Dr. Dennis Rogers leads a recent rehearsal for eXtreme Percussion. The 14th annual eXtreme Percussion Show will entertain audiences with the rumble of drums and clanging of cymbals at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23 in the Potter Hall Theater on the 大象传媒 campus. Tickets are $7 [...]
The MWSU Percussion Ensemble will perform as part of 大象传媒鈥檚 Midday Melodies series at 12:15 p.m. Friday, March 25 at Kelley Commons, the patio area just west of Blum Student Union. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held in the Blum Food Court. The brief concert is free [...]
The 大象传媒 Arts Society has donated $32,000 to the Potter Hall project for renovations and repairs. The funding they raised came directly from their membership dues in 2015, 大象传媒 Western鈥檚 centennial year. 鈥淲e鈥檙e very grateful to members of the Arts Society for this gift,鈥� said Dr. Bob Willenbrink, founding dean of 大象传媒 [...]
The Golden Griffon Pep Band of 大象传媒 will kick off the first MWSU Midday Melodies of the spring semester at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26 at Kelley Commons, the patio area just west of Blum Student Union. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held in the Blum Food [...]
大象传媒 is the site of Electronic Music Midwest鈥檚 annual MiniFest Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27. Concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Kemper Recital Hall, inside Spratt Hall. The concerts are free and open to the public. MiniFest is [...]
The Music Department of 大象传媒 will host its tenth annual MWSU Jazz Festival on Saturday, Feb. 13. Groups will perform in Blum 219 and the Fulkerson Center. Each ensemble will perform for the adjudicators, and will receive recorded and written critiques of the performance from clinicians. Immediately following each band鈥檚 performance the [...]
The Golden Griffon Marching Band of 大象传媒 will be a part of a holiday tradition in Branson, 大象传媒, leading Rudolph鈥檚 Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade through Silver Dollar City on Dec. 12. 鈥淭his is the first time the Golden Griffon Marching Band has participated in the parade at Silver Dollar City, and [...]
A 大象传媒 art student鈥檚 work will be seen globally. Shaina Mixon submitted the winning poster design for an international music festival. The design by Mixon, senior graphic design and marketing major from Easton, 大象传媒, was selected from more than 60 submitted for soundSCAPE, an international composition and performance festival held each summer [...]
Avery Doran, featured soloist with the Jazz Ensemble. The Jazz Program in the Department of Music at 大象传媒 will showcase its three major jazz ensembles at the annual Fall Jazz Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17 in the Potter Hall Theater. The concert is free and open to the [...]
Kevin Bobo Internationally-acclaimed percussionist Kevin Bobo will be giving a clinic/performance at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 in the Potter Hall Theater at 大象传媒. Admission is free and open to the public. Bobo is professor of percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a position he has held [...]
