MUSIC 220
Wednesdays: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Tyler Rm 41

Juan F. La Manna

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Prerequisites:  None

Course Description:
Convocation is a gathering of all majors and minors for student recitals, concert previews, master classes, guest lectures and student presentations. It also carries with it a concert attendance requirement. All Music majors and minors are required to take  Convocation for a minimum of 4 semesters.

Book Links:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
The Inner Game of Music

Other Downloads:
Course Requirements
Course Syllabus 
Capstone Document
Audience Etiquette Handout
Stage Deportment Handout


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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.   -Marcel Proust-

The most dangerous thing in the world is to think you understand something.  -Zen Saying-

Concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz tells about the time he played a dissonant contemporary composition at a private gathering. When he finished, someone asked, "I don't understand what that composition means, Mr. Horowitz. Could you please explain it?" Without a word, Horowitz played the composition again, and when he finished he turned to his questioner and said, "that's what it means."

Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
-Tennesee Williams-


Winter is not a personal experience; everyone else is as cold as you are; so don't complain about it too much. - Garrison Keillor -