Description
This image shows a group of students in a jazz band in the Department of Music Education at Appalachian State University (1967-current) posing outside on the Sanford Mall with instruments in October 1979. The Department of Music became the Hayes School of Music in 1988 and was named for Mariam Cannon Hayes, former member of the Appalachian State Board of Trustees and current member of the Hayes School of Music Advisory Board. The School of Music provides majors in Music Education, Music Performance, Music Therapy, Sacred Music, Composition and Theory, Music Industry Studies, and Jazz Studies. The Department is a member of the National Association of Schools of Music, and students perform recitals and concerts throughout the year.
Source
General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 13, Music F4, C14.2.3.1.
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