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...]
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Laura Wood Masterclass at the Jewelry Studio
On Monday, September 24, jeweler and metal-smith Laura Wood led a workshop in the Hop’s Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio, demonstrating her unique process of work using powder coating on metal to make incredibly clean and intricate, solid-colored jewelry pieces. Powder-coating is a very durable alternative to conventional liquid paint on metal. Powder-coating is heat-fused plastic dust fused onto metal. Laura not only uses powder coating for sleek jewelry pieces, but also as a way to make very clean wall-mounts to hold jewelry or other sculptural pieces. Laura emphasized that she is a “big … [Read more...]
DeLaria + Bowie = Queer Icons Living by Each Other
Even before Lea DeLaria gained contemporary fanfare through her role as Big Boo on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, she was making the rounds as late night comedy’s first openly queer comic. Even before she went up on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1993 and declared, “It’s the nineties and it’s hip to be queer and I’m a biiiig dike!”, she was singing jazz. And proper jazz, not lounge music, she clarifies. Even as an 8 year old, Lea DeLaria was accompanying her dad on gigs by his jazz trio, learning from them, singing for audiences during band breaks. DeLaria grew up to be a serious jazz … [Read more...]
Top Black and Latinx Classical Musicians, October 9
The Sphinx Virtuosi—masterful alumni of a transformative Detroit-based program for young Black and Latinx classical musicians—make a timely statement in “Music Without Borders,” a program that features classical music from around the globe, on Tuesday, October 9, 7 pm, at Spaulding Auditorium. Praised for “immeasurable power, unwavering command and soulful beauty” (Washington Post), the group is made up of 18 concert artists who got their start with the internationally renowned Sphinx Competition for young black and Latino classical musicians. Now playing with America’s major classical … [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...]
Big band jazz comes to the Hop with Grammy-winning Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by Arturo O’Farrill, performs in Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, on Friday, October 5, 8 pm. Following the performance, O'Farrill and retired Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble Director Don Glasgo will have an informal onstage discussion. Formed by O’Farrill in 2006, the ensemble combines the grandeur of big band jazz with the visceral, varied textures of Latin music. Pianist, composer and educator O’Farrill, a past guest artist with the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, leads 18 outstanding solo musicians. Together they … [Read more...]
Three More Hop Fellows!
The Hop Fellows work intimately with particular Hop departments for an entire academic year, as an immersive introduction to the field of arts administration. As Fellows, they help shape and run all aspects of the Hop's functioning - from curation to publicity to arts education efforts. In an earlier post, we introduced three of our fellows. Meet the rest of the cohort here! We asked them to list five upcoming Hop shows that they are particularly looking forward to. Uma Ramesh ‘20, from Danbury CT is deciding between psychology and sociology majors (“Soon!,” she hopes) and is the … [Read more...]
Chamber music by Brahms and more, October 2
Brahms’s luxuriant Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26 will be the centerpiece in this concert by Sally Pinkas, pianist, and the Adaskin String Trio on Tuesday, October 2, 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium. A frequent and robust collaboration, the quartet complements the Brahms with English composer Frank Bridge’s eerie and clever Phantasy for Piano Quintet and Trio for violin, viola and cello by the recently rediscovered Impressionist composer (and French navy rear admiral) Jean Cras. Sally Pinkas is a Dartmouth professor of music, and a long-time pianist in residence at the Hop, performing two … [Read more...]
An appreciation: Ragamala Dance Company’s “Written in Water”
By Archita Harathi '22 Archita is a member of Arts Ambassadors, Dartmouth First Year students who attend Hop performances together. The Arts Ambassadors attended Written in Water. Archita has studied Indian classical dance. Interested in Arts Ambassadors? Find out more here. This past Tuesday and Wednesday, September 18th and 19th, the Dartmouth community experienced the cultural spectacle of the Ragamala Dance Company’s production, Written in Water. Ragamala Dance Company is a well-known and highly esteemed practitioner of one of India’s oldest classical dance forms, Bharatanatyam. … [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...]
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