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genre of music. The new sound sys
tem is one of the possible features
that excites Villec most.
“Most public address systems are
designed for voices or speeches or
rock ’n’ roll,” Villec said. “They
hurt your ears.”
The school of music plans to
make the renovations through pri
vate donations and funds from the
state. Senate Bill 5525, which Gov.
John Kitzhaber signed into law
Aug. 8, guarantees that if the school
can raise half of the $15.2 million
construction cost, the state will pay
for the rest.
With only $700,000 raised, the
performance hall is still in the con
ceptual stage, said Joan Gardner,
the school’s development director.
However, she added that the school
is actively courting University
donors to help raise the rest of its
half, which it must have by June
2003 to receive matching funds
from the state.,
“The school of music has a tough
road ahead, with athletics and the
school of business competing for the
same University donors,” Gardner
said. “If we meet that, then we could
be breaking ground about summer
2003. It’s going to be a daunting
prospect to raise the money.”
She added that the school is
searching for a donor to give be
tween $1 million and $3 million to
jump-start the campaign. Although
the Paul Allen Foundation turned
down the request, Gardner said the
school plans to apply to other ma
jor donors, including Allen’s foun
dation again later, offering to name
newly built wings and studios after
the more generous givers.
Building more practice rooms,
offices and classrooms will help
combat a growing problem of over
crowding, McLucas said. With the
lack of space, students are being
forced to practice in whatever
spaces they can find, and teachers
are being forced to share offices that
were once storage closets.
“We have GTFs that are some
times packed 10 to an office,” she
said. “Its ridiculous that they have
to schedule themselves so closely.”
McLucas said an improved mu
sic school will be good for the state
of Oregon in general.
“We supply some of the major
musicians for this state and all
over,” McLucas said, adding that
about 40 percent of the people in
volved in the Grammy-winning
Oregon Bach Festival were associ
ated with the University.
Although the school will con
tinue to use Beall Hall for tradi
tional concerts, McLucas said the
new facility’s focus on electronic
music will also enhance educa
tional ability.
“We are now in a new century
and music has changed a lot, and
the training for what you need to
know in music has changed a lot,”
she said. “We have a wonderful up
to-date computer lab and an elec
tronic music lab, and they are all in
facilities that are almost laughable,
they are so cramped.”
State support for the new pro
grams and facilities is growing.
“Emerging music forms require
progressive education. The school
of music's new facility will provide
opportunities for their students to
reach new heights in music compo
sition,” said U.S. Sen. Gordon
Smith, R-Oregon, in a press release.
Intermedia technology master’s
student Andrew Lane said that a
modern music hall would attract
students, performances and guest
artists, which would all have a pos
itive impact on the University.
“Having a facility like this puts
us not only on the map, but puts us
in as the leading facility in music
technology,” he said.
Music Professor Jeffrey Stolet
said the building would enhance
both the school’s instructional abil
ity and prestige.
“It enriches the public,” he said.
“When they leave a performance,
they’ve been taught something.”
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