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New music theory professor to work with popular music program

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ASU School of Music welcomes new instrumental conducting professor

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ASU students make sure the music therapy plays on for clients at home

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New music theory professor to work with popular music program

Music theorist Nicholas Shea will join the ASU School of Music as assistant professor of music theory beginning in August 2020. “We are thrilled to have attracted Nicholas Shea to our faculty,” said...

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ASU students make sure the music therapy plays on for clients at home

For an older person with dementia, a rousing rendition of big-band music might stir some memories. And when that older person claps or sings along, the brain connection is even stronger. That’s one...

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Keeping kids cool on the playground

Editor's note: As Arizona continues to battle COVID-19, please follow social distancing and face covering guidelines in public at all times, including playgrounds. A day at the playground can be...

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The power of print

Most of us find ourselves fully immersed in the digital age. Books are replaced with tablets, newspapers articles are delivered via an app rather than your doorstep, the junk mail once found in your...

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Agnes Smedley exhibition opens in major museum in China

Most Americans, today, might not recognize the name Agnes Smedley. That’s because the American journalist made a name for herself in China, where she lived and worked between 1929 and 1941, and rose...

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Dance student presents virtual performance of 'Her Brown Body is Glory' for Juneteenth celebration

In celebration of this upcoming Juneteenth — also known as Freedom Day, in honor of the day that emancipated the last of the enslaved African Americans in the United States — Arizona State University...

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ASU School of Music welcomes new instrumental conducting professor

The Arizona State University School of Music in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts welcomes Jamal Duncan as assistant professor of instrumental conducting beginning in August 2020. “I am...

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Music professor to perform world premiere of saxophone concerto by Grammy-nominated composer

Christopher Creviston , associate professor in Arizona State University's School of Music and internationally renowned saxophonist, will perform the world premiere of Concerto for Soprano...

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Film and television producer Scott Steindorff joins ASU

This semester a group of art students and a group of film students in Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts will get the chance to learn from film and television...

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ASU opera singer rebuilds her voice and discovers new artistic path

Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2020 graduates . ASU graduate student Stephanie Sadownik, DMA in voice performance, started suffering from undiagnosed...

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Persistence pays off for ASU School of Music graduating student

Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2020 graduates . Annie Villalobos Vincent has been waiting 20 years to achieve her dream and receive her college...

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ASU graduate student discovers passion for teaching music

Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2020 graduates . After completing her Bachelor of Arts degrees in music and psychology, and having taught private...

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ASU music theater and opera alumna returns to ASU Gammage

Arizona State University School of Music alumna Caelan Creaser returns to ASU to represent the "Frozen" North American Tour . Creaser, who earned a bachelor's degree in musical theater...

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Herberger Institute alum receives 2019 Arts Writers Grant

The Arts Writers Grant Program recently announced its 2019 recipients, which include an alumnus from the School of Art in Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts....

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ASU alum wins $10,000 grand prize in accessible design competition

Herberger Institute alumna K Brandt Knapp won the $10,000 grand prize for the #ZeroThreshold Design Competition, an architecture and urban design initiative that celebrates accessibility as a...

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