The Hesston College Music Department has announced membership for the 2013-14 Bel Canto Singers. Members are selected by competitive audition. Incoming first-year students named to the ensemble are Rachelle Adrian, Mountain Lake, Minn.; Mary Bender, Harrisonburg, Va.; Spencer Berning, Newton, Kan.; Keilah Brokaw, Kalona, Iowa; Davis Cook, Goessel, Kan.; Galed Krisjayanta, Surakarta, Indonesia; Havela Lehman, […]
The Hesston College Music Department will close out another successful year of music with three student recitals. The recitals are free and open to the public. Deni Brummer, Hutchinson, Kan., will perform a voice recital at 7 p.m., Friday, April 26 at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. Brummer, a soprano, studies under […]
The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers will celebrate 30 years of making music with a May tour to the east coast May 6 to 16, highlighted by a four-day New York City excursion. While in New York, the choir will participate in a Carnegie Hall performance and perform solo concerts at Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship and […]
The Hesston College Music Department will feature several students in sophomore recitals as the academic year approaches its close. Ashley Beatty and Alisa Murray will perform a joint violin and voice recital at 4 p.m., Saturday, April 13, in the Northlawn Studio Theatre on the Hesston College campus. Vocalist Broxton Busenitz will perform his recital […]
The refined vocal excellence of Calmus, a German a cappella ensemble, will round out the 2012-13 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts season with a concert entitled “Bright Side of Life” at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 14, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. Following the concert, HBPA will host a dessert reception in the Hesston […]
Hesston College and the Hutchinson Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will sponsor an Easter Hymn Festival at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 4, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. The program is free and open to the public. The program will feature music for the Easter season by organist Ken Rodgers, […]
Hesston College violinist Michaela Zook will perform a recital at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 23, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. The public is invited to attend. Zook, a violinist from Hesston, Kan., studies under adjunct violin instructor Nancy Johnson. She is the daughter of Kevin and Marcella Zook of Hesston. Accompanied […]
An increasing number of college students are not only learning that a transfer process is nothing to be feared, they are recognizing the benefits of starting one place and going another. Some college students fear transfer horror stories and worst-case scenarios like losing course credits, having to re-take classes and needing extra semesters to finish […]
The Hesston College Chorale will present a spring break bon voyage concert at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 5 at Hesston Mennonite Church. The concert is free and open to the public though a free-will offering will be collected to cover program costs. The program of sacred choral music celebrates the Lenten season and is a […]
What the “Kansas City Star” called “a heady rush of tapping heels, dazzling costumes and insistent rhythms” comes to Bethel College’s Memorial Hall stage Feb. 23. The fourth event in the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series for 2012-13 brings the Ballet Folklorico “Quetzalli” de Veracruz to south central Kansas to share indigenous and other traditional Mexican […]
For a singer, few things compare to hearing the reverberation of a choir ring through vaulted cathedral ceilings. But in Kansas, cathedrals are hard to come by. The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers and the Goessel High School Elbiata Singers managed to find one of the few scattered on the Kansas prairie – St. Fidelis […]
The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers and the Goessel High School Elbiata Singers will collaborate to present a concert at St. Fidelis Church: The Cathedral of the Plains in Victoria, Kan., at 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. The concert is free and open to the public, though a free-will offering will be collected to cover […]
David Adam Moore, one of the world’s most sought-after operatic baritones, will perform a multi-media seasonal concert of Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Die Winterreise” (“A Winter Journey”) with pianist Earl Buys at Hesston College as part of the 2012-13 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts Series at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the […]
Four Hesston College voice students advanced to at the least the semifinal round of competition at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Regional Vocal Competition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nov. 2 to 3. Nine students represented Hesston College during the weekend competition. Sophomore Cameron Ponce of Elkhart, Ind., placed fifth in the Sophomore […]
The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers will present “Songs of a Wayfarer,” a program of sacred and secular choral music at 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 21, at Hesston Mennonite Church. The concert is free and open to the public, though a free-will offering will be collected to cover program costs. The program is inspired by […]
