[Members] Elizabeth A.H. Green Commission

[E. Daniel Long]

Dear ASTA Colleagues,

On Wednesday, October 13, 8:00PM, Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, the University
Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kenneth Kiesler, will give the
world premiere of Evan Chambers' latest work, Kairos, which was commissioned
by the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, in honor of the late
Elizabeth A.H. Green, great musician, pedagogue, author and member of the UM
faculty.  There will be a Pre-concert lecture at 7:15.

Miss Green came to Ann Arbor in 1942 as an Assistant Professor of Music
Education at the University of Michigan and Director of Orchestras at Ann
Arbor High School and Slauson Junior High School.  She held these positions
for the next ten years, at which time she became Professor of Music
Education at the UM.  Upon her retirement in 1975, she subsequently enrolled
at Eastern Michigan University, where she gained a bachelor's degree in art.

In explaining the composition, the composer says, "Two things that stuck in
my mind were that notion of 'the musical moment' and about time in her life,
from the statement that "time meant nothing to her" and the descriptions of
her feverish work...also, of course, conductors work with time itself, and
education as a discipline arranges itself around moments in which
transformation is possible...

So the whole piece is about time, from a presentation of a nightmare
vision of time out of synch which is our post-modern condition in the
first movement, to a dark spring evening in the second, and the free
and unfettered physical energy of youth in the last movement."

This concert is free and open to the public.