Faculty CD just released
■ A creative set of classical
music was recently compiled
by a trio of university music
school professors
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
Faculty members at the Univer
sity’s School of Music do more
than teach music — they also cre
ate it.
Trio Pacifica, a musical ensem
ble composed of Kathryn Luckten
berg, associate professor of violin,
Steven Pologe, associate professor
of cello, and Victor Steinhardt,
professor of piano, recently re
leased their first CD, entitled “The
Call of the Wild.”
Using an innovative mix of nar
ration from several novels and
their own music, the trio hopes to
heighten the excitement of classi
cal music.
The trio received funding from
the University and from the Aaron
Copland Foundation, from which
they received a grant in 1999. The
CD was released on the CRi music
label after three years of work and
preparation.
“The CD-making process itself is
very humbling and purifying,”
Lucktenberg said. “You’re in a dif
ferent place in terms of how you
play and how you think.”
Composer Jon Deak created the
music for the CD, which is based
on four novels: “Steppenwolf,”
“1984,” “Call of the Wild” and
“My Antonia.”
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“We’re doing it because we want
to show the campus and the Eu
gene community — and, I guess,
the world — that we are taking
control of our vote, and that we
care,” said Brandy Alexander, pub
lic relations coordinator for the
MCC.
The ASUO’s drop box appears
to have done its job, attracting bal
lots from University students as
well as other community mem
bers, such as state Rep. Vicki Walk
er, who is running for re-election
this term.
But there’s a chance that the edi
fice may be torn down without
having reached its desired status of
the “World’s Largest Ballot Box.”
Breslow said that the box can’t
really be called the “world’s
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Oregon Health Plan,” Kitzhaber
said. “Vicki is a supporter of the tu
ition freeze and a tireless advocate
of block grants.”
In the past week, prominent De
mocrats such as former presiden
tial candidate Bill Bradley and the
Rev. Jesse Jackson have come to the
University. All of them have told
students to vote and gave strong
support for Vice President A1 Gore.
Now that the countdown to the
election is in full swing, Kitzhaber
instructed rally participants to per
sonally contact 10 friends to get
them to vote.
Walker is a University alumnae
and a parent of two students who
currently attend the school. As a
result, Walker said she understands
the needs of college students for in
expensive health care and tuition.
“You can count on me to repre
sent you in the 2001 legislation,”
Walker said. . .
“Jon’s music was immediately
appealing because of the theatrics
required of the performers,” Luck
tenberg said, adding that one
unique aspect to this music is that
the performers try to speak the text
of the novels while playing, so
there are a lot of added sound ef
fects woven into the music.“We
narrate and play the music simul
taneously, so it all tells a story,”
Lucktenberg said. “This was a
challenge because we all had to
learn this new technique.”
The professors came together as
CC TheCD-making
process itself is very
humbling and purifying.
You’re in a different place
in terms of how you play
and how you think.
Kathryn Lucktenberg
associate professor of violin
V
Trio Pacifica in 1993 after husband
and wife, Pologe and Lucktenberg,
interviewed for faculty positions at
the University. The couple, who
formerly performed with the Hon
olulu Symphony as full time musi
cians, met Steinhardt during their
music auditions when he was as
signed as their piano accompani
ment.
“We decided to try out this aca
demic world,” Pologe said, “and
largest” because communication
with the Guinness Book of World
Records has broken down. The
only contact person he had failed
to answer his e-mails. Recently,
the e-mails he sent have started
coming back to him.
Even so, Breslow said he plans
to continue working on pulling to
gether the items necessary to ob
tain “world’s largest” status for the
box.
In the meantime, the ASUO will
continue its effort to remind peo
ple to turn in their ballots. Their
Youth Vote 2000 campaign con
sists of “canvassing” — going
door-to-door — and making phone
calls to some of the more than
5,000 voters the ASUO registered
during its voter registration drive
earlier this term. Door-to-door con
tacts were conducted last week
end, while phone calls to a list of
1,650 student voters have been
Walker thanked the students for
being the most registered campus
in the nation.
“I care about these issues. I know
the value of an education,” Walker
said. “I wouldn’t be where I am to
I care about these
issues. I know the value of
an education. I wouldn't
be where I am today with
out my education at the
University.
Vicki Walker
State representative
day without my education at the
University.”
Walker attended the University
between 1974 and 1978. She main
tained a 4.0 grade point average
during the spring term of 1978
when she took 15 credits, despite
we felt an instant connection with
Steinhardt.”
“We formed our group and have
performed concerts throughout
Oregon, Hawaii, Washington and
we toured Taiwan in the spring of
1998,” Pologe said. “But we had
not made a CD yet.”
Pologe also said the CD making
process was intense work, but he
was amazed by the way recording
technology made the group sound.
“Everything in the studio was
set up to maximize the greatest po
tential of each instrument. You
could never put on a concert like
that,” he said.
Steinhardt agrees that while
making the CD was a lot of work,
overall he enjoyed the rehearsals.
It was exciting to speak and make
sound effects while playing, he
said.
Steinhardt said he has talked
with the other members of Trio
Pacifica about future projects and
looks forward to continuing the
ensemble’s work.
“I hope we have many more oc
casions to play together because I
truly enjoy working with them,”
he said.
Trio Pacifica is holding a concert
at Beall Concert Hall on Thursday,
Nov. 9, where they will perform
one of the pieces from their CD,
“The Wager at El Dorado Saloon.”
The trio will also be performing
other well-known classical works
from Mozart and Brahms. General
admission is $7 and $4 for stu
dents and seniors. The perform
ance will begin at 8 p.m
made in a series of three rounds,
with the last round set to take
place today.
The entire effort is part of a
study by Donald Green, a professor
of political science at Yale Univer
sity. Green has been examining
what affects voter turnout — how
and why people vote — for the
past 12 years.
Through his studies, Unger said,
Green has found that canvassing is
one of the best ways to get people
to vote.
Green is also studying what hap
pens when voters are left alone, so
the ASUO has set aside a “control
group” of people they aren’t con
tacting at all.
After the election, Unger said,
Green will follow up with some of
the voters by conducting a mini
questionnaire asking what made
them decide to either vote or not
vote.
being pregnant with her son, who
is now a fifth-year senior.
Walker said when students make
informed votes on the ballot meas
ure they have a crucial impact on
services with which they are pro
vided.
“I brought my ballot to drop off
today,” said ASUO intern and sen
ior psychology major Lauren Ben
nett, who helped organize the
ASUO’s ballot measure presenta
tions this fall. “I agree with a lot of
what Gov. Kitzhaber said ... and I’d
like to show support for the issues
he is behind. I think this is going to
be a really close election.”
Lauren Manes, a junior linguis
tics major who is the publicity di
rector and secretary for College De
mocrats said she throws her
support behind Walker. She attend
ed the rally along with other stu
dents to place her vote in the
“World’s Biggest Ballot Box.”
“I was already planning to vote,
but I figured this would be the time
to do it,” Manes said.
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