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Fine Arts at Marietta College
The Art Department at Marietta College provides opportunities for the study and creating of artwork for all students, regardless of their major or field of interest. Marietta College students study and work with an easily accessible Art and Graphic Design faculty who are actively involved in their field as professional and exhibiting fine artists, working commercial artists and business owners. Whether you intend to major in Studio Art or Graphic Design, or simply wish for an awareness and ability of the visual arts to be an important part of your collegiate years, the department has opportunities for you.
From large scale choral performances to small instrumental ensembles, from individual lessons to classroom learning, improving one's personal musicianship and sharing artistic expression are central to our music program.
The music department welcomes the participation of all interested students in its ensemble programs, private lessons, and music courses, regardless of major. At the same time, Marietta music majors are assured a thorough preparation for graduate school and for future careers within the profession. 
The department offers BA and BFA degrees in theatre, a BFA in Musical Theatre, and a minor in theatre. We encourage students to participate actively in their education by undertaking independent studies and small group projects that meet their educational needs. At Marietta, classes are small and contact with faculty is intensive both inside and outside the classroom. We like to think that the theatre is our classroom and that every minute of every day is an opportunity to learn more. Ticket Prices Mainstage Play -- $8.00 adults, $7.00 seniors, $6.00 students Marietta College students and employees are admitted free to all performances To reserve tickets call 740-376-4678 Fine Arts News
24-Hour Play Festival: Calling all writers, actors, directors and theatre technicians The Theatre Department proudly announces the third annual 24-Hour Play Festival Jan. 16-17. During this event, new plays are written in 12 hours by Marietta students and then directed and rehearsed by students for 12 hours culminating in a one-time-only performance. How can you get involved? Playwrights: Students who have successfully completed the Scriptwriting course (by the end of this semester) can sign up. All other interested students should submit a typed five-page script sample (any style/genre) to Steve Rader or Jeff Cordell via e-mail by 5 p.m., Friday, Dec. 12 (Friday of finals week). Because this submission deadline is after the first meeting, decisions about the final slate of playwrights for the festival will be delayed. We welcome all interested creative writers. We need at least four playwrights. Actors: All students who have successfully completed Acting I can sign up. We need at least 12 actors. Directors: Students who have successfully completed Intermediate Directing (THEA 304) can sign up. We need at least four directors. Technicians: Students who have completed Play Production Stagecraft (THEA 103) and it would be good to have either completed or currently be enrolled in Play Production Lighting (THEA 107) or Costuming (THEA 109). We need a minimum of three Technicians — one to serve as stage manager and at least two to serve as lighting/sound/props/costume crew during rehearsals and the performance. Students interested in these positions must be able to meet for a general organizational/informational meeting from 5-6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 7, in Studio 101. They should also have the evening of Friday, Jan. 16 (first Friday of classes after we return from break) and the ENTIRE day and evening on Saturday, Jan. 17 free of all conflicts. If you meet any of these qualifications, then you should SIGN UP for one (or more!) of these positions on the call board on the second floor of Hermann Fine Arts Center (outside of the costume studio). Sign ups CLOSE at noon on Sunday, Dec. 7 (this coming Sunday). Please do sign up for all positions you qualify for that you are interested in. Full schedule and more information is available on the Call Board or by contacting Professor Jeff Cordell at ext. 4691 or jeff.cordell@marietta.edu. Check it out. Get involved. And thanks for your interest and support.
Music Ensembles and Pre-Professional Organizations sponsor Food Drive With the holiday season upon us, the difficulties and needs of families in the Marietta community become very apparent. With that in mind, the instrumental and choral ensembles of the Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music, the Collegiate Music Educator National Conference (CMENC) and Mu Beta Psi National Honorary Music Fraternity are sponsoring a food drive to help the Marietta Food Pantry. Donation boxes will be present in the lobby of Hermann Fine Arts Center beginning Monday, Dec. 1 and will remain there through Saturday, Dec. 6. Donation boxes will also be present in the lobby as you enter Fenton Court on the night of the Music Department Holiday Concert. Members of the college campus, students, staff, faculty and community members are encouraged to assist with this drive. Simply come by Hermann Fine Arts Center during the first week of December and drop off your donations. Donations can be easily made when attending the Music Department Holiday Concert at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5 at Fenton Court. As attendees enter Ban Johnson Field House donation drop-off boxes will be located in the lobby to accept all donations of non-perishable food items. Persons attending the Merry Tuba Christmas performance at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6 in the lobby of Hermann Fine Arts Center will also find donation drop-off boxes present for convenience. Please help our community by making a donation, no matter how large or small. Everything will help someone in need.
Five Groups Featured in Annual Holiday Concert: 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5 The Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music is pleased to announce their annual Holiday Concert on Friday, Dec. 5, at Fenton Court. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and admission is free. A free-will offering will be taken. The concert features performances by five of the college’s 15 instrumental and vocal ensembles including the Women’s Choir, Men’s Ensemble and Concert Choir under the direction of Dr. Daniel Monek and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Marshall Kimball. An annual treat for campus and community members alike, the concert will feature a variety of music for the holiday season and will conclude with combined performance by all of the groups. An addition to this year’s concert will be an audience sing along of familiar carols of the season. The ensembles of the Music Department, CMENC and Mu Beta Psi are conducting a food drive for the Marietta Food Pantry. Members of the audience are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the concert for the food drive. Food donations can be dropped in the large boxes that will be provided in the lobby entering Fenton Court. These donations will be taken to the Marietta Food Pantry to assist those in need during this holiday season. Ensemble Information The Men’s Ensemble is a non auditioned choir of more than 20 singers devoted to performing both new and traditional literature for men’s voices. The Concert Choir is one of five choral ensembles at Marietta College and one of the college’s oldest organizations. This auditioned group of 45 singers is composed entirely of members of the student body representing every academic division and nearly every major at Marietta College. As ambassadors of the college, the choir performs annually throughout the continental U.S. In 2006, the choir became the first American college or university choir to perform for the Chinese Choral Directors Seminar held at Beijing Conservatory in the People’s Republic of China and in 2002 was honored with invitations to perform in both St Mark’s Cathedral in Venice and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome during their tour of Italy. The choir is currently scheduled to tour Brazil in 2009. They toured the Southeastern U.S. in 2008. In 2005 the choir released its first compact disc recording, When in the Presence of Music and will release its second recording, The Way of Memories in the near future. Under Monek’s direction, the ensemble has received consistent praise for the quality and expression of its performances. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble, comprised of approximately 75 members, is the college’s premier instrumental ensemble and provides students and community members with the opportunity to rehearse and perform high quality wind and percussion repertoire. The Jazz Ensemble is Marietta College’s newest music ensemble and provides students and opportunity to perform jazz, rock, and swung literature. For further information, please contact the department of music at (740) 376-4696.
College celebrates 82nd year of performing Handel’s Messiah: 7 p.m. Dec. 7 The Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music is pleased to announce its 82nd year of performing Handel’s Messiah. This year's performance is at 7 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 7, at Marietta High School. Since 1926, the same year that saw the start of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, members of the community have joined with Marietta College faculty, staff and students to present Handel’s Messiah. As we continue this Mid-Ohio Valley tradition the music department is preparing to present its 155th performance. The concert is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken. This annual event organized and sponsored by Marietta College’s Department of Music involves professional orchestra and four professional soloists and one student soloist under the direction of Dr. Daniel Monek, Associate Professor of Music. Conductor He has served as the music director of several churches, as Secretary/Treasurer for the Florida Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, as Chairman of Scotland for the association of the British Choral Directors, on the board of the Central Division of the American Choral Directors Association as the editor-in-chief of the division’s newsletter and as the conference coordinator for the Ohio Choral Directors Association. He currently serves as the President of the Ohio Association of Music Schools. Soloists Active as a professional choral singer, Anderson has performed with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, the Carnegie Hall (N.Y.) Choral Workshop, and the Heritage Chamber Singers of Greenville, S.C., as well as Cantari Singers and Opera Columbus, both in Columbus, Ohio. His solo engagements have included the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Community Singers, the Augusta (Ga.) Choral Society and the Greenville (S.C.) Chorale. He has sung professionally in various choruses under such noted conductors as Robert Shaw, Charles Dutoit, Neville Marriner, Norman Luboff, James Conlon, Alice Parker and Robert Page. A specialist in Schenkerian analytic theory, Anderson has also taught music theory, analysis and counterpoint at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., Furman University in Greenville, S.C., and Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Ray Bauwens, tenor, is well known to audiences in the New England area. His musicianship, acting and vocal skills have drawn praise from audiences and critics alike. Some of Bauwens’ recent performances have included such roles as Jean in Massenet’s Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Cavaradssi in Tosca, Ezno in La Gioconda, and Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusicana. He is equally at home in oratorio and concert works as his performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Verdi’s Requiem and Benjamin Briten’s War Requiem among others. Bauwens also traveled to Kiev in order to record Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, which has been released by Naxos Records. Jean Couchie Burnquist, soprano, received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Mount Union College and holds an Master of Music in Sacred Music Performance and Vocal Pedagogy from The Ohio State University. Burnquist is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs. For further information, please contact the department of music at (740) 376-4696.
Marietta Bands presenting Merry Tuba Christmas: Dec. 6 The Edward E. MacTaggart Department of Music of Marietta College will host Merry Tuba Christmas on Saturday, Dec. 6 in the Hermann Fine Arts Center. This event will begin with registration on the second floor of Hermann Fine Arts Center from 1-1:30 p.m. The ensemble will rehearse from 1-3:30 p.m. at Hermann and will perform a free public concert beginning at 4 p.m. in the lobby of Hermann. Area tuba, baritone and euphonium players are invited to participate in this event and the public is invited to the free concert. Merry Tuba Christmas is celebrating its 35th Anniversary (1974-2008). Created by Harvey Phillips, Merry Tuba Christmas “2008” concerts will be presented in more than 200 cities throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. Phillips was inspired to create Merry Tuba Christmas as an annual event honoring his teacher, the late great tubist, William J. Bell (born Christmas Day, 1902). Every Christmas season, tuba and euphonium players of all ages, from specific geographic areas, gather to pay respect-through William J. Bell-to all the great artists/teachers who represent their heritage. Every Merry Tuba Christmas performance features traditional Christmas carols specially arranged for the first Merry Tuba Christmas (Dec. 22, 1974, in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza) by American composer Alec Wilder (died Christmas Eve, 1980). Through Wilder, Merry Tuba Christmas concerts pay grateful tribute to composers who have embraced these noble instruments with solo and ensemble compositions. Depending on the population of any given geographic area, Merry Tuba Christmas ensembles may attract hundreds of participants aged 8-95 years. The warm and rich, organ-like sound of this low brass choir has wondered the ears and hearts of every audience. It is no wonder that Tuba Christmas has become an established Christmas tradition in cities through the world. For more information on this event, contact Prof. Marshall C. Kimball, Director of Bands and Instrumental Activities at Marietta College, (740) 376-4686.
Art Students Needed: AICUO Art Awards Design Competition Submissions for the annual Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio (AICUO) Art Awards Design Competition is Jan. 12. Submit entries via email to agladman@aicuo.edu with the subject "Design Competition" or via mail to: AICUO, c/o Afton Gladman, Art Awards Coordinator, 41 S. High St., Suite 2720, Columbus OH 43215. Anyone interested must submit three designs that will be judged in the following categories: The AICUO Grand Award, The Finalists' Award and The People's Choice Award. If your designs are chosen, a professional artist will create your design, your signature will be on the awards along with the professional artist's, and credit will be given in the awards reception program in April. For more information: (614) 228-2196.
Hermann Fine Arts T-Shirt sale Marietta College's chapter of the Collegiate Music Educators National Conference is selling Hermann Fine Arts T-Shirts. The maroon colored T-shirts feature a “Hermann Crab” with the saying “I’m a Hermann Crab.” T-shirts are $10 for sizes small through extra large, and $12 for XXL and XXXL. Orders will be taken through Friday, Dec. 5. Shirts will be delivered at the beginning of second semester. All orders must be pre-paid with checks made out to: Marietta College CMENC. You can see the full design on posters in Hermann Fine Arts Center. To place an order see any member of the CMENC group or Professor Marshall Kimball in Room 209 of Hermann Fine Arts Center.
10th Annual London Spring Break: March 6-16 London Spring Break 2009 will provide Marietta College students, faculty, staff and community with an opportunity to explore the museums, buildings and streets of London, the city at the heart of the Anglo-American cultural heritage. In addition, participants will see a wide variety of theatre productions in the theatre capital of the world. For 10 days and nine nights, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar and Leicester Squares will be your home.Cost: $2200 for members of the Marietta College community; $2300 for members of the general community. Dates: March 6-16 Included: (1) Meals other than breakfast (2) Casual spending (3) Taxi fares For further information and a full brochure describing the trip, contact Steve Rader at 740-376-4682 (office) or at raders@marietta.edu.
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