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Wright State University Department of Music is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)

Wright State University Department of Music is a proud OMEA

The 2nd Annual Wright State University Music and Medicine Sumposium

When: Tuesday and Wednesday
January 25 and 26, 2011
   
Where: Schuster Hall, Creative Arts Center, Wright State University
   
Sponsors: WSU Department of Music
WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine

Although music is considered an art and medicine a science, there is a scientific basis to music and an “art” to medicine. This symposium showcases the WSU collaborative program between the Department of Music and School of Medicine.

Registration

The program is open to the entire WSU and surrounding community. Admission is free, space is limited. Register via email. Send the following information:

  1. Name
  2. Any special dietary needs for lunch (lunch is provided free, complements of the Boonshoft School of Medicine)

Send this information to music@wright.edu, with the subject line "Music and Medicine Registration".

To insure you are registered and will receive a lunch, registrations need to be emailed by Thursday, January 20, 2011.

 
Biographies of Guest Presenters & Performers

   
CELIA logo

This is a presentation of CELIA.
CELIA's mission is to create unique, innovative, internal and external artistic collaborations resulting in a transformative impact on the WSU campus, in the city of Dayton, in the region, throughout the state of Ohio, and beyond.

 

Program

The Concert
Tuesday, January 25
Schuster Hall, Creative Arts Center
8:00 pm

Featuring PBS’s Hallelujah Broadway stars Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke, along with Boonshoft School of Medicine faculty and colleagues

     

The Symposium:
Care of the Voice for the Music Performer and Teacher

January 26, 2011, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Schuster Hall, Creative Arts Center

9:00 am
Welcome

Dr. Howard Part, Dean, Boonshoft School of Medicine, and
Dr. Charles Taylor, Dean, College of Liberal Arts

9:15 am
Overview of the Problem

Rodrick Dixon

9:30 am

Caring for the Professional Voice

Dr. Michael Benninger

10:30 am
Panel Discussion

Dr. Benninger, Rodrick Dixon,
and Alfreda Burke

11:00 am Scope of the Problem Music faculty and teachers
12:00pm
Lunch  
1:00 pm

How Performers Care for their Voices

Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke
2:00 pm

Rehabilitation and Exercises for the Strained Voice

Anita Marie Greer
3:00 pm

Panel discussion: Other considerations, questions

 
3:45 pm
Performance