BJU websiteArchived 2009-05-11 at the Wayback Machine. At his death, Gustafson was the longest-serving dean in the history of Bob Jones University. Obituary, Greenville News, January 31, 2014.
Ann Hicks, "Verdi's opera 'Rigoletto' returns to BJU", Greenville News[permanent dead link], March 11, 2007. In 2007, Gustafson conducted a fifth series of performances of Rigoletto. "Gustafson recalls that his first 'Rigoletto' at BJU...starred Sherrill Milnes, later to become one of the preeminent American Verdi baritones of the late 20th century. 'I was 30 years old and Milnes was 26,' Gustafson says with a laugh. 'Many years have gone by since then.'" Following the curtain calls at the end of a performance of Samson et Dalila on March 13, 2010, the supertitle announced that this would be Gustafson's final performance conducting opera on the BJU stage. (The performance won second place in the National Opera Association's 2009-2010 video competition. NOA website.) On May 7, 2010, during the BJU Commencement Concert, Gustafson conducted the premiere of his three "Songs of Deliverance" for chorus and orchestra in memory of three late friends, Walter Fremont, Joan Mulfinger, and Gunter Salter.
Abe Hardesty, "Gustafson is known for musical arrangements: BJU's 'Doctor Gus' is still tuned in to an active lifestyle", Greenville News[permanent dead link], December 13, 2006.
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Ann Hicks, "Verdi's opera 'Rigoletto' returns to BJU", Greenville News[permanent dead link], March 11, 2007. In 2007, Gustafson conducted a fifth series of performances of Rigoletto. "Gustafson recalls that his first 'Rigoletto' at BJU...starred Sherrill Milnes, later to become one of the preeminent American Verdi baritones of the late 20th century. 'I was 30 years old and Milnes was 26,' Gustafson says with a laugh. 'Many years have gone by since then.'" Following the curtain calls at the end of a performance of Samson et Dalila on March 13, 2010, the supertitle announced that this would be Gustafson's final performance conducting opera on the BJU stage. (The performance won second place in the National Opera Association's 2009-2010 video competition. NOA website.) On May 7, 2010, during the BJU Commencement Concert, Gustafson conducted the premiere of his three "Songs of Deliverance" for chorus and orchestra in memory of three late friends, Walter Fremont, Joan Mulfinger, and Gunter Salter.
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In 2002, BJU presented a retrospective concert of Gustafson's works including Fanfare and Celebration, earlier composed for the Greenville (SC) Symphony (and also played by symphonies in Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky), "Fantasia for a Celebration," selections from feature-length films with live music, several shorter choral works, a movement from his violin concerto, Encounters, and a piece commissioned for the concert, Words of Passion and Resurrection, for chorus and orchestra with narrator. Music Now, the newsletter of the Southern Composers League.
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BJU websiteArchived 2009-05-11 at the Wayback Machine. At his death, Gustafson was the longest-serving dean in the history of Bob Jones University. Obituary, Greenville News, January 31, 2014.
