By Abdul Nauman<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Students taking private voice lessons with Dr. Sherri Weiler returned to the American University of Sharjah campus on May 8 to perform and record their final exams in front of a live jury. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Performing students stood on the stage and sang their songs while Dr. Jelena Dukic accompanied them on piano. The remaining voice students sat in the audience and watched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides Weiler, the jury included Performing Arts Program faculty member Dr. Albert Agha. The two sat in the audience seats and judged the singers’ performances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
First-time solo singer Reema Al-Nabulsi said the experience of singing live on stage was strange, given that no student had been on that stage in over a year; however she said that it was something she had missed seeing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students dressed professionally and were asked to present the pieces as if there was a live audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vignesh Kizhepat said that returning to campus felt overwhelming since he was returning to campus after over a year. He said he felt nervous performing in front of a jury since it had been so long since he sang for a live audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of the voice students began the day by singing Caro Mio Ben<\/em>, the first piece given to all new students on Weiler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Weiler said that all members of the jury and all the performing students strictly adhered to the COVID-19 safety protocols by always keeping their masks on and social distancing. The only exception was the performing student, who was allowed to remove their mask while singing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Abdul Nauman UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Students taking private voice lessons with Dr. Sherri Weiler returned to the American University of Sharjah campus on May 8 to perform and record their final exams in front of a live jury. Performing students stood on the stage and sang their songs while Dr. Jelena Dukic accompanied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22,33,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-1857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-aus","10":"tag-cas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}