SUMMER ARTS: GOSPEL SINGING & CONDUCTING MADE EASY

Gospel Singing and Conducting Made Easy: Break it Down for Us

June 29-July 12, 2008

• Further your craft as gospel voice singers and/or choir leaders/conductors
  Work with world leaders in the field in a non-stressful, open environment of small groups and solo singing
• Gain a broader understanding of your gospel voice, and will gain an added opportunity to blend your voice with a wide variety of styles within this genre
• Gain a variety of perspectives in empowering voices through attitude development and application of mind, body and spirit applied to this music
  Focus on conducting, group arrangement and most importantly, inter group dynamics
• Develop a broader understanding of personal vocal and technique, specifically, better understanding of range, vibrato style and proper use of the instrument
• Gain an improved sense of variety of historic and topical styles

Who Should Apply?

This class is designed for all singers interested in and experienced with the gospel music tradition. It is recommended that singers have at least minimal knowledge of their vocal range, key and pitch and some experience with organized, directed, or group singers such as school or church choirs. Choir leaders are to have experience with choir direction, have an understanding of the teaching of vocal harmonies and blended voice, an understanding of the rehearsal and performance preparation process, and an ability to understand musical terms, keys and the integration of the voice with a variety of instruments such as piano, organ, guitar, etc.

How To Apply?

1. Submit a letter (approximately 200 word, typewritten) indicating your interest in the singing or directing phase of the works. Include you musical background/experience, vocal range (alto, tenor, etc) and what you hope to achieve from this course. For singers, please submit an audio tape or CD with a 1 minute sampling of your singing voice. For choir leaders, submit current resume with references regarding your professional or semi professional background.
2. Send the materials listed in Step One and your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts Registration Office by Monday, May 19, 2008

Course Coordinator

Professor Thomas Whit-Ellis
CSU Fresno
thomee@csufresno.edu
559-278-2646

Course Number & Credits

Undergraduate: MUSIC 423, 3 units
Graduate: MUSIC 623, 3 units

Material Fees

None

Guest Artists

Edwin Hawkins

A trailblazing force behind the evolution of the contemporary gospel sound, Edwin Hawkins remains best known for his 1969 classic Oh Happy Day, one of the biggest gospel hits of all time and a major pop radio smash as well. Born in Oakland, CA in 1943, he began singing in his church youth choir while still a toddler, and by age five was playing piano. Just two years later, he assumed full-time piano accompaniment duties for the family gospel group, making their recording debut in 1957.

In 1982 the Edwin Hawkins Music and Arts Seminar was founded. It is an annual week-long convention that offers workshops exploring all facets of the gospel industry and culminating each year with a live performance by the assembled mass choir. The 2002 Love Fellowship Mass Choir included hundreds of representatives from the United States, Europe and Japan (www.edwinhawkins.tv)

James Hall

He is the founder of the gospel singing ensemble Worship & Praise whose debut album soared to the top of the Billboard charts and marked him as a major force on the New York choir scene. He is most known for the killer vibratos and twister harmonies found in the best of today’s gospel music.

Mr. Hall’s most recent accomplishments include the live recording at Foxwoods Casino and Resorts, where he unveiled his latest compositions of James Hall and Worship and Praise. This project has been long awaited, and is bound to be a number seller in the music industry. Live at Foxwoods was recently released on Mr. Hall’s new label MusicBlend. (www.jhwap.com)

Christopher St. James

Choir director with a number of church and community choirs.

For more information, log on to www.csusummerarts.org/courses2008/Gospel_web_desc_2008.shtml

John Hultberg in Context

The distinguished artist John Hultberg,a strikingly good-looking and articulate man who should have been wildly successful, was not helped by a self-destructive instinct and an art that was slightly askew from his times. To understand how his art explored realities that are only now coming into being but which he instinctively anticipated we ahve to see what his colleagues were practicing and the sources of Hultberg's work in the history of western art.

Author or co-author of more than thirteen books and fifty articles on art, culture, poetry, and theology, Dr. Harry Rand serves as Senior Curator, Cultural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. He was formerly Chairman, Department of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture , National Museum of American Art. Dr. Rand has contributed to over thirty museum exhibitions and catalogues, has published numerous exhibition and book reviews, has lectured and taught at prestigious universities internationally, and is frequently cited in major sources.

Dr. Rand was the first art historian to participate in the annual Davos Conference of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland and the World Economic Forum meetings in Washington. He was a Founding Council member of the World Arts Council and subsequent Steering Committee member. He has served on the Board of Directors, World Society for the Prevention of Trade in Stolen Art; the Austrian International Art Institute and its successor, the museum KunstHausWien, Vienna, Austria; the Museum Committee, Committee for the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. award for museum scholarship, and the Committee for the Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award for the College Art Association. Has served as a consultant to: The World Bank; Exodus Foundation; City of Phoenix, Arizona; Milwaukee Art Museum; the Cosanti Foundation; City of Fall River; National Academy of Sciences; Virlane Foundation; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Katz & Ranzman, etc. At the Smithsonian he served on the Provost's Committee on Human Studies.

Interdisciplinary Studies Program Advisory Committee, Program Committee for the Smithsonian 150th Birthday, and was Editorial Advisor, Smithsonian Studies in American Art.

John Hultberg's distinguished career spans over the five decades with numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His dark moody landscapes incorporating architectural and figurative elements almost belie a painting category. Considered a maverick painter, he forged a very original style of his own, which some have called Apocalyptic, Surreal, or Visionary.

Born in 1922 in Berkeley, California of Swedish parents, he attended Fresno State College where he earned a B.A. degre in English Literature. After serving as lieutenant with the United States Navy in the Pacific, he entered the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, where he studied painting with Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. He came to New York City in 1949 to study at the Art Student League with Will Barnet and Morris Kantor.

In 1954 he relocated to Paris where he was to join other expatriate artists. He exhibited in Europe and there met the art dealer Martha Jackson, who invited him to become part of her newly established international gallery in New York where he exhibited for over 20 years.

In 1955, Hultberg's career was officially launched with the award of First Prize for Oil Painting at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial in Washington D.C. Frequently reviewed in such publications as The New York Times, The Herald Tribune and Art News, Hultberg's work is represented in over 150 museums and public collections throughout the United States and abroad. These include The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; The Oakland Museum, The de Young Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California; The Corcoran Gallery, The Hirshhorn and The National Museum of American Art in London; The Museum of Modern Art in Malmo, Sweden; and The Salon de Mai in Paris.

Among other honors and awards, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ford Foundation Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts grants, three Pollack-Krasner Foundation grants and a Lee Krasner grant.

John Hultberg's personal papers, photographs, correspondence, writings, interviews, critical reviews, essays, monographs and poetry are on microfilm at the Archives of American Art in New York, Boston and San Francisco and at the Pompidou Archives in Paris.

by Dr. Harry Rand
Senior Curator
Smithsonian Institute
Speaking about American Artist John Hultberg
B.A. English Literature 1943 (1922-2005)

Single Black Female, Looking

Single Black Female, Looking by Jeannette Jackson-McNeil and Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis
March 7-9 & 11-15, 2008

She’s got it all: brains, beauty, an excellent career and total financial freedom. There’s only one problem, she can’t find a good man to marry. Her search for a husband and attempt to shake the memory of he rown true love take her down a difficult and perilous path. Set in the early 70s, this comedy is inspired by the novel, The Personals by Yu Hui Chen.

Digital Rights, Virtual Worlds and New Media - Your New Reality

Dennis Wilson is a 1988 graduate of California State University, Fresno with a BA degree in English Literaure and Economics. He received a J.D. in 1991 from the University of Southern California Law Center. Prior to founding his current Beverly Hills law firm, Keats McFarland and Wilson (KMW) in 1999. Mr. Wilson was a partner in the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles offices of Baker & Hostetler.

Keats McFarland & Wilson is a world-renowned boutique law firm, and Mr. Wilson represents some of the world's largest media, entertainment and technology companies in complex litigation, counseling and transactions. Mr. Wilson's practice encompasses copyright, trademark, licensing, technology development, online advertising and Internet law issues. Mr. Wilson provides strategic counseling to both Fortune 500 companies and celebrity clients on a wide range of intellectual property issues and has litigated infringement, idea submission, rights of publicity and unfair business practices actions across the United States. Mr. Wilson has developed and directs international online protection programs for some of the world's most recognized brands and media properties.

In 1995, Mr. Wilson pioneered the online rights protection field, establishing one of the country's first comprehensive Internet monitoring and enforcement programs. Mr. Wilson currently directs online protection programs for numerous entertainment companies, fashion houses, e-businesses, and celebrity clients. As part of his Internet practice, he has recovered thousands of domain names, removed infringing and unauthorized contect from many thousands of online sites, and gained the moniker "Sheriff of the Internet".

Mr. Wilson is a frequent speaker on new media issues at national bar associations, international trademark associations and universities, adn has lectured across the United States on subjects including new media, licensing, intellectual property, branding and Internet law. Mr. Wilson was selcted one of American's Top Lawyers by Forbes Business, and a "Super Lawyer" by the New York Times and Los Angeles magazines, and is listed in Who's Who of American Trial Lawyers.


by Dennis L. Wilson
B.A. English 1988
Attorney At Law

Photojournalism Exhibit Opening Reception

A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, Robert Gauthier has focused his camera on both the tragedies and triumphs of human lives. Among other assignments, he has told stories with his pictures from the Iraq War, the 2004 Greece Olympics, the Liberation of Kosovo and the Cannes Film Festival.

Gauthier won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2005 for a five part series on the long-afflicted Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, which was founded with great expectations after the Watts riots. For reporters and one photographer, Gauthier, systematically examined the blunders, coverups and managerial problems that have plagued the hospital. Gauthier also won the 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Award for Domestic Service for the same story.

Before coming to the Los Angeles Times in 1994, Gauthier was a staff photographer at the San Diego Union Tribune. there, he covered the invasion of Somalia and photographed other such notable stories as in-depth look into the lives of three families dealing with mental illness.

His dedication to community journalism was evident even in his early work. at the Escondido Times Advocate, he documented an in-depth look into a young boy's losing battle with leukemia. Gauthier was also a reporter and photographer for the Bernardo News in San Diego where he covered the 1994 National League Playoffs and World Series.

Gauthier is on the Board of Directors for the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles and received the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi award for Sports Photography.

Robert Gauthier got his feet wet as a photographer, reporter and editor for The Collegian at Fresno State from 1979 to 1983. He is married to Renee Kline, who graduated from Fresno State in 1981. They have two children, Alison and Alex.





by Robert Gauthier

B.A. Photojournalism 1983

2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner

Photojournalist for the LA Times