Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of Marquis de Sade, a play by Peter Weiss, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Called Marat/Sade for short, this production was presented by the...
The Cultural Affairs Committee presented the Trinidad Folk Festival, featuring the dance, music, and songs of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Department of Music presented the second Noonday Concert of the 1979-1980 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Giovanni Martini's "Plaisir D'Amour"; Antonio Vivaldi's "Sonata No. 6 for Violoncello and Harpsichord"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Kyrie", "Sonata in D...
Dickinson College Follies' perform Candide which was a play adapted from Voltaire's 18th century novel of the same name in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium on November 9 and 10.
Professor Allen Krantz gave a classical guitar concert at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. He played a prelude by Sylvius Leopold White, two sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Francisco Tarrega's "Caprichio Arabe", Hans Werner Henze's "Drei Tentos", Niccolo Paganini's "Romanze", Johann Sebastian Bach's "...
The Department of Music presented the third Noonday Concert of the 1979-1980 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Robert Sor's "Variations on theme by Mozart", Gerard Jaffe's "Lamentation and Dance", Faure's "Cantique De Jean Racine", Mozart's "Clarinet Concerto",...
The Department of Music presented its 1980 faculty recital at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Samuel Martin, trombone, and Anita Ranucci Brandon, oboe, performed Camille Saint-Saens' "Sonate" and "Cavatine", Gabriel Faure's "After a Dream", Antonio Vivalidi's "Sonata No. 4",...
The Department of Music presented the fourth Noonday Concert of the 1979-1980 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Triosonate G-Dur fur zwei Floten und Basso Continuo" and "VI Cello Suite", Leo Delibes' "Sous le dome epais" from Lakme...
The Dickinson College Chamber Choir and the Swarthmore College Singers gave a joint concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They sang Francis Poulenc's "Timor et tremor venerunt super me" and "Vinea mea electa"; Franz Joseph Haydn's "Der Augenblick", "Alles hat seine Zeit", "Aus...
Violinist Mi-Young Park and pianist Pong-Hi Park gave a concert at 8:00pm. They played Franz Schubert's "Rondo Brillant in B Minor for Violin and Piano", and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Sonata No. 8 in G Major" and "Sonata in A Minor".
The Mermaid Players performed William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in Mathers Theater on February 21-23 and 25-26.
The Department of Music presented the fifth Noonday Concert of the 1979-1980 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Eduard Morike's "Auf ein altes Bild", "Das verlassene Magdlein", and "Der Gartner"; Chopin's "Waltz in A-flat Major"; Henry Purcell's "Ah How Sweet" and "...
The Modern Dance Theatre presented their spring dance concert in Mathers Theatre. The show ran March 7-8 and featured choreography by Tracy Trimper, Trina Collins, Ruthann Mamrak, and Christine Amoroso.
Leonard Pitt, the artist in residence at Dickinson College, led a workshop about being a mime in Mathers Theater.
An exhibit of Soviet non-conformist art from the 1960s and 1970s entitled "Unofficial Art from the Soviet Union" was on display in the Holland Union Building from March 29th to April 18th, 1980. The exhibit was held in conjunction with the Conference on Unofficial Art and Literary Censorship in...
The Department of Music presented the Musicians of Swanne Alley in a concert at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed the anonymously-written songs "El Bisson", "La Rocha el fuso", "Bonny Sweet Robin", "Gullims Dumpe", and "Watkins Ale"; Adrian Willaert's "O bene mio famm'...
The Department of Music presented the sixth Noonday Concert of the 1979-1980 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed J.J. Quantz's "Concerto in G Major for flute and string orchestra ", Domenico Cimarosa's "Concerto in G Major for two flutes and orchestra", and Wolfgang...
Robert Bringhurst, a Canadian poet, reads his own works in Memorial Hall. Some of the poems includes "Deuteronomy," "The Heart That Is Oil," and "Sun and Moon."
The Department of Music presented tenor Michael Jaff and pianist Kevin Smith in a senior music recital at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. They performed Georg Philipp Telemann's "Kanarienvogel Kantate"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Dans un bois", "Ridents la calma", and "Warnung"; Gabriel Faure's "...
Continuum, the performing ensemble of the Performers' Committee for Twentieth-Century Music, gave a concert at 8:00pm. They performed John Cage's "Totem Ancestor"; Leon Kirchner's "Trio for violin, cello, and piano"; Dmitri Shostakovich's "Song of Ophelia", "Gamajun, the Prophet Bird", "We Were...
The Department of Music presented the College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra in a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed Alan Hovhaness' Requiem and Resurrection, Max Bruch's "Concerto in G Minor", and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
The Department of Music presented the seventh Noonday Concert of the 1979-1980 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Chopin's "Ballade in F Major", Gabriel Faure's "Chanson D'Amour", Paulenc's "Sonate for Clarinet", Roper Quierter's "Under the Greenwood Tree", Norman...
The Mermaid Players performed Once in a Lifetime in Mathers Theater on April 24-26 and 28th at 8pm.
The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in a concert in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed Josquin des Pres' "Qui velatus facie fuisti", Juan Vasquez's "Si me llaman", Alonso Mudarra's "Si me llaman", and Juan del Encina's "Ay triste que vengo". Additionally, they...
The Department of Music presented the first Noonday Concert of the 1980-1981 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Giovanni Gabrieli's "Canzon Prima", George Philipp Telemann's "Concerto a tre", Augustin Barrios' "The Last Song", Paul Hindemith's "Pieces for flute alone...
