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and editing of the video. “The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” he says.” Watch the video at northtexan.unt.edu/game-ofthrones.
Visual Arts Record-breaking mural
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1990s, will appear on the Food Network TV show Rachael Vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off starring Reality stars Three alumni are making their Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri. mark on TV reality shows. Animated work Tamara Chauniece (’12), a Imagine if Game of Thrones journalism graduate who went featured Denton. Danny Wilby Tamara Williams while at liams (’09), a radio/television/ UNT, appeared on the NBC film graduate, made it happen. singing competition The Voice, The motion graphic artist making CeeLo Green’s team. Ashley Poe (’09) is scheduled created an animated video that to appear on the upcoming sea- copies the opening sequence of son of the ABC dating show The the popular HBO drama but with Texas landmarks, includBachelor, which will premiere ing UNT’s Apogee Stadium. in January. Poe was a sociology Williams, who also works major and taught at E.P. Rayzor for KXAN in Austin, says his Elementary School in Argyle. TV and film classes helped Former Bachelor star Jake him with camera angles, music Pavelka, a UNT student in the
A group of UNT art students helped create the largest makeup painting, according to the Guinness Book
of World Records. The 8-by-76foot mural was painted for Mary Kay cosmetics’ 50th anniversary this summer using 3,500 of the brand’s products with 300 make-up brushes. Giovanni Valderas (’07, ’12 M.F.A.), an adjunct faculty member, participated in the project along with seniors Kristen Nesbitt, Laura Nave and Jenn Smith and post-baccalaureate student Carmen Wright. Valderas says the project built up their experience and confidence. “I asked them if they were intimidated by the scale of the project,” he says. “They replied no, because our summer mural painting had prepared them well.”
Vespers of 1610 A new edition of Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610, also known as the Vespers of 1610, was prepared by 10 College of Music students and music history assistant professor Hendrik Schulze. Prestigious music publishing company Bärenreiter requested that Schulze edit the Vespers, 14 movements for soloists, chorus and orchestra considered a master work that defines 17th century sacred music. Schulze enlisted students Clare Carrasco, Kimary Fick, Emily Hagen, Devin Iler, Sean Morrison (’12 M.M.), Stephen Lucas
J. Cole Ritchie, Jonathan Sauceda, Brandon Stewart, AnnaGrace Strange (’13 M.M.) and Chia-Ying “Charles” Wu to begin work in fall 2011. The edition was published in April 2013. They transcribed the original source materials into modern notation and corrected inconsistencies as they deemed fit according to their research.
Hendrik Schulze, assistant professor of music history, works with students on the Vespers of 1610 project.
Receiving this real-world experience is rare and will help the students in academic or publishing careers, Schulze says. “As these students enter the academic job market, this experience will give them a big advantage,” he says. “When I talk to potential employers, the fact that our students have practical experience in editing is met with truly enthusiastic responses. It makes our students stand out in a highly competitive job market and opens up for them alternatives to traditional jobs in academia — they’re now equally qualified to work with publishers and collected editions projects.” Proceeds from sales of the edition go into a scholarship fund to support UNT musicology students’ research. The UNT Collegium Singers and members of the Baroque Orchestra premiered the new edition Oct. 25-26 in Dallas and at the Murchison Performing Arts Center in Denton. The extraordinary opportunity for students may not be at an end. Schulze has already received an offer from Bärenreiter for a follow-up project. Winter 2013
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