The Hesston College Music Department will close out another successful year of music with three student recitals. The recitals are free and open to the public. Deni Brummer, Hutchinson, Kan., will perform a voice recital at 7 p.m., Friday, April 26 at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. Brummer, a soprano, studies under […]
Hesston College physics students Keenan Jensen, Hesston, Kan., and Ron Wenger, Adair, Okla., talk with Earth Day guests about the electric bicycles with solar power charging stations they helped build. Other students presented about a possible solar electric plan for the J.D. Charles Hall of Science and Arts and environmental biology and microbiology students presented […]
The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers will celebrate 30 years of making music with a May tour to the east coast May 6 to 16, highlighted by a four-day New York City excursion. While in New York, the choir will participate in a Carnegie Hall performance and perform solo concerts at Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship and […]
The Hesston College Music Department will feature several students in sophomore recitals as the academic year approaches its close. Ashley Beatty and Alisa Murray will perform a joint violin and voice recital at 4 p.m., Saturday, April 13, in the Northlawn Studio Theatre on the Hesston College campus. Vocalist Broxton Busenitz will perform his recital […]
The refined vocal excellence of Calmus, a German a cappella ensemble, will round out the 2012-13 Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts season with a concert entitled “Bright Side of Life” at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 14, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. Following the concert, HBPA will host a dessert reception in the Hesston […]
Hesston College and the Hutchinson Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will sponsor an Easter Hymn Festival at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 4, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. The program is free and open to the public. The program will feature music for the Easter season by organist Ken Rodgers, […]
“Portraits of Change,” a traveling art exhibit by artists from a prison art class, is featured in Hesston College’s Regier-Friesen Gallery on the Hesston College campus through April 5. The inmates participate in the class through Offender Victim Ministries in Newton, Kan., taught by Youthville’s Micala Gingrich-Gaylord. “The Portraits of Change program is based on […]
Hesston College violinist Michaela Zook will perform a recital at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 23, at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus. The public is invited to attend. Zook, a violinist from Hesston, Kan., studies under adjunct violin instructor Nancy Johnson. She is the daughter of Kevin and Marcella Zook of Hesston. Accompanied […]
An increasing number of college students are not only learning that a transfer process is nothing to be feared, they are recognizing the benefits of starting one place and going another. Some college students fear transfer horror stories and worst-case scenarios like losing course credits, having to re-take classes and needing extra semesters to finish […]
The Hesston College Chorale will present a spring break bon voyage concert at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 5 at Hesston Mennonite Church. The concert is free and open to the public though a free-will offering will be collected to cover program costs. The program of sacred choral music celebrates the Lenten season and is a […]
Hesston College Vice President of Academics Sandra Zerger announced the appointment of Richard Binkley to the new position of Aviation Operations Manager. Binkley will serve the college’s aviation department through financial planning and management, fleet management, curriculum oversight and classroom and flight instruction. He began his role February 11. “We added this new role in […]
A classic Broadway show will make a renewed appearance with the Hesston College theatre department’s spring musical production “She Loves Me” Feb. 22, 24, 28 and March 1 to 3. The musical, which first appeared on Broadway in 1963, is one of several adaptations of the play “Parfumerie” by the Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo – […]
What the “Kansas City Star” called “a heady rush of tapping heels, dazzling costumes and insistent rhythms” comes to Bethel College’s Memorial Hall stage Feb. 23. The fourth event in the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts series for 2012-13 brings the Ballet Folklorico “Quetzalli” de Veracruz to south central Kansas to share indigenous and other traditional Mexican […]
For a singer, few things compare to hearing the reverberation of a choir ring through vaulted cathedral ceilings. But in Kansas, cathedrals are hard to come by. The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers and the Goessel High School Elbiata Singers managed to find one of the few scattered on the Kansas prairie – St. Fidelis […]
Artist Kurt Wolf of Salina, Kan., is the featured artist with his assemblage wall art and sculptures made from scavenged items in the Hesston College Regier Friesen Gallery in the Friesen Center for Visual Arts through Feb. 17. Wolf’s exhibit, “Up From the Scrap Heap to the Art We Keep: Recycled and Repurposed Sculptural Assemblages,” […]
