On Saturday, May 4, the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble premieres a composition by Dartmouth senior Adam Rinehouse. Two Meditations: Elegy for Wind Ensemble is a substantial, 23-minute, three-movement work that also serves as the senior thesis project for Adam, who is a double major in music and computer science and percussion section leader in the wind ensemble. In this essay for the concert's program notes, Adam writes about the three people who inspired this composition. Two Meditations: Elegy for Wind Ensemble was written for my senior honors thesis in the music major. It is the … [Read more...]
Student Ensembles
Who’s on stage this spring at the Hop?
Even on the still-frigid Dartmouth campus there are signs of spring - at least in the form of mud, puddles and copious potholes. But cheerier signs will soon be arriving - along with a blooming array of events at the Hopkins Center for the Arts! Here's a quick preview of the live performance events coming this spring - and stay tuned for highlights of what's happening on Hop screens in film and HD video! Thursday, March 28 – Seth Parker Woods’s Thursday Night Live show is the first of several “Festival of New Music” events spread throughout this spring. Seth is a cellist, and he’ll play … [Read more...]
The famous “Fifth” tops an all-Beethoven program, February 23
Perhaps the most recognized four-note phrase in all music is the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony . That G-G-G-E flat sequence, along with the image of the composer with wild hair and blazing eyes, has come to stand not just for Beethoven but perhaps all of classical music. The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra hopes to set that baggage aside and allow its audience to hear the Symphony with new ears as it performs it on Saturday, February 23, 8 pm, at Hopkins Center for the Arts, as part of an all-Beethoven program. Along with the Fifth, the program consists of the “Emperor” piano concerto … [Read more...]
Concert band plays music responding to violence, February 17
“Let This Be Our Response,” the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble’s powerful Winter program, features works that stand up to violence and political oppression, including an elegy to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The concert takes place on Sunday, February 17, 2 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium. Front and center will be the brand new Into the Silent Land, a haunting tribute to Sandy Hook by Steve Danyew, an alumnus of the school himself. The program also responds to political strife with Musica Boema, a work that had to be smuggled out of Warsaw Pact Czechoslovakia for its Michigan … [Read more...]
The music of place at Dartmouth
The best-loved places on and about the Dartmouth campus will be enfolded in a music project to premiere next fall. As part of the college's celebration of its 250th anniversary, award-winning composer Oliver Caplan '04 has been commissioned by the Hopkins Center to write a major symphony for winds that will span four movements, each inspired by a beloved Dartmouth place. The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble will premiere the new work in Fall 2019. The commission was supported by the Scott G. Smedinghoff GR '17 Memorial Fund. Caplan is reaching out to Dartmouth students, alumni, faculty … [Read more...]
DSO Travel Diary: Italian Tour
This past winterim as some Dartmouth students sat on couches, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra undertook a 10-day concert tour of Italy, along with Hop members at the "Bentley Fellow" level and above and donors who have endowment funds that support ensemble tours. Follow their trip as documented by Laura Jeliazkov '18, a flautist with the DSO. Day One, Monday. The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra loads 45 musicians, 47 suitcases and 36 instruments onto a bus in the 6 am darkness of Hanover. Leaving is slightly delayed by the percussionist’s failure to wake up to his alarm. A … [Read more...]
Dartmouth Youth Winds returns this winter!
Attention, middle school musicians and those who cheer them on: the Dartmouth Youth Wind Ensemble is back for another year! Registrations are now being accepted, and rehearsals begin January 19. Open to students of the Upper Valley and surrounding regions, grades 6–8, the program has offered hundreds of Upper Valley youth the chance to play exciting music in a big ensemble, mentored by Dartmouth student musicians who share their love of making music in a fun-loving atmosphere. The middle schoolers attend weekly rehearsals, where they play side-by-side with the student musicians of … [Read more...]
Dartmouth Can Really Sing
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...]
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...]
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