Fall colors have peaked in the High Country, and now we accelerate through the last weeks of the semester.
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
Octubafest occurs Monday, October 24, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Jazz Ensemble II performs Tuesday, October 25, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Collegium Musicum performs Wednesday, October 26, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Blazing Bassoons performs Sunday, October 30, at 4 pm, in Rosen.
Saxophone Chamber Ensembles perform Sunday, October 30, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The Halloween Monster Concert occurs Monday, October 31, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Brass Studio Ensembles perform Tuesday, November 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
LOOKING AHEAD
Jazz Ensemble I performs Wednesday, November 2, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform Thursday, November 3, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
University Singers and Chamber Singers perform Friday, November 4, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM ON THE ROAD and AROUND CAMPUS (upcoming)
On October 29, HSoM music theorist Greg McCandless will serve as a panelist at the national meeting of the College Music Society to be held in Santa Fe, NM. The panel, entitled "Engaging the CMS Task Force Recommendations: Preparing Undergraduate Music Students to Engage," includes faculty members from the University of South Florida and Arizona State University.
On November 3, HSoM music theorist Greg McCandless will be presenting a jazz/rock phenomenology paper entitled "Attentional Cost and Positional Analysis: A Bassist's Perspective" at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Vancouver, BC. This paper is part of a panel titled "Positional Listening/Positional Analysis," which includes faculty members from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Kansas, and the University of Kentucky.
Over twenty HSoM students, faculty, and alumni will participate as presenters, officers, session chairs, and attendees for the annual conference of the College Music Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 26-30.
Many Hayes School of Music faculty and students will participate in the North Carolina Music Educators Association conference in Winston-Salem, on November 6-8. The HSoM will host an alumni reception on Monday, November 7, from 5:30-7 pm, in the "Graze" restaurant in the Marriott hotel.
HSoM faculty guitarist Doug James has an active performance calendar in October as he collaborates with Pascuale Rucco in the Rucco-James Duo:
- 10/24-25, Benevento Guitar Festival, Italy (Concert and masterclasses)
- 10/29, Piccolo Teatro Caligula, Aversa, Italy
KUDOS AND OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
HSOM executive assistant and MM-Voice alumna Lauren Hayworth has released an album of jazz standards entitled "Lullabies for Keira," recorded in the Robert F. Gilley Studio, engineered by HSOM alumnus Jesse Harvey, mastered by alumnus Joseph Diehl, and featuring HSOM faculty members Rob Falvo, Andy Page, Todd Wright, Doug James, Shawn Roberts, former faculty members Keith McCutchen, and students Andres Orench and Alyssa Kimpel.
With best wishes for the eleventh week of the 2016-17 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