Category: Music

Fundraising event for the SIUE Wind Symphony at Neruda restaurant

Fundraising event for the SIUE Wind Symphony at Neruda restaurant

[ January 19, 2011; 12:00 am to 11:00 pm. ] The SIUE Wind Symphony has been selected as the ONLY American university ensemble to perform for the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Chiayi City, Taiwan in July. Neruda, here in Edwardsville, is donating 15% of all its proceeds on the evening of January 19, 2011 to the SIUE Band Fund to assist with the trip […]

Jazz convocation in Dunham pt. 3

Jazz convocation in Dunham pt. 3

The following selections are Cry Me A River by Arthur Hamilton, Paper Moon by Harold Arlen, and I’m Beginning to See the Light by Duke Ellington performed by the SIUE Jazz Vocal Ensemble at the Nov. 12 Convocation in the Choral Room of SIUE’s Dunham Hall.

Strangers in a strange land

Strangers in a strange land

Thousands of miles away from home is not how any student wants to spend the holidays. Yet, across the nation, international students are often left in the United States. They usually cannot afford to travel home to see their families. Mehrdad Shadmehr, a graduate student in the chemistry program from Iran, originally felt […]

Suzuki kids pull off massive concert

Suzuki kids pull off massive concert

Nearly 250 children showed off their skills at reading music and playing their stringed instruments in early December at the annual Suzuki concert. Parents of the Suzuki method students packed SIUE’s Dunham Hall—the payoff for regularly trucking their child to the University for individual evening lessons and weekly group lessons throughout the semester.
The SIUE Suzuki […]

Jazz convocation in Dunham pt. 2

Jazz convocation in Dunham pt. 2

The following videos are of I Surrender by Tony Rizzi, performed by the SIUE Jazz Guitar Ensemble at the Nov. 12 Convocation in the Choral Room of SIUE’s Dunham Hall. That is followed by Good Morning Heartache by Fisher, Higginbotham and Drake performed by the University’s Jazz Vocal Ensemble, with soloist Nicole Jonas and […]

Häxan with live music in the MUC

Häxan with live music in the MUC

Silent films were never really silent. There was always a musical score to accompany the imagery playing out on the screen. Interpreting the film through musical composition is the unspoken half of the artistry of film from a bygone era, and it is an art that one SIUE music major brought to the Morris University […]

Jazz Convocation in Dunham pt. 1

Jazz Convocation in Dunham pt. 1

“Rose’s Loom” by Tony Rizzi followed by “In a Mist” by Bix Beiderbecke performed by the Jazz Guitar Ensemble at the Nov. 12 convocation in the Choral Room of Dunham Hall, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

SIUE Percussion Ensemble debuts with Smithiger at the helm

SIUE Percussion Ensemble debuts with Smithiger at the helm

The SIUE Percussion Ensemble debuted, with its new director Daniel Smithiger, at the Percussion Ensemble Concert on November 17 in Dunham Hall Theater.
SIUE's Percussion Ensemble debuted with its new director, Daniel Smithiger, on November 17 in Dunham Hall Theater.
The ensemble consists of 15 SIUE students who represent a variety of academic disciplines.
“The ensemble itself is a […]

Thomas Combo tap out tunes

Thomas Combo tap out tunes

Music students attend a weekly convocation to hone their skills in front of an audience. The convocation is held most Fridays at 2 p.m. in the John C. Abbott Auditorium, on the lower level of Lovejoy Library. The mini-concerts are free and open to the public. Below are three selections from The Reggie Thomas Combo.

Dean Romero donates personal collection of 50,000 documents

Dean Romero donates personal collection of 50,000 documents

Aldemaro Romero, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SIUE, donated his personal collection to Lovejoy Library at SIUE on Friday.
Kyle Moore, director of development at Lovejoy Library, gave an introduction. Moore gave a short biography of Romero’s academic career. Moore also gave a synopsis of the collection that Romero had donated.
“Throughout his career, […]

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