Category: Program Development
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Central Region student auditions
I shared information this week with Central Region membership, pertaining to our October and November student auditions. Take a look!
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Central Region conference
As ‘summer’ winds down and many of us return to teaching in its many places and forms, your Central Region NATS leadership is at work — quietly, but determinedly — putting together the outlines of the Central Region conference program for October. We have confirmed a headliner, and are making decisions about presentation and interest…
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Music Direction for Musical Theatre
Webster University offers the only degree of this kind in the country, to our knowledge — a Bachelor of Music in Music Direction for Musical Theatre. The core of this degree is a complete Bachelor of Music degree, to which we add courses in music direction, conducting, loads of readings, weekly master classes, and four…
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Master class
Jason Debord of the University of Michigan joined our master class today for students in the program Music Direction for Musical Theatre. We also had one new student join, and two alums of the program. A good time was had by all!
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Newspaper articles
Some recent newspaper stories . . . About the Unified auditions: https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-unifieds-chicago-theater-auditions-0206-20200205-3ks4py4hz5gctg5nutlcobxwvq-story.html About me with Circus Harmony: City Museum band features professor and students And about the Department of Music staying up with the time: Music department influences new melodies over decade
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So much going on
A big jazz month starts Monday! I feel like it’s been years since I’ve written anything here, but life has been full indeed. Our decennial visit from the National Association of Schools of Music takes place in just two weeks’ time. The two ‘visitors’ (music executives from other schools) will stop in on classes, ensemble…
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Anatomy of a week
We’ve just completed the last week of classes for Fall 2019. My week was full! Voice lessons with all of my college students A meeting about curriculum mapping Work on our NASM self-study Planning for Spring 2020 Scheduled class meetings A meeting with the Dean Advising sessions A cabaret act at Blue Strawberry In the…
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Daniel Webster Society Dinner
Several weeks ago, five Webster music majors entertained at the annual Daniel Webster Society dinner at the Ritz Carlton in Clayton. The jazz combo during cocktail hour played beautifully, but sadly the photo of them caught two of the gents with their eyes closed, looking slightly pained at the half-diminished chord they certainly were playing,…