Category: Students
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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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Pensive
I forget how bittersweet these last days of the semester can be. One of the things I regularly tell students is that “our best view of you is watching your butt cross the stage at Commencement, because that means we’ve done our job.” We faculty know that we are charged with these students for only…
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Studio recital
Several weeks ago, my voice studio got together on Zoom to sing for each other, in a mix of live and pre-recorded songs. I love my kids, and am so proud of their work this semester. The song list from that Saturday morning: Someone else’s story, Chess I’ll save the girl, Superhero Haven’t met you…
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First class
Yesterday (Monday, 24 August) I met in person with a class of students for the first time since early March. The experience was gladdening. Happy. A bit scary. Surreal. Unusual. New. Unsatisfying. Yet satisfying. Some of these sophomore musical theatre majors (for these are the students in my lecture class) had not seen each since…
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Brewer Week
Another Christine Brewer Week is in the books. Christine worked with dozens of students this week, and joined some of them for a final concert Friday in Moore Auditorium. This year’s theme was Women Composers; the roster dated back 200 years, and up to today. I was one proud chair today!
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Opera Scenes
We are wrapping up one semester this week, but moving steadily into another. Opera Scenes leads off in January!
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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,…
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Recital video
I’m so, so proud of our students! http://news.webster.edu/academics/2019/annual-scholarship-recital-department-music.html DO take a look!