Swine Palace Productions--Royal Family Video Clip

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Swine Palace Opening Night Production of--The Royal Family

Friday September 18th, 2009 was the opening night production of The Royal Family in the newly restored Claude L. Shaver Theatre.

LSU Symphony with Gregory Sioles on Piano

The LSU Symphony had a brilliant opening concert with new Musical Director Carlos Riazuelo and piano faculty member Gregory Sioles.

Fantastic turnout at Friends of Opera Special Event

The Friends of LSU Opera had a 2-hour season preview event at Valentino's Home Entertainment in Baton Rouge on Sunday, September 13, 2009.



Left to right, Malcolm Richardson, President, Friends of LSU Opera, Jay Valentino, Presoident of Valentino's Home Entertainment, Jerry Fischer (co-sponsor of LSU Opera Season 2009-10), John Turner (co-sponsor of LSU Opera Season 2009-10), Sue Turner, Bill Conti (Academy award winning composer and LSU School of Music Alum), and Dean Laurence Kaptain.

Slideshow with photos from this excellent event.

The New Dean's First LSU Game Day

LSU Game Day Video

Renovations added more classrooms, Black Box Theatre

Another great article from the Advocate.

LSU's Music & Dramatic Arts Building reopens after 4-1/2-year renovation

Nice story by Robin Miller of the Advocate about the re-dedication and grand opening of the newly refurbished Music & Dramatic Arts Builidng at LSU.

Swine Palace Opening Production

LSU’s 'Royal' goes backstage with the Barrymores

Where the Dean will be on Saturday!!!

Video tour of LSU's refurbished Music and Dramatic Arts Building

Here's a video clip that's on the front page of LSU's web site.

4 CMDA Faculty Honored

Four CMDA Faculty have received a distinguished recognition from LSU. 100 faculty whose high-profile scholarly activities enhanced prestige and generated greater visibility for LSU this year, will be honored at the Rainmakers Gala on Oct. 13.

In the School of Music Frank Wickes, Andreas Giger and Steven Beck. Michael Tick from Theatre is also being recognized

The faculty honorees, dubbed LSU Rainmakers for the widespread recognition and technical excellence of their work, represents 50 university departments within a dozen broad academic divisions.

The list of LSU Rainmakers includes both senior and junior faculty in fields spanning the behavioral, life, physical and social sciences; performance and fine arts; and humanities. Each honoree was nominated by a department chair or other administrator with detailed knowledge of his or her work over the preceding year.

CMDA Faculty/Staff

Photo shoot of all CMDA faculty, staff and students

A finished photo will appear soon in this space.

First Annual College Convocation

On Monday, August 31, 2009 the LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts held the First Annual College Convocation. Featured speakers were Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost Astrid Merget, College Council President Carly Zimmerman, and Dean Laurence Kaptain.

New webmaster and graphic designer at CMDA

The LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts welcomes the first full-time webmaster to our staff. Sydney Nakashima is an award winning graphic designer and comes to us from LSU's Art + Design College, where she held a similar position. Timothy Little is the new graphic designer, and comes to LSU from Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. Timothy is also working on a MM degree in choral conducting.