Director plays music field
By Frank Shaw
Of the Emerald
The concert hall is silent, the orchestra
poised for the opening bars of the first movement
The conductor faces the players and raises
her hands slowly
As her hands descend, the symphony
orchestra strikes the first notes in its first
performance under the direction of Marsha
Mabrey, an assistant professor of orchestra
activities and music education
Mabrey, who says it's not unusual to see a
woman conductor, admits “there are not that
many women conductors who are actually con
ducting
"There are great numbers who have yet to be
discovered,” she says “They just aren't gaining
as much notoriety as their male counterparts “
The conducting field is competitive, even for
men, and many women are more or less pushed
into being choral directors because that role is
more traditional, Mabrey says
“Many women who would like to conduct
never do because they are afraid to brave the
road-blocks leading to a conducting career," she
says
Mabrey decided to conduct because she
"didn't just want to play an instrument
“I wanted to conduct," she says
Conductors must know all the parts in the
score and must "see" the music in their head,
Mabrey says
“The orchestra itself is an instrument and
takes the same type of study and practice as an
individual instrument does," she says. "It's not
just a matter of standing and waving your arms
You have to know what you're waving for
Before coming to the University, Mabrey
received her bachelor's and master's degrees in
music from Michigan State University and
completed most of her doctorate work at the
University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory
of Music.
After completing her education. Mabrey
taught in Denver and in Minnesota at Winona
State University, where she developed and
administered an orchestra program
She then spent two years at Grand Valley
State College as a teacher and conductor and
served as the assistant conductor of the Grand
Rapids Symphony.
At the University, her duties include teaching
conducting classes and observing student
teachers in the field
Mabrey says she came to the University in
part because she sees tremendous growth
potential for the orchestra here and for other
orchestras along the coast — and more oppor
tunities to conduct
Building a high-quality orchestra and
familiarizing the students with as much standard
repertoire as possible are two goals she is work
ing for, Mabrey says
She says another goal is to make the students
comfortable in almost any performing situation
and to enable them to listen to music knowledga
bly
Most of the students who play in the Univer
sity orchestra are music majors, but she
encourages non-music majors to try out, Mabrey
says
Although she enjoys teaching and conduct
ing at the university level, Mabrey says she also
wants to conduct professional orchestras
Teaching and conducting at the university
level is satisfying, but it has its limitations,"
Mabrey says
The University Symphony Orchestra's next
concert will be in the Beall Concert Hall today at
1 30 and 8:30 p m Admission is free
Obscurity plagues jazz bands
They call themselves Jazz
Lab Bands I and II. Nothing
fancy, just classes of musicians
who enjoy playing the big band
jazz sound associated with the
likes of Buddy Rich and
Maynard Ferguson
Some of the best University
jazz musicians, mostly music
majors, participate in Jazz Lab I,
while younger, less experienced
jazz players enroll in Jazz Lab II
Members of the two bands,
which play jazz, funk and swing,
have a basic love for jazz and
much extra time in addition to
the three-hour, one-credit class,
says Jeff Williams, director of
Jazz Lab I
"There is definitely a jazz
audience in Eugene, but it is
difficult to get the word out," he
says "There is so much going
on now with the Hult Center "
Beall Hall's out-of-the-way
location leads to the isolation of
music students who spend a lot
of time practicing and con
tributes to the relative obscurity
of the lab bands, Williams says
Paul Schimming, a first-year
trumpeter in Jazz Lab Band I,
holds a similar view of the
bands' exposure problems
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no real jumping place in Eugene
to hear jazz," Schimming says
Also, the people who go out
and listen to jazz are not
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sure, Jazz Lab Band I has made
impressive accomplishments
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place in the four-year college
division at the first Oregon
Collegiate Jazz festival at
Willamette University, In past
years, the group also has
received first place ratings at
other festivals, including the
Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz
Festival at the University of
California at Berkeley
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