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Opperman Music Hall

Opperman Music Hall

Opperman Music Hall

Holtkamp Tracker Organ

Sellers Music Ampitheater

Wescott Building

Lindsay Recital Hall

Longmire Building

 

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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