Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Department of Music presented the Buzz Jones Big Band with the Jazz Ensemble in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Sammy Nestico's "Funtime", "Color Me Warm", and "The Heat's On"; John Oddo's arrangement of "John Brown's Other Body"; Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A'...
The Chamber Choir gave a concert at 12:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They performed their tour program, which included Thomas Morely's "Out of the Deep", Thomas Tallis' "If ye love Me", William Byrd's "I will not Leave you Comfortless", Tomas Luis da Vittoria's "Ne Timeas Maria" and "Pueri...
The annual exhibition of paintings, sculpture ceramics, drawings, and prints by fine arts studio students was on display in the Trout Gallery from April 16th to May 3rd, 1985.
The Mermaid Players and the Department of Music presented Once Upon a Mattress at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Written by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, and Dean Fuller, with music by Mary Rodgers, the production ran April 19, 20, 22, and 23.
The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in their spring concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. Accompanied by harpsichordist Amy Rosser, they sang Jacques du Phly's "Pieces de Clavecin"; Domenico Scarlatti's "Sonata in D"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier", "Jesu,...
The Department of Music presented the Symphonic Band in a concert at 1:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Francis Scott Key's "The Star Spangled Banner", Alfred Reed's "A Festival Prelude", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude and Fugue in D Minor", Caesar Giovannini's "Overture in B Flat...
The Department of Music presented soprano Laurie Phillips and tenor Brook Garrett in their junior vocal recital at 3:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They sang George Frideric Handel's "Singe, Seele", "Lascia ch'io pianga", and "As when the dove laments her love"; Johannes Brahms' "Wir Wandelten...
The newly formed Dickinson Symphonic Band gave it's debut performance in Rubendall Recital Hall. The band consisted of 50 players, encompassing faculty, students, and administration, under the direction of Buzz Jones. Student Dave Strohmetz, percussionist in the band, explained that "There were...
The Department of Music presented the eighth Noonday Concert of the 1984-1985 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's "Sonata in E Minor for flute, bassoon and continuo", Luigi Boccherini's "Duet in G Major", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's...
Mezzo soprano Joan Frey Boytim and pianist Harry Goldby presented Virginia Woolf: A Portrait in Words and Music in Rubendall Recital Hall. They were joined by lecturer Joanne Trautmann Banks. The program was repeated on May 18.
The Department of Music presented soprano Dana Smith in her senior vocal recital at 3:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. She sang Henry Purcell's "I attempt from Love's sickness to fly" and "If Music be the Food of Love"; Franz Schubert's "An Sylvia", "Lachen und Weinen", "Erlafsee" and "Seligkeit...
An exhibition of senior work by Kimberly Betz and L. Adam Winegard was held on May 7th, 1985 at the Weiss Center.
An exhibit entitled "The Art and Science of Eadweard Muybridge" consisting of selections from the College's collection of photographic studies for Muybridge's Animal Locomotion was on display in the Trout Gallery from May 7th to June 9th, 1985. The exhibit was created to celebrate the...
The Department of Music presented the first Noonday Concert of the 1985-1986 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Members of the department faculty performed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude to Lute Suite No. 3" and "French Suite in E-flat Major"; George Frideric Handel's "Sonata in G Major...
The Coro Stelutis, a vocal ensemble from Bologna, Italy, gave a concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium as a part of their 1985 United States tour.
The Department of Music presented the Chamber Orchestra in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Georg Philipp Telemann's "Concerto in E Minor", Ludwig van Beethoven's "Romance in F Major", Antonio Salieri's "Concerto in C Major", Anton Arensky's "Variations of a Theme of...
The Department of Music presented the second Noonday Concert of the 1985-1986 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed a sixteenth-century Spanish piece entitled "A los banos del amor", Alessandro Scarlatti's "Quartet in F Major for three flutes and basso continuo...
The Research and Development Committee of Dickinson College presented a concert of chamber music at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The concert was funded by a Creative Arts Grant. The musicians played Johannes Brahms' "Quintet in B Minor" and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Quintet in A Major". ...
An exhibit of 17th-century Dutch old master paintings from the Mandel Collection was on display in the Trout Gallery from October 8th to December 20th, 1985.
On Wednesday, October 16, 1985, Dickinson College hosted noted Danish photographer Jacob Holdt and his exhibition entitled American Pictures. This exhibition includes photographs of and interviews with people Holdt met while hitchhiking across the United States between 1971 and 1976....
Edmond, a play by David Mamet, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Mermaid Players, the production ran from October 18-22.
The Department of Music presented the College Choir, Collegium Musicum, College-Community Orchestra, and Symphonic Band in a concert at 11:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner", Robert Farnon's "Men of Harlech", William Rhodes' "...
The Department of Music presented pianist Debra Seyler, violinist John Eaken, and cellist Ellen Royer in a concert at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. They played Felix Mendelssohn's "Trio in D Minor" and Anton Arensky's "Trio in D Minor".
The Department of Music presented the Chamber Choir and the Jazz Ensemble in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They performed Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Dark-eyed Sailor", "The Spring Time of the Year", "Wassail Song", "The Lover's Ghost", and "Just as the Tide was Flowing"; Benny...
The Department of Music presented the third Noonday Concert of the 1985-1986 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed an anonymously-written piece entitled "Soleta so jo aci", Franz Joseph Haydn's "Divertimento in D Major", Paul Hindemith's "Massig bewegt", John...
