Holdings Alumni Association Alumni Glenna Spitze Papers Finding Aid By Nolan Vallier
Title: Glenna Spitze Papers, 1942-1978
ID: 26/20/212
Primary Creator: Spitze, Glenna D. (1949-)
Extent: 0.5 cubic feet
Arrangement: Materials are arranged alphabetically by name of music ensemble and then material type.
Date Acquired: 08/04/2017. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Brün, Herbert (1918-2000), Choral music, High School Music, Illinois Summer Youth Music, Johnston, Ben (1926-2019), Music, School of, Music - United States, Music theater, Opera, Rock Music, Rock musicians United States, Summer Youth Music, Vocal music
Formats/Genres: Concert Programs, Librettos, Posters, Sound Recordings
Languages: English
Consists of concert programs, posters, scores with annotations, and audio recordings documenting music performances that Glenna Spitze either performed in or attended during her time as a student at the University of Illinois between 1967 and 1979. Of interest are audio recordings by the band Spoils of War as well as concert programs featuring ensembles led by Neely Bruce and Herbert Brün.
Glenna Dean Spitze (1949- ) was born in Madison, Wisconsin. The daughter of Hazel Taylor and Robert Spitze, she was raised in Champaign, IL, after her mother and father were both hired at the University of Illinois. She received her bachelor's in sociology from the University of Illinois in 1971. After attending a masters degree program at the University of California Berkeley in 1972, she returned to the University of Illinois, earning both her master's (1975) and PhD (1979) in sociology. While she was a student at the University of Illinois, Spitze was active in many choral music ensembles. She sang in two ensembles that were directed by Neely Bruce, the American Music Group and the Contemporary Music Group. During her tenure in these ensembles, Spitze sang in the University of Illinois' premieres of Gertude Stein and Virgil Thomson's "Four Saints in Three Acts" and George Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle." In addition, she helped premier several pieces by Ben Johnston, Lou Harrison, Kenneth Gaburo, William Brooks, William Duckworth, and John Cage. While studying at Illinois, she also attended several performances given by students and associates of Herbert Brün.
After earning a doctoral dissertation grant from the Department of Labor (1977-1979), Spitze wrote a dissertation entitled, "Work Commitment Among Young Women: Its Relation to Labor, Force Participation, Marriage, and Childbearing." In 1979 she was hired as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Albany, SUNY. She received tenure in 1984 and chaired the department from 1997 until 2000. In 1991, she became a joint faculty member in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. In 2002, she earned the title of Distinguished Service Professor. After retiring in 2013, she served as O'Leary Professor until 2014.
Spitze is the author of four books and over 70 articles on the subjects of aging families, household labor, and divorce. Her 1996 book Family Ties: Enduring Relations between Parents and Their Grown Children, was the recipient of the Goode Distinguished Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association. Spitze also served on the editorial boards of eleven journals in the field of sociology.
Brün, Herbert (1918-2000)
Choral music
High School Music
Illinois Summer Youth Music
Johnston, Ben (1926-2019)
Music, School of
Music - United States
Music theater
Opera
Rock Music
Rock musicians United States
Summer Youth Music
Vocal music
Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Spoils of War (James Cuomo) sound recording donated by Paul Nance and Glenna Spitze on August 4, 2017, and originally preserved as part of the Musical Americana Collection. A second body of material was donated by Glenna Spitze on June 16, 2018, and the Spoils of War recording was later transferred to the Glenna Spitze Papers.
Addition received May 15, 2019.
Acquisition Source: gift
LP. Junior String Camp conducted by Herman H. Slayman, Senior String Camp conducted by Paul Rolland, Junior Chorus Conducted by Colleen Kirk.
Side 1: Junior String Camp - "March Alceste," Gluck; "Gavotte," Handel; "Chorale and Fugue," Siennicki. Senior String Camp - "Adagio," Corelli-Filippi; "Minuetto," Bolzoni; "Capriol Suite," Warlock.
Side 2: Junior Chorus - "Praise we sing to thee," Haydn; "Grant us Peace," Rosenmuller; "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire," Bach; "My Heart Doth Beg You'll not Forget," di Lasso; "Maiden Fair," Haydn; "Deep River," arr. Burleigh; "Gossip, Gossip," Hairston; "I'd Enter Your Garden," Brahms; "The Ash Grove," Swanson; "Ching-a-Ring Chaw," Copland
LP. Conductors include Harry Begian, Margaret Hills, Edward Jones, Dale Kimpton, Colleen Kirk, Frank Laurie, Donald Mcginnis, Raymond Makeever, Donald Miller, James Robertson, Herman Slayman.
Side 1: Chorus - "Laudate Nomen Domini," Tye; "Swell the Full Chorus," Handel; "Everytime I feel the Spirit," arr. Smith; "Alleluia," Bach; "Piping Tim of Galway," arr. Swanson; "Gute Nacht;" "I Gave my Love a Pretty Little Ring," Davis; "I Like Men;" "Glory to Thee, My God, This Night," Tallis; "Cantate Domino," Pitoni; "To music," Schubert; "Little Wheel a Turnin," Kirk.
Side 2: Senior String Camp - "Variations on a Theme by Girolamo Frescobaldi," Tansman; "Divertimento, op. 20" Weiner. Junior String Camp - "Little Classic Suite," Akers; "Gavotte and Finale," Aubert; "Allegro from Fire Music," Handel-Carse; "Mr. Miller."
LP. Harold Decker, conducting.
Side 1: "Ave Verum," W.A. Mozart; "Te Deum," W.A. Mozart; "Good Morrow, My Lady;" "Here amid the Shady Woods," G.F. Handel; "Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee," Brahms; "Alleluia from Brazilian Psalm," Jean Berger.
Side 2: "Spring Comes Laughing from the Peasant Cantata," J.S. Bach; "Six Folk Songs," Brahms; "Shalom," Samuel Adler; "I hear a voice a-praying," Houston Bright; "Behold a star," arr. Dawson; "Ain'a That Good News," arr. Dawson.
LP. Dennis Sparger, conductor.
Side 1: "Mass in G Major," Franz Schubert. Soloists: Jane Bonner, soprano; Mike Zbrozek, Tenor; Bill Munse, Baritone.
Side 2: "Make Joyful Noise unto the Lord," Lekberg; "Salvation is Created," Tschesnokoff; "Amen," arr. Hairston; "I'm Sad and I'm Lonely," arr. Maharg; "No Man is an Island," Berger; "Deep River," arr. Ringwald; "The Lord Bless you and Keep you," Lutkin.
LP. Conducted by Donald Cuthbert and Eward Sprague.
Side 1: "A Festival Prelude," Alfred Reed; "Liebestod," arr. Bainum; "Suite Francaise," Milhaud; "Minuteman," Pearson.
Side 2: "Choral from Die Meistersinger," Wagner; "Gloria in Excelsis," Mozart; "Michigan Morn," Owen Reed; "Ain'a That Good News," Dawson; "The Turtle Dove," Ralph Vaughn Williams; "Choose Something Like a Star from Frostiana," R. Thompson.
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