No­to­ri­ous MU: A Re­cap of the No­to­ri­ous Con­cert

Maryville Uni­ver­si­ty’s a cap­pella group, No­to­ri­ous, has been fill­ing the cam­pus with mu­sic since 2010. 

Each se­mes­ter, No­to­ri­ous puts on a con­cert in Maryville’s au­di­to­rium to show­case the set list they’ve worked on all se­mes­ter. Most re­cently, No­to­ri­ous held their spring con­cert April 12. 

For se­niors Laura Lil­lis, Grace Hane­brink and Kaitlin Evans, Fri­day night’s per­for­mance marked the last time they would sing as a part of the group. These three mem­bers will be grad­u­at­ing at the end of the year.

Ac­cord­ing to Kirby Cooper, Vice Pres­i­dent of No­to­ri­ous, the group works to unite stu­dents from dif­fer­ent ma­jors to share their love and pas­sion for mu­sic.

“What we try to do is cre­ate an en­vi­ron­ment where peo­ple can come to­gether through mu­sic,” said Cooper. “Not all of us are Mu­sic Ther­apy ma­jors, so we want to be a place where every­one is wel­come.”

No­to­ri­ous typ­i­cally meets on Mon­days from 7:30-9:30 p.m., and Thurs­day from 8:30-10:30 p.m. The group mainly func­tions on their own, but not with­out some in­put from Dr. Pe­ter Hen­der­son, their fac­ulty ad­viser.

“What I en­joy most about No­to­ri­ous is the stu­dent col­lab­o­ra­tion,” Hen­der­son said. “I re­ally ap­pre­ci­ate the col­le­gial­ity of the group and how they come to­gether through mu­sic.” 

Some things may change with No­to­ri­ous af­ter each year, but the col­lab­o­ra­tion and ca­ma­raderie re­mains the same.

For more in­for­ma­tion on No­to­ri­ous, email Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer, Ma­cie Mais­lin.