Center for the Performing Arts
Building Description
The Center of Performing Arts is a traditional proscenium theatre, seating 355 patrons. Free parking in campus lots is available off Patterson Avenue and Maple Street or along the streets. The Department of Theatre holds its Mainstage Season in the Gates-Abegglen with typically three or four fully-mounted, faculty-directed productions per academic year. Opened in 1967, the CPA sits on the Fine Arts Plaza, adjacent to Hiestand Hall and the Art Building. Directly across the plaza from the CPA is the Shriver Center. The Center of Performing Arts is also home to the Department of Music. This is a non-smoking venue. No cameras or recording equipment permitted during performances.
History
The Center of Performing Arts was completed in 1967. The CPA underwent a number of renovations in 2006 to expand the Departments of Theatre and Music.
- Phone
- (513) 529-6333
- Address
- 119 Center of Performing Arts, Oxford, OH 45056
- Amos Music Library
- The Amos Library exceeds 4,000 square feet in size and houses the system's extensive music holdings. The constantly growing collection includes more than14,000 books, 17,800 scores, 75 current periodical subscriptions, and the collected works of almost every major composer.
The Listening Center/lounge area, refurbished in 2006, features 12 computer workstations for computer and listening activites, six traditional listening stations, and an area for relaxation and computer work via the CPA's wireless connection system. The recordings available in the Listening Center exceed 9,000 CD's and 8,000 vinyl discs.
The Center for the Performing Arts is also home to two electronic music studios. The large studio serves as a classroom for Miami's innovative and popular Electronic Music class, an audio recording facility, and as a general haven of music technology. Equipped with a MIDI-interfaced Macintosh computer, keyboard, and a series of tone generators and signal processors, as well as multi-track recording devices, the studio is suitable for advanced work in the field of electronic music.
The second studio is provided as a lab for electronic music students to work on class assignments, as well as independent projects. This smaller space provides digital multi-track recording, analog MiniMoog synthesizer, MIDI keyboard with two tone generators, and effects processors.
The Music Recording Service, also located in Miami University's Center for Performing Arts, offers direct-to-CD live recording of concerts and recitals using professional equipment including digital-audio editing software and CD burning capabilities. Priced reasonably, it is available to Miami University students and faculty.
- Hall Auditorium
- A university landmark since 1908 and known through the years as The Miami Auditorium and Benton Hall, Hall Auditorium has a seating capacity of 766 and is the site for most of the Music Department's major concerts - including fully staged opera productions, as well as many concerts produced and supported by the university's Performing Arts Series. A top-to-bottom renovation of the building, completed in 1992, replaced old equipment with state-of- the-art light and sound systems and created a beautiful, warm, acoustically precise venue with a new stage that almost doubled the size of the old facility.
Hall Auditorium's stage has been the scene of performances of many nationally and internationally known actors, public speakers, soloists, chamber groups, and large performing organizations. The "Who's Who" of performers range from John Phillip Sousa's band, which visited in 1915, to Harry Connick Jr., who performed on its stage in a scene for the 1990 movie "Little Man Tate," filmed in part on Miami's campus.
- Squires Recital Hall
- Souers Recital Hall provides an intimate performance space for the presentation of recitals and chamber ensemble concerts. The 150-seat hall features a spacious stage, confortable green room (suitable for use as both a warm-up room and reception area), and adjacent audio and recording facilities. The hall houses two pianos, a 6' 1'' Steinway B and a 7' 4" Bosendorfer 225
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