{"id":1458,"date":"2021-04-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2021-05-09T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T17:05:10","slug":"powell-hall-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/2021\/04\/13\/powell-hall-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Powell Hall, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Department of Music recently moved into the newly renovated and restored Powell Hall, which was the original campus library dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1941.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reading room is now a large recital hall with seating for up to 200 audience members, audio and video recording, and large, exposed beams and original windows that give the space a lot of daytime light. The building features new student gathering spaces, practice rooms, rehearsal rooms for medium chamber ensembles, a conference room, a jazz ensemble room, a music education room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n