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that Moved the Man and the Nation): 1. Worked collaboratively with the faculty, staff, and administrators of the
University Library, University of Illinois Alumni Association, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Champaign
County Community Center for the Arts (C4A), Champaign Park District and Virginia Theatre, City of Urbana, and
local business organizations to produce the Center’s fifth music celebration. 2. Working with the Assistant Archivist
for Music and Fine Arts installed four new exhibitions on music technology and innovation in the Center’s newly
renovated museum space and one in the Library’s Marshall Gallery. 3. Working with the Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts produced three performance lectures on fifth-stream jazz for university students, one jazz master
class for local public school jazz students lead by Anthony Brown, and a full concert and pre-concert lecture with
Anthony Brown’s Asian American Jazz Orchestra. 4. Working with University Alumni Association and C4A produced
a two-day American String Festival clinic for public school and home school string students with special lectures by
Deborah Hyland and members of the 10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Band on 19th century brass bands and dance
traditions. 5. Working with the University Alumni Association produced three lectures on Lincoln’s love of music,
dance, and culture by Vernon Burton, Deborah Hyland and Paul Tyler, and a recreation of a 19th-century Lincoln
Grand Ball. 6. Working with the Champaign Park District produced the fourth annual Granny’s Porch concert using
of traditional old-time and brass band music held at the Virginia Theatre. 7. Working with the staff of the Orpheum
Children’s Science Museum produced a special children’s presentation on the music of the Civil War using members
of the 10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Band. 8. Working with the faculty of the University Bands helped produce two
performances of American music by the University Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band II, the later concert also
included a performance on the Center’s Civil War over-the-shoulder horns and Sousa’s composition, Sheridan’s Ride.
2007 American Music Month Celebration: 1. Working with the Assistant Archivist for Music and Fine Arts installed
five small exhibitions at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music and one in the Library’s Marshall Gallery:
Herbert L. Clarke: The Crossover King, Trombone Technology and Technique on the Move, The Genius of Eddie Alkire:
The Story Continues, A Trip to the Far Side: Creative Design Unusual Instruments, Sound Recording Wonders of the
Early 20th Century, and Music without Borders: Battlefield Music and Musicians. 2. Working with the CU Symphony,
University Concert Jazz Band and the University Alumni Association produced three lectures and a concert Breaking
Barriers: Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington (November 9, Jazz Forum, Smith Recital Hall November 10, Alice
Campbell Alumni Center and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts). 3. Working with the Champaign County
Community Center for the Arts and the University Alumni Association produced a curriculum kit and Music without
Borders: 2007 American String Festival, (November 15-16) a 2-day instructional music program for 111 middle and
high school string students from Central Illinois featuring guest lecturers Dale Cockrell of Vanderbilt University and
Andrea Zonn, a leading Nashville fiddler and recording artist. 4. Working with the Champaign Park District, Virginia
Theatre, Community Center for the Arts, and the University Alumni Association produced the concert, Granny’s
Porch: Music without Borders, (November 16) featuring Andrea Zonn and her Nashville band and Dale Cockrell,
and local musicians and groups which included the Bow-dacious String Band, Boneyard Creek Cloggers, Oberon
the Possum King, the Prairie Dog’s Jordan Kaye, and the winners of the 2007 Arcadia Chamber Players Student
Chamber Music Festival. 5. Collaborated with the Prairie Ensemble, University of Illinois Women’s Glee Club, Wind
Symphony, and Symphonic Bands 1 and 2 in the production of 5 concerts of American music entitled: The Jewish
Connection (November 1), American Women in Song: Empowerment Through Music (November 3), Celebrating
Herbert L. Clarke’s Legacy to Early 20th-century American Bands (November 29), and 21st-century Directions
in American Wind Band Music (December 4) 6. Collaborated with the University Undergraduate Library in the
production and marketing of gaming night and a special lecture with Guy Garnett, Stephen Taylor, and members of
the local game company, Volition, for Battle of the Garage Bands: Tune In, Game On, Rock Out!’ (November 3).
2006 American Music Month Celebration: 1. Installed exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution’s Axelrod quartet
titled Music and Art of the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Quartet of Ornamented String Instruments by Antonio
Stradivari held at the Krannert Art Museum October 26-December 3, 2006. 2. Installed six small exhibitions at
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