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Sai-natiOnal.ORg SummER 2014 PAN PIPES 23 James bartsch James Bartsch was initiated by the Minneapolis/St.Paul Alumnae Chapter in May. Currently the orchestra and guitar teacher at Highview Middle School in New Brighton, MN, he served as the Minnesota Orchestra's Education Director from 1999 to 2013. A conductor with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies, he has been guest conductor and clinician for student festivals and camps throughout the Upper Midwest. He also plays viola with the Minnesota Opera Orchestra. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and a Masters of Music in Violin from the University of Minnesota. While he was with the Minnesota Orchestra, it received ASCAP's Leonard Bernstein Award for Education Programming five times between 2005-2012, more than any other major US orchestra. dr. robert dunham Dr. Robert Dunham was initiated by the Gamma eta Chapter in May. e Director of Bands for the Georgia Southern University Music Department, he is also the conductor of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and an undergraduate and graduate Conducting Instructor. He previously served as music department chairman and director of instrumental studies at California State University, San Bernardino, and held positions as director of bands at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, Northern Michigan University, Missouri Western State College, and taught instrumental music in the public schools of Wyoming and Utah. Dunham received his Bachelor Degrees in trumpet performance and music education from the University of Northern Colorado, his Master's in trumpet performance and music education from the University of Wyoming, and received his Doctorate in instrumental conducting from the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory of Music. paul carl Moller Paul Carl Moller was initiated by the Statesboro Alumnae Chapter in May. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary education from Georgia Southern College and a Master of Education from Georgia Southern University. He is the halime announcer for the Georgia Southern University Southern Pride Marching Band and announcer for the East Georgia Marching Band Festival. He is Band Booster President at Southeast Bulloch High School, and a member of the Georgia Southern College Concert Band and OASIS Community Band. He directs the adult handbell choir and music maker choirs for the First Baptist Church in Augusta, GA. He is a member of the Georgia Association of Educators/ National association of Educators, Professional Association of Educators, Association of Childhood Education International and Georgia Retired Teachers Association/Bulloch Retired Teachers Association. For the Georgia Baptist Convention, he served on the faculty of the children's and youth music camps. As a member of the Sons of Jubal Chorus, he has traveled to Germany, Russia, China, and North Korea. His wife Claudia is the Tau C Province Officer. John r. winninger John R. Winninger was initiated by the Bloomington Alumnae Chapter in April. He earned his degree in Radio, TV Production, and Music from Indiana University. He has been a senior educational TV producer- director at WTIU on the Bloomington campus for over 40 years and has several award-winning documentaries, inkling the recent "Our Town" series featuring in-depth looks at towns in the WTIU area. He is a charter member and principle cello of the Bloomington Symphony for nearly 30 years and principal cello and manager for the Bloomington Pops. He currently works with the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music directing live-stream webcasts of ballets, operas, jazz performances and concerts and actively performing the cello/piano repertoire. frienD of the arts a man or woman who is supportive of and actively involved in the arts at a local or regional level dIstInguIshed MeMbers Bartsch Dunham Moeller Winninger from Euryanthe. His first pieces for piano were published in 1798. At 18, when he was conducting at a theater in Breslau, one of his innovative ideas, which met with resistance, was changing the seating arrangement of the orchestra. His strong views about Germanic operas conflicted with individuals who defended the Italian tradition. Aer being disappointed by his initial reception in Dresden — his first concert was canceled and his second not particularly successful, the composer vowed that Dresden wouldn't catch him again. But it did! In 1817, he chose to be the Music Director and Opera Conductor there rather than in Berlin. It was a lifelong contract. Unfortunately, his life was not very long thereaer; he only lived about nine years more. His Concert Piece (Konzertstück) provided a new model for a concerto with a single movement. I had never heard my brother, the late Malcolm Frager, perform this piece during his lifetime. But I just discovered an archival copy of his October 1982 performance with the Netherlands Radio Filharmonic under Maestro Hans Vonk. Fortunately, my brother's fingers could reach and play all the notes. Each time I listen to this remarkable piece, I think of my museum visit, and there is a "cherry on that Sunday." Traveling from the Semper Opera House, it takes about a half hour by public transportation to get to the museum. From Van-Gogh-Straße stop on Bus 63, it is a short walk to the museum, which is open Wednesday through Sunday aernoons from 1 to 6. Admission is three euros for adults, two for seniors. For more information, visit museen-dresden.de clIcK For More WORLD continued from page 16

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