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 Beyond Sound, The College and Career Guide in Music Technology, by Scott Phillips was released nationwide this week. Assistant Professor of Music and Co-director of the UAB Music Technology Program, Phillips has spent his professional academic career researching and documenting the development of college music technology programs across the United States. He draws on his seventeen year career as an educator as well as his extensive network of music technology professionals to present readers with an intimate view of the exciting world of music technology.
The book offers an in-depth consideration of music technology education, including looks at specific programs and a clear explanation of different types of degrees. It also provides practical guidance on career preparation, including how to get a great internship, how to land that first job, and how to make connections and move up in a variety of businesses from recording to television and film to video games. The book also includes interviews with successful professionals who share their experiences, advice, and suggestions.
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 University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Music students Jake Preston Hemminger and Valencia Callens earned honors and awards in March. Hemminger, a junior from Montgomery, was recognized as one of five students from Alabama to receive a full scholarship at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Conference in Dallas, Texas, March 13-16, 2013. Hemminger was chosen from a large number of qualified applicants from throughout the state based on his outstanding student record, credentials and letters of reference.
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 University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Professor Henry Panion III, Ph.D., will receive the 34th annual Drum Major for Justice Award by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now (WOMEN) Inc. in Atlanta, Ga.
The SCLC/WOMEN award ceremony recognizes strong global present-day “Drum Majors” who carry on the philosophy, vision and mission of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and advance the social justice cause in their respective fields. The awards ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel.
Panion, an award-winning producer, composer, arranger, orchestrator and conductor, is a professor of music in the UAB Department of Music. He has worked with a venerable list of artists, including superstar Stevie Wonder, gospel star Kirk Franklin, vocal sensation Chaka Khan and American Idol winner Ruben Studdard, as well as more than 50 different orchestras throughout the world. Those include England’s Royal Philharmonic, Russia’s Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Japan’s Tokyo Philharmonic and America’s National Symphony Orchestra.
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 The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival wants “WOOSH.” The new work by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Assistant Professor of Music William Price, D.M.A., has been selected for inclusion in the 2013 festival.
The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival is set for April 2-6, at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York University (NYU) in Manhattan and at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn. The festival is dedicated to showcasing the best electroacoustic music and video art from around the world. |
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 The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Marching Blazers Band won the International Band Competition held in Limerick, Ireland, Monday, March 18, 2013.
The Marching Blazers were invited to Ireland by the mayor of Dublin to perform in the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday. The group of 120 band members left Dublin early Monday for the two-hour drive to Limerick, where they competed against 17 other international bands, including bands from Germany, Canada, Italy and the United States. After a cold, rainy and sleeting Sunday in Dublin, the band members shed their rain ponchos and showed off their green and gold uniforms on a sunny Monday in Limerick, said Director Sue Samuels, Ph.D.
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