Performances, Films, and Exhibits

An assortment of musicians on campus collaborated to present The Music of Bela Bartok at 3:00pm in the Holland Union Social Hall. The College Choir, under the direction of Truman Bullard, performed three Hungarian folk songs and four Slovak folk songs. Joseph Sobel and Malcolm Goldstein performed "Duets for two Violins". The Recorder Ensemble, coordinated by Daniel Bechtel, performed "Folk Settings for Recorder Ensemble". David Jenkins performed "Allegro Barbaro for Piano". Goldstein and Jenkins performed "Sonata for Violin and Piano (First Movement)". 

The College Choir and Chapel Choir, accompanied by members of the College Orchestra, presented the annual Christmas concert at 3:00pm in First Lutheran Church. The choirs sang Andreas Hammerschmidt's "O Beloved Shepherds" and four English carols: Peter Warlock's "I Saw a Fair Maiden", Martin Peerson's "Upon my Lap my Sovereign Sits", "There is No Rose", and Herbert Howell's "A Spotless Rose". 

The Collegium Musicum presented A Program of 20th-Century Miniatures for their 1969 winter concert in Memorial Hall at 3:00pm. Such composers as Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Goldstein, Britten, and Schonberg were represented in this music program. 

Students and faculty of the Department of Music performed a program of five pieces for the December 2 Noonday Concert. The program began with William Rivoir and David Jenkins performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Two Arias".  Robert Gasen, Beth Bullard and Truman Bullard then played a trio by Alfred Swan. Jim Drake played an original composition entitled "Ann, then: the sun and the moon". Jerry Blask, Malcolm Goldstein and Jenkins played Charles Ives' "Largo".

The Department of Music presented the first Noonday Concert of 1969, featuring works-in-progress by  students and performances by faculty. The student compositions featured in this program were "Song" by Juliann Davidson and "Counterpoint for Voices" composed by Davidson, Jim Drake, and Stephen Bain. Malcolm Goldstein, Truman Bullard and Beth Alice Bullard, members of the faculty, played Morton Feldman's "Intermission 6" and Johann Joachim Quantz's "Trio Sonata in C Major". 

The Dickinson College-Community Orchestra gave their annual winter concert in the Holland Union Social Hall. The musicians played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Overture: Don Giovanni", Charles Ives' "The Unanswered Question", Carl Ruggles' "Angels", and Johann Sebastian Bach's "Overture/Suite #3".

A film of the Bolshoi Ballet's production of Prokofiev's Cinderella was shown at 8:30pm in the Holland Union Social Hall. Because the company was based in the Soviet Union, it was not possible for them to tour in the United States.  Their prowess in concert dance was nonetheless admired, inspiring the Cultural Affairs Committee to hold a screening of this rare footage of the company. 

Flutist Julius Baker performed in a concert presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee in Memorial Hall at 3:00pm. Accompanied by harpsichordist Eugina Earle, Baker's program featured primarily music from the Baroque period. 

The German Club presented the film, "Zwei Herzen in 3/4 Takt" in the Strand Theater as a fundraiser for their German scholarship fund.

Professor C. R. W. Thomas, David Myers '32, Milton Flower '31, and Dorothy Myran '31 were in the cast of a play presented on Thursday and Friday at Carlisle high school by the Carlisle Women's Civic Club.  The Dickinson Men's Glee Club also participated in the production.

Pianist Earl Wild performed in a concert sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee in the Junior High School Auditorium at 8:30pm. 

The Israel Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Gary Bertini, performed in a concert presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee in the Junior High School Auditorium at 8:30pm. 

Czech pianist Ivan Moravec performed in a concert presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee in the Junior High School Auditorium at 8:30pm. 

Outspoken folk singer Tom Paxton gave a concert in the Holland Union Dining Hall at 8:30pm. Presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee, Paxton's concert appropriately coincided with the Dickinson symposium on dissent. 

Vocal duo Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart performed in a concert presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee in the Junior High School Auditorium at 8:30pm. 

Pianist Gary Graffman gave a concert sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee in the Junior High School Auditorium at 8:30pm. 

World-renowned mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel performed in a free concert presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee in the Junior High School Auditorium at 8:30pm. 

Folk singer Judy Collins performed in a concert presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee in Dickinson Gymnasium at 8:30pm. 

Critically-acclaimed singer Nina Simone performed in a concert sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee in the A;Gymnasium at 8:30pm. 

Inspired by the trend of Indian influence in popular music, the Cultural Affairs Committee presented Ashish Khan and Company Sarod in a concert in Holland Union Social Hall at 8:30pm. 

Violinist Igor Oistrakh, the first Soviet musician to tour the West after the death of Josef Stalin, gave a concert presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee at 9:00pm in the Junior High School Auditorium.  

Australian actor Rob Ingles performed some of the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales at 8:30pm in Holland Union Social Hall. Ingles used period costumes and minimal set dressings to portray the most authentic fourteenth-century experience for his audience. He also gave a seminar on Middle English speech earlier on the same day. 

Award-winning pianist Malcolm Frager performed in a concert sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee at 8:30pm in the Junior High School Auditorium. 

Flamenco guitarist Sabicas performed in a concert presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee at 8:30pm in Holland Union Social Hall.

Singer and actor William Mooney performed "Half Horse, Half Alligator", a depiction of life in nineteenth-century Mississippi, at 8:30pm in the Holland Union Social Hall. The entertainer's show was a "Free Family Concert" presented by the Cultural Affairs Committee.