Situated next door to Clowes Hall, Lilly Hall anchors the northeast corner of the Butler campus. Dedicated on December 9, 1962, the building is home to the School of music as well as the Departments of Dance and Theatre.

The building is named after Eli Lilly, founder of the drug company that bears his name, due to a large donation given to the Jordan College of Music through the auspices of the Lilly Endowment. Lilly Hall boasts numerous faculty offices, practice rooms, dance studios and also serves as the home for the music libraries of the band, orchestra, and choral departments.

In 1994, the Prototype Multimedia Teaching Facility, now called the Multisensory Learning Facility, was added. In 2003, a major addition to Lilly Hall was completed, adding rehearsal facilities for each of the ensembles, a new percussion studio and a new home to the Electronic Music Studio, as well as facilities for the theatre and dance departments.

Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University opened on October 18, 1963, and was built through the vision and auspices of Edith Whitehall Clowes, wife of Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes, a former research director with Eli Lilly and Company.

Clowes Memorial Hall boasts a 2200-seat auditorium and hosts a variety of performances, university and community events, and town hall lectures throughout the year. In addition to the Clowes Performing Arts Series and its Education Program, Clowes also is the home of resident companies such as the Indianapolis Opera, the Jordan College's Music at Butler series and the Butler Ballet. Other great organizations such as Broadway in Indianapolis and Butler’s Visiting Writers Series and Religion Seminars all use this facility.

For 40 years, Clowes Memorial Hall has remained one of the Midwest's premiere performing arts facilities. Keeping in line with its mission of lifelong learning in and through the arts, Clowes programs a performing arts series each year, focusing on internationally, artistically, and culturally diverse live performance. Its programming is eclectic and unique to the Clowes stage.

Visit the Clowes Memorial Hall web site for more information about upcoming performances.

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

Butler University's Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall, an acoustically superior 140-seat concert venue in Robertson Hall, opened on December 3, 2004. This $3 million facility serves as a prestigious showplace for both faculty and student recitals and guest performances.

The recital hall includes a roughly 300-square-foot white oak stage and 1500 square feet of room for the audience in twelve rows of chairs on white oak floors. The walls are ornamented with mahogany wainscoating and trim. The venue includes a facility for receptions following performances.

The hall is named for Butler alumna Ruth Duckwall Rasmussen Williams, whose gift to the university made the project possible. The lobby is named for civic leader Sidney Weedman, a member of Butler's class of 1960 and a former member of the university's faculty and board of trustees.

This hall is the second of three phases of construction and remodeling of Butler's Performing Arts Complex. Phase one, the addition to Lilly Hall, is also complete. Phase three will be construction of a 450- to 500-seat concert hall north of Clowes Memorial Hall.

The mission of this multimedia-rich facility is to design, test, and support teaching and learning of the Arts through Butler University's Dance, Theatre, Media Arts, Music, and Visual Arts curricula.

Classes and curricular support for students and faculty include web authoring, advanced word processing, graphic media scanning and editing, digital audio multi-track recording and editing, digital video input, multimedia authoring, MIDI notation, MIDI sequencing, theatre lighting, computer assisted design (CAD), and computer assisted instruction (CAI). The MLF employs 100baseT Ethernet to each station, 802.11b wireless access for student and faculty laptops, and Korg's newest Group Education Control3 digital technology for class instruction and private study. The MLF is equipped with video projection, audio amplification, video conferencing via iChat/AIM, and Remote Desktop Access. To better assist with the above tasks, we also provide resources for storing and retrieving large digital files using external hard drives drives, iPods, CD burning, and DVD burning.

This 17-station iMac facility is designed and directed by Dr. Tim Brimmer, with support from graduate assistants, lab managers and trained assistants who staff this facility 60+ hours per week throughout the academic year. Additional curriculum support is available for faculty by appointment. Suggestions for improving the use of this facility are welcomed and encouraged. For more information, contact Dr. Brimmer.

Students who have successfully completed ME345/545 (Exploring the Digital Arts) or its equivalent may be eligible for employment as MLF staff. Those who are interested should apply at the Career Planning and Placement Office and contact Dr. Brimmer.

When not serving as a classroom, the MLF is open for students and faculty. The MLF's schedule of classes and weekly open hours may be viewed online.

NOTE: Use of this facility for academic or artistic purposes other than described above, however worthwhile, is a lower priority, and will be allowed only as time, space and staffing permit. Use of this facility and its resources for non-academic and non-artistic purposes are strictly prohibited.

The Electronic Music Studio is designed to provide musicians, sound designers and others with a place to work using electronic instruments, computer technology and vintage equipment.

The studio is configured in such a way that a variety of technology can be used and interchanged between both the analog and digital realms. A number of MIDI synthesizers, multitrack recording equipment, signal processing gear and stereo recording equipment are a partial list of available equipment used in this facility.

Students who are interested in this facility need to take Electronic Music (MT440) or Electronic Composition before they can use this studio. Dr. Frank Felice maintains the facility.