2015 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest
Five Goshen College students gave speeches about issues close to their hearts during the college’s 2015 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on Feb. 17.
Five Goshen College students gave speeches about issues close to their hearts during the college’s 2015 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on Feb. 17.
Students from area middle and high schools competed at the annual Science Olympiad regional tournament on Saturday, Feb. 14.
Seven student winners of the 2014-15 Goshen College Concerto-Aria Competition performed arias and individual concerto movements with the Goshen College Symphony Orchestrain the 55th annual Concerto-Aria Concert on Saturday, Feb. 7 in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.
Goshen College students, faculty and community members focused on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and explored the theme “Be Brave, Show Grace: Advancing Intercultural Action” during the MLK Day celebration events on Jan. 18 and 19. The day included a community breakfast with Ewauare Osayande, anti-oppression coordinator with Mennonite Central Committee U.S., performances by the college's gospel choir Voices-N-Harmony, a convocation with Kanyere Eaton, the pastor of Fellowship Covenant Church, a Bronx-based congregation of the Evangelical Covenant Church, and various workshops.
Leading up to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, GC’s gospel choir Voices-N-Harmony, Notre Dames’s Voices of Faith gospel choir and other local gospel artists performed in the Umble Center.
On Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, Goshen College hosted an all-day “Music for Social Change” workshop featuring the musical method “El Sistema.” The workshop was organized by Horizon Education Alliance and several partners including Conn-Selmer Inc., Elkhart Community Schools and Goshen College. The featured speaker is Karen Zorn '84, president of Longy School of Music of Bard College. El Sistema is a music education program developed in Venezuela by José Antonio Abreu and is geared toward providing music instruction to students from low-income or under-served communities.
The 2014 Festival of Carols took place on Dec. 5-7 and featured four choirs and an orchestra, along with audience participation on traditional carols, all in a concert hall festively decorated with garlands, lights and trees.
The Goshen College Symphony Orchestra (GCSO) presented a family-friendly concert featuring music inspired by the children’s book “Old Turtle,” on Friday, Nov. 21.
The Goshen College Theater Department blended romance, death, humor, whimsy, music and poetry in Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice,” a contemporary retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus.
Goshen College Hymn Club held a hymn singing marathon in which singers sang through every verse of every song in the Mennonite hymnal.