By Lisa Bartholow
The School of Music will host “Celebration ’99,” the 31st annual symposium of the International Horn Society, May 18-23.
 The six-day symposium includes performances by featured artists, competitions for college students, premieres of new works, performances by collegiate horn ensembles, and exhibits of instruments and music. Wellness workshops will focus on preventive measures to help avoid physical injury from horn playing--repetitive stress, TMJ, and the like. There will be yoga and stretching classes, chair massages, workshops on performance psychology and much more.
A silent auction, featuring lessons and recordings donated by artists as well as meals, services and merchandise donated by area merchants, will benefit the IHS scholarship fund.
Unique to this year’s conference is the High School HornFest--a one-day festival on May 22 for high school students that runs concurrently with the international workshop. The students will participate in a solo competition, a master class, a horn ensemble (which will perform for the large group in the evening), a panel on how to choose a college and many other events.
Top college undergraduates from around the world will form the All-College All-Star Horn Ensemble under the direction of David Krehbiel, retired principal horn of the San Francisco Symphony, and Clarendon Van Norman, retired principal horn of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. The ensemble will perform twice during the conference.
Featured artists include the full horn sections of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and of the New York Philharmonic (including Allen Spanjer, a native of Cedartown, Ga.); Jai Hui of the Shanghai Symphony; Young-Yul Kim from the Seoul Conservatory of Music; Ifor James, the legendary British horn player formerly of the renowned Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Alejandro Nunez of Basel, Switzerland; Andrei Gluhkov, principal horn of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic; Frank Lloyd, noted British recording artist; and Jennifer Montone, a young phenom from New York City and winner of the inaugural Paxman Young Horn Player of the Year award in 1997.
Nine of the visiting collegiate horn ensembles will perform in area churches on May 23 for 11 a.m. worship services. The Athens BrewPub will present evening performances by noted jazz horn players in town for the symposium, at 9:30 and 11 p.m. on May 18, 19, 20 and 22.
The symposium will include several evening performances in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center, all free and open to the public. On May 18 an international roster of performers, conducted by UGA’s Mark Cedel, will present an eight-horn arrangement of Hector Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival Overture.” There will also be solo performances by Jennifer Montone and Andrei Gluhkov. The New York Philharmonic horn section will perform on May 21 and the “Celebration ’99” horn choirs will perform on May 22.
A series of free outdoor lunchtime concerts at 12:15 p.m. will be heard all over campus on May 18, 19, 20 and 21.
The International Horn Society, formed in 1970, is dedicated to the performance, teaching, composition, research, preservation and promotion of the horn as a musical instrument. The IHS sponsors scholarships, composition projects and archives, as well as annual regional workshops and one international symposium each year. Last year’s symposium was in Banff. A 12-member contingent from China will be attending this year’s symposium in preparation for the 2000 event, which will be held in Beijing.
For registration or other information, call the “Celebration ’99” hotline (542-4752) or visit the Web site (www.uga.edu/music/ihs99).
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The university will hold two brief ceremonies May 20 to open the new North Campus parking deck and begin converting the Herty Drive parking lot into green space.
President Michael F. Adams will preside at a ceremony at the entrance of the North Campus deck at 10 a.m. to officially open the $8.5 million structure. Drivers can begin using the deck’s 1,200 spaces at 11 a.m.
A few minutes later, Adams will climb aboard a bulldozer and dig up a piece of asphalt in the Herty Drive parking lot, located in front of Candler Hall. That lot won’t be available for parking after May 21 as workers turn it into a park-like area with grass, flowers and shrubs.
The two ceremonies are the first steps in implementing a long-range campus master plan UGA adopted last year. One of the plan’s central themes is making the campus more attractive and pedestrian-friendly by eliminating surface parking from the campus interior and creating more green space.
Two hundred surface parking spaces were eliminated to build the North Campus parking deck, which is located between Jackson and Thomas streets. Six hundred of the deck’s 1,200 spaces will be allotted to faculty and staff and 600 to students.
The deck will relieve a long-standing parking shortage for employees and students who work and study in buildings in the area bounded by Broad, Jackson, Baldwin and Lumpkin streets.
Converting the Herty Drive lot to green space is a key feature of the master plan. The lot covers an area known earlier in this century as Herty Field, where UGA’s baseball and football teams played until 1911. Later it was used for intramural athletics and ROTC drills. The area
is believed to have been paved for parking in the 1930s.
The new lawn will be encircled by a small street for emergency vehicles, and will have gravel walking paths with benches. When completed in September, it will be an area for relaxation, and will also be available for outdoor gatherings.
There will be no parking places at the field. Employees who have been parking in the lot will use the North Campus deck.
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