The Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. Music Director Antoine T. Clark will conduct a program titled “British Wind Band Classics,” featuring works by William Walton, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Gustav Holst, Gordon Jacob and Percy Grainger. Erin Helgeson Torres, flute instructor at ONU, will feature as soloist on Martin Ellerby’s “Neapolitan Serenade.”
The Ohio Northern University Department of Music will present a cello recital at 8 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 25, in the Presser Hall recital hall at ONU. The event is free and open to the public.
The recital features cellist Alan Smith accompanied by Pamela Ashmore on piano. Smith is an ONU instructor of cello, and Ashmore is an ONU instructor of piano. The program will include an eclectic mix of classic and contemporary pieces, from composers such as Bach, Granados, Fauré, Rachmaninov, Brahms and Mexican composer Emmanuel Arias y Lunas.
Ohio Northern University is hosting several events in February to commemorate Black History Month. All events are free and open to the public. They include:
“Chasing after King & his dream: The civil rights movement after Dr. King’s assassination” at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the English Chapel. Lunch will be served.
It’s a bone chilling experience, but someone has to do it – we guess.
Ohio Northern University students provided new meaning to the term ice-breaker with the annual Polar Plunge from on Saturday at the pond inside of fraternity circle.
The annual event, sponsored by Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, raises money for the American Red Cross. Students pay $5 each to jump into the lake or to sponsor a friend.
This is the 10th annual plunge, which raises between $1,000 and $2,000 each year.
Members of the Ada-Liberty Township fire department broke the ice for the jumpers.
ONU women’s and men’s track and field teams continue their national rankings this week. Here’s an update on both teams.
Women’s team
The Ohio Northern women's track and field program moved up 31 spots this week to No. 25 on the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association indoor national power rankings, the national office announced Tuesday afternoon.
In the fourth weekly power rankings, the Polar Bears earned 31.67 team points.
Washington (Mo.) resides atop the power rankings list with 164.43 points. Meanwhile, Williams (Mass.) and Loras (Iowa) sit second and third with 124.42 and 103.07 points, respectively.
Exhibition celebrates the use of self-imposed constraints on the creative process and the surprisingly innovative results that can occur.
Playing by the Rules: Artists Creating Under Constraints features the work of 6 national and international artists who have used self-imposed rules in their creative process, be it comics, short stories, paintings, or haiku’s.
The exhibit is in the Elzay Gallery of the Wilson Art Center on the ONU campus.
These artists were members of Matt Madden’s online course, Build Your Own Labyrinth offered through the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the works on view are samples of the results of this course.
