重点:音乐在阿宾顿
Connections within the 音乐 industry supplement rigorous coursework and performance opportunities for 阿宾顿 students.
Whether performing arts is your major, 小, 或者介于两者之间, experience the transformative power of 音乐 at 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校.
Science major Paige Eberly and Hudson Marsh, 综合艺术系学生, 试用新的伊士曼吉他, fresh from the shipping containers.
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Guitar Maker 'Picks' 阿宾顿 for partnership
两个 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校 faculty members established a partnership that makes world-class guitars available to students taking 音乐课程 以及校园里的课程.
约翰Pachence, 音乐讲师, 罗伊·罗布森, division head for Arts and Sciences, connected with Eastman Guitars executives at a 音乐 industry conference earlier this year. They quickly reached an agreement to purchase eight instruments at a steep discount.
Working with Eastman was straightforward when the firm learned about 阿宾顿's growing performing arts program.
“It was like pushing through an open door,” Robson said.
吉他来了, 和罗布森, Pachence and two students carefully — very carefully — cut open the boxes and lifted the guitars out of the cases. The students, as one would expect, immediately began strumming the fresh instruments.
Six of the carefully crafted acoustic guitars will be available to 阿宾顿 students while the remaining two will be used by faculty.
约翰Pachence, 音乐讲师, can't contain his delight while unboxing eight new Eastman guitars.
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一个伙伴关系引出了另一个伙伴关系
雅马哈娱乐集团, 阿宾顿现有的合伙人, offered Pachence 和罗布森 coveted tickets to the industry-only National Association of 音乐 Merchants (NAMM) convention in Anaheim, 加州.
They didn’t know what to expect from the event, but the results went far beyond what they could have imagined. While there, the duo laid the foundation for the partnership with Eastman Guitars.
Representatives from Martin Guitar Co. also were at NAMM, 和罗布森 and Pachence successfully connected with them as well. 结果是, they drove 阿宾顿 students to the home of Martin Guitars, 离校园大约60英里, 去旅游.
When they weren't focusing on the business of 音乐 at NAMM, Pachence said they were "nerding out.“他们对谁感到厌烦?? 音乐 legends including Ahmet Zappa, Stevie Wonder, and U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. 也在NAMM遇到了他们.
It sounds as if the trip was full of high notes for 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校 faculty and students.
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宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校, 以前是奥贡茨校区, offers baccalaureate degrees in 18 majors at its suburban location just 费城北部. 将近一半的人,000 students complete all four years at 阿宾顿, with opportunities in undergraduate research, 施赖尔荣誉项目, 美国大学生体育协会第三组, 和更多的. Students can start the first two years of more than 160 Penn State majors at 阿宾顿 and complete their degrees at University Park or another campus. 狮门, our first residence hall, will open in August.
