Sigma Chapter
Sigma Chapter
The Sigma chapter of DO was established at Illinois Wesleyan university in 1926, before Presser Hall was built! Since then, the chapter has started supporting the country’s oldest, and longest-running collegiate choral commission, hosts an annual Jazz-Night with local and university ensembles, volunteers at nursing homes and hospitals regularly, and has provided thousands of dollars in instruments to local schools and historic buildings among other accomplishments. Delta Omicron gives music majors and minors the opportunity to socialize, volunteer, gain leadership experience, give back to our alma mater and make the Bloomington-Normal community a more musical place.
Name: Delta Omicron-Sigma
Age: 84
Birthday: 1 May 1926
University: Illinois Wesleyan
Colors: Rose and Gray
Flower: Lily of the Valley
Motto: Continenter Nitentes Consequimur. "Continually striving, we attain."
Famous DOs include:
Milton Babbit
Samuel Barber
J.B. Davis
Normal Dello Joio
Walt Disney
Georges Enesco
James Galway
Elizabeth Green
Luciano Pavorotti
Robert Shaw
Beverly Sills
Shinichi Suzuki
Virgil Thompson
Dawn Upshaw
for starters...
Creed:
This truth comes to us more and more, the longer we live, that in what field, or in what uniform, or with what aims we do our duty, matters very little; or even what our duty is, great or small,
splendid or obscure, only to find our duty certainly and somewhere, somehow do it faithfully,
makes us good, strong, happy and useful, and tunes our lives into some feeble echo of the life of God.
--Phillips Brooks
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About DO Sigma