Graduate Symposium
Presentation of Research - Cohort #1
Molnar Recital Hall, Wygal Building
March 28-29, 2008

Friday - March 28, 2008

7:30-p.m.

Lecture Recital -- Teri Kidd
The Influence of the Hungarian Language and Hungarian Folksong on a Performance of Béla Bartók's Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs           

Saturday, March 29, 2008

9:00-9:30 a.m. -- Social - Coffee and Conversation

9:30-10:00 a.m. -- Welcome and Introductions

10:00-10:45 a.m.

Teacher Research -- Daphne Guill 
Reducing Attrition Rates in the Middle School Band Program: A Study of Motivating Factors that Encourage Students to be Successful in Playing an Instrument and Continuing in Middle School Band.           

11:00-11:45 a.m.

Teacher Research -- Gary Jack
Inspiration Plus Performance Equals Success: A Study of Instrumental Music Participation and its Effect on Fifth Grade Students in an Inner-City School                       

12:00 noon-1:15 p.m. -- Lunch

1:30-2:15 p.m.

Teacher Research -- Cynthia Breckenridge
Positive Breathing Techniques for Vocal Health in the high School Choral Curriculum           

2:30-3:15 p.m.

Teacher Research -- Kevin Lewis
Successful Teaching Strategies for the at-Risk Student           

3:30-4:15 p.m.

Thesis -- Maya Miller Neely
Integrating Handel's Oratorios into the Middle School Repertoire: Arranging for the Middle School Chorus

5:30-8:00 p.m.

            Dinner and Recognition of Achievement (by invitation only)