Greetings from St. Louis, where I'm attending the annual conference of our accrediting body, the National Association of Schools of Music. This is a three-day work week, with classes scheduled through Tuesday and offices open through Wednesday. We'll enjoy the four-day Thanksgiving holiday, and then return for a four-day class week and Reading Day.
Faculty and Staff Business
- Please see the revised 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. Release time or stipend will be available, depending on the coordinator's (or coordinators') preferences: either an 8% annual salary stipend (4% per coordinator if shared) or 6-teaching load-hour annual release (3 teaching load hours per year per coordinator if shared), as established by ASU campus-wide protocol.
- Please see the following request from a Mathematics graduate student:
- My name is Michael Rudziewicz. I am a graduate student in the Math Department. I am collaborating in research with Dr. Eric Marland, Dr. Greg Rhoads, and Dr. Michael Bossé. For my research project, I am investigating and comparing how math and art faculty visualize data and create a line of best fit for different distributions on scatter plots. I was wondering if you would agree to complete a short activity (approximately 10-15 minutes) that I developed in The Geometer's Sketchpad, a mathematical program. Since The Geometer’s Sketchpad is not a web-based program and the School of Music does not have a license for it, we must hold the activity in a computer lab in Walker Hall. You can complete the activity anytime between 9:30 am to 12:30 pm on Friday December 4 in 205 Walker Hall. Refreshments will be provided. In order to plan for sufficient refreshments, please RSVP for Dr. Michael Bossé bossemj@appstate.edu if you plan to attend. Thank you all in advance for your willingness to participate.
- Please see the attached flyer and information regarding the Symphony of the Mountains upcoming concerts on December 5 and 6. The Symphony has made its performances free for all students, so please spread the word about this opportunity.
- American Music Abroad, a partnership between American Voices and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,invites applications for its international exchange program. AMA is an international exchange program designed to communicate America’s rich musical contributions and diverse culture to audiences around the world. Applications must be submitted by January 24, 2016. Finalists will be announced in late January/early February, and live auditions will be held March 14–19 in New York City and March 18 in San Francisco. Final ensembles will be selected by April 4. For complete program guidelines, information about last year's ensemble participants, and application instructions, visit the AMA website. Link to Complete RFP
- 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.)
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
- 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.)
- Appalachian Chorale performs on Tuesday, December 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Dean's Advisory Council meets on Tuesday, December 1, at 11 am.
Looking Ahead
- Symphony Band performs on Wednesday, December 2, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- Deans' Student Advisory Council meets Wednesday, December 2, at 5 pm.
- The HSoM full faculty meets Friday, December 4, at 11 am.
- 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 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
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015-16 Orchestra Concerto/Aria competition (in alphabetical order):
- Hunter Cox (student of Rodney Reynerson)
- Remy Martin (student of Joe Amaya)
- Andres Orench ( student of Scott Kallestad)
The Hayes School of Music faculty, alumni, and graduate students had a strong presence at the national conference of the American Music Therapy Association held in Kansas City November 12–15. Sessions by ASU music therapists were as follows:
Laura Shearin Brown (BM ’04, MMT ’09) presented four sessions with colleagues:
- Inclusion and the Changing Role for Music Therapists: The Need for Collaboration
- Professional Supervision: Why It’s Important and How You Can Get It
- Music Therapy in Schools: Strategies that Work with All Children
- (with HSoM music therapist Christine Leist) Change It Up: Supporting All Learners in Music Therapy Higher Education
Deb Dempsey (MMT ’12) presented a continuing education session and a concurrent session:
- (with others) Music Therapy Through the Bereavement Continuum
- Music Therapy in Youth Grief Counseling
Michael Viega (BM ’06) presented three sessions:
- Traversing Soundscape: Expanding the Clinical Possibilities of Popular Music in Therapeutic Songwriting
- From Orphan to Sage: Music Therapy , Adolescence, and the Hero’s Journey
- Rising from the Ashes and Grace Street: An Evening of Arts-Based Research Performance
Nicole Hahna (BM ’01) & Melody Schwantes (BM ’01, MMT ’07, HSoM lecturer in Music Therapy): I Got 99 Problem (Statements): Research with an Empirical State of Mind
Lana Card Hawkins (Equivalency ’13) and others: The Real World: Music Therapy Edition
Ashley Kvitko Taul (MMT ’15) & Cheslea Stith Waddelow (MMT ’14): Using Thematic Analysis to Assist in Selecting Popular Music for Song Selection
Graduate student Jessica Donley (MMT ’17): Searching for Funding Opportunities: Finding the Right Grantmaker for Your Project.
In addition, members of the HSoM faculty served in a variety of official capacities. Melody Schwantes (BM ’01, MMT ’07) served as the representative from the Southeastern Region to the AMTA International Relations Committee and also serves on the editorial review board for Music Therapy Perspectives. Christine Leist fulfilled multiple roles as president-elect of the Southeastern Region and member of the Academic Policy and Approval Committee. She and Cathy McKinney both served as two of nine delegates from the Southeastern Region to the national, policy-making Assembly of Delegates.
With best wishes for week 15 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.
Symphony of the Mountains info (PDF, 159KB)
Symphony of the Mountains flyer (PDF, 91KB)
001 Duties of Graduate Coordinato(s) (DOC, 17KB)