Choir Students Spend Spring in London

Through performance and service, the BYU Chamber Orchestra formed strong connections with the people of the Philippines.

After a night of thunder and hail, orchestra members awoke to a beautiful, fresh morning with the sun shining, a perfect day for a tour of the alpine setting of Logatec, a city of 14,000. In preparation for the evening's benefit concert, the mayor met with orchestra members expressing gratitude for raising funds to help the city recover from January's devastating ice storm and the flood that followed. (The ice storm created a weight of more than 80 kilograms per meter of electrical wire. One could see the majority of trees in the area's forests with the tops of the trees severed off and other broken branches all around.) Members of the orchestra were surprised to see the flood lines on houses that were well up the hill. In the evening a large paying crowd filled a good portion of the city sports hall. After several local musical numbers--and remarks from the fire chief and mayor--the orchestra followed. Before the finale, director Kory Katseanes, said through a translator, 'Our final number is titled Appalachian Spring. After touring your beautiful city of Logatec on this spring day, I'm convinced that this music could have been called Logatec Spring. ' The audience gave an emotional applause of appreciation.

McKinley Haas spent her summer interning for NFL Films

Recognition included four university awards and three college awards.

School of Music

Leaving the uniformity of school and experiencing international learning was life-changing for pianist Kaden Larson

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Competition highlights hard work of BYU Music Major

New York Field Experience Provides Learning Opportunity For Communications Student

72 works illustrate the movement to establish photography as qualified fine art, equal with sculpture, painting and etching.

The 142nd convocation of BYU’s College of Fine Arts and Communications will be held Aug. 18, 2017 at 11 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center. The ceremony will also be live streamed here. Graduates from the Department of Art, School of Communications, Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Department of Dance, Department of Design, and School of Music will join together in one ceremony to be recognized and receive their diploma cover on the stage of the de Jong Concert Hall. Dean Ed Adams will preside over the ceremony where four graduates from different departments will address the audience. They will be speaking on the following topics: Studio arts major Pearl Corry on “Spontaneous Creative Exchange” Media arts studies major Cameron Babcock on “Remember” Illustration major Grant Hansen on “The Power of Need” News media major Samantha Clark Forrest on “Step Outside” During the program, a musical number titled “Beau Soir” by French composer Claude Debussy will be performed by Megumi Terry on the violin and Alice Hyoung on the piano. Terry is a graduating music performance major with an emphasis in string. The convocation will conclude with the presentation of master’s and baccalaureate degrees.