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Students Investigate: A Deeper Dive into H. S. Perkins’s The Nightingale

William Oscar Perkins and Henry Southwick Perkins, The Nightingale: A Choice Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, Designed for the Use of Juvenile Classes, Public Schools, and Seminaries; Containing Also a Complete and Concise System of Elementary Instruction (Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1860) by C. A. Norling Advertised in University catalogues as providing “peculiar advantages toContinue reading “Students Investigate: A Deeper Dive into H. S. Perkins’s The Nightingale

Students Investigate: A Deeper Dive into the SUI concert of Copland compositions, March 5, 1958

State University of Iowa Orchestra concert of Copland compositions, March 5, 1958Represented by original concert program and picture of Himie Voxman and Aaron Copland from the composers 1958 visit to Iowa City by Jenna Sehmann On March 5, 1958, Aaron Copland attended a concert by the State University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra as an honoredContinue reading “Students Investigate: A Deeper Dive into the SUI concert of Copland compositions, March 5, 1958”

STUDENT EXHIBIT: In Our Lives: The Beatles Yesterday and Today

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT IN OUR LIVES was designed in the Fall 2018 offering of Donna’s “World of The Beatles” course. Participating students studied her materials–donated in Donna’s name to the Rita Benton Music Library–and worked together to flesh out the different themes that now define their multimedia, multidirectional account of the enduring legacy of TheContinue reading “STUDENT EXHIBIT: In Our Lives: The Beatles Yesterday and Today”