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The Ogle Center at IUS features new performances and new construction

Ashley Sizemore, News Editor August 27, 2014

The lights dim to a single spotlight on the stage, the music cues and a single individual begins speaking to the audience. The performance has begun. This year there are two major changes that the Paul...

Office administrator orchestrates IUS theater music

IUS Horizon January 29, 2012
Students and faculty know Ken Atkins as the office administrator for the Music and Theatre Departments; however, they might not know that behind his administrative work ethic is the creativity to compose music and years of experience in the music publishing business. Before touching the adjunct professor payroll for the theatre and music departments, even before he attended college, Atkins was composing and arranging pieces of music for various classical ensembles. “The first piece I arranged [for orchestra] was the theme from Star Wars,” Atkins said, with a chuckle. “Back when I was in seventh or eighth grade, the orchestra from Scribner [Middle School] performed it.”
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