Welcome to the Graul Chair in Arts and Languages
This endowed chair is named for Dr. Thomas C. and Janet M. Graul and it is specifically designed to promote interdisciplinary approaches to the arts and languages with a particular focus on international perspectives. As we ask our students to use their intellectual gifts in the service of others, to adapt to a changing, dynamic global society, and to be just leaders, the importance of arts and languages becomes apparent. These disciplines engage us in questions about difference as well as enable us to celebrate and embrace those differences. The transcendent power of arts and languages is such that the whole person is both engaged and educated.
The study of arts and languages empowers us to engage rather than dismiss that which is different and sometimes uncomfortable. These disciplines give us powerful tools to open our minds and engage our hearts. Through a study of the arts and languages we develop the capacity to transcend that which is different and find the common core of our humanity. Such study is essential to any university that aspires to educate the whole person and produce distinctive graduates who are capable of linking learning to responsible leadership and service.
Past Chairs
Dr. Roger Crum, Department of Visual Arts
Dr. Eric Street, Department of Music
Prof. Sean Wilkinson, Department of Visual Arts
About the Current Chair
Dr. Richard Chenoweth, the Graul Endowed Chair in the Arts and Languages, is Professor of Horn at the University of Dayton and the former Principal Horn of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, a position that he held for 33 years. He was a member of the nationally known brass quintet, the Carillon Brass, and performed as second horn with the orchestra of the prestigious summer music festival, The Santa Fe Opera, for 35 years. A Yamaha Performing Artist, he has also performed and recorded as soloist both in this country and internationally, and has performed in the horn sections of the Florida Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as soloist in Prague with the Czech Radio Orchestra, as Principal Horn with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra in Bosnia, and at the Sichuan Conservatory, Chengdu, China. Other major performances include positions with the Royal Ballet of London and the Little Orchestra Society of New York.For More Information
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Location
466 Humanities Center
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469-1549