Boyer College of Music and Dance
      
    
          Dance professor’s popular outdoor Branch Dances continue    
            
              
  
      Type:     News Story  
  
  Boyer Dance professor Merián Soto has been performing her public, experimental Branch Dances for audiences in Wissahickon Valley Park for six years. Her next performance in the park will be this Sunday, Jan. 15.
  January 11, 2012
  
      
    
          Faces of Temple: Julia Alford-Fowler    
            
              
  
  
  
  
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  In this week's installment of the student video series, doctor of musical arts degree candidate Julia Alford-Fowler describes her reasons for choosing Temple, and the influences that led her to explore Klezmer music in her compositional works.
  December 10, 2011
  
      
    
          Violinist starts youth music program to soothe shaken nerves in Peru    
            
              
  
  
      Type:     News Story  
  
  To address the city of Pisco, Peru's lack of social resources for children as it rebuilds after a devastating earthquake, Boyer student Elizabeth Moulthrop began the Pisco Music Program, an after-school music enrichment class that offers lessons on the recorder and handmade percussion.
  November 14, 2011
  
      
    
          How to break into show business    
            
              
  
      Type:     News Story  
  
  What does it take to start and maintain a successful career in the entertainment industry? That was the question on the minds of students who filled Tomlinson Theater to get the inside scoop on how to break into and remain relevant in show business.  
  October 25, 2011
  
      
    
          Talented sophomore takes on revolutionary role in Urinetown    
            
              
  
      Type:     News Story  
  
  Sophomore theater major Cameron Slusser portrays Bobby Strong in Temple Theater's production of Urinetown, which opens with a preview today. Set in a small town suffering the effects of a 20-year drought, the story opens with citizens lined up to pay for corporate-owned toilets.
  October 11, 2011
  
      
    
          Fund for young artists honors late opera professor    
            
              
  
      Type:     News Story  
  
  Family, friends and alumni gathered in the Temple Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Sept. 18 to celebrate the rich artistic life of John Douglas, former associate professor of voice and opera in the Boyer College of Music and Dance. Douglas, who served as the music director and conductor of Temple University Opera Theater, died last summer after a long battle with cancer.
  September 29, 2011
  
      
          Nina Vieru won first place in the senior division in violin performance at the LISMA Foundation International Music Competition    
              
  
      Type:     Accolade  
  
  August 30, 2011
  
      
    
          Fourth stream reaches mainstream with world premiere of ‘La Banda’     
            
              
  
      Type:     News Story  
  
  Bill Cunliffe, former professor at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, is teaming up with Temple once again as the Temple University Symphony Orchestra becomes the first to perform his composition “fourth stream ... La Banda.”
  March 16, 2010
  
      
          What on earth?    
            
              
  
        Type:     News Story  
  
  GeoDance Theatre captures these earthly gyrations through dances with geologically inspired titles like the “Deep Time Waltz.” Through dance, geologic lecture, spoken word, video, costume and music, the show mixes scientific concepts with movements meant to mirror the similarities between the body and the planet.
Conley received a Provost’s Commission on the Arts grant in support of the perform
  February 12, 2009
  






