Elizabeth Kondorossy (BA '34, music) has donated her late husband Leslie's compositions and manuscripts to the Conservatory Library. Leslie Kondorossy, a composer, conductor and educator, was born in Hungary in 1915 and came to the United States in 1951. His works include several operas, oratorios and children's opera-oratorios. Elizabeth, under the pen name Shawn Hall, wrote the lyrics for many of his works. An organist and pianist, she devoted much of her professional life to teaching music to disabled children, and she was a guest lecturer on that topic in several countries.

Kathleen Thompson Harbaugh (BM '38, viola) is the principal violist of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. She and her husband spent the summer of 1993 in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus as emissaries of US music teachers.

Thomas W. Williams (BM '30, voice) is a guest conductor for the Welsh Choral Festivals in Portland, OR, where he and his wife Emilie are retired.

James H. Godfrey (BM '42, music education) was selected by the Executive Board of the National School Orchestra Association as the first recipient of the Traugott Rohner Award for Distinguished Service to NSOA.

Film composer and musicologist Fred Steiner (BM '43, composition) comments on the music of pioneer Hollywood film composer Alfred Newman in the recently produced film documentary Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound. After many years of composing and conducting music for films and television in Hollywood, Steiner earned a doctorate in musicology at the University of Southern California and has since become a widely recognized author and lecturer in the history and art of music for motion pictures.

Bill Tallmadge (BM '40, piano) wrote an article entitled "Ben Harney: The Middlesborough Years (1890-93)" for the summer '95 issue of American Music. Harney, a Kentuckian, was the first man to write and play ragtime.

George E. Bew (BM '54, keyboard) is music director and composer-in-residence of Grand Theatre Opera Company in Cartersville, GA. His latest composition, The Three Piggy Opera, played well to audiences of all ages in its premiere, and its score is currently under consideration by a major publisher.

Mary C. Fraley (BM '50, cello) and Nevelyn Theobald Knisley (BM '51, piano) recently collaborated on three recitals in Lebanon, Wernersville, and Myerstown, PA.

Mother and daughter harpists Molly Hahn (BM '51) and Pamela Hahn (BM '77) gave a recital dedicated to a child's view of Christmas at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Shippensburg, PA, in December. Included were works by Claude Debussy and Marcel Grandjany.

Bass trombonist Gordon B. Jackson (MMEd '59) taught junior and senior high school band for thirty years on Long Island. Now he has returned to his native Michigan and is a member of the St. Joseph Municipal Band, the Kalamazoo Concert Band, and the trombone choir Dynobones.

Reader's Digest's "Meet the Composer" program commissioned Edwin London's (BM '52, composition) work, Jove's Nectar. The Larry Parsons Chorale gave the piece its world premiere last October.

Arthur Montzka (BM '57, music education) conducted the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra of DeKalb, IL, in a concert that paid tribute to composer Paul Steg. Steg, who died last June, was a former assistant director of the Oberlin Conservatory.

David Zinman (BM '58, DM hon '83), music director of the Baltimore Symphony, will conduct the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center on July 28 in a program of Barber and Copland. In April, Zinman conducted the Baltimore Symphony in a program that included the world premieres of the three William Bolcom Gaea piano concerti. Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman were the soloists.

Patricia Trice (BM '59, music education) and Annetta Monroe (BM '62, music education), founders of the Spiritual Renaissance Singers, opened the concert series for the American Baptist Church of the Beatitudes in Tampa, FL, for the third consecutive year.

Tenor François Clemmons (BM '67, voice) is the founder of the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble and the American Negro Spiritual Research Foundation, Inc. During a recent four-month national tour by the HSE, Clemmons was featured in a January 1996 Los Angeles Times article which credited him for giving "a new voice to a dying tradition" -- American Negro Spiritual music.

Violinist Browning Cramer (BA '65, music) appears as a member of the Bronx Arts Ensemble on a new CD of the chamber music of Max Bruch. Included are the Viola Quintet and the Octet for Strings which are the first recordings of these works, as well as the Septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, and string quartet. Cramer is in his 18th season with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and also performs regularly with the American Symphony Orchestra and at the Grand Teton Music Festival.

John R. Harding (BM '61, music education) was guest soloist on piccolo trumpet for the North Carolina MENC convention in November. He also was co-leader of the Coalition Jazz Orchestra at the International Association of Jazz Educators Convention in Atlanta this past January. Harding is associate professor of trumpet and the director of jazz activities at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Richard Riccardi (BM '64, piano) is music director of Sonoma City Opera and the NAPA Valley College spring musicals in California. He is also music instructor for the Ross Valley School District. His main focus now is having fun with his four-and-a-half year old son, Teall.

Gil Seeley (BM '61, voice) was awarded the James W. Rogers Professorship in Music at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR, last November.

Charles Timbrell (BM '64, piano) has recorded songs by Walter Rummel with soprano Regina McConnell to be released soon in France on the DANTE label. The revised second edition of Timbrell's book French Pianism will be published in July. He received a major faculty grant from Howard University for research on Debussy and the piano and has written 40 articles for the new edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Timothy Albrecht (BM, BA '73, organ) performed his 5th Annual Egleston Children's Hospital Benefit Concert in February entitled Just for Kids! He also premiered the Sonata: In Praise of Reconciliation by the English composer Gerald Hendrie, written for Albrecht to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. Additional performances of this work are scheduled for Atlanta, Chicago, and MIT in Boston.

Anderson Dupree (BM, BA '76, organ, business) and Jillon Stoppels Dupree (BM '79, harpsichord) live in Seattle, WA, where Andy works for Microsoft and Jillon, an accomplished solo harpsichordist, has founded a concert series called "Gallery Concerts: Early Music in Intimate Settings." Seattle Weekly has named Jillon "one of the country's top baroque musicians... a superior soloist." During Andy's Oberlin years, he made a harpsichord as a winter term project which is still being used by the Historical Performance program. He later owned a harpsichord business that was considered one of the top five harpsichord builders in the country.

Timothy McCarthy (BM '76, composition), a part-time humanities instructor at Lakeland Community College in Mentor, OH, is also a poet, a Zen Buddhist priest, and holds master's degrees in music composition and English, as well as a doctorate in religion. He volunteers as a humane officer for animals in Portage County and recently became faculty adviser for Lakeland's Student Democrats.

Tom Riis (BA '73, cello) has been awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his book Just Before Jazz, published by the Smithsonian Institution Press (1989) and just issued in paperback.

The family of Daniel E. Turiel (BM '73, music education) has endowed the Turiel Music Scholarship Fund with the Naples (FL) Music Club. The fund will award up to $2000 annually to Collier County, FL, students in grade 11 or 12 who intend to pursue a music career. Turiel, who died in 1987, studied composing, arranging, conducting and woodwinds at Oberlin and later wrote over 30 original scores, including opera, marches, religious music, tone poems and ballads. He was co-founder of the Naples Philharmonic and founder of the Gulf Coast Opera Company. Friends of Daniel Turiel who wish to contribute to the Turiel Music Scholarship Fund should contact Mr. and Mrs. Sam Turiel, 220 S. Collier Blvd, Apt 306, Marco Island, FL 33937-4834.

The academic work of Ray Urwin (BM '72, organ) was cited twice in a new book, Olivier Messiaen: Music and Color: Conversations with Claude Samuel. The bibliography from his Yale master's thesis on Messiaen's later organ works (published in The American Organist in 1979) was cited as a good place to find unusual and overlooked source material, and the thesis itself was listed in the book's select bibliography of recent studies on Messiaen. Urwin is also a reviewer for Clavier magazine and the Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, and his compositions and editions have been published by companies such as Oxford and Boosey and Hawkes.

In May, Carol Wincenc (BM '71, flute) joined world-renowned soprano Barbara Hendricks with Yoel Levi and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a piece entitled The Rain in the Trees, specifically written for Wincenc and Hendricks.

Rebecca A. Hunger Bak (BM '88, harp) married Gregory E. Bak in February of 1995. She was the principal harpist for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for the 1994-95 season.

Bill Baxter P (BA, BM '84, math, trombone) is bass trombonist for the Akron Symphony Orchestra. He is also the marketing director for the Great Lakes Brewing Company in Cleveland.

Anne Deane (BM '85, composition) has finished her course work toward a PhD at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she also taught computer music as an associate lecturer. Several of Deane's works will be performed and recorded all over the world this year, as she chronicles in her new annual newsletter. For a copy, call her at (805) 683-0026, or try her web page: http://www.ccmrc.ucsb.edu/~anne.

In December, Leon Lee Dorsey (BM '81, double bass) released his debut CD The Watcher (Landmark LCD 1540-2). The disc received a Four-Star review from Down Beat magazine, as well as praise from JazzTimes, L.A. Jazz Scene, Bass Player, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dorsey has played with such jazz luminaries as Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Art Farmer, Ellis Marsalis, Benny Carter and Art Blakely. For more about Dorsey and The Watcher, check out his website at http://www.arts-online.com/Leonlee.htm.

Cynthia Lynn Douglas (BM '81, harp) has released seven compact discs both through a contract with World Disc Production, and through her own company, Celestial Sounds. Douglas is involved in hospital work where she soothes and heals patients by playing the harp.

Kathleen Fay (BM '82, piano, MM '83, teaching) has been executive director of the biennial Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) since 1989. She is also managing director of Charles River Concerts in Boston, accompanist for several New England-area ensembles and an Early Music America board member. The 1995 BEMF, a celebration of the tercentenary of Henry Purcell, included 80 events and set records for ticket sales and attendance. Several Oberlin alumni are involved in BEMF, including Fay's staff assistant Gabriel Langfur (BA, BM '91), Derek Lee Ragin (BM '80) and co-director of Ensemble Sequentia Ben Bagby (BA, BM '72). Says Fay, "Oberlin's Early Music department had a profound effect on my own career development and it continues to generate leaders in the field." BEMF will next be held June 9-15, 1997. For information call (617) 661-1812.

Steve Fitch (BM '80, percussion) formed the Kalamazoo Percussion Trio in his two-year sabbatical from his job as percussionist/assistant principal timpanist of the Phoenix Symphony. The world premier of Fitch's work, Turns of Phrase, was performed in concerts by the trio in Hagen and Osnabrueck, Germany.

Owen Glendening (BA, BM '83, history and trombone) was named president and chief executive officer of Oakhurst Gardens and Minnetrista Cultural Centers in Muncie, IN.

Deborah Grossman (BA '87, history) is marketing director for the San Francisco Early Music Society and its series of Early Music Workshops to be held this summer. For information, call (510) 527-5939, or visit their website at http://www.sfems.org/~sfems.

Margo Hennebach (BM '80, piano) is a founding member of the Celtic progressive band Idle Rumours, as well as a member of the trio Madwoman in the Attic. She has released recordings by both groups and is currently finishing a solo album. Hennebach is a music therapist, singer, and songwriter.

Daniel Kazez (BM '80, cello), associate professor of music at Wittenberg University, traveled to Istanbul and Athens for six weeks of research into urban folk music. Southern Music released his Anthology of Canons, Catches, and Rounds for 3 and 4 Bass Clef Instruments and Alfred Music released his Three Renaissance Rounds. Kazez was recently awarded a University of Chicago/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship.

Ellyn Kusmin (BM '82, IM arts management) left her position as Operations Manager of the New York Philharmonic in April of 1995 to accept a newly created position as personal assistant to conductor Andre Previn.

Brian Luckner (BM '81, organ) was elected in January to the Steering Committee of the Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians. His choral work Welcome All Wonders was published by Paraclete Press last September. He was appointed to the adjunct faculty of Viterbo College in La Crosse, WI, where he teaches organ and church music. Luckner was also appointed director of the Diocesan Choir of La Crosse. His full-time position is director of music at the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman.

Melissa Malde (BM '84, voice) is a new member of the music faculty at Luther College in Decorah, IA. She was a featured soloist for the performance of Handel's Messiah by the Austin Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Malde is currently completing doctoral work at the University of Cincinnati.

Corydon Carlson (BA, BM '87, English, organ, music education) and Jessica Offir (BA '86, psychology and communications) led the semiprofessional troupe The New England Touring Company in 14 performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat last summer in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Sarah Pillow (BM '89, voice) has been studying historical performance practice of 17th- and 18th-century repertoire. Her work can be heard on two forthcoming CDs due out in September 1996: Dido and Aeneas (Vox Classics 7518) and "Perdutti Diletti": The Music of G. Felice Sances (1600-1679) (ASV Records). Look for these recordings at Tower Records and HMV stores.

Gayden Wren (BA '83, history and English) returned to Oberlin during winter term to direct the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Princess Ida, centerpiece of the "Three Princesses" winter term project. An American extension of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival has invited the Oberlin troupe to perform the "Three Princesses" at its conference on July 25 in Philadelphia.

Pianist Gabriel Bita (BM '94, piano) returned to give a recital in Warner Concert Hall on March 3. Bita recently won the Juilliard Concerto Competition with his performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2. He performed the concerto on April 2 in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Orches-tra, Otto Werner Mueller conducting.

Jessie Cooper (BM '91, oboe) married trumpeter Raymond Riccomini in October. Both graduated from the Manhattan School of Music where she is currently on the faculty. Cooper has frequently substituted in the New York Philharmonic over the past three years and has played in the New Jersey Symphony.

Amy Sue Dombach (BM '95, flute) was featured as soloist in Saint-SaÎns's Aires de Ballet D'Ascanio in a performance by the Concert Band of Lancaster in Lancaster, PA.

Clarinetist Matt Gill (BM '90, music education) has released Mesa Suite, a CD of his jazz compositions on the La Scala label. He is a founding member of the San Diego-based chamber group Trio Divertimento, has spent four years as a band director in the San Diego public schools, and teaches clarinet in his private studio.

Violist Erin Higuchi (BM '93, viola) is a member of the Lincoln Center Opera Orchestra.

Rosana Levental (BM '94, cello) was invited to teach cello at Sao Paulo's Municipal School of Music in Brazil last February. She has currently taken over the pedagogical coordination of the Brooklin Paulista Musical Conservatory. Levental was also one of 16 cellists to have founded the cello orchestra. Cello em Sampa.

Franz Cheung Yu Mo (BM '95, piano) toured Taiwan in December as the winner of the Oberlin Conservatory Arthur Dann Piano Competition.

Susan Nolan Lubow (BA, BM '90, law and society, voice) has joined the law firm of Baker and Hostetler in Columbus, OH, as an associate. She earned her JD degree from Harvard Law School.

Violinist Lee-Chin Siow (Artist Diploma '95) and professor of piano Peter Tak½cs presented a recital on the Muscleshoal, AL, artist recital series. Singapore Airline's Silver Kris magazine ran a feature article about Lee in September. Her February performances with the Boise Philharmonic and the Ohio Chamber Orchestra both garnered stellar reviews.

Dan Sklar (BM '94, TIMARA) has been earning rave reviews as LeFou, comic sidekick to the heroic Gaston, in the touring production of Beauty and the Beast.