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Music news from North Texas State University
Stephen Farish, Interim Dean December 1987 Dale Peters, Associate Dean
In Memoriam - Marceau Chevalier Myers - 1929-1987
Dean of the School of Music
North Texas State University
1974-1987
Dean Marceau C. Myers died on July
26, 1987, at Baylor Medical Center in
Dallas after a three months leave of
absence for medical treatment. He came
to the School of Music as Dean in 1974
from similar positions at Capitol
University and Western Connecticut State
College. Dean Myers had a long record
of service in the National Association of
Schools of Music, where he was a
member of numerous commissions and
accreditation teams. He was a past
president of the Texas Association of
Music Schools and a member of the
A.S.C.A.P. awards committee, among
many other offices and professional
activities.
His tenure as Dean of the School of
Music saw such tangible accomplishments
as growth in enrollment to become the
nation's second largest university school
of music, planning and completion of the
Music Complex, international acclaim for
the touring music ensembles (Western
Europe, Russia, South America, the Far
East), and national recognition for the
excellence of the entire program and its
graduates. His vision and his planning
for the future of the School of Music,
along with his high standards of
excellence and his personal devotion to
the advancement of the School of Music,
form an enduring legacy for the school
in its education of musicians. Dean Myers
is survived by his wife, Judy, of Denton,
his daughter Daraugh Myers-Turner and
his granddaughter Ashley Turner of
Houston.
A memorial concert of American music
was presented on September 17, 1987, in written in memory of Marceau Myers, The School of Music at NTSU was
the Concert Hall by the major performing received its first performance. It was highly regarded nationally and
ensembles: Symphonic Wind Ensemble, inspired by a remark of Dean Myers': "we internationally when he came here, but
University Symphony, A Cappella Choir, believe the School of Music is the jewel he led it to an even higher plane, both
and One O'Clock Lab Band. Composers in the crown of the University." in terms of quality and in physical
represented were Aaron Copland, Charles From the Denton Record Chronicle, facilities...
Ives, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, editorial, July 29, 1987: "The death of Marc The years that should have remained
Scott Whitfield, J. J. Johnson, and Bret Myers is a special tragedy, both for North in his career have been stolen, not
Zvacek. Martin Mailman's "The Jewel in Texas State University and for Denton as only from his friends and family, but
the Crown (A Ceremonial March)," a whole. His career was not only from the community, state and nation
distinguished, but it was unfinished, as well."
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