The University of Iowa School of Music - Voxman Building — Attraction in Iowa City

Great place to study that nice locrian scale and have homework-induced anxiety attacks, and practice rooms are ideal not only for making music but also bawling your eyes out. Theres so much natural lighting I forget about all the corrupt political scandals and tax evasiom that permeates the fabric of our country. The stairs give me a lovely workout, and sometimes I go from floor 0 to floor 5 just to feel something.

The architecture is lovely, and the acoustics in the recital/concert halls are so great that you can hear the echoes from the performing students' past, when you could see the hopes and dreams in their starry eyes, when they thoroughly enjoyed making music, when it wasn't a chore to get good grades, and when they were convinced they had a bright future ahead of them. Now all you see is the same repetitive schedule, the light has died from their eyes, but they cling onto the one thing they've always known: music. They push on and on, performing in that red room, yearning for that passion to return...

(Okay, all sarcasm aside, I do actually love this building and the opportunities I've had from the UI...

Voxman Music Building is a work of art in and of itself and with the inclusion of a concert hall as well as a recital hall in the building mean there are able to many performance held there. On top of this, the various art around the building makes for a very interesting environment and the Rita Benson Music Library is a wonderful...

I recently took a jazz camp here and it is one of the most amazing buildings I've ever been in. Part of it may have been the Steinways and the Organs, being a piano player, but the building itself is so amazing. The modern look, the studying spaces, the practice rooms, all of it is...