2007 UCF Graduate Retreat in Music Education
Friday, Feb. 9 and Saturday, Feb. 10
UCF Teaching Academy – Room 322.
Friday Evening
7 pm – Welcome by Dr. Mary Palmer, Professor and Coordinator of Graduate
Studies in Music Education.
People Update
Program Update
7:30 – 9 pm – The Florida Music Assessment Project
Dr. Al Holcomb, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate
Studies in Music Education. Member, FMEA Assessment Task Force
Saturday Morning
9 am – Changing Roles of the Artist/Educator
Kay Hardesty Logan, musician educator and philanthropist
10am – A Conversation with Karel Husa
Karel Husa, world renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.
11 am – 1 pm - Technology in Your Music Classroom
Dr. Jay Batzner, Assistant Professor, UCF Department of Music
Some information about our guest speakers:
The Changing Roles of the Artist/Educator
Lecture/Discussion with Kay Hardesty Logan
How can we best integrate performances and education to make
performance more than mere exposure to music? What information do
music teachers and classroom teachers need to provide to performers in
order to provide meaningful experiences with “live music” in the schoolsetting? What do performers need to provide to the music teachers and
classroom teachers? How do performers define education? What skills do
they need to develop in order to be effective? What do music teachers and
classroom teachers want to accomplish by having artists in their schools?
Who is responsible for developing and coordinating these collaborations?
What are some of the major issues involved?
Career opportunities for performers have changed drastically in the last
decade. Performers have to broaden their roles in the community and
realize that even in a formal performance they are educators. In order to
share their artistry with a broader spectrum of the community they must
develop skills for which their applied music training did not fully prepare
them. Likewise, music educators need to maintain performance skills,
both for themselves and as role models for students. Both performers and
educators serve as our most valuable advocates for valuing the arts and
participating and supporting the arts in various ways throughout their lives.
The Retreat session will address these questions and provide a variety of
options and alternatives for solutions that lead to effective programming.
Kay Hardesty Logan brings an unusual diversity of experiences to
the challenges of educational programming and arts outreach for a broad
range of populations. Her professional involvements have included
professional flutist; special education consultant, programmer and
Institution administrator; teacher trainer/consultant in special education
music for colleges, school districts and professional organizations
throughout the US, England, France and Germany; author for Silver
Burdett Ginn and professional journals; site visitor/panelist/
program evaluator/conference presenter for professional and
governmental organizations; program design and implementation:
Alzheimer and nursing home patients/ deinstitutionalized older
adults/developmental expressive arts for profoundly multi-handicapped/
language delayed pre-school children.
Current program involvements are the Music at Noon program at Penn
State Erie -a multi-faceted interactive chamber music series; Chamber
Music Connections at the University of Maryland - providing undergraduate
chamber ensembles with the information and skill training needed to
develop successful presentations for school and community populations,
as well as requiring collaborations between music education and music
performance faculty, the university presenting association, and the public
schools; Logan Chamber Music series at Chautauqua Institution; Camp
Hope Connections - a program involving a music class in Las Vegas and
another in Jackson, MI and a class at the Center for Education and
Rehabilitation [originally called Camp Hope and under the auspices of the
Camp Hope Foundation where she developed a developmental music
program and continues to return twice yearly to teach and train staff]. This
program focuses on cultural understandings, bi-lingual development, and
enriching the curriculum by reinforcing history, geography, music,
communication, and reading and writing skills.
Ms. Logan has served on the Eastman School of Music Board of
Managers, MENC National Advisory Committee, Advisory Committee for
the Center for Educational Partnerships in Atlanta, Very Special Arts
board, Chamber Music America Board [chair of the education committee],
American String Teachers Association, Chautauqua Institution [chair of the
program committee; education program chair], Orchestra of St. Luke’s
education committee
KAREL HUSA, Pulitzer Prize winner in Music, is a world-renowned
composer and conductor. He who Kappa Alpha professor at Cornell University
from 1954 until his retirement. An American citizen since 1959, Husa was born
in Prague in 1921. He studied music at the Prague Conservatory and Academy
of Music, and later at the National Conservatory and Ecole Normale de Musique
in Paris. Among his teachers were Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, and
conductor Andre Cluytens.
Husa was elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 1974 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994.
Husa has been awarded many honorary doctorates. He has been the recipient
of many awards and recognitions including a Guggenheim Fellowship and
awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, UNESCO,
and the National Endowment for the Arts,
His compositions are performed throughout the world. He has conducted major
orchestras throughout the world.
Pulitzer Prize winner in Music, is a world-renowned composer and conductor. He
who Kappa Alpha professor at Cornell University from 1954 until his retirement.
An American citizen since 1959, Husa was born in Prague in 1921. He studied
music at the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Music, and later at the
National Conservatory and Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Among his
teachers were Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, and conductor Andre
Cluytens.
Husa was elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 1974 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994.
Husa has been awarded many honorary doctorates. He has been the recipient
of many awards and recognitions including a Guggenheim Fellowship and
awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, UNESCO,
and the National Endowment for the Arts,
His compositions are performed throughout the world. He has conducted major
orchestras throughout the world.