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Members of the SFA Steel Band, White Oak freshman Tyler Caldwell (left) and Kennedale freshman Joseph Alvarado, perform at a recent event at The Cole Art Center. The Steel Band will present its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Cole Concert Hall.NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The SFA Steel Band will perform traditional, Caribbean and Latin favorites during its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin State University student Andy Collins recently tried out caps for sale locally that benefit Operation Hat Trick, a national program created at the University of New Hampshire to memorialize Nate Hardy and Mike Koch, two U.S. Navy SEALs who died in Iraq in 2008.
Stephen F. Austin State University's Department of Kinesiology and Health Science will present the dance program's spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 25, in W.M. Turner Auditorium.NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin State University's Department of Kinesiology and Health Science will present the dance program's spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 25, in W.M. Turner Auditorium.
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Future college students will have the opportunity to experience a taste of campus life during an action-packed open-house Saturday, March 31, at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches.
Dr. Isidor Saslav, former director of strings at Stephen F. Austin State University, will be honored at the Isidor Saslav String Scholarship Benefit Concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Since January, 15 Stephen F. Austin State University theatre students and their directors have been collaborating on the script, rehearsing lines and perfecting musical numbers for the upcoming performances of "Purple Daze: A Student's Guide to Surviving Four (or More) Years At SFA."
The (New) Original Cast, the School of Theatre's musical cabaret troupe, will present the play at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 23; at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24; and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 25. All shows are in the Downstage Theatre of the Griffith Fine Arts Building.
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Dr. Kevin Sedatole, former band director at Stephen F. Austin State University, will return to campus to guest conduct the SFA Wind Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 23, in Cole Concert Hall.
Sedatole is one of five guest conductors who will be leading the Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony during the concert, which precedes the SFA bands' annual conducting symposium the next day.
Sedatole, who taught at SFA from 1991 to 1996, will be the clinician. He is currently director of bands and chair of the conducting area at Michigan State University.
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Mark E. Turner, associate professor of elementary music education for Stephen F. Austin State University, will deliver a lecture, "Rhythm, Language and Meaning: Expanding on the Research of Daniel Levitin," from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday, March 23, in the Music Recital Hall (Room 160) of the Wright Music Building.
Champion step dancers of The StepCrew will fuse three distinct dance forms-Irish step, traditional tap and Ottawa Valley step in an energetic, Celtic-inspired performance of music and dance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - A collaborative project between Stephen F. Austin State University student writers and artists will culminate in the opening of "Pen, Pigment & Metal: Collaborate" at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, in Griffith Gallery, located in Griffith Fine Arts Building, Room 208.
For the project, fiction-writing students, under the direction of Assistant Professor Andrew Brininstool, wrote short stories that the art metal/jewelry students, directed by Assistant Professor Lauren B. Selden, responded to by creating three-dimensional works of art.