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VOLUME I all (53.7 MB)
Part One - Formation
1. Family Matters — 2. Childhood — 3. High School — 4. Duke — 5. Princeton
Part Two - Residences
6. 2912 Hostetler Street — 7. Princeton — 8. 53, rue Dauphine — 9. 1913 Sycamore Lane — 10. 203 Aurora Avenue — 11. 9 rue de l’Arc de Triomphe — 12. 803 Pamplona Avenue I — 13. 803 Pamplona Avenue II — 14. Summers: the Beach — 15. Summers: France — 16. Windhaven — 17. La Villeneuve-en-Chevrie — 18. Méricourt: Le Vieux Logis
VOLUME II all (52 MB)
Part Three - UC Davis
19. The Department of Music — 20. Settling In — 21. Orchestrating Our Growth — 22. The 1990s: Crisis and Response
Part Four - Writing
23. Influences and Materials — 24. 19th-Century Music — 25. Books I: Berlioz — 26. Books II — 27. Books III
VOLUME III all (96.1 MB)
Part Five - Making Music
28. UCD Early Music Ensemble — 29. Davis Comic Opera Company — 30. UCD Symphony Orchestra I — 31. UCD Symphony Orchestra II — 32. UCD Symphony Orchestra III — 33. Theatre — 34. A Center for the Arts
Part Six - Philanthropy
35. Generosity — 36. Angels — 37. American Musicological Society — 38. Phi Beta Kappa — 39. American Bach Soloists
Detailed Table of Contents
Part One - Formation
1. Family Mattters
Herrings, Highsmiths, and Holomans — The Herring Sisters — Dr. and Mrs. J. Henry Highsmith — Aunt Lula Belle and Aunt Louise — Holoman relatives
2. Childhood
The Parents: Kern and Kaye — Myrtle Underwood — Piano Lessons — Boylan-Pearce — National Guard — The Woman’s Club — Vacations — Brothers
3. High School
Edenton Street Methodist Church — Boy Scouts — Needham Broughton High School — Pennies and a Peacock — Richard Southwick — The Bassoon — Governors’ School
4. Duke
The Department of Music — Allan Bone — Paul and Virginia Bryan — Julia Mueller — Paul Earls and Iain Hamilton — Warren Kirkendale — the Majors and Mary Duke Biddle scholars — DUMB and DUCB — Collegiate Life — The Debutante Ball — Betty — Wallace Fowlie — Siena — Butner Baptist — 1968 and afterward
5. Princeton
Mendel - Levy - Lockwood — Performing at Princeton — the Draft — General Examination — Teaching
Part Two - Residences
6. 2912 Hostetler Street
7. Princeton
8. 53, rue Dauphine
9. 1913 Sycamore Lane
10. 203 Aurora Avenue
11. 9 rue de l’Arc de Triomphe
12. 803 Pamplona Avenue I
13. 803 Pamplona Avenue II
14. Summers: the Beach
15. Summers: France
16. Windhaven
17. La Villeneuve-en-Chevrie
18. Méricourt: Le Vieux Logis
Part Three - UC Davis
19. The Department of Music
The Rosens — The Swifts — Sydney Robinson Charles — Al McNeil — The Studio Teachers — The Staff — Our Buildings — Mrak Hall — The Students
20. Settling In
Davis and Sacramento — The Bay Area — Academic Life — The Round Table
21. Orchestrating Our Growth
Appointments — Performance — General Education & Music 10 — The Ph.D. in Music
22. The 1990s: Crisis and Response in the 1990s
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey — Dramatic Art — Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies — California Academy of Music — Art Studio
Part Four - Writing
23. Influences and Materials
Typewriters - Computing - Tech — Photography — Becoming a Writer — Scholarly Venues — The Wider Public
24. 19th-Century Music
Essays for Joseph Kerman (1984) —Tenth Anniversary (1987) — Writing About Music (1988, 2008, 2014)
25. Books I: Berlioz
The Berliozians —The Berlioz Catalogue (1987) — Berlioz: the biography (1989) — Roméo et Juliette (1970s and '80s)— Berlioz 2003
26. Books II
The Handy Guide (1983) - Evenings with the Orchestra (1992) — The Nineteenth-Century Symphony (1997) — Masterworks (1998, 2000, 2010) — The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire (2004)
27. Books III
Charles Munch (2011) — The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction (2012) — Berlioz Catalogue II (2018) — Aux Vieux Logis (2020ff.) — What's Gone Unsaid
Part Five - Making Music
28. UCD Early Music Ensemble
Monteverdi Vespers (1975) — Play of Daniel I (1975-76) — A Gift of Madrigals (1976-77) — Tour of France and England (1977) — Play of Daniel II (1979)
29. Davis Comic Opera Company
30. UCD Symphony Orchestra I
Being a Conductor — The Musicians — Programs and Seasons — Management
31. UCD Symphony Orchestra II
Concertos and Soloists — Works with Chorus: Verdi Requiem — Brahms Requiem — Beethoven's Ninth — The Dream of Gerontius — First Performances
32. UCD Symphony Orchestra III
The French Bicentennial; Polynesia and Australis (1989) — The Berlioz Bicentennial (2003) — The Golden Jubilee (2008)
33. Theatre
The Triumph of Peace (1974) — Guys and Dolls (1976) — Candide (1980) — Der Freischütz (1981) — The Bourgeois Gentleman (1983) — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1985) — I Capuleti e I Montecchi (1986) — The Mikado (1988) — My Fair Lady (1994) — West Side Story (1996) — Emperor Norton of the U.S.A. (1999) — Cabaret (2000) — H.M.S. Pinafore (2003) — Carmen (2007) — Oklahoma! (2008)
34. A Center for the Arts
Task Forces — The Case Statement — Hugh Hardy: The Green Book — The Wockenfuss Years — Larry Vanderhoef — BOORA — Groundbreaking and Construction — Governance — the Hard Hat Concert — Michael Morgan — Opening Week — The Inaugural Season — The Pitzer Center
Part Six - Philanthropy
35. Generosity
36. Angels
Aunt Titi — Barbara Jackson — Robert and Margrit Mondavi — Clairelee and Marya — Beta Popper — Ann E. Pitzer
37. American Musicological Society
Program Committee — amslist — AMS 50 and OPUS — Musicology Now
38. Phi Beta Kappa
39. American Bach Soloists
Epilogue
Family Matters — Travels — Decomposing — Tending Sheep