The Hesston College European Chorale will kick off its European tour with several local concerts. The 37-voice choir will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the Schowalter Villa Chapel in Hesston, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 22, at Inman Mennonite Church as part of the morning worship service and at 4 p.m. Saturday, […]
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman has announced that the agency will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts is one of the grantees and will receive $10,000 to present an April 27 concert and three-day residency by The Rose Ensemble. The 863 grant […]
The Hesston College Chorale will present its spring break tour concert celebrating the Lenten season in 10 churches and schools across Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri March 2 to 11. Friday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Southern Hills Mennonite Church, 511 Southeast 37th Street, Topeka, Kan. Saturday, March 3 at […]
Students in Hesston College’s Music Theatre Workshop class will present an evening of showtunes and musical scenes at 7:30 p.m. March 1 in the Northlawn Studio Theatre on the Hesston College campus. The performance is free and open to the public. The evening program will feature scenes from “Rent,” “Kiss Me Kate,” “Fiddler on the […]
by Melanie Zuercher (Bethel College) The fourth event in the 2011-12 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series brings to Bethel College’s (North Newton, Kan.) Memorial Hall stage a wildly popular Irish music spectacle. Celtic Crossroads will be at Bethel College Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m. South Central Kansas residents may know Celtic Crossroads from its specials […]
Wayne Bryan, producing artistic director of Music Theatre of Wichita, shares tips about headshots with students in Hesston College’s Music Theatre Workshop class Feb. 9. Bryan was the guest presenter in the Music Theatre Workshop class and Voice Masterclass. He offered audition tips and went through mock auditions with students in the Music Theatre Workshop […]
The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers under the direction of Bradley Kauffman have been selected to perform as part of the Kansas Music Educators Association annual in-service workshop at 2 p.m., Feb. 23 in the Century II Mary Jane Teall Theater in Wichita, Kan. Guest passes for the workshop will be available at the registration […]
The third Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts event of the 2011-12 season will feature the unique collaborative duo of Igudesman & Joo with their groundbreaking show “A Little Nightmare Music.” The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31 in the Hesston Mennonite Church sanctuary on the Hesston College campus. The duo, made up of Aleksey […]
The Hesston College Concert Band and Bel Canto Singers will present separate Iowa performances Sunday, Jan. 15. Bel Canto will present a program of sacred choral music during the 9:30 a.m. service at First Mennonite Church of Iowa City. The Concert Band will perform with the Iowa Mennonite School (Kalona) Symphonic Band at 2 p.m. […]
Three Hesston College voice students earned special recognition at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Regional Vocal Competition at Fort Hays (Kan.) State University Nov. 3 to 5. Twelve students represented Hesston College during the weekend competition. Freshman Emerencia Dudas of Toledo, Ohio earned second place in the Freshman-Sophomore Women’s Musical Theatre division, which […]
The second Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts event of the 2011-12 season will feature the “blissful” sounds of the St. Petersburg Quartet on Bethel College’s Memorial Hall stage. The string quartet, which is currently in residence at Wichita State University, will perform Sunday, Nov. 13, at 3 p.m. Quartet members are Alla Aranovskaya, 1st violin, Evgeny Zvonnikov, […]
Sunday, May 8 7:30 p.m., Salem Mennonite Church, 820 Rd V, Shickley, Neb. Tuesday, May 10 7:30 p.m., Evergreen Heights Mennonite Church, 701 N Indiana Ave, Caldwell, Idaho Wednesday, May 11 7:30 p.m., Warden Mennonite Church, 720 S Pine, Warden, Wash. Friday, May 13 7:30 p.m., Seventh Day Adventist Church, 120 Chilvers Rd, Chehalis, Wash. […]
Hesston College music students Amy Brubaker and Sheralynn Neff will join together for their sophomore recital at 7 p.m. April 15 in the Hesston Mennonite Church sanctuary. The public is invited to attend. Brubaker, a clarinetist of Goessel, has been a member of the Concert Band and Bel Canto Singers, both under the direction of […]
The Hesston College Music Department will host sister school Bluffton (Ohio) University music faculty members Dr. Crystal Sellers and Dr. Lucia Unrau for a voice and piano recital at 7 p.m. April 11 in the Hesston Mennonite Church. The recital is free and open to the public. Dr. Sellers earned a Bachelor of music in […]
The Hesston College music department will present a concert with performances by Bel Canto Singers, Chorale and the Concert Band at 7:30 p.m. March 29 in the Hesston Mennonite Church sanctuary. The program, entitled “A Jocular Journey: Music on the Lighter Side,” will feature classical works from the year’s repertoire, as well as more modern […]
