The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra presents a free Fall Music Recital on Friday, October 18, at 7:00 pm at Portage Lake United Church. This recital’s theme—The Four Seasons—invites beautiful and compelling vocal and instrumental music, including performances by woodwind quintet, guitar solo, vocal solo, viola quintet, and flute solo.
There is no ticket price for the recital, but a $5 donation toward the KSO and PLUC is accepted at the door. There a nice reception after the performance.
Jumbotron replaces Pep Band’s role in hockey
One of the main changes is the replacement of the pep band’s part in our Team’s entrance and introduction with prerecorded music.
Read more at the Michigan Tech Lode, by Zach Evans.
Get involved for the 2013-14 school year with music ensembles, private lessons, or a music minor.
Music at Michigan Tech 2013-14
No audition is required for Huskies Pep Band. To join, come to the Fall Band Camp during orientation week (Friday, August 30 from 4:30-8:30 pm).
• Jazz
• Band
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• Choir
• Chamber Ensembles
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• Need an Instrument?
• Instrument Lockers
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• Music Minors
Michigan Tech has launched a new virtual tour of campus and the local area. The Walker Arts and Humanities Center is included among the virtual walking tours. There are interactive panoramas of McArdle Theatre and the Rozsa Center for Performing Arts as well.
Northwest Michigan Chapter in Cherry Royale Parade
On Saturday, July 6, alumni and friends from the Northwest Michigan Alumni Chapter were joined by students from Advance Motor Sports, Concrete Canoe, the Michigan Tech Pep Band and Blizzard T. Husky and shared their Michigan Tech spirit in the Cherry Royale Parade in Traverse City.
Read more at TechAlum Newsletter, Alumni Around the World.
Visit the Northwest Michigan Chapter – Michigan Tech Alumni Association on Facebook.
See photos of the 2013 Cherry Royale Parade on Facebook.
Over the years, the Rozsa Center has become known for the funny, dramatic or thoughtful performances, plays and musicals it puts on during its yearly season and the programming scheduled for its 2013-14 season will be no different.
“I’m always excited about all the seasons, but in particular I’m really excited about this coming season,” Rozsa Center Director Susanna Brent said. “We’re doing a lot of theater that’s close to my heart.”
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Scott Viau.
The Huskies Pep Band marched in the parade on Friday, June 21, for Bridgefest and FinnFest 2013.
Read more at Past-E-Mail.
Upper Peninsula Marketing Department, Inc., has shared images of the parade on Facebook.
The Huskies Pep Band is a Michigan Tech point of pride and one of the most lauded pep bands in the Midwest. Members enjoy an active schedule, performing at concerts, athletic events, parades, and special events. Open to all with band experience.
Contact Mike Christianson or visit the DAWGS page to learn more. Get involved with music in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
The former area of Yugoslavia conjures up images of war and civil unrest for many people, but for some members of the Michigan Tech Concert Choir, the Eastern European region is where many great memories were recently made.
“It was a lot of preparation, a lot of logistical and administrative kinds of things we had to prepare for, but the tour was very successful from beginning to end,” said Jared Anderson, third-year director of the choir. “… There were remnants of communism in some ways, but you could also see some countries really flourishing.”
The choir, previously under the leadership of Milton Olsson, has taken trips to Mexico City, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Brazil and China, and Anderson said the group will likely travel again in three to four years.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Stephen Anderson.
The Michigan Tech Concert Choir is currently touring the Dalmation Coast.
Watch a video of the Concert Choir in Bosnia. (Video courtesy of Debra Bruch.)
T.V. coverage of Monday’s choir concert (MICHIGAN TECH CONCERT CHOIR – KONCERT U SABORNOM HRAMU U TREBINJU 13. MAJA 2013.) includes a playlist of choral segments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJvkC7IRTQ4&list=PLv_lK26dTMP5ZRcxdjnt7Q-9K94RLUGbQ
2012-13 Concert Season finishes with “Springtime Voices”
The first half of the concert will feature the Chamber Choir, “conScience,” a 12-member, student-only, auditioned ensemble, and focuses on what director Jared Anderson calls “Aspects of Imagination.”
The chamber choir’s selections will include the six chansons of Paul Hindemith, “staples of the chamber choir repertoire,” according to Anderson.
The second part of the concert will feature the Concert Choir, an 85-member group split about equally between students and community members, and will feature “a real eclectic mix” of songs. The first set is a “mystical kind of set,” including “Lion of the Heart,” another setting of a Rumi text composed by J. David Moore, as well as a piece called “Past Life Melodies” by Australian composer Sarah Hawkins.
Read more at the Michigan Tech Lode, by Nick Blecha.
Welcome Spring with “Springtime Voices” at the Rozsa!
According to Jared Anderson, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities at Michigan Tech, “…the concert will include both sacred and secular music from peoples and places around the globe–with a mix of traditional classical standards to more contemporary music for the stage and concert hall.”
From Tech Today.