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A profile of UTSO's conductor

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 | Butler School of Music

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Dorota Biczel awarded postdoctoral fellowship in arts and ecology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln

June 30, 2022 | Glasstire

Dr. Biczel (Ph.D, Art History, 2019) most recently served as executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography

Dorota Biczel awarded postdoctoral fellowship in arts and ecology at the University of NebraskaLincoln

Donald Hale selected as the lone Finalist Honorable Mention for the 2022 American Prize in Conducting

June 22, 2022 | The American Prize

Hale's (B.M., Composition, 2019) qualifying performance was of Joel Puckett's flute concerto "The Shadow of Sirius" in collaboration with the Texas Christian University Wind Symphony and Dr. Shauna Thompson, professor of flute. Hale currently serves as Director of Orchestras and Assistant Director of Bands at Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. 

Donald Hale selected as the lone Finalist Honorable Mention for the 2022 American Prize in Conducting

"The Fantasticks" creator Tom Jones rewrites classic musical as gay love story

June 16, 2022 | Playbill

Jones (B.F.A., Theatrical Design, 1949) and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story loosely based on Edmund Rostand's 1894 play The Romancers (Les Romanesques), concerning two neighboring parents who trick their children into falling in love by pretending to feud. The LGBTQIA+ focused rewrite features two young gay men, Matt and Lewis, at the center of the story, instead of a young man and woman (the original characters were Matt and Luisa).

The Fantasticks creator Tom Jones rewrites classic musical as gay love story