We're back after the MLK Holiday weekend, now waiting to see if this week brings a lot of rain or "a blizzard for the ages."
Events
For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
- Guest artist organist Bill Greene performs in recital on Tuesday, January 19, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Friday, January 22, is the day we will celebrate the anniversary of Ms. Mariam Cannon Hayes's 100th birthday during/after Performance Seminar, 1-2 pm.
Looking Ahead
- The HSoM Endowed Scholarship Recital occurs Thursday, January 28, at 8 pm, in the Recital Hall.
- Saturday, January 30, is the HSoM's third audition day for selecting the incoming class for Fall 2016.
- The HSoM "Faculty Potpourri" concert occurs Tuesday, February 2, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
- HSoM faculty oboist Alicia Chapman, musicologist Reeves Shulstad, and pianist Jonathan Asbell, '13, will present Wonders and Woodwinds, a concert of fairy tales, fables and classical music. This is the inaugural event for "Mini Matinees: A music and theatre series for families" presented by the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum on Sunday, January 24th at 2 pm. (Snow date: January 31st)
Kudos and Other News and Events
HSoM M.M. Performance-Conducting student Onsby Rose's article entitled "Friendship and Discovery In a Summer on the Road" was published in the January edition of The Instrumentalist. The article describes what he learned last summer participating in four conducting symposiums throughout the country.
With best wishes for the second week of the spring 2016 semester,
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.