November_Decemebr2022_CollegeNews

MUSIC Music, Music Studies, Per formance, & Sound Recording Technolog y Martin McCain performed the live soundtrack of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kevin Mooney with Louise Tobin and his book about Louise Todd Sullivan was elected to serve a second consecutive term on the National Association of Schools of Music Commision on Accreditation 16 | November & December | College News 1 2 3 FACULTY ACCOLADES Dr. Kyle Glaser, Associate Director of Bands, published the book Conducting Enrichment: Daily Exercises for the Conducting Curriculum with co-author Brett A. Richardson. Dr. Martin McCain , Professor of Trombone, recently performed as guest bass trombonist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on a program that included Bruckner’s Symphony no. 4 and Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto no. 3 with Yuja Wang. While in Toronto, Martin was in residence at the University of Toronto where he led a brass chamber music masterclass, trombone masterclass, taught lessons in addition to performing a recital. He also was invited to be guest bass trombonist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, where they performed the live soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets . [1] Dr. Kevin Mooney , Senior Lecturer of Musicology, was invited to present at the East Texas Historical Association Conference in Nacogdoches on October 14. The title of his talk was “ Louise Tobin (b. 1918): A Texas Jazz Singer and the Last Surviving Musician from the Swing Era.” Ms. Tobin is the subject of Dr. Mooney’s book Texas Jazz Singer: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond (2021), which received a Certificate of Merit i n the 2022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz. She passed away on November 26, 2022, at the age of 104. [2] Dr. Kevin Mooney's current research focuses on jazz history with particular emphasis on the music and careers of vocalist Louise Tobin and clarinetist Peanuts Hucko. His book, Texas Jazz Singer: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2021.