April, the "cruelest month," is showing its colors. As our calendar reveals its most active days for concerts and other activities, our mountain weather swings from summer-like days to bone chilling winter complete with snow, all in this single week.
Faculty and Staff Business
*For the 2015 Faculty Annual Performance Review template, please see the Forms page on the Faculty portal of the HSoM website: http://music.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/updated-pdfs-forms
*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.
*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
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.
Brass Studio Ensembles perform Wednesday, April 6, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Collegium Musicum performs Thursday, April 7, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Guitarfest occurs Friday-Sunday, April 8-10, in Rosen and the Recital Hall.
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform Monday, April 11, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Looking Ahead
Jazz Ensembles I and II perform Wednesday, April 13, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The Hayes Faculty String Quartet performs in recital on Thursday, April 14, at 6 pm, in the Recital Hall.
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform on Thursday, April 14, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Treble Choir performs Friday, April 15, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Blazing Bassoons performs Sunday, April 17, at 4 pm, in Rosen.
Saxophone Chamber Ensembles perform on Sunday, April 17, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Community Band performs Monday, April 18, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Percussion Ensemble performs Tuesday, April 19, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Kudos and Other News and Events
At its late March meeting, the ASU Board of Trustees awarded HSoM faculty clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman and music theorist Jennifer Snodgrass with promotion to Professor, and music therapist Christine Leist and trombonist Drew Leslie with tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
The ASU Board of Trustees has named HSoM music education specialist Liz Rose professor emerita, effective upon her retirement later this academic year.
HSoM students represented us very well at the recent National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competitions. In the NC statewide event, Remy Martin placed first in senior men, Nicole Barone was second in senior women, Ethan Garner was second in junior men, and Grayson Milholin was second in freshman men. At the Mid-Atlantic Regionals (which include Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina) Ethan Garner placed third and Remy first. Additionally, Remy Martin was selected the best male singer at both competitions.
With best wishes for the twelfth 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.