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Penny Draper (email to update your profile)
Profile last updated: 04/03/02
 
Address: 513 Woodland Dr., E. Lansing, MI 48823
County: Ingham
Phone (w): 517-351-4632
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E-mail: draperpe@msu.edu
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Academic Affiliation: Michigan State U.
Non-academic affiliation: Michigan Music Teachers Assocation.
Degree: Ph.D.
Major: Music History, Choral Education, Applied Piano Technology
Minor: Religious Studies, Renaissance Art History, English Renaissance Literature
 
Specialization areas: Humanities, Interdisciplinary, Area Studies, Art History, Literature: English Renaissance, Music History/Criticism, Period Studies: Renaissance, Religion
Implementing projects as: Consultant/Planner, Presenter/Panelist
Project types: Live Events Exhibitions, School Projects, Media
Areas willing to participate: Planning Projects, Developing Projects, Research
 

Past experience: Coordinator of the Michigan State University "Elizabethan Musicall Feast" sponsored by the MSU Union Activities Board for 10 years (1983-1992). Planned the event, including text, music, and the hiring of program participants. Director of The Renaissance Singers, a performance group featuring both an adult and children's choir which perform in replicas of period clothing, feature an instrumental consort, and offer choreograhed dance. The singers have participated in many programs since 1980 (Michigan Historical Museum, Silver Bells in the City (Lansing), and other performance events in the greater Lansing area, as well as events in Grand Rapids and for the Detroit Chamber of Commerce. The Renaissance Singers have participated in many public school performances, and have also given presentations for dance classes at Lansing Community College, and performances for the Performing Arts Students sponsored by Lansing Matinee Musicale. Wrote two successful grant proposals (1999 and 2000) for the Capital Area Music Teachers Association (grants awarded by the Music Teachers National Association). Both grants involved the cooperation of two or more organizations (MSU School of Music and Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra). Serve as Coordinator (since 1999) for the Michigan Music Teachers Association local Student Achievement Testing Program (sponsored by the Capital Area Music Teachers Association) which involves coordinating 50 workers to test over 300 piano and voice students each March (held at Michigan State University School of Music). Listed in 2002 edition of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. Also Who's Who of American Wokmen, millenium edition..

 
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