The Music Department at Washington & Lee offers a major
and a minor in music. Music majors receive a Bachelors of Arts, choosing a sequence focused on Musicology,
Performance or Theory/Composition. Participation in the Department's instrumental and
choral ensembles along with private instruction for all instruments and voice is open to
all W&L students for credit.
The Department offers numerous concerts each year including those by
student ensembles, our Concert Guild series, and Sonoklect, the new music/jazz series. Performances are held in
the state-of-the-art Wilson Concert Hall (opened in 2006) and
the Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts. Department ensembles regularly tour the United States, Europe, Asia and South America.
Please visit our
Performance Calendar for a current list of upcoming concerts and events.
The
Music Business Seminar series hosts
two entertainment lawyers from Nashville on Friday, November 13th at 3:30pm in the Wilson Concert Hall. The attorneys, Page Kelley
and Robert Baker, are both alumni of
Washington & Lee and will discuss their involvement in the music
industry. Learn more about the attorneys at their
website:
http://www.rowlawyers.com
Members of the faculty will combine with the two featured speakers in a panel as part of the
seminar to discuss trends in the music industry. There will be plenty of Q&A as well as free give-aways!
Baker and Kelley are to be involved in two small conferences with
interested students from the Undergraduate and Law Schools on the day
of the seminar, Friday November 13th. The schedule is:
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Dave Douglas comes to Washington and Lee with his quintet, Brass Ecstasy. The concert is at 8pm in Wilson Hall. A reception will follow the performance.
In addition, Douglas will lead a session entitled "Being a jazz musician in the 21st century" at 3pm in Wilson Hall.
If anyone at all is qualified to talk about this issue, it is Douglas. From his New York base, where he’s lived since the mid 1980s, he has
earned lavish national and international acclaim, including being named trumpeter, composer, and jazz “Artist of the Year” by such
organizations as the New York Jazz Awards, DownBeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, and the Italian Jazz Critics’ Society. This should be of
interest to jazz musicians, jazz fans and anyone at all curious about the state of jazz today.
All events are free to the public.
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On Saturday 24 October 2009, Dave Douglas comes to Washington and Lee with his quintet, Brass Ecstasy. The concert is at 8pm in Wilson Hall. A reception will follow the performance.