Swine Palace Resident Company 2012-13

The LSU MFA students who are the residential company for Swine Palace

LSU Alum leads Texas band to Midwest

LSU Alum Amanda Drinkwater

Pamela Pike wins award from American Music Teacher magazine

An article by LSU ASchool of Music professor Pamela Pike “Sight-Reading Strategies for the Beginning and Intermediate Piano Student:  A Fresh Look at a Familiar Topic”, which appeared in the February/March 2012 issue of American Music Teacher magazine, has been selected as the 2013 American Music Teacher Article of the Year. 

Prof. Pamela Pike

The great Allen Toussaint playing the Rodrigue Steinway

Congrats to LSU Alum Colin Catoe and Prof. James Byo!!!

This appearence by an LSU alum's orchestra is one of the most prestigious honors
that can be bestowed on a school band or orchestra.

We are honored that Dr. James Byo is guest conducting at this performance.

Over 14,000 directors attend this annual conference.

A Blue Dog way to reach Louisiana's children

http://nolavie.com/2012/12/a-blue-dog-way-to-reach-louisianas-children-25448.html

The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts education center on Magazine Street

The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts 2011 art contest winner

An important Sunday New York Times quote--referencing the LSU School of Music

"....one of the country’s best collegiate music programs."

Sunday New York Times article about former LSU music major

Article about a former music major at LSU School of Music

Steve Franz/LSU Athletics

Hilary Scheinuk/LSU Athletic

Cause: The Janice H. Pellar Creative Arts Entrepreneurship Project at the LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts

Cause: The Janice H. Pellar Creative Arts Entrepreneurship Project at the LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts

Janice H. Pellar ('73)
Making a difference in the lives of a new generation
of students in the performing and creative arts.

Story on the Rodrigue Steinway

Story on the Rodrigue Steinway

Bill Conti named principal pops conductor for San Diego Symphony

Bill Conti named principal pops conductor for San Diego Symphony

MIT's Leila Kinney visits LSU CMDA

Dean Laurence Kaptain and 

MIT's Executive Director of Arts Initiatives Leila W. Kinney

MIT's Executive Director of Arts Initiatives Leila W. Kinney visited the office of the COllege of Music and Dramatic Arts on December 7, 2012. MIT and LSU are partnering on Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities.

She works with Associate Provost Philip Khoury, the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), the Creative Arts Council, the Council for the Arts at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the MIT Museum to advance the arts at MIT in the areas of strategic planning, cross-school collaborations, communications and resource development. She is an art historian with experience in both SA+P, where she was on the faculty in the History, Theory and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture (HTC) and SHASS, where she taught in the Program in Women's Studies and in Comparative Media Studies. She specializes in modern art, with an emphasis on media in transition, arts institutions and artists' engagement with mass culture. She is a member of the Board of Mass Humanities and of the Advisory Committees of the Catalyst Collaborative at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the MIT Museum.

Leila Kinney, LSU School of Music Director Stephen David Beck
and CMDA friend / supporter Louise Kinney.

LSU Theatre Lunch with Elizabeth Ashley in NYC

LSU School of Music at Steinway Hall in NYC, Nov. 30, 2012

More photos from LSU Theatre Alumni Reception in NYC

Elizabeth Ashley at LSU Theatre Alumni Reception in NYC

(l to r) LSU Theatre Chair Kristin Sosnowsky, Madison Dirks (Theatre alum and cast member of Who's Afarid of Virginia Woolf?), and the acclaimed actress (and LSU alum) Elizabeth Ashley.

LSU School of Music at Carnegie Hall

LSU Theatre Alumni Reception in New York City

LSU student Penelope “Penny” Shumate--Lincoln Center debut

LSU student Penelope “Penny” Shumate who made her Lincoln Center debut as soloist in MESSIAH. NYT Review. http://nyti.ms/110nVPp

Education Week: A+ Schools Infuse Arts and Other 'Essentials'

Education Week: A+ Schools Infuse Arts and Other 'Essentials'http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/11/27/13arts_ep.h31.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-TW … via@educationweek

Jayla Martin, foreground, and Ashanti Baker solve 

math equations during their dance class at the 

Millwood Freshman Academy in Oklahoma City, Okla.

—Shane Bevel for Education Week

Louisiana A+ Schools backers on TV in Arkansas

Jacques Rodrigue and Bethany France in Arkansas
talking about A+ Schools.

LSU School of Music partners with George Rodrigue Foundation for Arts Education

http://www.ktbs.com/news/-LSU-School-of-Music-partners-with-George-Rodrigue-Foundation-for-Arts-Education/-/144844/17375300/-/c0xdbv/-/index.html

Larry Kaptain and the Duzans in Denver

Dean Larry Kaptain, Betsy and Randy Duzan in Denver on November 2l, 2012.  Mr. Duzan is the nephew of the late and beloved LSU theatre professor Billy Harbin.

Big event on Saturday!!!!

LSU @ Carnegie Hall