Boyer College of Music and Dance
Violinist starts youth music program to soothe shaken nerves in Peru
Type: News Story
To address the city of Pisco, Peru's lack of social resources for children as it rebuilds after a devastating earthquake, Boyer student Elizabeth Moulthrop began the Pisco Music Program, an after-school music enrichment class that offers lessons on the recorder and handmade percussion.
November 14, 2011
How to break into show business
Type: News Story
What does it take to start and maintain a successful career in the entertainment industry? That was the question on the minds of students who filled Tomlinson Theater to get the inside scoop on how to break into and remain relevant in show business.
October 25, 2011
Talented sophomore takes on revolutionary role in Urinetown
Type: News Story
Sophomore theater major Cameron Slusser portrays Bobby Strong in Temple Theater's production of Urinetown, which opens with a preview today. Set in a small town suffering the effects of a 20-year drought, the story opens with citizens lined up to pay for corporate-owned toilets.
October 11, 2011
Fund for young artists honors late opera professor
Type: News Story
Family, friends and alumni gathered in the Temple Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Sept. 18 to celebrate the rich artistic life of John Douglas, former associate professor of voice and opera in the Boyer College of Music and Dance. Douglas, who served as the music director and conductor of Temple University Opera Theater, died last summer after a long battle with cancer.
September 29, 2011
Nina Vieru won first place in the senior division in violin performance at the LISMA Foundation International Music Competition
Type: Accolade
August 30, 2011
Fourth stream reaches mainstream with world premiere of ‘La Banda’
Type: News Story
Bill Cunliffe, former professor at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, is teaming up with Temple once again as the Temple University Symphony Orchestra becomes the first to perform his composition “fourth stream ... La Banda.”
March 16, 2010
What on earth?
Type: News Story
GeoDance Theatre captures these earthly gyrations through dances with geologically inspired titles like the “Deep Time Waltz.” Through dance, geologic lecture, spoken word, video, costume and music, the show mixes scientific concepts with movements meant to mirror the similarities between the body and the planet.
Conley received a Provost’s Commission on the Arts grant in support of the perform
February 12, 2009