Dr. Luke B. Howard

Conference papers and public presentations

“From Trance Music to Dance Music: Minimalism and the Body.”

Paper presented at the Midwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Madison, Wisconsin), 19 April 1998. A longer version of this paper was presented as part of the MSU New Music Festival (Moorhead, Minnesota), 23 April 1998.

“Laying the Foundation: The Reception of Górecki’s Third Symphony, 1977-1992.”

Paper presented as part of the “Górecki Autumn” symposium at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California), 5 October 1997.

“The Role of Popular Culture and Mass Media in the Marketing of Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony.”

Paper presented at “Cross(over) Relations,” part of the “Popular Music and the Canon: Old Boundaries Reconsidered” symposium at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York), 28 September 1996. A version of this paper was also delivered at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture and American Culture Associations at Bowling Green (Ohio), 16 November 1996.

“A Reluctant Requiem: Górecki's Third Symphony and Its Effect on the Marketing of Other Contemporary Works.”

Paper presented at the National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia (Melbourne), 6 July 1996.

“William Billings, William Schuman: The Triptych and the Icon.”

Paper presented at the National Conference of the Sonneck Society for American Music (Washington, D.C.), 23 March 1996.

“Pan-Slavic Parallels: Language, Religion, and Musical Style in the Works of Stravinsky and Szymanowski.”

Paper presented at the National Conference of Soyuz / The Post-Soviet Cultural Studies Group of the American Anthropological Society (Ann Arbor, Michigan), 14 March 1996.

“‘Is Nothing Sacred?’: Silence in the Music of Arvo Pärt.”

Public lecture delivered under the auspices of the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor (Michigan), 12 November 1995. A longer version of this paper was presented as part of the MSU New Music Festival (Moorhead, Minnesota), 28 April 1998.

“Henryk Górecki and the Minimalists.”

Paper presented at the Rocky Mountains Chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society (Tempe, Arizona), 6 March 1993.

Journal articles and scholarly publications.

“Motherhood, Billboard, and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Receptions of Górecki’s Symphony No. 3.”

Article due to be published in Musical Quarterly 82/1 (Spring 1998).

“Three Composers, Three Decades: The Shifting Reputations of Lutoslawski, Penderecki, and Górecki from the 1960s to the 1990s.”

Published in Periphery: The Journal of Polish Affairs 3/1-2 (1997): 110-13.

“Pan-Slavic Parallels in the Music of Stravinsky and Szymanowski.”

Published in Context No. 13 (Winter, 1997): 1-10.

“God Is Not Needed by the Saints: An Interview with Henryk Górecki.”

Published in Periphery: The Journal of Polish Affairs 2/1-2 (1996): 18-20.

“An Interview with Henryk Mikolaj Górecki.”

Published in Paris New Music Review 2/3 (Summer, 1995): 4-7.

“Poloneza czas zaczac: Polish Music in Ann Arbor.”

Published in Periphery: The Journal of Polish Affairs 1 (1995):72-73.

“Polish Composers and Music at Michigan.”

Published in Journal of the International Institute 2/2 (Winter, 1995): 3.

August 1997 - Present

Assistant Professor (Department of Music), Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota.
Teaching responsibilities include:

• Music 150 -- Group piano
• Music X55a -- Applied piano
• Music 226 -- Collegium musicum
• Music 301 -- 20th-century music survey
• Music 302 -- Classic / Romantic music survey
• Music 341 -- Middle Ages / Renaissance music survey
• Music 630 -- Research techniques and bibliography
• Music 640 -- Directed study in music history
• Music 645 -- 20th-century music seminar

Other responsibilities include:

• Faculty advising for undergraduate music majors
• Supervising independent study
• Service on graduate student thesis committees
• Member of the university’s graduate faculty
• Service on departmental PR committee, curriculum committee, graduate committee, and music industry position search committee

October 1994 - Present

Program annotator, University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• Program notes for concerts and recitals including performances by Van Cliburn, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Ursula Oppens, Garrick Ohlsson, Krzysztof Penderecki and the Warsaw Sinfonia, Borodin String Quartet, American String Quartet, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Trio Fontenay, Michigan Chamber Players, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, and the UMS Choral Union.

September 1995 - May 1996

Graduate Student Instructor (School of Music, University of Michigan), Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• MHM 239 -- History of Music (Middle Ages - Baroque)
• MHM 240 -- History of Music (Classical - Modern)

January 1995 - May 1996

Teaching Assistant (Center for Russian and East European Studies), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• POL 410 -- Polish culture (music)
• POL 410 -- Polish culture (film)

November 1994 - May 1995

Contributing Editor, Periphery: The Journal of Polish Affairs, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

September 1993 - May 1994

Adjunct Instructor (Department of Continuing Eductaion), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

• Music 101 -- Introduction to music

January 1992 - May 1993

Teaching Assistant (Department of Music), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

• Music 301 -- Medieval / Renaissance music survey
• Music 302 -- Baroque music survey
• Music 303 -- Romantic music survey
• Music 304 -- 20th-century music survey

December 1985 - December 1986

Statistical clerk (Membership and Statistical Records Department), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sydney, Australia.
Responsibilities include:

• Collection and production of statistical reports
• Word-processing
• Spreadsheet computing.

May 1984 - November 1985

Full-time missionary, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah Salt Lake City North Mission.

March 1983 - April 1984

Computer Operator (Technical Operations Division), Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney, Australia.

• Piano adjudicator for the Minnesota Music Teacher’s Association (1998).

• Conversational and reading fluency in Polish and French; reading fluency in German.

• Experience in Internet resources, web-page design and HTML.

• Pre-concert presentations given at performances by the Jackson (Michigan) Symphony Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (1995).

• Singer in numerous professional, civic, and church choirs in Australia and the United States.

• Extensive experience as a freelance accompanist, vocal coach, and church music consultant.

• Research interests include: 20th-century Eastern European music, Minimalism, reception history and the sociology of music, art music in the recording industry.

• Graduate musicology seminar papers on topics including “J.S. Bach’s Use of Pre-Existent Melody in Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4”; “The Influence of Henry Purcell on Handel’s Chandos Anthems”; “A Comparison of the Orchestral and Oratorio Versions of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Die Sieben Worte des Erlösers”; "Evaluating Formal Structure in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 22"; “Urbanization in American Popular Song, 1880-1920”; “Erik Satie’s Messe des pauvres and Henryk Górecki’s O Domina Nostra: Close Siblings or Distant Cousins?”; “‘La Vallée des Boches’?: The War-Wounded Pianism of Ravel’s Frontispice”; “Condition Stable, But Pulse Weakening: Minimalist Music and the Body”; “Left-Handedness as an Indicator of Musical Aptitude: A Synthesis of Current Research”.

• Official accompanist for Pan-Pacific Choral Camps, Sydney (1991).

• Accompanist and Assistant Director, Bankstown City Choir (1989-90).

• Treasurer and Executive Committee Member, Sydney Conservatorium Students’ Association; member of Sydney Conservatorium / University of Sydney Amalgamation Committee (1989).

• First-prize winner (Piano Duet) at the 1988 City of Sydney Eisteddfod.

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