LECTURE/PRESENTATIONS ON CREATIVE WORK

"Compositions by Rusche," lecture/presentation at Wednesday Feast, First Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR, 9/13/06.  

“Hearing the Grass Grow, My Water Buffalo,” premiere concert and composer lecture/presentation, Indiana Music Teachers Association state convention, Sauder Hall, Goshen College, IN, 11/22/03.

“Dreaming the RagWaltz Blues,” pre-concert panel discussion with Tsung Yeh, South Bend Symphony Orchestra conductor and Jeffrey Biegel, piano, Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, IN, 4/26/03.

“Fanfare for the Millennium,” pre-concert panel discussion with the conductor, Maestro Tsung Yeh, South Bend Symphony Orchestra, Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, IN, 4/8/00;  introductory remarks at a concert preview luncheon for the South Bend Symphony Orchestra League, 4/7/00.

“Arctic Chill,” pre-concert lecture/presentation, Indiana University South Bend Philharmonic, 12/14/00.

Guest composer at FESTIVAL 30:  NEW MUSIC, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 3/30&31/00; lecture/presentation on compositions at composition seminar, 3/30/00.

Guest composer residency with DuPage Chorale, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL; pre-premiere remarks, McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, 3/21/99.

“The Opera/Music Theater Crossroads:  The Development of She Stoops to Conquer,” lecture/presentation for the Latin American Music Center’s Crossroads of Traditions:  The Second InterAmerican Composition Workshop convened by Carmen Tellez at the Indiana University-Bloomington School of Music, IN, 7/9/96; masterclass in opera with John Corigliano, 7/96.

“Goddess Songs and Building a Career as a Composer,” lecture/presentation at the Minnesota Center for Arts Education, Minneapolis, MN, 5/23/96.

“The Creative Process,” lecture/presentation for Judith Lang Zaimont’s Composers Lab, a graduate composition seminar at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 5/21/96. 

Discussion of the compositional process of Mood Etudes, duet for Bb Clarinets, with music composition and theory students at the Bloomingdale House of Music, New York, NY, 1/26/93.

Panelist in a pre-concert discussion of works, Minnesota Composers Forum concert, Ordway McKnight Theatre, St. Paul, MN, 4/12/87.

Video presentation and discussion of chamber opera, Dance of Death, MacPhail Center for the Performing Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 10/86.