![]() ![]() I feel honored to have worked with such stellar teachers and artists! – Mary Stucky Some of my favorite times at CCM revolve around hearing and interacting with such a wonderful faculty, be it at their concerts, at committee meetings, or in day by day interaction. I look forward to continuing to serve on the CCMPower board, raising money for scholarships, and helping to ensure that CCM will be here for another 150 years, training and graduating outstanding music professionals. CCM is about to celebrate its 150th anniversary. I’ll be forever grateful that I have been able to come full circle, and share the training I received at CCM with another generation of students. It is rare for a university to recognize adjunct contributions, and I salute UC for doing so. I would like to thank UC for recognizing and honoring the work of adjunct faculty. I have no words to express what that meant to me, and the joy I feel, seeing them claim their places on Broadway and other stages, following their dreams. A number of my students surprised me in New York with a champagne brunch on April 2 to celebrate my retirement. I’ve been truly honored to work with wonderful colleagues, and to have been given the opportunity to teach and mentor my talented and remarkable students. I call it simply “the gift I gave myself.” As an older professional, it means so much to continue to contribute and feel appreciated. These past seven years have been a total joy. ![]() In 2009 my husband and I retired to Cincinnati, where I received an unexpected invitation to return to CCM - my alma mater - to teach musical theatre voice as an adjunct professor. This year marks my 48th year of continuous work - 21 years as a singer/actress, and another 20 years as a college professor and theatre producer. Kimberly Daniel de Acha, Professor of Voice, 2010-2017.Ben Terry Lusk, Professor of Opera/Vocal Coaching, 1999-2017.Patti James, Professor of Dance, 1999-2017.Piotr Milewski, Professor of Violin, 1995-2017.Sandra Vanlandingham, Theatre Arts, Production and Arts Administration Program Manager, 16.Mary Stucky, Professor of Voice, 1990-2017.Allen Otte, Professor of Percussion and member of Percussion Group Cincinnati, 1977-2017.Lee Fiser, Professor of Violincello and former member of the LaSalle Quartet, 1975-2017.Yvonne Becknell, Performance Management Program Manager, 1969-2016.These members of the CCM family have dedicated themselves to continuing the college’s legacy as a leading training center for the performing and media arts. She came to prominence while touring with Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the 1940s and singing hits such as "Beams of Heaven." Her manager says she died Sunday at a Harlem nursing home of complications from pneumonia.As the academic year comes to a close, we celebrate the careers of nine retiring faculty and staff members who have given nearly 250 years of combined service to UC’s College-Conservatory of Music. Gospel legend Marie Knight has died in New York City at age 84. Tabloid reports have linked Rimes, 26, with actor Eddie Cibrian, who filed for divorce from his wife of eight years last week. LeAnn Rimes and Dean Sheremet are getting divorced. 11, they play the Guelph Jazz Festival, St. respectively, tickets $22 in advance at ticketweb.ca. 12 and 13 mark Ethiopian New Year's at the Polish Combatants Hall, 206 Beverley St., 9 p.m. Kunzel, 74, who was leader of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since it was founded in 1977, was diagnosed with liver, colon and pancreatic cancer in April but continued conducting while undergoing treatment.Ī second show has been added for star Ethiopian saxophone player Getatchew Mekuria and The Ex, an improvisational punk-rock band established in 1979 in Amsterdam. The award-winning conductor died yesterday in Maine. Conductor Erich Kunzel, who led the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's pop series for more than 30 years, "was an enticing, charming and witty leader, who gave himself always and completely to the performance" TSO music director Peter Oundjian said in a statement yesterday. ![]()
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