Dr. Alyson McLamore won the Distinguished Teacher Award in 2002, as Musicology professor and teacher at Cal Poly. Besides music history and music education courses, she teaches classes in musical theater, film music and women composers, and she helps direct the Tournament of Roses Honor Band in Pasadena. She has published Musical Theater: An Appreciation (Prentice Hall) and essays in the Research Chronicle, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Music Observed, and Musica Franca. She writes program notes and gives pre-concert talks for the San Luis Obispo Symphony, Cal Poly Arts, Cuesta Master Chorale and Festival Mozaic.