Novelist and Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles, Justin Torres comes to Dartmouth this weekend to read from his book We the Animals and discuss its eponymous film adaptation, being screened at the Hop this Saturday, April 20, 7 pm. I read the book this past summer in a stuffy sublet with a creaky table fan and no AC, and remember the dense lyric chapters through the memory of humidity and my sweat. The scenes in the book too are saturated with the stickiness that comes with three wild boys growing up in a small household, their bodies stuck together, pleasurably and … [Read more...]
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Two tragic losses and one enduring mentorship inspire vibrant new music
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...]
Poignant Stories of Female Adolescence from the Department of Theater this month
Each term, the Dartmouth Department of Theater presents student-written, -designed, and/or -acted shows at the Hop. This April, two noteworthy student shows come to the Warner Bentley Theater, both of whose lives extend beyond Dartmouth--one has already received acclaim and adoration at New York’s Playwrights Horizons, and the other has been selected to be showcased at Solo Fest next Fall. Performances of both these shows are free, and no tickets are required. An original work written and performed by Stephanie Everett ’19 It’s Fine, I’m Fine was developed last term as an independent … [Read more...]
A great spring for movies, at the Hop!
With Oscar season behind us and all of the buzz finally dying down, it’s time to catch the nominees and winners you may have missed—and hopefully revisit a few classics or fall in love with a movie you had never heard of. That’s right, we’re taking you to #FilmSchool. Every term we collaborate with Dartmouth professors to present films relevant to their courses and this spring exemplifies our process. One film especially abundant with class connections is Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (Apr 6), which won three Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography. In … [Read more...]
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...]
“Coriolanus” returns —in HD video!
After hosting the sold-out US premiere of the Stratford Festival’s groundbreaking production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus last fall, the Hopkins Center for the Arts brings back that “riveting, invigorating and smart” (Globe and Mail) production—this time as a high-definition (HD) video broadcast. The screening takes place Friday, March 29, at 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium. It will be preceded at 6 pm by a pre-show discussion in the Top of the Hop titled “From Stage to Screen: The Art of HD Broadcasts,” featuring long-time Stratford film editor George Roulston and Julie Borchard-Young, … [Read more...]
Jazz roots but with a message for now: Jazzmeia Horn, April 3
Her blazing performance at the 2018 Grammy Awards of the jazz standard Moanin’ let the world know just who Jazzmeia Horn is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvpSKCQDI4 Singer Jon Hendricks added lyrics to that Art Blakey instrumental in 1961, making it a powerful jazz/blues shout that viscerally connected to the Civil Rights movement. Fresh-faced, broadly smiling and resplendent in West African-style gown and headwrap, Horn wrapped her mighty voice and presence around the song and made it newly relevant for today’s listeners. Horn brings those jazz roots and contemporary … [Read more...]
New documentary offers a different vision for living with disabilities, March 3
HANOVER, NH—Almost 80 percent of American adults with disabilities lack something that’s a key to having a place in the world: employment. What could a better world look like? The new documentary film 25 Prospect Street offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Prospector Theater in Ridgefield, Conn., which provides extraordinary employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The film will be screened on Sunday, March 3 at 4 pm in the Loew Auditorium at Dartmouth’s Black Family Visual Arts Center. Following the film, there will be a discussion with Prospector founder Valerie Jensen … [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...]
The Shanghai Quartet: Telepathic
By Devon Chen '22 As the Shanghai Quartet began their performance of Tan Dun’s string quartet, Feng-Ya-Song, I was nothing short of confused. The piece began with a simple pizzicato in the viola, complicated by a puzzling entrance from a violin. The violin part seemed arbitrary, like it could have come in anywhere during the viola pizzicato. However, as the piece progressed, it revealed the underlying reasoning. By the time all four parts were in full swing, the structure became apparent and it was clear that the entrance was no accident. The piece was unorthodox, without a doubt, but … [Read more...]
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