Canadian Brass comes to campus
The Canadian Brass is coming to Montclair State University. The brass
quintet will perform on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium.
Tickets, priced at $25, $20 for senior citizens, are available by calling
the Box Office at 973-655-5112.
The performance will include music of Handel, Gabrieli, Bach, Jelly Roll
Morton, W.C. Handy and Peter Schickele.
The quintet, which celebrated its 30th season in 2000-01, includes Josef
Burgstaller, trumpet; Stuart Laughton, trumpet; Jeff Nelsen, French horn;
Eugene Watts, trombone; and Charles Daellenbach, tuba.
The Canadian Brass comes from modest and highly experimental roots in
Toronto and Ontario. The group was not established as a serious concert
ensemble, but the imagination and consummate musicianship of its members
elevated the art of the brass quintet to the standing it holds today.
The group has performed with many major symphony orchestras in the United
States, Canada, Europe and Japan, and is known to television audiences
through appearances on "The Tonight Show," "Today,"
"Entertainment Tonight," "Evening at Pops" and numerous
PBS specials.
The Canadian Brass performs in a wide variety of musical styles. Having
started with a limited base of traditional works for brass, the group
has set out to create its own musical world by transcribing, arranging
and commissioning more than 200 works, presenting not only the classical
repertoire but also jazz, contemporary concert music and popular songs.
The group's performance at Montclair State is one of a new series of concerts
by internationally acclaimed artists and groups sponsored by the Department
of Music.
University holds first Alumni Career Fair
Alumni can get a foot in the job market door by meeting with a host of
potential employers at Montclair State's first Alumni Career Fair on Monday,
Nov. 3, in the Student Center Ballrooms. The event will take place from
4 to 7 p.m.
Alumni who cannot attend the fair can connect with employers online for
a two-week virtual career fair. Log on to http://www.collegecentral.com/msualumfair
beginning Nov. 4.
More than 30 companies and organizations are participating, including AFLAC, Cingular Wireless, PNC Bank, New York Life, Sax Macy Fromm & Co. and L'Oreal USA to name a few. Representatives will seek potential employees for positions in sales, customer service, financial planning, accounting, retail and more.
Alumni seeking post-graduate education also can obtain information from representatives of The Graduate School at Montclair State University as well as those from other institutions.
First NJEDge.Net conference to be held this month
The first Annual NJEDge.Net conference, "Collaboration Through Networking:
Technology in Education," will be held Oct. 30-31 at the Merrill
Lynch Conference Center in Plainsboro. An opening reception and pre-conference
workshops will take place in the evening on Oct. 29.
The conference celebrates the creation of New Jersey's Higher Education
Network and will provide live demonstrations of the resources and capabilities
of the network highlighting collaborative applications at member institutions
in real time. Montclair State University is one of the founding member
institutions associated with the NJEDge.Net project.
Keynote speakers include Mark Resmer, chief technology officer at eCollege;
David Pogue, technology columnist of The New York Times; Phillip
D. Long, senior strategist at MIT; and Michael Zostrocky of the Gartner
Group.
Registration information and program details including session descriptions
and speakers' biographies are available at http://www.njedge.net/conference2003/.
NJEDge.Net is a high-bandwidth statewide network dedicated exclusively
to facilitating collaboration among institutions of higher education and
affiliated members (schools, museums, libraries, corporate partners, etc.)
through a statewide extranet that provides unimpeded voice, data and video
transmission with guaranteed quality of service among the EDge.Net members.
The conference will demonstrate the potential benefits of participation
in the network and also some of the services offered, including our affiliate
membership in the Internet II project.