Challenge - Spring/Summer 2012 - Tiffin University

The vocal group, M-PACT also returned to Tiffin to
showcase its new lineup and music. The six-member all-star
a cappella ensemble is comprised of some of the most successful
professional singers in Los Angeles. The group has
the smooth soul of Stevie Wonder, the percussive power of
Stomp, the funk and drive of Earth Wind and Fire, the hip
licks of Take 6, and the brass bite of big band; all created by
the human voice alone. M-PACT was joined by TU’s a cappella
groups, Up in the Air and Higher Ground.
Rock Shock
The Concert Production Team hosted its annual Rock Shock
Concert in April during Spring Fest weekend. Featured
CampusScene
Spring Concert
TU’s annual choir and band spring concert was held in April.
Comprised of 100 students, The University Choirs performed
traditional choral and contemporary popular music for mixed
choir, women’s choir and men’s choir. McKayela Collins conducts
the women’s choir selections and Brad Rees conducts
the mixed and men’s choir pieces.
bands included Ebins Flow, The Farther I Fall, and Let It Happen.
Also featured was Tiffin University’s Sound & Silence, The
InBetween, Higher Ground, and Up in the Air. The event also
included games and raffles as well as a cornhole tournament.
The Gospel Choir, directed
by TU Alum Nellene Arnett,
performed several contemporary
gospel selections and the Chamber
Arts Ensemble (a modified
concert band instrumentation)
performed selections from the
silver screen.
The TU Kids Choir, directed
by Ali Rees, performed a variety of popular songs and the
TU Crew Dance Team performed dance pieces in a variety
of styles, including modern, jazz, hip-hop and lyrical. The TU
Crew is directed by Erika Handru and Sarah Raber.
Theatre
Get Witch Quick
The TU Dragons Den Players presented Get Witch Quick by
David Rogers in March in
the Osceola Theatre. The
play is about Craft College,
a finishing school for
witches. Although it looked
normal, draperies opened
and closed mysteriously,
books flew through the air
unaided, and a student is
believed to have turned
into a dog on the eve of
graduation! The only nonwitch
in the school is Steve,
a substitute teacher who
did not even know that it
was a school for witches.
In the play, he started to
fall in love with a talented
young scholarship student,
but another student (the
kind that gives witchcraft a
bad name) put a spell on
him to make him fall in love with her. The scholarship student,
however, learned some witchcraft of her own!
“Replete with crystal balls, wands, and cauldrons, the
play delights the growing number of people who enjoy mystique
and magic in their entertainment,” remarked Dr. Mary V.
Grennen, Director of Theatre Arts.
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