We're back from Spring Break, and we begin the remainder of the semester knowing the names of three new colleagues who will join the Hayes School of Music in Fall 2015. Our Music Theory, Music Therapy, and Tuba/Euphonium searches have concluded successfully: Ms. Katurah Christenbury, who has served as Lecturer in Music Therapy this year on an interim basis, will continue in that role. Dr. Greg McCandless, currently Chair of Music Composition at Full Sail University) will join us Assistant Professor of Music Theory. Ms. Beth Wiese, currently completing a doctorate at Northwestern University and performing as principal tuba with the New World Symphony in Miami, will join us as Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium. We will look forward to welcoming our new colleagues to campus and seeing them add their professional touches to our work here in the Hayes School. In the next two weeks, the campus will also welcome three candidates for the HSoM's oboe position and three candidates for University Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor.
Faculty and Staff Business
- Following up from her presentation at last month's HSoM full faculty meeting, Dr. Kim Gunter has forwarded the following website URLs that will provide information related to students' writing:
- Rhetoric and Composition web site: http://compositionprogram.appstate.edu/english-1000-materials
- Writer's Help: http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php
- (This is the Bedford web site, but faculty could easily get access to this by contacting our Bedford book rep's Lindsay Carrick and Sean Blest.)
- Purdue's Online Writing Lab: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
- Kim also wrote the following:
- I'd also love to continue conversations between the R_C and the Music faculty. To that end, some of your faculty interested in writing instruction might enjoy a series of workshops that will be held on campus the week of April 20. I'll send along more details once we get them confirmed, but in short, we're going to be offering a series of workshops open to all faculty on campus, and topics will cover everything from managing the grading load of student papers to holding writing conferences with students to multimodal/multigenre assignments. I'll be sure to send you our flyer once we have our times/locations nailed down. Thanks so much for the invitation. I really enjoyed the opportunity to speak with you and your faculty.
- ASU's CareerFest has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 17, 2015. For more information, including a complete list of participating organizations, the majors and types of positions they are recruiting, visit:careers.appstate.edu/careerfest. About 15 employers, such as Hanes, Lowe's, Whiting-Turner, and Transportation Insight to name a few, will be conducting on-campus interviewing the Day after CareerFest on Friday, Feb. 20. Students must be present at CareerFest to secure an interview, as employers are scheduling interviews the day of the event.
- Chancellor Everts's office has notified us of a scheduled ASU alumni event in New York City on Wednesday, April 1, from 6:30-8:30 pm, at the Appalachian Loft. If you or any students will be in New York on that day, please let me know so I may request an invitation for you.
Events
For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: www.music.appstate.edu/calendar and www.music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
- The Steely Pan Steel Band performs on Sunday, March 22, at 2 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- Dean's Advisory Council meets Tuesday, March 24, at 11 am.
- Guest artist clarinetist Kevin Streich will present a master class on Tuesday, March 24, at 6 pm, in the Broyhill Music Center Recital Hall.
Looking Ahead
- ASU Opera present's Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro on Thursday-Saturday evenings at 8 pm and Sunday matinee at 2 pm, March 26-29, in Rosen. $$
- Guest artists "The Grant Wallace Band" will perform in recital on Thursday, March 26, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
- The HSoM full faculty meets on Friday, March 27, at 11 am.
- The HSoM "Faculty Follies" occurs Monday, March 30, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Brass Studio Ensembles perform Tuesday, March 31, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform Thursday, April 2, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Saturday-Tuesday, April 4-7, are university-wide holidays.
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
- The Steely Pan Steel Band will perform for ASU's Diversity Day on Tuesday, April 14 at 4:00 - 5:00 in the Summit Trail Solarium in the Plemmons Student Union.
Kudos and Other News and Events
- The cast from ASU Opera's production of The Marriage of Figaro (see Events above) performed scenes from Figaro and other opera/musical theater favorites in concert at Davidson College (Davidson, NC) on March 4.
- Cathy McKinney forwarded the following URL which links to an NBC news segment related to music therapy, honoring them as "persons of the week." www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/person-week-celebrating-music-therapists-29455541
With best wishes for week nine of the spring 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.