Music Facilities

Loyola's $13 million Communications/Music Complex represents the university's commitment to music education. The complex is a 115,000-square-foot, four-story building with state-of-the-art facilities for music and communications.

Concert Halls

The College of Music and Fine Arts has several facilities in which music performances are presented:

• The 600-seat Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall can handle the full spectrum of performers from the solo recitalist to the full symphony orchestra.
• Nunemaker Auditorium, located in the Monroe Science Complex, is 400-seat lecture/concert hall, which is used for the weekly recital hour, as well as smaller ensemble performances.
  
• Holy Name of Jesus Church is an 800-seat cathedral style church, which boasts wonderful acoustics perfectly suited for choral and organ performances. Holy Name is the ideal site for the annual Christmas at Loyola concert.
  
• Jazz Underground is jazz concert series located in The Underground, the student lounge of the Danna Center (the university center). On selected Thursday evenings, the lounge becomes an intimate jazz club, featuring performances by local professional, faculty, and student musicians.

Music Library

The music collections & services are housed primarily on the first floor of the J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library and make up the principal collection of music materials at Loyola University New Orleans. In addition to traditional music curricula, we support multi-disciplinary programs such as Music Therapy, Music Education and Music Industry Studies. Music books, scores, CDs, LPs, current periodicals, and listening equipment are located together on the Monroe Library's first floor. Past issues of our periodicals (bound periodicals) are integrated in the bound periodicals section of the Monroe Library's second floor. Music reference is integrated into our reference section, behind the Reference Desk on the first floor.

• Our online resources for music include:
  • Grove Online
  • International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
  • RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature
  • Naxos Music Library
  • Classical Music Library
  • JSTOR
    
  • Music Index
    
  • PsycInfo
    
  • Pollstar
    
  • ERIC   

Studios and Laboratories

• Acoustically-treated faculty studios and individual practice rooms.
  
• Two computer-assisted piano laboratories designed to allow class instruction on individual electronic piano keyboards.
  
• An electronic music studio with the latest in electronic instruments, computers, and synthesizers.
• A state-of-the-art recording studio designed to produce professional quality recordings of individuals or ensembles.
• A computerized music theory laboratory with workstations designed to give students access to the latest composition and music theory software and electronic equipment.
• A multi-media training center with 15 multi-media stations, each consisting of a powerful computer with large LCD monitor, MIDI keyboard and interface, VCR, 8-track digital audio tape recorder, 16 channel audio mixing console, 24 channels of computer-based recording, state-of-the-art software, plus a teacher station with overhead video projector, sound system, laser printer and other audio equipment. The facility provides training in music theory, musicianship, improvisation, music technology, MIDI, analog and digital audio production, Internet and web site design, interactive graphics, video production, music education, and instructional design and delivery.

Theater Arts and Dance Facilities

The department has two theaters with recently upgraded lighting and audio: the 150-seat Marquette Theater, notable for its proscenium arch, and The Lower Depths, an experimental theater seating 70-85, adaptable to a variety of dramatic forms. The theatres are supported by a costume shop and scenic shop. Specialized classrooms include acting and design studios.

Visual Arts Facilities

The visual arts building (St. Mary’s Hall) is located on the Broadway campus. The art facility includes painting and drawing studios; a fully equipped wood and metal shop for sculpture, including foundry; a ceramics area which includes electric, gas-fired, and raku kilns, for handbuilding and wheel-thrown ceramics; and a printmaking studio capable of producing intaglio, stone and plate lithography, serigraphy, relief and letter press (foundry type and photopolymer plates), all capable of using photomechanical processes. The department also has a fully equipped darkroom and a state-of-the-art computer imaging lab with Silicon Graphics and multi-media capabilities

Art Galleries (campus)

Danna Center Art Gallery

The Danna Center Art Gallery is located in the Danna Center on Loyola’s main campus. The Art Gallery is a run by the visual arts student organization, Untitled.

Student exhibitions make up the majority of the calendar, including both visual arts and graphic design. Faculty, individual artist, and group shows make up the remainder of the schedule.

Exhibitions are switched monthly during the Fall and Spring semesters. For more information contact the Visual Arts Department at 861-5456.

Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery and Visual Arts Center

The Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery and Visual Arts Center is located on the 4 th floor of the J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library. The Art Gallery occupies the entire upper floor of the library, one fourth of which is dedicated the permanent Cornet collection.

The mission of the Diboll Art Gallery is to be an educational space for the community. Exhibitions include local, national, international, and student shows. Exhibitions are held both monthly and bi-monthly depending upon the particular show. As often as possible, individual artists give lectures and gallery talks about their work.

The Art Gallery is open Monday – Saturday 10 a.m.– 4 p.m., and Sunday noon – 4 p.m. Admission is free.

For information on upcoming exhibitions and gallery hours please contact Gallery Director Karoline Schleh at gallery@loyno.edu or 861-5456.