Just three more days separate us from the end of classes for Fall 2015. We'll look forward to our final three concerts of the semester, and then, following Finals Week, we'll celebrate with our December graduates. (See Events and Looking Ahead below.)
Events
For complete listings of 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
Appalachian Chorale performs on Tuesday, December 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
On Wednesday, December 2nd, students in the Introduction to Music Industry Studies class will present a poster session highlighting their semester research projects from 9-10am in the "Brickyard." Everyone is invited to stop by and see what the MIS students have been working on.
Symphony Band performs on Wednesday, December 2, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
The HSoM Holiday Scholarship Concert occurs Friday, December 4, at 7:30 pm, in the Schaefer Center. $$
The "Messiah Singalong" occurs Sunday, December 6, at 6 pm, in Rosen.
Jazz Ensemble I presents "An Evening of Holiday Big Band Jazz" (dinner/concert) on Sunday, December 6, at 7 pm, in the Parkway Ballroom (Plemmons Student Union). $$
Looking Ahead
Final Exams occur Monday-Friday, December 7-11.
University Commencement occurs December 12.
Spring 2016 semester classes begin Monday, January 11.
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
HSoM faculty choral conductor Stephen Hopkins's work "When Jesus Was Born" will be performed by the Hickory Choral Society at their annual Christmas Concerts. These five concerts take place from Friday, December 4 through Sunday, December 6 at Corinth Reformed Church in Hickory.
Kudos and Other News and Events
See the following URL for an article regarding HSoM ethnomusicologist Laurie Semmes's study-abroad trip to Cuba with Appalachian colleagues and students: http://appalachianmagazine.org/stories/id/512
See the following URL for an article regarding Patricia Ferguson Beane's honorary bachelor's degree, awarded in early October at the University's Celebration of Integration, and her time in the Marching Mountaineers in the mid-1960s: http://diversity.appstate.edu/news/id/56
With best wishes for week 16 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