Upcoming Faculty Mixed Vocal Recital at Museum (2018-Jan-25), Goodwin (2018-Feb-5)
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| Anne Duraski and Rosephanye Powell will sing with pianist Josh Pifer at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art on Thursday, January 25 and on Monday, February 5 at Goodwin Hall. |
The preview story I wrote for the Lunch Music event is here: A Little Lunch Music, 1/25/2018: Two AU Faculty Sopranos Leading Mixed Recital. They'll do a similar program at AU's Goodwin Hall on Monday 2018-Feb-5. Here's the event page for that.
There will be lots of Auburn University faculty performances coming up in the next few weeks, and lots of Columbus State ones, too, for that matter. For Auburn's music calendar, go to aub.ie/music for a preview and click "Upcoming Events" for more info. For CSU's, go to columbusstate.edu/music for a preview and click "Event Calendar" for more.
Soapbox Section
College faculty are usually the highest trained musicians in any community. They are very often beset with a swarm of teaching and administrative duties. Many are not able to perform or even practice as much as they'd like. Throw together a department full of creative types, many of them sincerely passionate about and often extremely protective over an obscure sliver of a mostly unpopular genre of music, and add the fact that there are literally hundreds of equally trained, equally obscurely passionate people waiting in line to take any one of those jobs, and you have a recipe for office politics worthy of a reality-show with an amazing soundtrack.My point is that as a whole, these musicians, even with their comfy salaries (for the non-adjuncts) and nice benefit packages (also for the non-adjuncts) have a harder time of it than you might think. Let's take every opportunity to support them however we can, and be edified by their art as often as possible. -PMc
*I coordinate this series, btw.
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