December 2019
BSU Holiday Choral Concert
Ball State’s choral ensembles present two concerts in celebration of the winter holidays featuring well-known seasonal favorites and holiday music from a wide variety of traditions. Ensembles include the Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Singers, Statesmen, Women’s Chorus, and University Choral Union. Tickets General Admission is $5. One free student ticket with ID in advance at Emens box office, or $5 at the door. Tickets on sale August 19 through the Emens Auditorium box office. For ticket information, contact: Emens Auditorium…
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Ball State’s choral ensembles present two concerts in celebration of the winter holidays featuring well-known seasonal favorites and holiday music from a wide variety of traditions. Ensembles include the Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Singers, Statesmen, Women’s Chorus, and University Choral Union. Tickets General Admission is $5. One free student ticket with ID in advance at Emens box office, or $5 at the door. Tickets on sale August 19 through the Emens Auditorium box office. For ticket information, contact: Emens Auditorium…
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YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION
Witness the talents of young musicians who live right here in the state of Indiana! These amazing, accomplished musicians compete for monetary awards and performance opportunities.
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Arts Alive! – Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
After performing on the inaugural Arts Alive! Concert Series in 1996, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra returns to Ball State for its first performance in Sursa Hall. Led by conductor Marc Albrecht, the program will include Ravel’s gentle Le Tombeau de Couperin; one of Britten’s most full-blooded and exciting song cycles, Les Illuminations (featuring the “impressive, fast rising soprano” Julia Bullock); and Berlioz’s epic Symphonie fantastique as it explores the passions and hopelessness of unrequited love. Ways to Purchase: Emens box office Charge-by-phone 800-745-3000 OR Online at Ticketmaster.com
Find out more »March 2020
Arts Alive! – Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is one of the great voices of our time. Captivating audiences and critics around the world, he is a fixture at leading international opera houses and major orchestra halls, and his concerts have been broadcast to millions. Program to include Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Tyshawn Sorey’s new work Cycles of My Being, a song cycle that centers on what it means to be an African American man living in America today. Ways to Purchase: Emens box office Charge-by-phone 800-745-3000 OR Online at Ticketmaster.com
Find out more »April 2020
Sursa American Organ Competition Winner with the MSO
Ball State University will host the third Sursa American Organ Competition in September, 2019. The first prize winner of the Pre-Professional Division will be awarded a solo appearance with the MSO. They will perform on the Goulding & Wood organ in Sursa Performance Hall. Elgar dedicated Enigma Variations “to my friends pictured within”, each variation being a musical sketch of his close acquaintances. Those portrayed include Elgar’s wife Alice, his friend and publisher Augustus J. Jaeger and Elgar himself. Contact:…
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