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Facilities & Collections
The Dance, Music & Theatre Department provides a variety of facilities to promote high quality learning and performance.
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John Van Duzer Theatre
The JVD Theatre is the main stage of the department, with an over 800 person capacity. The venue for many of our major departmental performances, the theatre boasts a proscenium stage with full lighting capacity, fly space, orchestra pit and dressing rooms.
JVD Venue Information
More details about the John Van Duzer Theatre's many technical specifications.
Music
Fulkerson Recital Hall
A 227-seat recital hall for solo recitals and large ensembles. Featuring two Steinway grand pianos and Neumann microphones. Available for CD, DAT and video recordings.
Dance/Theatre
Gist Hall Theatre
Gist Hall Theater is located across from the Theatre Arts Building on the third floor of Gist Hall. It is an asymmetrical modified-thrust theatre with highly raked seating. It seats 130 people, and has a basic 3-system lighting rep plot as well as basic sound.
Dance/Theatre
Studio Theatre
The Studio Theater is a large black box theater, located on the second floor of the Theatre Arts Building. It seats 60 people, and has a basic 3-system lighting rep plot as well as basic sound.
Dance Studios
Approximately 35x45 dance space with Marley dance floor. “Smart” video equipment, ballet barres, with large windows, located next to the Theater Arts building.
Approximately 35x25 dance space with sprung wood floor used primarily for Tap and Folklorico classes, located next to the Theater Arts building
Approximately 60x40 dance space with sprung wood floor used for Modern, Choreography, African and other dance classes. Large windows overlook the Redwood Bowl and part of the Kinesiology and Recreation Administration building.
Instruments
Students participating in Music Program Ensembles, lessons, and performance-oriented classes may borrow instruments for no charge during the school year (and for a very minimal fee during the winter and summer breaks).
Pianos/Keyboard Instruments
The Music Program has 16 grand pianos including two Steinway 9-foot concert grands. Every classroom is equipped with a grand piano and piano students have access to these instruments for practice whenever the rooms are not in use. All the practice rooms have either an upright piano or a baby grand. Finally, we have a piano class lab with 26 electronic pianos.
In addition to the pianos, we have 2 harpsichords (a Flemish single manual and a French double manual), a compact Baroque style tracker organ, and a Hauptwerk “virtual” organ.
Band/Orchestral/Percussion Instruments
The Music Program has a large collection of all band and orchestral instruments available for loan to students participating in music classes. In addition to substantial numbers of beginning-level instruments, we have a good collection of professional-quality instruments including instruments that students often don’t own (bass clarinets, english horns, and contrabassoons) as well as over a dozen excellent string instruments, including a full quartet of instruments made by Marino Capicchioni.
Humboldt’s collection of percussion instruments is extensive, including all the standard orchestra percussion, several drum sets, and a full band’s worth of steel pans.
Music Libraries
Our Music Libraries contain historical sets and collected editions of the works of major composers and a large collection of study scores of classical and contemporary works. Scholarly works on music history, theory, analysis, performance practice, music education, biographical materials on performers and composers, as well as research oriented guides and bibliographies are also available.
Students have access to research library catalogues and to Music Index and RILM and the Naxos Music Library – the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online offering over 1,909,000 tracks of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. It includes the complete BIS, Chandos, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos, Ondine and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with over 1,000 albums added monthly.
Music Chamber Library
The largest collection on the West Coast with more than 10,000 holdings!
Humboldt Main Library
- Anthologies and collections of early keyboard works
- Large collection of harpsichord and organ works
- A variety of popular, folk and jazz scores
- Large collection of study scores, including symphonies, chamber music and dozens of piano concertos
- Pedagogy materials including historical treatises such as CPE Bach and Turk to Geisiking and Schnabel
- Books cover topics from performance practice to analysis and ethnomusicology
- Complete collected works/manuscripts
- JS Bach (both the Gesellschaft and the Neue Bach Ausgabe)
- Beethoven
- Berlioz
- Brahms
- Chopin (multiple editions)
- Handel
- Haydn
- Hindemith
- Liszt
- Mendelssohn
- Mozart
- Schoenberg
- Schubert
- Schumann
- Schostakovich
- Syzmanowski
- Telemann
- Verdi
- Vivaldi
- NAXOS Music Library: Free access to the online library of millions of recordings.