Upcoming Events

01
Apr

USU Percussion Ensembles

Arts/Entertainment

Description TBA

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
02
Apr

Caine Ensembles

Arts/Entertainment

The Caine Ensembles concert, presented twice a year, showcases some of USU's finest musicians. Come enjoy top-tier chamber music performed by the Caine Brass Quintet, Caine Percussion Ensemble, Caine Saxophone Quartet, Caine String Quartet, and Caine Woodwind Quintet.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
05
Apr

Music Scholars Series: Dr. Megan Lavengood

Arts/Entertainment

What is "our music"? As an institution in the intermountain West, USU is located in a place associated with many different kinds of music. The decisions we make about which of these we foreground have profound implications. What do our students deserve to learn? Which faculty have the responsibility—or the right—to teach each repertoire? And how, as a university, do we define the collective “us” we seek to serve? Dr. Megan Lavengood is an Associate Professor and Area Director of Music Theory at George Mason University, where she teaches undergraduate core theory and graduate courses in advanced theory topics. Her research primarily deals with popular music, timbre, synthesizers, and recording techniques. She has also published on video game music, music theory pedagogy, and public music theory.

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Family Life Building |
05
Apr

Music Scholar Series: Dr. Megan Lavengood

Arts/Entertainment

Topic: I Want It That Way: Good Practices for Pop Music Pedagogy

This talk gives an overview of some prominent scholarly methods for analyzing popular music, and discusses issues surrounding the inclusion of pop music in music curricula. I discuss two common forms of pop music inclusion—through token examples that fit neatly into a classical-music-based curriculum, and through upper-level electives—and show how these approaches undercut popular music’s potential to be inclusive. I advocate instead for pop music to be included early in the curriculum as its own distinct repertoire, and present my own syllabus for a pop music theory course as a model. As time allows, I will elaborate on the analytical and compositional approaches students learn in that course, with the goal of giving audience members an idea of the tools they might use in their own future work with popular music, whether that be analyzing, composing, or teaching to young musicians.

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Family Life Building |
06
Apr

Kings, Lovers & Fools: A Faculty Voice Recital

Arts/Entertainment

Kings, Lovers & Fools – A Faculty Voice Recital, featuring
Thomas Glenn, tenor
Amy Glenn, pianist

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
08
Apr

Guitar Ensembles

Arts/Entertainment

Description TBA

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
10
Apr

Big Bands

Arts/Entertainment

Description TBA

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
11
Apr

Chamber Ensembles and Cache Wind Symphony

Arts/Entertainment

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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
11
Apr

USU Opera Presents: L'elisir d'Amore

Arts/Entertainment

One of the highlights of the bel canto repertoire with its sublime music and humorous plot, Donizetti’s  comic opera L'elisir d'amore follows the attempts of the hapless Nemorino who relies on a fake love potion to win the beautiful Adina's hand in marriage. Performed by USU voice and orchestra students. Sung in English for maximal humoral effect!

PERFORMANCE DATES:
April 11 at 7:30 p.m.
April 12 at 7:30 p.m.
April 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets coming soon!

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Caine Lyric Theatre |
12
Apr

USU Opera Presents: L'elisir d'Amore

Arts/Entertainment

One of the highlights of the bel canto repertoire with its sublime music and humorous plot, Donizetti’s  comic opera L'elisir d'amore follows the attempts of the hapless Nemorino who relies on a fake love potion to win the beautiful Adina's hand in marriage. Performed by USU voice and orchestra students. Sung in English for maximal humoral effect!

PERFORMANCE DATES:
April 11 at 7:30 p.m.
April 12 at 7:30 p.m.
April 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets coming soon!

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Caine Lyric Theatre |
13
Apr

Cache Symphony Orchestra

Arts/Entertainment

Description TBA

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
13
Apr

USU Opera Presents: L'elisir d'Amore

Arts/Entertainment

One of the highlights of the bel canto repertoire with its sublime music and humorous plot, Donizetti’s  comic opera L'elisir d'amore follows the attempts of the hapless Nemorino who relies on a fake love potion to win the beautiful Adina's hand in marriage. Performed by USU voice and orchestra students. Sung in English for maximal humoral effect!

PERFORMANCE DATES:
April 11 at 7:30 p.m.
April 12 at 7:30 p.m.
April 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets coming soon!

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Caine Lyric Theatre |
15
Apr

String Chamber Music - Spring Recital

Arts/Entertainment

This concert showcases the students of the USU String and Piano Programs. Students dedicate their semester to the intensive study of masterpieces from the chamber music repertoire under the guidance of the Fry Street Quartet and the USU Piano Faculty. This concert will include the works of Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, and Schubert.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
15
Apr

Organ Area Student Recital

Arts/Entertainment

Description TBA

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
16
Apr

Spring Choral Concert

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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
17
Apr

USU Symphony Orchestra: A Farewell Concert

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Fare Dr. Sergio Bernal well in his last concert as Music Director of the USU Symphony Orchestra that culminates his 23-year teaching career at Utah State University.

Enjoy the fantasy world of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, featuring faculty soloist Dr. Sasha Kasman Laude, and Schumann’s eternally optimistic Spring Symphony!

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
18
Apr

Symphonic Band

Arts/Entertainment

Thomas Rohrer may provide a more specific description closer to the performance date. Use this description for now: Concerts are part of the band large ensemble curriculum. As capstone events, they typically occur twice per semester. Students are required to participate in these events as a large part of their grades, and these concerts are the culmination of several weeks of classroom rehearsals. All concerts are associated with one or more of the band ensembles: MUSC 4700 Wind Orchestra MUSC 3795 Wind Symphony MUSC 3790 Symphonic Band MUSC 3785 Marching Band

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
19
Apr

Wind Orchestra

Arts/Entertainment

Description TBA

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
27
Apr

AFCO: The Restoration - An Oratoria by Merrill Bradshaw with the Logan Institute Singers

Arts/Entertainment

Merrill Bradshaw was one of the most celebrated Utah composers of the 20th Century. As professor of composition at Brigham Young University, he composed in all genres of classical music. His magnum opus, The Restoration, which premiered 50 years ago, is written for large symphonic chorus, chamber choir, solo vocal quartet, and symphony orchestra. It is considered the culmination of his life's work as a composer. For ages 8+.

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Daines Concert Hall |
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