source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:36:36 -0700 Subject: Re: South Dakota Microtones From: Johnny Reinhard Just back after a week lecturing on microtones at South Dakota Stae University in Brookings. My 4 lectures (outlined in a previous post) were written about in 2 papers and attended by the Freshman-Sophomore music classes. The students regularly surprised the faculty by their astute attention to the issues discussed; by their willingness to "sing" aloud - microtonally, of course; and expecially by the non-jazz improvisation by 8 students in their orchestral hall. Reminding me somewhat of the openness I experienced in Denver during MicroStock I, I found South Dakotans accepting microtonality at face value. The _Shrine to Music_ in Vermillion, SD has a huge building devoted to musical instruments, proud of its Stradivarious violin and 2 Strad guitars (10 string). It also has a Janko-keyed microtonal piano and the cello-Termin, a theremin cello that specializes in the playing of "quarter-tones and micro-tones" (as it says on the card next to it. Professor Anthony Lis, director of the 9th Annual New Music Festival in Brookings says "It is important for our students to see first hand what is happening in music" and felt at the end that "people will be talking about this for a long time to come." :) Johnny Reinhard Director American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@ios.com Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:43 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05261; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:43:38 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01632 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA12491; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:43:30 -0700 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:43:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199609292243.PAA12491@eartha.mills.edu> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu