Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Freshman Plays, a series of one-act plays directed by seniors and performed by all-freshman casts, opened in Mathers Theatre on December 2. The plays, which included Am I Blue? and F.M. , were also performed on December 3. According to the Dickinsonian, the shows...
The Music Department presented the fourth Noonday Concert of the 1988-1989 academic year in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Serenade in B-flat Major, K. 361", Truman Bullard's "Three Spiritual Lauds for soprano, flute, and organ", Mozart's "Als...
The Department of Music presented the seventh annual Messiah sing-along in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium at 7:30pm. The event was open to the public and led by the College-Community Orchestra and College Choir.
The Music Department presented the Symphonic Band's fourth annual winter concert at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The band performed the National Anthem, Alfred Reed's arrangement of "Greensleeves", Karl L. King's "Invictus March", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Fantasia in G Major", Sammy...
The fall 1988 Art Historical Methods seminar created an exhibit entitled "The Presence of Picasso: His Influence and Inspiration" that was on display in the Trout Gallery from January 27th to February 24th, 1989.
The Music Department presented a flute repertory class at 4:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Performers played Franz Joseph Haydn's "Serenade from String Quartet, Op. 3, no. 5", George Frideric Handel's "Bourrée and Menuetto from Sonata in G Major" and "Allegro from Sonata in F Major",...
The Cultural Affairs Committee presented the Clarendon Brass Ensemble at 8:15pm in the Weiss Center for the Arts. The ensemble performed Charpentier's "Prelude to 'Te Deum'"; Pezel's "Intrada", "Sarabande", and "Bal"; Ewald's "Quintet #2 in Eb, Op. 6"; Bach's "The Art of the Fugue"; Howarth's...
The Music Department presented its fifth Noonday Concert of the 1988-1989 academic year in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Rondeau, Polonaise, and Badinerie", Pietro Nardini's "Concerto in E minor", David Van Vachter's "Duettino for Two Flutes...
The Friends of the Library presented a concert in the evening at Rubendall Recital Hall titled "The Songs of Harold Arlen." The pieces performed included Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg's "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block"; Johnny Mercer's "My Shining Hour", "Out of This World", "Hit the Road...
The Music Department presented a faculty recital by guitarist Nathaniel Gunod and harpsichord player Amy Rosser, accompanied by violinist John Eaken, violoncellist Nancy Baun, and violist Donna Marie DiLabio, at 8:15pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall. The program included Robert de Visée's "Suite...
Pianist Tommy Flanagan received the 1989 Dickinson College Arts Award at a special event, which included a concert by Flanagan, George Mraz, and Kenny Washington, at 8:30pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.
The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in a concert titled "Music in England: Church and Chapel, Court and Countryside" at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The Collegium Musicum performed "Dilexisti justitiam", "Audi filia", "Nobilis, humilis", John Dunstable's "Quam pulchra...
Life is a Dream, a play by Calderon de la Barca, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Mermaid Players, the production ran from February 10-14.
The Music Department presented "A Concert of North Indian Music by Ustad Hamid Hossein" at 8:15pm in Memorial Hall. Vocalist Ustad Hamid Hossain was accompanied by Enayat Hossain and Munir Hossain playing the tabla.
Together with the Central Pennsylvania Consortium, the Music Department presented "A Concert of Traditional Chinese Instrumental Music by David Mingyue Liang" at 8:15pm in Memorial Hall. Mingyue performed Wang Wei's "Farewell at Yanguan"; Liu Tianhua's "In Affliction"; the traditional melodies...
The Music Department presented a concert by flutist Carl Adams, accompanied by percussionist Gary Olmstead, at 8:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. He performed Georg Philipp Telemann's "Canonic Sonata No. 5", Alec Wilder's "Suite for Flute and Marimba", Edmond J. Lewis' "Soliloquy and Capriccio...
The Music Department presented a faculty recital by cellist Nancy Baun, accompanied by pianist Gloria Whitney, at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Pieces performed included Beethoven's "Variation on a Theme 'Judas Maccabaus'", Schubert's "Sonata in A Minor 'Arpeggione'", Britten's "Sonata in C...
The Department of Music presented the Jazz Ensemble in their ninth annual winter concert at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. They played Mark Taylor's arrangement of Kurt Weil's "Mack the Knife"; Dave Barduhn's arrangement of Errol Gardner's "Misty"; Jeff Jarvis' "High Octane";...
A performance of choreography by two Dickinson students, George Staib and Laura Keys, was presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts. The performance was in Mathers Theatre on February 24 and 25 at 8:00pm.
The Department of Music presented a concert by the Dickinson College Choir at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. They performed William Byrd's "Look Down, O Lord...Be Unto Me a Tower", Orlando di Lasso's "Tristis est anima mea", Ivor R. Davies' "Prayers from the Ark", Sergei Rachmaninov's "The...
The College hosted a Soviet Film Series that started on February 28th and ended on March 2nd. Each film was shown in Bosler 208 at 8 p.m. A few of the films shown were "Scarecrow", "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", and "Commissar."
The Music Department presented a concert by the Chamber Orchestra at 8:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall. The orchestra performed Tommaso Vitali's "Chaconne for solo violin and orchestra in D minor", John W. Jones' "Monotone", Gabriel Fauré's "Élégie (op. 24) for solo cello and orchestra",...
The Music Department presented the sixth Noonday Concert of the 1988-1989 academic year in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Samuel Scheidt's "Allemande"; "Gaillarde"; Georg Friedrich Handel's "Endless Pleasure"; Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria"; Fritz Kreisler's "...
As part of the inter-disciplinary The Risks of Nuclear War program, the film America and the World Since World War II was shown in four parts, with each viewing session followed by a discussion session. The film was shown on March 6th, 13th and 27th and on April 3rd.
Art critic Derek Guthrie jurored an exhibit on the theme "The Risks of Nuclear War" that was on display in the Trout Gallery from March 2nd to April 7th, 1989. The mid-Atlantic artists Gary Jacobson, Blaise Tobia, Michel Demanche and Joseph A. Davis III were featured. The exhibit was part of a...
