Music Department. Dr. Duncan, the
quering American soldier as part of a
festival's organizer, will be organ solo-
show of strength."
ist in the performance, which also fea-
He founded the Seventh Army
tures the brass and percussion ensem- Orchestra in 1952 to find an appro-
ble from the Detroit Symphony Civic
priate niche for musicians who had
Orchestra, WSU's Concert Chorale and been drafted, while also improving
Symphonic Chorus, the Archdiocesan
America's image in Europe. His work
Chorus and the Vanguard Voices.
with the orchestra earned him the
Adler composed Transfiguration
Army's Medal of Honor.
in response to a commission from
Most recently professor of composi-
the Church of Transfiguration at the
tion at New York's Juilliard School of
Community of Jesus in Cape Cod.
Music, Adler began his civilian career
"The commissioners wanted a work
as music director of Temple Emanu-
that was truly American and ecumeni- El in Dallas. He taught from 1966
cal," Dr. Duncan said. "We are proud to through 1995 at Eastman School of
present this work that is truly worth
Music, retiring as chair of the compo-
hearing."
sition department.
Among the other pieces on the Feb.
In selecting Adler as this year's hon-
17 program will be A Prophecy of
oree, Dr. Duncan praised "the depth
Peace, Adler's choral arrangement
and freshness of his compositional
of the words from Prophets (Micah
techniqu'
4:14): "They shall beat their swords
In Adler's music, Dr. Duncan said,
into plowshares and their spears into
the listener can hear the influence of
pruning hooks ..."
his teachers, especially composers Paul
Adler, whose family escaped from
Hindemith and Randall Thompson,
Germany in 1939 when he was 10 years along with "the distinctive modality
old, graduated from Boston University
and counterpoint from the Jewish tra-
and earned a master's degree from
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Harvard University before being draft-
ed into the U.S. Army.
The Festival of American Choral
In a 2002 interview published in
Music final concert will be held
the Boston University Alumni
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb.17, at
Quarterly, Adler remembered arriv-
Cathedral of the Most Blessed
ing back in Germany in 1951. "My
Sacrament, 9844 Woodward Ave.,
family had left in the worst circum-
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stances in 1939, and here I was a con- the door. (313) 577-1775.
publicity over the Donald Trump-
Rosie feud?
JB: He went bananas. He loves public-
ity. But all the media attention didn't
surprise me because that's what peo-
ple want to hear. Horrible things are
going on in the world, we are in a war
we can't get out of and we are worried
we are going to be attacked [by terror-
ists] again. So a celebrity feud is very
distracting.
JN: Do you ever talk to former View
co-host Star Jones?
JB: No. None of us has seen or heard
from her.
JN: Do you still keep in touch with
former co-host Meredith Vieira
(now a co-anchor on the Today
show)?
JB: Yes, we have a similar way of look-
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and doesn't put on any airs. She is not
a camera hog, and I love her.
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