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Words Without Faces: Anonymous Social Media On Campus, Evelyn Kelly

Language, Literature & Writing Student Scholarship

"A new anonymous social media app, Fizz, has announced intentions to launch on Messiah University’s campus. Anonymous social media apps allow users to post within a set community without their comments being traced back to them. One such popular app around campus is Yik Yak..."

2023 Sacs Symposium Schedule, Jennifer L. Thomson

2023 SACS Symposium

Thank you for joining us as we celebrate the excellent research that has been conducted by the students of the School of Arts, Culture and Society. The week will kick-off with a research symposium on:

Monday, April 24th in Hostetter Chapel from 8 am - 8 pm

Student researchers will presenting their data in both poster and oral presentation formats.

At Messiah, we believe in educating "men and women toward maturity of intellect, character and Christian faith". Through inquiry and scholarship, our students and faculty seek to glorify God and grow in wisdom and understanding of His creation.

Dr. Peter …

A Master Of Music In Choral Conducting Recital: Program Notes, Sarah Horner

Conducting Student Scholarship

Choral notes for:

• Sanctus from Mozart’s Requiem
• O nata lux – Thomas Tallis
• Jubilate Deo (first movement Jubilate Deo, omnis terra) – Dan Forrest
• Keep Your Lamps – arr. André Thomas
• Erev Shel Shoshanim – Josef Hadar, arr. Jack Klebanow
• Auld Lang Syne – arr. Lee R. Kesselman
• Bidi Bom – David Eddleman
• It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas – arr. Mark Hayes
• Verleih’ uns Frieden – Felix Mendelssohn
• He Never Failed Me Yet – Robert Ray
• I Wanna Be Ready – arr. Rosephanye Powell
• The Long and Winding Road – arr. Paul Langford
• Tshotsholoza! – arr. Jeffrey Ames
• Homeward …

Program Notes, Catherine Chambers

Conducting Student Scholarship

Program notes for:

• Little Innocent Lamb by Stacey Gibbs
• “...Omnis Terra” from Jubilate Deo by Dan Forrest
• “Lux Aeterna” from Mozart’s Requiem
• Shenandoah by Mack Wilberg
• If Ye Love Me by Thomas Tallis
• Light of a Clear Blue Morning by Craig Hella Johnson
• Esto Les Digo by Kinley Lange
• Children Go Where I Send Thee arr. By Kevin Phillip Johnson
• Ain’t No Windin in the Road by Greg Gilpin
• “Lift Thine Eyes” from Mendelssohn’s Elijah Hold Me,
• Rock Me by Brian Tate Betelehemu by Wendell Whalum, arr. Barrington Brooks

Ordinary Beauty Program Notes, Olesia Gordynsky Castuera

Conducting Student Scholarship

Program notes for:

• “The Ground” from Sunrise Mass - Ola Gjeilo
• Excerpts from Four Slovak Folk Songs - Béla Bartók
• Liebst du um Schönheit (If You Love for Beauty) - Clara Schumann
• One May Morning - English Folk Song, arranged by Charlene Archibeque
• “Spring” and “Summer” from Two Eastern Pictures - Gustav Holst
• And Joy is Everywhere - Andrea Ramsey
• Drop, Drop Slow Tears - Orlando Gibbons
• The Last Words of David - Randall Thompson
• Jubilate Deo - Peter Anglea
• Grant Us Thy Peace - Felix Mendelssohn - Bartholdy
• Ain’t that Good News - Traditional Spiritual, arranged by William Dawson …

Integrating Metacognition And Critical Thinking Into Upper School Performing Ensembles--Developing Independent Musicians: A Review Of The Literature, Carrie Ely

Conducting Student Scholarship

There is a wealth of information about critical thinking and metacognition in the context of general education, yet there are still relatively few research studies and articles written about metacognition and critical thinking in the context of secondary performing ensembles. Teaching for metacognition and critical thinking can lead students toward independent musicianship as they learn to transfer knowledge to new learning contexts. This paper will provide a brief summary of the literature about metacognition in general education, and as it applies specifically to the music context. It will examine strategies directors can use which will promote metacognitive and critical thinking …

Recital Program Notes, Catherine Chambers

Conducting Student Scholarship

Choral notes for:

• Little Innocent Lamb by Stacey Gibbs
• Jubilate Deo: Omnis Terra by Dan Forrest
• Requiem: Lux Aeterna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Shenandoah by Mack Wilberg
• If Ye Love Me by Thomas Tallis
• Light of a Clear Blue Morning by Craig Hella Johnson
• Esto Les Digo by Kinley Lange
• Children Go Where I Send Thee arr. By Kevin Phillip Johnson
• Ain’t No Windin in the Road by Greg Gilpin
• Lift Thine Eyes from Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn
• Hold Me, Rock Me by Brian Tate
• Betelehemu by Wendell Whalum, arr. Barrington Brooks
• City Called Heaven arranged by Josephine Poelinitz, Edited …

Handbooks, Policies, And Power: Discursive Language And Lgbtqia+ Representation In Christian University Handbooks, Kaitlin Merlino

Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate

For many years, tensions have existed between Christianity and the LGBTQ community, most apparent in contexts such as politics and education. One site of conflict is within the realm of Christian higher education, specifically in regards to campus-wide regulation of same-sex behaviors. This research examines the language in sexuality-based rules as communicated in four Christian universities' handbooks. Bakhtin & Holquist (1981) demonstrate the innate tension between dialogue and the social context within which it is understood. Therefore, since language is not neutral, the words creating these rules are in themselves a site of tension for the university, its contributors, its …

Religious Orientation And Coping In Third Culture Kids, Kayla Zerbe

Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate

This study examines the correlation between religious orientation and religious coping in Third Culture Kids (TCKs). Young adult TCKs often struggle with their identity, mental health, and cultural adjustment during the reentry process. Despite the unique struggles TCKs experience, very little research has been done on this population. Religion may play a role in the reentry process as support, challenge, or way of coping. The present study examines religion in TCKs through the lens of motivation, using the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS), which measures intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation, and the Brief RCOPE, which measures positive and negative religious coping. …

Watching The Storm: Old Testament Reinvention Of God In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Evelyn Kelly

Language, Literature & Writing Student Scholarship

Author Zora Neale Hurston once claimed that “the Negro is not a Christian really” (Harvey 191). Yet she not only wrote a novel with “God” in the title, but multiple stories that echo specific biblical themes and motifs of salvation, judgment, violence, and pilgrimage. English scholar and professor Glenda Weathers has explored in depth one such parallel, the motif of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in her article, “Biblical Trees, Biblical Deliverance.” With Weather’s analysis, Janie is a Black Eve who is not saved by a male descendant but starts to experience echoes of paradise once …

Program Notes - Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Brian Cromer

Conducting Student Scholarship

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Program Notes, Ocie S. Banks

Conducting Student Scholarship

Lift Every Voice and Sing

O Vos Omnes

The Last Words of David

No. 6 “Song of the Earth” from Jubilate Deo

Requiem KV 626, “III. Sequenz, No. 3 Rex Tremendae”

O Quam Gloriosum

I Opened My Mouth To the Lord

Total Praise

Music Down in My Soul

Festival Sanctus

Sure on This Shining Night

“Non Nobis” from Three Latin Psalms

Liturgy Of The Dispersed: Memory, Transnationalism, And Cambodian Cuisine In The American Diaspora, Phalika Oum

Psychology, Criminal Justice & Sociology Student Scholarship

This study addresses Cambodian diasporic cuisine in the United States, recognizing cuisine as a way for Cambodians to maintain transnational ties in the era of mounting globalization. It is rooted in anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s theories on imagination, culturalism, and globalization. Using purposive sampling and the grounded theory approach, this study compares 25 pre-diaspora recipes to 25 diaspora recipes, and assesses changes in ingredients, cooking methods, and cultural or historical notes, respectively. Major findings in diasporic recipes, in comparison to pre-diasporic recipes, includes more leniency in ingredients used, stricter instructions on cooking methods, and greater nostalgia for the homeland.

Program Notes, Erich Lascek

Conducting Student Scholarship

Choral notes for:

• O Thou, the Central Orb
• “Te Cao Chang de Yang” (section 1) from Jubilate Deo
• “Kyrie” from Requiem
• “Sanctus” from Missa O Magnum Mysterium
• Festival Sanctus
• “The Road Not Taken” from Frostiana
• The Road Home
• Will There Really Be a Morning?
• Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
• Lo, How a Rose/The Rose
• A Red, Red, Rose
• “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” from Sweeney Todd
• “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George

"Joy In Community" - Program Notes, Elliot Plummer

Conducting Student Scholarship

Choral notes for:

• In Meeting We Are Blessed
• Al Shlosha D’Varim
• It Takes a Village
• Come Walk with Me & And So Shall I Sing
• Joyful, Joyful Day
• How Can I Keep From Singing
• Lift Every Voice and Sing
• There Has to Be a Song
• Ubi Caritas
• O Quam Gloriosum
• Rex Tremendae
• Song of the Earth

Shadow Of Culloden: The Political Legacy Of The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Autumn Miller

History, Politics & International Relations Student Scholarship

Legacies change over time, and the Battle of Culloden is no different, especially depending on who is seeking out election in Westminster. Often, the Jacobite failure is used to garner political gain during nationalistic movements; while others included when Westminster needed to push back against the Scottish people to keep them subdued. The catastrophic failure of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion led to changing political legacies over the next two hundred years, which has permeated modern-day United Kingdom politics with the result of a Scottish referendum in 2014. With a close analysis of stateless nations theory, as well as Wales as …

Christianity, Feminism, And Identity Development In Christian Higher Education, Kaitlin Merlino

Communication Student Scholarship

Identity formation acts as an important part of human development. At the same time, some difficulty occurs when a person attempts to hold two identities that seemingly contradict. For those that identify as both feminists and Christians, this dilemma creates difficulties. As these two identity camps have been on opposing ends of a variety of issues for years, some may even feel unable to claim both of these labels simultaneously. At the same time, some can hold the values of each even as they reject the identity labels. The context of higher education provides students with an environment where they …

Masculinity, Male Friendship, And Same-Sex Interactions In 18th Century America: The Relationship Of Alexander Hamilton And John Laurens, Chloe Kauffman

Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate

Amidst the great political change of eighteenth-century America, the concepts of gender and sexuality were brought into new conversation surrounding the Revolution and the new nation. The shifting understandings of gender and sexuality, especially masculinity and male sexuality, were integral to society in both the public and private sphere. One of the unique facets within these sociocultural changes was the "heroic friendship," an intimate friendship between two young men built upon the values of the early American public sphere--civic virtue, intellect, and status, to name a few. The debate lies in if the "heroic friendship" should be included as a …

The Search For Enduring Peace: Promoting Rebel Party Formation In Post-Civil Conflict States, Isabel Villegas

Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate

Civil wars have been a common occurrence throughout human history and have had an immense impact on political developments worldwide. Infamous examples include those in Rwanda, the Congo, Ukraine, and more recently, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan⸻all of which were, or haven been quite violent and with a range of human rights abuses committed by both state and rebel actors. Civil wars often have a variety of outcomes: a decisive win by government and military forces, a revolutionary victory and overthrow of current powers accomplished by rebels, the creation of a “failed state” lacking legitimate leadership and political institutions, or a …

Understanding Existentialism On Stage: The Theatre Of The Absurd, Joshua Murray

Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate

The Theatre of the Absurd represents one of the many shifts in the art forms of the second half of the 20th century. In a world that was searching for meaning, the Theatre of the Absurd was able to stage the universal situation of humanity in a new light. The Theatre of the Absurd largely sought to reinterpret several “traditional” conventions of theatre, and in doing so, was able to recontextualize some of the largest questions asked by humanity. Each play slowly shifts the conventions of theatre, as they were traditionally understood by audiences, to change the ways that audiences …

Graduate Recital Program Notes, Carolyn G. Bressler

Conducting Student Scholarship

This program includes:

Monti, Selve, Fontani

Laudate

Sisi Ni Moja

Abendlied

Hope Waits

Wanting Memories

Dirait-On

Sing Out My Soul

Muie Rendera

Benedictus - from Requiem

Non Nobis, Domine

Ubi Caritas

Duo Seraphim

Three Elizabethan Partsongs

Oh Sweet Day

Willow Song

O Mistress Mine

Nicholas Lloyd’S Master Conducting Recital Program Notes, Nicholas Lloyd

Conducting Student Scholarship

American Riversongs by Pierre La Plante

Make Our Garden Grow by Leonard Bernstein, Arr. by Joseph Kreines

Armed Forces Salute by Bob Lowden

Be Thou My Vision by Travis Cross

Creed by William Himes

Two Movements from Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger, Arr. by Michael Sweeney

Incidental Suite by Claude T. Smith Symphony in Bb by Paul Hindemith

Final Conducting Performance Program Notes, Ryan Sagedy

Conducting Student Scholarship

Includes program notes for:

• Rob Romeyn, Of Castles and Kings
• Gustav Holst, First Suite in Eb
• Vincent Persichetti, Psalm for Band
• Paul Hindemith, Symphony in Bb
• William Himes, Amazing Grace
• Kit Mills, Epic!

Music And The Human Experience: Program Notes, Cassie Jacobs

Conducting Student Scholarship

• Thomas Tallis (1505—1585), If ye love me
• Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679—1745), Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
• Moses Hogan (1957-2003), Hear My Prayer
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660—1725), Exultate Deo
• Amy Beach (1867-1944), Three Flower Songs
• Thomas Morley (1557-1602), April is in my mistress’ face
• Stephen Paulus (1949-2014), Southern Harmony
• Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Liebst du um Schönheit
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Lebenslust (“Love of Life”)
• Sarah Quartel (b. 1982), “Sing, My Child”
• Frank Ticheli (b. 1958), Earth Song
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Rest
• Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979), The Music of Stillness
• J. David Moore (b. 1962), Will the Circle Be Unbroken
• Michael Barrett (b. …

Graduate Recital: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Journey Of Grief And Hope, Sara H. Jackson

Conducting Student Scholarship

This program includes:

Weep, O Mine Eyes (1599)

Sicut Cervus (1604)

“The Trumpet Shall Sound” from Messiah (1741)

“Wie Lieblich sind deine wohnungen” from the A German Requiem (1865-1868)

Great Is Thy Faithfulness (1923)

Over the Rainbow (1939)

Flying Free (1979)

Inscription of Hope (1994)

Keep Your Lamps (2003)

O Love (2016)

Those Who Mourn (2021)

All Things New (2021)

Hope Waits (2021)

Samuel Asuque Program Notes Final Draft, Samuel Asuque

Conducting Student Scholarship

This program includes:

Conductor bio and Recital introduction………………………………………………………. 2

T’amo Mia Vita by Vittoria Aleotti……………………………………………………………. 3

Cuando tú no estás by Liliana Cangiano……………………………………………………….4

Im Wald by Fanny Hensel……………………………………………………………………….6

Abendfeier in Venedig by Clara Schumann…..………………………………………………..7

Veni Creator Spiritus by Linda Kachelmeier…………………………………………………..9

Stabat Mater by Sulpitia Cesis………………………………………………………………...10

The Bird’s Lullaby by Sarah Quartel……………………………………………………...….11

In Remembrance by Eleanor Daley…………………………………………………………...12

Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………….14

Program Notes: Central York High School Choral Concert - Spring 2022, Benjamin Watson

Conducting Student Scholarship

Performed May 17, 2022

Benjamin Watson, conductor

Bonse Aba - Zambian Traditional, arr. Victor C. Johnson

Over the Rainbow- Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg, arr. Mark Hayes Ad Astra - Jacob Narverud

How Can I Keep from Singing? - Greg Gilpin

Central York High School Mixed Choir

Bogoróditse Djévo - Arvo Pärt

Flower of Beauty - John Clements

I Shall Not Live in Vain - Thomas LaVoy

Operator - William Spivery, arr. Kirby Shaw

Central York Chamber Singers

Lamentations of Jeremiah - Z. Randall Stroope

E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come - Paul O. Manz

Awake the Harp - …

Graduate Choral Recital, William Goliger

Conducting Student Scholarship

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) paved an unconventional path to become a composer. Born in Venice where his father, Giovanni Battista was a violinist at St. Mark’s Basilica, Vivaldi was not trained to be a musician, though it is clear that he studied violin at a young age. Instead, he studied to be a priest, and was ordained in March 1703. In September 1703, Vivaldi was appointed maestro di violino at the Ospedale de Pietá, a Venetian orphanage for girls devoted to musical training and performance. Over the years, he was promoted to successively higher ranks, culminating in his appointment to the …

Brandon Mast - Program Notes, Brandon Mast

Conducting Student Scholarship

This program includes:

Soldiers’ Procession and Sword Dance (1992). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Margolis (b. 1949)

(after Tielman Susato, ca. 1500-1551-4)

First Suite in Eb for Military Band (1909) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Feliz Navidad (Merry Christmas) (2009) . . . . . . . . . Words and Music by Jose Feliciano (b. 1945)

arr. Victor Lopez …

Choral Conducting Recital Program Notes, Robert Judge

Conducting Student Scholarship

This program includes:

The Road Home - Stephen Paulus (1949 - 2014)

Kyrie from “Requiem” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Laudamus Te from “Gloria” - Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)

Te Deum for The Empress Marie Therese - Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)

Five Hebrew Love Songs - Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

MLK - arr. Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)

If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis (1505 (?) - 1585)

No Time - arr. Susan Brumfield (birthdate unknown) Heilig - Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)

Bogoroditse Devo from “All-Night Vigil” - Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)

Jai …