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Angelina College Music Faculty Conducts Forum

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Music Instructors Perform for Crowd in ACA Gallery

Angelina College music instructors on Thursday conducted a “Faculty Music Forum” for a large crowd in the Angelina Center for the Arts Gallery on the AC campus.

From soaring vocals to instrumental solos, those instructors displayed the very talents they hope to instill in their students.

Performers and their chosen pieces included the following:

Chance Moore (guitar), “The Place I’ll Return to Someday” (from “Final Fantasy IX”) by composer Nobuo Uematsu; Sarah Jackson (soprano, with pianist Beckie Compton accompanying), “In Uomini” (from “Cosi fan tutte) by composer W.A. Mozart; Donna Dear (piano), “Romance in D Major” by composer Florence Price; Charlotte Davis (soprano, with pianist Beckie Compton accompanying), “Io son L’umile ancella” by composer Francesco Cilea; Paul Berler (alto saxophone, with pianist Beckie Compton accompanying), “Sonata, movement II” by composer Phil Woods; and Tate Ashby (piano), Tico-Tico no fuba” by composer Zequinha de Abreu. 

For information on future Visual and Performing Arts performances, visit the schedule on the VPA website (https://www.angelina.edu/vpa-calendar/)

For other information regarding opportunities with the School of Visual and Performing arts, contact Beckie Compton at bcompton@angelina.edu

Gary Stallard
Sports Information Director Gary Stallard, who also serves as a Liberal Arts Instructor, begins his eleventh season with Angelina College. Following a career as a U.S. Marine, Stallard completed his bachelor’s degree at Stephen F. Austin University, where he majored in English and Journalism. For more than 16 years, he has worked as a sports writer/columnist/photographer for the Lufkin Daily News; he continues to contribute free-lance articles on occasion. Stallard has won several awards for writing, including the Golden Hoops Award for basketball writing in 2003, Regional Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, and the Texas Press Association’s first-place award for column writing in 2007 and in 2014. He has also done basketball, football and baseball radio and live streaming play-by- play and color commentary for an ESPN affiliate. Currently Stallard serves as play-by-play broadcaster for AC basketball, baseball and softball games. Prior to arriving at Angelina College, Stallard taught English at Lufkin High School for four years. He currently teaches Developmental Writing classes at AC. He and his wife Susan live in Lufkin.

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