Residential Life open house
The Office of Residential Life will an open house for incoming students and families to preview the residence halls.
New group brings Broadway to Q-C
The new Mississippi Bend Players offers "an intense and immersive" summer internship program, and it brings a touch of Broadway to the Quad Cities.
Confluences connect more than just rivers
There's something about two rivers coming together that brings out the sense of wonder in geographer Norm Moline.
QCSO Masterworks VI: Postcards from Russia
The season finale features everyone’s favorite Russian master of melodies – Tchaikovsky. Opening gently with the rich orchestral colors of the famous Waltz from Swan Lake, the QCSO then welcomes a 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Medalist to present Tchaikovsky’s heroic tour de force, the Piano Concerto No. 1. The 103rd season concludes with the bold, victorious, and breathtaking Symphony No. 5.
QCSO Masterworks V: Postcards from Germany and Austria
No symphonic exploration would be complete without the German and Austrian masters. The swirling themes of Mozart’s beaming overture to The Marriage of Figaro will lead us plunging into Beethoven’s fiery and high-spirited Symphony No. 4. QCSO Concertmaster Naha Greenholtz solos in Mendelssohn’s final orchestral work, the dramatic Violin Concerto. We close out the program in a spectacular display of orchestral brilliance with Hindemith’s rhythmic and thrilling Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber.
QCSO Masterworks IV: Postcards from Venice
Venice - the Floating City! Your trip will begin with Rossini’s high spirited and mischievous La scala di seta Overture.
QCSO Masterworks III: Postcards from Scandinavia
Our gorgeous postcards from Scandinavia begin with Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s Overture to Maskarade, Denmark’s comedic national opera. Pianist Charlie Albright will astound you with his virtuosity and improvisational prowess in the evergreen Grieg Piano Concerto.
QCSO Masterworks II: Postcards from the Wild West
Take an adventure to our own Wild West beginning with John Williams’ sweeping overture to the 1972 motion picture The Cowboys.
QCSO Masterworks I: Postcards from Paris
L’amour in the City of Light! Fall in love with the sights and sounds of Paris through Gershwin’s jazz-influenced An American in Paris. Soar with the passion of young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in excerpts from Puccini’s La Bohème.