Lori Wiest

WSU faculty, students to sing songs from around the world

PULLMAN – The WSU School of Music will present a choral concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 3, in Bryan Hall featuring performances by the Madrigal/Chamber Singers, University Singers and Concert Choir.   The Madrigal/Chamber Singers, conducted by School of Music professor Lori Wiest, will open the free, public concert with the upbeat “Fly Not […]

Opera cinema series, lectures visit the Palouse

PULLMAN – The Village Centre Cinema in Pullman is showing a film series of the San Francisco Opera with lectures by WSU and University of Idaho faculty.   The shows begin at 2 p.m. with a 1 p.m. pre-production talk. The encores, without the pre-production discussion, will play at 6:30 p.m. The series wraps up with […]

School of Music brings high school choirs to WSU

PULLMAN – High school choirs will experience the WSU campus on Oct. 23 as they perform, work with clinicians and listen to performances of the WSU choral ensembles at the Annual Educational Choral Festival.   High school choirs will perform for clinicians between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. in Kimbrough Concert Hall and then work […]

Preparing teaching assistants to teach

Preparing graduate students to be successful teaching assistants involves more than giving them a textbook and a sample syllabus. Yet sometimes that’s all they get. It’s the sink or swim mentality. This fall, the Graduate School created a lifeline — not only for floundering students, but for anyone looking for more effective teaching methods. The […]