Performances, Films, and Exhibits

The Music Department presented a flute repertory class in which performers played John Davison's "Dances for Solo Flute"; Robert Schumann's "Little Piece"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman" and "Adagio from Flute Quarter, K. 285"; Georg Frideric Handel's "Bourée and Menuetto", "Larghetto and Andante", and "Sonata in A Minor"; Benoit-Tranquille Berbiguier's "Etude No. 1"; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's "Adagio from Concerto in G Major"; and Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Minuet and Dance of the Blessed Spirits".

The Department of Music presented a performance by the Aequalis Ensemble at 8:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.  They performed Zelman Bokser's "Three Studies for Cello and Percussion", Rand Steiger's "Kennedy Sketches for Solo Percussion", Martin Brody's "Commedia", Arnold Schoenberg's "Drei Klavierstucke, Op. 11", and Chinary Ung's "Spiral".

The Music Department presented a performance by the College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra at Old St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland at 7:30pm.  They performed Alan Hovhaness' "Trio Opus 3, No. 1"; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "Trio in D minor, Opus 49"; Richard Hundley's "The Astronomers", "Isaac Greentree", "Arise my love, my fair one", and "My Master hath a garden"; Giovanni Gabrieli's "Canzon duodecimitoni"; Ivor R. Davies' "Prayers from the Ark"; Robert Convery's "I Have a Dream"; and Ralph Vaughan-Williams' "O Clap Your Hands".

The Music Department presented a concert by the College Choir and the College-Community Orchestra at 3:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.  They performed Charles Ives' "Symphony no. 2"; Robert Convery's "The Lamb", "Full Fathom Five", "Take, o take", and "I Have a Dream".

The Music Department presented a piano recital by Andrew Gordon at 8:15pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall.  Gordon performed Franz Schubert's "Sonata in A major, op. 120"; Alexander Scriabin's "Prélude in B major, op. 2, no.2", "Nocturne in D-flat major, op. 9, no. 2", "Prélude in A minor, op. 11, no. 2", "Poème in F-sharp major, op. 32, no. 1", "Prélude in B-flat minor, op. 27, no. 1", "Etude in D-flat major, op. 42, no. 1", "Feuillet d'album, op. 45, no. 1", and "Sonata no. 5, op. 53"; Franz Liszt's "Harmonies du soir"; and Alexander Scriabin's "Four Pieces, op. 56", "Two Pieces, op.

The Cultural Affairs Committee presented a concert titled "Scott Joplin and Friends" at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall. 

The Music Department presented "A Concert of South Indian Music by Vijaya Prabhakar" at 4:00pm in Memorial Hall.  Mrs. Prabhakar, playing the vina, was accompanied by K.S. Mani on the violin and Sathish Pathakota on the mrdangam.  She performed Dikshitar's "Vatapi" and "Smaramyaham", Thyagaraja's "Niravadhisukhada" and "Entaranitana", Pattanam and Subramanya Iyer's "Raghuvamsa", Meera's "Lahiladakaguru", Ramnad and Srinivasa Iyer's "Anudinamunu", Veena and Sheshanna's "Tillana", and "Mangalam".

The Department of Music presented a concert by the Collegium Musicum titled "An American Parlor Musicale c.1889" at 8:00pm in Memorial Hall.  The ensemble performed Robert Lowry's "Shall We Gather at the River?", "That Old-Time Religion", Joseph P. Webster's "In the Sweet Bye-and-Bye", William Lardner's "The Watcher", Felix McGlennon's "Comrades", Marion Dix Sullivan's "The Blue Juniata", Thomas Dunn English's "Schuylkill Rowing Song", Joseph J. Sullivan's "Where Did You Get That Hat?", John Rogers Thomas' "Beautiful Isle of the Sea", Ludwig van Beethoven's "Country Dance", T.V.

The Music Department presented a performance by the Eaken Piano Trio at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.  They performed Ludwig van Beethoven's "Trio in D Major Op. 70, No. 1", Charles Ives' "Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano", and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "Trio in D Minor Op. 49".

The Music Department presented a senior recital by mezzo-soprano Daphne Peaslee, accompanied by pianist Kee Mann Chang, at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.  She performed Franz Joseph Haydn's "The Mermaid's Song", "The Wanderer", and "A Pastoral Song"; Antonin Dvorak's "Gypsy Songs"; Giuseppe Verdi's "Brindisi", "Perduta ho la Pace", and "Stormello"; Georges Bizet's "Aubade", "Rêve de la bien-aimée", and "Chanson d'Avril"; and Leonard Bernstein's "I Hate Music".

The Music Department presented a concert by the Chamber Orchestra at 8:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall.  The orchestra performed Tommaso Vitali's "Chaconne for solo violin and orchestra in D minor", John W. Jones' "Monotone", Gabriel Fauré's "Élégie (op. 24) for solo cello and orchestra", Gaetano Donizetti's "Concerto for violin and cello with orchestra in D minor", Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question, and Lee Olof Gustaf Olson's Te Deum.  

The Music Department presented the sixth Noonday Concert of the 1988-1989 academic year in the Rubendall Recital Hall.  Students and faculty performed Samuel Scheidt's "Allemande"; "Gaillarde"; Georg Friedrich Handel's "Endless Pleasure"; Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria"; Fritz Kreisler's "Praeludium and Allegro"; Franz Joseph Haydn's "The Mermaid's Song", "The Pastoral Song", and "Andante from the Concerto in C Major, No. 1, Hob. VII"; Franz Anton Hoffmeister's "Rondo from the Concerto in D Major"; and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Rondo in F Major, Opus 87".

The Department of Music presented a concert by the Dickinson College Choir at 3:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.  They performed William Byrd's "Look Down, O Lord...Be Unto Me a Tower", Orlando di Lasso's "Tristis est anima mea", Ivor R. Davies' "Prayers from the Ark", Sergei Rachmaninov's "The Cherubic Hymn" and "To Thee We Sing", and Randall Thompson's "Frostiana: Seven Country Songs for Men's, Women's, and Mixed Voices".

The Department of Music presented the Jazz Ensemble in their ninth annual winter concert at 8:00pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.

The Music Department presented a faculty recital by cellist Nancy Baun, accompanied by pianist Gloria Whitney, at 8:15pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.  Pieces performed included Beethoven's "Variation on a Theme 'Judas Maccabaus'", Schubert's "Sonata in A Minor 'Arpeggione'", Britten's "Sonata in C Major, Op. 65", Saint-Saëns' "Concerto No. 1, Op. 33", and Popper's "Hungarian Rhapsody".

The Music Department presented a concert by flutist Carl Adams, accompanied by percussionist Gary Olmstead, at 8:30pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.  He performed Georg Philipp Telemann's "Canonic Sonata No. 5", Alec Wilder's "Suite for Flute and Marimba", Edmond J. Lewis' "Soliloquy and Capriccio", Wilbur Chenoweth's "Vocalise", Fred Barlow's "Pavane", Lawrence Weiner's "Fusion for Alto Flute and Vibraphone", James Barnes' "Yorkshire Ballad", Murray Houllif's "Concert Duet for Flute and Vibraphone", and Sol Berkowitz's "Duets for Treble Instruments".

Together with the Central Pennsylvania Consortium, the Music Department presented "A Concert of Traditional Chinese Instrumental Music by David Mingyue Liang" at 8:15pm in Memorial Hall.  Mingyue performed Wang Wei's "Farewell at Yanguan"; Liu Tianhua's "In Affliction"; the traditional melodies "Remembering an Old Friend", "Song of a Laundry Lady", "Flowers on Brocade", and "Fisherman's Evening Song"; and his own pieces "Roaming in Changan", "South Wind", "White Cloud", "Song of the Phoenix", and "Autumn Lament".

The Music Department presented "A Concert of North Indian Music by Ustad Hamid Hossein" at 8:15pm in Memorial Hall.  Vocalist Ustad Hamid Hossain was accompanied by Enayat Hossain and Munir Hossain playing the tabla.

The Department of Music presented the Collegium Musicum in a concert titled "Music in England: Church and Chapel, Court and Countryside" at 8:00pm in Rubendall Recital Hall.  The Collegium Musicum performed "Dilexisti justitiam", "Audi filia", "Nobilis, humilis", John Dunstable's "Quam pulchra es", William Byrd's "Ave verum corpus", "Trotto", "Stantipes", "Stantipes imperfecta", "St. Thomas honor we", Thomas Tallis' "Rise, God!

Pianist Tommy Flanagan received the 1989 Dickinson College Arts Award at a special event, which included a concert by Flanagan, George Mraz, and Kenny Washington, at 8:30pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium.

The Music Department presented a faculty recital by guitarist Nathaniel Gunod and harpsichord player Amy Rosser, accompanied by violinist John Eaken, violoncellist Nancy Baun, and violist Donna Marie DiLabio, at 8:15pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall.  The program included Robert de Visée's "Suite in A Minor", François Couperin's "Pièces de Claveçin, Treiziéme Ordre", Manuel Ponce's "Preludio" and "Sonata for Guitar and Harpsichord", François de Fossa's "Quartet, Opus 19, No. 3", and Scott Joplin's "Weeping Willow Rag" and "Scott Joplin's New Rag".

The Friends of the Library presented a concert in the evening at Rubendall Recital Hall titled "The Songs of Harold Arlen."  The pieces performed included Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg's "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block"; Johnny Mercer's "My Shining Hour", "Out of This World", "Hit the Road to Dreamland", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "A Woman's Prerogative", and "Let's Take the Long Way Home"; Ted Koehler's "Get Happy", "Stormy Weather", "As Long As I Live", "Ill Wind", and "Let's Fall in Love"; E.Y.

The Music Department presented its fifth Noonday Concert of the 1988-1989 academic year in the Rubendall Recital Hall.  Students and faculty performed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Rondeau, Polonaise, and Badinerie", Pietro Nardini's "Concerto in E minor", David Van Vachter's "Duettino for Two Flutes", Manuel Ponce's "Prelude V and VI", Fernando Sor's "Larghetto", Charles Ives' "Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano", and Jim Parker's "Rag-Bag."

The Cultural Affairs Committee presented the Clarendon Brass Ensemble at 8:15pm in the Weiss Center for the Arts.  The ensemble performed Charpentier's "Prelude to 'Te Deum'"; Pezel's "Intrada", "Sarabande", and "Bal"; Ewald's "Quintet #2 in Eb, Op. 6"; Bach's "The Art of the Fugue"; Howarth's arrangement of "Zurich March"; Praetorius' "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"; Frackenpohl's "Quintet #1"; and Sousa's "Liberty Bell March".

The Music Department presented a flute repertory class at 4:00pm in the Rubendall Recital Hall.  Performers played Franz Joseph Haydn's "Serenade from String Quartet, Op. 3, no. 5", George Frideric Handel's "Bourrée and Menuetto from Sonata in G Major" and "Allegro from Sonata in F Major", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Rondeau, Polonaise, and Badinerie", David Van Vachter's "Sarabanda and Tarantella from Duettino for Two Flutes", Bernhard Molique's "Andante from Concerto in D Minor", and Claude Bolling's "Baroque and Blue".