Following the presentation, students will be able to talk with an all-star panel of industry experts including an Augsburg MBA graduate, Sarah Phelan ’09. Phelan is a marketing program manager with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Phelan was working in marketing at Thrivent Financial when she was recruited into the Augsburg MBA program. Soon after she finished her graduate studies, she started looking for a job. “I decided that it was a good time to put some feelers out there, given that I had a new degree on my resume,” she says.

Though she has an undergraduate degree in theology and philosophy of religion, Phelan enjoyed marketing and wanted to stay in it. She also found the arts scene in Minneapolis and St. Paul intriguing. “It’s a very vibrant scene,” she said, “and I always saw myself going in the non-profit direction.”

Phelan landed a job with SPCO and works on a grant project from the Wallace Foundation. She is taking a grassroots, community-based approach to marketing for the orchestra, a somewhat unique method for an arts organization in a major metropolitan area. “‘It’s been a really unique opportunity. We’re doing everything for the first time so everything is a new experience.”

Phelan hopes to share her experience on the marketing side of music business with students next week. “Everything I do is hands-on and focused on how to get the word out,” she says. In that sense, she says her work is very similar to how a band or smaller organization would market themselves—using social media and grassroots communication.

Phelan says the Augsburg MBA program was very beneficial for her career. She says what she learned at Augsburg could be applied to a variety of industries. “I think the Augsburg MBA is a great fundamental learning experience, and it gave me a solid foundation to make the jump from financial services to the arts.”

The music business seminar will be held Tuesday, Apr. 13 from 4-6 p.m. in Sateren Auditorium. The seminar is open to all students, and admission is free but reservations are recommended. Email musicdept@augsburg.edu to make a reservation.

Panelists include:

-Jeralyn Steele, Steele Family performing artists and WCCO Radio personality

-Brad Eggen, attorney and president of the Twin Cities Musicians Union, Local 30-73, American Federation of Musicians

-Shantel Dow, president of Dow Artists (artist management)

-Steve McClellan, executive director of Diverse Emerging Music Organization (DEMOMN.org); faculty member, McNally-Smith College of Music

-Sue McLean, president of Sue McLean and Associates (concert promotion)

-Sarah Phelan ’09 MBA, marketing program manager, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

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Here are highlights of events taking place in the coming weeks. Go to the website for more information and the full schedule of events.

Artist Roundtable & Reception

Friday, November 21 at 5:30 p.m.

Marshall Room (main floor), Christensen Center

Admission is free.

Nick Conbere will be on hand to describe his creative process in creating the show, “The Mysteries of Ordinary Places” on display in the Gage Family Art Gallery. Shannon Collis and Erik Waterkotte will join Mr. Conbere and moderator Joanne Price (Studio Manager, Highpoint Center for Printmaking) in a conversation about their work, “Superimpositions,” in the Christensen Center Art Gallery. Go to the Augsburg Art Gallery for more information.

The Pot of Gold

By Plautus and directed by Augsburg student, Russ Dugger

Friday, November 21 at 7 p.m.

Saturday, November 22 at 7 p.m.

Sunday, November 23 at 2 p.m.

Tjornhom-Nelson Theater, Augsburg campus

Tickets are $5 general admission; $4 ACTC faculty, staff and students; $1 for Augsburg students and children under 12. Reservations can be made by calling 612-330-1257.

Euclio has always been a good and thrifty God-fearing man. All that is to change the day he discovers a pot of gold. How will he handle this new-found treasure? Follow Euclio, the miser, as he grapples with his new status in this Roman Comedy about deception, mistaken identity, greed, and the lengths one will go to conceal wealth.

Friday, December 5 at 5 and 8 p.m.

Saturday, December 6 at 5 and 8 p.m.

Central Lutheran Church, Downtown Minneapolis

Augsburg College will celebrate is 29th year of Advent Vespers, a meditative celebration of the beginning of the Christmas season with traditional and contemporary hymns, anthems and carols. Nearly 8,000 people attend these services every years making it one of the largest holiday music events in the Twin Cities. Held in the beautifully renovated Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis, more than 300 students, staff, and faculty will participate in choirs, instrumental ensembles, as readers, or in the festive liturgical party.

Seating is limited and reservations are strongly encouraged. Call 612-330-1265, email musicdept@augsburg.edu, or a seating order form.

A Cup of Christmas Tea

Wednesday, December 10 at 4 p.m.

Sateren Auditorium

Student performances of chamber music by Purcell, Vaughan Williams, and Piazzola

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For six weeks the students have done research on the East Riverside neighborhood and created artwork that reflects their research. Initially students created flyers advertising a “neighborhood block meeting” and placed them in the four block radius between 6th Street and Riverside and 20th Avenue to Cedar. A meeting was held, students conducted interviews, attended an annual meeting, and created artwork based on their findings. The students have also worked with Neighborhood on Wheels, an organization that uses bicycles equipped with computers, generators, and sound and compiled their artwork into a digital piece that will be projected on Tuesday night. The piece covers the history of the neighborhood, attributes of the neighborhood and uses artwork to illustrate the findings. It is hoped that the piece will be used in the future for informational meetings on campus or by the neighborhood organizations to open up the dialogue between the college campus and the neighborhood.

Fine Arts Keystone presentation — “Crossing the Street”

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 8:30 p.m.

Outside Foss Center main entrance

In the event of rain, the project will be presented on November 11, 2008.

Article submitted by Susan Boecher, outside artwork by Jonny Knoll, main article artwork by Femi Solaja

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