{"id":3106,"date":"2022-03-09T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T00:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2022-03-09T18:40:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T00:40:39","slug":"bradley-music-department-has-a-new-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/2022\/03\/09\/bradley-music-department-has-a-new-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Music Department has a new Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0Bradley University has a new secretary of the music department this semester.\u00a0 Chrystopher Wilson was hired last September for the position.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>A Peoria native, Wilson has a background in music, attending school for vocal performance and doing choir and barbershop quartet in high school.\u00a0 He loves how music affects people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI have two kids, and from the minute they came out of the womb that\u2019s one of the first things that really you can tell that people understand and feel even before they can speak,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s its own language in the sense that you even have to come up with your own math, and your own way to notate it, and for people to figure it out and read it.\u00a0 It\u2019s in movies, it\u2019s in commercials, it\u2019s in everything that we do, and not many people know how to read music, so it\u2019s interesting in that way.\u00a0 I love music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Wilson has already made an impression on students and other Bradley staff members.\u00a0 David Lennie, a major head in the communications department, said he has had nothing but good dealings with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It can be daunting coming into a new position like this, but Lennie said that Wilson has done a really good job thus far.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cThat position does a lot of different things,\u201d he said. \u201cAny time you are dealing with creative people, like a group of creative people, it\u2019s sometimes like herding cats, so keeping a department like that organized and kind of on the rails is always impressive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Despite having a background in music, this will be Wilson\u2019s first time taking on a job that revolves around art.\u00a0 Before becoming the secretary for Bradley\u2019s music department, Wilson worked at a nursing home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For a while, Wilson took on many different jobs.\u00a0 \u201cI had a lot of cooking jobs, a lot of food service jobs,\u201d he said, \u201cbut a lot of them were, like, manager roles, so I ended up having to get on the floor and cook something myself.\u00a0 But this job I heard was available and I have a background in music and I figured \u2018Hey, I\u2019d give it a shot\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As for long term goals, Wilson said he is most interested in bringing the music department into the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>As of now Bradley\u2019s music center, Dingeldine, only has the capacity to accept cash and checks from visitors.\u00a0 \u201cRight now I\u2019m working on being where we accept credit cards and get a Square reader over there,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cI think we\u2019re one of the few places on campus where you have to buy with cash.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the main things right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>While working at Bradley, Wilson said he intends to also go back to school and balance both responsibilities at once.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>With spring break coming up, Wilson is halfway through his first semester here at Bradley.\u00a0 It seems this is a position he is very interested in being in the long haul for.<\/span><\/p>\n

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cmwilson@fsmail.bradley.edu<\/span><\/p>\n

dlennie@fsmail.bradley.edu<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0Bradley University has a new secretary of the music department this semester.\u00a0 Chrystopher Wilson was hired last September for the position. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Peoria native, Wilson has a background in music, attending school for vocal performance and doing choir and barbershop quartet in high school.\u00a0 He loves how music affects people. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI have two kids, and from the minute they came out of the womb that\u2019s one of the first things that really you can tell that people understand and feel even before they can speak,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s its own language in the sense that you even have to come up with your own math, and your own way to notate it, and for people to figure it out and read it.\u00a0 It\u2019s in movies, it\u2019s in commercials, it\u2019s in everything that we do, and not many people know how to read music, so it\u2019s interesting in that way.\u00a0 I love music.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wilson has already made an impression on students and other Bradley staff members.\u00a0 David Lennie, a major head in the communications department, said he has had nothing but good dealings with him. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It can be daunting coming into a new position like this, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,8],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-campus","category-talk","tag-bucom360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}