recital Hall.

The initial spark of the piece struck like lightning when, upon returning to Stockholm from New York, I read Joseph Brodsky's essay The condition we call exile. Though he speaks of authors isolated from their native languages, I recognized immediately many of my own experiences. Unprepared and defenseless, his words struck deep sympathetic vibrations, resonances, and gave a name to a familiar emotional weight which I had grown accustomed to addressing intellectually. I had never considered myself in exile, but now saw in one blinding instant the gulf I had myself created. The music is neither autobiographical nor programmatic. Yet it is unlikely that I could conceive of such a piece had I not lived abroad for so long. Personally I have been fortunate in exile. But there are millions who have not been so privileged. In this sense, Exile and Life Close to the Horizon (1989) is both a deeply private experience, and a kind of public "cry in the wilderness." Personally, I came to view the act of composition as an act of purification in artistic form. For, by naming my condition, I have become a freer being. I also declare my solidarity with the multitudes of men, …

"There is oppression against the social body when one of its members is oppressed, there is oppression against each member when the social body is oppressed". (The Declaration of Human Rights and Citizen 1793). Order of the GMEB, "The Color" is composed by Marilyn Boyd DeReggi specifically for the courtyard of the Palais Jacques Coeur. The work commemorates the emancipation of the exclaves in the French colonies in 1793, almost a hundred years before slavery was finally abolished in the United States. The title is derived from the last line of a popular song of the revolutionary period that frames the play. The other musical materials were taken from the Gospel music of the "Jerusalem Baptist" church, a small black parish in the Maryland countryside. The music was recorded on Palm Sunday. "Free at Last," sung by Carlton Talley was an emancipation song first heard in Virginia the day after the liberation of slaves, now sung as a Gospel anthem Mr. Talley officiates at church and sings Gospels in the churches, the prisons and the Old Men's Centers (!), since the age of eight when he started singing in a quartet with his father and two brothers. He was chosen …

Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Herman Heinrich. Heinrich joined the Navy and was assigned to the USS South Dakota (BB-57) in August 1943. He worked in the lower handling room for the five-inch guns and felt only a shudder when the South Dakota was struck by a bomb at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Heading toward Okinawa, he recalls an American observation plane being accidentally struck by a projectile from his ship. At Okinawa he witnessed the damage that the destroyers sustained from kamikaze attacks as his ship brought casualties aboard. At Tokyo Bay, his crew shared Admiral Halsey’s disappointment that the surrender ceremony would not be held on the South Dakota. He remembers Halsey as an easy-going leader who liked to mingle with the crew. Heinrich returned home and was discharged in February 1946.

Orchestra concert performed at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall.

Brass Prism concert performed at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall.

Jazz concert performed at the UNT School of Music Recital Hall.

Brass concert performed at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Ensemble concert performed at UNT School of Music Concert Hall.