Music and Theatre Facilities
Computer Music Laboratories
Daniels Hall
These laboratories support creative and research activity in a variety of music- and sound-related applications including realtime virtual orchestra design and production techniques. The lab contains hardware and software for multi-track digital recording and editing, signal processing, algorithmic composition, sound synthesis, MIDI sequencing, music notation, and music programming.
Great Hall of Alden
Alden Memorial: First Floor
The Great Hall is used for major productions in Theatre and Music. It is the venue for the Masque Theatre performances. The Hall is sometimes used, in addition, for festive and gala campus functions.
The Little Theatre
Sanford-Riley, Lower Level
Made possible with a major gift from the George I. Alden Trust, this intimate, 99-seat black-box style theatre is the university’s first dedicated theatre facility. With its flexible layout and moveable seating, permanent lighting grid and sound system, control booth, greenroom/dressing room, and handicapped accessibility, the Little Theatre, a new home for the university’s diverse theatre programs, is well suited for a wide range of dramatic presentations. For more information, see The Little Theatre.
Green Room
Alden Memorial: First Floor
Alden Hall houses many of the theatre activities at WPI, both academic and extra-curricular. The Green Room serves as the laboratory for Department of Humanities and Arts, Division of Drama Theatre Performance projects and Sufficiencies, MQPs and IQPs. The sub-basement contains the scene shop and props-storage area and also holds a major work room for Lens and Lights. Students interested in theatre performance and Lens and Lights activities have many resources in Alden Hall.
Spaulding Recital Hall and Other Rooms for Rehearsal and Performance
Alden Memorial: Lower Level
Alden Center for the Performing Arts houses the Spaulding Recital Hall, Perreault Chamber Rehearsal Room, the Janet Earle Choral Rehearsal Room, three practice rooms, and the Knight Lecture Room. Available for practice are Steinway grand pianos and the Three Manual Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ in the main Concert Hall. There are three concert grand pianos for recitals, ensemble work and concerts. WPI has some instruments that can be made available to students upon request.
Other Music Facilities
Music facilities also include The Janet Earle Room, The Perreault Chamber Rehearsal Room, the music classroom, practice rooms, computer music labs and storage facilities.
Drama/Theatre Resource Library
The Department of Humanities and Arts Drama/Theatre Resource Library, housed in Salisbury Labs Room 20 and available as posted, contains publications, magazines, published scripts, and other information to assist students working on projects (MQP, IQP, Sufficiency, ISP) in Drama/Theatre. Scripts for current productions can usually be found nearby the Resource Library on the table in the center of the main Humanities and Arts area. Most resource items and display scripts must be used in the immediate area, and this service is not per se a lending library.
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