April & May 2017 College News

MUSIC Music, Music Studies, Per formance, & Sound Recording Technolog y FACULTY ACCOLADES Senior Lecturer Richard Hall and the Texas State Mysterium for New Music Ensemble recently performed several pieces for Irretrievable , the spring performance by the Texas State University Merge Dance Company. [ 1 ] Pieces included two structured improvisations for video dance and a large, live dance piece “What belongs to now” with original music composed by Richard Hall and commissioned by the Merge Dance Company. Jazz faculty Hank Hehmsoth joined former TXST music faculty John Mills for a duo concert of five new original compositions Saturday, April 22 for the 16th Annual Poetry at Round Top, a 3 day festival at the Round Top Festival Institute in Round Top, Texas. They performed with the nation’s most exciting and prominent poets for an evening of Poetry and Jazz in Collaboration. Texas State music faculty Hank Hehmsoth , Russell Scanlon , Paul Deemer , and former faculty member John Mills performed for the national tour of Beautiful: The Carol King Musical at Bass Concert Hall Texas Performing Arts in Austin. Q2, the new music wing of WNYC radio, aired an Attacca Quartet recording as their album of the week. The album features string quartet music composed by Michael Ippolito . [ 2 ] WNYC has posted their review and a link to listen for free on their Soundcloud page for one week. On March 26, Dr. Adah Toland Jones was an invited clinician for a group of teachers in the Houston Flute Club, part of a series the club has for its membership to discuss topics relevant to flute teachers at all levels. Topics chosen by Dr. Jones’ for her session included: taking auditions, common flute problems (geared for band directors), vibrato and double tonguing. These areas were animatedly discussed and the meeting provided all an opportunity to get to know one another and share common issues related to the flute teaching profession. Richard Hall and the Texas State Mysterium for New Music Ensemble Attacca Quartet album featuring string quartet music composed by Michael Ippolito Dr. Martin McCain at the American Trombone Workshop 16 | April & May | College News 1 2 3