Folder 20: Academics: Music

Nancy K. Klein, Assistant Professor of Music, gets a workout while conducting a recent rehearsal of the Concert Choir in the Chandler Recital Hall. Klein invited boys and girls from the Virginia Beach Police Athletic League to the rehearsal as part of an ongoing effort to expose more children to classical music.

Dennis J. Zeisler, Associate Professor of Music, (clarinet), and Glenn Winters, Adjunct Instructor of Music, perform a program titled, "Music From the French Revolution to the Present," during a lunch-hour recital in the Batten Arts and Letters Building auditorium.

Robert Reich of the Andover Organ Company works to install a tracker action organ for the ODU Music Department.

ODU choral students perform at a concert.

Benjamin Mague, a mechanical designer with the Andover Organ Company, tests the music's department's new pipe organ for tonal quality.

A student's violin.

Because funds did not permit the Center for Performimg Arts to be humidity controlled, a unique solution was devised to maintain the proper humidity levels for the facility's 34 pianos. Each of the instruments contains a portable humidifier, which keeps the wood and strings from drying out. Scott Richardson, a student worker in the music department, checks the humidity levels and adds water when needed.