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- Dr. Frank Abrahams, professor of music education
and chair of the department at Westminster Choir College, presented
a paper entitled: "Differentiating Instruction in the High
School Band, Orchestra and Choir” with his son, Dan, at
the fourth International Conference on Arts and Humanities in
Honolulu, January 12, 2006. Dan, a doctoral student at Shenandoah
Conservatory in Winchester, VA, and the band director at Bryan
High School in Omaha, NE, applied the strategies in his instrumental
ensembles there. Dr. Abrahams studied the applications with the
Westminster Conservatory Youth Chorale -- the high school honors
choir he conducts at Westminster Conservatory. Colleague
Dr. Stephen Allen, assistant professor of fine arts on
the Lawrenceville campus, presented a paper entitled "Sexual
Discharge Gone Evil? Britten's "Billy Budd" and the
Displacement of the 'Mystery of Iniquity.'"
- Dr. Don Ambrose, professor of graduate education,
recently published the first issue of the journal “Roeper
Review” under his editorship. The issue, which was part
of a trilogy on the conceptual foundations for giftedness, addressed
developments in theory, ethics, and perceived paradigm shifts
in gifted education. “Roeper Review” is a leading
national refereed journal addressing giftedness, talent development,
and other aspects of high ability.
- Dr. Linda Materna, chairperson of the foreign
languages and literatures department, has published a review of
a production of Jeronimo Lopez Mozo's play on domestic violence,
Ella se va, staged at the Madrid Galileo Theater March-May 2004
in the journal “Estreno. Cuadernos del teatro español
contemporaneo.” In July of 2005, she presented a paper entitled
"Globalization and African Immigration in Spanish Film: Chus
Gutierrez's Poniente" at the Europe at the New Crossroads
conference in Poznan, Poland. The paper has been accepted for
publication in the selected proceedings of the conference.
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