Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Music Department presented a Parents Day concert featuring the College-Community Orchestra, the Dickinson College Choir, the Dickinson Singers, and the Dickinson Jazz Ensemble at 11:00am in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensembles performed Sammy Nestico's arrangement of Arthur...
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert at the Weiss Center for the Arts. Students and faculty performed Robert King's transcription of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Alegretto" from Symphony No. 7, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet's "Sonata No. III", Robert Schumann's "Fantasy Piece, Op. 73,...
The College Choir and the Jazz Ensemble presented a concert titled "Swingtime!" at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The College Choir performed Truman Bullard's "Six Russian Folk Songs", Cole Porter and Gary Fry's "Do I Love You?" and "From This Moment On", and Ralph Hunter's...
The annual fall dance concert, presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and Dance Theatre Group, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. This concert included works choreographed by faculty and guest artists, including a performance by former American Ballet Theatre dancer Laura Hupp. The...
The Music Department presented a performance by the Dickinson College Brass Ensemble and organist Charles Farris at 3:00pm in St. John's Episcopal Church. The program included David Sampson's "Fanfare for Canterbury Cathedral", Dale Wood's arrangement of Martin Shaw's "Grand Processional",...
An exhibit entitled "China between the Revolutions: Photographs by Sidney D. Gamble 1917-1927" was on display in the Trout Gallery from November 13th to December 12th, 1992.
The Freshman Plays, an annual event featuring student-directed one-act plays with all-freshman casts, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Advanced Directing class, the production ran from November 20-23.
The Dickinson College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra presented a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Mass in C Major at 3:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensembles also performed Engelbert Humperdinck's "Prayer and Dream Sequence" from Hänsel and...
Will Stutts, a Broadway actor known for his one-man plays, performed one of these plays, A Journey Through the Mind...Edgar Allan Poe. The performance was presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee during Common Hour on December 2 in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Dickinson Baroque Ensemble performed in the Rubendall Recital Hall. The ensemble performed Jean-Baptiste Loeillet's "Sonata in D minor for flute, violin, and continuo, Op. 2, No. 4"; George Frideric Handel's "Allegro from the Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 1, No. 15"; Georg Philipp Telemann'...
The Music Department presented a holiday concert titled "Voices of the Season" featuring the Dickinson Singers and the Dickinson Handbell Choir at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The ensembles performed Cynthia Dobrinski's "Rondo Festivo"; George Frideric Handel's "Glory to God", from The...
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Ludwig van Beethoven's "Rondo a capriccio in G major" and "Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "Trio Sonata in G major for flute, violin, and basso continuo,...
The Department of Music presented the eleventh 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 Fall 1992 Art Historical Methods seminar produced an exhibit for the Trout Gallery entitled "The Guided Hand: European Prints in the Permanent Collection from Durer to Piranesi" that was on display from January 29th to February 24th, 1993. The exhibit explored the various styles and...
The Jazz Ensemble, along with Cultural Affairs, sponsored a performance by the Michael Davis Group at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The group performed selected jazz pieces.
The Music Department presented a faculty recital by cellist Nancy Baun, accompanied by pianist Gloria Whitney, at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Baun performed Johannes Brahms' "Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38", Ernest Chausson's "Pièce pour Violincelle et Piano, Op. 39", and Luigi...
Anything Goes, a musical by Cole Porter, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Mermaid Players, the production ran from February 12-16.
The Dickinson Singers performed a concert with the F&M Chamber Chorus at 8:00pm on Sat., Feb. 20 in Rubendall Recital Hall and at 3:00pm on Sun., Feb. 21 in Franklin & Marshall College's Miller Recital Hall. The choires performed Tomás Luis de Victoria's "Nigra sum, sed formosa";...
The Music Department presented a concert by the Chamber Orchestra at 8:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall. The orchestra performed George Frideric Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks", Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Sérénade mélancolique (op. 26)", Max Bruch's "Kol nidre (op. 47)", Ari...
FreshWorks, an annual winter dance concert featuring works choreographed by students, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and Dance Theatre Group, the production was performed February 26 and 27.
The Eaken Piano Trio performed their Carnegie Hall Send-Off Concert in Rubendall Recital Hall at 7:30pm. The trio performed Franz Joseph Haydn's "Trio in E major, Hob. XV: 28"; George Rochberg's "Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello"; Margaret Garwood's "Homages"; and Antonin Dvorak's "Trio...
The Music Department presented tenor Brad Diamond, accompanied by Edwin C. Starner, at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Diamond performed Franz Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.
A multimedia exhibit entitled "Fields of Vision: Selected Works by Contemporary Irish Artists" was on display in the Trout Gallery from March 3rd to April 9th in conjunction with the presentation of the Arts Award to Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
The Eaken Piano Trio performed in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall at 2:00pm. The trio performed Franz Joseph Haydn's "Trio in E major, Hob. XV: 28"; George Rochberg's "Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello"; Margaret Garwood's "Homages"; and Antonin Dvorak's "Trio in F minor, Opus 65".
The Music Department presented a faculty clarinet and piano recital featuring Ella Forsyth and Kee Mann Chang at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The duo performed Witold Lutoslawski's "Dance Preludes", Arthur Bliss' "Pastoral", Gerald Finzi's "Five Bagatelles", and Robert Muczynski's "Time...
