UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 2, Page 8
September 7, 1995
Recording artists; Music faculty featured on new CDs, cassettes

     A cornucopia of music, ranging from Bach to the rhythms of the
Caribbean, from classical to avant-garde, has been recorded by
University music faculty and is now available on CDs or cassettes.
     Pianist Michael Steinberg has two CDs being issued by Elysium.
One is a nine CD re-issue of his LP series of 32 piano sonatas of
Beethoven. The other is music by Chopin, including 24 Preludes, Opus
28; Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Opus 52; and Sonata No. 3 in B minor,
Opus 58. Both the Beethoven and Chopin CDs were recorded in Germany.
     A Yale graduate who originally studied architecture, Steinberg
entered the Juilliard School of Music and received a master's degree
in piano performance. A professor at Delaware, he has played in
recital, as a soloist with orchestras and as a chamber musician
throughout Europe and the United States, and was pianist in residence
at the Villa San Michele in Anacapri, Italy, for nine years.
     Lloyd Shorter on oboe and Douglas Mapp on double bass play with
the avant-garde Philadelphia ensemble, Relache. The group's latest
recording Outcome Inevitable, received four-and-a half stars in the
July 1995 issue of Down Beat magazine. According to the review, the
ensemble is "most familiar to 'new music' audiences, but Outcome
Inevitable should intrigue jazz listeners as well...Relache's
versatility enables the octet to capture the tension and contemplation
of Robert Ashley's Outcome Inevitable and the Arctic stillness of
Eleanor Hovda's Borealis Music with equal success."
     A native of Delaware, Shorter serves as administrator of
recruiting, admissions and scholarships in the music department and is
a member of the UD's Del'Arte Woodwind Quintet and of the Delaware
Symphony. As a member of Relache, he has performed in Europe and at
the Lincoln Center in New York. He was awarded a solo grant from the
Delaware Arts Council in 1992-93 and is a frequent guest soloist
throughout the Delaware Valley.
     Mapp, who teaches double bass at the University, is a graduate of
the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts with a master's degree
from Temple. Formerly a member of the National Symphony Orchestra in
Bogota, Colombia, he is principal bass player with the Reading
Symphony and the Chamber Symphony of Princeton. He has performed world
wide, playing all kinds of music from orchestral to new music to jazz.
     Cynthia Carr, horn, and faculty accompanist, pianist Julie
Nishimura, have recorded five compositions by women composers in their
CD, entitled Images. The project was supported by a General University
Research Grant, and this is the first time the music has been
recorded.
     Carr and Nishimura also have been invited to play music from this
CD at the Scripps College Symposium on Women in Music in Claremont,
Calif., the only representatives from an East Coast college.
     Carr, who received a bachelor's degree with highest distinction
from the Eastman School of Music and a master's degree from Florida
State University, serves as associate professor of music. She plays
French horn in the Del'Arte Woodwind Quintet and Delaware Brass
Quintet and is co-principal horn of the Delaware Symphony. She has
been a member of the Norwegian National Broadcasting Orchestra, the
Philharmonic Orchestra of Merida, Venezuela, and the Symphony of Hof,
Germany, and has performed with symphony orchestras throughout the
United States.
     A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Nishimura
has studied piano extensively and made her concerto debut at the age
of 16 with the San Francisco Symphony.
     She has been guest soloist with several orchestras and numerous
chamber groups. She is a founding member of the Grand Chamber Players
in Wilmington and has played in the United States and Europe as an
accompanist performing in recitals with instrumentalists and
vocalists.
     The Taggart-Grycky Duo, which has been performing throughout the
United States and abroad for 10 years, features music instructors
Christiaan Taggart on the guitar and Eileen Grycky on the flute. They
were finalists in both the Concert Artists Guild competition and the
East-West Artists competition in York.
     Their new recording, Poetry and Madness for Flute and Guitar,
offers music from the 18th century to the present day, including Three
Haiku by Michael White, written especially for them. The recording
received support from a University grant.
     An earlier recording with the duo, Romantic Music for Flute and
Guitar, won praise from Hi-Fidelity and Fanfare magazines.
     A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and the New England
Conservatory, Grycky is a member of the UD Del'Arte Woodwind Quintet,
the Brandywine Baroque Ensemble, the orchestra of the Opera Company of
Philadelphia, the Delaware Symphony and the Mozart Orchestra of
Philadelphia, which performed at the Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart
Festival a few years ago.
     Taggart was the first guitarist to be accepted at the
Philadelphia Musical Academy. He has appeared as soloist with the
Delaware Symphony, the Delaware Chamber Orchestra, the Richmond
Chamber Players, the Wilkes-Barre Ballet and the Pennsylvania
Orchestra.
     Percussionist Harvey Price and the Royal Palm Steel Band have
released their first recording, Ten Palms, on a cassette. The
recording features music of the Caribbean as well as American music
with a Caribbean treatment. Tom Palmer, also in the music department,
plays drums for the group.
     Price has performed with many area orchestras, including the
Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Delaware
Symphony, OperaDelaware and theatre orchestras in the Delaware Valley.
He directs the University of Delaware Percussion Ensemble, the
University Symphonic Band, the First State Symphonic Band, the John
Rollins Scholarship Jazz Band and the Contemporary Music Series at the
Settlement Music School in Philadelphia.
     All recordings will be on sale at the Department of Music's gala
opening concert at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Loudis Recital Hall
in the Amy E du Pont Music Building.
     For information or to order copies, call the Department of Music
at 831-2577.
                                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure