Danbury (Conn.)--History]]> Karl Brothers]]> Karl Brothers, Litchfield, Connecticut]]> World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.]]> Sizemore, Nada]]> Danbury State Teachers' College]]> Steinmetz, Paul]]> Danbury (Conn.)--History]]> Barden Corporation]]> Barden Corporation.]]> Danbury (Conn.)--History]]> Morse, Harry Franklin]]> Harry Franklin Morse]]> Spanish-American War, 1898]]> Danbury (Conn.)--History.]]> Downs, Dr. John Clayton, 1865-1940]]> Universities and colleges--Faculty.]]> Topics discussed : (side A): Time at WestConn; 1978; 1997; Basic Studies program here when he came; worked part; time in that program; Taught about 20 years before coming to WestConn; Started Math Clinic; intended to be used by basic studies students; most who came weren't the ones who really needed it though; some from advanced courses came primarily; took it over after 1986 after sabbatical; Taught basic level and grad level courses; Geometry; Bob Hoburg and Jim Oliver; chairmen of Math department when he was there; Computer Science; hard to hire teachers for it during 1980s; taught some lower level courses; Student changes; no significant changes; Westside campus; came before it opened (opened early 1980s); decisions on who would move there; Business school was always going to move there; math department had opportunity to move there, but didn't; math department would have been able to have better offices; Higgins Hall offices; Split in department; math taught basically at Midtown, computer science at Westside; Feelings about Westside; enjoys the campus; Faculty in math department; hasn't grown much; about 11; 12 full; time members and always cohesive; they always got along really well; Bob Hoburg; was chairman for 19 years; knew had to organize the department; Jim Oliver; followed Hoburg as chair of the department; was a nice guy; could be intimidating to people who don't know him (especially students); Other departments; didn't really know much about other departments; Chemistry department; Dr. Paul Hines and Ron Gordano; department shattered when Gordano was killed in auto accident; WestConn presidents; came first under Bersi; left under Roach; takes special person to be able to lead a university; respected all, but didn't know any personally; Problems between faculty and administration; have been problems in the past; Steven Feldman; had problems getting along with the faculty; National events and effects on WestConn; Gulf War and his son being called; didn't pay much attention to campus because more concerned about his son; Vietnam War; was over by time he got to WestConn; taught at a community college in NY at the time; Assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; WestConn atmosphere; quiet campus; "Blue collar college"; students and faculty not really involved in the university; should be a more residential college to promote university activities; Westside; Grasso Hall and plans for new dorm; plan originally to move entire university to that campus; environmental concerns also factor; not fan of two campus setup; Library; plans for renovation; build a "swing building" to house library temporarily; Parking; always been a problem since he was there; new library might consume part of the parking area; Renovations; Landscape at WestConn; likes the changes made so far at WestConn; Student Center; close to opening again; University Hall; Over head walkway; Background; grew up in Queens, NY; lived in upstate NY later; bachelor's and doctorate Albany State; Master's University of Buffalo; taught high school in upstate NY; later at Glens Falls community college; came to WestConn about 5 years after getting doctorate (side B): Final thoughts; enjoyed his time at WestConn; now teaches a high school class; time he and his wife spent in Buffalo.]]> Larkin, Sean]]> Leone, Faye ]]> Universities and colleges--Administration]]> Topics discussed : (side A): Background at WestConn; started around 1965 and taught for 29 years; believes WestConn was still a teacher's college; Bob Holberg and Chester Floyd; other members of math department when he arrived; Math department; only 3; 4 offices for entire math department; Physical changes of WestConn; Westside wasn't here when he began; Westside; his office did move there later; taught some classes there, but also taught at Midtown; Retirement; retired about 1995; enjoyed teaching, but enjoys retirement now; spends time at War Memorial now; Background; originally from Queens, NY; graduate from John Adams high there; received bachelors degree from Teacher's College of CT (now Central CT State University); began living in CT after going to school here; Curriculum changes; got into math because he could use his mind more than hands; now math is heavily involved in computers, which is essential; graphing calculators and the benefits of using them; Computers; have made math much more easier; they have speeded the mathematical process up; have benefited math and will continue to do so; got into using them his last few years teaching; Faculty and computers; professors should start reorienting themselves to using them; Basic fundamentals of math; computers will speed up the learning; not essential to know everything; Student changes; student demonstrations on campus during Vietnam War; he took part in some demonstrations; some conflict (non; physical); Quality of student; has had both good and bad from beginning to retirement; not much difference over the years; Teaching of math; never taught any teaching of math courses; only upper level courses; Faculty participation; little activity in working conditions and salaries in beginning; what state said the faculty went along with; AAUP; was involved w/ it; was president of it on campus; went to national conventions; thought it wasn't strong enough to make changes; elite schools like Harvard, etc, were a part of it; needed a union that was less elite; AFT (American Federation of Teachers); affiliated w/ AFL; CIO; he started up chapter at WestConn and grew to be largest on campus; worked w/ Sen. William Baker; both began chapters at all 4 CSU schools; Wayne Baker; head of labor department in state; worked w/ him to get AFT set up at the CSU schools; backed by the AFL; CIO; AFT won at Western, but AAUP at the other 3; AFT President; was a former president; John Encrichrot was first (in English department); Danbury Labor Council; was president of it for 10; 11 years; Changes at WestConn after AFT; salaries went up; departments allowed to choose their department chairpersons; Animosities between administration; the administration benefited from unions; have their own as well; NEA and AFT; NEA not affiliated w/ AFL; CIO; Bob Chase, Danbury resident and president of NEA, has said want to merge w/ the AFT; such a merger would benefit teachers; which union a teacher joins depends on where they work; Governor Meskill; cut money for education while governor; Ella Grasso; was a state representative before she became governor; he met her in Washington, DC during and AFT convention there; urged her then to run for governor of CT]]> Lee, Wallace]]> Doherty, Shannon]]> Pack, Andrea]]>
His later works have become individual creations, each an end in itself, and each an attempt to break new ground, within the composer's concept of structural and organizational control. Richard Moryl was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1929 of Polish ancestry, studied composition with Frederick Breydert, Iain Hamilton, Boris Blacher, and Arthur Berger. His earlier compositions were influenced by Hindemith, a style which he abandoned years ago. He feels that he has been influenced by every piece of music and art he has seen, heard, or performed; and his attitude toward the Arts in general has always been very eclectic. He has received the usual fellowships and grants, including a Fulbright, Tanglewood and Bennington scholarships, a Kellogg Grant, and numerous commissions and composition prizes. His recent works represent the full maturity of Moryl's abstract lyric style, and his unique talent for combining sound textures. With these works he has taken a significant step forward in his creative pursuits; namely, that he has gone beyond technique and theory to new, heightened expressive powers. His melodic shapes are free and floating, they are released from conventional tonality, and at the same time tightly controlled by an acute aural imagination.

MULTIPLES uses a small string orchestra with harp, piano and percussion. The work attempts to deal with the various multiple possibilities available to the stringed instruments. At times, solid bands of sounds, consisting all the pitches contained within vertical intervals, present a doubtful borderline between tone and noise. The basic sonic material differs in width and spatial placement, and widens, contracts, divides, branches out, and merges together as the piece progresses. The aspect of timbre involves the exploration of the various string sonorities, and possible ways of attacking the notes employed, MULTIPLES is an aural bath of both beauty and enjoyment; it is one of the most successful of the "Sound Object Generation Form." In a recent analysis of Moryl's "Multiples", by Charles Whittenberg in Perspectives of New Music, it was said: Moryl uses a "free" assortment of expressive articulations and directions containing a high yield of "noise" or multi-pitch effects; and most important of all, nonpitched percussion and/or "clusters", parabolas of glissandi and other "free" and highly idiomatic uses of not only pitched percussion, but of the total ensemble ..." And about his general style, from the same article: The subtle sense of order that this writer hears in all of Moryl's music is the result of nonrigorous application of principles of rigor, i.e., a content-defined pitch area operating over a spectrum of combined "plucking, zapping and zonking." The latter are not perceived as "sound effects" versus a "row", but as unity and diversity; ....this is a clue to Moryl's uniqueness."

CONTACTS, for piano and percussion inside the piano, takes advantage of the tremendous flexibility of the piano, and its ability to function as a sounding board and reverberation chamber, when struck on the strings, metal supports or wood frame. The inside of the piano is a sound world in itself, depending on the sympathetic vibrations of the strings when the dampers are released. This work uses the inside of the piano as an orchestra, capable The quasi-jazz section which is briefly interjected, contributes in an unique way to the musical sense in the overall structure of the piece.

CHORALIS: Written in 1969, it is scored for 2 SATB choruses, 3 trombones, 2 string basses, 4 percussion, jazz drummer, and organ. The work is antiphonal in nature, and calls for the choruses to be situated in front of the stage on either side of the instrumental group. It would seem that vocal music has somehow remained unaffected, until recently, by the profound transformations which instrumental music has lately undergone. Many of the younger composers feel that the "meaning" of the text has lost its importance and have fashioned their compositions according to their own aural imaginations. This work is a case-in-point: the singers have no actual text to present. They whisper, hiss, talk, and make various sounds which are not a part of the usual choral vocabulary. The conductors, (there are three), the individual singers, and groups of singers are allowed a consider-able degree of freedom, within various nixed limitations. The work ends with the choruses bellowing, note for note, Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, against a mélange or dissonance. The ending is a tour-de-force in the old sense of the word. It is done on a grand scale, with a great deal of emotional impact: which may be missing from much of today's cerebral contemporary styles.

FLUORESCENTS: Written in December 1969, on a commission from Middlebury College in Vermont was performed the first time in February 1970 at Middlebury. Scored for a mixed chorus of at least of at least 24 voices, 2 percussion with chimes, and organ, the work is a variable cloud of sound which seems to cover the entire breadth of the sound spectrum…

DESTO RECORDS, 1860 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10023 RECORDED BY DAVID JONES AND MARC AUBORT
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