LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 5, 2005) -- The University of Kentucky School of Music inducted four new members into the Carl A. Lampert Music Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame, started in 1996, honors Carl A. Lampert, the first chairman of the UK Music Department (now the School of Music) and composer of UK’s fight song "On, On, U of K" and its Alma Mater.
The Hall of Fame awards are given biennially in two categories, School of Music alumni and for special friends of the School and community.
The 2005 induction ceremony was held during the School of Music's annual Scholarship Benefit Gala Celebration Concert April 22 in UK’s Singletary Center for the Arts. The concert featured nearly 350 students in the UK Symphony Orchestra and Choirs with soloists and the Lexington Singers Children's Choir performing Carl Orff's “Carmina Burana.” Also on the program were Berlioz’s “ Roman Carnival” and Mozart’s “Symphonie Concertante.”
Inductees were honored by the UK Friends of Music at a celebratory dinner prior to the Scholarship Benefit Gala Celebration Concert. The four inductees for 2005 are:
Timothy S. Brophy holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Memphis. He earned his doctorate in music education from UK. In 2000, the Council for Research in Music Education recognized Brophy’s 1998 dissertation, “ The Melodic Improvisations of Children Ages Six Through Twelve,” with an Outstanding Dissertation in Music Education award.
As an elementary music teacher, Brophy was awarded an Ashland Teacher Achievement Award, Memphis Rotary Club Rotary Award for Teacher Excellence, and was the first elementary music teacher to be honored at the Disney American Teacher Awards in 1998. His public school elementary choirs have appeared in the White House four times and have recorded six albums.
Brophy has had articles published in numerous prestigious journals, and has authored two books and a new music textbook series published by Warner Brothers Publications. Known internationally as an assessment specialist in music education, he has presented his work throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Phyllis Jenness, a former UK professor of vocal studies,has been a central figure for the UK School of Music for nearly 40 years. In addition to instructing hundreds of singers in the art and techniques of vocal production, she has taught vocal literature and choral conducting, and even directed the Women's Glee Club. She performed regularly throughout her tenure at UK, singing at least one recital per year in addition to concert performances.
Jenness instituted opera at the University, starting short scenes and one-act operas as early as 1955. In 1976, she presented UK’s first full-scale opera production Mozart’s “ The Marriage of Figaro” and directed opera regularly until 1989. Jenness was the founding director of The Lexington Singers, serving for nearly 20 years from its inception in 1958 to 1976, and she also served a five-year term as artistic director of Opera of Central Kentucky.
Jacqueline Roberts graduated from Oberlin Conservatory and earned a Master of Music in Voice at Miami University of Ohio. After singing leading roles in musicals in Ohio and serving as a member of the celebrated Robert Wagner Chorale, she moved to Lexington in 1964, where she has lived during the last four decades. In 1967, Roberts began touring with John Jacob Niles, who composed many of his art songs specifically for Roberts’ voice, including the twenty-two “ Niles-Merton Songs,” which she premiered in 1968 at UK’s Memorial Hall.
Roberts has participated in all the major Niles celebrations at UK and published “A Journey with John Jacob Niles” with UK Libraries for the inauguration of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music in April 2001.
Lucien Stark joined UK’s faculty in 1976 after serving as chairman of the piano faculty at George Peabody College in Nashville from 1961 to 1976. He earned his bachelor’s degree and a Master of Music at Drake University, and also studied in Munich , the Paris Conservatory, and at Juilliard School of Music. In 1961, while the recipient of a study grant from the Danforth Foundation, Stark completed his Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Michigan.
Late in his career, Stark turned his attention to the music of Johannes Brahms and has written two outstanding works on Brahms published by Indiana University Press – “A Guide to the Solo Songs of Johannes Brahms” and “Brahms’s Vocal Duets and Quartets with Piano.”
The 2005 inductions bring the number of members in the Carl A. Lampert Music Hall of Fame to 24.
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