“Opera Connects” is an artistic partnership between the faculty, alumni and current students of Xavier University of Louisiana and Loyola University New Orleans. Founded in 2022, the group presents its annual concert on Nov. 17, 2024. This concert is produced by our instructor of Loyola Opera Workshop, Carol Rausch.

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Come see a double feature of two of our Jazz Ensembles! This big band performance will feature students of Professor Wess Anderson and Professor Jason Mingeldorff.

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Catch our wonderful Vocal Jazz Ensemble in concert, led by the Director for the School of Music & Theatre Professions, Kate Duncan.    

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Come hear Loyola's full concert band perform masterpieces from the band repertoire, led by our Director of Bands, Professor Brent Echols.    

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Music Education Lecture Series

The Loyola University Music Education Lecture Series was developed to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of students, faculty, and music teachers in the Greater New Orleans region, and the community at large by bringing distinguished individuals in the music education profession to campus for presentations on specialized subjects.  Since 2008, distinguished music educators, composers, conductors, and scholars have been brought to Loyola University New Orleans’ campus annually to make 1-day presentations in the Music Education Lecture Series.  In 2014, this program was expanded to the Music Education Scholar-in-Residence Series to engage notable music educators, scholars, and researchers in extended (i.e., 2-3 day) seminars with Loyola University New Orleans music education, music, and other CMM majors, faculty, and area school music teachers, in order to delve more deeply into specific subjects important to music teaching and learning and the overall music education profession.

On Friday, November 22, 2024, Dr. Lou Fischer will present a special workshop on “Jazz Pedagogy” with students, faculty, and school music teachers in the Greater New Orleans community.  This workshop is free to the public.

BIO

Dr. Lou Fischer is Professor of Music, Jazz Activities Coordinator and Jazz Ensemble Director at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the big band program, teaches American Pop/Jazz Theory, Beginning/Advanced Jazz Arranging and Contemporary Jazz Bass. A member of the internationally recognized University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band (1971-1974), Dr. Fischer received a BM in Jazz Performance, magna cum laude (1991) and a MA in Composition with honors (1992) from the University of Denver. He holds a Doctor of Arts in Bass Performance with a secondary in theory and composition from Ball State University in Indiana. Dr. Fischer is an honorary life member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda at BSU.

Dr. Fischer's forty plus years in the entertainment industry includes composing and/or performing over two thousand commercial advertisements and over fifty Broadway shows as well as extensive music tours with Bill Watrous; Red Rodney; The Crusaders; Airto; Charlie Byrd; Tony Bennett; Andy Williams; Emmylou Harris; Rich Matteson; and the orchestras of Woody Herman, Louis Bellson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Les Hooper, Tex Beneke and Jimmy Dorsey, among many others. Dr. Fischer has multiple international album releases under his own name and can be heard on numerous recordings, including Steve Houghton's The Manne We Love: Gershwin Revisited; Bill Watrous' A Time for Love and Bone-ified; Shelly Berg Trio's The Joy; Frank Mantooth Jazz Orchestra's A Miracle; Sunny Wilkinson's High Wire; and Beaux J Poo Boo's All Things Are New as well as the album by Dr. Fischer, Ndugu Chancler, Fred Hamilton and Pat Coil, highTIME.

Dr. Fischer has appeared as a guest director, soloist, clinician and adjudicator at jazz festivals in Europe, Canada, Japan, Korea, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Australia and Mexico as well as at over two hundred high schools and universities in the United States. He remains in great demand worldwide, having directed the All-State Jazz Ensembles of Colorado, Texas, North Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Tennessee. Dr. Fischer has also directed the Music for All Jazz Band of America on multiple occasions, and he was jazz division faculty and Division Head for the renowned Music for All Summer Symposium from 1996-2010.

A longtime advocate and champion for jazz education, Dr. Fischer is Co-Founder, Past President and Past Operations Administrator of the Jazz Education Network and serves as the Conference Coordinator. His service to the International Association for Jazz Education has included roles as United States Representative, IAJE Executive Board member, Past-President of OH, Leadership-Advocacy Committee Co-Chair, Resource Team member, New Music Instrumental Chair (1989-2008), Midwest Regional Conference Planning Committee member for multiple conferences, performer/clinician/presider at international conferences, Teacher Training Institutes clinician and International Conference Selection Review Process Committee Chair. Dr. Fischer was owner and operator of his own music publishing company for thirteen years, where he distributed over 350 jazz-related materials. With many compositions, articles and method books in print, Dr. Fischer is published by Walrus Publishing, Hal Leonard, Kendor Music and Alfred Music and has been a frequent contributor to JAZZed Magazine, the Jazz Educators Journal and The Instrumentalist. Dr. Fischer plays the Yamaha Silent Basses exclusively.

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It's the annual Loyola Wind Ensemble and Bourgeois Honor Band performance! Come hear Loyola's top wind ensemble as they are joined by hand-selected high school musicians from across the state for a special collaborative performance. This concert will be led by our Director of Bands, Prof. Brent Echols, joined by special guest conductor, Colonel John Bourgeois, former conductor of the President's Own Marine Band.    

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Comes see some of the finest performers Loyola has to offer compete for a chance to perform with the Loyola Symphony Orchestra in the Spring! This is a chance to hear our students preparing wonderful solo repertoire.    

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