Last Monday's performance by four of our ensembles—Jazz Ensemble I, University Singers, Symphony Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble—at the NCMEA conference was hugely successful. (See Kudos below.) The logistics worked beautifully, the ensembles performed brilliantly, and the reception afterwards gave everyone a chance to celebrate. Stay tuned for likely audio files to be linked on our website!
Faculty and Staff Business
- Outgoing graduate coordinator Jenny Snodgrass has provided a draft proposal for dividing the coordinator for two colleagues' work (attached). Please review the lists of responsibilities and let me know if you are interested to be nominated—either for the whole position or for a shared position.
- For this semester's student evaluations, the Hayes School of Music will be one of the pilot programs on campus to use new online software for administration and compilation of the evaluations. The process has been vetted extensively by colleagues here on campus, and Dean's Advisory Council members have provided additional input regarding questions and process. Details about administering the evaluations through AsULearn should have been received by faculty already. Students will be able to link directly to the evaluation site via email messages they'll receive from ITS, or they may link to the site from individual classes' AsULearn sites, if faculty instructors upload the link. (Due to issues related to identification of specific instructors, our small ensembles for woodwinds, brass, and strings will use the old pencil/paper method.)
- The Provost's Office is now accepting proposals for Appalachian Online (AppOn) a program designed to support the development of online courses and programs. Please go to the AppOn page on the Learning Technology Services website for details on the program and how to submit a proposal. Also, please let me know if you're interested to create an online course, knowing that the HSoM is primarily interested in such development for our Summer Sessions offerings.
Events
For complete listings of 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
- Brass Chamber Ensembles will perform on Monday, November 16, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Quintessential!, the HSoM graduate student vocal ensemble, will perform on Tuesday, November 17, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Treble Choir performs on Wednesday, November 18, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Percussion Ensemble performs on Thursday, November 19, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Appalachian Symphony Orchestra performs on Friday, November 20, at 8 pm in Rosen.
- Guitar Orchestra performs on Sunday, November 22, at 2 pm, in Rosen.
- Gospel Choir performs on Sunday, November 22, at 6 pm, in the Plemmons Student Union Solarium.
- Appalachian Wind Ensemble performs on Monday, November 23, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- Wednesday-Sunday, November 24-29, is Appalachian's Thanksgiving Break. (Offices are open, but no classes are scheduled on Wednesday.)
Looking Ahead
- Appalachian Chorale performs on Tuesday, December 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Symphony Band performs on Wednesday, December 2, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- The HSoM Holiday Scholarship Concert occurs Friday, December 4, at 7:30 pm, in the Schaefer Center. $$
- The "Messiah Singalong" occurs Sunday, December 6, at 6 pm, in Rosen.
- Jazz Ensemble I presents "An Evening of Holiday Big Band Jazz" (dinner/concert) on Sunday, December 6, at 7 pm, in the Parkway Ballroom (Plemmons Student Union).
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
- HSoM faculty oboist Alicia Chapman will perform as a featured soloist with the Asheville Symphony in Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante for violin, cello, oboe, bassoon and orchestra, on Saturday, November, 21st at 8:00 pm in Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville.
- HSoM faculty choral conductor Stephen Hopkins's work "When Jesus Was Born" will be performed by the Hickory Choral Society at their annual Christmas Concerts. These five concerts take place from Friday, December 4 through Sunday, December 6 at Corinth Reformed Church in Hickory.
Kudos and Other News and Events
- Thanks and congratulations go out to the innumerable HSoM/ASU colleagues who made last Monday's showcase performance at NCMEA—"An Evening with the Hayes School of Music"—such a success. Over two hundred students performed brilliantly under expert guidance of four conductors—Professors Wright, Hopkins, Laemmli Orth, and Ross. A volunteer student stage crew showed the depth of our commitment to each others' success, and wowed the audience with their precision and speed. HSoM sound recording specialist Scott Wynne worked acoustic miracles in the Stevens Center. HSoM building manager Brent Bingham provided expert staging assistance. University Advancement colleagues Rachel Little and Abby Neesen and HSoM Advisory Board member Dottie Sykes made the reception a huge hit. Board chair Kay Borkowski worked behind the scenes regarding the guest list, Anna Gaugert steered development of the beautiful printed program, John Sawyer managed external funding, invitations, and numerous other logistical details, and alumni sponsors Clif and Diane Robinson and John and Katrina Sullivan provided invaluable financial support. Managing it all since we were first invited, and with astute and dedicated assistance from HSoM music therapy senior Shelley McCluskey, HSoM associate dean Jay Jackson was the mastermind behind the evening's details and broad strokes, all of which put the HSoM in a perfect spotlight. (And that's just naming—most of—the HSoM folks involved. Thanks also go to the NCMEA, Stevens Center personnel, the bus drivers, truck drivers, ushers, caterers, and, as always, our staff colleagues in the HSoM office who pick up the slack every day!) Bravos to all for a great endeavor!!
- HSoM faculty music theorist Bill Harbinson's article "Progressive Composition Assignments" for the first-year theory student was accepted for publication by the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy (online). The submission will appear in the Resources section of the JMTP website, housed at Appalachian State University as of January 2016.
- The HSoM's Community Music School was featured recently in the local Mountain Times regarding its annual piano scales Olympiad: http://m.wataugademocrat.com/mountaintimes/news/asu-community-music-school-hosts-scale-olympiad/article_7039b7fb-03bf-548d-be45-612bf33366f9.html?mode=jqm
With best wishes for week 14 of the 2015-16 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.
**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.
001 Duties of Graduate Coordinato(s) (DOC, 17KB)