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Gustavus Summer Speech Institute Scheduled for July 24-30
As the Gustavus Adolphus College forensics team continues to assert itself as a top 10 program in the country, the success and popularity of the College’s Summer Speech Institute continues to grow. This year’s speech institute, running from July 24-30, will have a record number of participants (141) from eight different states, making it the second largest camp of its type in the country.
Gustavus Jazz Invited to Notre Dame Jazz Festival
The Gustavus Jazz Lab Band, under the direction of Steve Wright, has been invited to participate at the prestigious Notre Dame Jazz Festival in South Bend, Indiana, March 3-5. The Notre Dame Festival is the oldest collegiate jazz festival in the United States and each year bands across North America audition to perform. For the […]
Gustavus Winds of Christmas Concert Tuesday
The Winds of Christmas, an annual performance of the music of Christmas by the combined Gustavus and Vasa Wind Orchestras, will be presented at morning worship, 10:00 a.m., on Tuesday, December 7, in Christ Chapel. Admission is free to this celebration of the music of Christmas directed by Douglas Nimmo.
Anderson Theatre Stages August Strindberg’s The Stronger in Swedish and English
The Gustavus Adolphus College Department of Theatre & Dance presents Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s naturalistic drama in one scene, The Stronger. The play is produced as a part of this year’s Theatre Gallery, two plays performed and directed entirely by students. The Stronger, directed and translated by junior theatre and Scandinavian studies major Ethan Bjelland, […]
XXI Gustavus Honor Band Festival Concert Monday
Under the direction of Douglas Nimmo, the twenty-first Gustavus Honor Band Festival will be hosted on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus, November 7 & 8. The two-day concert band festival includes rehearsals, clinics, master classes and demonstrations with Gustavus faculty. The festival concludes with the 2010 Gustavus Honor Band and the Gustavus Wind Orchestra performing the Festival Concert at 7:00 p.m. in Christ Chapel. The Festival Concert is free and open to the publ
Sweet & Kapla Duo Piano Recital Sunday at Gustavus
Julie Sweet, pianist and accompanist at Gustavus Adolphus College, and Joseph Kapla, a collaborative pianist and instructor in the Twin Cities, join forces Sunday, October 3 for a Duo Piano Recital on the Jussi Björling stage at Gustavus. The performance includes The Hallejuah Junction by John Adams, the Sonata in F minor for 2 Pianos by Johnnes Brahms and Le carnaval des animeaux par Camille Saint-Saëns. The recital begins at 3:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Time to Soar: The Gustavus Dance Company in Concert
The Department of Theatre and Dance at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to present Time to Soar: The Gustavus Dance Company in Concert. This dance concert, directed by Michele Rusinko and Melissa Rolnick, features an exhilarating and diverse range of faculty, student and guest choreographed pieces. Performances will be held in Anderson Theatre May 14 and 15 at 8:00 p.m. and May 16 at 2:00 p.m.
Senior Exhibition Opens in Hillstrom Museum
The Hillstrom Museum of Art presents Atypical 9 to 5 Senior Exhibition 2010, on view from May 1 through May 30, 2010.
Gustavus Choir Conductor Philip Knautz, 1923–2010
Longtime Gustavus Adolphus College concert choir director and Professor Emeritus of Music Philip F. Knautz ’48—known to a generation of Gustavus student singers as “Mr. K”—died April 26 in Colby, Wis. He was 86.
If You Like Flutes and Woodwinds…..
Sunday, May 2, is a special day for the Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College and for anyone who likes woodwinds, especially flutes. The department has four concerts scheduled throughout the day. All will be presented in Bjorling Recital Hall and all are free and open to the public.