Ana earned her MLIS from Louisiana State University and holds an MM in Music Composition from University of New Orleans. In 2000 she was awarded the first prize by the Southeastern League of Composers for her woodwind quintet.

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She was awarded a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance by Loyola University in New Orleans and a Master of Music by Southern Methodist University. As an active orchestral percussionist, her professional carrier includes performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Opera, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan. She was a semi-finalist for the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony and a finalist for the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2003, the Gambit Weekly of New Orleans, honored her performance "Sticks and Strings II" with the Tribute to the Classical Arts Award for Best Chamber Performance.

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A public rededication and plaque unveiling for the new music library was held on April 29, 2006. The library was named for Dr. Harold S. Orendorff, former Chair of the Music Department and first Dean of the College of Fine Arts at IUP. Dr. Orendorff was honored by having the auditorium of Cogswell Hall named after him, which is now part of the space that the new music library occupies. The rededication service included brief remarks by the Music Librarian, Music Department Chair, the Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts, and the Dean of Libraries. Richard Orendorff, Harold’s son and former Magistrate of Indiana County, spoke on behalf of the Orendorff family. Members of the IUP music faculty performed several original compositions by Harold Orendorff.

--Carl Rahkonen is Music Librarian at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Photo above: Richard Orendorff speaks at the rededication and plaque unveiling – photo by Keith Boyer.

The Otto E. Albrecht Music Library at the University of Pennsylvania recently opened an exhibit titled "Coming to the Small Screen: Ormandy and Television," which displays for the first time correspondence and photographs related to Eugene Ormandy's television appearances and his efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to gain more exposure on the "small screen." If your travels bring you to Philadelphia, Richard Griscom, head of the Music Library, encourages you to stop by. Learn how the Philadelphia Orchestra made television history in 1948.  See rare photos documenting the 1955 Tastykake Christmas Hour. Find out why orchestra manager Roger Hall wrote a CBS executive in 1960 that "the mating of Mr. Ormandy and Captain Kangaroo is somewhat out of character." This, and more, awaits you on the 4th floor of the Van Pelt Library in the heart of the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. For more information, write Dick at griscom@pobox.upenn.edu or call him at 215/898-3450. 

Casavant (1917-2002) was a highly acclaimed marching band educator and clinician.  In the 1950s, he was the driving force behind the development of precision drill, a style of marching where the band would create intricate formations using lines and small groups.  This style became the standard for marching bands at football game halftime shows.  Precision drill was also the immediate precursor to the drum corps style of marching today.

Casavant did extensive research to develop precision drill.  His collection contains materials on military tactics, drills, uniforms and marching.  He authored more than 150 instructional books showing band directors how to create precision drills and many of his published works are found in our collection.   There are also some rare works not found in any other library, including several dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Three of the five Casavant children became university professors or researchers, working in fields that Casavant studied.  A.R’s son Charles Casavant was a Professor of Music and Director of “The Legend” the IUP Marching Band from 1976 to 2001.

--Carl Rahkonen, Music Librarian & Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932). Piano Concerto No. 2 in E major, op. 12 (1893). BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Piers Lane, Alun Francis.
• Gösta Nystroem (1890-1966). Concerto for Viola and Orchestra "Hommage à la France" (1941). Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Nobuko Imai, Paavo Järvi.
• Interview with Mona Batt, daughter of Gösta Nystroem

In addition to $15 million for the establishment of a music conservatory, Gettysburg College also received Dr. Sunderman’s music library of over 1,000 string chamber music scores and parts, as well as his collection of fine 18th and 19th century violins, currently housed in the Library’s Special Collections. The online exhibit A Gift of Music provides more information about the bequest, and features images from the score collection as well as an interactive display of six of the violins. With help from Zoomify software and programming by James Rutkowski of the College’s ITT Department, users can zoom in or out on specific areas of each instrument, and rotate them 360 degrees.

• Maurice Wright (b.1949). Concerto for trombone, string orchestra, and harp (2004). Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Nitzan Haroz, Karl Middleman.
• François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829). Symphony in E-flat Major, Op. 5, No. 2 (c.1761-62). London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert.
• Interview with Maurice Wright