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El Sistema workshop

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.

A Festival of Carols

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.

Goshen College Symphony Orchestra fall concert

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. 

Fall Mainstage: Eurydice

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.

Sing for Peace hymn sing

Goshen College Hymn Club held a hymn singing marathon in which singers sang through every verse of every song in the Mennonite hymnal. 

Fall Choral Concert

Performing were the Goshen College Chamber Choir and Men’s Chorus, directed by Scott Hochstetler, and the Goshen College Women’s World Music Choir, directed by Debra Brubaker. Joining the GC choirs was the Bethany Christian High School Concert Choir, directed by Nathan Swartzendruber, a 2009 Goshen College graduate. All four choirs performed individually and as a mass chorus.

BSU/LSU Talent Show

Date: Oct. 25, 2014 Photographer: Hannah Sauder ’16 Students in the Black Student Union and Latino Student Union share their talents.

S.A. Yoder Lecture: Jeff Gundy

S.A. Yoder Lecture: “Poetry, the Sleeping King, and Creative Doubt” by Jeff Gundy Date and time: Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Photographers: Alia Munley ’15 and Brian Yoder Schlabach ’07…

CCYC visits the nursing department

This spring, Vicky Kirkton, associate professor and director of the RN to BSN program at Goshen College invited the Campus Center for Young Children (CCYC) four year old class (including her granddaughter, Brianna) to the simulation lab in the Department of Nursing  to learn what nurses do. The children were able to…

May Term sculpture show

Date: May 21, 2014…