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• Douglas Geers' "Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness" opens September 12 in New York City

  Read about composer/professor Douglas Geers' Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness in The New York Times and in Playbill. LaMaMa Experimental Theatre will premiere the 9/11-inspired work beginning September 12. For further information about the opera visit the La MaMa website. Audio credits for the clips featured with The New York Times article can be found at the Calling website.
  

  September 1st, 2008

• Fernando Meza featured on MPR Classical's Pipedreams

  MPR Classical's (KSJN 99.5 FM) program Pipedreams will feature Fernando Meza's (associate professor of percussion) Bach Cello Suites performed on marimba on Sunday, August 17 at 10:28 pm. Visit MPR Classical's website to listen to the program online and for more information. Meza's Bach Cello Suites can also be heard on his CD J. S. Bach - Suites for Unaccompanied Cello performed on marimba by Fernando Meza.

  August 16th, 2008

• Peter Mercer-Taylor featured on WCCO

  Watch Peter Mercer-Taylor, musicology professor, on WCCO Channel 4 News's "Good Question." To view the segment, visit the WCCO website.

  August 10th, 2008

• Schmitt Music Piano Sale at the Univesity of Minnesota School of Music

  The annual U of M School of Music Schmitt Music Piano Sale will take place Friday, August 15 through Sunday, August 17 in Ferguson Hall at the University of Minnesota School of Music.

  The documentary film Note by Note, which follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, will be screened for free in Ferguson Hall, Room 225 on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 at 2 pm.

  Visit the Schmitt Music website for more information about this sale and free screenings of Note by Note.
  

  August 6th, 2008

• David Myers Named Director of the University of Minnesota School of Music

  Dr. David Myers, currently professor in the School of Music at Georgia State University, Georgia, has been named director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.

  Myers will become the School’s eleventh director. He succeeds Dr. Noel Zahler, who left the school in 2007 to become head of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. Myers’s appointment becomes effective September 29, 2008.

  For more information about Dr. David Myers, click here.

  July 17th, 2008

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