The Stetson University Symphonic Band, conducted by Bobby Adams, veteran music professor and director of bands in Stetson’s School of Music since 1987, will perform Friday, Feb. 10. The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, located at 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. The concert will also feature Stetson […]
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Stetson University will present the “Sounds New” Faculty Composers Recital, featuring three Stetson professors using innovative non-music objects to create original sounds. This recital will be held on Friday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd, DeLand. It will feature Stetson Music Professors Sydney Hodkinson, Manuel de Murga […]
Continue ReadingThe international women’s music fraternity, Eta Pi, and the Volusia County Alumnae Chapter (VCAC) of Sigma Alpha Iota, will present a benefit concert at Stetson University on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 3 p.m. in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. This event is open to the public with a suggested $10 donation. […]
Continue ReadingPhoto essayist Brendan Bannon will visit Stetson University on Monday, Feb. 6, to give a presentation about his photographs documenting the plight of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bannon’s presentation will be at 7 p.m. in the duPont-Ball Library, lower level, Room 25, accessed from the Nemec Courtyard on the north side of the library, […]
Continue ReadingViolinist Routa Kroumovitch and pianist Michael Rickman, both critically acclaimed professors in the Stetson University School of Music, will give a Faculty Recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, in Lee Chapel of Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. The concert will include works by Mozart, Gabriel Fauré, Beethoven and the Concert Fantasy on […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s School of Music and Office of Career Development will present Daytime Emmy Award winner Wesley Whatley in a special lecture Monday, Feb. 6, 3:30-5:30 p.m. The presentation, “If You Can Make It There: The Business of Making It in the Big Apple,” will take place in Presser Hall, Room 132, 419 N. Woodland Blvd., […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Gender Studies Program will present “Untold Stories: A Closer Look,” a performance by Emotions Dance Company, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The performance will be held in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, and is free and open to the public. Untold Stories originally premiered in […]
Continue ReadingJ.S. Bach will do battle with Michael Jackson in a spirited concert featuring the Stetson University Cello Choir in concert Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. “Cellobration” will be held in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Stetson cello professor David Bjella will lead 12 cellists in a variety of compositions, […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s School of Music will present internationally renowned classical guitarist Stephen Robinson in concert on Friday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m. Robinson will collaborate with a remarkable group of Stetson colleagues in performances of unusual combinations of instruments with guitar. Joining Robinson will be Routa Kroumovitch (violin), David Bjella (cello), Michael Rickman (piano), Lloyd […]
Continue ReadingStetson University will present ZAWA, a flute duo guest recital, on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 7:30 p.m., in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. ZAWA is a renowned flute duo comprised of guest flutists, Jill Felber and Claudia Anderson, who have performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Brazil. ZAWA was […]
Continue ReadingThe Stetson University family welcomed the newest member into the fold on Friday night when John B., the new Athletics mascot, made his debut at the Edmunds Center. Shrouded in smoke, John B. made his first public appearance at halftime of the Hatters’ Atlantic Sun Conference basketball game against Florida Gulf Coast. With sirens blaring […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Art Department will open its spring season Friday, Jan. 27, with three major exhibitions – Concentrated Color: Watercolors by Oscar Bluemner from the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection; Judith Page: The Politics of the Personal; and Teapots from the Collection of Arthur Goldberg. The opening reception will be 6-8 p.m. Jan.27, in the Homer and Dolly Hand […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s Gillespie Museum will present “For the Love of Rocks and Minerals” on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Participants will have the opportunity to tour Stetson’s Earth Science Museum and join a beading workshop or hand-craft natural gifts in time for Valentine’s […]
Continue ReadingThe Stetson University School of Music will present Songs of Perfect Propriety by Seymour Barab, featuring Stetson piano professor, Dr. Kristie Born, and guest soprano soloist Amy E. Wheeler, on Tuesday, Jan. 24. Born describes this recital as a cabaret show hybrid, which will highlight words by Dorothy Parker, from Parker’s writings and poems, interspersed among the […]
Continue ReadingStetson University offers a full array of cultural opportunities open to the public, including concerts and operas by the School of Music, art exhibitions in the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, plays at Stover Theatre, collections and exhibitions at the Gillespie Museum of Minerals and many public lectures. Some programs are free, while others have […]
Continue ReadingStetson University’s School of Music has successfully completed a comprehensive accreditation review by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) Commission on Accreditation, according to NASM Executive Director Samuel Hope, whose letter accompanied the commission’s report. The Commission Action Report, received by Dr. Jean West, dean of the School of Music, included the following […]
Continue ReadingAt the recent Stetson University 1883 Society dinner, the 200 donors in attendance gathered after dinner in historic Elizabeth Hall for the unveiling of a sculpture titled “Shalom,” mounted near the entrance to Lee Chapel. “Shalom” is the latest wood sculpture that Stetson Trustee Emeritus Mark C. Hollis, a 1956 Stetson alumnus and resident of […]
Continue ReadingDr. Timothy Peter, professor of music at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, will become Stetson University’s new director of choral activities and professor of music, effective August 2012. “Dr. Peter brings dynamic leadership, artistry and magnetism to our vibrant School of Music, whose choral tradition and strengths are highly regarded nationwide,” said Dr. Jean O. West, […]
Continue ReadingFifteen Stetson students received awards at the opening reception for Stetson University’s 22nd Juried Student Art Exhibition on Nov. 11. The award winning works of art (59 pieces) are currently being displayed at the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center now through Dec. 9. The Hand Art Center is located on the University’s Palm Court/Quad, […]
Continue ReadingThe Stetson University School of Music and the Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA) will present the 22nd annual FBA Hall of Fame Weekend at Stetson on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 12 and 13. Honorees to be inducted this year into the Hall of Fame are Kenneth R. Tolbert, director of the Miami Central Band that was […]
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