Music

Thomas Erdmann, profesor of music, had three 6,000-word articles featured on the cover of the September/October 2012 issue of Saxophone Journal. They are on The Rippingtons and chart-topping Los Angeles based saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa, University of Illinois saxophone and music professor J. Michael Holmes, and University of South Florida saxophone and music professor Jack Wilkins.

Professor and Artist in Residence Jon Metzger has been named to the 2012 Downbeat Magazine Readers Choice Poll ballot in the Vibes category.

Associate Professor Todd Coleman continued his service on the Barlow Endowment board of advisors this summer with a weeklong meeting this summer to judge entries for the 2012 Barlow International Prize.

Tantara Records is releasing a new album of music for flute and orchestra that includes a 20-minute flute concerto composed by associate professor Todd Coleman, coordinator of the Elon University Music Technology Program.

As part of an exiting new online musical collaboration, associate professor Todd Coleman's "Wind Dance," a musical composition for a 12-part flute choir, has been selected by Troubadour Music to be collaboratively recorded over the Internet by flute players throughout the world, dubbed the "New World Flutet."