January 19, 1995: Vol26n13: Conductors' conference to be held in February

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
The UB Department of Music will present its fifth biennial national
conference, "The Preparation of Tomorrow's Conductors," Feb. 16-18 in
Baird and Slee halls.
	The conference is expected to attract conductors, conducting
teachers and students from across the country for three days of
lectures, seminars, demonstrations and concerts.
	The conference, co-sponsored by the State University of New
York Conferences in the Disciplines, is organized and directed by
Harriet Simons, professor and associate chair of the UB Department of
Music and director of university choruses. Simons is the author of
"Choral Conducting: A Leadership Approach," and has headed the 1987-93
conducting conferences at UB, all of which were very well-received and
attended.
	The presenters include nationally renowned composer Morton
Subotnick, a pioneer in the application of computer technologies to
music composition, and clinical psychologist Barbara Pollack of
Denver, who will join Simons in a discussion of the Meyers-Briggs Type
Inventory (MBTI) for conducting and conducting students.
	 John Stuhr-Rommereim of Grinnell College will present a
lecture on the Russian approach to choral conducting and John Paynter
of Northwestern University will offer instruction to student
conductors.
	Other issues will include long-distance conducting pedagogy,
characteristics of successful conducting and how to teach them, score
analysis, the relationship between conductor and ensemble, and
conducting children's choruses. Participants will be instructed on
technology in the conducting class.
	There will be a screening of the film, "Taming a 100-headed
Dragon," which features a discussion of conducting issues with such
world-class conductors as Artur Nikisch of Hungary, Austria's Eduard
Strauss and Felix Weingartner, also of Austria, who wrote a treatise
on conducting and on the interpretation of Beethoven's
symphonies. Conference participants are invited to attend concerts by
the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York New Music Ensemble,
the UBuffalo Symphony and the UB Wind Ensemble.