Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Music Department presented "Songs of Love from the Courts of 17th Century France and Italy," a concert by Trio Artemis, at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall. The trio performed Etienne Moulinié's "Orilla del claro Tajo", "L'auzel ques sul bouyssou (air Gascon)", "Por la verde orilla", and "Non speri...
The Music Department presented a Fall Concert by the Symphonic Band at 4:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The band performed Caesar Giovanni and Wayne Robinson's "Overture in B flat", Frank Erickson's "A Gaelic Ballad" and "Spoon River Variations", Robert W. Smith's "Ireland: Of legend and lore...
The Music Department presented a concert by the College-Community Orchestra at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The orchestra performed George Frideric Handel's "Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G Major", Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Elegy from Serenage for Strings, Op. 48", and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
The Department of Music presented the fourteenth 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 Dickinson Collegium's "A Christmas Concert: Traditional Carols" at 8:00pm on Sat., Dec. 7 and at 4:00pm on Sun., Dec. 8 in Memorial Hall. The ensemble performed Johann Pachelbel's "Magnificat"; the English traditional carol "Cherry Tree Carol" (arr. D....
The Music Department presented a faculty recital by clarinetist Beverly Butts, accompanied by pianist Lucy Mauro and cellist Suzanne Orban, at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Butts performed Claude Debussy's "Premiere Rhapsody", Witold Lutoslawski's "Dance Preludes", Jean Francaix's "Tema con...
The fall 1996 Art Historical Methods seminar produced an exhibit entitled "Unraveling the Mask: Portraits of Twentieth-Century Experience" that featured various representatives of portraiture from the college collection. It was on display in the Trout Gallery from February 7th to March 8th,...
The Music Department presented a faculty recital by guitarist James Hontz at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Hontz performed Luys de Narváez's "Canción del Emperador" and "Guárdame las Vacas", Joaquin Turina's "Fandanguillo", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro, BWV 998",...
Balm in Gilead, a play by Lanford Wilson, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Mermaid Players, the show ran from February 14-18.
The Music Department presented "Women's Voices," a faculty recital by mezzo-soprano Lynn Helding, accompanied by pianist Lydia Brown, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Helding performed Robert Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben, selections from William Bolcom's I Will Breathe a...
The Music Department presented a joint faculty recital by trumpet player Vanessa Rickert and trombone player Carol Henry at 7:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Rickert and Henry performed David Uber's "Blue-Chip Blues" and "Rush-Hour Rag"; J.B.G. Neruda's "Concerto in E flat" (ed. David Hickman...
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Franz Joseph Haydn's "Duetto, No. VI, Op. 101"; Thomas Morley's "Say, Dear, Will You Not Have Me?", "Farewell, Disdainful", and "Spring-time Mantleth Every Bough"; George Frideric Handel's...
The Music Department presented "At the Corner of Dickinson & Broadway VII," featuring the College Choir, at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The choir performed Toni Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart", "One" from A Chorus Line, "Too Many Mornings" from Follies,...
The Music Department presented a concert by the College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra at 3:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensembles performed Antonín Dvorák's "Te Deum", Carl Maria von Weber's "Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 73 for Clarinet and Orchestra", and...
The Music Department celebrated the work of Dickinson College Arts Award winner Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano, with the presentation of the award and a short performance beginning at 7:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Bryn-Julson performed Charles Boone's "Vocalise I, II, III", Luciano Berio's "...
The Music Department presented the Jazz Ensemble's 1997 Spring Concert. The ensemble performed Ella Fitzgerald and Van Alexander's "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"; Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin, Harvey Mason, and Paul Jackson's "Chameleon" (arr. Jay Chattaway); JoAnne Bracken's "Curved Space", "Fi-Fi Goes...
The Music Department presented a junior recital by mezzo-soprano Dana Hackett and sopranos Rebecca Leyon and Smruti Shah, accompanied by pianist Kee Mann Chang, at 4:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Hackett, Leyon, and Shah performed Thomas Morley's "Say, Dear, Will You Not Have Me?", "Farewell...
The Music Department presented "French Chamber Music", a concert by the Lydian Winds, at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The ensemble performed Jacques Ibert's "Cinq Pièces en Trio", Arthur Honegger's "Rapsodie", Eugène Bozza's "Trois Pièces pour une Musique de Nuit", Francis Poulenc's "...
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed the Celtic traditional pieces "Neil Gow's Lament for his Second Wife", "The 74th Highlanders Farewell to Edinburgh", "Sweet Molly (strathspey)", and "Sweet Molly (reel)"; Leonard Bernstein...
The Music Department hosted "La Rocque 'n' Roll: Popular Music of Renaissance France," a concert by the Baltimore Consort, at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The Consort performed the traditional piece "J'ai vû le loup"; Adrian Le Roy's "Mes pas semez", "J'ay le rebours", "Has tu point veu...
An exhibit entitled "Visions of Home: American Impressionist Images of Suburban Leisure and Country Comfort" was on display in the Trout Gallery from April 4th to June 14th, 1997. The exhibit was underwritten by the Henry D. Clarke, Jr., Foundation for the Arts and was guest-curated by Lisa N....
The Mermaid Players' spring production, An Evening of Plays by Christopher Durang, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Mermaid Players, the production ran from April 4-8.
The Music Department presented "All Brahms Program," a concert by pianist Joel Schoenhals and violist Eva Stern featuring mezzo-soprano Lynn Helding, as part of the Eastman at Dickinson Recital Series, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Schoenhals and Stern performed Johannes Brahms' "Zwei...
The Music Department presented "Deutsche Music Festival: A Celebration of German Music," a concert by the Eaken Piano Trio, at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The trio performed Ludwig van Beethoven's "Trio No. 9 in E flat", Carl Maria von Weber's "Shepherd's Lament, Op. 63", and Felix...
The Music Department presented a senior recital by soprano Lisa Cacciabaudo, accompanied by Kee Mann Chang on the piano and the harpsichord, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Cacciabaudo performed Giulio Caccini's "Amor ch'attendi", "Amarilli, mia bella", "Belle rose porporine", and "...
