Spring is here!
Faculty and Staff Business
- HSoM faculty and staff members are eligible for two tickets each to a performance of The Marriage of Figaro. Tickets can be picked up at the Schaefer Center box office or at the door.
- Friday's full HSoM faculty meeting will include two topics:
- Chancellor Everts has asked to meet with HSoM faculty and staff at our September 4 full-faculty meeting. To allow her the full fifty minutes with us, I have proposed to the Dean's Advisory Council that we amend our normal School Personnel Committee procedures, and hold those elections at our April 24 meeting (next month).
- HSoM music therapist Cathy McKinney has submitted a proposal for an Off Campus Scholarly Assignment (OCSA) for Fall 2015 (see attachment). Please review her proposal, and consider a motion to approve. I would note that she and I have discussed means of meeting teaching demands, in ways that will minimize costs for replacement/adjunct pay.
- Get creative! The Appalachian State University Sustainability Council's Sustainability in the Arts grants application deadline is April 3. Grants totaling $2500 will be awarded. Council encourages non-traditional applicants from any discipline. The purpose of the grants is to raise awareness of sustainability through art. The competition is open to students, faculty, staff and administration and welcomes any media. Projects will be judged on the following criteria: reach, interdependence, sustainability of tools, aesthetic impact, and ability of project to create human or financial capital so the work is self-sustaining. Watch the video call here. http://sustain.appstate.edu/susty
- Performance coordinator Scott Kallestad has confirmed our Commencement speaker. Mr. Barry Green will present the HSoM Commencement address on Saturday, May 9, and he'll also present a lecture/workshop on Friday afternoon, May 8, entitled "The inner Game of Music and Bringing Music to Life." Please see attachment for Mr. Green's bio.
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
- 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.
- ASU Opera present's Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro on Thursday-Saturday evenings at 8 pm and Sunday matinee at 2 pm, March26-29, 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.
Looking Ahead
- 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
- Graduate students RJ Wuagneux (Performance-Guitar) and Chelsea Stith (Music Therapy) will be inducted into the Cratis Williams Society of Outstanding Graduate Students, an award given to the top 2% of the graduating class of master's and doctoral students. The induction ceremony will occur on Thursday, April 9, at 5 pm, in the Plemmons Student Union Solarium.
- HSoM Music Industry Studies junior Drew Questell and Director of Music Industry Studies Kim Wangler presented a workshop at the Mid-Atlantic Regional College Music Society Conference this past weekend titled, "Starting a Non-Profit: Is it the Right Decision for You and Your Students?"
- The cast from ASU Opera's production of The Marriage of Figaro (see Events above) performed as guests of the Boone Chamber of Commerce at its meeting at the Turchin Center for Visual Arts on Thursday, March 19.
- The Appalachian Youth Chorale from the ASU Community Music School performed at Appalachian Brian Estates on March 17. www.facebook.com/WataugaDemocrat/photos/a.10150191949076312.306901.117586981311/10152839905726312/?type=1&theater
With best wishes for week ten 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.
McKinney Fall 2015 (DOC, 15KB)
Commencement - Barry Green Bio (PDF, 78KB)