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New class spotlight: Intro to Piano Technology

Contributor to The LeaderApril 8, 2015

April 8, 2015

CONNOR HOFFMAN Staff Writer The piano: it’s been around for centuries and is such a huge part of our culture — but have you ever wondered just how this instrument works? As it turns out, you’re in luck. Fredonia is now offering MUS 376 Intro to Piano Technology,......

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Students reflect on memories of Three Man Hill following sculptor’s death

Contributor to The LeaderApril 8, 2015

April 8, 2015

KORTNEY YOUNG Special to The Leader William King, born in Jacksonville, Florida on February 25, 1925, was an artist right up until days before his recent death on March 4, 2015. He was a sculptor of many mediums, and specialized in figures that mocked human nature. For the Fredonia......

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RETRO Special held on April Fools’ day Music faculty to poke fun at serious musical repertoire

Contributor to The LeaderApril 1, 2015August 15, 2019

April 1, 2015August 15, 2019

KORI BARKLEY Staff Writer Fredonia is known for its matchless creativity and amazing endeavors in all aspects of the university; it is only fitting that faculty in the School of Music would create a way to put an exciting twist on performing traditional music. Tonight at 8 p.m.......

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Jericho Brown visits for first Visiting Writers event of the semester

Contributor to The LeaderApril 1, 2015

April 1, 2015

KORTNEY YOUNG Special to The Leader Aimee Nezhukumatathil, professor of English and director of the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series for fourteen years, introduced the first writer for the Spring semester of 2015 to Fredonia on Thursday, March 26, in McEwen Hall. Nezhukumatathil has given several readings......

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WNYCO to present ‘Don Giovanni’ Stage concert production to be held in King

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 26, 2015August 15, 2019

March 26, 2015August 15, 2019

KORI BARKLEY Staff Writer Each year, the Western New York Chamber Orchestra brings to the community one operatic production. This year, on March 29 at 4 p.m. in King Concert Hall, WNYCO will collaborate with students in the School of Music and guest artists to present a semi-staged concert version......

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Faculty Spotlight: Professor’s original work performed at Carnegie Hall Harmonia Chamber Singers performed Deemer’s composition in Weill Recital Hall

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 26, 2015August 15, 2019

March 26, 2015August 15, 2019

MEGHAN GUATTERY Assistant News Editor If you had asked college-aged Rob Deemer what he thought he would do when he finished his studies, he would have told you he would be teaching band at a suburban Chicago high school. College-aged Deemer could not have been more wrong. Today, he is......

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Out of the Darkness Walk to bring light to suicide prevention Proceeds fundraise for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 26, 2015

March 26, 2015

KORTNEY YOUNG Special to The Leader Each year, members of the community gather with Fredonia’s faculty and students for the annual “Out of the Darkness Walk.” This year marks the eleventh year it will be hosted by the Psychology Club in order to fundraise for the American Foundation for Suicide......

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Pi day celebrated with ‘Harry Potter’ themed event

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 25, 2015August 17, 2019

March 25, 2015August 17, 2019

CHARLES PRITCHARD Staff Writer The average person might not appreciate the importance of pi, but its importance in the mathematical community is obvious. Geometry, trigonometry and all manner of formulas require the mathematical constant that runs on infinitely. In fact, pi is so important that in 1988, physicist Larry Shaw......

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Invasive species discovered in campus woodlot

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 13, 2015

March 13, 2015

REBECCA HALE Reverb Editor This past Christmas, Fredonia professor Dr. Jonathan Titus and his wife, Priscilla Titus, were walking their dogs through the campus woodlot when they stumbled upon something unusual. Priscilla noticed an unusual amount of needles on the ground, and after a closer look, she found some tiny,......

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New class spotlight: Paper Arts

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 13, 2015

March 13, 2015

KORTNEY YOUNG Special to The Leader This semester, Tim Frerichs, a professor of art, is offering a Paper Arts course for the first time. “What is paper arts?” one might ask. Well, it certainly is not origami. “Actually, paper arts, even though we tend not to think about it that......

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New class spotlight: Intro to Piano Technology

Students reflect on memories of Three Man Hill following sculptor’s death

RETRO Special held on April Fools’ day Music faculty to poke fun at serious musical repertoire

Jericho Brown visits for first Visiting Writers event of the semester

WNYCO to present ‘Don Giovanni’ Stage concert production to be held in King

Faculty Spotlight: Professor’s original work performed at Carnegie Hall Harmonia Chamber Singers performed Deemer’s composition in Weill Recital Hall

Out of the Darkness Walk to bring light to suicide prevention Proceeds fundraise for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Pi day celebrated with ‘Harry Potter’ themed event

Invasive species discovered in campus woodlot

New class spotlight: Paper Arts