Happy Hayes Halloween!
FACULTY AND STAFF BUSINESS
• Chancellor Everts has announced the campus requirement that all faculty and staff participate in an online training module regarding interpersonal violence. Please complete the module prior to the December 16 deadline by following these instructions:
• Go to: http://www.everfi.com/login and click Register
• Under "Student/Learner," enter the Registration Code: 7b2e5c30 to create your EverFi Account
• Complete Part 1 of Haven for Faculty and Staff by December 16, 2016. This part takes about 45 minutes to complete, but it can be completed in multiple sittings.
• After 30-45 days you will receive an invitation to complete Part 2 of Haven for Faculty and Staff, which must be completed by February 17, 2017. This part takes about 10 minutes to complete.
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 Halloween Monster Concert occurs Monday, October 31, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Dean's Advisory Council meets Tuesday, November 1, at 11 am.
Brass Studio Ensembles perform Tuesday, November 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Deans' Student Advisory Council meets Wednesday, November 2, at 5 pm.
Jazz Ensemble I performs Wednesday, November 2, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform Thursday, November 3, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The HSoM full faculty meets on Friday, November 4, at 11 am.
University Singers and Chamber Singers perform Friday, November 4, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
LOOKING AHEAD
The annual conference of the North Carolina Music Educators Association occurs Sunday-Tuesday, November 6-8. The HSoM's annual reception will occur in the Graze Restaurant of the Winston-Salem Marriott from 5:30-7:00 pm.
Clarinet Choir performs Wednesday, November 9, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
String education specialists Bob Phillips and Pam Phillips will present a string pedagogy workshop on Friday and Saturday, November 11 and 12. To register for the Workshop, go to: https://appstate.irisregistration.com/Form/Strings2016
The Student Composers Recital occurs Sunday, November 13, at 8:00, in Rosen.
Brass Chamber Ensembles perform Monday, November 14, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM faculty pianist Junie Cho performs in recital Tuesday, November 15, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM ON THE ROAD and AROUND CAMPUS (upcoming)
On November 3, HSoM music theorist Greg McCandless will be presenting a jazz/rock phenomenology paper entitled "Attentional Cost and Positional Analysis: A Bassist's Perspective" at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Vancouver, BC. This paper is part of a panel titled "Positional Listening/Positional Analysis," which includes faculty members from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Kansas, and the University of Kentucky.
Many Hayes School of Music faculty and students will participate in the North Carolina Music Educators Association conference in Winston-Salem, on November 6-8. The HSoM will host an alumni reception on Monday, November 7, from 5:30-7 pm, in the "Graze" restaurant in the Marriott hotel.
HSoM faculty ethnomusicologist Laurie Semmes will participate as a panelist in "Music as Politics: Aesthetics, Participation, and Propaganda" on Monday, November 7, 6:00-8:00 p.m., in Rm. 114 Belk Information Commons. Other panelists will include Nancy Love, Christopher Bartel, and Joe Weiss.
KUDOS AND OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
Over twenty HSoM students, faculty, and alumni participated as presenters, officers, session chairs, and attendees for the annual conference of the College Music Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 26-30. HSoM faculty music theorist Jennifer Snodgrass and Music Industry Studies program director Kim Wangler continued their leadership roles with the organization and chaired conference sessions. Individuals' papers and presentations included the following:
- Jennifer Snodgrass (HSoM faculty music theorist), "Traditional Paradigms, Novel Repertoires"
- Andrew Hannon (HSoM faculty music theorist and composer), performance of Two Lost Loves for clarinet
- HSoM students Abbigail Fleckenstein, Zachary Lloyd (HSoM students) and Doug Poteat (HSoM alumnus), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Music, "lighting round" presentations.
- Andrew Hannon (HSoM faculty music theorist and composer), "Ligeti's Final Experiment: The Natural Horn and the Hamburg Concerto"
- John Leupold (HSoM alumnus), "Music Theory and Ear Training for the Visually Impaired"
- David Marvel (HSoM alumnus), "Jazz Analysis in the Style of Schenker: Structure in Rhythm Changes
- Alex Alberti (HSoM alumnus), "From Beatboxing to Bach: Applications of Collegiate A Cappella Across the Music Curriculum"
- Greg McCandless (HSoM music theorist), Engaging the CMS Task Force Recommendations: Preparing Undergraduate Music Students to Engage, panel presentation
With best wishes for the twelfth week of the 2016-17 academic year,
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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