Philharmonia
A Memoir

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