The Chamber Choir held its fall concert in the second-floor reading room of the David L. Rice Library at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. The music performed was by artists such as Aaron Copland, Rosephanye...

From 1971 to 2024, the USI Chamber Choir performed the annual Madrigal Feaste, a reenactment of large banquets from the medieval period, themed around the time of the Renaissance. The 53rd Madrigal...

The first USI Madrigal Feast was hosted in 1969 by the Director of the Mid-American Singers David Deeg. It was catered by Betty Rice, the wife of USI’s first president David Rice.  The Mid-American...

Nicole Mitchell  Daniel Craig flipped a coin to decide which of three students would have an extra speaking part during the opening toast ceremony of the Madrigal Feaste. The associate professor...

Every week The shield will feature a student who spent time in another country over the summer. This week, Benjamin Ulrich shared about his time in Ireland with the university Chamber Choir for their...

Carter Hall won’t be Carter Hall Dec. 1-4. Instead, Madrigal Feaste attendees will walk into a Renaissance-style Baron’s Hall, immersed in a fifteenth-century royal feast with the university...