December 2019

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Shenandoah’s Sensory Friendly Concert Welcomes More Than 100 Guests

The Shenandoah Conservatory music therapy department teamed up with The Musical Autist to present a Sensory Friendly Concert on Friday, Nov. 15, in Goodson Chapel…

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Shenandoah Conservatory Receives $3,000 Grant for World of the Piano Concert

Mr. Richard Lawson, treasurer for Crescent Cities Charities, Inc. presented Shenandoah Conservatory Dean and Professor of Music Michael Stepniak, Ed.D., with a $3,000 grant award…

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Shenandoah Students, Faculty and Alumni Well Represented at 2019 VMEA State Conference

Sixty-eight Shenandoah Conservatory music education majors traveled to the 2019 Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) state conference at the Homestead from Thursday, Nov. 21, through…

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Commissioned Work for Bowden and Fung Debuts March 2020

Assistant Professor of Trumpet Mary Elizabeth Bowden, M.A., and Canadian composer Vivian Fung received support from a New Music USA grant to commission Fung to…

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Morgan ’19 Hired as Scenic Artist at Liberty University

Andrue Morgan ’19 (Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design & Production) was hired as the full-time scenic artist in the Department of Theatre Arts…

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Edwards ’15 Featured in New Book on Training Contemporary Singers

Associate Professor of Voice, Coordinator of Musical Theatre Voice and Artistic Director of the Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Vocal Pedagogy Institute Matt Edwards ’15, D.M.A.,…

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Beethoven Bootcamp Moves to Shenandoah Conservatory in Summer 2020

The internationally renowned Beethoven Bootcamp with Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, Chair of Keyboard Division and Professor of Piano John O’Conor, Mus.D., moves to Shenandoah Conservatory, beginning summer…

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Harlem Globetrotters Return to Shenandoah University

Tickets start at $25 for March 19 United Bank-sponsored event

Due to popular demand, the Harlem Globetrotters are returning to Shenandoah University and Winchester for a one-night event of alley-oops, and-ones and acrobatics. The Globetrotters…

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Artifact of the Quarter | December 2019

Carte de visite of Sergeant Martin Luther Skillman, 123rd Ohio Infantry

There is a power in historic photographs of Civil War soldiers. While artifacts of our nation’s most tumultuous moment, they provide a visual connection to…

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Publication of Note | December 2019

Clifton Johnson, “Battleground Adventures in the Civil War” (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915).

*Note in our March newsletter we promised that 2019 would be devoted to highlighting important works related to the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War era story…

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