Outside it seems we're already into summer. But these remaining weeks of the spring semester are full of events that champion the music making of our students and faculty.
Faculty and Staff Business
*The HSoM website will soon migrate to a new visual/organizational template that will closely resemble that of the appstate.edu home page and others. In advance of that move, we would like to update website text as comprehensively as possible. Please check any web pages that you manage or use regularly, and send the web address (URL) of any needed corrections, along with the original text with edits highlighted in red, to Anna Gaugert gaugertah@appstate.edu Please consider text edits only at this point, and provide your suggestions to Anna by May 15.
*For the 2015 Faculty Annual Performance Review template, please see the Forms page on the Faculty portal of the HSoM website: http://music.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/updated-pdfs-forms Please schedule appointments for annual meetings with me through Lauren Hayworth.
*For faculty members of Pi Kappa Lambda: The Pi Kappa Lambda induction breakfast will take place May 7th at 8:30 A.M. at the Dan'l Boone Inn. The cost for the breakfast is $12.50 and annual dues are $20. Payment for both may be put in Andrea Cheeseman's box. The deadline to submit payment is April 27th. Checks should be made out to Pi Kappa Lambda.
Events
For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
Percussion Ensemble performs Tuesday, April 19, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM faculty pianist Bair Shagdaron performs in recital on Thursday, April 21, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM faculty saxophonist Scott Kallestad performs in recital on Friday, April 22, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The Choral Alumni Concert occurs on Saturday, April 23, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The AMTSA Benefit Concert occurs on Sunday, April 24, at 2 pm, in Rosen.
Guitar Orchestra performs Sunday, April 24, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Concert Band performs Monday, April 25, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Symphony Band performs Tuesday, April 26, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Looking Ahead
Wind Ensemble performs Wednesday, April 27, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Chamber and University Singers perform Thursday, April 28, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The Hayes String Quartet (graduate student ensemble) performs Friday, April 29, at 8 pm, in the Recital Hall.
Appalachian Symphony Orchestra performs Sunday, May 1, at 2 pm, in Rosen.
The Gospel Jazz Potpourri occurs Sunday, May 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Appalachian Chorale performs Tuesday, May 3, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Cornocopia occurs Wednesday, May 4, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Kudos and Other News and Events
HSoM alumnus and GRAMMY award winning educator Phillip Riggs, '88, is featured in the cover story of the April 2016 issue of School Band and Orchestra (SB&O) Magazine. An online version of the article can be found at the following URL: http://sbomagazine.com/current-issue/5239-upclose-grammy-foundation-award-winner.html
HSoM Music Therapy Equivalency/Master's student Amy Mercier has been awarded the Cecily Evelyn Forde Music Therapy Scholarship presented by Metropolitan Music Ministries in Charlotte.
With best wishes for the fourteenth week of the spring 2016 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.
**Please send information about upcoming off-campus performances and presentations by faculty and students. I'll include them in this "HSoM On the Road..." section.