Over the weekend, the Pitt Jazz Ensemble hosted fellow jazz ensembles in an all day music festival in the Bellefield Hall Auditorium. The morning performances came from Capa Middle School and Capa High School’s Jazz Ensembles while the afternoon welcomed the CMU Jazz Ensemble. Pitt Jazz Ensemble closed out the festival with the final performance.
Family and friends filed into Bellefield Hall’s cozy auditorium, making it swell with anticipation and excitement. When the lights dimmed and the ballet’s iconic soundtrack burst from the speakers, a hush fell over the audience. Pitt Ballet Club brought Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” to life on Sunday, Dec. 3, with back-to-back performances at 1.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Student Government Board introduced a new allocations bill that it plans to vote on at the next meeting. The bill changes the monetary caps for requests to attend competitions and speaker honoraria, as well as deadlines to submit allocations requests. SGB President Ryan Young explained that traditionally, any monetary request over $1,000.