September 2018 College News

1 Todd Oxford performing the National Anthem for a Round Rock Express Baseball Game at Dell Diamond 2 Student Quartet Coy Reid, Katie Blalock, Lauren Gordon, and Colby Rodriguez 3 Alumni Tracy Roberts and Erin Kelleher Roberts with Dr. Tom Clark at a First United Methodist Church workshop 14 | September | College News MUSIC Music, Music Studies, Per formance, & Sound Recording Technolog y FACULTY ACCOLADES Hank Hehmsoth and Dr. Keith Winking have been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for their ongoing project, Reminiscences of NEA Jazz Master Dan Morganstern. Te project will capture Morgenstern’s frst-hand reminiscences and decades- spanning scholarly research on Kansas City jazz, its big bands, as well as preeminent individual artists and their styles and innovations. Audio and video recordings of the interviews with Morgenstern will be archived at the university library’s Wittlif Collections, will be made available free-of-charge to educators, radio stations, and the public, and will be featured on a dedicated website. Todd Oxford performed the National Anthem for a Round Rock Express Baseball Game at Dell Diamond. [1] He performed: as Guest Soloist, Irving High School Wind Ensemble and Hurst Middle School Band. Oxford also performed with Duo 35 at the International Woodwind Duo Symposium at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. In addition, he served as adjudicator for the ENKOR International Winds and Percussion Competition in Düsseldorf, Germany, and gave a State Solo/Ensemble Saxophone workshop at Copperas Cove High School. Dr. Nico Schüler published several articles: “Computer- Assisted Music Analysis: Historical Refections, Recent Approaches, and Common Methods” in the journal MusikTeorie – Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft ; in issue 50 of the journal New Sound: International Journal of Music , “Analytical Observations of Duality in Time by James (Jim) C. Scully,” and together with Chris Walton