{"id":307,"date":"2011-02-24T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/?p=307"},"modified":"2012-03-02T14:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:20:57","slug":"the-doctor-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/2011\/02\/24\/the-doctor-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor Is In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katherine Goins Frewen \u201901, DMA<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"In West Hartford. Connecticut, Katherine Goins Frewen \u201901 has taken her 10 years of post-graduate musical education and college-level teaching experience into a public school serving city-living teenagers.<\/p>\n

\u201cKatie\u201d earned a doctor of musical arts (music education) at the University of Texas at Austin and a master\u2019s in music performance (piano) at the University of Ohio. She traces her journey to music teaching to the early 1990s, when she heard the touring choir of Eastern Mennonite High School (EMHS), directed by Jay Hartzler, perform at Zion Mennonite Church in Broadway, 10 miles north of EMU.<\/p>\n

Katie was enrolled in public school. \u201cI turned to my mom and said, \u2018I want to go there,\u2019\u201d Frewen recalls. Her family was a newcomer to the Mennonite tradition. From singing at EMHS, Frewen progressed to organ, piano, and voice instruction at EMU. She became the piano rehearsal accompanist for the Shenandoah Valley Children\u2019s Choir and sang with the Chamber Singers.<\/p>\n

In 2009, three years after completing her doctorate, Katie married Thomas Frewen, an Irish man she met while teaching at The New School for Music Study, a piano preparatory program in Princeton, New Jersey. Thomas was doing post-doctoral research in chemical engineering at Princeton University. She liked the fact that Thomas was an observant Catholic. She has joined him in attending mass regularly in West Hartford. She stresses that she is not abandoning her Mennonite upbringing, but enlarging on it.<\/p>\n

Katie says she loves her work\u2014and based on a visit by Crossroads staff to her classroom of beginning music students\u2014she is an inspiring teacher. Katie says she draws upon the model provided by Kenneth J. Nafziger and other professors of visualizing the final product one wishes to shape and then setting up sequential steps to get students to arrive at the desired completion point. \u201cEven masterful musicians need training to become excellent teachers,\u201d she says. \u201cYou have to know how to break down what you are trying to achieve, how to start at the beginning, and how to lead your students through the process, putting it all together at the end. Ken showed me how you can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Katie did not visualize herself in a middle school classroom when she was performing difficult piano pieces as a graduate student, but she has learned that it pays to be multi-talented when one is trying to earn a living through music. \u201cEarning a living as a concert pianist is incredibly difficult. The performing musicians I know supplement their income by teaching privately and performing or accompanying in lots of settings\u2014churches, schools, marriages, funerals, entertainment spots. They have to be flexible, and they have to be willing to work nights, and weekends, and to travel to gigs. I am really happy to be in a situation [as a salaried schoolteacher] where I have regular hours, appropriate compensation, supportive administrators, and nice colleagues.\u201d Katie and Thomas are expecting their first child in March 2011, another reason for Katie to be pleased with having a sane work situation this year.<\/p>\n

Katie\u2019s two siblings are also EMU alumni, with terminal degrees. Matthew Goins \u201900<\/strong> is an anesthesiologist at one of Harvard\u2019s teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. And Joanna Goins Myers \u201904<\/strong> earned a law degree at George Washington University and is a tax attorney at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP in Washington DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katherine Goins Frewen \u201901, DMA In West Hartford. Connecticut, Katherine Goins Frewen \u201901 has taken her 10 years of post-graduate musical education and college-level teaching experience into a public school serving city-living teenagers. \u201cKatie\u201d earned a doctor of musical arts (music education) at the University of Texas at Austin and a master\u2019s in music performance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[109,148],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallwinter-2010-11","category-magazine","tag-katherine-goins-frewen","tag-music","issues-fallwinter-2010-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/crossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}