Candles and Carols has been a holiday tradition at AU for 52 years. The show celebrates the holiday season with the different performance groups at AU. This year, Candles and Carols took place on Friday, Dec. 2 and featured more than 250 student performers. With such a massive production, a committed crew was needed backstage. The backstage crew for Candles and Carols consisted of less than 10 AU students who were led by Dave Crump, who also did the lighting. The sound for the event was led by … [Read more...]
‘Deathtrap’ set to entice audience with murder
Rick Vale, the stage director of “Deathtrap,” the upcoming fall play at AU, says that “this show is described as a ‘comic thriller’ because it has elements of a murder-mystery as told in a comic way.” Vale and the cast have been rehearsing since Oct. 24, so they will have only been working on the show for a little over a month by the time it premieres. The cast consists of only three men and two women, while about 10 other people work with costumes, lights and assisting with other … [Read more...]
Budget cuts hit music department
A few weeks ago, President Pistole announced changes to many programs across AU. One of the departments that was heavily impacted by these changes was the music department, which lost four programs, combined two programs into one and is losing a handful of staff members at the end of the school year. The four programs being lost are church music, instrumental performance, voice performance and jazz studies. The Music Business, and Entertainment and Music Business majors are being combined into … [Read more...]
Author, professor Rev. Dr. Lauren Winner to speak at AU
Dr. Lauren Winner will be visiting AU as part of the Truth, Faith, and Service speaker series. The series focuses on the values found on the AU seal: utilitas (service), fidelitas (faith), and veritas (truth). Winner’s speech will take place on Friday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in York Performance Hall as part of the year-long Centennial celebration at AU. Winner works at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina as an associate professor of Christian spirituality. Beyond teaching, she writes … [Read more...]
Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Rush visits AU
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, AU celebrated Constitution Day with guest speaker Loretta Rush, the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. Rush spoke in York Performance Hall to a room full of AU students, community members, judges and even a class of high school students from Alexandria-Monroe High School. Constitution Day is a federally required time of reflection on the Constitution by educational institutions on or around Sept. 17 each year. During her lecture, Rush spoke on her experiences in … [Read more...]
Covenant Productions staff creates music video
Earlier this summer, an alumnus of AU had an idea to create a music video to Justin Timberlake’s hit song, “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” that would feature the faculty, staff, and student groups at AU. He kept directing the video in his head but couldn’t quite figure out how to get the job done. Eventually, he shared the project with David Armstrong, the operations director at Covenant Productions, AU’s on-campus video production company. Armstrong decided that the video could be used as a tool to … [Read more...]