DEC 16, 1891 Orchestrating Stanfordian Sound
Almost immediately after Stanford University opened its doors, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra became an official campus …
Almost immediately after Stanford University opened its doors, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra became an official campus …
Jane Stanford recasts the identity of the church in-progress as a memorial to her late husband, …
The Stanford Glee Club appears in the first issue of the Stanford yearbook (Quad, 1895), followed …
The groundbreaking for Memorial Church began after several years of planning, and actual construction commenced on …
Student editorials take on a farcical flavor with the premiere issue of The Stanford Chaparral (named …
The romantic-toned Murray-Harris organ is installed within Memorial Church. Designed by, and named after, American organ …
The dedicatory service of Memorial Church marks a milestone event in the artistic life at Stanford. …
Warren Dwight Allen becomes the first long-standing University Organist at Memorial Church and changes the face …
Yvor Winters was already famous by the time he arrived at Stanford in 1927. The poet …
Conceived in 1929 as a memorial to Stanford’s 77 dead from World War I, and designed …
Prominent novelist Wallace Stegner comes to Stanford from Harvard and establishes Stanford’s Creative Writing with the …
The beloved Harold C. Schmidt assumes directorship over the Stanford University Choir. With Jane Stanford’s insistence, …
The Hungarian-born American conductor, violinist and scholar, Sandor Salgo, was born into a Jewish family in …
He taught painting, drawing, sculpture, and design and worked as an artistic consultant to Eichler Homes …
The Design Program dates back to 1958 when Stanford Professor John Arnold, formerly of the Massachusetts …
Inga Weiss performed as a soloist for the legendary Mary Wigman’s modern dance company in Germany …
Keith Boyle, whose work is part of SFMOMA’s permanent collection, joined the Art & Art History …
He was hired as part of a University program to revitalize the humanities. His charge was …
An internationally renowned artist best known for his place in the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Nathan …
Born in Kansas City, MO in 1921, Frank Lobdell eventually became a key figure in the …
Charles Lyons received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Stanford University. After four years of …
Established in 1974, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research generates innovative scholarship that seeks …
Although a certain “Chorale Ensemble” occasionally performed at Memorial Church under the mentorship of Harold Schmidt, …
The first annual Viennese Ball was held in Toyon Hall on January 27, 1978. The 1990 …
Established by the now prominent playwright David Henry Hwang (class of 1979) and Nancy Takahashi Hatamiya …
Gregory Wait, the accomplished tenor and former soloist with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, succeeds Dr. …
After nearly three decades in the making, the Fisk-Nanney organ arrives at the Memorial Church. This …
Jazz Workshop faculty members include Jim Nadel and Ted Gioia as lecturers.
A legendary figure in the history of American modern dance, Katherine Dunham spent nearly a month …
The second earthquake in Stanford’s history ravages the architectural undergirding of Memorial Church. Particularly affected were …
Inspired by a group of talented students, Patricia Ryan Madson, then a Senior Lecturer with the … Graduates of the class of 1992 will remember Kirk Varnedoe as their commencement speaker, whom then-President … After three years of closure, Chaplain Robert Gregg presides over Memorial Church’s (re-)re-dedicatory service. For this … The Potter-Brinegar proffers a third layer of tonal variety at Memorial Church. This organ, constructed by … Eavan Boland is a professor of English and the current director of Stanford’s Creative Writing Program. … For the first time, dance is part of the School of Humanities and Sciences as a … Stephen M. Sano, Professor of Music, Harold C. Schmidt Director of Choral Studies, and current Chair … Not every Stanford professor has been played by Leonardo DiCaprio on the big screen. But in … Nuanced adaptations of Anton Chekhov sparked the first season of the Stanford Summer Theater, now an …
1991
Stanfordian Spontaneity: Improvising the Arts
JUNE 1992
Art alum gives commencement speech
NOV 1, 1992
Sacred phoenix rises again
1995
Organ donor enables aural trinity
1995
Eavan Boland hops across the pond
1996
Dance takes a leap from Athletics to Drama
1996
Stanford Chamber Chorale gets super-Sanic
1997
The English Department cries Wolff
1997
A Midsummer Play's Dream