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.
