FACULTY

Bruce Brubaker's recording Inner Cities on the Arabeque label was released in October.

Vivian Fung's Songs of Childhood was performed by Faith Esham (BM '76, MM '78, voice), and J.J. Penna, piano, at Westminister Choir College in Princeton, NJ, as part of the faculty recital series in October. The same work was performed at the Women Composers' Showcase at New Jersey City University in November.

In October, drama faculty member Deborah Lapidus and Malcolm Gets co-directed She Loves Me, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joe Masteroff, with graduate actors at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Voice and speech faculty member Kate Wilson and Group 28 alumnus Quentin Mare welcomed their first baby, a daughter named Ella, in September.

Carol Wincenc (MM '72, flute) and Sharon Isbin performed the Lukas Foss concertos composed for them at the celebration of his 80th birthday with the Buffalo Philharmonic in April. JoAnn Falletta (MM '83, DMA '89, orchestral conducting) conducted the two pieces: The Renaissance Flute Concerto and American Landscapes.

In October, jazz faculty member Ben Wolfe performed with his septet and Joe Locke, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and the Chiara String Quartet at the Jazz Standard in Manhattan.

STUDENTS

Doctoral student Justine Fang Chen performed the Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, with Emi Ohi Resnick, Nicolas Cords, Fred Sherry (DIP '69, cello), and Caroline Stoessinger, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in October.