Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Department of Music presented two of its faculty members, flutist Beth Bullard and harpsichordist Amy Rosser, in a concert of Baroque music at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Johann Sebastian Bach's "Sonata in B Minor", Michel Corrette's "Sonata in G Major", anonymously-written...
The Department of Music presented violinist Holly Thorpe and flutist David Metzer in their combined junior recital at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Accompanied by Truman Bullard on piano and harpsichord, they played W. Ten Have's "Allegro Brilliant", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sonata in D...
The Department of Music presented the College Choir and College-Community Orchestra in a concert at 3:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They performed Franz Peter Schubert's "Symphony #8 in B Minor" and "Mass in G Major", and excerpts from Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird.
An exhibit of recent work by Barbara Diduk was on display in the Weiss Center for the Arts from December 3rd to the 17th, 1985. The exhibit featured three ceramic ewer forms that were supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts.
The Department of Music presented the fourth Noonday Concert of the 1985-1986 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sonata in F Major", Franz Joseph Haydn's "Duet in B-flat Major", Ferdinando Carulli's "Moderato", Leo Brouwer's "Coral...
The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in a concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. They performed Thomas Tallis' "O nata lux", "If ye love me", and "Lamentation"; the anonymously-written pieces "Soleta so lo aci" and "A los banos"; Adriano Banchieri's "Capricata a tre voci"; Giaches...
The Freshman Plays, an annual event presented by the Mermaid Players, opened at 7:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Featuring a selection of student-directed one-act plays performed by all-freshman casts, the production ran December 6 and 7.
The Department of Music presented violinist Deborah Berman in her senior recital at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Accompanied by pianist Kee Mann Chang and violinist Elizabeth Montella, she played Ludwig van Beethoven's "Sonata in F Major", P. Sarasate's "Malaguena", Franz Schubert's "...
The Chamber Choir gave a concert at the Carlisle Historical Society. They sang Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Dark-Eyed Sailor", "The Springtime of the Year", "Wassail Song", "The Lover's Ghost", and "Just as the Tide was Flowing"; the American spiritual song "Let us Break Bread Together", and...
The Chamber Choir, College Choir, and Chamber Orchestra gave "A Concert of Sacred Music for the Christmas Season" at 8:00pm at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They performed Arcangelo Corelli's "Christmas Concerto", Andreas Hammerschmidt's "O Beloved Shepherds", and Franz...
The Department of Music presented the Symphonic Band in the annual Holiday Concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Robert Farnon's "Rhapsody on the Minstrel Boy" and "Men of Harlech", Leroy Anderson's "A Christmas Festival" and "Sleigh Ride", Serge Prokofieff-Walters' "Troika",...
The Department of Music presented the 1985 Community-College sing-along of Handel's Messiah in Rubendall Recital Hall. The College-Community Orchestra and Choir, under the direction of John Eaken and Truman Bullard, led the event.
The Art Historical Methods seminar curated an exhibit entitled "A Treasure Chests of Recent Gifts to Dickinson College's Art Collection" from works donated to the College since 1983. The exhibit ran until February 27th, 1986.
The Department of Music presented violinist John Eaken in a faculty recital at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. He played Arcangelo Corelli's "Sonata in D Major", Franz Schubert's "Duet for Violin and Piano in A Major", Zoltan Kodaly's "Kallai Kettos", Bela Bartok's "Andante", Fritz Kreisler's...
The Department of Music presented the fifth Noonday Concert of the 1985-1986 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Ludwig van Beethoven's "Bagatelle in G Minor", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sonata in D Major", Georg Philip Telemann's "Hemmet den Eifer, Verbannat...
The Department of Music presented flutist Mary Hannigan and pianist Barry Hannigan in a recital at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Piano Sonata in E-flat Major", Ludwig van Beethoven's "Piano Sonata in E Major", Philippe Gaubert's "Sonata for Flute and...
The Visit, a play by Friedrich Durrenmatt adapated by Maurice Valency, opened in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. Presented by the Mermaid Players, the production ran February 7-11.
The 1986 Public Affairs Symposium lecture and demonstration, "Church Music in America", was given by Brenda Smith, Truman Bullard, and June Shomaker at 12:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Pieces which were performed during the demonstration include Heinrich Schutz's "Bringt her dem Herrn";...
Violinist Carl Iba gave a concert at 12:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Accompanied by pianist Debra Ronning Seyler, he played Bach's "Partita No. 3 in E Major for Unaccompanied Violin" and Mendelssohn's "Concerto in E Minor".
The Department of Music presented the College Choir in "A Concert of Music of Many Lands and Times" at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They sang Gabriel Faure's "Cantique de Jean Racine", Hector Berlioz's "La Mort D'Ophelie", Robert B. Swift's "Ozymandias", Gwen Hester's "Go from Me",...
The Department of Music presented the Chamber Orchestra in a concert at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Overture to Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail", "Ch'io mi Scordi di te", "Ah Guarda Sorella", "Come Scoglio", "Vado, ma dove? O Dei!", and "Vorrei...
The Department of Music presented the Jazz Ensemble in their annual winter concert at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They played Miles Davis' "Milestones", Bobby Troup's "Route 66", Gordon Goodwin's "Hot Monkey Love", Sammy Nestico's "Samantha", George Gershwin's "Strike Up the...
An exhibit entitled "Black Artists Living in the Mid-Atlantic States" was displayed in the Trout Gallery from March 3rd to April 10th, 1986, in conjunction with the 18th Annual Black Arts Festival. The artists featured in the exhibit were Willie Birch, Vincent Smith and Gilberto Wilson.
The Department of Music presented mezzo-soprano Brenda Smith in a faculty recital at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Accompanied by pianist Kee Mann Chang, she sang Thomas Morely's "It was a lover and his lass"; Roger Quilter's "Take, O take those lips away"; Gerald Finzi's "Who is Sylvia?";...
The Department of Music presented the sixth Noonday Concert of the 1985-1986 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's "Allegro from Concerto No. 3 in G Major", Ludwig van Beethoven's "Allegro and Adagio from Sonata in F Minor", Carl...
