Joanne Tanner UMASS Flute
JoAnne Tanner UMASS-Amherst Music Department Flute 1971-?
JoAnne Tanner joined the UMASS-Amherst Music Department as a flute instructor on a part-time basis 1971, but this position was elevated to full-time in 1972.
Essay Author, Bob Amato UMASS-Amherst 1967-1972 practicing Selmer 4 piston valve piccolo trumpet outdoors in the fall of 1970.
The Author of this essay was an instrumental performance major as well as an instrumental music education major at UMASS-Amherst from 1967-1972.
As an instrumental music education major, applied educational courses that revolved around the flute was a required course.
However, this Author completed the required applied flute educational course that was taught by Professor Joseph Contino by 1970.
Other than her name, this Author remember nothing about Joanne Tanner between the 1971 and 1972 period other than the vaguest of recollections of her appearance
which is rendered by way of the following photograph where Joanne is seated in the middle of the group UMASS-Amherst faculty photo that was taken in 1984.
JoAnne Tanner seated in middle holding flute at UMASS-Amherst Music Faculty photo session in 1984.
However, this Author had a cordial relationship with Joanne’s Husband, Dr. Peter Tanner who was the UMASS-Amherst Music Department percussion instructor from 1970-1999.
Dr. Peter Tanner attended many of this Author’s numerous trumpet solo student recitals and brass ensemble performances at UMASS-Amherst between 1970 and 1972. It is probable that this Author met JoAnne Tanner if she attended any of these performances with her husband, Dr. Peter Tanner.