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Show Music department hits high notes en route to big year past winter quarter there was an enrollment of 54 members with there being every The SUV music department is experiencing an unprecedented period of growth. Not indication that by fall the band will be even larger. The band has provided a Marching only does it have its highest number of majors in the last 20 years, and possibly for the Band for football season and a pep band for basketball season. history of the department, but there has been an incr[:!ase in the number of prospective One of Reeves' major accomplishments has been to revitalize the Jazz Band students. Prospective incoming freshmen and transfer students expressing an interest in the music program and performing groups at SUU has risen from 280 last year to 570 for program. There were enough students this year to divide the original jazz band into two different groups. this past year. T he department auditioned approximately 150 prospective music The Orchestra is under the direction of Professor David Cole, new to SUV. He has students for music scholarships for the 1994-95 academic year. brought the orchestra to a new level of excellence that some say they haven't heard on Performing groups in the music department enrolled a total of 306 students during this campus since the days of Roy Halversen. The department also provides 1993-94's winter term. This includes both vocal and instrumental groups. The opportunities for student involvement through the following small ensembles that membership of these performing groups include students from every department on perform for various events each year: brass ensemble, string ensemble, flute choir, and campus. The department is expecting enrollment in its performing groups to exceed 350 woodwind ensemble. by this fall. Both the vocal and instrumental grou ps perform on campus as well as off. Don Massengale, w ho came to SUU in the fall of 1992, didn ' t waste any time in The SUU Concert Choir, under the direction of Music Department Head and Director of establishing a piano festival and competition of the highest quality. March 26 Choral Activities Bart Shanklin, has a typical enrollment of 75-80. In addition to their regular concerts given at the end of each quarter the Concert Choir marked the second ann ual SUU Solo Piano Competition, which drew the best studen t pianists fro m Utah, Nevada, has also performed for Founders Day, and Arizona to SUU. Commencement, and other official The opera program at SUU has functions of the University in addition to experienced significant growth this past recently performing for the Utah year under the direction of Professor Intercollegiate Choir Festival which was Carol Modesitt. The opera workshop held at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in program presented an evening of Mozart Salt Lake. The select vocal group OPUS opera scenes in the fall quarter and performed fo r the Dickens Festival productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's Christmas Dinner in the Hunter Trial By fury and Puccini's Gianni Conference Center Great Hall on Schicchi in the Spring quarter. Because of campus, on Temple Square for the the increase in the number of vocalists Christmas Season Concert series, and for interested in the opera program at SUU state legislators in January of this year. Modesitt plans to present three OPUS is an ensemble of 20 students who produc tions nex t year with o ne a perform a wide variety of music from Broadway musical. This year marks the 16th century madrigals to modern show first time since the 1960s that a Puccini tunes. The department also offers an opera has been presented here. opportunity through the Women's Choir Two examples of the success and fo r women to sing vocal literature quality of m usic students as soloists in w ri tten especially fo r female voices. competition with stu dents from other T he instrumental program has institutions across th e state are seen in experienced significant growth, both in SUV students Martina Bishop and Jim terms of number of students enrolled and Wilcock. Bishop placed first in her quality of performance, in the past two division in the state Music Teachers years. Gary Reeves, director of bands at National Association competition in the SUV, has breathed new life into a band fall. Wilcock placed first in his division program that was near collapse before he in th e state National Association of was hired. In the spring of 1992, the year Teachers of Singi ng vocal co mpetitions before Reeves becam e director, there in March. were 11 students enrolled in band. 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