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Kugel  |  Lahmer  |  Pynn  |  Rankin  |  von Reuter

Kugel, William F.

William F. Kugel was chair of the Music Department from 1941-1947.

Personal Works and Compilations are:

• Create in Me a Clean Heart (Psalm 51; SATB; dated 1949; signed by the composer)
• Lift Thine Eyes (Psalm 121; SATB; dated 1949; signed by the composer)
• The Lord is King: solo anthem for Bass voice, chorus of four voices, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, string quintet (full score; music by Henry Purcell, orchestrated by William F. Kugel, Union Theological Seminary, 1949)
• The Lord of Hosts (SATB; close scored; Dakota Wesleyan Publication, Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, SD;1950; signed by the composer)
• O Lord, Our Lord (Psalm VIII; SATB; dated 1949; signed by the composer)
• Choral Festival Program No. 1 (Chicago: Neil A. Kjos Music Co., 1944) A compilation of short choral pieces.
• Choral Festival Program No. 2 (Chicago: Neil A. Kjos Music Co., 1946) A compilation of short choral pieces.

 Program for which Prof. Kugel was conductor:

• Choral and Hymn Festival, Sunday, May 28, 1950.  Mitchell (SD) Symphony Orchestra

Lahmer, Reuel

Reuel Lahmer served as a composer in residence at Carroll College from 1946-1948.  Lahmer served as a First Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, but during the war had written some music for the Carroll College Choir.  According to a statement by the then President of Carroll College Gerritt T. VanderLugt. Mr. Kugel Head of the Music Department in 1946 asked Reuel to compose some music in honor of the school's 100th Anniversary.

Chamber Music

• Suite: American Folk Hymns for violin and piano (undated; piano score and violin part) [I. No more stormy clouds, II.Lord, what a feeble piece, III. How can I sleep, IV. Sinner’s Turn]
• Theme with Variations (undated; standard string quartet; score only)

Choral music, with keyboard or instrumental ensemble accompaniment

• Aboard a Ship’s Helm; Patroling Barnegat; Song for All Seas, All Ships (1947; TBB) Dedicated to Dr. Bjornar Bergethon and the University of Wisconsin Men’s Chorus
• All People That On Earth Do Dwell  (undated; SATB; in two movements) Cover states “Music commissioned by Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin / Reuel Lahmer, Composer in Residence” and is numbered “101 Anthem.”
• Choral Suite: written for Carroll College Centennial, 1946 (SATB, 2 pianos) [Introduction – I. (from Psalm VIII) – 2. Individuals – III. {Various quotations) – IV. Prayer from A Prayer for the United Nations – V. I Hear America Singing – VI. Years of the Modern]
• Fami Cantor l’amor (undated; SATB; “The melody and words are taken from a 13th century Italian Laude.”)
• Folk Fantasy for Orchestra and Unison Chorus (undated; score only) Full orchestra and unison chorus
• Had I the Heavens Embroidered Cloths  (undated; SATB; closed score)
• Holy Art Thou, O God (undated; SATB a capella, “Written for William Kugel and Carroll College”)
• How Can I Sleep  (undated; arranged for SATB a capella)
• The Lost Jimmy Whalen: an American fragment of a Canadian ballad -  Men’s chorus and tenor solo - “Written for the University of Wisconsin Male Chorus and their Director”
• Lover’s Lament (“Paraphrase by Reuel Lahmer”; SATB; New York: Mills Music, 1941)
• Never Said a Mumbalin' Word (SATB arrangement of Negro spiritual; New York: Mills Music, 1941)
• Sinner’s Turn  (undated; arranged for SATB a capella)
• True Love don’t Weep (undated; SATB, Alto solo)  “To Robert Shaw and the Collegiate Choral”
• Tryin’ to get Home (undated; SATB; arrangement of Negro spiritual)
• Untitled collection of folksong arrangements, presumed to be by Reuel Lahmer.  (undated; close score)
• Small collection of well-known hymns with descants written by Reuel Lahmer.

Songs for solo voice

• Songs:  True Love Don’t Weep – Fare Thee Well – Down in the Valley – Passing By – A Carol - All pieces have the same cover stating “Music commissioned by Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin / Reuel Lahmer, Composer in Residence” and are numbered 101-105.  Appear to be arrangements of folk songs or settings of traditional folk words.
• Hey Nonny No (New York: Mills Music, 1942)
• Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (New York: Mills Music, 1941)

Keyboard Works

• Five Choral Preludes (for Organ; dated 1947; dedicated to Nelson Vance Russell, President of Carroll College)
• Christ is Risen, God Our Father (two-part canon), King Glorious, Praise God in His Heaven, Chorale Prelude on a 16th century Melody
• Piano Solos: Dove of Peace – Hi Says the Blackbird -- Reverie - All pieces have the same cover stating “Music commissioned by Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin / Reuel Lahmer, Composer in Residence” and are numbered 201-203.
• Song (undated; organ solo) - Cover states “Music commissioned by Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin / Reuel Lahmer, Composer in Residence” and is numbered “302 Organ.”
• Sunday  (piano solo; undated; “Music commissioned by Carroll College, Waukesha Wisconsin” on cover) [I. Dawn, II. Morning, III. At Church, IV. Afternoon]

Orchestral music

• Overture (undated; score only) Full orchestra

Wind Music (Band)

• Ho Boys (undated; score only)  Full wind ensemble

Training material

• Two volumes of a four-volume set titled “Melodic Examples for the Study of Melody, Sight Singing, Ear Training” compiled and edited by Reuel Lahmer, Composer in Residence, Carroll College.  (Undated.)

Pynn, Norris Alan

• May Song  (La Crosse, WI: Norris Pynn Publication, 1953.  Poem by Alice Phelps: Rider; Music by Norris Alan Pynn)

Rankin, Walter L., Jr.

• Carroll College March, dedicated to the President and Students of Carroll College (Chicago: The Chicago Music Co., 1895) Piano and voice

von Reuter, Florizel

Florizel von Reuter was the former teacher of the first conductor of the Waukesha Symphony.   Mr. von Reuter was a native of Davenport, Iowa.  He was a violin master and spent most of this career playing in Europe and teaching at the Vienna State Academy of Music, where he taught Milton Weber, Carroll College music professor and the first conductor of the Waukesha Symphony.  (The Waukesha Symphony was founded in 1947 by Carroll College President Nelson Vance Russell). Mr. von Reuter retired to the Milwaukee area and upon is death in 1985, his wife donated his compositions to the Carroll College Archives.

Scores and Parts

• Alcazar  A tone poem ; score, Composed Nov 22, 1936, Oversize box  
• An den Süssen Wassern Orchestral parts, Box 1
• Chaconne and Fugue for Orchestra and Organ, Score, orchestra and organ parts, Box 1
• Classical Suite for Chamber Orchestra, Score, parts, and piano score, Box 2
• Classical Suite for Two Oboes, Strings and Piano, Unfinished work ; score, Box 2
• Concerto in D-minor for Violin and Orchestra, Score and orchestral parts, Box 3  
• Concerto for Violin in E-minor, Violin part, orchestral score, and piano score, Box 3 
• Concerto Grosso for Two Solo Violins and Orchestra, Score, solo violin parts, and orchestra parts , Box 4  
• Habanera for Grand Orchestra, Score ; completed July 23, 1940, Oversize box  
• Homo Victor, Symphony in C-Major for Grand Orchestra, Score ; completed June 14, 1939, Oversize box  
• Introduction and Scherzo-Tarantella for Two Violins, Score and parts are at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin
• Liebesnacht im Schloss; Komisch Opera, A comic opera ; 3 acts, Piano score, Box 5
• Mass in E-flat Major, Piano score with voices, Box 5  
• A Portrait Gallery, for violin and piano (with an arrangement for Orchestra), Published in 1926, Ernst Eulenburg, Leipzig, Score and arrangement  
• Portraits of Old Masters: Suite for Strings and Piano, Orchestral parts, Box 8
• Postmeister Wyrin, Opera, completed in 1947, Performed in the Berlin Staatsoper, 1947, Based on a story by Pushkin, 5 Piano scores, 5 orchestra scores, and microfilm, Boxes 6 and 7
• Rhapsodie for Violin and Orchestra, Score and orchestral parts, Box 8
• Reverie for Viola, Composed for Sue van Haitsma, Performed March 15, 1970 at a recital at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Waukesha,Wisconsin by Sue van Haitsma  
• Roumania: Suite for Orchestra, Full score and parts, Boxes 9 and 10
• Eine Schottische Rhapsodie for Violin and Orchestra, Score and parts, Box 10  
• Sonata for Violin Alone, Dedicated to the memory of J. S. Bach, Score, Box 10
• MAX REGER Symphonic Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 147 (compl. Florizel von Reuter) A work left by Reger which was completed by von Reuter , Score, Box 10
• Symphony in F-minor, An unfinished work, Score, Box 10
• Variations and Fugue on a Cantus Firmus: for grand orchestra, Score and parts, Box 10.5
• Variations on a Sailor's Hornpipe, Score and parts, Box 11
• Variations on Three Carnival Themes for Grand Orchestra, Score and parts, Box 12  
• The Wind in the Poplars, A song for soprano and piano using a poem by Louise Morgan-Sill, Lyrics from a poem by Louise Morgan-Sill, Score , Box 12

 Music Commentary

• Immortal Masterpieces of Grand Opera, Published by The Cultural Press, Waukesha, Wisconsin (This is a collection of a series of articles originally written for the Waukesha Freeman).

 Fiction

• The Twilight of the Gods: Hitler's Berlin, Published in 1962 by The Cultural Press, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Novel
• The Master From Afar, Published in 1972 by the Carlton Press, New York, Novel

 Autobiography / Reminiscences

• Great People I Have Known.  Published in 1961 by The Cultural Press, Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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