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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
WNED Classical 94.5, the public radio station in Buffalo, will broadcast a recent performance of Leonard Bernstein's “Chichester Psalms,” conducted by Maestro JoAnn Falletta and featuring students from the Fredonia School of Music, on Tuesday, April 7 at 7 p.m. Fans of the Fredonia School of Music and the Buffalo Philharmonic are urged to tune in to the concert.
Major changes have been made to the learning environment during the last two weeks at Fredonia, beginning with faculty who spent most of their spring break transitioning their curriculum to digital platforms.
They were never seen on stage at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center, as more than two dozen undergraduate students were when the curtain rose on the Student Opera Theatre Association’s Opera Scenes in early March, but Fredonia alumni always had integral roles in the productions.
Allison DiMauro, a senior Music Education major from Long Island, has been awarded the Oasis Guitar Jury Prize, a $500 cash award that recognizes the guitar student who exhibits the greatest improvement over the course of a semester.
When Eimear Noone made history at the Oscars Sunday night, becoming the event's first female conductor, she used a baton made by Fredonia alumnus Phil Aguglia.
The Fredonia College Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. David Rudge, will present two of the great masterworks of the orchestral literature on Saturday, March 7 at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall.
A new opera featuring music written by three student composers at Fredonia will share the stage with performances of key scenes from three renowned operas at the Student Opera Theatre Association’s annual Opera Scenes production at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House during the first weekend of March.
Fr. Sean Duggan will celebrate the 335th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach by performing all six of the German composer’s groundbreaking keyboard Partitas on Thursday, March 5, at 8 p.m., in Rosch Recital Hall.
The Fredonia Wind Ensemble will be joined by the celebrated Raschèr Saxophone Quartet at a concert on Saturday, Feb. 29, 8 p.m., at King Concert Hall.
A “rare opportunity” to hear three song cycles by Austrian composer Franz Schubert on consecutive evenings will be presented by faculty members of the School of Music.