Text by Maggie Baird '18 Photos by members of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble As the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble prepares for its spring concert, Saturday, May 6, 8 pm, DCWE member Maggie Baird '18 looks back on the trip that got the group fired up for this spring's power-packed concert program. In the break between winter and spring terms, the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble and members of the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble travelled to Costa Rica for an incredible week of music-making and movement. The groups performed fives times both alone and with other groups around the country. … [Read more...]
“This jazz thing”—and life: a conversation with Don Glasgo
[Editor's note: The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble performs its spring concert—director Don Glasgo's last before retirement—on Saturday, May 13.] By Sophia Kinne '20 I’ve been playing the trumpet since I was in fourth grade. I was introduced to jazz, as I knew it at the time, in fifth grade with a generic “Latin tune” called El Gato Gordo. Fifth grade me could not have imagined what this beginner’s jazz would later lead to: for one, playing the works of contemporary jazz musicians Joe Bowie and Peter Apfelbaum in my 2016 fall and 2017 winter terms with the Barbary Coast. I could never have … [Read more...]
A trombonist speaks, from inside the May 6 Wind Ensemble Concert
By Maggie Baird '18 Maggie Baird '18 is a member of the trombone section of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble. She shares what she finds especially compelling in the DCWE's spring concert (Saturday, May 6, 8 pm, Spaulding Auditorium). The concert presents modern wind band masterworks by Frank Ticheli, Karel Husa, William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti and David Maslanka. Matthew M. Marsit directs. What's your favorite piece in the upcoming concert? Why? I absolutely love the Ticheli. We play a lot of music in DCWE that is very innovative and pushes us to our limits, but the Ticheli is … [Read more...]
An Arts Amabassador’s favorite arts moments at the Hop
By Yusuf O. Olokoba '20 Emotion in Motion: Acting at Dartmouth It is always fascinating to witness the student-actors on stage become someone else. They lose themselves to become another. On stage, they bring to life some of the most captivating plots and characters. Their ability to communicate the thoughts and feelings of their characters by moving — closer, farther, subtly, abruptly — manifests utter realism. Throughout the term, we have seen shows like Intimate Apparel and Urinetown where the actors play characters so powerful, so moving that they continue to live on in our minds. … [Read more...]
Moonlight: A Magnificent Coming of Age Tale
By Anthony Robles “At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you’re going to be.” Eight years after his feature debut Medicine for Melancholy, director and co-screenwriter Barry Jenkins returned to the screen last year with his sophomore effort Moonlight. Lavished in praise, the film won Best Motion Picture – Drama at last month’s Golden Globes ceremony and was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture. Based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, the film traces the journey of Chiron, a gay black man growing up in the drug-ridden Miami … [Read more...]
Six Ways to Warm up at the Hop this Valentine’s Day
By Hailey Scherer '20 As the bitter cold of February begins to bite, Valentine’s Day arrives just in time to bring the much-needed warmth of romantic love, as well as love for single life. So—what to do in icy Hanover? Go to the Hop, of course! There are few better ways to celebrate the season of hearts and flowers than at Dartmouth’s very own center for the arts. Here’s how: Enjoy Piotr Anderszewski’s masterful solo piano concert in Spaulding Auditorium at 7 pm on Valentine's Day. Anderszewski is considered one of the greatest pianists of his generation with an incredible commitment … [Read more...]
No sleep but plenty of music: Welcome to Coast Week
By Sophia Kinne '20 "Coast Week" is what members of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble affectionately call the week leading up to the concert [Friday, February 10]. We rehearse everyday, playing music over and over until we get it right. If you play the trumpet like me, it also means three to four hours on your feet, but even for those who can sit while they play, these are long hours. No time for sleep; homework gets done in the wee hours of the morning, if at all. I mean--of course we do our homework... But this long and tiring week is worth it. I don't think any of us would do it if it we … [Read more...]
AMADEUS: A London Theater Experience – in New Hampshire
By Miles Temel '20 Few New Hampshire residents can claim that on an ordinary Thursday night, they experienced a theater production performed by a world-class London theater company . However, I had exactly that opportunity the evening of February 2 when I joined a Dartmouth students and Hanover residents in the Loew Auditorium in the Hood Museum for a National Theatre Live screening of Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, Amadeus. National Theatre Live is a project by the National Theatre in London to record live shows at the theater and broadcast them to cinemas around the United Kingdom and many … [Read more...]
Hope, a lion, a baby: URINETOWN progresses
By Sam West '20 The second update on Urinetown, the winter MainStage show of the Dartmouth Department of Theater. The first update was URINETOWN: The clock is ticking. Writing this on February 1, we have just finished our first "stumble-through" of Act 2 of Dartmouth’s winter production of Urinetown. In a couple of days, we will have our first runthrough of the entire show. As of now, the countdown stands at 16 days until opening night. In just over one week we begin technical and dress rehearsals. At that stage all of the different facets of the production start to come together. This … [Read more...]
Chamber music inspiration from the Danish String Quartet
By Betty Kim '20 As I gain more experience playing in quartets, I realize just how difficult it is to produce a unified, sonorous sound between four different people. Great musical ensembles have it down to a science: it’s not enough to just have the correct intonation, since a seemingly perfect line can be disruptive if it doesn’t blend well with the three other instruments’ sounds. Silences a millisecond shorter than what’s ideal might sound too hurried; a millisecond longer might sound like a gaping abyss. A breath before a beat might change the trajectory of your bow by just a little bit, … [Read more...]
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