Concurrent with becoming the next director of Dartmouth's Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, Taylor Ho Bynum has won in the 2017 "Rising Star, Trumpet" category in the 65th Annual Critics Poll in DownBeat magazine. The awards are announced in the magazine’s August issue, now on newsstands. The award recipients were selected by the 155 international jazz critics who voted in the annual poll. In the same issue, Bynum was also mentioned in Phillip Lutz's article about trumpeter (and past Barbary Coast guest artist) Don Cherry, just named to the DownBeat Critics Poll Hall of Fame: "Cherry's global … [Read more...]
Student Ensembles
Who’s coming to the Hop in 2017-18?
(June, 30, 2017) The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College today revealed its 2017-2018 series of Visiting Performing Artists—an exciting, diverse line-up of internationally known artists whose work celebrates cultural migration, the Global South and the power of song, among other qualities. All events are now on the Hop website. Artists cover all realms of music plus choice dance and theater companies; and include household names like Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis and Leslie Odom, Jr.; well established, widely acclaimed ensembles like the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Pink … [Read more...]
New Barbary Coast Director Announced
Cornetist, composer, band leader, writer and educator Taylor Ho Bynum—“one of the most exciting figures in jazz's new power generation” (Time Out Chicago)—will be the next director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, Dartmouth’s student jazz group. Bynum succeeds Don Glasgo, who retired this spring after directing the Coast for 40 years. The Barbary Coast is one of nine ensembles overseen by Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts. “The search committee did a superb job,” said Mary Lou Aleskie, Howard L. Gilman Director of the Hopkins Center. “We’re so excited to be bringing on … [Read more...]
“Impeccable” Latin jazz trio joins percussion ensemble, May 24
The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College presents “The Voice of Latin Spring,” a concert by the World Music Percussion Ensemble (WMPE) and its guest artists La Voz de Tres, featuring the Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal. The concert takes place Wednesday, May 24, 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium, and tickets are $10. Expect an upbeat mix of music from many traditions filtered through a Afro-Latin aesthetic—including Stevie Wonder, Cal Tjader, Charanga Cakewalk, Irakere, Milton Nascimento and La Voz de Tres originals. WMPE and La Voz will each play some selections on their own and … [Read more...]
Ensemble’s dance “numbers” add up to a great concert May 26 & 27
Let's look at the numbers on the spring 2017 concert by the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble (DDE), taking place on Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27, 8 pm, in The Moore Theater of The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College: FOUR choreographers (including one Beyoncé collaborator); FIVE ensembles playing live music for the dancers, including 31 members of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble; NINETEEN dancers, a historic number for the Dance Ensemble! The dancers include undergraduates from all disciplines, graduate students and Dartmouth staff members. Dancers come with … [Read more...]
Tropical tones: A music exchange to Costa Rica
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...]
Percussion, partnership and pie April 27
Anyone out there who misses their African drumming class? (Or who wanted to take it at Dartmouth, but never made it off the waiting list?) What about anyone interested in applying the arts to activism, sustainability or cross-cultural collaboration? Anyone interested in local cheese and Lou’s pie? (Yeah? I thought so.) If at least one of these three piques your interest, join me this Thursday (4/27) when the perfect trifecta—that’s percussion, partnership and pie—will come together to create Collis Cabaret. Collis Cabaret is a free termly concert, usually featuring visiting artists … [Read more...]
Tapping Energy at Mascoma Valley Regional High School
By Rob Strong As part of a four-day residency based at the Hopkins Center, members of Dorrance Dance visited Mascoma Valley Regional High School in Canaan, NH, on Thursday, April 6, for a participatory demonstration of their art form, tap dance. The visit was arranged through Mascoma's Exploring the Arts program, coordinated by art teacher Christopher Morse. The group teams up with a band led by singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon for The Blues Project, April 7 and 8 at the Hop. … [Read more...]
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