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• Finding a new path as Professor Emeritus of Music after teaching music theory, history, & composition at Elmhurst University (formerly Elmhurst College) for over three decades
• Travel to India as often as possible
• 2017-18 Fulbright-Nehru Scholar at Madras Christian College
• Took students to Chennai & other destinations in India to study Indian music, art & culture
• Visit course pages for 2016, 2013, 2010, or 2007
• Visiting professor at Madras Christian College in fall 2009
• Visit my blog
• Write the Instructor’s Resource Manual for Joseph Kerman’s and Gary Tomlinson’s Listen
• Play with my Mac, composing music and creating multimedia resources
• Spend as much time as I can with my wife, Virginia Dixon
• Travel to find woods, water, mountains ... and 12 grandchildren!
• See Isabel, Soren, Tannas, Max, & Sofia below
• Active in College Music Society and Association for Technology in Music Instruction
• Embarrassed to discover that ... I really like opera
• Wish I could be ... watching the weather roll in over Lake Superior

• Elmhurst University Music Department
• College Music Society
• Mylapore Times
• John Cage Online
• Multicultural Media
• World Music Institute
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music Organizations
• Association for Technology in Music Instruction
• Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis website
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Chicago Opera Theater
• Ravinia

• Minnesota Public Radio
• WFMT—98.7 FM, Chicago Classical and Folk Music
• Terri Hemmert & Breakfast with the Beatles on WXRT—93.1 FM, Chicago’s Best Rock
• WBEZ—91.5 FM, Chicago Public Radio
• WRSE—88.7 FM, Elmhurst University

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Places to Shop—CDs and Books

• Amazon
• Amazon UK
• Barnes & Noble
• Cedille Records
• Facets
• Oxford University Press
• World Music Store

• Macmillan Learning
• McGraw Hill Education
• W.W. Norton—College Textbooks
• Pearson (Prentice Hall) Higher Education
• Pearson—Prentice Hall Music Books
• Cengage Learning—Schirmer & Wadsworth
• Waveland Press
• Waveland Music Books

• iRuth Crawford in Chicago—An Interdisciplinary Conference at Elmhurst College (2001)—Scholarly conference and concert series celebrated 100 years after the birth of Elmhurst faculty member, Ruth Crawford (Seeger)
• iMarabu Foundation—An organization founded by Dr. Rama Kausalya, devoted to preserving, promoting, and teaching classical and traditional music, dance, arts & culture to the children of Thillaisthanam (Thanjavur District), India
• iFrom the Big Temples to the Silver Screen: The Music of South India—Syllabus for my most recent experience (2016) with Elmhurst students in India. Five intense days of music lessons at Pt. Nagarajrao Havaldar’s home in Bengaluru—a true gurukulam exerience—proved the perfect preparation for subsequent musical experiences in Chennai, Mahabalipuram, Pondicherry, and Thanjavur, culminating in the Thyagaraja Aradhana in Thiruvaiyaru.
• iWeb Site for LISTEN, Ninth Edition (W.W. Norton, 2019)
• iJanuary 2020 Unchavriti Procession—A short Youtube video created by BBC/Doordarshan photographers and narrated by dear friend Smt. Madhuvanti Badri provides a record of the traditional annual re-enactment of St. Thyagaraja singing and begging for rice in the streets of Thiruvaiyaru as part of the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival. Thiruvaiyaru (Thanjavur District), India

• Recent courses:
• Login to the MyElmhurst Portal (Elmhurst students and staff only) to access Blackboard, Bluenet, and other university resources

• A few old courses:
• 2002 Music History & Literature I: Antiquity to Baroque
• 2002 Music History & Literature II: Classical to Present
• 2002 Special Studies in Music History: Mozart, Opera, & Amadeus
• 2001 Orchestration & Composition
• 2000 Special Studies in Music History: Miles Davis—An American Original
• 2002 Technology for Music Educators