SUNY Orange faculty gather behind Morrison Hall.
The Office of Institutional Advancement:
(845) 341-4725
Morrison Hall
Orange County Community College
115 South Street Middletown, NY 10940
publicity@sunyorange.edu
Contact:
Vinnie Cazzetta, VP, Institutional Advancement
Phone: (845) 341-4725 • Fax: (845) 341-4730SUNY Orange president to narrate Winter Concert
SUNY Orange to hold Admissions Information Night
SUNY Orange to offer Jazz Ensemble performance
MIDDLETOWN
– SUNY Orange’s new president, Dr. William Richards, will
narrate Copland’s Lincoln Portrait as part of the college’s Community
Orchestra’s Winter Concert on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003, at 8 p.m. at Orange
Hall Theater at the Middletown campus.
The concert is free and open to the public.
The evening will also feature Slavonic dances, an overture inspired by the rocky Scottish coast, and a symphony evoking heroism and the fallen statesmen, all directed by Dr. Hilarie Clark Moore and sponsored by the college’s department of arts and communication. The community-based orchestra, which brings together both students and talented musicians from the county, will perform Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, Op. 26, Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No’s 5-8, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55.
Since Aug. 1, 2003, Dr. Richards has served as president of Orange County
Community College. Prior to taking the president’s position, Dr. 
Richards
was the C.E.O. of the Westminster Campus of the Front Range Community College
in Aurora, Colo. He holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from the University
of Denver, an M.A. In English/Writing from St. Louis University, and a B.A.
in English from Regis College. The text for the Lincoln Portrait is drawn
from Lincoln’s letters and speeches, and inspires Copland’s musical
abstraction of Lincoln as man, historical figure, and statesman.
Founded in January 1998, the SUNY Orange Community Orchestra offers students and community members the opportunity of performing orchestral literature while bringing classical music to the county with three free concerts annually. For information concerning the Dec. 13 concert or the orchestra in general, please contact the arts and communication department at (845) 341-4787.
MIDDLETOWN – Orange County Community College will offer a Health Professions Admissions Information Night at the college’s Newburgh Extension Center in the Key Bank building at One Washington Center, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 1, 2003.
Information will be available about admissions requirements, program facts, and career opportunities for each of our health profession programs, like Dental Hygiene, Massage Therapy, Laboratory Technology, Nursing, Occupational Therapy Assistant, Physical Therapist Assistant, and Radiologic Technology.
Prospective students will be able to meet with admissions counselors and
select faculty members to answer questions about the programs as well as provide
any general information about the college.
MIDDLETOWN – The Arts and Communication Department at Orange County Community College is pleased to announce a performance by the SUNY Orange Jazz Ensemble on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 11 a.m. and Friday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m.
Under the direction of SUNY Orange music professor and recording artist Chris Parker, the Jazz Ensemble will feature I Got Rhythm, Nostalgia in Times Square, If You Never Come To Me, Equinox, Fever, and Bemsha Swing.
The performance is open to the public and will be held in Orange Hall Theater. Admission is by donation to the department’s music scholarships.
For further information please contact the Arts and Communication Department at 341-4787.
MIDDLETOWN – The Arts and Communication department of Orange County Community College is pleased to announce its annual Aria/Concerto Contest for Orange County high school students and for students attending Orange County Community College.
Auditions will be held on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Applicants should choose one or more arias or a concerto from repertoire that was composed by the 1830s and last approximately 10-20 minutes. Depending upon the length of the repertoire, a partial or complete instrumental concerto or multiple vocal arias may be performed.
All applicants must bring their own piano accompanists. Soloist(s) will be chosen to perform their works accompanied by the SUNY Orange Orchestra at their spring concert on Saturday, May 8, 2004 at 8 p.m. in Orange Hall Theater.
Interested musicians must complete an application provided by their high school chorus, band, or orchestra director, or one will be provided by the college’s Arts and Communication department.
Completed applications must be submitted to the Arts and Communication department
at 115 South Street, Middletown, NY 10940 by Monday, December 15, 2003. For
further information please contact Dr. Hilarie Clark Moore at the Arts and
Communication department at
(845) 341-4787.
MIDDLETOWN – Orange County Community College will offer two financial aid workshops in October for college-bound students in Middletown and Newburgh.
On Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003, and Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003, at 6 p.m. at the Student Succes Center in the College Commons at the Middletown campus, the Financial Aid office will offer a workshop to assist college-bound individuals in filling out financial aid forms. The workshop will begin promptly, since it may run up to two hours, depending on the number attending.
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003, at 5 p.m. at the Newburgh Extension Center at the Key Bank Building at One Washington Center, the college will offer another workshop.
Attendees must bring photocopies of their or their parents’ 2002 income tax returns, W-2 forms, and any other taxed or untaxed income information.
For more information about these workshops, please call (845) 341-4190.