Matthew Pyles

Music director at a wonderful school and church. All posts reflect personal opinions!

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

Our @HarpethHall choirs just wrapped up an incredible workshop on how to sing gospel music with Dr. Rosephanye Powell. Check them out improvising on-the-spot music in the “special” of their song with Dr. Powell !

[StanceGrounded @_SJPeace_]

Appreciate farmworkers. Appreciate the GRUELING LABOR put in so that you have food on your tables.

We need to invest in our farmers. We need them and I am so grateful for them.

RETWEET THIS

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

I am STILL thinking about it... and impatiently waiting for a video to come out for it!

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

Rough roads ahead for the UMC and @blakemoreumc , but any journey that will be taken with love is one I’m willing to walk with.

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

As I sit on the plane home, drafting up my reflection/notes from #ACDA2019 , I’m struck by the extraordinary things I’ve learned: female voice science, neuroscience in rehearsal, pedagogical movement, score analysis for children’s choir, orchestral techniques, and so much more!

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

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[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

Incredible workshop on the female changing voice at the #ACDA2019 conference! We have lots of work to do, but I’m excited to take back this cutting-edge research back to our @HarpethHall students!

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

I spent nearly 7 hours listening to breathtakingly good choirs today, but the best moment was dinner with my alma mater’s college students... and my former professor / thesis advisor / mentor Dr. Jamila McWhirter! @MTSU_SOM #ACDA2019 #Legacy

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

It was so great to visit with our previous @HarpethHall Carell Artist-in-Residence Mary Biddlecombe during our first full day of the @ACDANational conference!

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

The @HarpethHall @sagedining team is the BEST! They brought so much joy with their chocolate covered strawberries today! #ValentinesDay2019

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

I am so excited for our students to have their opening night tomorrow at @HarpethHall ! They’ve worked hard, and have truly put on a heart warming spectacle. #hhccbb

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

@HarpethHall students learning skills for theatre... and skills for life.

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

Set and prop construction day for CCBB is well under way! Shoutout to the 45 students who are taking time out of their weekend to help us get our @HarpethHall show ready!

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

This is my new favorite account on Twitter.

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

Dis year me focusing on me self-care. When me need little love, me going to give meself cookie.

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

The amount of behind the scenes work Mrs. McDermott does singlehandedly the day of a @HarpethHall orchestra concert is incredible. Brava!

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

Congrats @rfmtheatre for a fantastic closing night of their fall drama!

[Matthew Pyles @MatthewPyles]

Getting things ready for the middle school musical set! Many thanks to the @HarpethHall students for helping out when their peers were celebrating fall break!

[The On Being Project @onbeing]

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.” ~Derek Walcott
https://t.co/CEsPyyZYhr

[The On Being Project @onbeing]

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others.” ~Walt Whitman https://t.co/Xogj8R0ler

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

Found in book research, a line by Frederick Douglass:

“The present… is not an isolated speck of time… These are the harvest hours of history. The good or evil of the present, the wisdom or folly of present actions, [will] reproduce themselves a thousand fold in the future.”