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Percussion Group Cincinnati next in Bluffton Artist Series

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 8, 2010 - 8:59am

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.

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Suderman to present colloquium on choral tone

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 8, 2010 - 8:58am

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.

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Alumnus displays 'Traces of Entropy' at Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 8, 2010 - 8:57am

"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.

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J. Dennys to meet at Bluffton University homecoming

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 8, 2010 - 8:51am

J. Denny Weaver, meet J. Denny Beaver.

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.

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U 12 team has great weekend at Findlay

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 6, 2010 - 5:58pm

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Bluffton's U12 soccer team had a successful weekend at a tournament in Findlay recently.

Team members, front from left Josh Begg, Lelani Bischoff, Jaelyn Lancaster, Eli Bourassa, Phillip Tatarkov, William Dietsch.

Middle row from left, Kelli Leugers, Nash White, Mary Steiner, Trevor Bunch, Oliver Romick.

Top row from left, Coach Alan Begg, Goalie Tyler King, Coach Mark Bourassa. Not pictured Noah Woodruff

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Bluffton dominates at Riverdale Invitational

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 6, 2010 - 5:38pm

By Hannah Chappell-Dick

(P-G girls results at bottom)

On Sept. 30, the Bluffton cross country team walked out of the school and onto the bus. They drove to the Riverdale Invitational: an unusually large Thursday meet of about 10 schools.

In year's past, the course, while fast, has been hard and uneven. This year, however, two days of rain softened the ground and made it much more pleasant to race on. The flat course, beautiful fall weather, and the high number of competitors helped many Pirates lower their times.Bluffton

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