Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Music Department presented a senior recital by tenor Kirk Hornberger, accompanied by Kee Mann Chang on piano and harpsichord, at 7:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Hornberger performed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Seht, was die Liebe tut!" and "Mein Verlangen"; Claude Debussy's "Azael's...
The Music Department presented "Music of 20th Century Composers: Works by Samuel Barber, Donald Johnston, and Michael Twomey," a concert by the College-Community Orchestra, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The orchestra performed Michael Twomey's "Lamenting Last Tomorrow", Samuel Barber's "...
The Music Department presented a senior recital by baritone Michael C. Anderson, accompanied by pianist Kee Mann Chang, at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Anderson performed Henry Purcell's "Man is for the Woman Made" and "Ye Twice Ten Hundred Deities"; Ralph Vaughan-Williams' "The Vagabond...
The Music Department presented "Johann Sebastian Bach: Music for One Wedding and a Funeral," a concert featuring the Dickinson Collegium, at 8:15pm at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Collegium performed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Cantata No. 196, Der Herr Denket an Uns...
The Music Department presented "Gershwin, Cohan, and Melville?", a joint concert featuring the Brass Ensemble and the Symphonic Band, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed original compositions by students of Prof. Michael Twomey's Techniques of Composition class. These included Jason Pease's "Indifference to Synthesis", Matthew D. Coburn's "Coalesce",...
The annual spring dance concert, presented by the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Dance Theatre Group, opened at 8:00pm in Mathers Theatre. Featuring works of student choreography, the show ran from April 25-27.
The Choir performed Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 2 for Soprano and Contralto Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra in C minor, 'Resurrection'" with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra at 8:00pm on Sat., Apr. 26, and at 3:00pm on Sun., Apr. 27.
An exhibit entitled "Ward Davenny: Works on Paper" was on display in the Trout Gallery from August 29th to September 27th, 1997.
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. Faculty performed Astor Piazzola's "III Night Club 1960"; Frédéric Chopin's "Nocturne in E flat Major" (arr. Pablo de Sarasate); Charles Ives' "The Alcotts"; Carl Maria von Weber's "Fantasia and Rondo"; Johannes Brahms...
The Music Department presented a faculty recital by pianist Jennifer Blyth at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Blyth performed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 332", Alexander Scriabin's "Sonata — Fantasie no. 2", Ferrucio Busoni's "Chaconne in D minor", and Bill Dobbins...
The Music Department presented "An Afternoon of Music in Pastels," a concert featuring flutist Molly Eckman, harpist Samantha Witchen, and pianist Martini Lie, as part of the Eastman at Dickinson Recital Series at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The trio performed Charles Griffes' "Poem for...
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Georg Philipp Telemann's "Concerto in G Major" and "Sonata 2 in E minor"; Vincenzo Righini's "Affetti, non turbate" and "Pur nel sonno almen talora"; Eubie Blake's "Charleston Rag";...
The Music Department held a celebration of the life and works of the late Fred Curtis Petty, Associate Professor Emeritus of Music, at 4:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed musical selections and commemorated Petty through words and music.
The Music Department presented a concert by the College Choir at Coolfont Resort in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia at 2:00pm. The choir performed Ralph Vaughan Williams' "O How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings" and "Just As the Tide Was Flowing", Aaron Copland's "Long Time Ago" and "At the River",...
The Eaken Piano Trio presented "An Evening of Brahms" at 8:15pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The trio performed Johannes Brahms' "Trio in C Major, Op. 87, no. 3" and "Trio in A minor, Op. 114".
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 in E minor, Op. 38, No. 1", "Cradle Song", and "Sonata in F Major, Op. 99, No. 2".
The Music Department presented a concert by the Chamber Orchestra at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The orchestra performed George Frideric Handel's "Concerto Grosso No. 7, Op. 6 in B flat Major", Richard Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll", Michael P. Twomey's "Fantasia on a Theme by John Lennon",...
The Music Department presented a joint concert by the College Choir and the Jazz Ensemble featuring the Octals at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensembles performed Aaron Copland's "Long Time Ago", "At the River", and "Stomp Your Foot"; Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Dark-...
The Music Department presented "Parlour Pieces," a concert by the Dickinson College Brass Ensemble "and friends," at 7:00pm in Memorial Hall. The ensemble performed Turini's "Fanfare" (arr. Wienandt), Scheidt's "Canzon" (arr. King), Palestrina's "Madrigal" (arr. Moore), Shaw's "Frippery No. 26...
The Music Department presented "Music by Women Composers from Hildegard to Hensel," a concert by soprano Rosa Lamoreaux, piano and harpsichord player Laura Ward, and early bowed strings player Tina Chancey, at 8:15pm in Memorial Hall. The trio performed Hildegard von Bingen's "Sequence: O Ignis...
The Music Department presented a concert by the Symphonic Band at 3:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall. The band performed Frank Erickson's "Scherzo for Band", Howard Hanson's "Chorale and Alleluia", Robert W. Smith's arrangement of the traditional piece "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime", David...
An exhibit entitled "Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses" featuring 43 paintings and 19 sculptural shrines by the artist was on display in the Trout Gallery from November 18th to January 24th. The exhibit was presented in conjunction with another exhibit of Kahn's works on display at Messiah College.
The Music Department presented "A Concert Honoring Johannes Brahms: Life, Death and Music in the Centennial Year of His Death," a concert featuring the College-Community Orchestra and the College Choir, at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensembles performed Brahms' "...
The Music Department presented "Liebeslieder Waltzes and Other Love Songs by Johannes Brahms," a concert by tenor Jeffrey Fahnestock, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Fahnestock performed Brahms' "Fünf Lieder, Op. 106", "Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 57", "Duette, Op. 28", and "Liebeslieder...
