[NewMusic] Fwd: Dorothy Stone, 49, new music composer & Memorial Service

[Ernesto Diaz-Infante]

Dorothy Stone, 49, new music composer
VIRTUOSO FLUTIST DIRECTED PIECES
By Chris Pasles
Los Angeles Times
Article Launched: 03/14/2008 01:36:57 AM PDT
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8569675

Dorothy Stone, an award-winning composer and virtuoso flutist who in 
1981 co-founded the new music ensemble the California EAR Unit, has 
died. She was 49.

Stone was found dead March 7 by police at her home in Green Valley. No 
foul play is suspected, said her father, Jerome J. Stone of Kingston, 
Pa. Results of an autopsy are pending, he said.

Dorothy Ann Stone was born June 7, 1958, in Kingston. She received a 
bachelor's degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music in New 
York, where she studied with Harvey Sollberger, and a master of fine 
arts from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.

While at CalArts, she also studied composition with Stephen "Lucky" 
Mosko, Mel Powell, Leonard Stein and Morton Subotnick. She and Mosko 
married in 1989.

During her performing career, Stone premiered solo works throughout the 
United States and Europe and was showcased on National Public Radio and 
WGBH's "Art of the States" program.

She also built a special electronic system for her solo flute 
composition, "Wizard Ball," which received a Freeman Composition Award 
as well as prizes from the International League of Women Composers and 
the ARS Electronica festival in Brussels, Belgium.

She recorded for Crystal, New Albion, Cambria and other labels and 
played on Subotnick's Voyager CD-ROM, "All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis," 
which was written for her and members of the EAR Unit.

Her New World Records solo album, "None but the Lonely Flute," includes 
works composed for her by Milton Babbitt and Mosko, who wrote all of his 
flute music for her.

Other composers who wrote for her include Rand Steiger, William Roper, 
Ann Millikan and Louis Andriessen.

She and Mosko directed the U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's 
"Sternklang" for the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival in 1984.

Mosko died at their Green Valley home in 2005 at age 58. The couple had 
no children.


Subject: [alumni-special] Memorial Service for Dorothy Stone, Saturday, 
March 15, 2008 at 10:30 AM.
From: alumni <alumni at calarts.edu>
Date: 3:38 PM
To: alumni-special at alum.calarts.edu


Dear Friends and Colleagues,


It is with combined feelings of sadness and respect that I write to 
inform our community of the passing of a generous and courageous 
colleague, Dorothy Stone. Dorothy was a unique spirit, a champion and 
extraordinary interpreter of contemporary music. She possessed a unique 
mind and exhibited inspiring tenacity. She was a flutist, composer and 
conductor consistently hailed for her virtuosic and persuasive 
interpretations of the latest in musical literature. We all mourn the 
tragic loss of a beautiful, creative soul who had been suffering 
enormous grief after the death of her beloved husband, Stephen “Lucky” 
Mosko not long ago.

The following is a brief biography.
Dorothy Stone received her BM degree from the Manhattan School of Music, 
where she studied with Harvey Sollberger, and her MFA from CalArts. 
While at CalArts, she also studied composition with Stephen Mosko, Mel 
Powell, Leonard Stein and Morton Subotnick. For over 20 years she was 
the Artistic Director of the California EAR Unit, which she co-founded 
in 1981 and is the achievement of which she was certainly the most 
proud. During her performing career she appeared as soloist throughout 
the US and Europe as well as for NPR and WGBH's Art of the States 
program. She built a custom live electronic system for her solo flute 
composition, Wizard Ball, which received prizes from the International 
League of Women Composers, the Freeman Composition Award, and the ARS 
Electronica festival in Brussels. Dorothy recorded for Crystal, New 
Albion, Cambria, Newport Classics, OO Discs, Tzadik, CRI/Emergency, and 
Nonesuch. She appeared on Subotnick's Voyager CD-ROM, All My 
Hummingbirds Have Alibis, which was written for her and members of the 
EAR Unit. Her solo album for New World Records, None but the Lonely 
Flute, includes works by Milton Babbitt and Stephen Mosko written 
especially for her. Other composers who wrote for her include Rand 
Steiger, William Roper, Ann Millikan, and Louis Andriessen, whose piece 
for the EAR Unit, Zilver, was particularly intended for her. Her 
recording of Morton Feldman's, For Philip Guston, (with the EAR Unit) 
was awarded "Best Classical CD" by CDNow. Her late husband Stephen Mosko 
wrote all of his flute music for her and together they directed the US 
premiere of Stockhausen's Sternklang at the LA Olympic Arts Festival.

David Rosenboom
Dean, School of Music
California Institute of the Arts

Memorial Service for Dorothy Stone
Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 10:30 AM.

Eternal Valley Funeral Home at 23287 Sierra Highway.
(From the south, take Interstate 5 north to the 14 Freeway.  Take the 
first exit, which is San Fernando Road and turn left at the first 
signal, which is Sierra Highway.  It will be on your right.)



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