Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Music Department presented a special evening Noonday Concert at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. The program for the tenth concert of the 1976-1977 academic year included Johann Sebastian Bach's "Polonaise and Badinerie" and "Adante for Flute and Keyboard", Gregg Steinke's "Sonance", Franz Joseph...
The Department of Music presented the eleventh Noonday Concert of the 1976-1977 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed such pieces as Ludwig van Beethoven's "Presto from Sonata in D Major"; Cristoph Willibald Gluck's "Che fiero momento" from Orfeo ed Euridice;...
The Amado String Quartet gave a concert at 7:30pm. They played Mendelssohn's "Capriccio and Fugue in E Minor", Martinu's "Madrigals for Violin and Viola", and Brahms "String Quartet in B-flat Major".
The Music Department presented a faculty concert benefiting the Alfred Swan Memorial Scholarship in Applied Music. The program included Georg Friedrich Handel's "Sonata in A Minor", "Meine Seele Hort im Sehen", and "Susser Blumen Ambraflokken"; Sy Brandon's "Music for an Auspicious Occasion";...
The Department of Music presented the first Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed such pieces as Frederic Chopin's "Waltz in C-sharp Minor", Giacomo Puccini's "In quelle trine morbide" and "O Mio Babbino Caro", two duets by Fernando...
The Music Department presented the 1977 Parents' Day Concert at 11:00am in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Featuring the Collegium Musicum, the College Choir, and the College-Community Orchestra, the program included Ottorino Respighi's "Ancient Airs and Dances", Henry Purcell's "O Sing Unto...
The Chamber Choir gave a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Boyd Lee Spahr Library at 7:30pm. They sang Hans Leo Hassler's "Cantate Domino Canticum Novum"; Lodovico da Viadana's "Adoramus te, Christe and "How Firm a Foundation, ye Saints of the Lord"; Bela Bartok's "In the Village...
The Department of Music presented the second Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed such pieces as the anonymously-written songs "Caligo terrae scinditur/Virgo Maria, filia/unknown Tenor", "Irishe Ho-Hoan", and "Praeludium"; Jacques...
The Chamber Choir gave a concert at 3:30pm at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. They sang Antonius Cabezon's "Tiento del Quarto Tono", Hans Leo Hassler's "Cantate Domino Canticum Novum", Ludovico da Viadana's "Adoramus te Christe", Andrea Gabrieli's "Sanctus and...
The seminar in Art Historical Methods created an exhibit entitled "Prints in the Dickinson Collection" that displayed woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs from the Dickinson collection, largely from the collection donated by the Carnegie Foundation in the 1930s. The exhibit aimed to...
The Music Department presented the Collegium Musicum in a concert held in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium at 8:00pm. Their program included Guillaume de Machaut's "La messe de nostre dame", "Double Hocket", "Moult sui de bonne heure nee", and "Quant je sui mis au retour"; Hans Neusiedler's "...
The Music Department presented the third Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Duet for Horns"; Anton Reicha's "Trio for Horns"; Richard Wagner's "Pilgrim's Chorus"; Charles Ives' "The Children's Hour", "Like a...
The Collegium Musicum and the Brass Ensemble gave a concert at the William Penn Memorial Museum. The event was a part of the Thursday College Concert Series at the museum. The program for the concert included Mouret's "Rondeau"; Machaut's "La messe de Notre Dame: Agnus Dei" and "Moult Sui"; the...
The Department of Music presented the 1977 Christmas Concert at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The concert featured performances by the College-Community Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, Chamber Choir, College Choir, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia";...
The Music Department presented the fourth Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. The program for this concert included Giambattista Martini's "Largo"; Francesco Mancini's "Sinfonia to Hydaspes"; Anton von Webern's "Vor Fruhling", "Nachtgebet der Braut", and "...
Pianist Nancy Bricard gave a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. She played Camille Saint-Saens' "Allegro Appassionato"; Gabriel Faure's "Nocturne in E-flat Major", "Nocturne in D-flat Major", and "Nocturne in F-sharp Minor"; Claude Debussy's "Masques" and "L'isle joyeuse";...
Soprano Denise Coffey and tenor William Austin performed in a concert presented by the Cultural Affairs and the Academy of Vocal Arts. Accompanied by Robert deCoriolis, they sang Mozart's "Voi Che Sapete" from Nozze Di Figaro; Rossini's "Serenade" from Barber of Seville;...
The Music Department presented the ninth Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Georg Philipp Telemann's "La Chasse" and "Ouverture for Two Horns and Orchestra"; Antonio Vivaldi's "Andante from Lute Trio in G Minor"; Reynaldo Hahn's "Si...
The Department of Music presented the sixth Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. The program for this concert included Joseph Haydn's "Divertimento in B-flat Major", Felix Mendelssohn's "Auf Flugeln des Gesanges", Reynaldo Hahn's "L'heure exquise", two etudes by...
Maya Angelou performed a dramatic interpretation and a poetry reading in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium on April 5 during the Congress of African Student's annual Black Arts Festival.
The Music Department presented the seventh Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. The program for this event included Felix Mendelssohn's "Venetian Boat Song No. 2"; two gavottes by Johann Sebastian Bach; Ralph Vaughn-Williams' "Vagabond", "In Dreams", "The Infinite...
The Cultural Affairs Committee presented the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia in a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schechter Auditorium. They played Francesco Geminiani's "Concerto Grosso No. 12 in D Minor", Franz Schubert's "Adagio and Rondo in A Major for Violin", Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto...
The Beggar's Opera, a play by John Gay, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Mermaid Players, the production ran from April 13-16. In this show, the title role of The Beggar was portrayed by Chris Winner.
The Music Department presented the College Choir, the College-Community Orchestra, and the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia in a performance of George Frederick Handel's Israel in Egypt Oratorio. The performance started at 3:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.
The Department of Music presented the eighth Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty played Johannes Brahms' "Allegro non troppo from Sonata No. 1", Franz Joseph Haydn's "London Trio No. 1", George Frederic Handel's "Comfort ye, comfort ye My people...
