http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:48:55 GMT Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/26 Peter Miyamoto characterizes his career as a classical concert pianist as "moonlighting." Although modest, this MU professor of Music has played extensively throughout the United States and the world and is widely renowned for his solo work. Performing classical music becomes by necessity a re-creative art, Miyamoto explains. Making "a bunch of black dots on the page" come to life isn’t easy. Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:48:55 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/26 (LuAnne Roth) http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/31 Between teaching viola individually and in groups, directing the Missouri String Project, and playing professionally with several internationally renowned chamber music groups, music professor Leslie Perna keeps very busy. Yet you have the distinct impression in listening to her talk that all of her work is thoroughly enjoyable. Wed, 17 May 2006 21:19:35 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/31 (LuAnne Roth) http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/32 MU Theatre Professor Jim Miller emphasizes happenstance events, moments of inspiration, and intriguing connections as he talks about his work in the theatre—from a revelation while working on a Pepto-Bismol commercial in New York years ago (that he couldn’t “stomach” life as a struggling Broadway actor) to selecting which plays to direct at MU. Now, after twenty-six years of teaching and directing at MU, Miller has not only gathered a large repertoire of these stories, but has also come to believe in the power of such intangible resources as serendipity and instinct in the realm of acting and directing. Wed, 31 May 2006 18:57:11 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/32 (LuAnne Roth) http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/70 M. Heather Carver is framed by her clown shadow—a black mannequin head wearing a pink camouflage hat and red clown’s nose—as she joyfully begins to describe her place at MU. “I come from a background of performing,” the Associate Professor of Theatre offers. “As a means of studying something, we perform it.” As a way of studying autobiography, for example, Carver performs autobiography. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/70 (LuAnne Roth)