These words, from "The Four Quartets" by modernist poet T.S. Eliot and quoted on the College Music Symposium website, conveys the idea that the future is contained in the past and vice versa. The board of editors of the premier journal of The College Music Society (CMS) honor the achievements of the past while pointing the way to the future. Because of them, Symposium remains, as it has throughout its 57-year history, a refereed service which presents the work of CMS members. They recently published my own research as a scholarly article entitled "An Analysis of Triadic Post-tonality in Sky Macklay’s Many Many Cadences for String Quartet." Other journals and the activities of other associations may run parallel to each other, but Symposium strives to be different; it seeks to rise above myopic provincialism. So when Symposium Editor for Scholarship and Research Dr. Donald A. Henriques of California State University Fresno says my paper is an "interesting and thought-provoking submission," I suppose I can take it with some authority that my article measures up to the lofty purpose and direction of the journal. But what do you think? Have I written a provocative and stimulating paper? Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2018.58.sr.11367
College Music Symposium: "Down the Passage Which We Did Not Take"
ZANE GILLESPIE
After six years as Minister of Music at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church (UMC) in Holly Springs, MS, I was recently called to continue to work to address public engagement in music participation as Director of Music Ministries at First UMC in Water Valley, MS. I am a Composer, Theorist, and member of both The College Music Society as well as The Poe Studies Association (PSA). I am also an active pianist and vocalist, specializing primarily in church music. My paper entitled ““Mesmeric Revelation”: Art as Hypnosis” has been published by the international, peer-reviewed journal Humanities. In addition, another paper of mine entitled “A Model of Triadic Post-Tonality for a Neoconservative Postmodern String Quartet by Sky Macklay” has been submitted to the peer-reviewed Music Theory journal Perspectives of New Music. At the end of February 2015, I served as Chair for the session entitled “Aesthetics and Philosophy” at The Fourth International PSA Conference in New York City. On June 21, 2014, my Quartet for Alto Saxophone and Strings, a commission from concert saxophonist Walter Hoehn, was performed as part of Concert V of the Eighth Annual Belvedere Chamber Music Festival held at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Memphis, TN. Characteristically neo-romantic (in the original sense of the word), my music earned me the Nancy Van de Vate Award for Composition three times from the University of Mississippi Department of Music. A native of Pontotoc, MS, I hold degrees from the University of Mississippi (BM; MM), and the University of Memphis (DMA) where I was the 2011 recipient of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music's Smit Composition Award. I live in Memphis, TN.