Events

Forthcoming Activities in the Department of Music

We invite you to experience our musical offerings for Fall 2011!  Here are a few of the concerts and recitals in the next few weeks.  As always, more details on these performances and up-to-date information on all Department of Music offerings, including student recitals, small ensemble performances, and guest master classes is available at www.webster.edu/music, or simply click here for the direct calendar link.  Performance locations vary, so please check carefully in order to ascertain the specific hall.

During the rest of term . . .

Monday, November 21 at 7 p.m. – Jazz at Webster: Webster Jazz Collective; Moore Auditorium, 535 Garden Ave.  $  
http://www.webster.edu/news/releases/websterjazzcollectiveconcert_111259.shtml

Tuesday, November 22 at 7 p.m. – Concert Series: Martha J. Hart, mezzo soprano, in faculty recital; Thompson Music Building, 8282 Big Bend Ave.  $

Monday, November 28 at 7 p.m. – Webster Presents: Wind Ensemble, James A. Martin, conductor; Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave.  $  
http://www.webster.edu/news/releases/windensemble_musicof_111260.shtml

Friday, December 2 at 7 p.m. – Concert Series: New Music Ensemble; Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave.  $

Sunday, December 4 at 4 p.m. – Concert Series: Daniel Schene, piano, in faculty recital; Moore Auditorium, 535 Garden Ave.  $

Monday, December 5 at 7 p.m. – Jazz at Webster: Webster University Jazz Singers, Debby Lennon, director; Moore Auditorium, 535 Garden Ave.  $

Sunday, December 11 at 2 and 4 p.m. – Webster Presents: A Gift to the City annual holiday concert, featuring a panoply of choirs, orchestra, and soloists; Christ Church Cathedral, 13^th and Locust, Saint Louis.  Free.

From the White House

Read this!!

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2011/05/white_house_advisory_panel_hig.html#.Tsh3MlK-nmY.facebook

Scottsdale

The pre-conference workshops began this morning at the annual meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music. And now my brain is spinning with possibilities.

Scottsdale is arid and dry, and I realized today as I was driving to Arizona State University for a college fair just how much of a desert this is!

The business begins tomorrow.  Before I leave here on Tuesday I will have attended:

• two plenary business sessions
• Core Music Curriculum Components I: Musicianship, Theory, Composition/Improvisation
• a reception for All-Steinway Schools hosted by Steinway
• Management: Matters of Time
• Core Music Curriculum Components IV: Synthesis: Developing local definitions and faculty engagement
• Core Curriculum for Music: Strengths and Areas for Improvement, OR
• Problem-Based Learning: Mandates and Opportunities in Teacher Preparation and Music Instruction
• Assessing Our Programs for Real Improvement
• a district business meeting for the multi-state region including Missouri
• two breakfast receptions

This doesn’t sound exciting, and truth be told, it’s not.  But this is great stuff, and leads me to all sort of thoughts about what we could do better and differently and persuasively.

And I brought work with me, including more curriculum revision items and some faculty development work.  And a proposal that I need to file soon.

My room at the Westin Kierland in Scottsdale has a great view of the mountains to the south.

Carousel

Carousel continues this weekend at the Loretto-Hilton Center, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.  My student Audrey McHale is Julie Jordan.  Billy Bigelow is Kurt Hellerich.  Both are stupendous and wonderful.  I’m a very proud teacher.

SEE THIS SHOW!

Free lunch

One of the things I love about teaching at Webster?  The free lunches!

From time to time each semester the administration pays for a bunch of us to eat free of charge.  The Thanksgiving dinner was this week.  St Patrick’s Day is another.  And the welcome-back barbecue.  A few others take place each year.

http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2011/11/16/st-louis-snapshot-gorlok-gathering/

I enjoyed dining with some of my freshman and sophomore majors yesterday!

WUSO

Webster University Symphony Orchestra performed this weekend.  A grad student led the group in the La Forza del Destino overture, and then Maestro Davis took over.  Faculty member Martha Hart performed Ravel, and the Young Artist competition winner wowed us on his cello.  Beethoven rounded out the evening.

Teaching

I have enjoyed an extraordinary week of happiness and surges forward in my voice studio.

On Sunday, Jacob sang wonderfully well in master class.

My one lesson Monday found a senior Acting major popping high F’s as if he eats them for breakfast.  And he loves the song.  Given where we started three years ago, these pitches he has found are a cause for ecstatic celebration.

One of my Tuesday students wrote me last evening: “Thanks again for the new song and wonderful lesson!  It made for a great rest of the day and a pleasant new outlook for the coming year!”  I can’t buy this kind of happiness.

And then my freshman tenor found sounds and comfort in his upper range that he didn’t know he had.

And today, one of my students shared with me some smile-making news, and another one was in the best humor I’ve seen from him in some time, now that some pressure is off.

All week long, success and growth have been the theme and the result.

Here’s a shot of a student I’ve not seen this week, but will on the weekend.  Jeff is my freshman Musical Theatre major.  We were at a master class on Sunday.

NATS

Big doings last weekend in Liberty:
http://blogs.webster.edu/webstertoday/2011/11/08/voice-students-excell-in-regional-competition/

 

Master class

Neal Richardson, musical director for the Conservatory of Theatre Arts, conducted a master class today for musical theatre students.  My junior Jacob Lacopo sang.  And well!

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Events

Forthcoming Activities in the

Department of Music

 

We invite you to experience our musical offerings for Fall 2011!  Here are a few of the concerts and recitals in the next two weeks.  As always, more details on these performances and up-to-date information on all Department of Music offerings, including near-nightly student recitals, small ensemble performances, and guest master classes is available at www.webster.edu/music, or simply click here for the direct calendar link.  Performance locations vary, so please check carefully in order to ascertain the specific hall.

In the next two weeks . . .

Monday, November 7 at 7 p.m. – Jazz at Webster: Student jazz combo concert #1; Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave.  $

Sunday, November 13 at 7 p.m. – Webster Presents: Webster University Symphony Orchestra, Paul Davis, conductor, in Heroes and Destiny, with faculty artist Martha J. Hart; Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave.  $

Monday, November 14 at 7 p.m. – Jazz at Webster: Student jazz combo concert #2; Community Music School, 535 Garden Ave.  $

Parking for Moore Auditorium is available in lots near Webster Hall and on Lockwood Avenue.  Parking for the Community Music School is in the Garden Avenue parking garage.

For further information, call 314.968.7032.

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