Augustana College’s campus is closed Monday, March 16, due to weather conditions. This includes all athletic and evening activities, PepsiCo Recreation Center and Thomas Tredway Library.
Dining services will remain open on a regular schedule.
Dr. Jacob Bancks, Augustana associate professor of music, is writing a new opera for the Quad City Symphony Orchestra that will be performed in May 2020.
It is the first time in its 104-season history that the orchestra has commissioned a new opera. The QCSO is partnering with Living Proof Exhibit, a nonprofit that provides therapeutic benefit of the arts to people impacted by cancer.
The opera, titled “Karkinos,” will tell the story of an empress (representing a cancer patient) who's forced into battle with the unseen monster Karkinos (cancer) on the night before her coronation. The monster will be symbolized by a 24-voice offstage choir, including some cancer survivors, with a chamber orchestra of 15 players.
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