by Colleen Casner | Jan 28, 2015 | News Slider
Sigma Alpha Iota, a national music fraternity, provides Lipscomb women with opportunities to serve others through music and form friendships outside of Lipscomb. SAI members are active in Lipscomb’s music department — many are involved in the University Wind Ensemble and A Cappella Singers. Although SAI is a music organization, members are not required to be music majors or minors. Majors in Lipscomb’s chapter range from elementary education to chemistry to pre-law. SAI is smaller than most Greek organizations on campus, with only nine collegiate members, but the chapter is growing, having more than doubled its membership in the past three years. This semester’s member-in-training class alone will increase the chapter’s size by more than fifty percent. The small chapter size is augmented by SAI’s status as a national organization. Lipscomb’s chapter frequently collaborates with chapters from other colleges in the Middle Tennessee area such as Vanderbilt, Belmont and MTSU. This experience of sisterhood outside the Lipscomb campus provides SAI members with a unique experience not offered by campus social clubs. Lipscomb’s chapter, Zeta Omicron, was established in 1974 and celebrated its fortieth anniversary last fall. SAI meets once a week to plan service projects, performances and formals. The club holds a musicale at least once each semester in which members demonstrate their musical talents. Different fundraisers held throughout the year benefit music-oriented philanthropies supported by SAI. The philanthropies are dedicated to meeting various musical needs such as providing musical instruments to children in developing countries and providing Braille and large print sheet music to visually impaired musicians. Photo courtesy of Kristin...
by Kage Sanderson | Oct 8, 2014 | News Slider
The first outdoor jazz concert in years will be something special, according to Lipscomb director of instrumental ensembles and music professor Dr. Stephen Rhodes. “The combo soloists are outstanding local musicians who I guarantee will entertain the audience,” Rhodes said of the show that begins at 5 p.m. Oct. 3 in Bison Square. Rhodes will be directing an outdoor performance of a seven-piece Dixieland Jazz combo. Local jazz musicians will join the University Wind Ensemble for the special performance on the Collins Alumni Auditorium steps. “This will be the first outdoor concert in many years, so we are looking forward to providing some special music late in the afternoon in Bison Square, just before supper,” Rhodes said. “Among our selections we will feature a special piece called ‘Playing With Fire’, written by Frank Ticheli.” Rhodes says that ‘Playing With Fire’ is a very exciting piece that “harkens back to the style made famous in New Orleans a hundred years ago before jazz spread throughout the country.” After the outdoor concert on Monday evening, there will be 10 more concerts throughout the rest of the fall semester including a Faculty and Friends concert, Chamber Orchestra performances, a Jazz concert series and more. Don’t miss these special performances, which are free to Lipscomb...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Apr 22, 2014 | News Slider
The University Wind Ensemble played with fire in Collins Alumni Auditorium on April 21 with a professional Dixieland Jazz Combo for the ensemble’s spring concert. The seven-piece jazz combo, along with the University Wind Ensemble, performed a set of pieces called “Playing with Fire.” The pieces were “A la Bauduc,” “Shades of Blue” and “Polyphonies and Riffs.” The Dixieland Jazz Combo was made up of Sam Levine on the clarinet, Alan Suska on the cornet, Creighton Miller on the trombone, G.R. Davis on the double bass, Chris Nelson on the drums, Mark Godwin on the banjo and Kevin Madill on the piano. The wind ensemble prepared all semester for the show; however, the students were only able to rehearse with the jazz combo the night before. Despite the adversity freshman trombone player Robert Glenn said the experience was a good one. “Playing with a Dixieland Jazz Combo is fantastic. They’re just great musicians, and I’m very glad I got the opportunity to play with them,” Glenn said. The wind ensemble opened the night by preforming “Lassus Trombone” by Henry Fillmore, then followed that with “Watchman, Tell Us of the Night” by Mark Camphouse. The first two songs were conducted by Dr. Stephen L. Rhodes. The final piece before the jazz combo played was the “English Folk Song Suite.” The first piece, “Seventeen Come Sunday,” was conducted by J. Elliot Bowman. The second piece, “My Bonny Boy,” was conducted by Bailey Werner. The third and final piece, “Folk Songs from Somerset,” was conducted by Grace...
by Anne Paquin | Mar 1, 2013 | News Slider, Sports
In this semester’s seventh installment of Lumination News, Kelly Dean and Jeremy Keck are behind the news desk to update you about what’s happening on campus. Kage Sanderson brings you up to speed with sports, Nick Glende fills you in on the week’s top technology news headlines, Caitlin Selle gives the scoop on all things entertainment and Jessica Burke delivers your weather forecast. This week’s newscast features information about the resignation of campus safety’s Brad Wyatt, insight into at the current usage of ‘Dining Dollars’ on student meal plans, different tips on how to succeed on upcoming midterm exams, information about what is going on at the Student Activities Center, some news on this month’s SGA spring concert and our final look into last month’s celebration of Black history month. We also take a look at the Jazz and the University Wind Ensemble concerts held recently in Alumni Auditorium, some Bison basketball road highlights and the most recent Ultimate Frisbee tournament, as well as our weekly Nashville Spotlight, which highlights the best place in Nashville to find some good Southern biscuits. We also have the Tweets of the Week, and the anchors say goodbye to a staff member that will be missed. Be sure to stay tuned for future newscasts published every Friday here on...
by Julie Shrewsbury | Dec 9, 2010 | News Slider
Voices mixed with French horns, trumpets, symbols and other instruments resounded in Collins Alumni Auditorium on Monday night. Lipscomb’s A Cappella Singers, University Singers and University Wind Ensemble collaborated to kick off the Christmas season. Everything from traditional holiday carols to Russian Christmas songs were performed. “The student’s didn’t miss a beat, they played like professionals and they looked and sounded like they had been practicing this for years,” said sophomore Taylor Geen, an English major in attendance. “I don’t know how they do what they do, but it was an amazing show and I’m so glad I got the opportunity to go.” Dr. Steve Rhodes and Dr. Gary Wilson, directors, wanted to present a program of holiday favorites and music for the season. The concert was free, though most would agree it would have been worth it to pay for the performance. “My favorite part of the night was when we performed the song ‘This Little Babe,'” said Lindsay Latimer, a sophomore voice performance major. “The song is sung in rounds, so there are a lot of different parts going on at once. It also just featured the women, which was really great and different. “The Russian piece was the most difficult piece we preformed because I’ve never sung in, or spoke for that matter, in Russian. Having one of our student conductors conducting it made it that much more fun and entertaining.” If you didn’t get a chance to attend this outstanding show, check out a recap of the performance here. A Celebration Of Christmas “My favorite piece was ‘Ñe imamï inïya pómoschi’ by Pavel Chesnokov,” said...
