

Bush has taught voice and related subjects at Kenyon College and Concordia College, served as the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Assessment at the Eastman School of Music, and is currently the Director of the Music Division at The Boston Conservatory. She has won the state and regional NATSAA Competition, was a 2003 NATS Intern, has served as the regional NATS Artist Awards competition site coordinator (2008), North Dakota NATS state treasurer (2007-2008), and Minnesota NATS Mentoring Committee (2004-2008).

Bush earned a Bachelor of Music in Voice and Master of Music in Opera Theater from Oberlin College Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice from The Ohio State University. Resch is a co-author of all four editions of Art Song in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Music Teachers National Association, and Sigma Alpha Iota. Resch has been active as a recitalist, oratorio soloist, and collaborative pianist. Louis), University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and retired from University of Central Missouri (Warrensburg), as professor emerita of music after 31 years. in piano chamber music and accompanying from University of Iowa. in English literature from University of North Dakota. in music literature from Eastman School of Music, and an M.A. degree from Minot State University, an M.M. Resch, soprano, was born in North Dakota and earned a B.S.Ed. The author of Yoga for Singing: A Developmental Tool for Technique and Performance, Carman gave three presentations of Yoga for Singers at the NATS/NOA Winter Workshop/Conference in Los Angeles in 2008. She was the vocal literature presenter at the NATS Intern Program from 2002-2004. Carman taught studio voice and related subjects at the university level, and maintained a private voice studio in Houston, Texas, from 1979-2007. She is also editor of the third and fourth editions of the bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2001, 2013). Her dissertation, Twentieth-Century American Song Cycles: A Study in Circle Imagery, initiated the research for the first edition of Art Song in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography, of which she was editor. Carman, music review columnist, Journal of Singing, holds the DMA in vocal performance and pedagogy from the University of Iowa where she studied with Herald I. This presentation will encourage singers to consider creating recital programs with this fascinating material. The presentation will consist of selected performed examples with brief narrative “glue,” as well as the texts, projected on a screen. This is not a history of American art song, but the history of our country told in art song, mostly by twentieth-century composers. Singing Our History is a small selection of these songs and the historic aspects they represent from Colonial times through the present. Carman, Rita Resch, Abra Bush, Quinn-Patrick Ankrum, Andrew Blosser, David Grogan and Stella RodenĪmong the thousands of art songs by American composers are at least 130 that represent, describe, or memorialize people and events from U. Breakout Session Singing Our History: A Representation of American History in American Art Song Tuesday, July 8, 2014
