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Andy Warhol's Signature pictured on Soup Can

Warhol Campbell’s Tomato Soup Can Restoration

Beloved University Landmark to Travel to Los Angeles This Spring The Colorado State University Art Museum is pleased to announce that the Campbell’s Tomato Soup Can, which is currently installed in front of Griffin Concert Hall at the University Center for the Arts, is to be restored this spring. The large scale can, signed by […]



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A Little Mozart, Anyone?

The University Center for the Arts begins its fall 2012 music concerts on Monday, August 27 with the Virtuoso Series Concert of chamber music from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in the Organ Recital Hall at the University Center for the Arts, located at 1400 Remington St. This special concert draws from the doctoral thesis […]


Funding Awarded to Arts Students for Final Project in “Entrepreneurship in the Arts”

Students from a new class at Colorado State University – Entrepreneurship in the Arts – were recently selected to receive a $1,000 award to help bring their end-of-term project to fruition. The course is one of the first offerings from the new Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Arts Advocacy, and the Public (LEAP) subject code at CSU. Proposals […]


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CSU Director of Bands Invited to Guest Conduct in Central America

Summer 2012 will be a busy and fulfilling season for the Colorado State University Director of Bands. Dr. Christopher Nicholas has been appointed principal guest band conductor and adviser to the National Sistema de Orquestas, Coros y Bandas de Guatemala and will conduct concerts there in June. In July he will serve on the conducting faculty […]


Peter Sommer playing the saxophone

Director of Jazz Studies will perform at the World Saxophone Congress in Scotland

Colorado State University saxophone faculty and Director of Jazz Studies Peter Sommer is traveling to Fife, Scotland to perform at the  2012 World Saxophone Congress XVI, held at St. Andrew’s on July 10-14, 2012. The Congress features an elite program of concerts, lectures, and recitals selected from a pool of submitted proposals and recordings, of […]


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CSU Flute Choir, Directed by Michelle Stanley, to play at National Convention

The Colorado State University Flute Choir and professors will take their playing to a national stage with an invitation to perform at the  40th Annual National Flute Association Convention at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 9–12, 2012. Nineteen groups from around the country were selected to perform at the four-day convention, which is […]


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Register for the 2012 CSU Marching Band

Greetings! We invite you to participate in another great CSU Marching Band season and be a part of history in supporting Coach McElwain’s inaugural season with the CSU Rams! Last year our 260-member band was the largest in the state and the Mountain West Conference, but we don’t care as much about size as we […]


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CSU Piano Professor Launches International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival

International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival – “A Journey to the Performance of a Lifetime” Colorado State University Professor Dr. Janet Landreth is set to launch the International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival U.S.A., presented in conjunction with the new CSU Summer Keyboard Institute (SKI/Colorado). Both IKOF and SKI/Colorado take place during the first week of August […]


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CSU Vocal Students win top prizes at the Denver Lyric Opera Guild annual competition

On March 3, 2012, fifteen finalists competed for top prizes in the annual Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition. Two vocal performance graduate students from Colorado State University won top honors: Kimberli Render, student of Dr. Tiffany Blake, won first prize and a $6,000 cash prize; Gene Stenger, student of Dr. Todd Queen, received Honorable Mention. […]