Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music
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The Baldwin–Wallace College Conservatory of Music is part of Baldwin-Wallace College
which is located in Berea, Ohio
. The main building is Kulas Hall. The Conservatory is home to the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival, the oldest collegiate Bach
Festival in the United States.
. Before this time, music classes were offered at the Baldwin Institute for one dollar extra per term. In 1912, land donated by the citizens of Berea was used to expand the institution and improve the facilities for music. The Kulas Musical Arts Building was constructed, housing a $25,000 pipe organ
. Later, the Conservatory would expand into an adjacent residence hall (Merner-Pfeiffer Hall) and an enclosed bridge was constructed connecting the two buildings.
building, was renovated to house conservatory programs and attached to Merner-Pfeiffer Hall via a new connecting structure. The connecting structure was named Boesel Musical Arts Center. The expansion opened in 2011.
The Ferne Patterson Jones Music Library is located in the basement of Merner-Pfeiffer Hall. The library contains nearly 40,000 items, including approximately 13,000 volumes of printed music
.
Conservatory of Music host the first Collegiate Bach Festival in the Nation. As well, the festival carries the title for the oldest collegiate Bach festival in America. The festival was founded in 1932 by music educator Albert Riemenschneider and his wife Selma. The festival rotates Bach's four major works ~ the B-minor Mass, the St. John Passion, the St. Matthew Passion and the Christmas Oratorio ~ every four years in sequence. Since the inception of the Festival, Baldwin-Wallace's vocal and instrumental students perform the major choral and orchestral works with a cast of internationally renowned vocal soloists, faculty and local professionals. Today the program has become a three-day, multi-event.
performed in the spring of 2011. The conservatory presented the Puccini and Larson works in repertory, for the first time in the world, in February 2011 with nearly 80 students from the music theater and voice departments. Some singers performed in both productions. Sharing the same set, "Boheme," updated to the 1930s, received six performances during the run Feb. 15-27, 2011, at B-W's John Patrick Theatre, while "Rent" had 10 performances.
Phantom of the Opera
. The running had 12 performances and had more than 6,000 and had a cast of more than 50. As well the performances had a 35-piece orchestra and a production staff of nearly 100 students.
The production was groundbreaking on the fact that it provided R&H Theatricals with the roadmap for future local stagings of Phantom across America.
The Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music has many renowned alumni and faculty. Almost fifty percent of the faculty are members of The Cleveland Orchestra.
Baldwin-Wallace College
Baldwin–Wallace College is a liberal arts college in Berea, Ohio, founded in 1845. It is home to the Riemenschneider-Bach Institute and the Baldwin–Wallace Conservatory of Music, an internationally renowned music school. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Students receive a...
which is located in Berea, Ohio
Berea, Ohio
- History :The first European settlers were originally from Connecticut. Berea fell within Connecticut's Western Reserve and was surveyed and divided into townships and ranges by one Gideon Granger, a gentleman who served as Postmaster General under President Thomas Jefferson...
. The main building is Kulas Hall. The Conservatory is home to the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival, the oldest collegiate Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
Festival in the United States.
History
The undergraduate-only conservatory was founded in 1898 by Dr. Albert RiemenschneiderAlbert Riemenschneider
Albert Riemenschneider was an American musician and Bach musicologist.Riemenschneider was born into a musical family. His father, Karl H. Riemenschneider,There are two conflicting sources about the name of his father: T. Riemenschneider & L...
. Before this time, music classes were offered at the Baldwin Institute for one dollar extra per term. In 1912, land donated by the citizens of Berea was used to expand the institution and improve the facilities for music. The Kulas Musical Arts Building was constructed, housing a $25,000 pipe organ
Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
. Later, the Conservatory would expand into an adjacent residence hall (Merner-Pfeiffer Hall) and an enclosed bridge was constructed connecting the two buildings.
Facilities
The main conservatory buildings include Kulas Musical Arts Building, Merner-Pfeiffer Hall and Hanson Hall. Having outgrown its existing facilities, the Conservatory has embarked on a expansion and renovation project and in August 2008 acquired the adjacent First Congregational United Church of ChristUnited Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination primarily in the Reformed tradition but also historically influenced by Lutheranism. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC...
building, was renovated to house conservatory programs and attached to Merner-Pfeiffer Hall via a new connecting structure. The connecting structure was named Boesel Musical Arts Center. The expansion opened in 2011.
The Ferne Patterson Jones Music Library is located in the basement of Merner-Pfeiffer Hall. The library contains nearly 40,000 items, including approximately 13,000 volumes of printed music
Sheet music
Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols; like its analogs—books, pamphlets, etc.—the medium of sheet music typically is paper , although the access to musical notation in recent years includes also presentation on computer screens...
.
Majors
- Music Performance (all instruments including keyboard and voice)
- Music Education
- Music Therapy
- Music History and Literature
- Music Theory
- Music Composition
- Music Theatre
- Music in the Liberal Arts
Bach Festival
The Baldwin-Wallace CollegeBaldwin-Wallace College
Baldwin–Wallace College is a liberal arts college in Berea, Ohio, founded in 1845. It is home to the Riemenschneider-Bach Institute and the Baldwin–Wallace Conservatory of Music, an internationally renowned music school. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Students receive a...
Conservatory of Music host the first Collegiate Bach Festival in the Nation. As well, the festival carries the title for the oldest collegiate Bach festival in America. The festival was founded in 1932 by music educator Albert Riemenschneider and his wife Selma. The festival rotates Bach's four major works ~ the B-minor Mass, the St. John Passion, the St. Matthew Passion and the Christmas Oratorio ~ every four years in sequence. Since the inception of the Festival, Baldwin-Wallace's vocal and instrumental students perform the major choral and orchestral works with a cast of internationally renowned vocal soloists, faculty and local professionals. Today the program has become a three-day, multi-event.
Rent and La Bohème in Repertory
RentRent (musical)
Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...
performed in the spring of 2011. The conservatory presented the Puccini and Larson works in repertory, for the first time in the world, in February 2011 with nearly 80 students from the music theater and voice departments. Some singers performed in both productions. Sharing the same set, "Boheme," updated to the 1930s, received six performances during the run Feb. 15-27, 2011, at B-W's John Patrick Theatre, while "Rent" had 10 performances.
Phantom of the Opera
In 2007, Baldwin-Wallace was selected as One of Six Pre-Release Pilot Productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber'sAndrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera
Le Fantôme de l'Opéra is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in "Le Gaulois" from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910...
. The running had 12 performances and had more than 6,000 and had a cast of more than 50. As well the performances had a 35-piece orchestra and a production staff of nearly 100 students.
While there are no plans at this time to release Phantom to the stock and amateur market, we want to be fully prepared for when that great day arrives. What we learn from the production at Baldwin-Wallace College and five other sites we've chosen will help us with the process of bringing the longest running musical in Broadway history to theaters across the country.
—Charlie Scatamacchia, vice president for R&H Theatricals
The production was groundbreaking on the fact that it provided R&H Theatricals with the roadmap for future local stagings of Phantom across America.
Alumni & Faculty
- for a List of renowned BW Conservatory alumni, see List of BW Conservatory Alumni
The Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music has many renowned alumni and faculty. Almost fifty percent of the faculty are members of The Cleveland Orchestra.