The music building, recently named in honor of UO President Dave Frohnmayer's mother, MarAbel B. Frohnmayer '32, has increased in size by about 50 percent. Highlights include the following:

• A 3,000-square-foot rehearsal room for large ensembles
• Three spacious new classrooms
• Fifty-one practice rooms
• Thirty new faculty teaching studios
• Dedicated teaching and rehearsal space for jazz and percussion
• Renovated computer lab

The 540-seat Beall Concert Hall, modeled after Boston Symphony Concert Hall, is acclaimed for its superb acoustics and Jürgen Ahrend pipe organ.

Future Music Oregon features three studios with extensive MIDI-based and computer composition systems.

The Kammerer Microcomputer Lab provides workstations with mainstream software for music notation and instructional software in music theory and aural skills.

The state's largest research collections belong to the UO Libraries including resources devoted to music and dance. Special music-approval plans provide the library with the latest scores from Europe and North America. Of special interest to jazz musicians are the Henry Beau Collection and the Red Nichols Collection. Dancers have access to sixty professional journals.