Music Education Lecture Series 2008-2009
Music Education Lecture Series 2009-2010
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Featured Guest: Dr. Roy Ernst
Professor Emeritus
Roy Ernst, professor emeritus, taught at Eastman for 25 years and chaired the music education department for 12 years. In 1991, Dr. Ernst started the first New Horizons Band at Eastman for the purpose of creating a model program emphasizing entry and reentry points to music making for older adults. Later, he became the founding director of the New Horizons Music Project, funded by the National Association of Music Merchants and the National Association of Band Instrument Manufacturers. In that capacity, he used the New Horizons Band as a model to assist in starting more than 150 similar programs in the United States and Canada. Born in 1938 in Troy, Michigan, Dr. Ernst received his BS and MS degrees from Wayne State University, and a PhD from the University of Michigan. He began his teaching career in elementary and secondary schools in Michigan, and was part of the performance faculty of Wayne State University from 1964-1968. In 1971, he was appointed assistant professor of music at Georgia State University, Atlanta, where he became chairman of the wind department and conductor of their wind ensemble. In 1984, he was a visiting professor at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Ernst’s honors include the President’s Arts Achievement Award from his alma mater; an Outstanding Educator Award from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; the Richard Snook Educator Award from the Monroe County Music Educators; an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Ontario, and recognition as a Grand Master of Music Education by the Music Educators National Conference. Dr. Ernst has published books and articles on conducting, flute performance, and music education, and is founding director of The Aesthetic Education Institute in Rochester, NY. He conducts frequently at New Horizons Institutes—national and international events for New Horizons Band and orchestra members.
Music Education Lecture Series 2008-2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Featured Guest: Dr. John Kratus
Professor of Music Education
John Kratus is professor of music education at the Michigan State University College of Music. He received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Northwestern University. Kratus teaches secondary general music methods, music education foundations, creativity, and philosophy of music education. He is published in the fields of creativity and curriculum development in the "Music Educators Journal," the "Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education," "Psychology of Music," "Canadian Music Educator," and the "Journal of Research in Music Education." Kratus was previously director of Music Education at Case Western Reserve University for 10 years, and has also taught at Bowling Green State University and Northwestern University.
Music Education Lecture Series 2008-2009
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Featured Guest: Mr. William H. Lively
President and Chief Executive Office
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation
William H. Lively has distinguished himself in diverse fields, including education, development and entertainment. With enthusiasm and dedication, he has undertaken numerous challenges during his career. One of the greatest is his current role as president and chief executive officer of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, charged with raising $257 million from the private sector toward the total cost of $275 million for a world-class performing arts center for Dallas. When completed in 2009, the new facilities will help Dallas become one of the nation’s leading cultural centers.
A native of Dallas, Lively earned a Bachelor of Music degree from SMU in 1965 and a Master of Education degree from the University of North Texas in 1970. Returning to SMU in 1973, he devoted the next 25 years to a variety of roles, serving for the last seven years as vice president of Development and External Affairs. Lively founded the university's Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series, Doak Walker National Running Back Award, and SMU Athletic Forum. He helped to establish the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies. Lively was director of The Campaign for SMU during its initial stages. His SMU honors include the "M" Award, Outstanding Administrator of the Year Award and honorary Doak Walker Award. During his years at SMU, Lively also served as band director for the Dallas Cowboys and executive producer of game day entertainment.
Lively left SMU in 1998 to become president and CEO of Up With People, headquartered in Denver. Two years later, he returned to Dallas to assume leadership of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation.
Music Education Lecture Series 2007-2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Andrea Peterson, 2007 National Teacher of the Year
On April 25, 2007, President George W. Bush presented the 2007 National Teacher of the Year award to Andrea Peterson, who holds a bachelor’s degree in Music and Education from the University of Washington and is a National Board Certified Teacher in early and middle childhood music. She has taught at Monte Cristo Elementary School in the Granite Falls School District (Washington) since 1997.
Upon her arrival at Monte Cristo Elementary, Ms. Peterson found a music program that was in disarray and severely under-funded. However, by reaching out to the community at large, she was able to get the necessary resources to bring music back into the students’ lives and foster their talents both inside and outside of her classroom.
Working with colleagues and administration, Ms. Peterson created a cross-curricular approach to teaching music. By building upon lessons taught in other classes, students gain a deeper understanding of music as well as other subject areas. Through cross-curricular education, students, who were not succeeding in traditional subject areas, have found other avenues to develop not only an understanding of the subject material, but also encouragement to create their own.
One of the most popular projects in Ms. Peterson’s classes is the creation and performance of an interpretive musical, where students create a play from one of the books they have read in another class. Students work together to choose the music that best fits with the overall feel of the play, and then perform for the greater community. Through her sponsorship, performances bring the community together to celebrate and honor not only the performers, but also great traditions and memories.
Ms. Peterson was chosen as National Teacher of the Year, from among the 2007 State Teachers of the Year, by the oldest and most prestigious awards program to focus public attention on excellence in teaching. National Teacher of the Year Program, sponsored by the ING Foundation, is a project of the Council of Chief State School Officers. In June 2007, Ms. Peterson began a year as a full-time educational spokesperson.
Liz Shropshire, Founder of Kosovo Children’s Music
Initiative and Shropshire Music Foundation
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Liz Shropshire received her B.A. from Brigham Young University in Music Composition and Theory, and an advanced graduate degree from the University of Southern California in Composition for the Music Industry. Her experience includes more than 25 years teaching experience, including five years' teaching emotionally-disturbed elementary and secondary school students in Los Angeles, private and public-school music instruction; service as educational director for the Long Beach Symphony; and many years of composing for commercial and church venues.
In August 1999, Liz took leave of her musical career in Los Angeles to embark on her work in Kosovo. She solicited donations of more than $5000 in instruments and music before traveling to Kosovo as a volunteer with the Balkan Sunflowers Organization. In January 2000, Liz founded the Kosovo Children's Music Initiative (KCMI) to establish musical education and performance programs advancing the welfare of Kosovar children and communities. In October 2004, Liz began the Peace Through Music Northern Ireland project, bringing together war-traumatized children from segregated communities for music classes and concerts. In March 2005, she began establishing Peace Through Music Uganda to work with the war-affected children of Uganda.
Liz’s organizational responsibilities include program curriculum development and staff and volunteer training for the Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and Uganda programs, as well as teaching, conducting seminars, and speaking engagements on peace, children, war-trauma, and tolerance in the United States. She spends most of the year living and working in Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and Uganda. She also supervises the daily operations of the Shropshire Music Foundation, established in 2000 to provide funding for all of these programs.
Music Education Lecture Series 2006-2007
Dr. Cliff Madsen, 
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Music
and Coordinator of Music Education/Music Therapy/Contemporary Media
at the College of Music, Florida State University
Friday, September 29, 2006
Dr. Clifford Madsen teaches in the areas of music education, music therapy, research, and psychology of music. He has authored and co-authored many books and is perhaps best known for Teaching/Discipline: A Positive Approach for Educational Development, Experimental Research in Music, Competency Based Music Education, Applications of Research in Music Behavior, and Vision 2020: The Housewright Symposium on the Future of Music Education.
Music Education Lecture Series 2005-2006
Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser
Monday, October 17, 2005
Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser is author of The Art of Successful Teaching, The Joy of Inspried Teaching, Music Advocacy and Student Leadership, and co-author of Hal Leonard's Essential Elements and of Teaching Music through Performance in Band.
Jerry Blackstone, Co-Director of Choirs and Coordinator of the
Conducting Department of the School of Music University of Michigan
Friday, March 3, 2006
Jerry Blackstone regularly appears with the Chamber and University Choirs and the world acclaimed UM Men's Glee Club. In addition, he teaches conducting at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and jointly administers a choral program of nine choirs.
Blackstone has appeared as guest conductor from coast to coast and internationally in 12 foreign countries. In Buenos Aires, performing with the UM Men's Glee Club, critics hailed "the impeccable blending of voices, exquisite musicality and notable rhythmic capacity...Blackstone's undoubted leadership made itself known in the delivery, each time more perfect, of pieces by mostly contemporary composers. ...This was an occasion in which the joy and healthfulness of singing without unnecessary stiffness was transmitted with a deep love for music.
Music Education Lecture Series 2004-2005
Dr. Ann Howard Jones, Boston University & Tanglewood Institute
Monday, October 11, 2004
Ann Howard Jones, Professor Music; Director of Choral Activities; Conductor, Boston University Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Chorus; Conductor, Young Artists Chorus, Tanglewood Institute. BM, MM, DMA, University of Iowa. Assistant Conductor, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Conductor, Atlanta Symphony Youth Chorus; Musical Assistant, Rogert Shaw Singers and Festival Singers and the Robert Shaw Institute. She has taught at universities in Iowa, Georgia, and Illinois as well as at Wittenberg and Emory Universities and has been a Fulbright scholar lecturer in Brazil in choral and vocal pedagogy. Dr. Jones has conducted over 20 All-State choruses.
Dr. Don Hodges, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Monday, November 8, 2004
Donald A. Hodges is Covington Distinguished Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Hodges received his undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has authored book chapters and papers on Music education and music psychology and has made presentations to numerous state, national, and international conferences. Dr. Hodges has served on the editorial boards of Music Educators Journal and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education and is past president of the Texas Music Educators Conference and Texas Coalition for Music Education. Recent research efforts have included brain imaging studies of musicians, supported by a $250,000 grant from the Texaco Foundation. These neuroimaging studies are done with colleagues Peter Fox, Larry Parsons, and Steven Brown, at the Research Imaging Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Marguerite Wilder, Honor Band Conductor and Clinician
Spring 2003
Marguerite Wilder is widely recognized as a conductor and clinician, having conducted Honor Bands throughout the United States, Canada, England, Italy, Turkey and Australia. Serving as a resource person for in-service sessions, she works with both local and regional school systems and universities. This year she presented clinics for the Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Pennsylvania, California and Minnesota State Conventions. During the summmer, Mrs. Wilder serves as a conductor/clinician for the Bands of America Concert Band Camp in Normal, Illinois and the University of Nebraska Middle School Band Camp and Clinic. Mrs. Wilder has taught at Tapp Middle School of Cobb County, Georgia; Woodward Academy in College Park, Georgia, and The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the director of the Middle School Band Program and assisted with both the lower and upper school band programs. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Georgia State University.
Music Education Lecture Series 2003-2004
Dr. Cynthia Taggart, Michigan State University
Monday, September 22, 2003
Dr. Cynthia Taggart is an Associate Professor of Music at Michigan State University. She also directs and teaches in the Early Childhood Music Program of the Community Music School of Michigan State University's School of Music. As an MSU faculty member, she received the prestigious Teacher-Scholar award. Dr. Taggart's publications include co-authorship of Music Play, Best Music for Young Bands and co-editorship of Readings in Music Learning Theory, in which she wrote chapters entitled "The Measurement and Evaluation of Music Aptitudes and Achievement" and "Rhythm Syllables: A Comparison of Systems." She is also in the process of co-authoring Jump Right In: The General Music Curriculum. In addition, she has written extensively for professional journals. Her research interests are early childhood music, measurement, psychology of music, music learning theory, and music aptitude.
Professor Rodney Eichenberger, Florida State University
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Rodney Eichenberger, Professor of Choral Music, teaches graduate choral conducting, choral techniques, and conducting pedagogy. He has lectured and guest conducted extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Professor Eichenberger is the program coordinator for the choral conducting division of International Workshops with recent summer seminars held in Biarritz, France; Stavanger, Norway; Glasgow, Scotland and Graz, Austria. His instructional video on choral conducting with Andre Thomas, "What They See Is What You Get," released in 1994 by Hinshaw Music Company, is now in its ninth printing. For the past 25 years, he has been an active participant in choral music education in Australia and New Zealand. He has guest conducted and lectured at the Swedish Choral Directors Association Convention in Orebro, Sweden, presented sessions at the Third World Symposium of Choral Music in Vancouver, British Columbia, and presented workshops at "Buenos Aires Sings," the First International School and Youth Choral Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Dr. Cindy McTee, University of North Texas Composition Studies
Spring Semester 2004
Cindy McTee holds degrees from Pacific Lutheran University (B.M. 1975),Yale School of Music (M.M. 1978), and University of Iowa (Ph.D. 1981). She also completed one year of study in Poland with Krzysztof Penderecki at the Academy of Music in Cracow (1974-75). Dr. McTee taught at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash.,from 1981-84, and subsequently joined the faculty of the University of North Texas, where she is Regents Professor of Music Composition. She has received numerous awards for her music, most significantly a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship (1992) and an Award in Music (2002) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Composers Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also winner of the 2001 Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition, and in 2002 was selected to participate with the National Symphony Orchestra in "Music Alive", a residency program sponsored by Meet The Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League. McTee's compositions, which according to critic Charles Ward reflect a charging, churning, celebration of the musical and cultural energy of modern-day America, have received performances by leading orchestras, bands, and chamber ensembles in the United States, Japan, South America, and Europe.
Music Education Lecture Series 2002-2003
Chris Azzara, Eastman School of Music
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Christopher D. Azzara is Associate Professor of Music Education at the EastmanSchool of Music in Rochester, NY. After receiving the Bachelor of Music degree from George Mason University, he taught instrumental music in the Fairfax County Public Schools and performed as a pianist in the Washington D.C. area. He later received a Master of Music and a Ph.D. in Music Education from the Eastman School of Music. Prior to joining the Eastman faculty, Dr. Azzara was Associate Professor of Music Education at The Hartt School of Music, Dance, and Theatre of the University of Hartford, CT.
Dr. Azzara has made important contributions to advancing the understanding of improvisation in the music learning process. His research and publications are concerned with meaningful relationships among listening, creating, improvising, reading, composing, and analyzing music in general, vocal, and instrumental settings. He is invited frequently to present in this country and abroad, and he is the author of numerous articles and books including Creativity In Improvisation, Jump Right In: The Instrumental Series, and Concert Selections for Winds and Percussion (GIA).
Andrew Litton, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Friday, February 28, 2003
Now in his ninth season as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony, New York-born Andrew Litton is one of but a handful of Americans heading a major American orchestra. During his tenure, he has raised the orchestra's international profile, led the orchestra on two major European tours, appeared three times at Carnegie Hall, and produced 18 recordings, one of the largest recent outputs of any American orchestra. The Dallas Symphony recently extended Litton's contract through 2006, making the Dallas/Litton partnership one of the currently longest and most successful in America.
Andrew Litton has appeared as guest conductor with more than 100 of the world's top orchestras and opera companies, including those of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Moscow, Tokyo, Israel, France, and all the major orchestras of Britain, and the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, and the opera houses of Dallas, Saint Louis and Los Angeles.
Andrew Litton received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Juilliard in piano and conducting. The youngest-ever winner of the BBC International Conductors Competition, he served as assistant conductor at Teatro alla Scala and Exxon/Arts Endowment assistant conductor for the National Symphony under Rostropovich. Mr. Litton resides in Dallas where he is a highly visible and active member of the community.
Thomas Regelski, SUNY Fredonia
April 7, 2003
Dr. Thomas Regelski, Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Fredonia, taught in the School of Music for thirty-five years, teaching choral methods, secondary general music, and psychological and sociological foundations for undergraduates. His own research has focused on action theory, a field of scholarship that bridges sociology, philosophy and psychology, which has had important implications for curricular development, music teaching and music making. Dr. Regelski's research has been published in leading journals around the world, and he also has published two texts on teaching music with a third in press.
Music Education Lecture Series 2001-2002
Julie Scott, An Introduction to Orff
October 25, 2001
This presentation highlighted the basic tools of Orff teaching through an interactive, live performance with the Kimball Elementary School Orff Ensemble. Ms. Scott and the Kimball Elementary School Ensemble also performed with the UNT Concert Choir in the UNT Murchison Performing Arts Center on November 1, 2001.
Julie Scott was the elementary music specialist at Kimball Elementary School, Mesquite ISD. She now serves on the music education faculty at Southern Methodist University and is the Director of the Center for Contemporary Studies in Music Education at the University of North Texas. Ms. Scott teaches in several Orff certification programs and is a nationally known clinician. Center for Contemporary Studies in Music Education (CCSME)
Dr. David Elliott, University of Toronto (Modernity, Postmodernity, and Music Education)
November 19, 2001
This session examined assumptions about what music IS, what music education IS, and what music education research outght to be, based on the "worldview" called "modernity." This session challenged modernist notions of music and argued for the advantages of a post-modern view of music and music education. This session was sponsored by the Federation of North Texas Area Universities.
Dr. David Elliott was Professor Music and chair of Music Education at the University of Toronto. He is now Professor of Music Education at New York University. He has also taught at Indiana University, Northwestern University and the University of North Texas as a Visiting Professor of Music Education. In addition to writing numerous journal articles and book chapters, he is also an award winning composer/arranger and the author of the book Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education.
Dr. Richard Colwell, Research in Music Education
February 12, 2002
This session explored issues related to research in music education, specifically highlighting the second edition of the Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning.
Richard Colwell has taught and chaired departments at the University of Illinois, Boston University, and New England Conservatory of Music. He is founder of Bulletin of the Council for Research on Music Education and The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning.Dr. Colwell is editor of the second edition of the Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Edwin Gordon
Music Learning Theory and Music Education
This session examined the major components of Music Learning Theory and how it is applied in school music programs. Presentations included a morning session and an afternoon session. This session was co-sponsored by the Federation of North Texas Area Universities.
Edwin E. Gordon is known throughout the world as a preeminent researcher, teacher, author, and lecturer of music education. His work has been portrayed nationally on the NBC Today Show, in the New York Times, and in USA Today. He is the author of six highly regarded music aptitude tests, as well as numerous books, articles, and research monographs. He was recently inducted into the MENC Hall of Fame.
April 22, 2002
Cynthia Nott and The Children's Chorus of Greater Dallas
Children as Artistic Music Makers
This presentation was an interactive workshop with the CCGD and explored how to develop children's musicianship. The chorus performs extensively throughout the Dallas area. It has been the guest of Celine Dion, the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Singers, the Mesquite Civic Chorus, and Voices of Change.
Cynthia Nott has been artistic director of the CCGD since the spring of 1997. Prior to full time involvement with the chorus, Nott taught in the public middle school choral setting for 23 years. She earned her Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Music Education from Florida State.