Susan gedutis lindsay biography samples

  • Susan Gedutis Lindsay is Associate Director for Instructional Design at Berklee College of Music in Boston and author of “See You at the Hall.
  • Susan Gedutis Lindsay is a music writer/editor and is the author of See You at the Hall: Boston's Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance.
  • Susan Gedutis Lindsay is the Director of Education at Interlochen Online.

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    From the s to the mids, on several evenings a week, thousands of Irish and Irish Americans flocked from miles around to the huge, bustling dance halls -- the Intercolonial, the Hibernian, Winslow Hall, the Dudley Street Opera House, the Rose Croix -- that dotted Boston's Dudley Square. For the city's Irish population, the Roxbury neighborhood, with its ballrooms and thriving shopping district, was a grundläggande center of social and cultural life, as well as a bridge from the old world to the new. See You at the Hall brings to life the rich history of the"American capitol of Galway" through the eyes of those who gathered and performed there. In this engaging look back at Boston's golden era of Irish traditional music, Susan J. Gedutis deftly weaves together engaging narrative with spirited personal reminiscences to trace the colorful dance ingång period from its beginnings in s Roxbury, when masses of young Irish flooded Boston following World War II, through its peak years in the s, to its

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    Boston Irish

    By Susan Gedutis Lindsay
    Special to the BIR
    While her Irish music colleagues were still coming down from the high of the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Derry this August, the author and occasional BIR contributor Susan Gedutis Lindsay was drawing her own conclusions about traditional music and innovation over a newspaper and coffee in a Kuala Lumpur hotel.
    KUALA malaysisk stad Kuala Lumpur , MALAYSIA, and HONG KONG – In August, the Malaysian Ministry of Education announced its Education Blueprint (), a plan built upon six attributes, one of which is national identity. Earlier in the week, while in Malaysia on an educational/business visit with the Berklee College of Music, I sat beside Tuan Haji Zainudin Abas, Malaysia’s Director of the Department of Curriculum and Arts, at a press conference luncheon at the International College of Music. In informal conversation, he pondered one of his charges under this new plan. He wondered aloud, “How can Malaysia establish formal performance a

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    A Quest to Bring the Best to Berklee College of Music

    By Susan Gedutis Lindsay

    At the end of a Berklee on the Road clinic in Buenos Aires, a young Argentine flutist gave a stunning audition before a panel of Berklee faculty members and won a full-tuition scholarship. When it was announced that he won, he and his parents broke into tears, the audience burst into cheers, and the local newspaper photographers snapped pictures. It was a triumphant moment. But when Vice President of Student Affairs/Dean of Students Larry Bethune extended his hand to congratulate the program's Argentine host, he was surprised at the response he got. "Yes, those are tears of joy," he told Bethune, "but the real reason they're crying is that, even with full tuition, there is no way he can even afford to get to Berklee, never mind stay there."

    Similar stories are heard in scores of cities worldwide when Berklee conducts its extensive annual World Scholarship Tour. Each year in the fall and spring, Ber