Interactive Ensemble by: Katie Caudle

This year at Hardin-Simmons University,  the new College of Arts and Media (CAM) has created a new choir known as the Interactive Ensemble. 

Through the “renaissance initiative” there has been a revival of arts at HSU with the creation of CAM (College of Arts and Media), which represents Music, Theater, Art and Communications. 

To promote the new college, as well as HSU’s choir, Dean of CAM, Dr. Bob Brooks, alongside several members of the staff at CAM, created the Interactive Ensemble. 

The Interactive Ensemble is a choir made up of students from a variety of majors ranging from music majors to non-majors such as nursing. The responsibility of this new choir will be to go to high schools and perform as a recruiting effort for HSU.

This would help encourage more students to attend Hardin-Simmons and help to expand the College of Arts and Media. This will also be a great way to spread the word that, as choir director Dr. Dee Romines often said, “That the arts are alive and well here at Hardin-Simmons.”

On top of recruiting new students and showcasing to others the talent that is a part of CAM, another role that Interactive Ensemble has is to help recruit sponsors to support current and future students.

Through the support of sponsors, CAM can become a better, more creative space for its students to better pursue their passions. When potential sponsors get a good look at the talent HSU students possess first hand, hopefully they will be more inclined to support the program. 

The students who are now a part of the Interactive Ensemble have met several times and have their own unique selections of music that is being pulled from both songs that they have already performed and songs the main choir is showcasing currently.