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The 50th Anniversary Gala Pops Concert Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. Harry A. King Concert Hall State University of New York at Fredonia with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra Glen Cortese, conductor and artistic director and the Little Apple Big Band Dr. Nick Weiser, conductor Starring Lance Bernard Bryant Jennifer Cody Brian De Lorenzo Sandra Dudley Lou Giovannetti
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Order of Performance Come Fly with Me (Cahn, arr. Yasinitski)..................Alissa Stahler, Julie Newell, Evan Harrington, Lou Giovannetti How High the Moon (Hamilton/Lewis, arr. Dudley)......................Sandra Dudley Old Devil Moon (Lane, arr. Ojeda)..................................................Paul Marinaro The Lady is a Tramp (Rogers/Hart, arr. Vrtacnik).................Debbie Williams and Paul Marinaro Fever (Cooley/Blackwell, arr. Clayton)........................................Debbie Williams Somebody in Love(Goldhaber, arr. Usifer)...............................Marcus Goldhaber Just in Love (Berlin, arr. McGough)...................Julie Newell and Paul Mockovak Mack the Knife (Weill, arr. Vrtacnik)............................................Lou Giovannetti I Wish I Could Go Back to College Again (from Avenue Q)........Devon Goffman, Alissa Stahler, Marcus Goldhaber It Don’t Mean A Thing if it Ain’t Got that Swing (Ellington, arr. Carubia)...............................Anne Martinez, Sandra Dudley, Marcus Goldhaber, Brian De Lorenzo INTERMISSION Put on Your Sunday Clothes (from Hello, Dolly!)...Anne Martinez, Julie Newell, Devon Goffman, Marcus Goldhaber, Lou Giovannetti Adelaide’s Lament (from Guys & Dolls)..........................................Jennifer Cody Two of a Kind (from The Wild Party)............Jennifer Cody and Evan Harrington At Last (Warren, Arr. Hampton)........................................................Alissa Stahler Music of the Night (from Phantom of the Opera)........................Evan Harrington What You’d Call a Dream (C. Carneliz, from Diamonds)............Devon Goffman Bring Him Home (from Les Misérables).......................................Craig Schulman I am What I am (from La Cage Aux Folles)......................................Lance Bryant Defying Gravity (from Wicked)........................................................Ann Martinez This is the Moment (from Jekyl and Hyde)................................Brian De Lorenzo The Best of Times is Now (from La Cage Aux Folles)...........................Ensemble
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And Then, There Was The Night By ROBERT B. D’ANGELO Director, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center, 1970-1975 It was a Thursday in July of 1970. I was the orchestra manager of the New Haven Symphony and the director of the Woosley Hall Concert Series for Yale University when I received a phone call from Robert W. Marvel, the recently minted dean of Fine Arts at SUNY Fredonia. “We would like to talk to you about becoming the director of the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center,” he opened. “Can you be here on Monday?” Not knowing where Fredonia was, I said I would drive up on Monday morning. I clearly had no idea where Fredonia was. ‘If you do,” he opined “you might get here by dark if you don’t get lost”. Bob Marvel met me at the Buffalo Airport mid morning on Monday and before I left the next day, I had accepted an offer of employment to begin in late August. My four years in Fredonia were the most magical of my life to date and have remained so all of these years. I cut my teeth as an arts administrator in Fredonia and I could fill this whole program booklet with my memories. Alas, I have not been given that luxury. For most of you the names on
the performance spaces in this building - Harry King, Bob Marvel and Alice Bartlett - are just names on the wall. For me, they were friends and/or colleagues. I well remember their contributions to the arts in Fredonia. There was the night I will always remember. I met a man who if he was not then, would soon become the most famous man and face in the world. His name, Muhammad Ali. After a fiveyear suspension from boxing for refusing to step forward and be inducted into the military, he had recently been given permission to box again, and after a few tune up fights, was cleared to fight Joe Frazier for the World Heavyweight Championship. For some inexplicable reason, he was doing a short lecture tour so he could pay for his training camp expenses in Pennsylvania. His lecture was entitled The Intoxication of Life, although he repeatedly mispronounced it as “intossification.” About 20 minutes before the scheduled start time, Ali asked me how many people were out there. Not wanting to hurt his feelings, I lied and told him 700 or so. There were only about 400 but I knew there would be more when he started. “How many does it hold” he asked. I told him 1,200.
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famous Actress in the British Theater starred in Hamlet on the concert hall stage. She had always wanted to play the role of Hamlet, and on this night, after a less than stellar performance, we shared a glass of champagne in her dressing room to celebrate her 75th birthday, making her the oldest performer ever to play Hamlet, and a woman at that. As we walked out to her car, which was parked next to the loading dock, there was a young student/stage hand leaning against the wall, exhausted. Upon seeing her, Dame Judith exclaimed “Young lady, you look as though you have played Hamlet tonight...funny, I do not feel as though I have,” and then strode off into the snowy night with a flourish of her scarf. Many of the special nights included a late night after performance dinner at the Dunkirk Road home (a former brewery) of Harry John Brown, a distinguished university professor and conductor of the College Orchestra. On one of those wintry nights the guest was Edward Villella, then the most important of male dancers in the United States and star of the New York City Ballet. On this night he appeared with the Boston Ballet. The performance and the dinner were special.
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Special to me was the night we presented the North American premier performance of Mummenshanz, a mask and mime theater company from Switzerland. This show was particularly special for me because I went on to be one of the two co-producers of a three-plus year Broadway run and several national and international tours in the late 1970s and eighties. As I said, my memories of Fredonia and the Michael C. Rockefeller could fill this book, and my recollections represent less that 10 percent of the Center’s five decade history. Perhaps the directors who followed me could add to this story and create a complete history of this wonderful place in this magical town. And then, there was the night...
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In the beginning: Remembering Rockefeller Arts Center in 1969 By TED DEDEE Director, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center, 1974-1978
I can honestly say I was there at the beginning – the opening of the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center. I was a Music Education major at the time, but I was at a crossroads of my student life searching for an alternative career. The arts center was under construction when I came to Fredonia as a freshman. Little did I realize my future was in plain sight, let alone that I would become the third director of the Rockefeller Arts Center beginning in the Fall of 1974.
But I regress. I was there the day then Governor Nelson Rockefeller came to campus in the Spring of 1969 to dedicate the building named after his late son. Clint Norton, first director of the arts center, had taken me under his wing, became my first mentor, gave me the opportunity to help him open the arts center, and opened my eyes to arts center management and arts presenting. I finished my degree two years later with a career path clearly in sight. After a short time in the military, Dean Robert Marvel invited me to return to Fredonia to work for a short time with Bob D’Angelo, second director. Continued
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In the Beginning During the Spring of 1974, the Rockefeller Arts Center hosted a SUNY-wide arts festival where students and faculty descended upon our campus for three days of music, dance and theater performances and art exhibits. It was a massive undertaking, all coordinated with us by Patricia Kerr Ross in Albany. I’ve been fortunate to have met so many famous people in my career – arts and non-arts related. At Fredonia, I remember meeting Martha Graham whose dance troupe was there for a performance in what was then the College Theater (now Marvel Theater). She gave a master class, seated like royalty center stage, for students and faculty in awe of this legend. Then there was Michael Tilson Thomas, a very young new music director who came to conduct the Buffalo Philharmonic in King Concert Hall. But the one event, not a performance, that will live in my memory was the morning that someone ran to my office telling me to come to King Concert Hall immediately. When I arrived, I saw our nine-foot Steinway piano on the stage floor completely turned over on its top! The image still in my head is one of a giant dead bug laying upside down with three legs erect. It was the most horrific thing that could ever happen to a
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piano. But, how could this have ever happened? It turns out the piano was left on stage from a performance the night before, but it had apparently been left with a portion of the piano on the orchestra lift. Someone unknown had pushed the lift button backstage without looking to see it was safe to do so, and, well … it happened. The piano flipped over. We immediately called the college piano tuner, and with several of us now onsite we got the piano upright only showing minor wood surface damage. But the true test was when the piano tuner began testing the keyboard, only to find the entire piano was perfectly in tune – only a quarter step flat! We were all relieved it could have been much, much worse. There are so many memories of my days at the Rockefeller Arts Center as a student and as managing director for four years. I have since managed seven other arts organizations in my career, four included opening new arts venues. I credit many people at Fredonia in helping me along my first path - Robert Marvel, Howard Marsh, Oscar Remick, Tom Carpenter, Jack Cogdill, Ted Janello, Gary Eckert, Harry John Brown, Rudy Emilson, Bob D’Angelo, and Clint Norton. No doubt, these people and many other plus the opportunity at Fredonia and the Rockefeller Arts Center set the direction of my career and my life in the arts.
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Violin 2 Kiersten Fisher Alissa Iorio Lucyanne Gordon Jenna Noreck Sandy Intercola Marcia Steel Viola Brian Walnicki Diane Williams Derek Chazen Lisa McFall Violoncello Bryan Eckenrode Ruth Ann Scanzillo Randy Leon Scott Sgueglia Bass James Marone Joe Goehle* Jake Thurston
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The Swingles’ unique a capella sound mixes jazz, baroque, folk and more. What better way to get into the holiday spirit than with songs of good cheer from these London-based Grammy winners? Winter Tales offers the group’s standard repertoire and seasonal specialties, including gorgeous and surprising arrangements of traditional carols, winter-themed originals and nostalgic classics.
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Artist Biographies LANCE BERNARD BRYANT, ’02, is acclaimed for his smooth, rich baritone. He is currently a lead vocalist in the internationally acclaimed Rock & Roll, Vocal, and Grammy® Halls of Fame group, The Platters. Previous credits include co-lead vocalist in Cirque Du Soleil’s production of ZAiA in Macao, China. Lance received his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance, while appearing in several roles including: Colas in Bastien und Bastienne, Gourmantus in The Egg and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus. While studying under the direction of Dr. Robert Wells, Lance won the Concerto Competition at Fredonia. As an active member of the academic community, he was also a Fraternity Education Officer in the Rho Chi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Among his other notable performances, Lance was Delray in Memphis, Frederick in Smokey Joe’s Cafe and was featured in Ralph Vaughan William’s Five Mystical Songs with the Gregory Kunde Chorale.
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Artist Biographies Bangor, Meridian, Queens, New Amsterdam, The New Orleans Philharmonic, the International Chamber Orchestra, the Belarus Sate Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic National Romanian Radio Orchestra, Noorhollands Philharmonisch, Orquesta Sinfonica Carlos Chavez, San Francisco Conservatory, Cleveland Institute, and the Altenburg Landeskappele Orchestra. Mr. Cortese covered as assistant conductor to the New York Philharmonic in 1990–92 for Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Charles Dutoit, Yuri Temirikanov, Erich Leinsdorf, Zdenek Macal and Cristof Perick. In July of 1993, he was invited by Kurt Masur to guest conduct a reading with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. DR. NICK WEISER (Music Director) is the Director of Jazz Studies at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where he directs the Fredonia Jazz Orchestra and New Jazz Ensemble, as well as a number of jazz chamber groups. In addition to his duties as a teacher and program director at Fredonia, Dr. Weiser maintains an active national and international performing schedule with credits including the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, Switzerland’s
Continued Montreux Jazz Festival, and most recently, the Santiago de Cuba International Jazz Festival. A committed member of the local community, he is the cofounder and Artistic Director of the Fredonia Jazz Society. This organization aims to enhance the quality of life of local jazz listeners and performers alike. To share his love of music with others, Dr. Weiser regularly presents lectures and master classes at universities and institutions nationwide. Prior to joining the faculty at Fredonia, Dr. Weiser taught for several years at the Ithaca College School of Music and Cornell University. Dr. Weiser holds the DMA and MM from the renowned Department of Jazz & Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music.
Artist Biographies BRIAN DE LORENZO,’84, is a Boston-based cabaret artist named “Performer of the Year” for 2001 by Talent America. He has performed at jazz clubs and cabaret rooms including The Metropolitan Room, The Iridium, Don’t Tell Mama and Eighty-Eights (NYC) and Scullers Jazz Club (Boston). He has performed at the prestigious Mabel Mercer Cabaret Conventions in New York and Chicago, three Boston Cabaret Festivals, New York’s International Cabaret Festival, The Cape Cod Cabaret Festival, and numerous times at CabaretFest! in Provincetown. Brian’s show Come Fly with Me – Brian Celebrates Sinatra at 100 was named “Top Ten of New York Cabaret 2015.” Brian’s debut recording Found Treasures was nominated for the “Recording of the Year Award” by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC). He is currently finishing up a recording of contemporary theatre and cabaret songs and is also preparing to go into the studio with a “small big band” for a CD of swing numbers and ballads popular in the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s.
Continued SANDRA DUDLEY, ’83, teaches in and heads up the Commercial Voice area at Belmont University in Nashville. Performance credits include the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, The Jazz Orchestra of the Delta, Tennessee Jazz Orchestra and pops concerts with the Nashville and Memphis Symphonies. A native of Buffalo, she received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance. She studied Voice and Opera with Dr. Frank Pullano. While at Fredonia, Sandra won a spot on the concerto concert, placed in the regional finals of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions. Versed in both classical and jazz, Sandra performed with the Fredonia Jazz Ensemble as well as the Fredonia Symphony. Sandra can be heard on a variety of jazz recordings dating back from 1998 when she was among the winners of the JAZZIZ Magazine’s “Vocals on Fire” songwriting competition. She is a member of the jazz vocal quartet, 3rd Coast Vocals, whose debut CD was voted as one of Nashville’s best jazz recordings. She is currently working on a project with husband and jazz pianist, Bruce Dudley.
Artist Biographies LOU GIOVANNETTI,’88, has performed on Broadway, in London’s West End, on national tours and in Italy. He toured with Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees and has appeared in situation comedies and crime dramas on ABC, CBS and NBC. In Los Angeles, he fronts his own band, Lou G and his “Big” Big Band. He has performed on Broadway, Londons West End, National Tours, Romes Sistina, and Taormina’s Teatro Aantico to name a few. Show highlights include Les Misérables (Manius), A Street Car Named Desire (Stanley), The and King and I (Lun Tha), Popcorn (Bruce), Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, lago) and Hamlet as the former. Lou is proud to be a happily married husband and father of two beautiful young men, Lucio and Santino and resides at the beach in Redondo Beach, California where he owns and operates two eateries: Primo Italia and Rocket Pizza. If you ever visit southern California, Lou said just say “I saw you sing in Fredonia” and it’s on him!
Continued DEVON GOFFMAN,’00, has performed in the national tours of On Your Feet!, Motown, Jersey Boys, Titanic, Grease and Buddy, the Buddy Holly Story. He has extensive regional and TV/film credits, he has also performed in NYC in shows like Life After High School and Pump Boys and Dinettes. Devon originated the role of Mack in the premier of Blindsided Date, a two person play by Marissa Kohn which deals with the important topic of Gun Safety in America. He coproduced and cowrote a web series, Wisco Queens, with his wife, Katie Goffman. His original music is also featured in the web series, Submissions Only. Both can be viewed on Youtube. A hometown guy, his favorite performance was coming back to Shea’s Buffalo for a week as Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys. Other favorite career moments include singing and dancing on stage with the Stevie Wonder, Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson in Detroit and sharing the stage with Gloria Estefan in Miami. Devon teaches Optimism, Positivity, & Acting to Theatre students across the country.
Artist Biographies DEBBIE WILLIAMS,’09, is originally from Rochester but has been performing around the world since the age of eight. She is now based in Nashville where she has been cited as “having the power of Celene Dion, the tone of Shania Twain and the sass of Alanis Morissette.” Her latest album was featured in the Country section of iTunes. Debbie received her degree from Fredonia with a BFA in Musical Theatre, and a Dance minor. After graduating, she relocated to New York City to pursue her dreams. Debbie was recently seen playing the role of Summer in How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song? The film won “Film of the Festival” at Raindance, and several other awards on the film festival circuit. Debbie’s mission as an artist is to bring truth and vulnerability to music in a way that can affect our youth. She wants to be a role model as well as a leader to make a difference in the world. Debbie Williams strives to make a difference in music and effect listeners with her powerful voice and emotionally direct style of writing as an artist.
Continued GLEN CORTESE (Music Director)is in his14th season as artistic director of the Western New York Chamber. He was named music director emeritus of the Oregon Mozart Players after serving as artistic director for nine seasons. His recent guest engagements have included the The Three Tenors Concert in Tirana Albania to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the independence of Kososvo, RTSH Radio Orchestra Emerald City Opera, Opera Fort Collins, Wolftrap Opera, The Charleston Symphony, the Sapporo Festival Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Orchestra the Sofia Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Mexico City Philharmonic, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, the Lafayette Symphony, the Billings Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Cleveland, and the Annapolis Symphony. He was resident conductor of the Florida Philharmonic for the 2001–2002 season and completed 12 seasons at the Manhattan School of Music where he was principal conductor from 1988 to 2000. He has appeared as guest conductor both in the United States and abroad with the Symphonies of New Jersey, Florida Philharmonic, Austin, Mexico City Philharmonic, North Carolina, Colorado
Artist Biographies CRAIG SCHULMAN, ‘78, is widely recognized for the PBS broadcast of The 10th Anniversary: Les Misérables in Concert. He is the only actor in the world to have portrayed Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (2,500 performances,) the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and the title roles in Jekyll & Hyde. He has also played Che and Peron in Evita, Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof, Archibald in The Secret Garden and Father in Children Of Eden. Television credits include The Guiding Light, All My Children, One Life To Live, As The World Turns, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Weekend Today and MTV’s Celebrity Death Match. He produces and performed in hundreds of Pops concerts worldwide including Three Phantoms In Concert. Craig has directed productions of Les Misérables, Evita, Awesome 80’s Prom and Almost, Maine. He is a professor of Acting at Sacred Heart University. He operates the Craig Schulman Vocal Studio. Visit his website atCraigSchulman.com.
Continued ALISSA STAHLER, ’06, came to Fredonia to study classical voice but caught the jazz bug while in college. While earning her master’s degree in Jazz Voice at the Manhattan School of Music, she performed on the nationally televised Showtime at the Apollo! She has since performed in clubs all over New York City. Alissa is honored and thrilled to return to Fredonia to perform for the 50th Anniversary of Rockefeller Arts Center. She earned her Vocal Performance degree at Fredonia, where she studied with the late Ms. Delia Wallis. During her time at Fredonia, she not only participated in the Hillman Opera and Department of Theatre and Dance productions, but was bitten by the jazz bug. Under Bruce Johnstone’s direction and Ms. Wallis’ blessing, Alissa decided to pursue her love for jazz. Originally from Harrisburg, Pa., Alissa now calls New York City home and sings regularly all over New York with her duo, trio and quintet.
Artist Biographies MARCUS GOLDHABER, ’00, has performed all over NYC including Carnegie Hall, 54 Below, Blue Note, Smoke, Iridium, Birdland, The Friars Club and the Cutting Room. His repertoire includes The Great American Songbook and many of his own original songs. Jazztimes has called Marcus “wonderfully imaginative.” His television appearances include programs on NETFLIX and CBS and he has appeared on film soundtracks How We Got Away With It and Going Down In La La Land. Marcus has released five albums on Fallen Apple Records and recently raised $70,000 on Kickstarter to record and then tour behind an album called Carry You On, which will be a collection of original patriotic songs aimed at strengthening the relationship between civilians and military veterans. Fifty percent of album sales will go to benefit Iraq Afghanistan Veterans of America (iava.org). Marcus earned a BFA in Musical Theatre from Fredonia.
Continued EVAN HARRINGTON, ’98, was most recently seen on Broadway as Amos in Chicago, after completing the national tour of Into the Woods as The Baker. His other Broadway credits Avenue Q (Brian) and over three years in Phantom of the Opera playing the arrogant tenor Ubaldo Piangi. Additional Broadway appearances include Once as the lovelorn shop owner Billy, a role he also performed for more than two years on the show’s first national tour. Evan has also had the pleasure of working on two shows with acclaimed director Alex Timbers - the Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher (Alf) and the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of The Robber Bridegroom (Big Harp, the “head” of the Harp Gang). Other favorite credits include Nicely-Nicely in Guys and Dolls, John Hinckley Jr. in Assassins, both The Beadle and Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Dave in The Full Monty and Mary Zimmerman’s Candide, as well as television appearances on 30 Rock and Orange is the New Black.
Artist Biographies PAUL MARINARO, ’82, has been hailed as “one of the most beautiful vocal instruments in the business today” by The Chicago Tribune. He is a favorite at jazz clubs and festivals all over the world. Earlier this year, he was the sole vocalist in an all-star tribute to Oscar Peterson at Jazz at Lincoln Center. With Chicago as his home base, Paul has become one of the most in-demand and respected male vocalists and is currently enjoying sold-out engagements in Chicago’s worldfamous venues, including Joe and Wayne Segal’s Jazz Showcase, The Green Mill, Andy’s Jazz Club and at Winter’s Jazz Club where he is currently in residence. He has been a featured performer at The Chicago Jazz Festival in 2014 and again in 2017 for an audience of 10,000 on the stage at the massive Pritzger Pavilion, where his performance with jazz legend Sheila Jordan earned rave reviews. He has earned “Best Performance of the Year” in the Chicago Tribune multiple times.
Continued ANN MARTINEZ, ’01, has been living and performing in Las Vegas for the last six years. Her credits there include starring in Naz: A Musical Tour de Force, as well as Jubilee, Dancing Queen and The World’s Greatest Rock Show. She played Patty in the European tour of Grease. A New York native, she has been living and performing in Las Vegas for the past 6 years. Regional theater credits include: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Crazy For You, Aida, Jekyll and Hyde, Miss Saigon, Once Upon a Mattress, Into the Woods, Pippin, The Who’s Tommy, Ragtime and Cinderella. Anne is the owner of Martines Productions and the creator of the Neo-Victorian Steampunk rock opera Alice. She is also an aerial artist performing lyra hoop, hand loop, straps and sphere with full vocals. Anne holds a BFA in Acting from Fredonia and an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice from London, UK’s Central School of Speech and Drama. Follow her on instagram at annemartinezlv.
Artist Biographies PAUL MOCKOVAK, ’77 and ’81, is a director, choreographer and professor of Theatre and Dance at Fredonia. Performance credits include Dance Miami, Ballet Oklahoma, Shakespeare on the Lake in Dunkirk (three seasons) and Neglia Ballet’s Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet and Giselle. He thanks Fredonia for his diverse background in theatre, music, dance, musical theatre and opera that has served him well as a stage director, choreographer, actor, and educator. His most influential professors include Harry John Brown, Dr. Jack Cogdill, Carol Prevet, and Dr. David Yeomans. Paul has director/choreographer credits ranging from musicals to Shakespeare, from summer stock to Off-Broadway. He trained at the Martha Graham School and Dance Space. He has enjoyed residencies at the Santa Fe Opera, Vienna Ballet Konservatorium, and the International School in Jakarta. Thank you Jefferson for all you have done and for this opportunity.
Continued JULIE NEWELL, ’82, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at Fredonia, has performed many of the major soprano operatic roles with the opera companies of Long Beach, Arizona, Kansas City, Orlando, Indianapolis, Memphis, Syracuse and Buffalo. Together, with her performance partner in this evening’s concert Professor Paul Mockovak, they formed Lyric Arts International under whose auspices they led SUNY Fredonia student performance groups to many summer opportunities for travel and study in Japan and Italy. Ms. Newell has appeared to rave reviews in Opera News as well as the New York Times and New York Post in premier performances of works by American composer Gian-Carlo Menotti and modern premiers of operas by Antonio Vivaldi at Lincoln Center. Her operatic and concert career, spanning over 25 years, has featured many of the major soprano operatic roles.