Performances, Films, and Exhibits

    Entries drawn from the college history timeline

Fri., Apr. 28, 1978

The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in their 1978 spring concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Their program included Browne's "Jesu, mercy, how may this be?"; Dufay's "Ce moy de may", "Helas, mon dueil", "Se la face ay pale", and "Agnus dei"; Isaac's "La mi...

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Wed., May 3, 1978

The Music Department presented the ninth Noonday Concert of the 1977-1978 academic year in Memorial Hall. The program for this concert included Mauro Giuliani's "Grand Sonata in A Major", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Deh vieni alla finestra" from Don Giovanni, Francois Devienne's "Trio in...

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Thu., May 4, 1978

Axx Studio's production of Godspell, a musical by Stephen Schwartz, opened in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The production ran May 4-6. 

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Sat., May 20, 1978

The Music Department presented a concert honoring the composer Ulysses Kay at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Celebrating his reception of an honorary degree, the College Wind Ensemble, College-Community Orchestra, Chamber Choir, and members of the Department faculty performed his...

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Thu., Sep. 21, 1978

William Windom performed his work Thurber at 8:10pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Thurber, one of Windom's one man shows, featured selections from  James Thurber's cartoons, reports, stories and fables. This event was part of the Cultural Affairs series.

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Wed., Oct. 4, 1978

The Department of Music presented the first Noonday Concert of the 1978-1979 academic year. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of Noonday Concerts, the program included Sigismund Neukomm's "Fanfare for Four Trumpets"; Johann Joachim Quantz's "Trio Sonata in C Major"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "...

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Sat., Oct. 7, 1978

The 1978 Parents' Day Concert was presented in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Featuring performances by the Brass Ensemble, College-Community Orchestra, Collegium Musicum, and College Choir, the program included Giovanni Gabrieli's "Canzona per sonare No. 3"; the overture to Gioacchino...

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Thu., Oct. 19, 1978

The Mermaid Players performed Inherit the Wind, a dramatization of the trial of John T. Scopes. Scopes was charged in 1925 with teaching evolution, which was illegal in Tennessee  at the time. 

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Sat., Oct. 21, 1978

The College Chamber Choir presented a Homecoming Welcome Concert in Denny Hall. They sang Alfred Swan's "Bright Morning" and "Let Thy Soul Be Full of Exceeding Gladness"; John Wilbye's "Thus Saints my Cloris Bright" and "Lady, Your Words do Spite Me"; Thomas Weelkes' "Hark! All Ye Lovely Saints...

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Fri., Oct. 27, 1978

Music Professor Allen Krantz performed in a guitar recital at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. He played Fernando Sor's "Les Folies d'Espangne" ; five preludes by Francisco Tarrega; six dances from Gasper Sanz's Instuccion de Musica; Johann Sebastian Bach's "Sarabande and Double"; Sylvius...

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Wed., Nov. 1, 1978

The Department of Music presented the second Noonday Concert of the 1978-1979 academic year in Memorial Hall. The program for this event included Samuel Scheidt's "Canzone for Four Trumpets"; John Dowland's "Awake Sweet Love", "Come Again", and "Now, Oh Now, I Need Must Part"; Johann Sebastian...

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Wed., Nov. 1, 1978

The Zero Moving Dance Company performed two pieces "Riverways" and "Nightales" at Dickinson College on November 1, 1978.

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Mon., Nov. 6, 1978

Keith Berger, a mime, performed in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium on November 6, 1978.  Berger previously performed at the celebration of President Carter's Inauguration at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

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Thu., Nov. 9, 1978

Dickinson College Follies performed "Once Upon a Mattress" in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium from November 9th to 11th.  The theater  was set up as a "in the round" style, which had not happened at Dickinson for a number of years.

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Thu., Nov. 30, 1978

Kendall-Bardarson Dance Ensemble performed six pieces in Mather's Theater.  The pieces included "Allegro I alla Ballincine", "Divertissement", "Fortune in Our Eyes", "Ananse", and "Androgyny".  In their last piece, "The Unanswered Question," college students danced with the ensemble.

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Fri., Dec. 1, 1978

The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in their 1978 fall concert entitled Songs and Dances for the Queen of Heaven: Music for Advent and Christmas. Held in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium at 8:00pm, the concert featured many anonymously-written pieces such as "Jube...

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Wed., Dec. 6, 1978

The Department of Music presented the third Noonday Concert of the 1978-1979 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty played Anthonello de Caserta's "Notes pour moi", an anonymously-written song entitled "Soleta so jo aci", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Ecco quel fiero istante" and "Mi...

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Fri., Dec. 8, 1978

The Freshman Plays, an annual event featuring one-act plays directed by students and performed by all-freshman casts, opened at 7:00 in Mathers Theatre. The plays were divided into two bills, the first of which was performed on December 8 and 9, and the second of which was performed on December...

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Sun., Dec. 10, 1978

Cultural Affairs and the Department of Music presented the College-Community Orchestra and the College Choir in a Christmas concert at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The program opened with the Orchestra playing Franz Peter Schubert's "Overture in the Italian Style", commemorating...

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Mon., Jan. 29, 1979

Soprano Ann Matthews and pianist Thomas Hetrick gave a concert of German music at  8:00pm in Memorial Hall. They performed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Abendempfindung", "Die Zufriedenheit", and "Warnung"; Franz Schubert's "Blondel zu Marien", "Sprache der Liebe", "An mein Herz", and "Heimliches...

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Wed., Jan. 31, 1979

Flutist David Barg and pianist Beth Levin gave a concert at which they played Mozart's "Sonata in C", Bach's "Sonata in B Minor", Poulenc's "Sonata for Flute and Piano", Ravel's "Piece en Forme d'Habanera", Debussy's "Syrinx", and Franck's "Sonata". 

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Sun., Feb. 4, 1979

The Ohio Ballet Company performed in Anita Tuvin Schlechter auditorium on February 4, 1979.  They were directed by Heinz Poll and choreographed by Kathryn Posin.

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Wed., Feb. 7, 1979

The Department of Music presented the fourth Noonday Concert of the 1978-1979 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty played Franz Danzi's "Woodwind Quintet in F Major", Ludwig van Beethoven's "Sonata in C minor", Giacomo Puccini's "O mio babbino caro", Franz Schubert's "Sonata in D...

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Sat., Feb. 10, 1979

The Dickinson College Chamber Choir and the Swarthmore College Singers gave a concert at 8:15pm in Lang Concert Hall at Swarthmore College. Their program included Alfred Swan's "Let Thy Soul be Full of Exceeding Gladness"; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Ad te levavi oculos meos"; Ernst...

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Thu., Feb. 15, 1979

Mermaid Players' performed Camino Real from February 15-19 in Mathers Theatre.  The play was originally performed in New York in 1953 and was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Elia Kazan.

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