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Musicast Episode 4: Kirsten C. Kunkle – Passionate Pioneering

By music cast|2020-10-21T04:27:29-05:00October 21st, 2020|musicast podcast|

Soprano Kirsten C. Kunkle has been hailed as an outstanding singing actress with a voice that has been described as beautiful, ethereal, powerful, fiery, and bewitching. he attended Bowling Green State University and the University of Salzburg for her undergraduate studies, majoring in voice performance with minors in Italian and German. Her graduate degrees are in voice performance from the University of Michigan. A voting member of the Muscogee Nation, Dr. Kunkle commissioned and premiered sixteen original compositions, including one of her own, based upon the poetry of her ancestor and highly-acclaimed poet of the Native American Muscogee Nation, Alex Posey. [...]

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From Perfection to Authenticity, Orchestra-style

By Laura Long|2020-02-27T11:24:03-05:00February 27th, 2020|Musicians, Orchestra, Stories, Teaching Philosophy|

At what point in the music-learning process can creativity be introduced? Maybe when the D-major scale can be played in-tune? Or, could we begin tapping into musical exploration from the first baby steps of plucking strings? A classically-trained violist, I took over 15 years to take the terrifying [...]

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Research in action: Student perceptions of a composition project within a concert band setting

By Marissa Guarriello|2022-07-22T16:36:35-05:00January 28th, 2020|Band, Higher Education, Instumental, Musicians, Orchestra, Research, Teaching, Writing|

Background This past year, I spent a lot of my time investigating and researching student perceptions of composition projects that they were completing in their band class. This research was for my master’s field project but the entire process was incredibly enlightening and informative. The research showed [...]

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What’s on my desk

By Sarah Gulish|2020-02-05T18:04:02-05:00December 3rd, 2019|Inspiration, Lists, Teaching Philosophy, Writing|

While we are in the business of selling eBooks, it doesn't mean that we don't love our physical books! During my 12 month teaching sabbatical last year, I had more time to read, discover, and write. I've taken some of my favorite books and placed them on [...]

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