Senior Jeri Chapin creates jewelry for a metalworking class. Students were able to keep the items they made. Harding singero tour from Europe to midwootern U.S. Chorus performs with Arkansas Symphony Orchestra : · · · · · • • · · · · · · · · by sarah lair The music department had a full schedule all : "Hardingstudents have traditionally done well and year. Theyperformedmany traditionalconcertsand • have had several winners at the regional level." recitals,butalsoaddedothereventsandtripstohelp • The Homecoming production that the Departenrich their students' learning experiences. : ment of Music, in conjunction with the Department Dr.ArthurShearin,chairman of Communication, put on this of the music department, said a year was "Joseph and the Amazmajor activity for the chorus was ing Technicolor Dreamcoat." its annual campaign, this year to "(The Nii.TS conference) is With the help of the Central Europe. The group left May 14 when universitf:d and high Arkansas Hospital, Harding put and traveled for a month, sing- on another production called the school voice teachers cmd ing at churches and in public in Searcy Chamber Music Series on Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and sev- their students .. . assemble Feb. 12. "We, through the finaneral other countries. on our campus for a cial support of the Health Care In addition, the chorus sang Foundation, [were] able to put with the Arkansas Symphony three-da0 conference and this on," Shearin said. "They unOrchestra in a concert version of CO mpetitio VI. Harding derwrite one Chamber Music Sethe opera "Carmen." The Con- students have ries per semester." cert Choir, under Shearin's di- The music department also rection, took an extended tour of traditiona/10 done well made it possible for students to the midwestern United States at and have had several purchase reduced-price tickets the close of school in May. winners at the regional to operas in Memphis. In addition to chorus and level. ,, "There are usually about 300 choir tours, the department that make the trip," Shearin hosted the Southern Region Con- - Dr. Arthur Shearin said. ference of the National Associa- Students and faculty were tion of Teachers of Singing in also able to attend the Music early November. Educators' National Confer- "This is when university and high school voice • ence in March 2001. teachers and their students from Arkansas, Louisi- : Another tour that was taken within the departana and Mississippi assemble on our campus for a • ment was that of the symphonic band to the St. three-dayconferenceandcompetition,"Shearinsaid. • Louis area in February 2002. Photo by Daniel Dubois Carefully shaping her clay, senior Nicole Allison molds a pot for a ceramics class taught by Paul Pitt, professor of art. Hands-on experience was essential to art majors' preparation for their futures, whether in a teaching career or a professional capacity. art & music 145 11
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