Organ Colloquium

Organ Department Colloquium: Each Monday evening, the entire organ department gathers for a session devoted to relevant professional topics and practical work in aspects of sacred music practice. Some sessions involve a guest master class or lecture, as well as faculty and student presentations. Also, over the course of one academic year, each student prepares a hymn to play on the organ, while the class and faculty function as the congregation. Likewise, each student prepares a choral anthem with organ accompaniment, and rehearses the class and faculty as if they were a choir, and then conducts and accompanies simultaneously a performance. Consequently, each student performs one hymn and one anthem per year for the helpful feedback of colleagues and teachers. Colloquium is held in Schmitt Hall, but sometimes at Memorial Art Gallery or a local church in order to use those instruments and spaces.