In 1968, the Marie Brooks Strange Music Building at Tennessee State University was erected. It was the first building on campus dedicated entirely to music and consolidated the Music Department, which had been dispersed across campus. In 1988, Tennessee State University President Otis Floyd received $112 million from the Tennessee General Assembly for capital improvements, including the construction of a new Performing Arts Center. Between 2001 and 2005, a $9 million renovation project updated and combined the Marie Strange Music Building and Performance Arts Center. The current building houses the Music Department and Department of Communications, and contains a 360-seat theater, a recital hall, a television studio, an editing suite complex, and other facilities.
Strange Performing Arts Center
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In 1968, the Marie Brooks Strange Music Building at Tennessee State University was erected. It was the first building on campus dedicated entirely to music and consolidated the Music Department, which had been dispersed across campus. In 1988, Tennessee State University President Otis Floyd received $112 million from the Tennessee General Assembly for capital improvements, including the construction of a new Performing Arts Center. Between 2001 and 2005, a $9 million renovation project updated and combined the Marie Strange Music Building and Performance Arts Center. The current building houses the Music Department and Department of Communications, and contains a 360-seat theater, a recital hall, a television studio, an editing suite complex, and other facilities.