By Caileadair Holmes ‘22 On Saturday, October 27, while it might have seemed drizzly and dismal outside, the inside of the HOP echoed with rich voices and musical melodies. "Dartmouth Sings" was more than a concert. It is an event so centered in our being of music and togetherness that it is acts as a wonderful reminder of everything positive: what it means to be a community, a family, love and diversity. The combination of vocal excellence, fun and even audience participation pulls anyone listening into a feeling of good vibes and good people. With songs like Respect and Natural Woman … [Read more...]
Student Ensembles
A composer’s unique take on life and death
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) revealed his deepest feelings about life and death in his “German Requiem” (Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45). Written over about 10 years starting in his 20s—a period that encompassed the deaths of two people especially important to Brahms—the work doesn’t use the traditional Latin mass, but instead sets Brahms’s own selected text from the Lutheran bible, in German. Perhaps this personal connection to the text is one reason the Requiem is so profound and beautiful, painting a broad, detailed emotional canvas with splendid vocal and the symphonic writing. Judge for … [Read more...]
R & R & Jazz @ Thursday Night Live
Photos by Ben DeFlorio The first Thursday Night Live featured opera. The second one, on Nov. 1, was all about jazz. Taylor Ho Bynum led the students of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble in a rousing set of new, improvisatory music. The guest artists for the evening were Bynum's Boston-based music friends The Fully Celebrated Orchestra - actually, a trio, which became a quartet when Bynum sat in. The gathering included drinks from the pop-up bar, mellow lighting, an all-ages crowd, and a DJ set following the live performance. Thursday Night Live's next installment is November 8, when it moves to … [Read more...]
Dartmouth’s Barbary Coast Improvises with Acclaimed Jazz Luminaries, Nov 2
The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, Dartmouth’s resident creative music big band, is joined by three acclaimed guest artists: tuba legend Joseph Daley, who’s played with Taj Mahal, Charlie Haden, Stevie Wonder and others while also leading his own celebrated projects; pianist Kris Davis, 2018 DownBeat “rising star” pianist who’s burning up international jazz circles as a bandleader and side player; and Bill Cole, former Dartmouth music faculty and renowned innovator on non-Western wind instruments. The concert takes place Friday, November 2, 8 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins … [Read more...]
What gives the music of “West Side Story” its timeless appeal?
Mention the name "Leonard Bernstein," and what music comes to mind? Chances are it's the fantastic music of the stage and film musical West Side Story. Whether it's high-octane cha-cha at a dance, edgy jazz in a street fight, or heartbreaking love songs on the fire escape, Bernstein's incredible melodies and turn-on-a-dime rhythms still grab our ears and won't let go. Get a wonderful earful of that music Saturday, October 20, 8 pm with the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble's Bernstein@100 - part of a series of events at the Hop fall celebrating Bernstein in the centennial of his … [Read more...]
October 11 event kicks off Bernstein 100th Birthday Bonanza at the Hop this fall
A prodigious and prolific conductor, educator, humanitarian and composer spanning classical music and Broadway, Leonard Bernstein was a larger than life genius who personified American music. Dartmouth plays its part in a worldwide celebration of the centennial of Bernstein’s birthday with a bonanza of musical events this fall at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The fun starts Thursday, October 11, 9 pm, in the Top of the Hop, with “Dartmouth Opera Lab Sings Bernstein,” an evening of beguiling Bernstein opera, oratorio and musical theater sung by international opera star Daniel Belcher, … [Read more...]
New faces at the Hop: 2018-19 “Fellows” embed throughout the departments
Each fall brings to the Hop a fresh infusion of young talent and dedication to the Hop with the new Hop Fellows for that academic year. The Fellows full vital positions throughout the Hop, helping to shape and run programs while learning about arts administration and arts education from the inside. Meet three of the 2018-19 Fellows and hear the five fall Hop events most intrigues each of them! Steffi Colao, '19, from Ridgefield Conn,, and a geography major is the Hop Fellow in the START (Students Teaching in the Arts) program of the Hop's Department of Outreach and Arts Education. START … [Read more...]
’22s, come explore the arts at Dartmouth this Friday!
OK, members of the Dartmouth Class of 2022, want to know how can you can experience, create and support the arts at Dartmouth? Come to Exploring the Arts, Friday, September 7, noon to 1:30 pm, at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center for the Arts. First, food. We give you a free lunch, and you should eat it, because you're going to need your strength. Now for the exploration. At Exploring the Arts, you visit tables throughout the Hop to talk with people about the following: Hop visiting artists. Students pay only $10 to see world-class performers like Lea DeLaria, Youssou Ndour, Mitsuko … [Read more...]
‘Keep your values at the heart of your art’: Art Awardees hear from acclaimed alum filmmaker
By Michael Bodel, Hop Director of External Affairs Huge congratulations to the student Arts Awards winners for their work creating and supporting the arts at the Hop, around Dartmouth, and in the world. Students were recognized in theater, music and filmmaking in a May 29 event that included brief performances and screenings of student work. Ricki Stern '87 gave the keynote at the event. Her impactful, far-reaching documentaries cover topics from a Burmese soldier-turned-activist, to the Boston Marathon bombing, to Joan Rivers. True fact! Ricki revealed her obsession with failure … [Read more...]
Creativity – and technology – link two Hop Ensembles at opposite ends of the Hop
It began as a conversation over drinks last spring, between Dartmouth Dance Ensemble co-leader Rebecca Stenn and Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra Director Filippo Ciabatti. Wouldn't it be great to collaborate? they opined. OK, so what music would Ciabatti most like to perform? Without missing a beat (he is a conductor, after all), he named Petrushka, Igor Stravinsky's 1911 orchestral work Right away, Stenn and Ciabatti called DDE co-leader John Heginbotham, and three began hatching plans with others in the Hop. One big problem, however: no Hop theater could accommodate both a full … [Read more...]
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