Entries drawn from the college history timeline
Continuing Education presented William Faulkner: An Evocation at 8:00pm on November 11. The script for the production was arranged by Joseph Schiffman, the production was staged by Judy Banks and Faulkner was portrayed by Yates Forbis.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band performed in The Kline Center on November 13 at 8:00pm. The event was sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee and was free for Dickinson students and staff.
Cultural Affairs presented the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in a concert in the Kline Life/Sports Learning Center.
An exhibit of porcelain sculpture by Paula Winokur was held in the Holland Union Gallery from November 15th to the 31st, 1981. Winokur visited campus to give a lecture and lead a workshop in handbuilt porcelain sculpture prior to the exhibit opening.
The Department of Music presented the Chamber Orchestra in a concert at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. They played Johann Sebastian Bach's "Bradenburg Concerto No. 1" and "Concerto in D Minor"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Concerto in G Major", "Komm liebe Zither, Komm", and "Die Zufriedenheit"; Alan...
The Department of Music presented the third Noonday Concert of the 1981-1982 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's "Concerto in G Major for Five Flutes", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major", Giovanni Paolo Colonna's...
The Freshman Plays, a show of one-act plays performed by all-freshman casts and directed by students, opened at 7:00 in Mathers Theatre. The production ran December 4 and 5.
The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in their 1981 fall concert, Musique Francaise, in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed a program of French music from the 14-16 centuries, including Gervais de Bus/Chaillou de Pesstain's "Le Roman de Fauvel", Guillaume...
The Department of Music presented the College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra in the 1981 Christmas Concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed Biagio Marini's "Canzon Ottava"; Giovanni Gabrielli's "Canzon noni toni"; Hans Leo Hassler's "Laudate Dominum";...
A special Noonday Concert was held in Memorial Hall. Beth Bullard, Truman Bullard, Barry Hannigan and Mary Hannigan played Johann Joachim Quantz's "Trio Sonata in C Major", Claude Debussy's "Petite Suite", Harvey Sollberger's "Two Pieces for Two Flutes", and Johann Friedrich Fasch's "Sonata in D...
The Department of Music presented the Keystone Brass Quintet in a concert in Memorial Hall. They played Mussorgsky-Brandon's "Promenade" from Pictures at an Exhibition, Purcell-Mills' "Sonata for Two Trumpets and Brass", Elgar Howarth's "Basle March", Conner-Dennison's "Valse a cinq...
Cultural Affairs and the Department of Music presented the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in a concert at 8:00pm. They played Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto" and Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 1 in D".
The Department of Music presented the fourth Noonday Concert of the 1981-1982 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed Vaillant's "Tres doulz amis/Cent mille fois", Frederic Chopin's "Waltz in E Minor", J. Ed. Barat's "Andate et scherzo", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sonata...
The Department of Music presented classical guitarist Allen Krantz in a concert at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. He played Augustin Barrios' "The Last Song", "Julia Florida", and "Maxixe"; Fernando Sor's "Four Studies"; Allen Krantz's "Prelude"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "Suite No. 1"; Turina's "...
Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory, an internationally recognized American comedian, social activist, critic and writer, gave a humorous yet provocative presentation before his audience in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium (ATS) on Friday night, February 12. Mixing comedy with scathing social...
The Cultural Affairs Committee presented Will Stutts as "Walt Whitman, Liberal and Lusty as Nature" at 8:00pm on February 21 in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The production is the first dramatic piece to be devoted to the life and works of Whitman.
The Department of Music presented the Jazz Ensemble and guest artist Dave Kennedy in a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The Jazz Ensemble played T. Jones' "Big Dipper", J. Beckenstien's "Morning Dance", C. Parker's "Chi Chi", J. LaBarbera's "After Rain", J. Zawinul's "...
An exhibit of paintings and sculpture by Walter Nichols was on display in the Holland Union Gallery from March 1st to the 14th, 1982.
The Department of Music presented the fifth Noonday Concert of the 1981-1982 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed George Frideric Handel's "Ouverture for two clarinets and horn", Ellis B. Kohs' "Night Watch: A Dialog for Flute, Horn and Kettledrums", Franz Danzi's "...
Pianist Barry Hannigan gave a concert at Dickinson College as a part of his winter/spring Pennsylvania tour. Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Hannigan's played a program of music by Pennsylvania composers.
The College Choir, College-Community Orchestra and pianist Pong-hi Park performed in a Beethoven concert at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.
Pianist Debra Philo Fourlas, Dickinson alumna and student of Professor Park, gave a concert at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall.
An exhibit of pottery by Christy Wert-Havel was on display in the Holland Union Gallery from March 29th to April 7th, 1982.
The Department of Music presented the sixth Noonday Concert of the 1981-1982 academic year in Memorial Hall. Students and faculty performed A. Barthe's "Passacaille", the anonymously-written "Die Katzenpfoter", Ludwig Senfl's "Im Maien", Carl Heinrich Graun's " Allegro from Trio Sonata in E-flat...
Students of Josephine Bailey Freund, instructor of organ, performed in an Afternoonday Concert at 3:30pm at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. They played Dietrich Buxtehude's "Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne" and "Fugue in C Major"; Johann Pachelbel's "Von Gott will...
