NOV. 18,1992 - WCC CAMPUS VOICE 7
9{ezu faciCities enfiance ^ine Slrts in Music program
Or. Dia&a Greene leads the daj chorus students in a practice session (I to r): Dr. Greene, &ngelo Carr,
Betsj Pritchard, Kii Lavson, Lillian McDonald, and Greg fiodak. Photo: Brenda McCartj
By BRENDA MCCARTY
New facilities have
enhanced WCC's Pine
Arts in Music (FAM)
associate's degree for
those interested in
pursuing a music
career, according to
Marshalle Lewis,
instructor of the
program.
The FAM program
began on the South
Campus 4 years ago
under Lewis's direction
as a part of the
Liberal Arts Depart
ment .
In 1987 Beatrice
Balkcum, then division
chairperson, asked
Lewis to develop a 2-
year music curriculum;
however, the music
program began with less
than desirable
conditions, said Lewis.
Classes and equip
ment, split between F,
A and D buildings, made
an inconvenient
situation for both
instructor and
students.
Now with the
completion of the North
Campus, +--he FAM program
is located in the ASM
201 with a large
band/chorus room,
storage for music and
band instruments, an
instrument repair room,
6 practice rooms, a
large general purpose
room for music classes,
and offices for full
and part-time
instructors.
Lewis said, WCC
offers a "high quality"
music faculty which
includes Dr. Diana
Greene, Angie Carter,
and LouEllen Wilson.
I
The FAM program
requires 96 quarter
hours for graduation,
47 of which must be in
music instruction.
Students must take a
Fundamentals in Music
class if they have no
prior music knowledge
even though this course
is not listed as
required curriculum.
Reading, writing,
and playing music, ear
training, ^. ht-
singing, and conducting
comprise the 6 quarter
hour music theory
sequence.
Music majors must
perform in an ensemble
such as concert band,
chorus, or wind or
recorder ensemble for 6
quarter hours.
Students participate
in a concert at the end
of each quarter, which
constitutes their final
exam for the course.
This quarter’s
concert occurred in the
Lecture Hall November
17, 1992.
Students will take
6 quarter hours of
applied music in their
major of voice, piano,
or other instrument.
A fee of $100 must
be paid to the applied
music instructor at the
beginning of the
quarter since these
courses are self-
supporting.
Lewis said, "The
thing that most people
don't realize is that
being in music costs
more money and time
than any other pro
fession. "
"People in music
usually start taking
music classes in the
third grade and
continue through
college, paying for
lessons, instruments,
and music and spend
lots of time prac
ticing ."
Lewis tells his
students, "The only way
I would choose music as
a career is if I didn't
feel I could be happy
doing anything else."
Graduating students
look for careers in
such areas as ministers
and directors of music,
music instructors,
composing, performing,
music merchandising,
instrument repair,
tuning pianos, working
for large music firms,
and owning their own
music stores.
Some past students of
the WCC music program
include Pat Bunch,
instructor of music at
School Street School;
Marie Batten,
instructor of music at
Dillard Elementary
School; Phillip
Merritt, band director
in a middle school in
Wake County.
Also, Anita Luck, a
graduating senior at
ECU; Irene Allen,
director of music in a
local church, and
Theresa White,
secretary for the
Liberal Arts
Department.
Music students take
p^rt in concerts,
recitals, and gradua
tion during their 2
years at WCC and
sometimes perform
locally at nursing
homes and the
children's and
psychiatric wards at
Wayne Memorial
Hospital.
The FAM program will
be offering a series of
workshops in brass,
woodwind, percussion,
and vocal clinics to
both students and the
local community.
The purpose of these
workshops is to address
all mediums of instru
mental and vocal music,
to get WCC students and
the community into our
new facilities, and to
make them aware of the
FAM program.
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Marshalle Le»is, lusic instructor, assists lusic theory students.
Photo: Brenda NcCarty