MAESTRO Movie Talk

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DR. ANTOHONY BUSHARD | Professor of Music History, Associate Director for Faculty Affairs

Anthony J. Bushard received a B.A. in music (piano) from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, as well as a M.M. and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Kansas. He is a member of the American Musicological Society, College Music Society, Society for American Music, Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, and a two-time recipient of the Milton Steinhardt Scholarship in musicology at the University of Kansas. Also while at KU, he was a harpsichordist for the KU Collegium Musicum and the Spencer Consort.

Dr. Bushard’s dissertation, entitled Fear and Loathing in Hollywood: Representations of Fear, Paranoia, and Individuality vs. Conformity in Selected Film Music of the 1950s, considers the musicodramatic implications of the scores for High Noon (1952), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), and On the Waterfront (1954) alongside sociopolitical undercurrents of the 1950s. This work is featured in the Journal of Film Music, Studies in Musical Theatre, College Music Symposium, Leonard Bernstein’s On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide (Scarecrow Press, 2013), Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age (Oxford University Press, 2015), and forthcoming in Leonard Bernstein: In Context (ed. Elizabeth Wells, Cambridge University Press).

DR. TYLER WHITE | Professor of Composition and Conduction, Director of Orchestras

Dr. White has been Director of Orchestras at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 1994, leading the orchestra program in a period of extraordinary growth and achievement. Under his direction, the UNL Symphony Orchestra has been recognized as one of America’s finest collegiate ensembles, selected to perform at national and regional conventions of the Music Educators National Conference. Before coming to Nebraska, White led orchestras at Cornell University and Trinity University (Texas); he appears regularly as guest conductor and clinician with student orchestras nationwide.

In 1997, White’s cello concerto Threnos (William Schuman in memoriam) became the first work by a Nebraskan to win the Omaha Symphony’s International New Music Competition, and in 1999 his opera O Pioneers!, the first-ever operatic treatment of a Willa Cather novel, was premiered at UNL and televised on Nebraska Public Television. In 2001, Dr. White was named Composer of the Year by the Nebraska Music Teachers Association.