Hayes School of Music

With a characteristically chilly day, Spring has officially begun. The University is closed next Monday and Tuesday, and then we'll resume activities for the last five weeks of the semester.

Faculty and Staff Business

• Attached to this announcement is the full-time faculty performance evaluation form for 2015. Tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-eligible full-time faculty should complete the self-evaluations sections of the form and submit it to Lauren by May 15. Additionally, please speak with Lauren about scheduling an annual meeting with me to occur after submission of the form. Please try to schedule meetings for sometime before July 1. Colleagues on the tenure track or subject to this year's post-tenure review process, please watch for detailed recommendations regarding scheduling of the annual meetings.
• In the next months, the HSoM website will migrate to a new visual/organizational template that will closely resemble that of the appstate.edu home page and others. In advance of that move, we would like to update website text as comprehensively as possible. Please check any web pages that you manage or use regularly, and send the web address (URL) of any needed corrections, along with the original text with edits highlighted in red, to Anna Gaugert gaugertah@appstate.edu. Please consider text edits only at this point, and provide your suggestions to Anna by May 15.
• An informal reception for HSoM development director John Sawyer, who is leaving for a position at the University of Virginia, will be held Tuesday, March 22, at the TApp Room (421 Blowing Rock Rd.), starting at 5 pm.
• For faculty members of Pi Kappa Lambda: The Pi Kappa Lambda induction breakfast will take place May 7th at 8:30 A.M. at the Dan'l Boone Inn. The cost for the breakfast is $12.50 and annual dues are $20. Payment for both may be put in Andrea Cheeseman's box. The deadline to submit payment is April 27th. Checks should be made out to Pi Kappa Lambda.

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 ensemble the Army Trombone Quartet performs in recital on Tuesday, March 22, at 8 pm, in the Recital Hall

Monday and Tuesday, March 28-29, are University holidays.

Looking Ahead

HSoM Dean's Advisory Council meets Thursday, March 31, at 11 am.

The HSoM full faculty meets Friday, April 1, at 11 am.

ASU Opera's production of Smetana's The Bartered Bride occurs on Thursday, March 31, through Sunday, April 3. All performances will be in Rosen Concert Hall, with Thursday-Saturday performance at 8 pm. Sunday's is a matinee performance at 2 pm. $$

Surround Sound Electronic Music occurs on Monday, April 4, at 8 pm, in the Recital Hall.

The spring Faculty Gala Concert occurs on Tuesday, April 5, at 8 pm, in Rosen.

HSoM Deans' Student Advisory Council meets Wednesday, April 6, at 5 pm.

HSoM on the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)

HSoM musicologist Reeves Shulstad will present a paper entitled "The Angelus of Vietnam: Tui St. George Tucker's Microtonal Response to Vietnam" to the Pop Culture in Theory Mini-Conference, to be held Wednesday, March 23, from 11:30 to 1:00 and 2:00 to 3:30 PM in the Parkway Ballroom (Room 420) in ASU's Plemmons Student Union. Shulstad's paper is scheduled for 2:30 PM.

Kudos and Other News and Events

Nancy Bargerstock, HSoM professor of Violin, has received the UNC Board of Governors Appalachian State University School/College Excellence in Teaching Award, one of six campus-wide recipients.

Lisa Runner, HSoM associate professor of Music Education, has received the system-wide UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, representing Appalachian among the seventeen UNC system recipients. http://www.news.appstate.edu/2016/03/18/lisa-runner/

Members of the HSoM Collegium Musicum performed a program of Baroque music and dance entitled A Baroque Adventure at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum on Sunday, March 20. The performance concluded the BRAHM's "Mini Matinee Music and Theatre" family series.

With best wishes for the tenth 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.