![Opperman Music Hall](opperman-pic.jpg)
![Opperman Music Hall](opperman-pic2.jpg)
![Opperman Music Hall](opperman-pic3.jpg)
![Holtkamp Tracker Organ](organ-pic.jpg)
![Sellers Music Ampitheater](sellers-pic.jpg)
![Wescott Building](wescott-pic.jpg)
![Lindsay Recital Hall](lindsay-pic.jpg)
![Longmire Building](longmire-pic.jpg)
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Each
year the School of Music offers over 400 concerts
and recitals featuring faculty members, students,
guest artists, and ensembles of all sizes. Performance
opportunities include seven choral ensembles,
jazz bands, concert bands, chamber music, music
theatre, opera, orchestras and various special
ensembles.
Opperman
Music Hall is a 500 seat recital hall located
in the Kuersteiner Building. As a result of the
recent renovation, the hall can now accommodate
concerts ranging from solo recitals to chamber
orchestra and band concerts, as well as opera.
The 1975, 34-stop Holtkamp Tracker Organ seen
on the stage is used for recitals, concerts, and
lessons. Other organs are available in the school
to students for practice and performance.
The Owen F. Sellers Music Amphitheater is used
for outdoor performances in the fall and spring.
Among many accomplishments, Owen Sellers served
as the assistant dean of the School of Music from
1931 until 1973, and organized and directed the
first band.
The
Westcott Building was constructed in 1909. An
auditorium was added to the building in 1917 and
later named after Miss Ruby Diamond, an FSCW graduate
and FSU benefactor. It is a 1575 seat facility
used for opera and major concert productions.
Westcott was known as the Administration Building
until 1936 when it was officially named after
James D. Westcott, Jr., former Attorney General
and Supreme Court Justice. The Westcott Building
burned in 1969 and when it was renovated, the
fourth floor, previously an attic, was added as
office space. The Westcott Plaza was recently
renovated and is now paved with commemorative
bricks. Graduates, family and supporters of FSU
and the Florida State College for Women are encouraged
to purchase their own personally engraved bricks
for permanent installation around the Plaza. See
the Westcott Plaza live via webcam!
Lindsay
Recital Hall is named for Joe Lindsay, a retired
businessman from Carabelle, Florida. His initial
interest in music began as an adult when he started
taking viola lessons with a member of the faculty.
His support extended to many generous financial
contributions to the School of Music, one of which
includes a four-year scholarship awarded to an
undergraduate string player. Once a choral rehearsal
hall, Lindsay Hall is now used as a third recital
hall.
The
Dohnanyi Recital Hall is a 218 seat facility used
mainly for recitals and lectures. Ernst Von Dohnanyi,
for whom this recital hall is named, was a composer-in-residence
at FSU from 1949 until his death in 1960. A world-renowned
composer and pianist, he was director of the Budapest
Music Academy, and held other important posts
in his native Hungary until the outbreak of World
War II. Many of his works are still performed
throughout the world today.
The
Longmire Building houses several music theory
faculty offices as well as piano teaching classrooms.
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