The Music Department presented a children's concert titled "Don't Be Still!: Music of Moment" featuring the College-Community Orchestra at 3:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The performance also featured the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet.
The Music Department presented Franz Joseph Haydn's three-part oratorio The Creation, featuring the Dickinson College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra, at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium on Sat., Apr. 17, as well as in Old St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland at 3:30pm on Sun., Apr. 18.
The Music Department presented "A Salute to American Composers" featuring the Brass Ensemble at 7:30pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall. The ensemble performed Leonard Lebow's "Suite for Brass", Billy Joel's "Longest Time", Vaclav Nelhybel's "Three Intradas for Brass Choir", Arthur Pryor's "Blue Bells of Scotland", Josef Zawinul's "Birdland", and Luther Henderson's arrangement of "The Saints' Hallelujah", along with selections from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, jazz standards from George Gershwin, and others.
The Music Department presented a senior recital by tenor Robert Burlington, accompanied by pianist Kee Mann Chang, at 8:15pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Music Department presented a Noonday Concert in Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Joseph Jongen's "Elégie for flute quartet"; Samuel Adler's "Happily"; Aaron Copland's "The Little Horses" and "The Golden Willow Tree"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Piano Concerto in A major, No. 23, K. 488"; Gabriel Fauré's "Nell"; Claude Debussy's "Nuit d'Etoiles"; Sir C.V. Stanford's "Cuttin' Rushes"; George Frideric Handel and Johann Halvorsen's "Passacaglia for violin and viola"; and "What You Don't Know About Women" from City of Angels.
The Music Department presented a senior recital from tenor Derek Lui, accompanied by pianists Kee Mann Chang and David Glasgow, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Music Department presented a senior recital by mezzo-soprano Katherine Presnell, accompanied by pianists Kee Mann Chang and Truman Bullard and flutist Jen Somerwitz, at 7:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Music Department presented a senior recital by tenor Timothy P. Reed, accompanied by pianist Truman Bullard, at 7:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Reed performed Benjamin Britten's "The Salley Gardens" and "The Ash Grove"; John Jacob Niles' "What Songs Were Sung"; Aaron Copland's "The Little Horses (Lullaby)" and "The Golden Willow Tree"; Johannes Brahms' "Vom verwundeten Knab'n", "Murrays Ermordung", and "Trennung"; J. Canteloube's "Pastourelle" and "Bourrees" from Chants D'Auvergne; E.
The Music Department presented a faculty recital by classical guitarist James Hontz at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. Hontz performed Fernando Sor's "Introductions and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 9"; Francisco Tárrega's "Danza Mora"; Hans Werner Henze's "Drei Tentos"; Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro BWV 998"; Benjamin Britten's "Nocturnal, Op. 70"; John Dowland's "Dr. Case's Pavan"; Manuel M. Ponce's "Sonatina meridional".
The Music Department presented a concert of flute and guitar music featuring flutist Beth Bullard and classical guitarist Allen Krantz at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. The pair performed Maurice Ravel's "Pièce en forme de habanera"; Jacques Ibert's "Entr'acte"; George Frideric Handel's "Sonata in E minor (Halle sonata no. 2) for Baroque flute and continuo"; a traditional Lakota Sioux melody collected by Frances Densmore and as performed by R. Carlos Nakai; T.R.
The Music Department presented a senior recital by mezzo-soprano Stephanie Emmons, accompanied by pianist Kee Mann Chang, at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.
The Music Department presented the Jazz Ensemble's thirteenth annual Winter Jazz Concert at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.
The Music Department presented a senior recital by double bassist Anneke Cooper, accopmanied by pianist Gloria Whitney and cellist Nancy Baun, at 3:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Cooper performed Johann Christian Bach's "Adagio", Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf's "Concerto", Giovanni Bottesini's "Elegy", Serge Koussevitzky's "Valse Miniature", and Gioacchino Rossini's "Duetto per violoncello e contrabasso".
The Music Department presented at Noonday Concert in the Rubendall Recital Hall. Students and faculty performed Fritz Kreisler's "Tambourin chinois"; Benjamin Britten's arrangement of the Somerset folk song "The trees they grow so high"; Manuel de Falla's "Nana" and "El Paño Moruno"; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "Quartet in A minor, op. 13"; Franz Schubert's "Fantaisie in F minor for piano four hands, Op. 103"; and Leonard Bernstein and Jean Anouilh's The Lark.
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 Pieces, Op. 43".
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 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.
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 in F minor, Opus 65".
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 Magnusson's "Movement I: Departure", David Glasgow's "Edmund", and Andrew G. Krall's "Studies on Two South Indian Themes for string orchestra and percussion".
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 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 Boccherini's "Concerto in B-flat major".
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 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 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, BWV 1038"; Bernhard Romberg's "Concerto No. 2 in D major, Op. 3"; Ed Lojeski's arrangement of Sherman and Sherman's "It's a Small World"; W. Lester's arrangement of the Welsh air "All Through the Night"; the anonymously composed piece "Peace is the World Smiling"; G.
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 Messiah, and "See, the conqu'ring hero", from Judas Maccabeus; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "How Lovely are the Messengers"; Leon Wajner's "Haroe Hakatan"; Daniel Bechtel's "Mary Carol" and "Joseph Carol"; Cynthia Dobrinski's arrangement of John H.