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August / September  2016
Tiger Marching Band celebrating its 25th season
Sarah Bowman plays mellophone.
Senior business administration and psychology major Sarah Bowman plays mellophone during a recent Tiger Marching Band rehearsal.

 

By Richard RoBards, sports information assistant

 

When the Tiger Marching Band (TMB) takes the field this year for performances at home football games, and several exhibitions, it will mark the band's Silver Anniversary (25th) season.

The band will be revealing brand new uniforms uniquely designed for Campbellsville University, according to Jennifer Tinnell, director of bands. Since the band's charter season in 1992, this is only the third set of uniforms the band has ever worn. The color guard will also has new uniforms.

This season's half-time show is themed around celebrating the milestone of 25 years and the show opens with the timeless party hit Celebration by Kool and the Gang. The band will also be featuring the color guard in the production number "We Are Who We Are So Shut Up and Dance With Me." As the season progresses TMB will be adding Rachel Platten's hit, Fight Song and finally from the animated film The Trolls, the band will close the celebration show with Can't Stop the Feeling.

The band will be performing in exhibitions this year in Bowling Green, Ky. and one other location as well as the Taylor County High School Marching Invitational that will be held at Campbellsville University.

At Homecoming the band will be hosting a 25-year reunion, inviting former members of the Tiger Marching Band to come to the festivities. They are invited to bring their instruments and plans are for them to join the 2016 band on the field for pre-game. They will also be rehearsing earlier that day, according to Tinnell and will have the opportunity to play during the game as a part of their visit. Founding director Dr. David McCullough will be returning to CU for the event.

Tinnell, who arrived at CU in 2011 and is in her 12th season as head director, says: "We're very excited about the events we have planned for this year, and we're looking forward to bringing back our TMB alumni.

"We have a great leadership team in place and an outstanding group of freshman," continued Tinnell. "Camp is going well, and the students are thrilled to be on campus and getting the year started."

Field Commander is Callah Kimball, a senior from Springfield, Ky. Eighty marching musicians and color guard join her.

Besides Tinnell, and the assistant director Corey Bonds, Carrie Gaddis will be working with the color guard, and Dr. Chad Floyd, associate music professor at CU, is the drum line instructor.

"The Tiger Marching Band does a wonderful job in helping create a big-time football atmosphere on game days," said Director of Athletics Rusty Hollingsworth. "You have to love this time of year when the sounds from the drum line herald the start of another season."

Campbellsville football will be at home Saturday, Sept. 10 when it hosts Union College at 7 p.m.
McNamara teaches music at Governor's Scholars Program
 
Dr. Anna McNamara taught a class in Extemporaneous Experiences at the 2016 Governor's Scholars Program in Morehead, Ky.

Assistant professor of music Dr. Anne McNamara taught two classes for the Morehead campus of the Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program in June and July: Music Theory & Performance and Extemporaneous Experiences.

McNamara's music class learned how to subdivide various rhythms and perform them through world drumming, marching and performing an original cadence on their bucket drums, layering various rhythms in a minimalist composition and transcribing rhythms that they first learned by ear. A visit to the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music granted them the opportunity to record a piece in a professional recording studio. They also experienced first-hand the historic music of Trinidad through a steel drum concert and workshop at Campbellsville University led by Dr. Chad Floyd, assistant professor of percussion.

In Extemporaneous Experiences, her scholars were challenged to step outside of their comfort zone in pursuit of an inventive approach to learning and life. Each week they took on a different outlet such as spoken word, freestyle rap, improv comedy, music improvisation on recorders and pushed themselves to create spontaneously. Through their extemporaneous experiences, scholars gained confidence in public speaking and performance and reaped the benefits of being flexible.

Established in 1983, the Governor's Scholars Program is a summer residential program for outstanding high school students in Kentucky who are rising seniors. The program operates on select Kentucky college campuses.
Davis gives summer piano recitals in Hong Kong

Judith Davis
Judith Davis
Mrs. Judith Davis, an adjunct instructor of piano, gave two piano recitals in Hong Kong this summer.  Her first performance was on May 25 at St. John's Cathedral as part of their weekly lunch recital series. Her second appearance was part of the Celeste Concert series on June 4 at All Saints Cathedral.

Davis performed works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frederic Handel, Clara Schuhmann, Scott Joplin and George Gershwin.
Fenwick selected for summer internship at Smithsonian Institution
 
Jarrod Fenwick
Jarrod Fenwick spent six weeks as an intern for Smithsonian Folkways in Washington, D.C.
Jarrod Fenwick, a native of Lebanon, Ky. and a graduate student in music at Campbellsville University, spent his summer interning at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Specifically, he was a marketing intern for Smithsonian Folkways, a non-profit independent record company located in the Folklife and Cultural Heritage Center.

Folkways was founded by Moses Asch in 1948 to make music from all walks of life, ethnicities, cultures and regions readily available to anyone.

Fenwick helped the organization prepare for the annual Folklife Festival that takes place each year on the National Mall. His primary job was to learn as much as possible about the albums to be featured at the festival - about 300 different albums ranging from classic banjo, mariachi and Latin blues. His responsibility during the festival was to answer customer questions about the albums.

On his days off, Fenwick took advantage of his Smithsonian connection to explore the museum's vast collections and visited many of the capitol's national monuments.

"There may be some great views here in Kentucky, but seeing the sun set behind the Washington Monument after [the] Folklife Festival will be something I will never forget," Fenwick said.

Folklife Festival
The Folklife Festival celebrated its 49th festival this summer on the National Mall in Washington. D.C.
 
School of Music welcomes Dr. Bethany Stiles to voice faculty  

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Bethany Stiles to the CU School of Music! She has a DMA in Voice Performance & Literature from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where her research focused on United States art song, contemporary chamber music and American musical theater. Stiles will teach applied voice and direct the Concert Chorus. 
 
In the Spotlight

A new edition of Jacques Ibert's Histoires for piano edited by professor of music  Dr. Wesley Roberts, was published by Alfred this summer.   Histoires is a collection of ten piano pieces written between 1912 and 1922 and contains one of Ibert's most famous works, "The Little White Donkey." 

Dr. Chad Floydassociate professor of music, recently completed a commissioned set of original works for solo marimba titled "Out of the Woodwork."  The compilation consists of four pieces for easy to intermediate level solo marimba and will be published by Tapspace Publications this fall. 

Steel Appeal, the community steel drum academy in Campbellsville, is beginning its second fall season. The academy, directed by Dr. Chad Floyd, will begin offering classes in Elizabethtown (St. Charles Church) and Danville (Centre College) this fall. Steel Appeal is currently comprised of over 85 students from kindergarten to adults. For more information or to join, contact Dr. Floyd at steelappeal@mail.com
Calendar of Events

All events are free of charge. Schedule is subject to change. Check the School of Music website for up-to-date information.
  • Sept. 11 > Faculty Recital: Dr. Anne McNamara, trumpet > 3 p.m. > The Gheens Recital Hall
  • Sept. 12 > Faculty Recital: Dr. Lisa McArthur, flute > 8 p.m. > The Gheens Recital Hall
  • Sept. 13 > Noon Organ Series: Kenneth Stein > 12:20 p.m. > Ransdell Chapel
  • Sept. 20 > Faculty Recital: Juliana Moura, soprano > 8 p.m. > The Gheens Recital Hall
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