Music faculty get research grants

Congratulations to these outstanding School of Music faculty who received Texas State Research Enhancement Program awards: Michael Ippolito, “Recording Project: Strange Loops” Hank Hehmsoth, “Blue Drifter: A Recording Project by Double Vision for Jazz Quartet” Sam Flippin, “Experiencing the Creation of a New String Orchestra Ensemble at a Liberal Arts University” Nico Schuler, “The Hyers…

One More Time . . . Revisited

On April 23 I wrote that I had been asked to postpone my retirement and stay on one more year as Director of the School of Music.  I was OK with that. Now we are deep into necessary budget cuts, and the University is encouraging longtime faculty to retire so their position can be de-funded…

Keep singing

As we each realize how important our health, family, and community are to us, we realize things about ourselves as musicians and members of our Somos Músicos School of Music community . . . We miss being together and making music together so much that even the remote togetherness of a group Zoom session is…

Youth Mariachi featured

Director’s Diary — TC writes: Sunday, September 29, the San Marcos Daily Record ran a wonderful front-page story about our community outreach program, headlined “Mariachi Infantil trains youth in music, shares culture.” We are understandably proud of the work of TXST Professor John Lopez and his TXST students and colleagues training children and youths to…

Another awesome SoM weekend

TC writes: “I can claim that the weekend here at the School of Music was just another typical weekend, and it was — typically full and awesome, but extraordinarily so. Friday night: Hill Country Youth Chorus sang at Sights and Sounds; Graduate Composition Recital; Wind Symphony concert. Saturday: Audition Day for prospective music majors; children…

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