Peggy Marshall, a second-year MME student at UNCG, whose full-time job is as orchestra director at St. Paul's Middle School in Robeson County, NC where she teaches 108 orchestra students in a small, rural town south of Fayetteville, NC. She applied for and was recently awarded a grant from Mr ...
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What makes art relevant?  How can you take a two-hundred year old art form and make it accessible to a 21st century audience?  How as an artist can you find echoes of your own voice in a score written centuries before your birth?  Well, when you dismantle the ...
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Joan Titus has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for research on her newest book project on the composer Dmitry Shostakovich and his film music for Stalinist cinema (1936-1953). This current book project is the sequel to her first book on Shostakovich’s initial experiments ...
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On Sunday, February 7, 2016 UNCG DMA student Matthew Reese, countertenor - student of Prof. Robert Bracey - represented the North Carolina District in the Southeast Regional Division of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.  Reese was honored with the encouragement award. This is not Reese's first victory of ...
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UNCG Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Dr. Revell Carr, was awarded the Alan P. Merriam Prize for outstanding book for 2014-2015 from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and their annual meeting in Austin, TX, Dec. 5. Carr's book, Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels, is a historical study ...
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