New music chairman at VCU

John Guthmiller, who has been chairman of the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Music, has vacated the chair to become Interim Associate Dean of Student and Program Development of the VCU School of the Arts. Guthmiller will continue to direct the Commonwealth Singers.

Darryl Harper, who has been an assistant professor specializing in jazz history at VCU and has served in admissions and arts-administration posts, will be interim chairman of the music department. He will continue to teach.