Comparatively speaking, the Boone area avoided the worst (or best, depending on your point of view) of the blizzard, though the University closed operations Thursday evening through all day Sunday. But we've dug out, and our activities and events are back on schedule, at least until the elements provide a next round of environmental entertainment. Nothing is forecast, so we'll keep our fingers crossed.
Faculty and Staff Business
- A service to celebrate the life of Alla Neshatayeva will occur on Friday, January 29, at 4 pm, in the Recital Hall. Performances will feature Nancy Bargerstock, Priscilla Porterfield, Rodney Reynerson, Bair Shagdaron, and Max Shagdaron.
- Sydney Dehus recommends the following procedure—adding a profile picture in Gmail.
- With Apps Mountaineer Gmail, you can attach a picture of yourself or your instrument, or an icon that could be associated with your name: 1) Select the Settings gear icon on the right side of your Google screen, 2) then navigate to the General tab and scroll down to My Picture to upload your photo of choice. (Due to many faculty, students and staff with the same name but different initials, it can be tricky choosing the correct person when typing a name in the "TO" field of the Apps Mountaineer Gmail.) Give it a try, compose an email and type your name in the "TO" field to see who comes up in the search. Here is the link for uploading a photo: https://apps.google.com/learning-center/tips/gmail/#/show-tip/add-profile-picture-to-emails Or visit our ASU GoGoogle site: http://gogoogle.appstate.edu/training-support
- The orchestra search committee will meet Monday, February 1, at 12:00 noon in the conference room.
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
- 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.
- Dean's Advisory Council meets on Tuesday, February 2, at 11 am.
- The HSoM "Faculty Potpourri" concert occurs Tuesday, February 2, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Looking Ahead
- Dean's Student Advisory Council meets Wednesday, February 3, at 5 pm.
- The HSoM full faculty meets on Friday, February 5, at 11 am. Among other agenda items, Cannon Music Camp director James Daugherty will provide an update on CMC 2016.
- Harmonia Baroque performs on Sunday, February 7, at 4 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 31st at 2 pm.
- The ASU Saxophone Quartet, consisting of Andres Orench, Mitchell Powers, Luke Taylor, and Darby Teander, will perform at the Ohio University Saxophone Quartet Summit in Athens, Ohio on Tuesday, January 26.
Kudos and Other News and Events
- HSoM graduate voice student Jason Nichols placed first in the Metropolitan Opera District Competition held in Columbia, SC on January 23. He will next compete in the Regional Finals, scheduled for February 7 in Atlanta.
With best wishes for the third 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.