Missouri Western State University is the site of Electronic Music Midwest’s annual MiniFest Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27. Concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Kemper Recital Hall, inside Spratt Hall. The concerts are free and open to the public. MiniFest is [...]
The Music Department of Missouri Western State University will host its tenth annual MWSU Jazz Festival on Saturday, Feb. 13. Groups will perform in Blum 219 and the Fulkerson Center. Each ensemble will perform for the adjudicators, and will receive recorded and written critiques of the performance from clinicians. Immediately following each band’s performance the [...]
“The Marriage of Figaro,” the play by Pierre Beaumarchais that inspired the Mozart opera of the same name, will be presented by the Department of Theatre, Cinema and Dance in the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University Feb. 19-27. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19, 20, 25, 26 and [...]
The Golden Griffon Marching Band of Missouri Western State University will be a part of a holiday tradition in Branson, Missouri, leading Rudolph’s Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade through Silver Dollar City on Dec. 12. “This is the first time the Golden Griffon Marching Band has participated in the parade at Silver Dollar City, and [...]
A Missouri Western State University art student’s work will be seen globally. Shaina Mixon submitted the winning poster design for an international music festival. The design by Mixon, senior graphic design and marketing major from Easton, Missouri, was selected from more than 60 submitted for soundSCAPE, an international composition and performance festival held each summer [...]
Avery Doran, featured soloist with the Jazz Ensemble. The Jazz Program in the Department of Music at Missouri Western State University will showcase its three major jazz ensembles at the annual Fall Jazz Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17 in the Potter Hall Theater. The concert is free and open to the [...]
Kevin Bobo Internationally-acclaimed percussionist Kevin Bobo will be giving a clinic/performance at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 in the Potter Hall Theater at Missouri Western State University. Admission is free and open to the public. Bobo is professor of percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a position he has held [...]
The second concert of the Midday Melodies Series at Missouri Western State University will feature the Student Jazz Ensemble at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, at Kelley Commons, the patio area just west of Blum Student Union. The concert is free and open to the public. The Student Government Association will provide free snacks for [...]
Missouri Western State University Bands, along with with Phi Mu Alpha and Sigma Alpha, present the 30th annual Tournament of Champions high school marching band competition, starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, at Craig Field in Spratt Memorial Stadium. Tickets are available at the gate and cost $7 for adults; $5 for seniors and [...]
Missouri Western State University’s 2015-2016 Theatre Season kicks off with a production of the musical “Cabaret” Oct. 9-11 and Oct. 15-17. Show times are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9, 10, 15, 16 and 17, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for Missouri Western faculty and staff, and $8 for [...]
