The LGBTQA Alumni Network will host a series of events over the same weekend as the annual PRIDE Charity Drag Show. Network members and supporters are invited to any and all of the events from March 28-29. Unless noted there is no fee to attend, and no preregistration necessary.
Illinois State University Jazz Ensembles I and II, directed by Tom Marko, will present their annual Valentine’s Big Band Dance from 7-10 p.m. Friday, February 14, at the New Lafayette Club, located at 1602 S. Main St. in Bloomington.
Senior music education major Tyler Sutton and his wife, Carolyn, were at home in Washington when the devastating EF4 tornado destroyed their apartment. They lost nearly everything, including his French horn.
Panama’s most celebrated classical music composer found a home at Illinois State University. The pairing was so well-matched that Roque Cordero spent the last 28 years of his career teaching music to Illinois State students.
Illinois State University trumpeter Stephanie Beatty credited a Friends of the Arts grant for allowing her to take a “life-changing” trip to Italy in late June for the Orvieto Musica TrumpetFest.
Ramiro Miranda, M.M. ’13, used a Friends of the Arts grant this past school year to put on his innovative production of Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale.
