The best way to see Gettysburg is in three dimensions, in person, on a campus visit. But the pictures here will give you a taste for the campus, the buildings, residence halls, classrooms, the library, and other resources and facilities on campus.
Gettysburg's Owl & Nightingale Players perform Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" on the Kline Theatre stage.
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The College Choir, Gettysburg's premier choral ensemble, tours nationally or internationally every spring. In March 2008 the group will perform for audiences in Puerto Rico.
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Each spring, senior studio art majors exhibit their best work in Schmucker Art Gallery as part of their capstone experience.
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Schmucker Art Gallery features the work of Gettysburg students and faculty, as well as visiting artists from around the world. First Friday gallery openings draw enthusiastic crowds.
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Visual arts facilities include well-equipped sculpture and ceramics studios.
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Students need not be art majors to take courses in drawing, painting, 2- and 3-dimensional design, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and photography.
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Art students draw inspiration from the campus architecture and the landscape of the surrounding area.
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Faculty members in the visual arts department become their students' mentors, advisors, friends, and colleagues.
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Camerata, an advanced ensemble, performs everything from madrigals to vocal jazz. The group sings with the College Jazz Ensemble and at other concerts and special events.
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Robert Mangold's Anemotive Kinetic is part of a rotating series of large-scale public sculpture on display throughout Gettysburg's campus. The exhibition was made possible by alumnus Greg Islan '70 and the Department of Visual Arts.
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Martin Puryear's Sentinel is part of Gettysburg College's permanent sculpture collection.
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The Symphony Orchestra performs music representative of three centuries of orchestral literature.
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The College's Sunderman Conservatory of Music offers three degree programs: the bachelor of arts in music, the bachelor of science in music education, and the bachelor of music in performance.
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Kline Theatre is filled with the vibrant spectacle of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors," a production by Gettysburg's Owl & Nightingale Players.
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A student-run Dance Ensemble provides dancers with an outlet for creativity and performance.
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All performing ensembles are open to any student regardless of major, and indeed the membership of the ensembles represents a cross-section of the student body.
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Student and faculty sculptors express their passions through metal, stone, clay, paper, and various other artistic media.
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Student actors perform a scene from Moliere's "The Miser" on the Kline Theatre stage.
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Students have jazz instruction with Conservatory Director and Professor of Music Buzz Jones. His progressive jazz orchestra, The Buzz Jones Big Band, has toured Europe three times.
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As part of their capstone experience, junior and senior music majors demonstrate their vocal or instrumental mastery by giving individual recitals for the College community.
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Individualized lessons are an integral part of the major and minor programs in music.
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The Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble studies and performs a wide variety of literature encompassing orchestral transcriptions, concert marches, and 20th-century wind band masterworks.
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Audition-based music talent awards include the F. William Sunderman Scholarship for Bachelor of Music degree candidates and the Parker B. Wagnild Scholarship available to students who plan to participate in the College's major musical ensembles.
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The Conservatory was made possible by the generous gift of F. William Sunderman, a graduate of the Class of 1919 Sunderman's bequest included his collections of antique violin bows and historic musical scores.
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Visual arts graduates have gone on to earn graduate degrees at some of the finest institutions in the world. They become teachers, professional and commercial artists, industrial designers, architects, and gallery directors, just to name a few.
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The Conservatory offers faculty- and student-directed chamber music ensembles including brass and woodwind quintets, saxophone and string quartets, a clarinet choir, a flute ensemble, and various combinations of chamber ensembles incorporating piano.
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts Susan Russell directs an interactive acting class.
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Gettysburg's Jazz Ensemble has traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe with performances at the North Sea and Montreux International Jazz Festivals.
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Paul Recital Hall, a 200-seat acoustically rich performance space, is equipped with state-of-the-art recording capabilities.
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The Women's Choir, directed by Associate Professor of Music Sharon Davis Gratto, performs sacred and secular music from various periods both on campus and in the community.
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Through performance of a diverse repertoire, singers in the World Music Ensemble gain a better understanding of the role of music in world cultures, including those within the United States.
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