After a four-day first week of classes, we settle in for the semester. The next weeks prior to Spring Break bring us three more audition days for identifying the incoming fall 2017 class.
EVENTS For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: https://music.appstate.edu/news-events/performance-calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
The Viola Studio Recital occurs Friday, January 27, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
Saturday, January 28, is the HSoM's third audition day for identifying members of the entering Fall 2017 class.
Dean's Advisory Council meets Tuesday, January 31, at 11 am.
LOOKING AHEAD
HSoM Deans' Student Advisory Council meets Wednesday, February 1, at 5 pm.
The HSoM full faculty meets Friday, February 3, at 11 am.
The annual HSoM Endowed Scholarship Recital occurs Thursday, February 2, at 8 pm, in the Recital Hall. A reception will follow.
Harmonia Baroque performs Sunday, February 5, at 4 pm, in Rosen.
The UNC-Greensboro Faculty Woodwind Trio performs Monday, February 6, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The HSoM Faculty Potpourri occurs Tuesday, February 7, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM ON THE ROAD and AROUND CAMPUS (upcoming)
HSoM faculty conductor Mélisse Brunet will make her guest conducting debut this weekend with the orchestra Symphoria based in Syracuse, NY. Part of the casual series, the concert "Music of the Masters" includes Haydn's Symphony No. 44, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto featuring John Raschella, and Beethoven Symphony No. 8. She is stepping in for Music Director Larry Loh who will be conducting the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
KUDOS AND OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
HSoM alumna Alexa Dorris Economos (MMT, 2015) and music therapy faculty member Melody Schwantes published an article with Tyler O'Keefe, in Music Therapy Perspectives entitled, "A Resource-Oriented Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Use in a Skilled Nursing Facility: Development and Case Example." It is available for advance access on the MTP website.
On January 11, HSoM faculty clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman presented a talk on performing electroacoustic music and gave a recital at the University of South Carolina.
With best wishes for week two of the Spring 2017 semester,
Bill
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William L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Dean, Hayes School of Music
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-3029
**If you'd like to have something included in future iterations of these announcements, please send me an email with "announcements" in the subject line. Please feel free to send me information about artists (HSoM colleagues and others) who will collaborate in faculty recitals. My listings here sometimes miss those details. I'll be happy to add family/personal announcements, too. Please submit announcements as pdf's or in plain text, unformatted (no special spacing, bullets, etc.). Please include hyperlinks as appropriate.
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