http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:48:55 GMT Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/26 Peter Miyamoto characterizes his career as a classical concert pianist as "moonlighting." Although modest, this MU professor of Music has played extensively throughout the United States and the world and is widely renowned for his solo work. Performing classical music becomes by necessity a re-creative art, Miyamoto explains. Making "a bunch of black dots on the page" come to life isn’t easy. Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:48:55 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/26 (LuAnne Roth) http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/31 Between teaching viola individually and in groups, directing the Missouri String Project, and playing professionally with several internationally renowned chamber music groups, music professor Leslie Perna keeps very busy. Yet you have the distinct impression in listening to her talk that all of her work is thoroughly enjoyable. Wed, 17 May 2006 21:19:35 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/31 (LuAnne Roth) http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/32 MU Theatre Professor Jim Miller emphasizes happenstance events, moments of inspiration, and intriguing connections as he talks about his work in the theatre—from a revelation while working on a Pepto-Bismol commercial in New York years ago (that he couldn’t “stomach” life as a struggling Broadway actor) to selecting which plays to direct at MU. Now, after twenty-six years of teaching and directing at MU, Miller has not only gathered a large repertoire of these stories, but has also come to believe in the power of such intangible resources as serendipity and instinct in the realm of acting and directing. Wed, 31 May 2006 18:57:11 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/32 (LuAnne Roth) http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/70 M. Heather Carver is framed by her clown shadow—a black mannequin head wearing a pink camouflage hat and red clown’s nose—as she joyfully begins to describe her place at MU. “I come from a background of performing,” the Associate Professor of Theatre offers. “As a means of studying something, we perform it.” As a way of studying autobiography, for example, Carver performs autobiography. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/70 (LuAnne Roth) http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/115 From blues and punk to rock and roll, Arthur White has at one point in his life played in nearly every kind of band, but now he believes he has finally found “the perfect gig.” As the director of MU’s Jazz Performance Studies program and Assistant Professor in the School of Music, White now handles all things jazz at MU. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/115 (LuAnne Roth) http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/121 Ever since the third grade, when an assistant principal generously offered to teach him and two classmates French, John Miles Foley has been curious about how languages work. Starting with the early epiphany that language is always embedded in culture, Foley followed this line of thinking until it led to oral tradition, which the MU Professor of Classical Studies and English has now been researching for over three decades. It will surely be a lifelong journey, for the field far outstrips written literature in size, diversity, and social function. In fact, all the written literature we have, Foley is fond of saying, “is dwarfed by oral traditions.” Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:00:00 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/121 (LuAnne Roth)