We'll see fall begin on Wednesday, and the season's color is already obvious. Main events for the week include a performance by guest saxophone and percussion duo Bent Frequency, our Fall Open House for prospective students, and the return of Ms. Cornelia Laemmli Orth to the Rosen podium as she conducts next Sunday's concert by the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra.
Faculty and Staff Business
- John Parham will be providing freelance piano tuning and repair through this fall, while we search for a new person to serve as our staff piano technician. Please use the Piano Work Order site to request work: apps.music.appstate.edu/pianos John's next visit here will likely be October 7-9.
- ASU Faculty Senate has the following openings for faculty members from the HSoM. Please contact Melissa Weddell directly, if you're interested weddellmj@appstate.edu.
- Non-Tenure Track Committee -- One member, must be tenure-track, from the HSoM. This committee looks out for NTT interests.
- University Forum: 1 (COE or MUS) One member, any rank, COE or SOM. They bring high-level speakers to campus.
- The University's Sustainability Council is undergoing reorganization, and they are seeking an HSoM faculty colleague to serve as a member of the Council. Please contact me if you are interested to join this campus-wide group.
- Please send me information about performances, presentations, and other activities you, your students, or alumni will be participating in off the mountain during the fall and spring semesters. Also, please send me announcements about professional engagements and employment among our alumni.
- Deadlines for submitting course proposals to the HSoM Curriculum and Assessment Committee are as follows: September 15, October 13, November 10.
- 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.If you have not already done so, please submit your annual conflict of interest form as soon as possible. For most, this is a very quick process that simply demonstrates that individuals have identified any financial interests that could be construed as in conflict with University policy regarding decision-making. appstate.myresearchonline.org/air
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
- Guest artists Bent Frequency (saxophone and percussion) perform Tuesday, September 22, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- ASU's fall Open House for prospective students is Saturday, September 26, 9 am to 12 pm, in the Holmes Convocation Center.
- Appalachian Symphony Orchestra performs on Sunday, September 27, at 2 pm, in Rosen
- Guest artist organist Keith Weber performs in recital on Tuesday, September 29, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Looking Ahead
- The HSoM Advisory Board meets on Friday, October 2.
- Wind Ensemble performs on Sunday, October 4, at 3 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- Faculty clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman performs in recital on Sunday, October 4, at 6 pm, in Rosen.
- Symphony Band performs on Monday, October 5, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- The HSoM full faculty meets on Friday, October 9, at 11 am with our guest Dr. Darrell Kruger, ASU's new provost. A short Tenure and Promotion Committee meeting will follow.
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
- Two HSoM alumni will present their research at the upcoming Popular Music and Communities Graduate Student Conference at Case Western University, October 2-3, 2015:
- Catherine (Williams) Hall (Florida State) – "'Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock!': Music and Heroism in the Harry Potter Fandom"
- Trevor Nelson (Michigan State) – "Bottoms Up: Parody, Camp, and Homonormative Critique in the Music of Willam Belli"
- 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. Jay Jackson has worked throughout the summer to coordinate activities and logistics related to the event, and we will be providing information to HSoM colleagues as plans are finalized. I hope that all will consider attending the NCMEA conference and the concert, as a way of supporting our students and future recruitment efforts for the Hayes School.
Kudos and Other News and Events
- Congratulations and thanks go out to HSoM faculty and staff for performing in and facilitating our three concerts last week: the Evening of Encores, the multi-ensemble performance with the University of Zululand Choir, and the Frank Ward recital. Special thanks go out to Jon Beebe for coordinating the Evening of Encores, which included seventeen faculty and staff members in performance, to Suzi Mills for coordinating our Zululand colleagues' activities along with conductors Priscilla Porterfield and Keith McCutchen, to Priscilla Porterfield for planning Mr. Ward's appearance, which featured our string faculty quartet, to Brent Bingham and the stage crew for their logistics, and to Scott Wynne and his audio crew for making sound happen. By my count, twenty-six HSoM faculty and staff colleagues were directly involved in the performances, which provided a brilliant start for our 2015-16 season.
With best wishes for week 6 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.