Other Professional Activities
White House appointment to National Council on the Arts. 1987 to 1996
Smithsonian Institution Council. 1988 to 1993.
Member of planning committee for IFIP(International Federation of Information Processing) 1999 WG3.2 and WG3.6 international conference.
UCI Committee on Instructional Development 1997 Award for best use of Educational Technology on the Internet
Director of Chicano Latino Studies Program. UCI. 1997 - 2000
Editorial Board Ethnomusicology Online -Internet Multimedia Digest. 1994-
Editorial Board, Ethnomusicology Research Digest. E-Mail research publication of Society for Ethnomusicology. 1987-present
Advisory Committee to the President on the awarding of the Nationals Medals of Art. Administered through the National Council on the Arts. 1987 - 1996.
Advisory Committee on the Los Angeles Masterplan for the Arts, at the Mayor's invitation. 1990.
Vice-President for Education, Orange County Philharmonic Society. 1990.
National Endowment for the Arts, Congressionally mandated Arts In Education Advisory Committe. 1989-1993.
Celebrate Creative America , 25th Aniversary Comittee of the National Endowment of the Arts. 1989.
Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Accrediting Team Evaluator. 1988-1991.
Editorial Board, Inside Arts, (formerly Inside Performance) magazine of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Washington DC . 1990 -.1995
Member of the Board, Orange County Philharmonic Society. 1987- 1991.
Co-chairman, Folk Arts Advisory Panel, California Council for the Arts. From 1985 - 1990.
Advisory Board. Kulingtan Arts Center . Study of Philippine Muslim Culture. Reseda, California .
National President, Society for Ethnomusicology. 1985-1987.
English as a Second Language Committee. University Park Elementary School . Irvine 1989-91.
Member of Planning Committee for Orange County visit of Takigi Noh troupe. Co Sponsored by Boston Company. September 1989.
President, Orange County Arts Alliance . 1986-1988.
Member of the Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Profession, College Music Society. 1987-89.
Board of Directors, Irvine City Theater Operating Company. (now Irvine Barclay Theater) 1986 -1987.
External Review of the Fine Arts at the University of Colorado Denver February 1988
Member of Task Force on the Preparation of College Music Teachers and the Quality of Music Teaching in Higher Education. Denver , Colorado . College Music Society. September 1987.
Chair of Extramural Review Committee of the Arts at the University of California Riverside . June 1987
California Council for the Arts. Music Organizations review Panel. July 28 - August 1. 1986
Member Advisory Board. Hispanic Playwriter's Project. South Coast Repertory Theater. 1986-1988.
Chairman, Advisory Committee. Los Angeles Folk Arts Program. City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Division. 1985 -1988.
Folk Arts Advisory Panel - New York State Council on the Arts. 1985.
National Endowment for the Arts, Challenge Grant Panel, 1985-1986.
Social and Public Arts Resource Center , Venice , California . Board of Directors. 1984 - 1985.
Orange County Arts Alliance Board of Directors. 1984 -1988
Chairman of the Current Issues Committee of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Appointed October, 1981 to 1985.
Member of the Advisory Committee for the proposed National Center on Hispanic Policy Studies ( Tomas Rivera Center ). Held at Maricopa Community Colleges, Phoenix , Arizona . 1982.
Member of the Board of Trustees, Psychoanalytical Association of Seattle . 1981-1982.
Member Folk Arts Advisory Panel, National Endowment for the Arts. 1980-1983. Chairman of the Panel for 1983.
Invited Participant to the Hispanic-American Foreign Policy Briefing. Hosted by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Washington D.C. October 28, 1979.
Sent by the American Society for Eastern Arts to arrange for the United States tour of the Korean Court Orchestra under the auspices of the National Classical Music Institute, Seoul , Korea . 1970.
Attachee to the Board of Ceremonies of the Japanese Imperial Household Agency to accompany the Japanese Imperial Court Musicians as translator on their concert tour of the United States , May and June 1959.
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