This coming Saturday, we will celebrate the accomplishments of approximately thirty HSoM undergraduates and master's degree candidates who will receive their diplomas at the December Commencement ceremony. Then, the HSoM and much of the University will be very quiet till classes resume for the spring semester on January 17. Here's wishing everyone a joyous holiday season in these next weeks, with all best wishes for the new year 2017!
EVENTS For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: https://music.appstate.edu/news-events/performance-calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
Final exams end on Thursday, December 8.
The annual HSoM December Graduates Reception and Master's Hooding Ceremony will occur on Friday, December 9, at 3 pm.
The December Commencement ceremony for HSoM undergraduates and graduate students occurs Saturday, December 10, at 10 am, in the Holmes Convocation Center.
LOOKING AHEAD
The University is closed December 26-30 and January 2.
The University is closed January 16 for the MLK holiday.
The first day of classes for the spring 2017 semester is Tuesday, January 17.
KUDOS AND OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
Thanks and congratulations go out to Steve Hopkins for coordinating our 24th annual Holiday Scholarship Concert; to Jay Jackson, Brent Bingham, the SCPA staff, and Kappa Kappa Psi for their work with logistics and other support; to Sigma Alpha Iota for the post-performance reception; to the numerous faculty members who conducted and/or prepared ensemble performances; and to the countless students who performed during the evening's festivities. By all measures, it was a tremendous success.
HSoM music theorist Bill Harbinson and former HSoM music theorist Gabe Fankhauser have published their co-authored music theory text Beyond Harmony: An Introduction to Analysis of Form and Structure in Music with Kendall-Hunt Publishing (Dubuque, Iowa).
HSoM music theorist Jennifer Snodgrass has been named a legacy finalist for he Grammy music educator award. She will automatically advance to semi-finalist round for the 2018 competition.
HSoM music theorist Jennifer Snodgrass has been award a University Research Council grant for 2017. Her grant will fund research for an upcoming pedagogy text entitled Teaching Music Theory: New Voices and Approaches, currently under review with Oxford University Press.
With best wishes as the fall 2016 semester comes to an end,
Bill
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William L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Dean, Hayes School of Music
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-3029