Oklahoma City University is another MT program that is a Bachelor of Music and The Wanda Bass School of Music facilities are extraordinary. For those of you who haven’t had a chance to go to OCU in person, the music school itself includes:
1 Black-box Theater
5 Music Labs
6 Ensemble Rehearsal Rooms
11 Recording Venues
21st Century Apple Digital Campus
38 Teaching Studios
60 Sound-isolated Practice Rooms
133 Steinway Pianos
210 New Conn-Selmer Instruments
319 Students
113,000 Square Feet
If you are into composing, checkout Project 21 at OCU. Project 21: Music for the 21st Century is a student-run organization where student composers of all majors get the opportunity to showcase pieces of music that they’ve written. Project 21 hosts four free concerts per semester and presents a variety of musical genres like chamber music, music theater, film scoring, and choral pieces. Project 21 collaborates across disciplines of OCU throughout the year. Composers will collaborate with five student choreographers and dancers to perform a show to their original music in January. Most recently, the music of two student composers was featured in TheatreOCU’s production of The Crucible.
“We really allow the composers to have their own voice and write all styles of music,” Knight said. “We often have musical theater majors who double major in composition and only want to write music theater, but I tell them if you want to work, and everyone does, it’s good to know how to write everything. We try to expose the students to different styles and give them a chance to do everything.”
Dance is taken at the Ann Lacy School of Dance which has its own state of the art facilities and Acting is taken at the OCU School of Theatre that also has its own facilities.
If you want a music based program for MT, OCU is definitely worth a look!