Summit has enriched its conference through multiple artistic class sessions, activities and coffeehouses. The art and faith track of Summit was created to help attendees understand how art can affect and influence individual and worldly faith. Dr. Brady Bryce, director of ministry events, said he is looking forward to what these activities will ... [Read More…]
Summit discusses faith through fines art
Summit has enriched its conference through multiple artistic class sessions, activities and coffeehouses. The art and faith track of Summit was created to help attendees understand how art can affect and influence individual and worldly faith. Dr. Brady Bryce, director of ministry events, said he is looking forward to what these activities ... [Read More…]
The Greenhouse effect: Students turn house into concert venue
"We host private concerts in our living room." That's a sentence that very few people would be lucky enough to say. But also what one group of students gets to say every month. From the street, the little green house on North 23rd St. looks like any other Abilene residence, aside from its quirky color. Shaina Meitl and Kelly Seale, a junior and ... [Read More…]
John Legend changes tune
John Legend returned this week with his fourth studio album "Love in the Future." Displaying an effortlessly cool vibe and his signature twist on R&B, Legend has created arguably his best work yet. Inspired largely by his relationship with fiance Chrissy Teigen, the album veers off the path of his usual tales of female conquests and, as the ... [Read More…]
The Civil Wars fight a personal battle
The Civil Wars' new self titled album is everything expected from the popular duo. Barton Hollow, their debut album, quickly became a cultural phenomenon and placed extremely high expectations on the pair's second album. The Civil Wars deliver on all levels, expanding on their signature sound and revisiting the soulful, melancholic tunes that ... [Read More…]
Nine ‘Nauseating’ alumni
The 1940s makeshift music group of student known as the Nauseating Nine left a legacy of laughs on campus, students as fans and administration with frowns. The group's humble beginning can be traced back to childhood friends Joe Clayton ('50) and Bill Scott ('50) growing up in Shawnee, Okla. After a move separated the childhood friends, the two ... [Read More…]
Rapping, repping Christ
Every genre of music is accompanied by its own set of stereotypes. Classical is for the intellectual, country for rednecks, and so on. Rap and hip-hop are genres surrounded by negative stereotypes, particularly from the point of view of Christians, who might be eager to call it a genre of vulgarity and self-obsession. But one group of ACU students ... [Read More…]
Orchestra, choir to perform in Vespers
Rehearsals for the Christmas Vespers Concert began in October for both the ACU Orchestra and Choir, who have been working hard for this seasons upcoming show. This years Christmas Vespers Concert is Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Abilene on 1333 N. 3rd Street. Admission is free for everyone. This years 6th annual concert ... [Read More…]
Singers preparing for Monks show
Feet pat to the beat on the worn wooden stage, laughter echoes off of the walls and voices sing in sweet harmony when the PULSE A Cappella group assembles for rehearsal in Cullen auditorium. Nick Tatum, president of PULSE, gathers the group into a circle and they begin to sing "Where Joy and Sorrow Meets" by Avalon. Thirteen in all, the group not ... [Read More…]
Vocalists win in national competition
Twenty-nine ACU music students competed in the National Association of Teachers of Singing in Denton. Fourteen ACU students made it to the semi-finals and three won in their respective categories. Dr. Rick Piersall, assistant professor of voice, opera and music history, said NATS is the major professional organization for teachers of singing in ... [Read More…]