Christopher Stanichar

Music

College Music Society (CMS) Super Regional Conference

The College Music Society Super-Regional Conference in Normal, Illinois was a very helpful and enlightening event in terms of its application to teaching music courses in higher education. In addition to offering many seminars and papers related to active learning, I was also able to hear a lot of fine musical performances given by colleagues and composers at peer institutions, thus enabling to be aware of new artistic trends in art music. I have already shared my favorable impressions with my colleagues and students.

By having attended many of the presentations, I anticipate incorporating many new concepts from this conference into my lectures and lessons. I teach a wide variety of classes in the Music Department, including music appreciation, music history courses, conducting, composition lessons, chamber orchestra and the university orchestra (Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra). In each of these courses I will be able to apply some aspect of what I have learned the conference into my teaching. For example, the following presentations (and the accompanying material) will assist me in lectures for music history and appreciation: “Hands on Workshop,” “Twelve-tone Sonata Form,” “The Cuban Dances of Mario Ruiz Armengol,” “Idiomatic Techniques and Their Musical Meaning in the Guitar Music of Heitor Villa-Lobos,” and “Oboe at the Close.”

One aspect of learning that I had not initially anticipated before the conference is the number of contacts with other faculty members in peer institutions. These contacts will continue to be useful for me as a resource as develop my own teaching skills.

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