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decide who's keeping up and
who isn't, and it was my job
to do that. Some of the
changes made were especial-
ly difficult (to accept) for those
who . hadn't seen the or-
chestra's potential for na-
tional status."
Despite initial difficulties,
the NMSO was soon winning
over critics, however. Au-
dience attendance grew
steadily, and so did contribu-
tions to the orchestra. One
day in 1986, the NMSO
received an anonymous dona-
tion of $180,000.
"The donor expressed
great confidence in Stulberg
and his contribution to the or-
chestra," an orchestra official
told the press. The donation
erased the orchestra's ac-
cumulated debt.
The son of Samuel and
Judith Stulberg, the former
Birmingham Groves student
grew up in a family "geared
toward music." His mother
studied music at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, and the
Stulberg home was often fill-
ed with the music of pianos,
violins, and violas, played by
Neal and older brothers, Mike
and Robert.
Stulberg was pulling
himself up to the piano and
picking out songs he'd heard
others play when he was
three, and began his formal
study of music at six, with
Mischa Kottler. He spent his
first summer at the National
Music Camp at Interlochen,
when he was eight, and at-
tended for the next five sum-
mers, studying piano, violin
and viola. (Currently, he is
still active as a concert
pianist, and often conducts
from the piano.)
A student of Kottler for 12
years, he is quick to name the
veteran Detroit musician as
his most important mentor.
"I remember him as a
wonderful student," says Kot-
tler. "He did everything well
and, even when he was very
young, he was always quite
serious about his music. Most
students, when they are very
young, don't want to work at
it — they find practicing the
scales and all, rather
monotouous. But Neal always
worked hard."
Because of the important
influence of his early years of
study, Stulberg seems to feel
special concern for music
education and young music
fans.
"Albuquerque is a very
young city — the average age
here is 24 — and so our au-
dience is different to the
usual age of a symphony au-
dience," he said. "They're
open to new sounds, and very
curious to learn more about
classical music."
Stulberg said that, at the
beginning of each season,
pamphlets containing notes
on upcoming programs are
sent out to all NMSO season
ticket holders. In addition,
weeks before a concert, he
discusses, on radio station
KHFM in Albuquerque, what
will be performed. Finally,
about a half-hour before con-
certs, symphony-goers can at-
tend pre-concert lectures (at
no extra charge), and add to
their knowledge of that
night's entertainment.
"When I plan our programs,
I'm careful to choose standard
repertoire, but also to expand
the horizons of our audience,
to shape tastes, to let them
hear new repertoire," he said.
"As an example of what
we're trying to do, last year on
one program we performed
the American premiere of a
new concerto for alto sax and
a brand new instrument. It's
an instrument that's played
like a soprano sax, but is
hooked to a computer which
changes the sound in an in-
finite variety of ways."
The piece, composed by com-
puter music pioneer, Morton
Subotnick, "brought its share
of applause and boos," accor-
ding to Stulberg.
"But we're very proud to
have been the first orchestra
to do it," he said. "I think
there's an important future
for a new generation of
musical instruments."
As to Stulberg's future,
along with his work at the
NMSO, he'll be serving as
guest conductor and pianist
next season with symphony
orchestras throughout the
United States, including the
St. Louis Symphony or-
chestra, the New World Sym-
phony in Miami and the
Pacific Symphony in Orange
County, Calif.
Travelling is nothing new
for the busy musician,
however.
"Recently, I was thinking
about it, and I calculated that
I've slept in 45 different cities
in the last year," he said.
He and wife, Leah Shah-
moon, a writer-editor,
manage to make it into
Detroit fairly regularly, he
said, and last spring visited
with his family in West
Bloomfield during Passover.
"Despite his busy, deman-
ding schedule, he's still
highly-committed to family,
to Judaism and to Israel,"
says his mother, adding that
Stulberg, a member of B'nai
Israel Congregation in Albu-
querque, does not conduct on
High Holidays.
When not involved in
something musical, Stulberg
often spends his time pursu-
ing his life-long interest in
world politics and communi-
ty affairs, gardening, or hik-
ing with his wife and his dog,
Josh.
Meanwhile, the beat goes
on at NMSO. Musicians'
salaries have improved to the
point that NMSO is now able
to be competitive in drawing
players from a national pool,
the budget has been increas-
ed by more than $1,000,000,
and reviewers regularly
praise the orchestra's perfor-
mances. There's even talk of
building a new concert hall in
Albuquerque. Still, Stulberg
sees much work to be done.
For now, though, it's en-
couraging to see the growing
enthusiasm of fans, and to
find such response as the
following review, which ap-
peared in The Albuquerque
Journal after a Shostakovich
concern last November: ".
(Stulberg) and the orchestra
achieved a level of blended,
high-impact performance
that put the ensemble onto a
new lane of achievement.
Listening to this concert was
not simply hearing a good
regional orchestra on a good
night. This achievement went
into the special realms of ex-
periences a listener will
remember for years. For long
stretches, it was like hearing
a major orchestra in New
York or Chicago on one of
their best nights." ❑
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