Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 5, 2002

Volume 30, Number 24

Concert honors memory of composer Druckman

The School of Music will honor the memory of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jacob Druckman with a concert by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale on Friday, April 19, at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets.

Druckman, professor of composition at the School of Music from 1976 until his death in 1996, was one of the most influential and highly regarded composers of his generation. The concert celebrates the endowment of the Jacob Druckman Scholarship, established with contributions large and small from foundations, alumni, colleagues and other individuals.

The concert will feature two of Druckman's works, "Prism" and "Summer Lightning," as well as Benjamin Britten's "Canadian Carnival" and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." Sidney Harth, a violin professor at the School of Music until his retirement in 1999, as well as a noted conductor, will lead the orchestra for this special event. Admission to the concert is free. For further information, call (203) 432-4158.

Druckman garnered many honors during his lifetime, including the Pulitzer Prize, which he received in 1972 for his work "Windows" after its premiere by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Bruno Maderna conducting. His works were commissioned by leading orchestras throughout the nation, and he was guest conductor with many orchestras, both in the United States and abroad.

He was composer in residence with the New York Philharmonic 1982-86 and was artistic director of Horizons Music Festivals. He taught at the Juilliard School, Bard College and Tanglewood; was the director of the Electronic Music Studio and professor of composition at Brooklyn College; and was associated with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City. Druckman joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music in 1976, and was appointed president of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music in 1991. He held both posts until his death.

Sidney Harth is acclaimed as both a violinist and conductor. He attained international recognition when he became the first American to be awarded the Laureate Prize in Poland's Wieniawski Violin Competition in 1957, the height of the Cold War.

Harth's notable academic career is marked by his appointment as the Andrew W. Mellon Permanent Professor of Music at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also headed the music department, and by his post as professor of violin at Yale, where he served for 17 years. He currently gives master classes in chamber music and violin literature at Carnegie Mellon University and is much in demand as a guest conductor internationally. In September of 2001, Harth accepted the post of director of orchestral activities at Duquesne University.

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