A quick look at our upcoming performance calendar demonstrates that we're "all in" for the semester. Please join us for upcoming concerts and recitals by students, faculty, and guest artists.
Faculty and Staff Business
- A memorial service for HSoM alumnus Jordan Hallmark '10 will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29 at St. Mary of the Hills Episcopal Church in Blowing Rock. Hampton Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.
- Jenny Snodgrass will begin her role as Music Theory Coordinator in January, and she'd like to share the Graduate Coordinator position with a colleague for the Spring 2016 semester, preferably someone who will assume the full-time responsibility of Graduate Coordinator in July 2016. Please consider nominations and self-nominations for this position. We'll schedule an election for the November faculty meeting.
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
- Octubafest occurs Monday, October 26, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Guest artist guitarist William Yelverton performs in recital on Tuesday, October 27, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
- Jazz Ensemble II performs Tuesday, October 27, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Collegium Musicum performs Wednesday, October 28, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Flute Ensemble performs Thursday, October 29, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- The Steely Pan Band performs Friday, October 30, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- The Halloween Monster Concert occurs Saturday, October 31, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Blazing Bassoons perform on Sunday, November 1, at 4 pm, in Rosen.
- Guest artists the Friction Quartet perform in concert on Sunday, November 1, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
- Saxophone Chamber Ensembles perform on Sunday, November 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Dean's Advisory Council meets Tuesday, November 3, at 11 am. Provost Kruger will facilitate a discussion regarding the University's Strategic Plan.
Looking Ahead
- Deans' Student Advisory Council meets Wednesday, November 4, at 5 pm.
- Brass Studio Ensembles perform on Wednesday, November 4, at 6 pm, in Rosen.
- Jazz Ensemble I performs on Wednesday, November 4, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- The HSoM full faculty meets on Friday, November 6, at 11 am, followed by a meeting of the Promotion and Tenure Committee.
- University and Chamber Singers perform Friday, November 6, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- The HSoM's Showcase Concert "A Night with the Hayes School of Music" will occur on Monday, November 9, at 7:45 pm, in Winston-Salem's Stevens Center. (See "On the Road" below.)
- Opera Scenes will be performed on Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- 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.
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
- On October 29, HSoM music theorist Jennifer Snodgrass will serve as moderator and panelist at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory to be held in St. Louis. The panel, entitled "Integration, Diversity, and Creativity:
- Reflections on the “Manifesto” from the College Music Society," includes faculty members from Eastman School of Music, Rider University, Oakland University, Youngstown State University, University of Miami, and Ohio University. A video-recording of the panel will be placed on the SMT website soon after the conference.
- On November 6, Jennifer Snodgrass and Reeves Shulstad will be presenting a poster entitled "Beginning at the Source: Preliminary Action in Redesigning the Core Curriculum" at the national meeting of the College Music Society.
- HSoM alumna Joanna Pepple will present "Sustaining a Musical Pedagogy across Continents: The Leipzig Conservatory and its Impact on American Musical Institutions" at the College Music Society National Conference, November 7, 2015.
- The Hayes School of Music has been invited by the North Carolina Music Educators Association to present four ensembles—University Singers, Jazz Ensemble I, Symphony Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble—in a showcase concert as part of the Association's annual conference on Monday, November 9, at 7:30 pm, in Winston-Salem's Stevens Center.
Kudos and Other News and Events
- HSoM alumnus and advisory board member Travis Goodwin has been appointed Director of Marketing and Education for the Crown Organization's CrownSTORE, Performance Groups, and Partnership in Education Programs (PIE) in Charlotte, NC.
With best wishes for week 11 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.