Guest Artist James Mulholland, composer and composer
“Music is my life, but the podium is my life also. I have to expound
on what I love. I have to tell others what I love. I have to share with
others, through my compositions, but also through my commitment
to teaching. I love to get in front of a captive audience.
I like to look
into their eyes, to be a part of their experience.” --James Mulholland
March 28-30, 2007
March 28 - Women’s Chorus
3:30 PM - HFA 143 Choral Rehearsal
March 28-29 - Women’s Concert Chorale
2:00 PM - HFA 143 Choral Rehearsal
March 29 - The Singing Statesmen
3:00 PM - HFA 143 Choral Rehearsal
March 28-30 - Concert Choir
12:00 PM - HFA 143 Choral Rehearsal
Master Class
Friday, March 30
10:00 AM, HFA 105
“From Pen to Podium: What a composer is thinking and how the conductor
interprets.”
All Events Free & Open to the Public
Sponsored in part by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, the Department of Music & Theatre Arts, and the Voice & Choral Division.
Professor of Music James Q. Mulholland joined the Butler faculty in 1964, a time when there were curfews in the girls' dormitories, a panty raid alarmed the university president enough to call out the National Guard and the faculty shared one telephone.
Policies and facilities have changed dramatically. What hasn't changed, he says, is the quality of the students.
"My compositions lead me to a lot of universities, and I have direct interaction with their students," he says. "I always come back refreshed and very proud of our students."
Mulholland grew up in southern Mississippi, his formative years spent in his mother's arms "listening to her sing beautiful songs and sitting in my father's lap, listening to him quote great minds." His first paid singing job was at 10 in a local Presbyterian church boys' choir. "I was given $2 a week," he says, "and I thought the world had opened up and smiled upon me."
"I found that I got more attention than the other kids from teachers, from girls, from people in general," he says. "And the more I practiced, the better I became. You might say I pursued it because of ego. I was more or less a shy person. When I realized I could let my music speak for me, I found I could let the bee come to the honey."
He graduated high school at 15 and started at Louisiana State University a year later. After earning a B.M. and M.M. there, Indiana University offered him a full scholarship to pursue his doctorate. In 1964, as he was finishing at IU, a job opened at Butler.
Through the years, Mulholland has earned countless awards for his work as a composer. In 1999, an evening of his work was performed at Carnegie Hall. The most recent recording of his compositions is Words & Music: The Music of James Mulholland, by the Kansas City Chorale.
Learn more about James Mulholland at: http://jamesmulholland.com/
For More Information Contact:
Dr. Gary Schwartzhoff
241 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Phone: 715/836-4056
Email: schwargr@uwec.edu
