Performances, Films, and Exhibits

    Entries drawn from the college history timeline

Thu., Nov. 1, 1979

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...

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Sun., Nov. 4, 1979

The Cultural Affairs Committee presented the Trinidad Folk Festival, featuring the dance, music, and songs of Trinidad and Tobago. 

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Wed., Nov. 7, 1979

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...

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Fri., Nov. 9, 1979

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.

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Wed., Dec. 12, 1979

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 "...

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Wed., Dec. 12, 1979

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",...

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Thu., Jan. 31, 1980

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",...

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Wed., Feb. 6, 1980

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...

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Sat., Feb. 16, 1980

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...

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Mon., Feb. 18, 1980

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". 

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Thu., Feb. 21, 1980

The Mermaid Players performed William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in Mathers Theater on February 21-23 and 25-26.

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Wed., Mar. 5, 1980

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 "...

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Fri., Mar. 7, 1980

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.

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Tue., Mar. 11, 1980

Leonard Pitt, the artist in residence at Dickinson College, led a workshop about being a mime in Mathers Theater.

Event Type: Lectures and Symposia, Performances, Films, and Exhibits
Sat., Mar. 29, 1980

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...

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Sun., Mar. 30, 1980

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'...

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Wed., Apr. 9, 1980

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...

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Tue., Apr. 15, 1980

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."

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Wed., Apr. 16, 1980

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 "...

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Sun., Apr. 20, 1980

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...

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Tue., Apr. 22, 1980

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

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Wed., Apr. 23, 1980

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...

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Sat., Apr. 24, 1980

The Mermaid Players performed Once in a Lifetime in Mathers Theater on April 24-26 and 28th at 8pm.

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Sat., Apr. 26, 1980

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...

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Wed., Sep. 3, 1980

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...

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