We're enjoying rainforest weather this week, giving us good opportunities to be in Rosen Concert hall for performances, including a guest recital by organist Keith Weber (including collaboration with HSoM faculty members. The University celebrates Homecoming this weekend, featuring a program that recognizes Appalachian's fifty years of integration.
Faculty and Staff Business
- Christine Leist provides the following information regarding this year's State Employees Combined Campaign:
- 2015 State Employees’ Combined Campaign (SECC), Begins October 1, 2015, with weekly prizes!
- Give – Make it Grow”
- Please consider making a pledge to the organization(s) of your choice. Christine will put brochures and donations forms in mailboxes in the main office. Donations can be made as a payroll deduction ($5/month minimum), a one-time check made out to NC SECC, credit card, cash, or stock transfer/matching gift.
- A donation of $5 per month can provide:
- Provides 24 hours of shelter, meals, and service for one homeless person in NC.
- Buys one acre of unprotected tropical rainforest.
- Pays for one hour of counseling for a suicidal teen
- Buys enough food for one guide dog for 3 months.
- Provides medicine for 7 NC children who would have missed school without it.
- More information about the campaign, organizations, and incentives can be found at www.secc.appstate.edu.
- Please put your completed forms in the envelope in Christine's mailbox or send forms directly to:
SECC, ASU Box 32198, Boone, NC 28608. - For more information:
Christine Leist
Office 209 BMC; 262-6663
leistcp@appstate.edu
- Lauren Hayworth has provided a number of tips for submitting travel authorizations and reimbursements, as well as a template for authorizations. (See attachments.)
- ASU Sharpe Chair Jody Servon has invited HSoM faculty colleagues to participate in a "creativity retreat" at the Hiddenite Center on Friday, October 9. (See attachment.) Jody writes, "Elsewhere is a living museum set in a three-story former thrift store. They host residencies for all kinds of creative people--artists, musicians, writers, architects, etc. www.goelsewhere.org/ The goal is to have thought-provoking discussions and mind-expanding experiences with colleagues from Appalachian State and the Hiddenite Center. www.hiddenitearts.org/ "
- Concerto/Aria applications and rules are available in the Music Office. The deadline for submitting applications is Oct. !4.
- 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. www.state.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 artist organist Keith Weber performs in recital on Tuesday, September 29, at 8 pm, in Rosen. HSoM faculty members Alicia Chapman (oboe), Rob Falvo (percussion) and Priscilla Porterfield (mezzo-soprano) will perform with Mr. Weber.
- The HSoM Advisory Board meets on Friday, October 2.
- Gospel Choir's "Midnight Concert" occurs Friday, October 2, at 11:55 pm, in Rosen.
- 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.
Looking Ahead
- 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 faculty pianist Rodney Reynerson performs in recital on Sunday, October 11, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- HSoM woodwind faculty members perform a chamber music recital on Tuesday, October 13, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Thursday-Sunday, October 15-18, is ASU's Fall Break.
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
- The Western Piedmont Symphony will perform Bill Harbinson's "Of Fire and Ice" on October 3, 2015, in the Munroe Auditorium, Lenoir Rhyne University, Hickory, NC, at 7:30 pm.
- 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
- Thanks go out to associate dean Jay Jackson for facilitating the HSoM's open house activities this past Saturday. Thanks go, also, to the many faculty colleagues who participated in the morning's conversations with numerous prospective students and their families from the region. And, finally, special thanks to the students and leadership of the Marching Mountaineers, who provided great musical energy for the Holmes Center event.
With best wishes for week 7 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.
Travel Tips (DOC, 26KB)
Travel Forms (XLS, 73KB)
Hiddenite event (PDF, 125KB)