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...]
Student Ensembles
“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...]
What’s intriguing this spring: Hot tips from Hop interns
Six Dartmouth seniors are beginning their third and final term as Hop Interns - terms in which they spent hours each week learning the ropes of various aspects of the Hop. So when they tell you what most interests them at the Hop this term, you best listen up. Here goes: Performance: Made in China by Wakka Wakka Productions Emily Neely: US-China relations get lots of press, especially these days—but a puppet show highlighting consumerism, human rights and American-Chinese relations? Definitely something different from the nightly news, and a highly relevant must-see! Catherine … [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...]
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