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A very informal interview with the illustrious bass section of the 2008 OSAI Orchestra. Recorded toward the end of the second week of camp. The Mighty Basses are: Trey Dunagan, Ian Elkin, Colin Healey, and Alan Pate.
Bass Instructor Anthony Stoops was also present, but, on the advice of his attorney, refrained from speaking during the interview.
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A highlight of Visitors’ Weekend. This year’s speakers were Oklahoma’s Lt. Governor Jari Askins and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Robert Henry, both long time supporters of the Oklahoma Arts Institute. The speakers are introduced by OAI President, Julie Cohen.
Recorded in the Great Plains Amphitheatre on Saturday, June 21st. The audio quality is not that great, but the remarks of Governor Askins and Judge Henry are inspiring.
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David Brunner
Orlando, Florida
Chorus Conductor — Week One
Dr. David L. Brunner is one of today’s most active and versatile composers and conductors. He is director of choral activities at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and is known for his compelling work with singers of all ages, conducting All-State and regional honor choirs throughout the United States. He is also a popular clinician at choral festivals and workshops throughout North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. As a composer, he has received numerous ASCAP awards and in 2000 was named Raymond W. Brock Commissioned Composer by the American Choral Directors Association. The New York Times has called him a “prolific choral writer whose name figures prominently on national repertory lists,” his work is being performed and recorded worldwide. Brunner is the author of articles in both The Choral Journal and Music Educators Journal and is published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Liza Grossman
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Orchestra Conductor — Week One
Liza Grossman is the founding music director of the Contemporary Youth Orchestra in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. CYO is the only youth orchestra in the country dedicated exclusively to the study and performance of new orchestral literature. She is on the conducting faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and is the co-founder of the Interlochen Arts Camp Junior Advanced String Institute. She is a private violin and viola instructor and as a freelance musician, has performed, recorded and toured with artists including Bernadette Peters, Kansas, Gerald LeVert, The Three Tenors and Yes. Grossman has conducted 14 world premiere concertos with Cleveland Orchestra members, as well as conducted 40 orchestral world premieres, all with the composers present. She has collaborated with composers including Bernard Rands, Mike Garson, Robert Ward and Joan Tower. She has conducted world premiere orchestral rock performances with rock artists Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Jon Anderson (Yes), Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), Pat Benatar, and STYX.
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The (mostly) uncut version of our interview with George, recorded June 21, 2008. Runs about 29 minutes.
George Bilgere
University Heights, Ohio
Creative Writing
George Bilgere’s recent books are The Good Kiss (University of Akron Press, 2002), and Haywire (Utah State University Press), which won the May Swenson Poetry Award in 2006. He is the author of two other books of poetry, The Going (University of Missouri, 1995) and Big Bang (Copper Beech Press, 1999). The Going received both the Devins Award and the Society of Midland Authors Award. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems appear regularly in such journals as Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Field, and New England Review. He has been featured in Best American Poetry in 1999 and 2002. Radio host Garrison Keillor has read Bilgere’s poems on a number of occasions on NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac.” Bilgere has given readings at the Library of Congress, the 92nd Street Y in New York, and at colleges and public institutions around the country. He directs the creative writing program at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Our uncut interview with Valerie, recorded June 24, 2008. Runs 42 minutes.
Valerie asked that we add these notes to her bio: (1) that she graduated from the University of Oklahoma, where she was a Music Education major and played in the OU Marching Band, and (2) that her ethnic heritage is Native American: her mother is Navajo, her father is Ute.
Valerie Naranjo
New York, New York
Percussion
Known for her pioneering efforts in West African keyboard percussion, Valerie Dee Naranjo is the first woman permitted by chiefly decree to publicly perform Ghanaian gyil, and the only Westerner to receive first prize at Ghana’s prestigious Kobine Festival. Naranjo has been the percussionist for NBC’s Saturday Night Live Band for over 11 years. She wrote the African percussion arrangements for Broadway’s Tony Award-winning The Lion King, and she has performed and recorded with The Lion King, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Tori Amos, Kakraba Lobi, The Paul Winter Consort, and many more. She was named the “World Music Percussionist of the Year 2005,” and has studied with some of the world’s strictest percussion masters, including Leigh Howard Stevens, Gordon Stout, Dave Samuels, Adama Drame, and Kakraba Lobi. A recipient of the 2007 New York State Rockefeller Arts Grant, Naranjo has performed on six continents and in such esteemed locations as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Festival Hall in London, Lunario in Mexico City, the Opera House in Perth, Australia, on-site at Egypt’s great pyramids, the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, and many more.
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The uncut version of our interview with David, recorded June 19, 2008. 32 Minutes
David Brunner
Orlando, Florida
Chorus Conductor — Week One
Dr. David L. Brunner is one of today’s most active and versatile composers and conductors. He is director of choral activities at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and is known for his compelling work with singers of all ages, conducting All-State and regional honor choirs throughout the United States. He is also a popular clinician at choral festivals and workshops throughout North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. As a composer, he has received numerous ASCAP awards and in 2000 was named Raymond W. Brock Commissioned Composer by the American Choral Directors Association. The New York Times has called him a “prolific choral writer whose name figures prominently on national repertory lists,” his work is being performed and recorded worldwide. Brunner is the author of articles in both The Choral Journal and Music Educators Journal and is published by Boosey & Hawkes.
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Our unedited interview with Flavio, recorded June 23, 2008. Runs about 21 minutes.
Flavio Salazar
New York, New York
Ballet
Flavio Salazar, a native of Colombia, began his dance studies at the Colombian Institute of Classical Ballet (Incolballet). He joined Ballet de Cali in 1985, before joining the faculty of Incolballet upon his certification by the National Ballet of Cuba to teach methodology and pedagogy of ballet technique. In 1990, he studied at the Houston Ballet Academy as a full scholarship student, and later joined Ballet Arizona in 1992. In 1993, Salazar was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). During his thirteen-year career with ABT, Salazar danced nearly every ballet in ABT’s repertoire, before retiring from the company in July of 2006. Salazar’s teaching experience extends from his early years of professional dancing in Colombia. He has taught classes at ABT II, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the ABT Summer Intensive, the Alvin Ailey School, and Ballet Tech, among others.
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The unedited version of our second interview with Marilyn, recorded June 26, 2008. Runs about 26 minutes.
Marilyn McIntyre
Toluca Lake, California
Acting Instructor
Marilyn McIntyre has been a professional actress for over thirty years. She has played leading roles on and off-Broadway and with several major regional theater companies, as well as on television and film. She has garnered several awards for her theater work in Los Angeles. McIntyre received her bachelor’s from the North Carolina School of the Arts and her master’s from Penn State. She has studied Suzuki physical training and the theatrical technique Viewpoints in Los Angeles with the SITI Company and renowned director Anne Bogart. She also studied with Uta Hagen and is proud to be featured in the documentary/teaching video, Uta Hagen’s Acting Class. Currently, McIntyre teaches at the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood and with the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory at the American Film Institute. Her other teaching credits include the University of Southern California, The Old Globe/University of San Diego M.F.A. Actor Training Program, the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, and the University of Texas-Austin, among others.
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The unedited version of our interview with Marilyn and Melina, recorded June 23, 2008. Runs about 34 minutes.
Marilyn McIntyre
Toluca Lake, California
Acting Instructor
Marilyn McIntyre has been a professional actress for over thirty years. She has played leading roles on and off-Broadway and with several major regional theater companies, as well as on television and film. She has garnered several awards for her theater work in Los Angeles. McIntyre received her bachelor’s from the North Carolina School of the Arts and her master’s from Penn State. She has studied Suzuki physical training and the theatrical technique Viewpoints in Los Angeles with the SITI Company and renowned director Anne Bogart. She also studied with Uta Hagen and is proud to be featured in the documentary/teaching video, Uta Hagen’s Acting Class. Currently, McIntyre teaches at the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood and with the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory at the American Film Institute. Her other teaching credits include the University of Southern California, The Old Globe/University of San Diego M.F.A. Actor Training Program, the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, and the University of Texas-Austin, among others.
Melina Bielefelt
Los Angeles, California
Acting - Voice & Movement
Melina Bielefelt has trained for twelve years with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York. She has studied Commedia dell’arte, de Creux mime, Butoh dance, and mask work, in addition to more traditional dance forms. As an actress, Bielefelt has toured both nationally and internationally. She performed in Kiev for the inaugural year of the International Bulgakhov Festival, and completed a six-city U.S. residency with the L.A. Poverty Department’s production Agents and Assets, directed by John Malpede and produced by Peter Sellars. Bielefelt appeared in the Los Angeles premiere of WOYZECK, directed by Robert Wilson. Her film credits include two installations by Bill Viola that have been presented in Berlin, Vienna, Venice, Italy and New York. Bielefelt was a faculty member at the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles, and she has led workshops at numerous institutions, including the Art Institute of California, UC Santa Barbara, and the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
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