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2011-2012 Guest Pianist Weekend: "Postcards From Russia" - Jon Kimura Parker, Jon Kimura Parker

Guest Recitals

Jon Kimura Parker Master Class (January 14, 2012 at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm) - Program

2011-2012 Master Class - Jon Kimura Parker (Piano), Jon Kimura Parker, Aneliya Novikova, Dotan Nitzberg, Marina Lenau, Zhou Jiang, Darren Matias, Anastasiya Timofeeva, Stephen Seto, Heqing Huang, Misaki Saito

Master Classes

Jon Kimura Parker Performance (January 15, 2012) - Program

Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Junior Recital - Amber Martin, Soprano And Mark Smith, Piano, Amber Martin, Mark Smith

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Faculty Recital Marlayna Maynard, Soprano, Marlayna Maynard

All Performances

No abstract provided.

2011-2012 Junior Recital - Josh Devries (Tuba), Joshua Devries, Teng Kuan Wang, Yang Shen

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

2011-2012 Ppc Recital - John Patton (Percussion), John Patton, Darryl Littman, Chun Yu Tsai, Scott Crawford

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.

2011-2012 Ppc Recital - Chun-Yu Tsai (Percussion), Chun Yu Tsai, Zhou Jiang

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.

2011-2012 Collaborative Spotlight: The American Brass Quintet, Raymond Mase, Kevin Cobb, David Wakefield, Michael Powell, John D. Rojak

Other Seasonal Concerts

Past Collaborative Spotlight Concerts

• 2011 - Duo Pianists Leonard and Shen

2011-2012 Master Class - Phillip Evans (Piano), Phillip Evans, Claire Chiu, Ellis Regina Ramos, Agnieszka Sornek, Maria Lyapkova

Master Classes

No abstract provided.

The Mechanics Of Conducting: Developing Efficient Nonverbal Communications, Donald J. Running

Music Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Chapter 11, Songs In Intimacy And Community In A Changing World: Sikaiana Life 1980-1993, William Donner

Sikaiana Ethnography

A chapter on song composition and performance in the Sikaiana ethnography. Songs were an important part of Sikaiana life in 1980-1993. There were two major song types: songs composed in a traditional Polynesian style, and songs composed for the more recently introduced guitar.

A related website is www.sikaianaarchives.com

"Baroque Music, The Library Of Essays On Music Performance Practice" Edited By Peter Walls And Mary Cyr, David Schulenberg

Performance Practice Review

David Schulenberg discusses and reviews Walls' 2011 work.

Walls, Peter, ed. Baroque Music, The Library of Essays on Music Performance Practice, series editor Mary Cyr. Farnham, Surry, UK, and Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate, 2011.

ISBN 978-0-7546-2882-8.

"Classical And Romantic Music, The Library Of Essays On Music Performance Practice" Edited By David Milsom And Mary Cyr, Colin Lawson

Performance Practice Review

Colin Lawson discusses and reviews Milsom's 2011 work.

Milsom, David ed. Classical and Romantic Music, the Library of Essays on Music Performance Practice, series editor Mary Cyr. Farnham, Surry, UK, and Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate, 2011.

ISBN 978-0-754-62859-0.

If There's No "Fat Lady," When Is The Opera Over? An Exploration Of Changing Physical Image Standards In Present-Day Opera, Emily L. Stephenson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Though present-day American society generally assumes opera is one of the few remaining entertainment fields where talent matters more than physical appearance, as the 2004 firing of Deborah Voigt demonstrates, present-day opera singers are increasingly being held to stricter image standards. In 2004, Covent Garden dismissed Voigt from their production of Ariadne auf Naxos, in which Voigt was supposed to reprise her critically acclaimed interpretation of the title role. According to Voigt, Covent Garden's casting director Peter Katona felt that she was too large to fit into the black dress the new production required of the character. Voigt's removal …

Polychoral Performance Practice And "Maestro Di Cappella" Conducting, Florian Bassani

Performance Practice Review

This article disputes some basic questions concerning the coordination of seventeenth century sacred music, approaching the phenomenon through a musical species of particular interest, though largely unstudied from a performance practice point of view. Roman polychorality with its specific performing conditions offers an illuminating perspective on principles of musical direction and interaction which differ significantly from our modern access path towards these topics. The inquiry ranges from basics of performance (such as sheet music, rehearsals, direction technics, models and stylistic conditioning of the performers) over the concrete role of the maestro di cappella as well as the tactus as cornerstones …

Dragon Rhyme By Chen Yi, Russell G. Mccutcheon

Sunderman Conservatory of Music Faculty Publications

Russell McCutcheon, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands in the Sunderman Conservatory of Music, published an analysis of "Dragon Rhyme", a major new composition for wind band, by composer Chen Yi in Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 9.

Music For Mercer's: The Mercer's Hospital Music Collection And Charity Music In Eighteenth-Century Dublin., Tríona O'Hanlon

Dissertations

This thesis examines and analyses the contents of the Mercer’s Hospital Music Collection. The collection includes fifty manuscript and seven printed volumes of
music containing works by Handel, Greene, Boyce, Purcell, Corelli, Humfrey, Avison, Barsanti, Stanley and Festing. Selected works were performed at the Mercer’s Hospital benefit concerts, established in April 1736 to provide important financial support to the
hospital, which opened on Stephen Street, Dublin in 1734. Mercer’s was the first voluntary Dublin hospital to initiate a series of benefit concerts. The Mercer’s benefit concerts attracted the participation of a wide range of Dublin-based performers, both singers and instrumentalists. …

Rebekah & Aliya, Mark Hirsch

Lawrence University Honors Projects

Rebekah & Aliya is a multimedia ballet for two dancers, ten musicians, and film based on a story of love, timelessness, and transcendence. Drawing inspiration from literary themes of Jorge Luis Borges as well as composers of the Renaissance and Avant-garde alike, this collaboration with choreographer Madeline Bunke is a four-scene work, alternating between film and live dance, with live music throughout.

Concert Recording 2012-11-20, Paige Quinn

Concert Recordings & Programs

Circus suite. March ; Lions and tigers ; Elephants ; The flying trapeze ; Clowns / Michael Horvit -- En foret / Eugene Bozza -- Horn concerto in E{lcub}266D{rcub}. Allegro moderato ; Andante ; Allegretto non troppo / Antonio Rosetti

In-Depth Analysis And Program Notes On A Selection Of Wind Band Music, Benjamin James Druffel

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This document is an in-depth analysis of five pieces composed for wind band: Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre, Promenade and Galop by Daniel Kallman, Ave Maria by Franz Biebl (arranged by Robert Cameron), A Hymn for the Lost and the Living by Eric Ewazen, and Five English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams (arranged by Evan Feldman). These works were conducted by the author with the Minnesota State University, Mankato Concert Wind Ensemble between October 2010 and January 2012. The following pages contain biographical information on each composer (and arranger where applicable), program notes, formal analysis, and conducting and rehearsal considerations …

Undergraduate Music Therapy Students’ Experiences As Clients In Short-Term Group Music Therapy, Nancy A. Jackson, Susan Gardstrom

Department of Music Faculty Publications

This report highlights a collaborative, phenomenological study undertaken by two faculty researchers from different undergraduate music therapy training programs in the Midwest. A total of nine junior and senior music therapy students from both programs (five from one, four from the other) were involved in short-term group music therapy, participating in three two-hour sessions during the course of an academic semester. Sessions were facilitated by the researchers, both of whom were board-certified music therapists.

To ensure ethical treatment, each researcher led sessions with the students from the other university, with whom they had no dual relationships. Student participants were involved …

Music Therapy Within The Context Of Psychotherapeutic Models, Mary Scovel, Susan Gardstrom

Department of Music Faculty Publications

Music therapy clinical practice occurs at various levels. Wheeler (1983) has classified the treatment of adults with mental disorders into three types: music therapy as an activity therapy; insight music therapy with re-educative goals; and insight music therapy with reconstructive goals.

Activity-based therapy is aimed at helping the client reach observable, measurable goals through various forms of music experiences. In contrast, the two remaining levels focus on facilitation of change through personal insight gained via musical experiences and verbalization about those experiences. Insight-based music therapy processes are ordinarily more intense and prolonged, in that deep emotions are evoked, and in …

The Effect Of Pre-­Meal, Vocal Re-Creative Music Therapy On Nutritional Intake Of Residents With Alzheimer’S Disease And Related Dementias: A Pilot Study, Larisa Mchugh, Susan Gardstrom, James Hiller, Megan Brewer, Wiebke S. Diestelkamp

Department of Music Faculty Publications

Singing has long been credited with a wide variety of physical, mental, and social health benefits (Hunter, 1999). Recent scientific inquiry points to the efficacy of singing toward enhanced cardiovascular and pulmonary performance (Bonilha, Onofre, Vieira, Prado, & Martinex, 2009), verbal communication (Wan, Ruber, Hohmann, & Schlaug, 2010), and immune functioning and attendant affective states (Kreutz, Bongard, Rohrmann, Hodapp, & Grebe, 2004; Kuhn, 2002; Unwin, Kenny, & Davis, 2002).

Among older adults, singing has been linked with improved mood, better quality of life, greater happiness, stress reduction, and emotional well-being (Clift et al., 2010).

In our own work, we have …

Concert Recording 2012-11-06, Richard Rulli, Jennifer Fox, Marsha Thompson, Gerald Sloan, Benjamin Pierce, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Boston Mountain Brassworks

Concert Recordings & Programs

Fugue in g minor ("The little") / J. S. Bach ; [trans] Ronald Romm -- Contrapunctus V / J. S. Bach ; [trans] Robert King -- My spirit be joyful / J. S. Bach ; [trans Harry Herforth] -- Brass quintet no.1. Moderato ; Adagio non troppo lento ; Allegro moderato / Victor Ewald -- Exaltation / Brian Balmages -- Brass Quintet. Allegro vivace ; Chaconne ; Con brio / Malcolm Arnold

Concert Recording 2012-01-28, Dallas Tucker

Concert Recordings & Programs

Zapping trio / Eric Sammut -- Canned heat / Eckhard Kopetzki -- El decameron negro. La huida de los amantes por el valle de los ecos ; Ballada de la doncella enamorada / Leo Brouwer -- Velocities / Joseph Schwanter -- Residue / Michael S. Horwood -- Trio per uno. Mvt. 1 / Nebojsa J. Zivkovic

Concert Recording 2012-12-01, Josh Richardson, Paxton Taylor, John Hysell, Drew Packard

Concert Recordings & Programs

Saraband and double from Violin partita no. 1 / J. S. Bach -- Emily's bossa nova / Emily Remler -- My favorite things / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein -- All of Me / Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons -- Watch what happens / Michel Legrand -- Sweet Georgia Brown / Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey -- Summertime / Ira and George Gershwin

Concert Recording 2012-05-06, Corderro Baxter

Concert Recordings & Programs

Endlich, Endlich wird mein Joch / J. S. Bach -- Amarilli, mia bella / Giulio Caccini -- Sorge infausta una pocella / G. F. Handel -- Pro peccatis / G. rossini -- La mi sola Laureola / Fernando Obradors --Seguidilla Murciana ; Austuriana / Manuel de Falla -- Don Quichotte à Dulcinée. Chanson romanesque ; Chanson epique ; Chanson à boire / Maurice Ravel -- Dichterliebe. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai ; Aus meinen tränen spriessen ; Die rose, die lilie, die taube die sonne ; Wenn ich in deine augen seh ; Ich will meine seele tauchen ; Im Rhein, …

Concert Recording 2012-10-19, Manchusa Loungsangroong, Kristine Mezines, Catalina Barraza

Concert Recordings & Programs

Arabesque / Germaine Talleferre -- Clarinet sonata no 1 in f minor, op 120. Allegro appassionato ; Andante un poco adagio ; Allegretto grazioso ; Vivace / Johannes Brahms -- Wings / Joan Tower -- Suite, op 157b. Ouverture ; Divertissement ; Jeu ; Introductuion et final / Darius Milhaud

Concert Recording 2012-11-14a, Jamie Stuckey, Olga Zelevinskaja, Kate Knox, Matt Beach, Michael Olefsky, Madeleine Applegate-Gross, Adriana Rueda Garcia, Jesse Austin, Hannah Howard, Zessna Garcia

Concert Recordings & Programs

Duo for clarinet and piano / Norbert Burgmuller -- Rico Vacilon / Rosendo Ruiz -- Son de la loma / Migheul Matamoros -- Hoy / Gianmarco Zignago -- Helena / Manuel Jimenez -- Lluvia con nieve -- Mon Rivera

Concert Recording 2012-11-30a, James Greeson, Claudia Burson, Andrew Chu, Kate Knox, Ethan Moll, Felipe Antonio, Zack Plumlee, Clay Johnson, Mike Roe, Michael Moore, Michael Hanna, Patrick Stevens, Jake Pearlman, Dakoda Tanksley, Kate Knox

Concert Recordings & Programs

Douce ambience / Django Reinhardt -- Minor swing / Django Reinhardt -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Webb and Goodman -- Stompin' at the Decca / Django Reinhardt -- Bossa dorada / Dorada Schmitt -- All of me / Marks and Simons -- Alone together / Dietz and Schwartz ; Joy spring / Clifford Brown -- Cats & Kittens / Peter Erskine -- Cold duck time / Eddie Harris -- Moore's alphabet / John Ellis -- 728 / Johnny Coles -- Cantaloupe island / Herbie Hancock -- The chicken / Pee Wee Ellis -- Cissy strut / The Meters