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The School of Music provides academic programs for students pursuing professional music careers, along with classes for all University students interested in exploring music as enthusiasts or active participants. The school emphasizes creative expression and scholarly inquiry, offering students diverse avenues to cultivate their artistic voice through performance, composition, and studies in history, analysis, and teaching methods. Its distinguished faculty comprises nationally recognized artists and scholars across performance, composition, music education, musicology, and theory. Students benefit from a rich calendar of recitals, concerts, lectures, visiting artist programs, opera productions, and seminars that foster both musical and intellectual development. The School of Music occupies three facilities: the Stanley B. Catlett, Sr. Music Center, Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center, and Carpenter Hall. The Catlett Music Center houses administrative offices, faculty workspaces, practice rooms, classrooms, MIDI laboratories, the Grant Fine Arts Library, a recording facility, and three performance venues - the Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Morris R. Pitman Recital Hall, and Grayce B. Kerr Gothic Hall. The Reynolds Performing Arts Center contains faculty offices and the renovated Holmberg Auditorium, home to the OU Opera Theater. Carpenter Hall currently accommodates studios for voice and piano faculty members.