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 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "Trio in D minor, Op. 49".
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.
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 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's "A Simple Song from Mass"; Francis Poulenc's "Air romantique" and "Air vif"; Charles Dibdin's "Tom Bowling" (arr. Alfred Moffat); Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Wither Must I Wander" and "Youth and Love"; Darius Milhaud's "Sonate"; Franz Schubert's "Quartet in D minor, Op.
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 "Sonata", and Darius Milhaud's "Sonate".
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, Disdainful", and "Spring-time Mantleth Every Bough"; Filippo Vitali's "O bei lumi"; Alessandro Scarlatti's "La tua gradita fé!"; Giacomo Antonio Perti's "Mai non intesi"; Henry Purcell's "Fairest Isle", "Sweeter than Roses", and "Hark!
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 to Heaven", and "Filene's"; Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's "Deacon Blues" (arr. John Higgins); Peter Chatman's "Every Day (I Have the Blues)" (arr. Roger Holmes); Cole Porter's "Night and Day" (arr. Mark Taylor); John Lennon and Paul McCartney's "Norwegian Wood" (arr.
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 "Sequenza III", Gyorgy Kurtag's "Fragments", Georges Aperghis' "Recitations", Richard Felciano's "Streaming/Dreaming", and Cathy Berberian's "Stripsody".
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 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 Ludwig van Beethoven's "Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21".
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 "Tu La Mia Stella"; Aaron Copland's "Laurie's Song"; Robert Hampton's "Cataract Rag"; John Philip Sousa's "Stars & Stripes Forever"; Henry Purcell's "Bess of Bedlam"; John Dowland's "Come Again, Sweet Love"; and Mauro Giuliani's "Grand Overture, Op. 61".
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); Wilhelm Domroese's "L'Ours", "L'Ourse", and "Danse des Ours"; Ann Ronnell's "Willow Weep for Me"; Herbert Clarke's "Cousins"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "My Spirit Be Joyful" (trans. Harry Herforth) and "Air 'on the G String'" (trans.
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 Mountain, and selections fromLibby Larsen's ME by Brenda Ueland.
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", Mauro Giuliani's "Grand Overture, Op. 61", Hans Werner Henze's "Drei Tentos from 'Kammermusik", and Isaac Albeniz's "Granada" and "Sevilla".
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 Variazione", and Joannes Brahms' "Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano".
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 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 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", Errol Weiss Schlabach's "Lucky Two March", Dmitri Shostakovich's "Galop" (trans. Donald Hunsberger), David R. Holsinger's "On a Southern Hymnsong", and Henry Fillmore's "Americans We".
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 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's "Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201".
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Cole Porter's "In the Still of the Night", Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's "Under the Sea" (arr. Kirby Shaw), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Divertimento in B flat Major", and Lurdwig van Beethoven's "Sonata #17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2".
The Music Department presented "An Afternoon of Romantic Art Song," a concert featuring soprano Valerie Errante and pianist Robert Wason, as part of the Eastman at Dickinson Recital Series at 4:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Errante and Wason performed Ludwig Thuille's "Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Clemens Brentano, Op. 24", "Allerseelen, Op. 4/4", and "Die Nacht, Op. 12/2" and Richard Strauss' "Schlichte Weisen, Op. 21", "Die Nacht, Op. 10/3", "Allerseelen, Op. 10/8", and "Sechs Lieder nach Gedichten von Clemens Brentano, Op. 68".
The Music Department presented a joint concert by the Dickinson College Choir, the Jazz Ensemble, and the Octals at 8:00pm in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The ensembles performed Norman Dello Joio's "The Quest"; the traditional spirituals "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (arr. Charles A. Ruzicka) and "Plenty Good Room!" (arr. William Henry Smith); Lewis F. Muir's "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee" (arr. Lon Madsen); George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" (arr. Clay Warnick); Tom Scott's "Dirty Old Man" (arr. Paul Jennings); Jerome Richardson's "Groove Merchant" (arr.
The Music Department presented "Pieces in the Parlour," a concert featuring the Brass Choir, the Woodwind Trio, and the Handbell Choir, at 7:00pm in Memorial Hall. The ensembles performed Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's "Laudate Dominum", Giovanni Gabrieli's "Canzon Seconda", three pieces from George Frideric Handel's The Water Music, Hermann Regner's "Zur Begrüßung", Giles Farnaby's "His Humour", B. Burroughs' "Celebration Fanfare", D. Wagner's "Gigue", J. Wilson's arrangement of the spiritual "Kum Ba Yah", Alexander Scriabin's "Fuga", and F.
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Tomás Luis de Victoria's "O magnum mysterium" and "Kyrie from Missa O Magnum mysterium", Thomas Weelkes' "To Shorten Winter's Sadness", Robert Schumann's "Die Lotosblume", Franz Schubert's "Die Forelle", Franz Joseph Haydn's "Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, No. 5", Arcangelo Corelli's "Concerto Op. 6, No. 4", Aaron Copland's "Zion's Walls", Henry Purcell's "Ye Twice Ten Hundred Deities", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Sicilienne Allegro", and Norman Dello Joio's "The Quest".