Two incoming freshmen music majors at BGSU will be performing at the first concert in the new Stroh Center on BGSU’s campus with guest artists, Sanctus Real on Saturday, August 13 at 7:00 pm. Kathleen Schnerer and Brittany Brouwer, both violinists and Music Education majors, will be providing string background music for a few of the artist’s hit songs. Congratulations to our new freshmen class!
(Submitted by Susan Hoekstra)
BGSU CMA Alumnus Dr. Matthew D. Schatt is now a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University and is having a research paper published in Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. The article, “High School Instrumental Music Students’ Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Practice: An Application of Attribution Theory ” is appearing in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Update. This is a peer-reviewed paper. Update’s focus is to bring current research to both scholars and practitioners in music education; the journal is published by MENC, the Music Educators National Conference.
You may access the journal on-line at http://www.menc.org/members/login/&ref=resources/view/update-1. You will need to have an MENC password. Once you have logged in, click on the link to SAGE Publications to reach the current issue of Update. Or if your institution is affiliated with SAGE Publications, you may access the current issue through http://upd.sagepub.com/
(Submitted by Richard Kennell)
Gregory Ruffer was recently named Music Department Chair at the Patel Conservatory of the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa. He was also named Chorus Master for Opera Tampa. Ruffer recieved a Bachelors’ of Music from the CMA in 1987, and a Masters’ Degree from the CMA in 1995.
(Submitted by Susan Knapp)
Faculty Member Lisa M. Gruenhagen, Ph.D., Coordinator of Student Teaching and Assistant Professor of Music Education will be presenting two sessions at MENC. The sessions will take place Monday, June 27, and Tuesday, June 28, as part of MENC’s Music Education Week in Washington, DC. The titles of the upcoming sessions will be “Listening to Learn: Engaging Children in Active Music Listening Experiences,” and “Explore, Discover, Think, Create: Constructing Meaning through Creating Music.”
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(Submitted by Lisa M. Gruenhagen)
Congratulations to Saxophone/Music Education Student Jim Lang, who was named winner in the local division of the Tuesday Musical Association Music Education Scholarship, earning a $1400 scholarship.
(Submitted by Susan Knapp)
Mary Natvig will be the keynote speaker for the American Musicological Society’s Southeast Chapter and the Music History Pedagogy Study Group’s Teaching Music History Day Joint Conference at the University of North-Carolina Charlotte, March 18-19, 2011. Teaching Music History Day is an annual event, first held and organized by faculty at Michigan State University in 2003. It was inspired by Natvig’s edited volume, Teaching Music History (Ashgate, 2002), the first book length publication on the pedagogy of music history. Other Teaching Music History Days have been held at the University of Michigan, BGSU, DePauw University, Baldwin Wallace College, and Edinboro University.
(Submitted by Mary Natvig)
