Tickets are still available for the next performance in the 2010-11 Bluffton University Artist Series, by Percussion Group Cincinnati at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The three-member group has awakened concert audiences to a wider world of music since 1979, using everything from amplified cactus needles, newspapers and garbage cans to the traditional sounds of drums, cymbals and bells from around the world.
Dr. Mark Suderman, professor of music at Bluffton University, will discuss how to develop better choral tone during a Bluffton Colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Suderman's presentation will center on research he conducted during his spring 2010 sabbatical, when he studied material on choral tone production and warm-up exercises, then consulted with and observed multiple choral conductors.
"Traces of Entropy," an exhibition by Andreas Baumgartner, a 2008 Bluffton University art graduate, is on display through Oct. 31 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery of Bluffton's Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The introduction may go something like that when Dr. J. Denny Weaver, professor emeritus of religion at Bluffton University, meets the new Bluffton mascot named in his honor on Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 9, at the university. The two J. Dennys will get together for the first time at 12:30 p.m. in the picnic tent inside Salzman Stadium.
Weaver, a leading theologian, was a faculty member from 1975-2006 and Bluffton's faculty athletics representative for 22 of those years.
Bluffton University's mathematics department will host its ninth annual mathematics competition for high school students on Saturday, Oct. 30, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The event, which is free, is being held in conjunction with Family Day at the university.
Dr. Lynda Nyce, professor of sociology at Bluffton University, will discuss the immigration issue as both political and personal during a Bluffton Colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Nyce's presentation will center on research she conducted during her 2008-09 sabbatical as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning at Goshen (Ind.) College.
