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Student Joel Bauman ’15 finishes third in national online vocal competition

June 16th, 2014

Joel Bauman ’15, music education major, finished third in the musical theater category of an online vocal competition run by music publisher Hal Leonard.

Watch Bauman’s winning submission.

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“Fanfare” magazine prints rave review of new Messiah College Wind Ensemble CD

May 12th, 2014

The spring issue of “Fanfare,” the pinnacle of recording reviews for the music industry, offered a rave review of “Stained Glass Windows,” the most recent recording of the Messiah College Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brad Genevro, associate professor of music and director of bands.

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Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra joins Messiah College choral ensembles at Messiah College for first Masterworks concert outside of Harrisburg

April 12th, 2014

On April 11 the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra ventured outside their usual venue to perform Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” at Messiah’s Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts with the Messiah College Concert Choir, Messiah College Choral Arts Society and ensemble-in-residence Susquehanna Chorale.

In a review for the Carlisle Sentinel, David Dunkle wrote, “The choruses were arrayed in the High Center’s well-positioned choir loft, behind and above the stage where the orchestra and soloists were positioned. The results were spectacular, as voices and instruments blended before surging toward the audience.” http://cumberlink.com/entertainment/music/hso-visits-messiah-college-s-high-center/article_d828071a-c1f0-11e3-b958-0019bb2963f4.html

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Professor’s one-woman exhibit challenges historical prejudices encountered by women seeking employment

February 18th, 2014

Kathy Hettinga, distinguished professor of art, is currently exhibiting a one-woman show at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. The show—titled “We’d take you in a minute if you were a man” and other Outrages—contains artists’ books, photographs and digital prints and comes from Hettinga’s artist’s book looking at the historical prejudice women encountered in employment interviews, gaining admission to medical schools and the like during much of the 20th century.

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Current theatre performance noted for extraordinary achievement in design and direction by Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

October 17th, 2013

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival reviewed opening night of “J.B.,” presented by the Messiah College Department of Theatre and Dance. The Festival awarded the prestigious Certificate of Merit to Valerie Rae Smith, professor of theatre, and Tom Ryan, guest designer, for extraordinary achievement in direction and design, respectively.

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Theatre alum Stephanie Fieger `02 to star in Broadway production of Macbeth

October 15th, 2013

Stephanie Fieger `02 will play the role of Harpier in a Lincoln Center Theater revival of “Macbeth.” Opening Nov. 21 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Macbeth will be played by Ethan Hawke.

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Kathy Hettinga receives competitive Artists’ Book Residency Grant from Women’s Studio Workshop

October 1st, 2013

Kathy Hettinga, professor of art and design, is one of only a few artists to receive an Artists’ Book Residency Grant from the Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW). WSW is a fully funded residency in their workshop studios in upstate N.Y. WSW is the largest publisher of artists’ books and has published books in renowned collections like Indiana University (Bloomington), Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University.

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Painting by Professor Catherine Prescott accepted into National Portrait Gallery competition

January 2nd, 2013

Professor Catherine Prescott’s painting “Legacy, Portrait of Val” was accepted into the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. The exhibit will run from March 23, 2013 to February 23, 2014.

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Messiah College makes the Journal of Artists Books list of Places to Study Book Arts

September 27th, 2011

The Journal of Artists’ Books, the premier journal about artists’ books, published out of Columbia College, Chicago, lists only nine bachelor’s programs as “Places to Study the Book Arts.” Messiah College is listed with other such fabulous arts programs as: MICA: Maryland Institute of College of Art, Otis College of Art and Design, Purchase College of Art and Design – SUNY, Scripps College, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago!

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Alumnus Matthew Miller receives praise from the New York Times for his exhibit at Brooklyn gallery

June 3rd, 2011

 Five self-portraits of the artist Matthew Miller `04 are on display at the Famous Accountants gallery in Brooklyn until June 5. The oil-on-oil paintings are part of Miller’s series, “Matthew Miller: the magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it.”

 Miller’s exhibit was reviewed in the May 5 New York Times.

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