April & May 2022 College News

MUSIC Music, Music Studies, Per formance, & Sound Recording Technolog y FACULTY ACCOLADES Dr. Caroline Beatty , was nationally active this spring including conducting the Washington All-State Band, the Southwest Honor Band at New Mexico State University, the ATSSB All-State Symphonic Band, and the TMEA Region 12 6A Wind Ensemble; providing leadership at the College Band Directors National Association Southwestern Division Conference as the division’s president-elect; and being the featured clinician at the Stephen F. Austin State University Conducting Workshop. Dr. Lynn Brinckmeyer recently conducted the West Virginia Elementary All-State Honor Choir in Charleston, West Virginia. One hundred twenty 4th, 5th and 6th graders earned the privilege to sing at the 2022 West Virginia Music Educators Association Conference. Dr. Andrew Cheetham will give a presentation with former student and colleague Dr. Benjamin Hay (Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Northeastern State University) at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in June 2022 entitled "The Pedagogy of Duets" and will feature brief performance demonstrations and teaching techniques for educators at all levels. Dr. Cheetham will also be releasing his first professional recording this summer, entitled "Long Journey" and recorded on campus at the Fire Station Studio. Cynthia I. Gonzales has completed her first year as a member of the Test Development Committee for the AP Music Theory Exam. For the sixth consecutive year, in June she will join a national cohort of theory instructors to grade exams. It will be her third year to serve as an AP Table Leader. The coming year will be her third and final year as an elected member of the international Society for Music Theory's Executive Board. She will also end her six-year commitment to the Texas Society for Music Theory that began as president elect, president, and now past president. Hank Hehmsoth , has completed three research projects of jazz and music history that range fromMiles Davis and Daveda Karanas as the the title role of The (Montana) Mikado with Intermountain Opera Bozeman Trio488, which is comprised of Ian Davidson, Jason Kwak, and Daris Hale, during their Dean's Seminar presentation in April Raul I. Rodriguez pictured with chamber music judges 16 | April & May | College News 1 2 3 Bill Cosby to jazz drumming to composer Jerry Goldsmith. During Hehmsoth's tenure as a research fellow for the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, he discovered a cassette tape among 60 boxes of uncataloged NEA Jazz Master Dan Morgenstern memorabilia. On a cassette marked 'Cosby,' Cosby explains in depth the mystique Davis has and his enormous impact as an innovative creator. Hehmsoth has made the interview available here. "The History of Jazz Drums" is a 32-episode series of 1989 radio interviews between Loren Schoenberg, senior scholar of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and keynote speaker at Texas State’s Eddie Durham Celebration, and jazz drummer Mel Lewis. The discussions cover the techniques, equipment and ensembles of jazz drummers from the earliest days in jazz to modern jazz drummers. The series is available online. The complete 205-episode series, "Jerry Goldsmith Film and TV Score Retrospective" celebrating the composer's 80th birthday is now available online through Hehmsoth's efforts. The series was broadcast as a five-day marathon of Goldsmith’s acclaimed film and television scores, including music from Planet of the Apes , Twilight Zone , Alien and his Oscar-winning score for The Omen , as well as The Rambo Trilogy and Star Trek . They are now on Hank’s YouTube official artist channel. The Cinemagic series is available online . On July 20, Eastern Music Festival will present the world premiere of a piece by Michael Ippolito called "Wand'ring Fire" for percussion and harp. The piece was commissioned by John Shaw, percussionist, and Anna Kate Mackle, harpist, who are both faculty artists with Eastern Music Festival. Daveda Karanas recently performed the title role of The (Montana) Mikado with Intermountain Opera Bozeman in Bozeman, Montana. [1] A brand-new and revolutionary adaptation of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s 19th- century English comic opera. Avoiding the problematic negative stereotypes of its original Japanese setting, Intermountain Opera Bozeman doubled-down on The Mikado’s satirical origins and re-conceived it in present- day Montana. They eliminated every reference to Japan, changed all the character and place names, and made fun of the region in Montana. Taking out the Japanese lords and schoolgirls and replacing them with local Montanan hipsters, skiers, and ranchers. Adapting The Mikado in this way not only ‘fixed’ the problems of the original work, but offered a unique opportunity to laugh with each other at a time when we desperately needed that kind of levity. Prof. Daveda Karanas also performed in a series of opera concerts with Festival de Musique de Saint- Barth in Saint Barthélemy, French West Indies under the baton of Maestro Steven Mercurio, frequent collaborator and principal conductor for famed tenor Andrea Bocelli and music director of The Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Daveda Karanas curated and performed the Texas premiere of Michael Ippolito's poignant song cycle, "The Long Year" (2021), Dutch-Jewish composer Rosy Wertheim's Twee Liederen (1918), and the World Premiere of Czech-Jewish composer Ilse Weber's Songs Written in Terezín (1943/44), arranged by Dr. Ippolito . Jason Kwak fully took advantage of his sabbatical semester by presenting his lecture recital 'Defining Character Pieces' at four different college campuses and several local venues. Furthermore, Trio488 capped off their 2021/22 season, which included performances at the Blanco Performing Arts Series and at the Ibagué Conservatory in Colombia, with a Dean's Seminar presentation in April. [2] Established in fall of 2008, Trio 488 is comprised of music faculty members Ian Davidson , Jason Kwak , and Daris Hale . College of Fine Arts and Communication | 17 Raul I. Rodriguez accepted an invitation to the 2022 South Central Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference in Stillwater, OK where he served as moderator for the college teaching panel discussion entitled, "So, You Wanna be a College Professor, huh?" He was also invited to serve as adjudicator for the collegiate chamber music competition and for the Young Artist Competition at Rouse High School. [3] #SPOTLIGHT