The Department of Music on the Douglass Campus is housed in the
Marryott Music Building, Music House, Walters Hall, and the fine arts
complex consisting of Rehearsal Hall, Music Annex, and the Nicholas
Music Center, which has a beautiful concert hall that seats
approximately 800 people. These buildings contain: classrooms; performance and teaching studios; conference and seminar rooms; small,
medium, and large multipurpose rehearsal rooms; a small recital hall
seating 200 people; 43 practice studios; rooms with computer
workstations and electronic keyboards; as well as various other faculty
offices and studios. The department has approximately 150
pianos, a fortepiano, three harpsichords, two concert organs, and a
large collection of instruments. The Blanche and Irving Laurie Music Collection, housed adjacent to the department in the Mabel Smith Douglass
Library, contains a major collection of books, scores, recordings, and
other resources for the scholar and the performing musician. In
addition, McKinney Hall is home to the university's Glee Club, while
Kirkpatrick Chapel hosts chamber music offerings as well as other
concerts and events. The new Performing Arts Wing will become a welcoming landmark on campus in the spring of 2013.
The state-of-the art facility will offer 13,490 square feet of
performing and practice space through its choral rehearsal hall and
adjacent choral suite, airy and inviting public atrium with coffee and
lunch bar, well-equipped dance studio, technology studio, administrative offices, and practice studios.
