Facilities

Lawrence's music facilities are housed within three adjoining buildings: the Music-Drama Center, the Memorial Chapel, and the Ruth Harwood Shattuck Hall of Music.

Memorial Chapel Built in 1919 and renovated in 1993, the 1,206-seat Lawrence Memorial Chapel is used for public events such as the Lawrence Artist and Jazz series, ensemble concerts, public meetings, and the university convocation series. In recent years, the chapel has been host to such performing artists as the Prague Chamber Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, the Jazz Messengers, and Chick Corea. The chapel features a magnificent forty-one-stop mechanical-action organ built by John Brombaugh of Eugene, Oregon.

Ruth Harwood Shattuck Hall of Music The Ruth Harwood Shattuck Hall of Music, opened in September 1991, connects the Music-Drama Center with the Lawrence Memorial Chapel. It provides classroom space, two large rehearsal rooms, jazz rehearsal room, percussion studios, faculty studios, practice rooms, student study areas, the Carl J. Waterman Ensemble Music Library, instrument storage, and a recording studio. The digital recording/editing studio is capable of recording performances in both the chapel and Harper Hall and has been used to produce the conservatory's own CD recordings of many of the ensembles. A central student lounge provides an ideal place for group study sessions, practice breaks, or simply meeting friends after a day of rehearsals.

Music-Drama Center The Music-Drama Center (1959) houses teaching facilities for the Conservatory of Music and the theatre and drama department and is the site of concerts, recitals, dramatic productions, films, and lectures. It contains teaching studios, a computer lab, numerous practice rooms, music and theatre classrooms, a scene shop, dressing rooms, and three performance spaces: the 250-seat William E. Harper Hall, the 500-seat Stansbury Theatre, and a smaller experimental theatre, the F. Theodore Cloak Theatre. The studios of WLFM, Lawrence's student-run FM radio station (affiliated with Wisconsin Public Radio) are located in the Music-Drama Center. The 250-seat Harper Hall is the site for most student and faculty recitals, as well as many pre-concert talks and various lecture series. Opera and music theatre productions are staged in Stansbury Theatre, a 500-seat proscenium theatre.