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SUMMARY:Northwestern State Bands Hosts Composer Randall Standridge and Five Regional Bands
DESCRIPTION:Northwestern State University’s Bands will welcome composer Randall Standridge to the Natchitoches campus this week along with five bands in the Third Annual Northwestern State Invitational Band Festival on April 23-24. \nBands from Pickering\, West Monroe\, Benton and Parkway High School along with Benton Middle School will participate. The NSU Concert Band & Wind Ensemble will perform on April 23 at 7:30 p.m. The NSU Wind Symphony will perform on April 24 at 7:30 p.m. Both concerts\nare in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. A livestream of the NSU ensemble concerts will be available at nsula.edu/capa/capalivestream. \n“I am excited that we will have Randall Standridge on our campus and working with our students and the students of five visiting band programs from around the region\,” said NSU Director of Bands Anthony Pursell. “Having a composer of his caliber will certainly\nbe the highlight for our students and those attending the festival.” \nThe festival will feature each invited band to perform a concert in the acoustically treated Magale Recital Hall followed by a 20-minute clinic by Standridge and then a short clinic by visiting music educator Scott Dudley. \n“The format will be used to assist band programs prior to their final performances of the academic year\,” said Pursell. “While we are having this festival in April and most bands in the region have already attended their formal assessment\, the idea is to evaluate\nhow to best serve these high school band directors and their program in the immediate future and be an end-of-year celebration.” \nHigh school students will also be treated to open rehearsals with the NSU Wind Symphony and Wind Ensembles\, dining on campus and enjoying masterclasses by Standridge. \nThe festival will also employ current NSU music education majors to serve as adjudicators for each band. \n“Giving our students the opportunity to evaluate a band’s performance begins to formulate priorities in their mind of the things they will eventually need to assess when they are in front of their own ensemble\,” said Pursell. “No matter if it is pre-assessment\nevaluations or simply getting ready for an end-of-year pops concert for their community\, our NSU music education majors will benefit through active listening and assessing that performance in real-time.” \nNSU students will also enjoy an open Q&A session with Standridge and Dudley and composition students will receive a lesson with Standridge. \nThe NSU Wind Symphony will conclude the festival with a performance featuring both Standridge and Dudley\, a retired band director from Benton (Texas) ISD\, conducting the ensemble. \n“Giving our NSU students an opportunity to experience music by being led by the composer and a visiting master educator will greatly enhance their performance experience\,” said Pursell. “When I was 18 years old\, my college band director brought in a composer\nto be our guest conductor. I remember thinking to myself that is the person whose name is on top of this piece.\nIt is an experience that I still value today\, even after 29 years of leading bands of my own.” \nThis year’s festival not only expands from three to five visiting bands but also includes all three of the NSU concert ensembles. All performances and open rehearsals will be held in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public \nOn April 23\, Pickering High will perform at 10:30 a.m. An open rehearsal with the NSU Wind Symphony is at 1 p.m. West Monroe High performs at 2:30 p.m. An open rehearsal with the NSU Wind Ensemble is at 4 p.m. \nOn April 24\, Benton Middle School performs at 1 p.m. Benton High presents a concert at 2:30 p.m. and Parkway High performs at 4 p.m. \nThe Northwestern Invitational Band Festival is made possible from the generous support of the Dear School of Creative and Performing Arts\, the National Association of Future Music Educators (NSU chapter)\, the Theta Nu chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi and the Eta\nPi chapter of Tau Beta Sigma.
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SUMMARY:Choctaw Apache Voices Book Talk & Reading
DESCRIPTION:NATCHITOCHES – About 50 miles from Natchitoches is the center of the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb\, an Indigenous community which\, over the centuries\, created a unique culture as Native people gathered at the Spanish mission at Los Adaes and later welcomed Indigenous refugees from several tribes\, incorporating ancestral cultures and Spanish influences into a distinct tribal community centered in what is now Sabine Parish since the 1700s. The community took care of its members and lived off the land. The strength of the community kept it together even when a large part of its homeland was flooded in the 1960s to create the Toledo Bend Reservoir\, abruptly changing the community’s relationship to the land and sending members into the surrounding towns. \nOften\, its story has been told by outsiders\, however well-meaning. In contrast\, the Choctaw-Apache Voices book series edited by two tribal members\, Dr. Robert B. Caldwell Jr. and Thomas Parrie\, prioritizes community voices. \n“The purpose of the edited volume is to connect tribal members living in diaspora with perspectives of elders and community leaders in Northwest Louisiana\,” explains Caldwell. \nParrie and Caldwell\, both Northwestern State University of Louisiana graduates\, will speak at NSULA on April 23 at 5:00 p.m. in the Student Union Cane River Room about their work. The talk is free and open to the public and will be shared remotely\, with a reception to follow. The event is sponsored by American Indian and Indigenous Studies Minor (part of the School of Social Sciences and Applied Programs)\, the Gail Metoyer Jones Center\, the Native American Student Association and the Department of English\, Languages and Culture Studies. \n“We are especially grateful that as alumni\, Dr. Caldwell and Mr. Parrie are dedicated to engaging with current NSU students about the importance of producing and documenting community knowledge\,” said Dr. Allison Rittmayer\, coordinator of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of English\, Languages and Culture Studies. \nCaldwell and Parrie will discuss and read from the first volume in the series\, which includes essays\, transcribed narratives\, and artwork covering topics from tribal history\, culture\, folklore\, experiences\, and more. The first volume was released in November 2023\, and a second volume is in the editing stage\, expected to be released later this year. “Just as the hundreds of tribes in the United States have their own cultures\, there is amazing diversity within each tribe. Choctaw-Apache Voices aims to share that diversity\,” says Caldwell. \nParrie earned an M.A. in English in 2010 at NSULA and an MFA in Poetry at McNeese State University in 2015. His previous published works include Toledo Rez & Other Myths\, a poetry volume. He has been an Indigenous Writer in Residence at the School for Advanced Research in New Mexico. Currently\, he writes and teaches in the English and World Languages Department at Southeastern Louisiana University. \nCaldwell earned an M.A. from NSULA in Heritage Resource Management and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018. His published works include Choctaw-Apache Foodways\, for which he was recognized by the Louisiana Folklife Commission as a Culture Bearer. He is a founder and active member of Ho Minti Society\, a nonprofit dedicated to the vitality of Choctaw-Apache culture\, and has led the Choctaw-Apache Youth Culture Camp for the past two years. He teaches at the University of Buffalo in the Indigenous Studies Department and will be teaching a class on American Indian History at NSULA this semester. \n“This talk will interest writers\, tribal members\, students\, and those who want to know more about communities around NSU. We hope that people will join us there or online\,” said Dr. Rebecca Riall (Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama)\, coordinator of Indigenous Studies. She noted that NSULA has long partnered with American Indian nations in Louisiana\, from providing research support\, to serving students. Today\, it offers a tuition waiver to American Indian students who are members of federally recognized Native nations. \nEnthusiasm for the event is strong on campus. “I cannot wait to hear from the authors and engage in meaningful conversations about their work\, perspectives\, and contributions to ethnic studies. I enjoy learning about culture and know that this experience will broaden the knowledge of all those who attend\,” said Dr. Jasmine Wise\, coordinator of Gail Metoyer Jones Center\, coordinator of Black Studies and one of the event organizers. \nThe event is part of National Day of Racial Healing on campus. Brittany Broussard\, NSU director of Culture and Climate\, notes\, “We had planned to hold this event on the National Day of Racial Healing as befitting to celebrate the rich histories\, traditions and experiences of the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb on this day. Even though we rescheduled due to weather\, the event reflects the day’s goal and our mission to foster spaces of understanding\, respect\, and inclusion where different voices are elevated and shared.” \nContact Dr. Rebecca Riall\, riallr@nsula.edu\, with any questions. The remote link for the talk is https://tinyurl.com/choctaw-apache-voices and can be accessed with Teams. \n##### \nLeah Jackson (jacksonl@nsula.edu)\nDirector of Public Information and Media Relations\nNorthwestern State University\n(318) 357-4553\nwww.nsula.edu/news
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