National Security, Unlocked: Mary Louise Kelly Hosts New NPR Podcast – TPR’s In Focus – Sep 23, 2025
John Rommereim is a musician who has pursued a varied career as a composer, conductor, keyboardist, and professor. He has written works for choir, solo voice, orchestra, string quartet, saxophone quartet, flute ensemble, guitar, organ, piano, and electronic media, as well as a chamber opera, and music for theatre and film. The New York Times praised the “richly expressive” character of his vocal writing.
John Rommereim is Blanche Johnson Professor of Music at Grinnell College, where he conducts the Grinnell Singers and the Grinnell Oratorio Society, and teaches composition.
For the new Trojan social media series, “Get Cart Jacked – Hop in with Hawkins,” Chancellor Jack Hawkins Jr. drives out onto the Troy campus grounds in a golf cart to ask students if they want to catch a ride to their classes.
And, Troy University Police Department (TUPD) headquarters are officially back on campus grounds after nearly five years!
Tim Phillips’s latest guest, Wonkak Kim, is the first Korean clarinetist to have performed Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto on basset clarinet in a nationally broadcasted concert with Seungnam Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea. Kim has played around the world and is currently an associate professor of clarinet at the University of Oregon.
On the newest podcast from Troy Public Radio, we’re diving into some of the most iconic scenes in theater history through the sounds that defined them. This is a preview of episode one of Sounds of the Stage, hosted by theater professor Quinton Cockerell and our own Joey Hudson.
Hear the full episode here: https://soundsofthestage.podbean.com/e/the-door-slam-heard-round-the-world-henrik-ibsens-a-dolls-house/
Although Troy is in the middle of its football season, the “Voice of the Trojans”, Barry McKnight, ventures down from his broadcast booth at Veterans Memorial Stadium to the second-floor office at the Vet of Dr. Teresa Johnson, an award-winning professor in the College of Allied Health (and its Nutrition Program Coordinator), a registered pediatric dietician, and a noted researcher. Dr. Johnson shares insights with Barry into the conclusions and wide-ranging applications of her renowned research into feeding tubes, on the latest Trojans Talk Research Podcast.
On this show, we listen to some of our favorite scenes from the theatre and celebrate the sounds that resonate with us long after we’ve left our seats.
In 1879, audiences found themselves utterly shocked at the premiere of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.”
In today’s scene, Troy University students Ellen Fox and Colton Suttles play Nora and Torvald Helmer.