Music has been a critical part of life at The University of Texas at Austin since 1914. The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music is where students full of potential find their mentors and guides in a faculty comprised of extraordinary performers, composers, and scholars. We offer a comprehensive array of degree programs from the bachelors to the doctoral level in performance, composition, music and human learning, jazz, theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, pedagogy and liberal studies in music. With a ratio of less than seven to one, our approximately 100 music faculty are able to give more than 650 music majors invaluable personal attention. The Butler School alone presents some 600 concerts, recitals, operas and other special events annually.
The Longhorn Band Legacy Fund
The Longhorn Band Legacy Fund will become a permanent endowment at The University of Texas at Austin to sustain the Showband of the Southwest for future generations. The Longhorn Band Legacy Fund exclusively benefits the Longhorn Band. Funds are distributed by the Longhorn Band director and the director of bands for financial support of the Longhorn Band, including but not limited to student scholarships, travel, performances, uniforms, instruments and equipment.
Please join us in supporting this new endowment to provide unrestricted support for the Longhorn Band (LHB).
Musical Lives
Perhaps most notable among the Butler School’s educational programs is the University of Texas String Project. Founded in 1948, the Project has become a national model for both string education and string teacher education.
In 2011, the String Project initiated a new outreach program called Musical Lives for children from underserved populations at UT Elementary School, a charter school in East Austin. Musical Lives is a collaboration with the Butler School of Music and UT Elementary School that provides music instruments and high quality music instruction to children in areas of the community where access is limited by economic constraints.
We hope you will join us in supporting Musical Lives, which opens up the chance for a life enriched by music to our young students.
Or, we ask that you give today to support our Area of Greatest Need. Your gift means so much to our students and you help to prepare them for meaningful, productive, and responsible lives in music.
To find more information about the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, please visit us at music.utexas.edu.
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