Profiles in Teaching with Technology Podcast, MusicFirst
January 13, 2022
January 13, 2022
Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, Featured Performer
Teachers College, Columbia University
May 18, 2016
Teachers College, Columbia University
May 18, 2016
I had the privilege of performing alongside Dr. Judy Lewis at our Doctoral Hooding Ceremony- Teachers College, Columbia University, May 18, 2016, St. John the Divine Cathedral, NYC.
Literacy Unbound with Performance at the Center, July 2014
Remixing Frankenstein using Vocal Expression • Primal Sounds Workshop
Remixing Frankenstein using Vocal Expression • Primal Sounds Workshop
Doctoral Recital, Teachers College, Columbia University
April 26, 2014
Andrea Maas, voice
Michael Joviala, piano
Mark Oleszko, clarinet
Matthew Rotjan, cello
Liz Zook, violin
Stefanie Weigand, guest vocalist
April 26, 2014
Andrea Maas, voice
Michael Joviala, piano
Mark Oleszko, clarinet
Matthew Rotjan, cello
Liz Zook, violin
Stefanie Weigand, guest vocalist
Session : CPET (PAtC) Literacy Unbound, May 1-2 2015,
Teachers College, Columbia University
VOCAL EXPRESSION : Breathing Life into the Printed Page"
In November, 1914 Gertrude E. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking at the University of Wisconsin published an impassioned article in The English Journal, lamenting over the lack of attention that teachers of English literature were paying the art and practice of interpretation and vocal expression.
“The study of vocal expression should remove insincerities and develop mind, voice, and body, until the three, acting together in simple, direct sincerity, make it possible to carry conviction and persuasion in ourselves, as well as to reveal the thoughts and emotions entrusted to us on the written page by all the bards and sages.” (Johnson, 1914, p.535)
One hundred years later opportunities for this kind of work are in abundance and the new standards present a wide opening to do so. But even less of this kind of work is being done since Professor Johnson’s time. As a singer, actor and music educator I have incorporated my work in vocal production and song interpretation and use these as an inlet for interpreting and bringing to life many kinds of texts.
This workshop will explore the potential each of us has to be vocally expressive regardless of vocal training. This is not a “singing” workshop. We will do some general exercises that you can re-create in the classroom to maximize vocal potential and experiment with the sounds our instruments make naturally. We will then nudge the boundaries to find more contrast and meaning in those sounds. Interaction with text will be a central component of the workshop as the text will inform the vocal production and the vocal production will bring meaning to the text. We will ask questions of the text that will in turn affect vocal pitch, timbre, dynamics, articulation and tempo and we will play with the ways these elements may change or create meaning in the text. This interactive, meaning-making leads to greater understandings of circumstance and character through self-awareness and empathy by attending to our own experiences.
Teachers College, Columbia University
VOCAL EXPRESSION : Breathing Life into the Printed Page"
In November, 1914 Gertrude E. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking at the University of Wisconsin published an impassioned article in The English Journal, lamenting over the lack of attention that teachers of English literature were paying the art and practice of interpretation and vocal expression.
“The study of vocal expression should remove insincerities and develop mind, voice, and body, until the three, acting together in simple, direct sincerity, make it possible to carry conviction and persuasion in ourselves, as well as to reveal the thoughts and emotions entrusted to us on the written page by all the bards and sages.” (Johnson, 1914, p.535)
One hundred years later opportunities for this kind of work are in abundance and the new standards present a wide opening to do so. But even less of this kind of work is being done since Professor Johnson’s time. As a singer, actor and music educator I have incorporated my work in vocal production and song interpretation and use these as an inlet for interpreting and bringing to life many kinds of texts.
This workshop will explore the potential each of us has to be vocally expressive regardless of vocal training. This is not a “singing” workshop. We will do some general exercises that you can re-create in the classroom to maximize vocal potential and experiment with the sounds our instruments make naturally. We will then nudge the boundaries to find more contrast and meaning in those sounds. Interaction with text will be a central component of the workshop as the text will inform the vocal production and the vocal production will bring meaning to the text. We will ask questions of the text that will in turn affect vocal pitch, timbre, dynamics, articulation and tempo and we will play with the ways these elements may change or create meaning in the text. This interactive, meaning-making leads to greater understandings of circumstance and character through self-awareness and empathy by attending to our own experiences.
